skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Permanent damage has been done to our own faith in our country. Any pride I had in our values and democracy has slipped away, now that I know that they were illusions.

I understand this feeling but this quote has been helpful to me.

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it" - Mark Twain

This is a dark time for America. But we shouldn’t turn our backs. The next few years will be painful. As patriots we need to work toward making it better. Take care of your neighbors. Work toward seeing the change you want in the midterms. Demand accountability from your representatives.
According to a Google blog post from 2016 [1], use-cases were RankBrain to improve the relevancy of search results and Street View. Also they used it for AlphaGo. And from what I remember from my MSc thesis, they also probably were starting to use it for Translate. I can't find any TPU reference in the Attention is All You Need or BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding, but I have been fine-tuning BERT in a TPU at the time in okt 2018 [2]. If I remember correctly, the BERT example repository showed how to fit a model with a TPU inside a Colab. So I would guess that the natural language research was mostly not on TPU's around 2016-2018, but then moved over to TPU in production. I could be wrong though and dgacmu probably knows more.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/g...

[2]: https://github.com/rikhuijzer/improv/blob/master/runs/2018-1...
Safely -> no crashes

Destination -> Like, close to the destination? I don't see how that's hard.

Happy -> you can use customer feedback for this

Folded -> this is indeed the trickiest one, but I think well within the capabilities of modern vision models.
Because they think it makes them sound Smart? Because it's safer to fit in with the crowd than to Not? Because having a genuine personality is Difficult?
Mine too. I was disappointed I was going to be left with nothing exciting to read after The Wandering Inn, but this series is amazing. +1 on the suggestion!
Yes, can’t have some zero days on my computers. I use anti-virus, virustotal and yara on top (see my tutorial https://youtu.be/Le6sZRV6Rwc)
> But then something flipped.

The bond market is always the adult in the room. The UK PM lasted like 44 days when the bond market pushed her out [1]. In this case, the flip was that all the chaos led to people leaving behind the USD completely. Trumps view of the US/World is ~30+ years out of date. There are other stable places to put money now where it used to only be USD.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/20/uk-prime-minister-liz-truss-...
But wouldn't that kind of reasoning also say that helicopters are impossible because no flying animal works that way?

For a more reasoning-adjacent example, "conventional" chess AIs don't really work like brains do, either, but they're pretty good at playing chess.
I would presume that EU products sold in the US are charged sales tax already(for those states that have it).

The difference between sales tax and tarrifs is it applies to all products within the same category irrespective of its origin.
When can I get the GPT that sounds like Boomhauer crossed with Gerald from Clarksons farm?
It's all fun and games until somebody loses their retirement savings
There a lot to be said for ignoring other countries tariffs and just having free trade. Hong Kong and Singapore basically did that for decades and grew fast and became wealthy. Tariffs mostly hurt the countries introducing them.

There are some exceptions. Sudden changes can be painful if you built a factory to service some market and they block the sales all of a sudden. But a 10% across the board tariff may not make it worth retaliating.
This kind of thing pops up now and again but the psychology is completely different to if basic income was actually universal and expected to continue in the long-term.

Of course people don't quit their jobs and careers because they are part of a small group enrolled in a 3-year scientific study. Human behaviour is non-linear.

The study doesn't cover the likely feedback effects on the broader economy that a universal rollout would have (increase in the money supply) or the broader socio-cultural changes that would likely accompany it.

In short: scale matters for this kind of thing. Some things just can't be tested ahead of time empirically.
A lot of this stuff is on a YouTube education level, not even a degree. I would be shocked if the US does not have a bunch of economic advisors who tell them what problems there are and what should be done. They've probably mapped out all the next steps. Most US presidents are Harvard-level smart, but the White House has been around long enough to find a way to deliver reports to the simpler ones.

There's a lot of obvious big problems - confidence in the USD, debt rising faster than GDP can catch up, military overextension, China's rise outpacing US, inequality, inaccessible education and health care, opioid crisis, etc.

Trump has a good eye for identifying this - that's why he won the election despite all his weaknesses. It's clear he knows some of this but doesn't understand it - his comments on a BRICS currency, for example. Yes, a "BRICS currency" would threaten Pax Americana but it's on literally nobody's mind.

I feel like, if anything, he's an overplanner. A smarter leader would think, these moves will have unplanned side effects. Trump makes a lot of roundabout moves like DOGE. These moves have a target, but he hasn't thought about the side effects. And when a crisis like COVID hits, it disrupts the complex plans, which is why he reacts so poorly to them.
Exploring the impacts of technology on everyday citizens
Yep, apparently that's in the works. They aren't going to reduce the deficit or debt. It soared during Donald's first term and will again.
Eliminating entitlements and deregulating (particularly consumer protection) is not a great way to narrow the wealth gap. Nor is semi-firing the federal workforce and advocating for onshoring of unskilled jobs. Nor is demanding interest rate cuts. Nor is treating the stock market like a yo-yo. Nor is ignoring people without medical insurance. Nor is attempting to eliminate social security.

This could absolutely be all about asserting dominance over China. It could be a great way to deter or blunt the threat of war. It might backfire horribly. We shall see.

He is stupid. You just have to listen to him speak to understand that. But he doesn't invent policy, he has people for that.
I'm pretty sure most "industrial scale" SAT solvers involve both deduction and heuristics to decide which deductions to make and which to keep. At a certain scale, the heuristics have to be adaptive and then you have "induction".
The Washington Post has the text of the memo.[1] Here are the parts that tell the DOJ to stop prosecuting certain crimes:

> Prosecutors should not charge regulatory violations in cases involving digital assets— including but not limited to unlicensed money transmitting under 18 U.S.C. § 1960(b)(1)(A) and (B), violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, unregistered securities offering violations, unregistered broker-dealer violations, and other violations of registration requirements under the Commodity Exchange Act-unless there is evidence that the defendant knew of the licensing or registration requirement at issue and violated such a requirement willfully. This priority is not required by law, but is being imposed as a matter of discretion, in recognition of the Justice Department’s priorities and the fact that the Biden Administration created a particularly uncertain regulatory environment around digital assets.

> Prosecutors should not charge violations of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Commodity Exchange Act, or the regulations promulgated pursuant to these Acts, in cases where (a) the charge would require the Justice Department to litigate whether a digital asset is a “security” or “commodity,” and (b) there is an adequate alternative criminal charge available, such as mail or wire fraud.

The memo redirects priorities to, "...embezzlement and misappropriation of customers’ funds on exchanges, digital asset investment scams, fake digital asset development projects such as rug pulls, hacking of exchanges and decentralized autonomous organizations resulting in the theft of funds, and exploiting vulnerabilities in smart contracts." It also prioritizes prosecution of people and organizations who use cryptocurrency to further terrorism, human trafficking, narcotics, organized crime, and hacking. Lastly, it disbands the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and folds them back into Computer Crime and Intellectual Property, which is how the DOJ was organized in 2021.

The only prosecution I can think of that wouldn't happen under these new rules is that of Roman Storm, who is facing up to 45 years in prison for developing Tornado Cash, an open source decentralized cryptocurrency tumbler. The DOJ is not claiming that Storm engaged in money laundering or that he ran a service that allowed people to do so. He is being prosecuted because other people used the software to commit crimes. This is an obvious free speech issue, which is why the EFF filed an amicus brief in support of Storm.[2]

1. https://archive.is/Td0Fn

2. https://www.yahoo.com/news/digital-rights-group-eff-calls-05...
I'm curious what sort of "as a service" things you would have applied this to in the past? Seems like a simple answer of "yes" as to whether how we collected taxes in the past were largely a legacy of how trade happened?
I’m no Trump fan but I think it’s a bit of an exaggeration to say he wants to genocide a billion Chinese people…
I think the challenge is to use TikTok, but to use it in moderation.
But how often is that true? Gold prices doubled in the past 5 years, with 10% of that coming in the past few months, after declining for most of the 2010s.
The opinions of "elites" simply don't matter. There's only one guy who matters when it comes to policy now. And he's not known for his thinking abilities
Inflation is a tax but if there is selective redistribution it is a selective tax.
Far be it from me to criticize Cambridge University, but it's an absurd way to test "susceptibility to fake news". They present a series of headlines independent of any context and ask if they're legitimate or not. This completely eliminates the actual metric for susceptibility to fake news, which is the inclination and ability to conduct research from reputable sources. This test is measuring if people's existing biases align with reality, and, to some extent, their ability to guess. Garbage.
Full title as published in Lancet:

>Vitamin D supplementation to prevent acute respiratory infections: systematic review and meta-analysis of stratified aggregate data

What with HN's 80 character limit something had to go!

I apologize for making it "misleading" but what would you have done?
I started to work on a rust version, always thought more mcp / a2a plumbing should be done in rust instead of python/js. https://github.com/EmilLindfors/a2a-rs
How to handle emergency authority in a democracy has been a hard problem back to the Roman Empire. Read up on Roman dictators.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dictator
You would, but it would take a while. Reading slightly different letter forms is more of a matter of hours.
> They care about inflation too though.

Trump cares about inflation as a talking point to get elected and for no other reason.
At least this uses existing standards, which was my biggest gripe with MCP. That said - protocol whiplash. And it might get worse.
I've developed a deep distrust of ORMs at all. I've found that the majority of simple CRUD projects are better served by just having a DAL with explicitly written (or generated) methods instead.
Dupe (321 points, 602 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43634806
It had nothing to do with marketing, it was because conceptually stored procedures are similar to smart-contracts and share technical aspects. We thought engineers would find the similarities interesting. Instead they immediately assumed we were shilling tokens, so we pulled it down.

Kind of sad that people can't see past that, but I also understand. It is what it is.
Why if the state provides a basic safety net should that preclude individual ambition?

Should we not move toward a society that can not go hungry?
Any assessment of Trump’s actions that implies that he personally has a cogent strategy immediately loses credibility in my eyes. If you want to say the people around him think or feel a certain way and are influencing him based on that, fine. But he’s clearly just doing things that hit some nexus of “people around me say this will work” and “I personally, on a vibes basis, think this will be fun.”
Obviously other countries would be fine with Trump enacting a sales tax / VAT on everything. Why wouldn’t they be?
You could say the same about modern CAD and CNC processes, which make designing and building mechanical movements vastly easier than it was in their heyday. The Swiss brands have long since drawn the arbitrary line that putting electronics in the final product is an affront to horological tradition, but anything along the way is fair game.
During COVID, my friends and I were temporarily retired. Lamenting every moment since having to come out of retirement. We were all laid off and received about $2k/mo for awhile and what happened was we ended up hanging out every since day working on whatever we were working on, and feelings of inadequacy faded into the background. It was a micro golden age for us and that period of time has cemented UBI for us. It was a small amount of money and we lived with our parents but we were never more productive and happy.

Hopefully before I die I can witness a strong implementation of UBI. It would directly reflect in culture in terms of music and the arts. Little funding for the arts currently combined with massive rent nearly everywhere leaves little room for cultural phenomenon that was possible in places like the lower east side bowery for example. Or arts funding in the USSR and other soviet bloc countries.

Time is more valuable than anything else.
Something minor that I found to greatly impact my screen usage was to remove all the icons from my phone so that I am forced to search for the app. That minor bit of friction was able to reduce my habitual usage by 70~80%
I'm only "celebrating" congress getting more time to reel this chaos in. Hopefully we have 20 pissed off enough GOP senators to realize that they never should have let Trump singlehandedly start yet another tarriff war.
First, apologies for writing "symbolic-logical AI". It should have been "symbolic-logical AGI".

Second, I agree that the failure of the symbolic-logical approach to AGI is not justified in-text. I believe that it will only be a small component to the first AGI system, as an API for the AGI to use some tools like a calculator, a proof verifier, etc. A way to invoke the "crystalized intelligence" as it is. Nevertheless, since it is not justified in-text, and a justification would probably as a short essay, and is not necessary for the essay itself, it has been removed.
I Called the Tariff News
Trump is willing to to make aggressive pushes to maximize American interests. His end state is not tariffs - they are his negotiating stick. His end state is deals including w/ individual countries and w/ larger governing bodies like the EU.

What is unclear, which I called out, is how China reacts to this negotiating posture. They are a nation that takes pride in strength. However, they will also be disproportionately hurt by a large tariff. Trump also takes pride in strength. It remains very unclear who will back down first. What is certain is that the economies of the two countries are deeply intertwined.
Hi, I created the app. I appreciate all of your comments. I know some may find the result of a book not concise or accurate. One issue was that I couldn't afford the price of a better LM service. At first, I tried a free tier of Gemini, but its results were disappointing. Later, I switched to DeepSeek and got better results.
Honestly this one's been made a lot easier with LLMs.

Like just today I got a nebulous-ass error trying to compile some old cpp package, threw that into 4o and in a few seconds I get an in-depth analysis back and a one line correction that turned out to fix the entire thing. Literal hours saved lmao.
Their comparison is not clear at all what you’re getting out of a rather large subscription price, IMO.

> Substantially more usage to work with Claude

Compared to pro or free what does this mean? More requests / time? More tokens / time? Something else?

> Scale usage based on specific needs

Are there limits with pro that this is removing or increasing? What kinds of specific needs?

> Higher output limits for better and richer responses and Artifacts

So Claude will do more thinking before responding compared to pro? Is that due to a new variant of 3.7 model?

> Be among the first to try the most advanced Claude capabilities

Okay so you’ll get access before people who pay less but not before well known tech people who get early access for testing, I’m assuming?

> Priority access during high traffic periods

If you’re paying for pro and they throttle you wtf are you paying them for? This seems like an admission they suck at capacity planning based on their current and predicted user base?
Oh it's you! Sorry cmrdporcupine! I didn't see.
It's not like people stopped being mad or are calling this good. Starting with a big number and dropping lower (temporarily!) was not a good negotiating strategy here.
IMVHO as an European, with p.v. and storage:

- I do want DC-direct car charging, not double conversion, something who exists in EU CCS-combo as a standard but not a single vendor implement it...

- I do want a LOCAL FIRST (and only eventually) system, some vendors offer that, I do not know if Tesla offer that but I doubt a bit

- I do want modular batteries because anyone have different storage needs

- a classic string inverter OR microinverter who do not waste p.v. power because modules output more than they can convert for AC usage, but DC direct for charging all batteries AND possibly for heat pumps compressors as well

Why I write this here? Well because Telsa have a single peculiarity "being ahead of the others" and actually for p.v. they are not ahead of anyone. My small system is built on a Victron master inverter (relatively FLOSS with a custom Debian named VenusOS, well integrated in Home Assistant), on BYD moderately modular batteries and Fronius p.v. inverters, good for the p.v. parts but very bad in software terms. It's still more open than Tesla and perform better than PowerWall+Solar roof in theory.

Tesla cars still have the best software even if way too much service-oriented, but beside that they have shown very little innovation and China taking on quickly, also some choices like do not have V2L I can use to power my main inverter and so a bit usable to power the home with extra storage of the car battery penalize Tesla as well.

Long story short in the past they was good. But tech evolve and they seems not much interested in positive evolution. I'm not interested in Cybertruck or in small usual cabin controls changes like directions on the steering wheel as buttons, I do care about substantial evolution.

If Tesla offer something like:

- a hybrid p.v. inverter with 400V DC + data channel and car charging home station

- modular storage from 5 to 50 to 100 kWh

- home heat pumps DC direct for sanitary water, home heating/cooling

I buy it, no question. If not they haven't nothing I can buy from different vendors, cheaper and even less closed.
Yeah, the component was called "Personal Web Server", I poked it recently in 86Box.
> who then can mandate your lifestyle completely including health procedures and even military conscription. No thanks.

Entirely unlike modern America, where utility providers for food and water are regulated for what's healthy and representative legislature decides when to draft you for Vietnam 2.
Considering Islam, Christianity, and Catholicism are brothers of the book, not much difference really. Fantasy has too much influence in their politics.
Google just launched their vibe-coding product Firebase competes directly with Cursor, Lovable, Windsurf etc
Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution
I think partly the historical legacy, but also the ease of enforcement and the fact that lower tariffs and services have trended together.

Collecting taxes on goods flowing through a limited number of physical locations is much much easier than trying to audit the client list of a huge number of foreign service providers.

Agreed that other countries are considering this.
I trust the stock market only after at least 5 years have passed, preferably 10. Short term (less than that) the stock market has always been about popularity, but long term the most profitable companies always rise to the top.
No, fines are for breaking the law, if they don't break the law there's no way for the EU to collect the money. It's like speed traps, people can be mad at them because they broke the law and were caught, it doesn't alleviate the fact they could have just followed the rules.
Military conscription has always been the role of the state.

In the US, health procedures are currently in the hands of oligarchical profit-maximizing middlemen; the first assassination has already happened.

I really don't know what your objection is to improving people's lives.
> I really just want a Linux that optimizes for a phone-factor touchscreen

I'm writing this from a GNU/Linux phone, Librem 5, which offers the full freedom of a desktop (including a full desktop mode when you connect it to a keyboard and screen). My daily driver.

> No cell radio.

Librem 5 has a hardware kill switch for that.
The US has maintained full employment for quite a long time now. You can bring the factories to the US. You can likely even automate a lot of the work. But not all the work – in a place where everyone who wants a job already has one.

So, the question really is: What are Americans willing to give up? Something has to go if workers are reallocated away from whatever they are doing now into these factories.
There's been some talk/rumour of next-gen HBMs having some compute capability on the base die. But again, not what they're doing here, this is regular HBM3/HBM3e.

https://semiengineering.com/speeding-down-memory-lane-with-c...
How so? Universal Basic Income means, you get it no matter what. So if they require you to serve to get money, that's no UBI.
Likely because it enraged some Democrats with the reference to Kamala being unelected. It's back above 0 for me now, so it looks like the broader consensus is that this is in fact a good comment.
Except since no parliament can bind a future parliament it won't be worth the paper it's written on.

The loudest voices calling for a scrap are exactly the people you DON'T want deciding what human rights you'll be "allowed".

And incitement to violence is, and always should be, unprotected speech - your silly "two tier kier" is informing me greatly that you're on the "they locked them up for hurty words!" bandwagon.
What's in July?