skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
American conservatives, until recently, espoused economic liberalism.

It is considered "conservative" because it has been the status quo for a rather long period, and they advocated conserving it.
You're using "AuDHD" quite liberally, is this a serious portmanteau you've adopted as a label after getting diagnosed for both or either?
Why does the extra dimension need to be small?
It is what you said. And for the record, I love the idea of this project. I just agree with the other poster about the location of this line that's all.
The Biden administration spent a lot of time and money trying to bring back manufacturing to US shores, including loads of funding in the IRA for industries like renewable energy and batteries and the CHIPS act for semiconductors. They also used tariffs to protect a number of US industries, but they did it intelligently and in a targeted manner.

Being “in favor of some trade restrictions and reindustrialization” does not mean you’re taking a MAGA position. It means you just haven’t been paying much attention to policy, and so you’re basing your ideas of the political options on superficial crap. The result of uninformed citizenry is stuff like what’s happening right now, with the markets going into free fall.
I've been thinking about this for a while. Seeing paid services like Focusmate, Flow Club and Focus101 show the basic idea is attractive enough to make into a lifestyle sized business.

But my idea was a bit more. A lot of people are leaving religions for many reasons. One of the interesting parts of religion, from my perspective, is a community of people meeting at some cadence (e.g. once per week). At that time, they all make a public commitment to some set of values. It's like a shared affirmation.

This led me to wonder if this ritualistic activity is important in a psychological way that is effective outside of theistic or other dogmatic beliefs.

I was thinking of a service exactly like the ones mentioned, except it would also include some kind of intention setting. The word "prayer" is a little loaded and often brings to mind asking a God for some kind of favor. And "intention" is more like a stated goal.

It is interesting that in the modern world we feel comfortable stating/sharing intentions that are productivity related. But we don't share intentions that are more broadly ethical/moral in the same way that religions promoted.

If anyone has examples of services that do what Focusmate/Flow Club/etc. are doing but on a broader scale, let me know.
With that line of thought we'd quickly get into very strange territory. You can't use public transport without either standing or sitting on their chairs, even though you might prefer different chairs. Are they now forcing you to use their services without your consent?
I still hate the new ribbon.
I wish this myth would die. Anyone who picks up a camera would know that it isn't true, there are many things even very expensive cameras can't do that humans can. Specifically, the mix of high acuity when needed but wide angle, low-light movement performance, and tracking fast objects is something that only a camera system in the tens of thousands of dollars can do, and those are all relevant to driving.
I love how these always instantly escalate into trivial code execution / reverse shell. Remember kids, C is the enemy!

The "fix" in question also screams "delete this crap immediately": https://github.com/wgtmac/parquet-mr/commit/d185f867c1eb968a...
> Advertising tells me what goods and services are available, and at what prices.

No, it doesn't actually, it does the opposite. It's attempting to make you less aware of what's available outside of the monopolies, because the monopolies shove the barrel and there's no room left.

If you take a walk through town versus watch TV for a day you will get a completely different view of what products and services are out there. This mentality is exactly why small business continue to struggle - we're made to believe they don't exist because of advertising.

The reason this works is because the human brain is pretty stupid and it can't keep everything in it all at once. You also don't get a choice in what you remember, your brain does that without your consent. So you see McDonald's 1000 times and your local butcher shop signage 5 times and you'll remember one, but not the other.
https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/list/all?s...

Vanguard's lifecycle funds (picking them because they get promoted a lot as a good choice, courtesy of good marketing and lower fees and generally good returns). Their 2030 fund, the one that people are recommended to select if they're retiring around 2028-2032, is down 4.54% YTD, and down 1.42% for the last year. The current market effects have wiped out over a year in gains for a relatively conservative fund.

And that's all from the last two trading days, it was slightly up YTD on Wednesday. And all of this is before the effects of the tariffs come into play. We haven't actually seen the effect of higher import costs hitting companies and consumers yet.

So people approaching retirement are getting hit and hit hard, but it's not quite 20% for them unless they selected an aggressive investment strategy for some reason.

The worst for the Vanguard funds are down about 8% YTD (and likely to get worse) for anyone 25 years or more away from retirement.
Stop being so pedantic. Everyone knows what the topic is about. "Ban advertising" is the goal and not the policy itself. Start with the obvious and unambiguous examples if you still want to act like this. Do you still disagree?
And folks who argue the situation harms the billionaires typically are thinking about it in dollar valuations as opposed to percentage of all wealth owned. If their portfolios shrink on paper to be only worth a tenth as much tomorrow (but everything dropped that same paper value amount) but their purchasing power goes up and are able to buy a larger percentage of all wealth, they are coming out ahead. As #47 said, only the weak (poor) will fail...
> usually have a corporate employee write the law but a federal code that has been researched is the problem?

One, everyone running away with conspiracy theories is probably the singular problem in American politics today.

But two, I have no problem with the code in general. But I don’t like this section of it and now suspect it isn’t legally constructed. So yes, it’s a problem.
This should happen anyway, not just as a response to tariffs. But if that's what it takes to have the political will, then I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.
In the comment you're replying to:

> but it has vanishingly small market share if you ignore Safari

Safari doesn't help here because it's proprietary and only runs on one family of OSes. WebKit doesn't have any substantive market share without Safari.
Same here. I think they look kinda neat, but I can't read them to save my life.
I do agree that $80 for digital is a little insulting. Games, in general, probably should be $100+, and consoles for ~$400 is about right if simple inflation from the 90s is just taken into account. Games are now longer, have more production, and cost more to produce. Additionally, cost per unit of entertainment time for games has much more value than most other entertainment options, theoretical infinite Netflix-type streaming notwithstanding.

https://www.matthewball.co/all/stateofvideogaming2025 has a great and extensive dive into this topic.
Exactly, this is analogous to "sensitivity/specificity" of a test, the test is if they can be trusted to live autonomously in society

- most sensitive: arrest everyone you suspect, lots of innocents locked up
- trade-off : some innocents locked up
- most specific: arrest only people you are 100% sure are criminals, lots of them get let off due to lack of evidence / inability to prove

You can frame it as a moral question, lock up 100% of criminals and 1 innocent person, or 0 innocent people and only 50% of criminals.

There is a separate, more subjective argument that knowingly locking up innocents is a slippery slope that will lead to a corrupt state.

From a pure ethics standpoint, this is "fruit from the poisoned tree" i.e. doing something unethical to achieve positive result, in this case, locking up an innocent to cause crime to plummet.

One thing is for sure, if he went back up for election and got in through strong popular support, the society replied and said they support living in such an environment. If more innocents are locked up maybe the feedback would change.
What makes the story tragic is that he got a job that gives him such an influence on trade policy. How he got the job would be funny if the consequences weren't so dire:

> Navarro was invited to be an advisor after Trump's advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner saw on Amazon that he co-wrote Death by China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Navarro#Trump_campaign_a...
"Train tracks" are a subset of all the edge cases in the set "car can't just stop and stay stopped and that's safe".
Sarah Johnson, Michael Chen and Emma Rodriguez sure get around. I’m surprised they have time to be in such senior roles the amount of time they must spend testing and reviewing products!

I guess you must have done something pretty special to get them to make time in their super-busy schedules to review your product.

They’ve each reviewed all these products in the same order as they reviewed yours.

https://clientsark.com/

https://contentflow.video/

https://linkedin-posts-export.niomaker.com/

https://miaisolutions.com/

https://mate.direct/

https://www.gethappyflow.com/

In this one Sarah has a magnificent beard!

https://www.skyfunnel.ai/

And in this one Emma has become Fred.

https://abysdi.com/

But then I think she got married because now her surname is Davis.

https://reengage.ai/
This is a great analogy, particularly with one addition. That the two operations vary between fabricators so that, ideally, you have the two operations that work the best for your industry. That is the same difference between Lisp like languages and industrial languages, that the former allows you to build any domain language while the latter are already built domain languages. That is that when using Lisp you work like a sculptor, you build your language by removing expressiveness until you can only express your domain. Industrial languages have already removed the expressiveness and are adopted by people who find it useful for their working domain. The main difference is that the latter are more generalized to a category of domains vs. one particular domain. I think this is one of the key reasons they 'won' over more expressive languages like Lisp. They created a better common ground for related projects to collaborate on and collaboration is more important than domain expressiveness.
This technique has three significant advantages over popular low bit quantization: 1) it retains more accuracy, 2) it does not require calibration data, 3) it's easier to implement in hardware.
> For many engineers (and me of course) this can be the most rewarding way to work.

Agreed, this is also the world I grew up in. Nothing is as rewarding as working on something where you have ownership to set the direction and deliver.

For most of my career I had never heard of "product managers" and it was bliss. Somehwere along the line software engineer transformed from being the intellectual lead of the business, to simply a ticket-taker writing code for things some completely non-technical "product managers" decided should be done this week. And the inability to be allowed to think or plan for anything beyond a two week sprint window is mentally crushing.

I've moved to different roles now since software engineering became such a miserable job. I'd jump back in a heartbeat though if there was a company operating like we did in the 80s and 90s where engineers owned engineering.
> Obviously this still requires an entire game to be made before you can train on it, but could maybe open up other development and testing of games.

The idea of developing a game where the "code" is totally opaque and non-deterministic honestly sounds like an absolute nightmare. How would you even begin to QA something like that?
I'm unfamiliar with Polish politics, and a quote like that does not surprise me coming from politicians (see "alternative facts" in the first Trump administration to excuse outright lies), but do you have a source for that or at least a source for what you're paraphrasing if it's not a direct quote?
This is a rephrasing of the agent problem, where someone working on your behalf cannot be absolutely trusted to take correct action. This is a problem with humans because omnipresent surveillance and absolute punishment is intractable and also makes humans sad. LLMs do not feel sad in a way that makes them less productive, and omnipresent surveillance is not only possible, it’s expected that a program running on a computer can have its inputs and outputs observed.

Ideally, we’d have actual system instructions, rules that cannot be violated. Hopefully these would not have to be written in code, but perhaps they might. Then user instructions, where users determine what actually wants to be done. Then whatever nonsense a webpage says. The webpage doesn’t get to override the user or system.

We can revisit the problem with three-laws robots once we get over the “ignore all previous instructions and drive into the sea” problem.
We are probably in the weeds here but there is a difference between notification safety mechanisms and ones that take action. And to get really pedantic, emergency breaking doesn't permit user override (either functionally or simply because of how abrupt it is).

And autonomy features are a different domain altogether.
Unleash Capitalism
Since you had already figured out the gist, I was hoping you'd have shared the demo link, so I don't have them ad impressions! But I notice a YouTube link below so I'm going there instead. :)
Show HN: Latitude.sh Databases – Simple PostgreSQL DBaaS on Bare Metal
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The service stemmed from internal needs and early interest gathered from a waitlist (~300 signups). It's currently live and available for use.

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AI-only companies like OpenAI might flame out, but I think BigTech won’t be materially affected either way. They are just too big. Losing a few years petty cash on the bet will maybe affect executive bonuses but won’t hurt much longer term.
The paragraph you pasted in states that only applications importing the Java library are vulnerable.

Isn’t pandas implemented in Python/C? How would it have been importing the Java library?
> The game is being generated frame to frame!

The world is. I would struggle to call this a "game" in the sense that it would be highly rewarding to play. It's also impossible to compete with your friends for high scores or best times. It completely ignores everything about what human "games" are and instead focuses on what the "billion dollar copyright theft machine" can crank out this week.

> and everyone is bored with it.

It's almost like the people pushing this technology are not human. Or don't live human experiences. I can't rightfully apprehend how they thought this would be received well.

Perfection is lots of little things done well. The current AI slop is lots of things done poorly. And if you squint your eyes and tilt your head you can _almost pretend_ it's something novel.

Of course it earns yawns.
No one literate is in any danger of misinterpreting this very basic technique. I don't care about anyone else because it doesn't matter, they will misinterpret regardless, deliberately.
That does not follow for me. Pandas does not utilize Java/JVM.
Alex Ovechkin passes Wayne Gretzky as NHL all-time goals leader with No. 895
https://gavinhoward.com/2024/06/my-programming-journey/
If you think the fake-plan tariffs are going to destroy things

remember the "de minimus" is going away May 2nd too

each little shipment from aliexpress, etc.

will have a tariff of 30% of the "value of the postal item containing goods for merchandise"

with a minimum fee of $50

FIFTY DOLLARS

It purposely kills all overseas shipments of even small items.

How many years until all that made in USA? TEN years? Never?
How to Implement Spline Fitting
"Making the world a better place" is an incredible marketing trick, almost good enough to fool the people working at the companies into feeling like they were doing more than selling electronics, and chronic anxiety.

The only way to convince someone the world needs to be made better is to either convince them it sucks or force it to suck. Ad tech just said the quiet part out loud.
You don't need to ban it, you need to find mechanism to prevent the worst effects.

In civilized countries, this could be done by taxation (limit the mass) and regulation (limit the excesses.)

Use the country of the advertisment target audience to decide which juridiction applies.

I'm pretty sure advertisers have to be aware of the country their targeting, given that they know me better than my spouse.
Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit
But the political climate during that time period—starting on the left and now going to the right—has been that the middle class is being hollowed out. Is your argument that the Bush/Obama regime (recall that the Bush administration developed the bank bailout plan that Obama implemented) was basically correct? All the economy required was a little more regulation via Dodd Frank and the CFPB?
It is yours to provide evidence of your claims, not mine.

>If you were looking for truth

Except, with this, I don’t expect you to.
I think you’re misunderstanding “unified memory”. That term refers to whether the GPU has its own onboard memory chips which must be populated by a DMA transfer. It doesn’t refer to whether the system has an MMU.
This isn't true. You can try using adaptive cruise control with lane-keeping on a radar-equipped car on an undivided highway. Radar is good at detecting distance and velocity, but can't see lane lines. In order to prevent collisions, you would need to know precisely the road geometry and lane positions, which may come from camera data, and combine that information with the vehicle information.
The problem is most of what you say is unmeasurable. So it’s not really something physics can comment on and those immeasurable quantities cannot really be commented on by physics. So maybe your thoughts are enjoyable to you or others but they don’t really have anything to do with how dynamics in the universe play out, which is all that physics has to say about things.
Being downvoted isn’t punishment or silencing. But I find it lazy to simply downvote something because you disagree with what is being said.
Check out Foliate, it's a really nice reader and Standard Ebooks display quite nicely using Foliate IMO.
> It has architectured the inevitable currency collapse.

I'm 61. I've been hearing this about the US national debt since I was a teenager. When do you imagine this "inevitable" currency collapse will occur? Do you consider the recent actions of the current administration to make it more or less likely?
I submit that there is no "compression into PRNG seeds" going on here. This is just a quantisation method that happens to leverage PRNs, which might have some specific advantages and disadvantages. What I am sure it does not do, is what it's title seems to claim, if taken literally. I suspect they're having a good laugh, getting away with what they must know is borderline trolling. I'm impressed!
I disagree with that measure — that was a sell out in order to get votes in Detroit.

That said, it's true that a selective reading of his statements and legislative actions could be used to support almost any position.

But here’s something worth considering from a broader policy perspective:

Ronald Reagan cited three prominent 19th-century champions of free trade as his heroes: Richard Cobden and John Bright, founders of England’s Anti-Corn Law League, and Frédéric Bastiat, a renowned French economic writer. Reagan specifically praised Cobden and Bright for their efforts to eliminate tariffs on imported grain in the 1840s.

Throughout his presidency, Reagan consistently expressed support for free trade. In his July 1981 “Statement on U.S. Trade Policy,” he pledged to reduce government-imposed barriers on international trade and investment.

One of his strongest affirmations came during a January 1988 speech in Cleveland, where he framed America’s trade deficit as a sign of economic strength. On several occasions—often in response to protectionist moves by congressional Democrats—Reagan reiterated his free-trade stance. For instance, he vowed to veto the House trade bill if it included a restrictive amendment sponsored by Representative Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.).
MS only really wants runaway successes, not modest successes, particularly at the salaries required for the types of engineers to pull such a thing off. Clojure hasn’t attained runaway success in the corporate world and that’s even with the nearly flawless design and implementation Hickey executed. Even the branding is somehow more memorable than most languages.
Yes please, long overdue. And use the collected money to fund free (as in freedom) and opensource software (and hardware) projects/communities.
> but the fact that it can reliably do this at all is extremely impressive

The better question is could you achieve the same thing using much less computing power and simpler methods? Would a Markov chain be able to do the same thing? If so, I'd have to with the articles sentiment, this burns a bunch of electricity to do something with extreme inefficiency and waste.
Well, I think the point is your friend can still tell you he likes his new pair of pants, he just can't be a paid actor.