skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why on Earth would taxpayers give their hard earned money to other people to work on their "projects of interest"?

I think the implication here is that such a society is not built on markets or even money, but rather by individuals working together to foster a collective community that meets everyone’s needs.

Yes, communism. The more advanced we become technologically the more sense it makes. We’re largely at a point where most jobs are made up - created to give people something to do because if we don’t then they die.

We’ve pushed consumerism to the absolute max. Now, most goods are pretty much worthless. But we have to buy them, or we die. That’s how markets works. We work, and we consume, or else.

That made sense when the work we were doing was beneficial and the stuff we’re consuming was needed. We’re past that now. Most people are working to produce something dumb, or worse, evil. New addictions, new poisons, new bombs, and new problems to be solved by new software.
I did not know about Kalshi until today. A blog I really like pointed me to this discussion:

https://moontower.substack.com/p/dire-wolf

Also, I really like Michael Lewis's podcast about the rise of sports gambling. My favorite episode is this one about a guy named Rufus Peabody, who changed sports gambling with his data driven approach.

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/against-the-rules/episode-4-...

The best line: "Theoretically? Theoretically a dick does not fit..."
Yacc-ety Yacc.
Both OVH and scaleway provide managed k8s (and both have terraform providers). But yes, definitely much less sophisticated than the hyperscalers. But if you use k8s, maybe s3 and Kafka, and some databases, it's definitely possible to do the switch.
I was being sarcastic. Tucker is a proven in court liar and propagandist and the person I was replying to was stating that John Stewart’s biases are equivalent in magnitude
No support for long, streaming interactions, like a terminal
They upgraded Gemini Deep Research to use the 2.5 model a few days ago and the stylist shot up - I've seen a bunch of people comparing the new version favorably to OpenAI's, I agree that it's as good and maybe even better now.
Lots of other factors. I suspect this is one of the reasons why Google cannot offer TPU hardware itself out of their cloud service. A significant chunk of TPU efficiency can be attributed external factors which customers cannot easily replicate.
all part of the negotiations :)
Throwing it out there that, as a US citizen who has been looking at and wanting solar for about 3-4 years now, it's extremely unaffordable through the installers I've looked at previously. Some installers have quoted a total of double the cost of materials because they maintain the labor of a 1 day installation is worth 100% the cost of batteries and panels - which often brings the total to $30k-$40k USD. Some of these agreements you also have to read closely because there are some total garbage ownership rights in the contract, saying you are renting the panels and don't own them. I haven't looked yet in my new state because interest rates stopped falling after Biden left office, but my previous state made the entire process a racket.
The EU is discussing it, but are currently debating if that would be seen as an escalation of the conflict.

Yes it would be a strong response, but unlike the US we are not interested in appearing like the strongest idiots, the EU would rather we all get along and trade. We'd rather work on real issues instead of this self damaging garbage.
is TSMC not currently building a plant in the US? and ASML are Dutch, so they're not at risk. I’m not saying that China taking Taiwan wouldn't be a massive strategic boon, but I don't think it would be "having the world by the balls" by any means
I recently bought shoes while in Thailand on lazada $1.5 with shipping. Of course the quality was terrible and all, but I just don’t get it how they could cost less than $1. My guess is labor camps.
Nikkō Road seems like it would have flooding issues. I wonder how they avoided that.
I've been using this one with Cursor the past few months...

https://github.com/foges/whisper-dictation
Aside from the more ambiguous access to newer features first, is there any benefit to this over just leveraging the API?

Going via the API with your own interface seems like it's objectively the better way to handle things like this at high usage, since you'll always have priority, wont have usage limits, and you'll pay as you go.
Wasn’t network. Skillset definitely but it’s nothing niche - typescript, node, react and some relevant domain experience.
rfork it's easy :D
> it helps to know who Brendan Eich is, where he worked when he invented JavaScript, and what Netscape wanted to achieve with it

That may have been relevant 15 years ago, whatever Eich wanted to do with JS, it's been out of his hands for a long time.

And you could also do the reverse and form an opinion about him based on JS :) Might not be very flattering.
I've seen my share of "well ackshually, this cool technical hack will circumvent the law and outsmart the judges", but thought judges wouldn't fall for such bullshit. Now, I'm not so sure. This is the stupidest thing I've seen in a long time.
> If it has an association with preventing cancers, not sure why they were so reluctant to immediately open up the patient pool.

Because approval involves evaluating a risk-benefit tradeoff, and the benefits for those groups are wildly different, as are the risk profiles, due to the way HPV strains[0] work. If they tested against a wide and heterogenous population from the start, it would risk demonstrating insufficient effect, which would eliminate the possibility of the vaccine for everyone. Instead, by testing against the group most likely to benefit from it (women, and specifically women of the age to have no prior exposure to HPV) they can see whether the vaccine has any potential at all, and expand from there.

As it turns out, the vaccine was incredibly effective for them, and as we studied it further, it turned out that other groups which had potentially lower benefits (men, older women) or higher potential risks (teenage girls) had a risk-benefit tradeoff that still overwhelmingly supported approval for those groups.

[0] yes, plural, because there are hundrends, and the vaccines (again, plural, because there are more than one) protect against a handful of them (although that fortunately includes the strains that account for 80-90% of HPV-caused cancers
there will always be states-hostages to the US Navy and US Air Force that will be forced to purchase USD, for example Gulf States that basically pay ransom in term of keeping the petrodollar and investing in USD.

The moment oil producing gulf states decide to stop buying USD bonds, they will receive "democracy".

The whole intent to fight Iran is not only to protect Israel, but also to choke off China's major oil supplier. If Iran folds into US control, it will be easier to choke China in terms of energy supplies
You're right; execution and defensibility are much more important than merely having an idea. One thing I’ve learned is that a good moat often comes from distribution, community, or even data feedback loops more than tech itself.

I now focus less on what no one has ever done and more on what people have done, but can be improved for a specific group. Niching down creates natural defensibility.

I Would love to hear more about your approach to building a moat if you're ever up for a brainstorming session!
The article itself says this, but this likely has very little to do with healthcare. We in the US have a higher murder rate, we drive more, walk and cycle less, air and water pollution is worse. We've had free movement between states far longer than the EU has existed and facilitated free movement between member countries, and while labor mobility is great for the economy, it makes for weaker communities and social bonds when everyone is a transplant.
What does/did Switzerland do?
The tariffs are as big a problem as the uncertainty. Not sure why you would think the tariffs are not.
Show HN: A Wordle implementation in pure SQL
Hi HN,

I made a Wordle clone where the game runs inside PostgreSQL. The game state lives in tables, and a SQL function acts as the game engine — you pass in an input, and it returns the new state.

Other than the game loop to feed inputs, everything happens in SQL. This was a fun project in pushing SQL beyond its usual use case, sharing in case others find it interesting too.

I guess you could extend this idea to any turn-based game (as long as you have the patience to implement it in SQL).
Aren't brick-and-mortar bookshops, generally speaking, as viable as Apatosaurus today?

Lately if I really must put hands on dead trees, the shelves of library sales, churches, and ordinary thrift stores are overflowing.

Also — secondhand books are generally outdated, undesirable, and/or damaged — do collectors still find diamonds in the rough?

No reason to waste real estate on any sort of dedicated seller. Goodness gracious.
Seems like an efficient way to recycle wealth that keeps pooling too much at the top. I think we can all agree that there's a limit to how much wealth inequality is healthy for society, and most people would agree that we're past that point now.
> … but it was somewhat expected, a calculated risk.

The way many of them think of it is that illness and death due to disease, starvation, lack of medication, problem pregnancies, etc. are acts of god and a part of life. They don’t want relief from that, if it comes with a government that has the power to change things they don’t want to change.
Why does everyone assume the commonwealth wants and FTA with us?
has no one considered that it could be simple market manipulation? have Trump's friends and allies been buying stocks in the last week or so?
"Objects" implies a few more properties than a simple data carrying container: while it might be expressed in a particular language using classes/objects, you really don't care about any of the "object"-like features other than the ability for it to contain attributes.

Generally, you can go a long way with simple, combined types which are closer to maps/hashes/dicts than to "objects" other than syntax (.attr vs ["attr"]).

And really, that would be my preference: combine a query builder (some ORMs have great ones too) with native types representing the data read from the database.
There were a lot of smart things that could be done "about China" and then there are a lot of dumb things...we chose the dumb things.

We could...oh...increase are R&D on automation, AI, green energy, electric vehicles dramatically, we could focus on better education and better infrastructure for our cities (like lightrail in Seattle to where I live that doesn't take $200 billion and 2 decades to build). We could have just fought China with a better product. We could lean into our chip advantage that will only last at most a decade anyways. And many of those fit in with Conservative philosophy even (who doesn't want less regulation and cheaper/quicker construction, well, at least moderates like me would).

But no, we doubled down on culture wars and going back in time to when America was more self sufficient but less rich.
The only point I put forth is that public fluoridation of water supplies doesn't infringe absolutely on an individual's right to informed consent to treatment since there is at least 1 method (moving) available that an individual can utilize to opt out. Others have pointed out that there may even be additional options available such as de-fluoridating yourself.

Did you have something on topic to contribute?

Or did you just want a soap box to voice your own opinions and I just happen to be collateral damage because you thought casting oblique aspersions about my qualifications would make you sound intelligent?
Yeah, Trump, Putin and Xi Jinping can do that "if they are cranky".

The reasonable world doesn't take Russia or China seriously. US is about to be added to that list.

Also, we're now busy building nukes. Morons.
I'd believe you if he hadn't already flipflopped on tariffs recently. I think it's much simpler than that: he's pulling whatever levers he has to squeeze everyone and then letting up the pressure on people who do what he wants. He already did this with Canada and Mexico, using tariffs to get them to make a show of border secy=urity.
The U.S. ambassador to Canada has since informed the government that this is not the case, and the tariff's currently in place will remain unchanged for now[1].

However, with this administration, who really knows?

Perhaps Trump is staying quiet to avoid aiding Carney in the election. Perhaps he'll announce harsher tariff's on Canada tomorrow. Canada did retaliate and hasn't been hit with retaliation for retaliating, which gives the lie to Trump's statements that countries should refrain from retaliating if they don't want to be treated even worse.

There is not one whit of consistency or logic on display here.

[1]https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-will...
But can you trust him to keep them at 10% for more than 12 hours?
It also matters what jobs they change to.

There is a documentary out there showing someone who could quit their regular job and become an artist thanks to an UBI pilot (Canada IIRC). It is presented as a positive example in that they did not become lazy, but just work something different and still make revenue close to what they earned on their job by selling art.

How many people will become artists with UBI introduced nationally? Who is going to buy all that art?
I recently started using Aqua and it's great. The team really improved the latency in the last few weeks.
Thanks Simon, will take a look.

Extremely off-topic: are you still around DS?
Exactly the point -- the dichotomy of "white collar jobs" and "manufacturing jobs" is a false one.
Aren't your 401k's tied up in stocks and bonds? Index funds too will probably have been fleeced too on the volatility.
I am surprised we cannot use the self-winding or normal wind-up mechanics for power generation to charge a battery to supplement solar, but I expect the experiments have already been done and it was either not cost effective or just did not give out enough power to be useful.
Any idea why they used a dog (or werewolf?) mouth model in the video?
Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend for 2024: $1,702, or $141.83/month

https://pfd.alaska.gov/
But these are all internal to the US. Trade partners still have to deal with the current administration and don't have any recourse.
But it doesn't really change how Bitcoin operates does it that's apparent isn't it?
Google's been doing custom ML accelerators for 10 years now, and (depending on how much you're willing to stretch the definition) has been doing them in consumer hardware for soon to be five years (the Google Tensor chips in pixel phones).
Goes without saying, all the people on these photos are now all dead. And their children too. Zooming in and studying their faces, it strikes me how similar we are to them, and yet so different.
Somewhat similar to Golem - https://github.com/golemcloud/golem - correct?

So, I like this idea, I really do. At the same time, in the short-term, WASM is relatively messy and, in my opinion, immature (as an ecosystem) for prime time. But with that out of the way (it will eventually come), you'll have to tell people that they can't use any code that relies on threads, so they better know if any of the libraries they use does it. How do you foresee navigating this? Runtime errors suck, especially in this context, as fixing them requires either live patching code or migrating execution logs to new code versions.
Pretty much any policy can work (to some extent, for a while) in a society with sufficiently high social trust. But that trust is not static and can be built or depleted over time by those same policies.
> First, adding $26 tariff at the port doesn't just add $26 to the final price. Everything here works off of percentages.

This doesn't have to be the case though, right? It seems very weird that when you jack up tariffs, some middleman in America is seeing their profit jump.
I didn't truly know and I didn't want to just throw out a guess so I just asked. They mentioned they have a basic hand rolled system for their physics. So not using unity physics.

I guess making the claim that is was more complicated might have not been right for me to do, but it would be hard to believe that they did the degenerate case of O(n^2).

Speculation: I have only written a physics engine once during college (so please excuse my ignorance), but I think for a basic mmo a simple chunk and AABB approach would work. It would be easy to query for the surrounding chunks and just run the collision on that subset. I know one of the team members was working on porting a minecraft 1.7.3 server at one point, but I don't know if they got up to the point of moving collision off of the server and into the database.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYMEUk-tnWs
i doubt you're the first person to think of this. not to be an "it's priced in" guy, but... something to consider
That seems to be the current strategy, and I happen to appreciate it.

I'm pretty mad a the US for fucking up the entire world right now, but I also realise that acting on that anger is a bad idea. I appreciate the EU having some long discussions while the emotions fade.
How was your experience? Would it compare to Cursor, Windsurf, Cline/Roo?
I'm not sure that I understand, are you saying that UBI might not work because real estate could become more expensive?
You’re real market you need to go hard on is the assistive tech market. You know the biggest companies in this space are those solving problems for dyslexia where govt grants in eg UK fund pretty much all their work? I had an access to work assessment and they recommend like sweets stuff from texthelp. It’s then paid for by the government following these assessments. But it’s crap. It literally is a crap tool for adhd or dyslexia because these users literally CANT remember or deal with barriers like learning how to dictate correctly. Aqua voice solves this. I’m your biggest fan. I recommend it in my AT assessments all the time :)
> Can you tell the different between someone who really just leans on ChatGPT all day but is actually incompetent?

More relevant question: even if you can easily tell the difference, can you convince the person who makes the hiring decisions that your colleague is incompetent and only relays words to/from ChatGPT?
It could be a very straightforward dump and pump scam, as well. We know this admin isn’t above petty monetary graft.

It seems to be the simplest possible explanation, too. Then again, never attribute to malice…
lol no. Claude Pro gave me like, 20-40 questions every 12 hours before it would throttle, and half of those were mistakes we already corrected that it was trying to re-integrate. Plus Claude is always trying to censor itself. I got suckered in by the "claude is better at code" shit, but wow was that BS.

Compared to ChatGPT, where 20 bucks gets you hundreds of prompts, and if you ask it hard questions it actually answers instead of lecturing about morals, and why you shouldn't be asking these questions in the first place.

Other than using Free Claude to generate resumes to apply to job postings at anthrowhatever, it is by far and away the most useless of the LLMs.
Unfortunately Unified Write Filter is SKU-limited. It has been a feature of the produce since the Windows NT Embedded 4.0 days but nobody knows about it and, if you do, you can't use it because you don't have an eligible SKU.
Your semi-regular reminder that Fowler and Beck were part of the brain trust involved with the gigantic disaster that was the "Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Comprehensive_Compens...
> We have stats upon stats to help us predict outcomes in elections

2016 called
tbh i haven't used the agentic/gemini integration hardly at all yet. All i did was add an already completed project just to see how the web ide/preview performed.
I never got the HPV vaccine and am now too old.
Recently I had a papilloma removed from my soft palate near my uvula. They checked it for cancer but not HPV, even though they said it was almost certainly HPV.

So for $129 I took the OraRisk HPV test which tests for 51 strains, including the ones associated with cancer, and the results came up negative.

So I maybe sort of probably don't have HPV, or may have but don't anymore. Or maybe something like that.
Great material!

I always been mesmerized by Cyc (and EURISKO). I've born in late USSR, and my father (then "junior staff scientist" in natural language processing) has several translated books (borrowed from Institute's lab, as I understand mow) which were (again, as I understand now, many years alter) abbreviated translations of proceedings of some "West" conferences about AI. As I read everything about computers, I read these books too, and was deeply impressed by description of EURISKO (it worth noting, that fleet-simulation game was not mentioned, but MOS structure was). I was... 10? 12? years old.

I still think, that this approach much better than modern "multiple huge matrix by huge vector. I understand, that DNNs and LLMs won practically. But I still think that these blackbox pure-feedback based approaches are not so elegant as knowledge engineering... Practical. But in some sense "dirty". Like "dirty hacks" in code.

BTW, part about ABBYY is not exactly correct. I know this because my father became one of the founders and life-long CTO of PROMT, company which is (was? It is not clear after beginning of war, unfortunately) author of successful pre-LLM grammar-based translation systems (Stylus, later PROMT) and partner of ABBYY. ABBYY translation project stated much later than 1990s, because in 1990s ABBYY distributed PROMT technology, and ABBYY itself was (is) experts in OCR and dictionaries (dictionaries is not translation system, of course). Translation project in ABBYY started much later, when their ways with PROMT parted due to several business-related reasons.
Agents in Swift – LangTools.swift
There's a subtext to this post that may not be obvious to non British people: UK High Streets (Main Streets) have in the last 20 years experienced an incredible explosion of charity shops (thrift stores) including many locations specific to books.

Quite why this has occurred is a subject of occasional argument, but I've never heard a definitive theory on it, and it partly overlaps with the general decline motivated by ecommerce. They do compete on some level with existing businesses, as debated here, but the more curious impact is they completely alter the character of an area.

Ten years ago they used to be fantastic for obscure finds because it seemed people had not caught on, but these days they tend to be subpar, which is probably a major edge the non charitable enterprises have exploited.
Railways and electricity are run by private companies in the UK.

They've had 30 years to make it work, and have failed.
Expect is very cool and useful. I have used it some.

I read almost the full Expect book by Don Libes, the author of Expect, several years ago. He had a unique and very interesting style of writing, in that book.

Yes, so popular that there are also ports of Expect to some other languages, such as Python and others.
Said assets and land are already being used though. It's just a case of people wanting to "redistribute" them.
They're implying that landlords will immediately raise rents by the amount of UBI, rendering it pointless.