skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learnt web dev in 72 hours and built this
Crucial reading at the time, EVEN more so for this era.

This translation is by far the best:
https://www.amazon.com/Society-Spectacle-Guy-Debord/dp/09422...

Anyone who wants to understand the cultural, philosophical, political, and economic past, present, and future should read this book.

Warning: it will fuck with you.
Every country has the ability to print money and buy its own debt. Japan has printed billions and bought equities.

Being a global reserve currency only increases the extent of that printing, not the ability itself.
It's not, it's just audited. If you go to the bank and give them 10,000 dollars they don't lock you up. They just have one of their people do some research and ask you for some paperwork.

Now, the police seizing money is different, but the police are the police. They can do almost anything they want, and you have next to zero recourse. Of course, they're going to abuse this and steal your money.
Me neither. But some people are dyslexic or non native speakers (it's common to have listening comprehension better than reading comprehension when learning a language) and have to put more effort into reading than I do, and some people genuinely just prefer video.

I think it's decent of the author to provide a video for these people.
Was this 72 hours spent 9 months ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40889488
Someone needs to sue that Congress can't declare it to be March 11 forever.
The key thing for me in making this decision is of course predicting the future.

Parsers are more work up front but in my experience much easier to debug, maintain and extend. So if I predict something will be around for a while I'll want to do a parser and if it's just a one-off I usually go with regex.

Of course this predictably leads to me having a collection of parsers that I've never needed to touch again and a handful of monstrously complex regex grammars that I'll rewrite into a parser "the next time" I need to modify them.

I still think it's the right thing to base the decision on I just need to keep improving my prophesying.
Could also be that moderate drinking could help you find friends and a mate, both of which decrease mortality.
And man it's another monthly subscription. I'm not mad at them for finding a gap in the market and putting a business around it. I'm mad at Apple for leaving that gap... hopefully built in voice dictation improves quickly.
Having a beard looks suspicious too. Literally there's nothing that can also not having anything as a suspicion.

Too old phone? Suspicious. Too empty phone? Suspicious...
The market is still down 10% from 45 days ago.

It's no longer down 20%.
I mean that's the nature of article code no? You are writing for a generic audience and want to be very explicit as to what your code is doing to teach the audience.

For your average haskell programmer you could drop all of those comments since the code isn't really doing anything that couldn't be determined by just reading it.
There are a few procedures that convert an impulse response to an approximating IIR filter:

1. Hartmut Brandenstein and Rolf Unbehauen, "Weighted Least-Squares Approximation of FIR by IIR Digital Filters", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, VOL. 49, NO. 3, MARCH 2001

2. Hon Keung Kwan and Aimin Jiang, "Recent Advances in FIR Approximation by IIR Digital Filters", 2006 International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems

3. Ngai Wong and Chi-Un Lei, "FIR Filter Approximation by IIR Filters Based on
Discrete-Time Vector Fitting", 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

The third one is approachable by anyone who has studied linear algebra at the level usually taught for physics students and knows NumPy. No special DSP course is required. My implementation takes approximately 200 lines of Python code.

The article contains a deterministic algorithm that takes a guess on the pole positions in the complex plane and returns a better guess. The idea is to start with a random guess with the correct symmetry and apply the algorithm iteratively.

The only two tricks to be aware of are: 1) their reformulation of everything in section III.B in terms of real numbers (instead of complex numbers) is not making anything simpler and should be ignored, and 2) explicitly symmetrize matrices that are supposed to be symmetrical, it order to avoid accumulation of numerical errors.

Still, it is not something that I would be willing to fully automate: for good results, one has to add a small delay or chop off a few initial near-zero samples, and guessing the delay correctly is what separates an easy-to-approximate filter from a bad one.
instinfo: How much to predict what info and get it to you during mettings?
I know, clickbaity.

On a seriious note, how common is it for you to be in a meeting, and get asked a question about xyz, where you know the answer but just need to find it from some document or quickly look it up on the internet. I am talking about the classic "let me check" or "let me get back to you on this after the meeting".

I am looking to scope out how big of a problem this is during meetings.

If there was a magic button that you could press to get information about the ongoing topic in discussion, and I am not takling about just generic information on the topic but a system which could predict what information you want at that point in time and it could give it to you. Do you guys feel the need for such a system? How much would you say the need is from a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being no need and 10 being I'd pay a lot for this. Also, I am not talking about information from the web this includes information from everywhere on your laptop slack, drive, maybe a LLM generated response, etc. In theory, just imagine that you'd be given the best possible answer from all available sources.
Great to see people using GPD Pocket, it is a nifty little laptop, I am impressed with each new version of it. There are few options for very small and portable devices that have a keyboard, and I find it pretty cool.
I was also surprised that my iPhone didn't do too well with it. Regular Gaussian Splatting runs pretty well on my iPhone, almost as good as my laptop (of course, my phone screen is a lot smaller so its rendering a lot fewer pixels). The fragment shader for this is very heavy compared to gaussian splatting, so maybe it has to do with that.

And I agree re: constantly drawing frames vs only drawing on change, that's a good optimization to make.
This makes too much sense to be the real reason, if you ask me.

I think it’s being reversed because it cratered global oil prices and that would be a terrible horrible very bad thing _for Russia_.
What stops a student or anyone from creating a mashup of response and give back as something to teacher to check. Example feed output of Ollama to Chatgpt and that output to Google model and so on and then give final product to teacher for checking.

I don't think that can be caught.
Most other solutions are not composable to the same extent. It’s not enough to be able to mix client/server (although that’s a start). It’s more about it going all the way — for example, the state of the client parts is preserved on refreshes of the server parts around them, the same components can be reused on either side depending on whether you want them to be state-driven or data-driven, state changes are predictably instant, you can stay within the same paradigm while moving code between highly interactive and fully data-driven (no awkward moving stuff “between PHP and JS” when something needs to be “more dynamic” and back when it needs some server-only feature), ability to send closures over the server to the client and back (lets you essentially .bind server actions over the network), all of this is integrated end-to-end (a client button can know precisely how long to display an indicator while the server is data fetching next page and the next client code and CSS are loading), and of course all of this being fully composable (you can nest server stuff into client stuff into server stuff into client stuff and they all retain state and refresh as you would expect).

If you don’t see what’s new about this I encourage you to look deeper because this definitely isn’t what backend frameworks have been doing for years so you are missing something.
Yup. The next 3.75 years are going to suck. Thank you, GOP, for completely shirking your responsibility to keep this kind of garbage in check.
I read “Rich Dad Poor Dad” and apparently debt is a great thing… My “poor” Dad just never thought me this
And where/how does one acquire them from?
> or host anything itself.

It does, or there would be nothing to download.

> and the system processes them on demand
> Webtor is a tool, not a content provider

By assembling the chunks into content it then provides via a link to download.

Is the implication here that the data is transient (eg time-gated or single use links) or something?

We're in the age of AI and Automation. Just because you aren't publishing an index of your content doesn't mean there aren't plenty of others searching, indexing, scraping, and aggregating it, nor does it mean the content isn't provided to the internet/public.
Parser combinators are one of those ideas that is really powerful in practice, but will never be mainstream because it had the bad fortune of coming from the functional programming world. It's a shame too, because parser combinators are what made parsers click for me.

Take the hard problem of parsing a language, break it down into the much simpler problem of reading tokens, then write simple "combinators" (and, or, one_or_many, etc etc) to combine these simple parsers into larger more complex parsers.

You could almost build an entire parser combinator library from scratch from memory, because none of the individual components are complicated.
PEGs don't have this problem right? Linear time over length of input? Though I guess most peg libraries probably aren't "pure" pegs to get around its limitations and may reintroduce this issue?
People who share this viewpoint have talked about this for decades and the entire time public policy went in the opposite direction. We’ll never get another chance before it’s too late.
This is a great point. It’s talked about in a book called Indistractabke. The author talks about trying to get rid of his phone during the day and even moving to a flip phone. But other nonsense just takes its place.

It’s essentially like being a dry drunk. You need something else to replace the alcohol or you just trade alcoholism for something else.
Is it "Around the world on a bicycle"? I, too, would like to know the name of this book. Sounds interesting!
Hopefully someone is thinking about adapting the assessments. Asking questions that focus on a big picture understanding instead of details on those in-class tests.
Easier to just promote a shitcoin like he did already.
He didn't even tell whether ETH, the second highest value cryptocurrency is considered security or not, even though he was asked about it all the time.
All of which is illegal for them to do for the moment, as opposed to TSA.
One of my concerns about UBI is that it would just cause inflation to raise prices precisely high enough to cancel the effect of UBI.

You see this on a more limited scale when we do other things that subsidize demand. Give people assistance with home buying? House prices go up. Make college loans cheap and easy to get? Tuition costs go crazy.
You think that's gonna be the best outcome?

EU already had 10% tariffs on all US autos. (Though tbf most other things were near zero.)
Why did you flag and remove that guy's responses? We're adults. We can handle it.
Exactly. That's why the public hearing was held. To make her and the case famous. This is how you play the game. Now Meta can still sue but it risks damaging its public image by going after a famous whistleblower.
Even if this wasnt unhealthy, I fail to see the benefits of this even after reading the "What is a tulpa good for?" section.
This is the best of HN comments. Engaging article engages a bunch of folks to share their own ideas and improve the lives of other readers. And no politics, yay!
The Supreme Court, on its shadow docket, did not decide any such thing. It stated very clearly that it was not rendering an opinion on that subject. What it did decide was that due process applies, even to illegal aliens, even under the Alien Enemies Act.
Not only that, they are actively expanding their manufacturing because their revenue is limited by supply. Their factories are running 24/7 and some products are still consistently out of stock.
Not the opinion of who is at fault for giving away taxpayer subsidies to big businesses.

There are, of course, drawbacks of only have a handful of highly efficient businesses led by a handful of people. While buyers get lower prices (at least initially), they also lose more and more leverage in the marketplace and are exposed to risks other than higher prices.
Lots and lots of Japanese homes and apartments are like this, today. "Floor life," I like to call it.
Wait till you deal with google genai lib vs google generativeai lib
> stop trading to the u.s.

That makes as much sense as a hunger strike over food rations.
Fair enough, I agree, simple arithmetic calculations shouldn't generate mysterious answers.
Hypothetically, assume for the moment Bessent is telling the truth. Now let's try to pencil in what the administration's reasoning might be. Here's my best guess at how the conversation in the White House went:

Advisor A: So we're all agreed then. 10% tariffs across the board is our strategy, except China, because Xi is a special boy.

Advisor B: If we announce that, everyone will freak out. There will be rage and panic.

Advisor A: That's where the tactics come in. We announce greater tariffs first, according to this super sketchy formula my intern cooked up with ChatGPT.

Advisor C: That's not what we agreed!

Advisor B: How will that stop the rage and panic?

Advisor A: It's tactics not strategy. We walk it back just before it hits. People will be too busy being relieved to be raged and panicked about 10%. We get the policy we want; the people / markets / etc. will only freak out for a few days and then go back to normal.

Trump: I like it. (Opens Resolute desk drawer.) Here's a signed copy of the Art of the Deal.

Advisor A: Thank you sir! I will cherish it for the rest of my days.

Again, the above is my guess as to what happened, under the (perhaps questionable) assumption that Bessent is telling the truth. ("How likely is this assumption?" is a question orthogonal to the point I'm trying to make, and therefore, out-of-scope for this post.)
I mean, they said they'd like to get your expert input on the matter. Why not give them a chance? Maybe you can help them do some much needed course correction—which is what I understood you're staying by reading a bit between the lines.

Maybe you can even negotiate a consultancy fee with them

You can stay sceptical, but try giving them a chance. You might end up surprising eachother!

Aside: I'm getting into indie game dev recently and love your site!
Food production is already absurdly automated. At least for grains, in theory you don't even need humans to drive the tractors on the fields any more, drones and RTK GPS systems automate all of it from seed to harvest. Cattle is fed and milked fully automated as well, with precise tracking of how much each cow ate and how much milk it yielded. Chicken also don't need much human work to lay eggs.

Most societies up to industrialization had a primary (i.e. agricultural) sector of around 50-70% of employees (numbers vary). Today, it's more like 1-2%, and the number is bound to fall - especially when lab-grown meat really takes off, because slaughtering and butchering farm animals _at the moment_ cannot be done by robots at scale and IMHO it's more likely that lab-grown meat succeeds before we entrust sharp knives to robots to actually kill animals.

> Who will fix our cars?

Modern cars - particularly electric cars - are much less maintenance intensive. That's part of why many established car brands are in serious trouble with their historically grown dealerships... "life long oil fills" and general improvements in technology already cut back on a lot of income from repair and maintenance of dealerships, and electric cars have far fewer failure points (other than crappy software) than ICE cars. We simply won't need anywhere close to the current number of service points, and we also won't need gas stations with trucks that fill up their tanks as the cars will be charged through the existing grid.

> Who will fix our potholes?

I 'member a story of some bloke holding up a sign like "I filled the potholes, pay me instead of your taxes". Local politics is on a downward slope across the Western world (with a common factor being the central government depriving local governments of revenue or loading off expenses to local levels), I think we're going to see a lot more of such incidents.

In any case, the price of trades labor will have to increase to be an effective incentive. And if you ask me, better pay the tradespeople than the vampires and vultures of Wall Street. At least the tradespeople do something to keep this society alive, the banksters do not.
Were they negotiated by the president, and then ratified by the Senate? Then no problem.

Are there any examples pre-Trump that were not ratified by Congress?
I wouldn’t mind farming if it wasn’t for the need of money. There’s a lot of risk involved. I also don’t mind fixing cars, it’s just in today’s world I can work and make more money in an office - and it requires enough hours that I can’t do mechanical work at all, there’s not enough time and I have to pay for those.
America only cared about Taiwan because it warehoused the exiled American friendly government that had a historical claim to power and could potentially be reinstalled.

As time goes on that becomes less and less relevant. Might be time to cut and run.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1909741170953273353.html
I'm fine with it. I don't mind his "attacks" it's just an abstract intellectual topic. Not everyone is high in neuroticism. Some people learn from heated debate. You're only in favor of learning styles that make you feel good? We're debating in good spirit.
It might also be for people who consider working for Google...
I simplified it for the sake of this example but image an all encompassing system that doesnt necessarily ONLY bring things that you know to find but something which brings information which it knows you'd like to have.

Say you are talking about the recent tariffs with a friend and the system bring in something like 'Trump has temporarily reduced tariffs to 10% for all other countries except China recently'. This is an example of news but it could just be some random fact which is helpful in our discussion. (you can imagine a similar example for when you are sitting in a lecture and the discourse is one way)
OmniSVG: A Unified Scalable Vector Graphics Generation Model
I haven't butchered a hog or died yet.
At the same time, he's really helping small business customers by offering a competitive product at a fraction of the price of the dominant vendors in the space (a duopoly) because he has no overhead. Customers love the product. No ads or marketing and he's got 30ish customers via word of mouth.
Yes they will, because when industry can't bet on being tariff free outside the US, they'll hedge their bets and have at least some manufacturing here. The damage is already done in that regard. The instability is the warning across the bow for companies that import.
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Why do people keep parroting this reduction of Socrates' thoughts... I don't think it was just as simple as he thought writing was bad. And we already know that writing isn't everything, anyone who as done any study of a craft can tell you that reading and writing don't teach you the feel of the art form, but can also nonetheless aid in the study. It's not black and white, even though people like to make it out to be.

SOCRATES: You know, Phaedrus, writing shares a strange feature with painting. The offsprings of painting stand there as if they are alive, but if anyone asks them anything, they remain most solemnly silent. The same is true of written words. You’d think they were speaking as if they had some understanding, but if you question anything that has been said because you want to learn more, it continues to signify just that very same thing forever. When it has once been written down, every discourse roams about everywhere, reaching indiscriminately those with understanding no less than those who have no business with it, and it doesn’t know to whom it should speak and to whom it should not. And when it is faulted and attacked unfairly, it always needs its father’s support; alone, it can neither defend itself nor come to its own support.

PHAEDRUS: You are absolutely right about that, too.

SOCRATES: Now tell me, can we discern another kind of discourse, a legitimate brother of this one? Can we say how it comes about, and how it is by nature better and more capable?

PHAEDRUS: Which one is that? How do you think it comes about?

SOCRATES: It is a discourse that is written down, with knowledge, in the soul of the listener; it can defend itself, and it knows for whom it should speak and for whom it should remain silent.

[link](https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-...)