skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gradient descent is a dumb optimizer. LLM training is not at all like a human reading a book and more like evolution tuning adaptations over centuries. You would not expect either process to be aware of anything they are converging towards. So having lots of books that talk about chess in training will predictably just return a model that knows how to talk about chess really well. I'm not surprised they may know how to talk about the rules but play them poorly.

And that post had a follow-up. Post-training messing things up could well be the issue seeing the impact even a little more examples and/or regurgitation made.
https://dynomight.net/more-chess/
All I an say in this section is I was most intrigued when I was travelling across Europe on a long and complicated business journey. Turkish airlines (if I recall right, maroon uniforms) had a sign language video for both Turkish sign language and international sign language. I felt so elated and welcome at that moment. I felt at home. Somebody cared for people like me. I have not come across anybody else who has done the same job.

So what I have to say, yes, the measure of the effort what pretty much sums to entertainment and pseudo-psychology, speaks to the consumer masses who are worried when they jump on a plane filled with other 150~ish strangers.
When traveling, a funny thought I always have is watching other tourists take the same photos, from the same exact location, knowing it will be backed up to iCloud. I can't help but imagine how much disk space is taken up by duplicates of the exact same photo.
There are a few arguments here, and yeah, I get it, some of the shit being stored is shit — or shitty versions of content already stored. But the argument that “these pages haven’t been reviewed in 20 years!” is exactly the reason for preservation! We want to be able to read, listen, and review content that is rare.
"when you ask him anything, he never answers 'no' -- he just yesses you to death and then he takes your dough"
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Point still stands. It would
be responsible to cut at least $300B.
You can look up the arguments for housing being interstate commerce in the FCC case I alluded to and in the arguments supporting the fair housing act.

> The Attorney General testified that "the housing business is substantially interstate and subject to the commerce clause" because of the interstate movement of building materials, mortgage funds, and advertising, as well as the interstate movement of workers and their families. [1]

A meaningful challenge to this would invalidate the fair housing act. This falls squarely under the dormant commerce clause.

Further, rent control has been shown in studies of San Francisco to decrease supply, unit quality and increase prices. There’s no market on earth that honors the price you would have paid when you first showed up no matter how long you sit there and no matter how it hurts others, by law. [2]

In a market where supply and demand meet prices don’t go up, and rent control is unncessary. See Japan. [3] In a market where supply and demand are forbidden from meeting rent control creates further harm to the market, and only masks the problem for a vocal minority.

Unfortunately for all of us popular policy is not necessarily good policy.

Eliminating the zoning premium would bring houses down in price by $400,000 each. I suspect you’d be able to afford to buy, and yes, rent would come down a lot.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/crt/housing-and-civil-enforcement-ca...

[2] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24181/w241...

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JPNCPIHOUQINMEI
That seems pretty opinionated design, I am surprised so many people wanted it.

The fan/light combo is neat. Steel work surface with magnetic holders sounds like a great idea. But the rest of items do not make it a "portable workspace".

Why usb-c cable but no charger? I either use dedicated module (so I need charger) or my laptop's power brick (so I don't need cable).

Where is solder sucker? copper wick is just not the same.

What about other tools? I'd expect to see at least small set of screwdrivers / pliers.

What about spare parts box? With all that free space, I'd like to at least have my small coil of wire there.

(Also, the AI-generated images of workbenches are so cringe..)
I came here to make the same recommendation. Just use p7zip for everything; no need to learn a bunch of different compression tools.
I agree that it could be a separate license, but that doesn't really contradict the point that GPLv2 was intended to prevent DRM scenarios that in practice violate basic idea of being able to run the changes. It's a natural thing to want, even if Linus doesn't find it important.
> Yes, Russia, a place always known for enabling free and unrestricted speech.

The US is well known for enabling free speech, because you can criticize President Trump without negative consequences. But it's the same in Russia; you can criticize President Trump all you want.
It is even worse on MacOS, because Apple bundles the BSD versions of common Unix utilities instead of the (generally more featureful) GNU versions. So good luck writing a Bash script that works on both MacOS and Linux...
Europe needs money for importing energy. This is a life-or-death sort of thing, given how cold it gets in some European countries. Europe also imports large amounts of electronics and machinery.
If I knew the data i was going to need in the future i'd be in the future predicting business.

But there's an important piece there that is about data that should not have been stored in the first place. All the big data bullshit made people believe every single piece of data you could possibly store from a user is data that you should store and this is both a huge waste of resources and a huge liability, because now a data leak with useless to you PII could completely bankrupt your business.
No idea. But let’s unleash DOGE on it. Cut 50%. If, “oopsie doopsie our bad!”, that causes problems, we can raise it up a bit.
I’m aware of some people who _always_ file an extension, but I haven’t pinned them down on why. Does anyone here file an extension in most/all years? Curious the reason.
Thanks. Though I was hoping to hear how SequiaHope arrived at his estimate of what the correct level of defense funding should be.
Have some self respect lol
The GT people don't like boxing what it is into any specific category. Which isn't great for new users but also makes sense when you use it.

Because it's really not any one thing other than an environment that is built from the ground up for building highly explainable systems, including itself. Think about it like a "meta-tool", or a tool for building tools. Similar to how an operating system is a piece of software used for writing other pieces of software easier.

So naturally this type of workflow lends itself to data analysis. However it's no less applicable in building p2p networks, or working with codebases in other languages.

Regarding sharing code, it's actually really straight forward. Your classes aren't stuck in images, but are normally stored as normal plaintext files and committed into git. The library story is arguable better than in most other languages, because of how flexible smalltalk is.
Would they need a veto-proof majority for that to work? You’d need like half the republicans to go along with that.
Its's Evil (Evil = Incompetence + Power)
For the first time in 25 years, California has a snowpack trifecta
It could have, but I would just replace it with the same link you posted. And we all hate Perry sometimes :)
Why Machine Language? (1983)
the sorting buttons on that table dont work
> Why are you working overtime for free?

Thats what oncall is, every job ive seen makes you do it
If the concern is trade deficit then buying more imports would be the capitulation.
Domino had a concept of template (NTF) files. You could develop in those and apply them to a test environment. Then when development was complete you could refresh the designs of the production databases using the templates, with little or no down time.

The problem was that the NTF was a big binary file. You couldn't really do effective team development with branching and merging of source code. We worked out some manual processes for copying and pasting pieces around to prevent conflicts, but it was a huge mess. IBM never really understood or prioritized the needs of Domino developers.
Congress doesn't give a damn about this country. If they had even a small amount of respect for it, they would have already impeached the trump.
No, I'm saying it has a worse system than Swift's. The point I'm making is that they've designed things such that the normal case doesn't hit this, while Swift keeps adding APIs that exercise the worst of their type system.
> Perhaps it was a pure academic reply

Yes, exactly.
Honestly, I think you might be missing something here. "Azimov on Numbers" was maybe the most real math book I read as a kid. I don't know of any other book aimed at a kid's reading level that covers aleph-null and Cantor sets.
I mostly write these things by hand when necessary which sucks but at least I know what is going on with them.
DOGE has embedded itself into every federal cabinet department. They've got the gumroad guy poking around in the VA right now.
> we are still in a bull market (even as of tonight).

Are you so sure about that? Presumably tomorrow's > 3% crash will mean we've had more consecutive crashes of note than any other period since the Great Depression.

This is truly one of the most remarkable market downturns in all history, and by all accounts it is only just getting started.
The cruelty to 'the bureaucratic class' is part of the point. The Trump admin has clearly stated so over and over both before and after the election:

Russell Vought, Trump’s pick for the director of the Office of Management and Budget (a job he held during Trump’s first term), has said: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrati...
Note the website (ai-contest.com) that the post links to seems to have been hijacked by a gambling site.

For the use-cases where Genetic Programming was popular, I would recommend looking at Bayesian Optimization (bayesopt) as an alternative today (I know I keep recommending the area - but I hope I do when it is relevant :-)). This is mostly because IMHO it has a principled foundation that has been productively developed further in the past few years. Here's a good book on the topic [1], and I've a tutorial as well [2]. Interestingly one of the books I had encountered when reading up on Genetic Algo. years ago was by Melanie Mitchell [3]!

Bayesopt or Genetic Programming, or any search algorithm that can operate over non-differentiable objective functions are very useful in practice. For ex, when performing model selection in the space of hyperparameters, when your model is not differentiable such as a traditional Decision Tree [4]. Or exotic use-cases like molecule discovery [5].

You can try out bayesopt using the botorch or hyperopt libraries. The latter only implements a specific bayesopt algo. which was/is popular but it seems to have been bettered of late [4].

[1] https://bayesoptbook.com/

[2] Part 1 https://blog.quipu-strands.com/bayesopt_1_key_ideas_GPs

[3] Found a free copy online https://www.boente.eti.br/fuzzy/ebook-fuzzy-mitchell.pdf

[4] "... Analysis of the Black-Box Optimization Challenge 2020" https://proceedings.mlr.press/v133/turner21a.html

[5] ChemBO is an example but there are others https://proceedings.mlr.press/v108/korovina20a.html
It’s also terrible copy-pasting and CMD+F experience.
Wouldn’t housing prices decrease be a major downward pressure on inflation?
Trust the plan and the process.We need to start manufacturing shoes and socks here in the US.
Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted
That doesn't make it any less on them.
A beloved Terry Pratchett character defines evil as when you treat people like things.
The only way we can do something is if these actions become deeply unpopular - which they currently aren’t, still about 43% of the population are totally onboard.

All we can do is wait for the empire to tumble enough until people without empathy become personally affected and turn sour. My guess is it won’t take the full 4 years.
Virtually all reasonable alternatives to GR have been strongly ruled out, including theories with large extra dimensions in them. In general, these theories have a some kind of parameter which measures their deviation from GR, which is being squashed to zero. There's also just generally no reason to think there are extra dimensions at all

This article brings up neutron stars being slightly larger than expected, but the reality is there's no real expected maximum mass for a neutron star - because the equation of state and physics for neutron star interiors is unknown. The spin, and magnetic field of a neutron star can also serve to increase the maximum mass of a neutron star, which are very hard to model as there are no analytic solutions to a spinning body (nor an oblate body)

There are too many approximations in the paper to even come close to saying that the brane model explains this better than standard physics, and there's no reason to think that this event isn't explainable by standard physics
Isn’t trading off of delayed disclosures basically being dumb money? You’re in a similar position to a pump and dump victim.
To be fair, this is already a very real and annoying problem for unfortunately named folks, predating any DOGE work: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/null-last-name-computer-scient...
I brought my MX Master 3 to a brand new Mac mini and was terribly confused. Mouse movement was janky, jumpy, unusable.

It turns out that you need third party tools for non-Apple mice, like Mac Mouse Fix.

Keyboard isn't much better, since Apple encourages you to bring your own keyboard, but doesn't even ship a keymap for PC keyboards.
I was quite clear that this is HISTORICAL baggage whose syntax and semantics we're still suffering from. I corrected it from TWO to THREE and wrote a step by step description of why it was three processes in the other comment. That's the whole point: it was originally a terrible design, but we're still stuck with the syntactic and semantic consequences even today, in the name of "backwards compatibility".

> they usually don't have to be fast since they're usually just used to delegate operations off to other code for performance

Even now you're bending over backwards to make ridiculous rationalizations for the bankrupt "Unix Philosophy". And you're just making my point for me. Does the Unix Philosophy say that the shell should be designed to be slow and inefficient and syntactically byzantine on purpose, or are you just making excuses? Maybe you don't think YOUR shell scripts have to be fast, or easy to write, read, and maintain, or perform simple arithmetic, or not have arsenals of pre-loaded foot guns, but speak for yourself.
Seems like it might be more efficient with WebAssembly.
Which is a fair choice, since so much of Linux development and driver development is driven by commercial interests - there would very likely be a fork from the last GPLv2 commit which all the vendors would switch to...
> Monday is going to be an absolute bloodbath.

Don't start such rumors. It is not that bad, you can see pre-mkt trading here: https://www.cnbc.com/
This might age really badly but I have a feeling the market will barely be green by end of day
Actually it wouldn't be difficult to add similar view protocols to Python objects as well (I used GT extensively a couple years ago). Pretty much everything is possible, but the live debugger and driller would be really difficult to replicate, which is where GT really shines for me. Alas it was just too much to properly bridge it with Python, where the majority of my work lies, and GT becomes overwhelmed when passed a fraction of data Python handles with ease.
The Trump admin has stated over and over it is malice.

Russell Vought, Trump’s pick for the director of the Office of Management and Budget (a job he held during Trump’s first term), has said: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/books/review/administrati...
They are more alike as an investor class than different because of party affiliation.
At the end of the day they all like being rich more than anything else.
Tangential, but I almost never get to tell this story.

In 2012 I was fired from a job (on my birthday!). I hated this job, I hated my coworkers, I really hated my manager, I was pretty sure that the higher-ups were alcoholics since they always smelled like beer or whiskey, and the work was mind-numbing where quite literally 3/4 of my work was designing nametags even though I was ostensibly a "Java developer".

Anyway, I got fired, and while getting fired always sucks, I was a little relieved that I didn't have to show up anymore.

The following Monday, I got a phone call from my manager demanding that I provide the password to unlock the Macbook that they had me using. I explained to him that I think it's a bad idea to share my password with people that I don't trust. He then told me that I "had" to provide it, to which I said "I really don't think I do, actually. I don't work for <company name> anymore. What are you going to do, fire me?"

This went back and forth for another thirty seconds, and eventually I said "Here's what we'll do, I'll drive over there, unlock the laptop, and drive back home, and you pay for my entire trip. I charge $200/hour."

He was clearly pissed off, eventually hung up, and I never heard back from them. A part of me likes to think that maybe they had to trash the laptop because they were too incompetent to figure out how to wipe the drive.
The lost trust won't affect the price of eggs or Honda Accord in Waukeekee
Great, when my power strip dies, so does my TV!

Recently a friend was charging about six different items off of his PC. Not mentioning the poor charging rate. I said to him, hey, maybe you want to get a dedicated charging hub for 40 bucks instead of putting wear and tear on the $250 motherboard and power supply. Just because you can, doesn't always mean you should.
> Europe needs money for importing energy

And they can't pay with their own currencies? If they import from other countries, that is?

> Europe also imports large amounts of electronics and machinery

From the US? Would their other vendors terribly mind taking Euros instead?
Since no one is mentioning it I will. If the stock market crashes, dollars move to treasuries. If the demand for treasuries skyrocket, the interest rate on treasuries drops dramatically. There's 9.2 trillion dollars US debt in the form of low interest treasuries up for refinancing this year. Refinancing them at the current treasury rate will add a huge burden to government expenditures.

However, if you drop the nominal interest rate to say 2%, that saves about $460 billion a year in interest on the 9.2 trillion, or $3.58 trillion over the life of the treasuries.

It's just a dumb theory, but blow the stock market up, lower treasury rates, refinance, prop the market back up again.
Seem's like a buying opportunity ahead perhaps.
Company web site.[1]

The real claim is 10 minute charging of lithium-ion batteries with a process which is a minor mod to existing battery production.

There's no product yet.

Batteries with good low temp behavior have many specialized uses.
Things that have a small solar panel, a battery, and no grid connection could benefit from this. Even flashlights could use this.

[1] http://arborbatteries.us/
It's the age old argument of "letter of the law" vs "spirit of the law".

Neither approach is perfect. Personally I prefer the spirit approach as companies will generally do more harm than regulators given some rope.
Agreed.

You may already know them, but the “Corridor Crew” channel on YouTube has a great “VFX Artists React” series where they do deep dives into vfx scenes and the behind the scenes.

They often have industry pros come in and share scenes from their work. Great channel and series!

Example vid:

https://youtu.be/fIVUZkIvx6Q?si=pQaXhXKEWZXGXuQ0
Sublayer: A model-agnostic Ruby AI Agent framework
Baha
OpenAI told how they removed it for GPT-4 in its release paper: only exact string matches. So all discussion of bar exam questions from memory on test taking forums etc., that wouldnn't exactly match, made it in.
The article states:

> "It’s unclear to what extent the employee lists used in the RIFs were influenced by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) .."
Well, if we're talking about radar in a moving car, it's the other vehicles moving at the same speed that appear stationary.

Non-moving vehicles are seen as approaching you at whatever speed you are moving at. Along with all the other things you mentioned.

So they all have doppler shift but the "stationary" things approaching your car at your speed actually have much higher shift than the traffic around you.
You may underestimate how many drivers had to be shipped and developed by external companies compared to today. For software / hardware companies that was a huge deal.
That and videos of concerts / fireworks shows.

For a fun example, every time I'm on the Las Vegas strip I see dozens of people taking videos of the Bellagio Water Show.

There are 30 shows per night, if 50 people take videos in 4K 60fps (default on new iPhones), that's around 60 GB of data per show or ~600 TB per year of just videos of the Bellagio Fountain Show!
If it's reversed faster than alternatives are in place, then it won't matter too much if the trust is there because what alternative is there? The logistics and stuff take time to change. If it persists long enough, then the trust piece will be more of a factor.
lol point taken.

I would be willing to bed we’ll see something rambling natural intelligence created in this century, but I think this brute force approach shows that we’re just not there yet.
> That's just adding a row into the 'Outbox' table

No tables and no rows in Notes. Composing an email would create a new document using the "Mail" form; clicking the "Send" button would run a shockingly confusing script that would cause the document to render in the style of a sent email; some awful LotusScript "Agent," the details of which I've long forgotten, would soon thereafter urge the Domino MTA to send mail based on its apprehension of the new document in your mailbox database.
If it actually works out, I'd be amazed and happy. I'm not that optimistic though.
it works both ways. People quit without any notice all the time, and you can be fired for no reason and without notice. It’s not inhumane, it’s life. Your employer doesn’t owe you a job for life, and you don’t commit to your job for life.
I think it's worse than that. Appears to me that the methodology here is intentional sabotage of the government. When your platform is explictly anti-government (also, explictly anti-empathy, and implictly anti-expert), and someone hands you the government, you smash it, along with the lives of all those losers who dedicated themselves to public service.
At least the disclosure shouldn't be lagging.