skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this explanation (and with many others) is that it misses why we should care about "disorder" or "uncertainty", whether in information theory or statistical mechanics. Yes, we have the arrow of time argument (second law of thermodynamics, etc), and entropy breaks time-symmetry. So what?

The article hints very briefly at this with the discussion of an unequally-weighted die, and how by encoding the most common outcome with a single bit, you can achieve some amount of compression. That's a start, and we've now rediscovered the idea behind Huffman coding. What information theory tells us is that if you consider a sequence of two dice rolls, you can then use even fewer bits on average to describe that outcome, and so on; as you take your block length to infinity, your average number of bits for each roll in the sequence approaches the entropy of the source. (This is Shannon's source coding theorem, and while entropy plays a far greater role in information theory, this is at least a starting point.)

There's something magical about statistical mechanics where various quantities (e.g. energy, temperature, pressure) emerge as a result of taking partial derivatives of this "partition function", and that they turn out to be the same quantities that we've known all along (up to a scaling factor -- in my stat mech class, I recall using k_B * T for temperature, such that we brought everything back to units of energy).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_function_(statistica...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_thermodynamic_rela...

If you're dealing with a sea of electrons, you might apply the Pauli exclusion principle to derive Fermi-Dirac statistics that underpins all of semiconductor physics; if instead you're dealing with photons which can occupy the same energy state, the same statistical principles lead to Bose-Einstein statistics.

Statistical mechanics is ultimately about taking certain assumptions about how particles interact with each other, scaling up the quantities beyond our ability to model all of the individual particles, and applying statistical approximations to consider the average behavior of the ensemble. The various forms of entropy are building blocks to that end.
For those keeping score at home, 51% sold at a total valuation of $8.75B, which means they are bringing in around $4.5B, and recognizing a loss of roughly 50% on what was their biggest deal ever when it took place in 2015.
I didn't know the FTC got involved in Afghanistan
- "We're bringing the old internet back."

- "Cool! That was what everyone always wanted. Wait, what is that?"

- "Some yet to be defined role for AI, don't worry about it."

Please, stop forcing it guys. Let it grow naturally. I know you all want that sweet return of investment very soon in any way shape or form possible, but this is getting ridiculous.
They were obviously not fleeing a genocide, since no genocide happened in 1948. The population graphs of Palestine make that extremely clear. In fact, many did not flee and are citizens of Israel today and even serve in the Knesset, and are referred to as "Israeli Arabs." Of the five acts defined as genocide, moving five miles away is not one of them.

And of course you can compare conflicts in history to each other. Why wouldn't you be able to? Literally the same thing happened with India and Pakistan, at almost exactly the same time, except that Pakistan agreed to the partition and didn't try to invade India. Many people were displaced, or fled, and there were even some border conflicts. But Pakistan and India both accepted partition in general in 1947, unlike the Palestinians who invaded Israel instead in 1948. In fact many more people were displaced or forced to move during the partition of British India into India and Pakistan: 15MM people, vs 900k during the 1948 war.

If you didn't consider that genocide, neither is the latter.
Phones interrupt the connection every time you close the app, and if there's even a way to avoid this (yes on Android, no on iPhone) the user sees a notification that something is running in the background (fine) and their battery life is 80% less (not fine). The way IRC works is just inherently incompatible with the way mobile devices work, since IRC assumes stable endpoints. And because it's a protocol not a product, this can't be fixed.

Even if a new protocol was created which fixed this, the necessary design change would bring so much baggage that it would become Matrix. To solve the unstable endpoint problem, servers need to store messages until all endpoints retrieve them (which is never, for channels of non-trivial size, since at least one client isn't coming back) or time out (how long do you set that? a week? If you're holding all messages permanently, you might as well never time out clients).

The obvious storage design will hold each channel's messages once, not once per client connection buffer. Which means a lot of things: you might as well send it to new clients when they join; each message will have an ID so you might as well support replies and emoji reactions; you have to moderate it for illegal content; since messages have IDs, you might as well retract moderated messages on clients. At the end of the design process, what you have is nothing like IRC any more.
20%. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/income-share-top-1-before...
Imagine how much federal revenue would increase if that 1% paid the same effective rate as say a typical plumber, rather than the <10% they currently pay. That might actually put a dent in the trillions of dollars this congress is about to add to the national debt.
The fact that North Carolina's governor is pretty consistently from the democratic party is an interesting story about the lack of actual democracy in the modern US.

The population in that state is pretty similar to the US population, in that it is split fairly evenly between the republican and democratic parties. With the democratic party pretty consistently having a slightly higher percentage of the state population.

The governor is one of the few positions elected in a state wide popular vote, other positions state and federal, are elected in districts.

So while the governor is routinely democratic, both houses of the state legislature are 60% republican, and 10 of 14 federal congressional legislators and both senators are republican.

It is considered one of the most gerrymandered states in the US:

https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/gerrymandering-deep...

I post this reply, since this is a major concern of mine for the US as a whole, not just North Carolina. Our 1776 government organization is so sadly antiquated, it leaves the US in a condition barely qualifying as democracy at all.

When someone can be elected in a district, with less population than my neighborhood, and if they are a significant fund raiser for their party, be put in a committee position that allows then to control legislation that affects the entire country, that is just not democracy.

Like the bulk of Europe after WWII, the US needs to adopt a parliamentary style proportional organization...
> That's not what I was saying. I was saying anyone would reflect there is a long list of questionable behavior. Whether or not you think that is disqualifying is your opinion. Scam university, scam banks, scam businesses. These are facts of Donald Trump's past, not opinions.

If I address any of those points, would I be nitpicking and picking on minor details?

> You didn't say that the other example was groping. You only talked about "injecting bleach"

The user brought up groping and injecting bleach. I refuted the bleach argument, leaving the groping argument alone. It's also not technically right, it's completely incorrect and absolutely disingenous framing.

> You did completely ignore the reason for his conclusion. He said there are many reasons why Trump has questionable character, you zero'd in on a minor detail of one of those arguments and did not address anything else

I addressed ONE of the TWO reasons the user provided. What other reason am I supposed to have addressed? Should I start making some up?

Rest of your post isn't worth addressing it's just the same junk.
I suspect what happens is that a sufficient number of users flag it away. I could be wrong, but I don't think the moderators have to be involved.
I recently started making the switch from docker (and docker compose) to using podman and quadlet, but holy crap is the documentation for podman quadlets a big f-you wall-of-text mandoc that would make Torvalds proud. I've read thru that and am still not quite sure of how to get from point A to point B.

To replace a single docker compose file, sounds like one needs to manually create a number of .container, .volume, .network, .kube files correctly so systemd can spin up a container pod? Is that what I'm reading? Is there nothing that can generate that from a docker-compose.yml?
Not a fan of Meta and I don't have IG, Facebook, WhatsApp etc.

However, even in 2012 or so when these acquisitions happened, Snapchat was a much bigger thing. And for me, Reddit was a much bigger thing than FB.

I think amongst the antitrust trials, this one is the weakest.
Size Weight and Power.
Meta revenue also went up 15x (actually maybe more?). So implying the valuation has not risen
That's a fair point. WATMM, for instance, is finally calling it quits.

https://forum.watmm.com/
Without arguing the merits of the Altera investment or divestment, a common pattern for Intel seems to be a wild see-sawing between an aggressive and a defensive market posture - it’s a regular occurrence for Intel to announce a bold new venture to try to claim some new territory, and just as regular that they announce they’re halting that venture in the name of “consolidating” and “focusing on their core.” The consequence is that they never give new ventures time to actually succeed, so they just bleed money creating things they murder in the cradle, and nobody born before last Tuesday is investing in bothering to learn the new Intel thing because its expected lifespan is shorter than the average Google product.

Intel either needs to focus or they need to be bold (and I’d actually prefer they be bold - they’ve started down some cool paths over time), but what they really need is to make up their goddamn minds and stop panicking every other quarter that their “ten-year bets” from last quarter haven’t paid off yet.
Installing packages (like podman or moby/docker) using dnf and apt requires root as well, so I'm not sure what your point is.
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Perhaps we can say it was less of a distraction for AMD, given AMD is not having the basic execution issue that Intel is currently suffering.
It's worth noting that there's more than just ergodicity at play, although that's a fundamental requirement. For instance, applying the Pauli Exclusion Principle gives rise to Fermi-Dirac statistics.
According to the Tax Foundation[1], for tax year 2021, the top 1% of U.S. earners—those with an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $682,577 or more—accounted for 26.3% of total AGI and paid 45.8% of all federal income taxes.

My personal opinion is that income tax should be more progressive, but I know that plenty of smart people disagree on that.

[1] https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-in...
There was some hope at the time that FPGAs could be used in a lot more applications in the data center. It is likely still feasible. Remember Hennessy published:

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~wl/teachlocal/arch/papers/cacm19go...

And maybe this is/was a pipe dream - maybe there aren't enough people with the skills to have a "golden age of architecture". But MSFT was deploying FPGAs in the data center and there were certainly hopes and dreams this would become a big thing.
So sorry, brother.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIVBmgUvFsN/
Size, Weight, and Power. It would be very nice if people would take the two seconds to type those words out instead of using ungoogleable acronyms on a public forum unfamilar with the terms.
In fairness, the person was not a US citizen. To my knowledge, he was an El Salvador citizen. I am not defending the action.

The beginning of the end will be if this starts happening to US citizens, although that hasn't happened.
> This approach works by randomly polling participating devices for whether they’ve seen a particular fragment, and devices respond anonymously with a noisy signal. By noisy, we mean that devices may provide the true signal of whether a fragment was seen or a randomly selected signal for an alternative fragment or no matches at all. By calibrating how often devices send randomly selected responses, we ensure that hundreds of people using the same term are needed before the word can be discoverable. As a result, Apple only sees commonly used prompts, cannot see the signal associated with any particular device, and does not recover any unique prompts. Furthermore, the signal Apple receives from the device is not associated with an IP address or any ID that could be linked to an Apple Account. This prevents Apple from being able to associate the signal to any particular device.

The way I read this, there's no discovery mechanism here, so Apple has to guess a priori which prompts will be popular. How do they know what queries to send?
Regarding my comment, IRC was just a quick little example - to focus on that is to miss the forest for the trees.

The lack of connection is the point.
> The point is, it's eating your seed corn.

How much is “enough” money to hoard in an endowment though? We hear lots of arguments about how the concept of a billionaire is itself obscene, why can’t we apply to same logic to institutions? E.g. much like people say “billionaires shouldn’t exist”, perhaps endowments over some similarly arbitrary value shouldn’t exist either.
This is ridiculous. The standard isn’t “are they unbiased” because it is utterly unachievable. You know this and you cling to it anyway. What matters is whether their bias materially influenced their conclusions.

They have provided analysis and data backing that analysis. It is now up to you as a skeptic to find fault in that. “They are biased” is lazy, intellectually dishonest, and utterly unconvincing. It is a canned response that can be given to literally every conclusion ever reached and so can (and has been) dismissed out of hand.
I've used Podlet <https://github.com/containers/podlet> somewhat successfully for this.
I've been told the only way to be sure if skin cancer or not , is a biopsy. I also have been told ... not skin cancer... but Dr decided to send me to a dermatologist. Is thing he said when say it .. is looks like skin cancer ... lets take a biopsy now ... to check . It was skin cancer ... a BCC
That's an empty threat. Trump might not get a 3rd term but it seems pretty clear that Dems are disaffected for the foreseeable future, perhaps permanently.
that downvote was double plus ungood
Your statement is virtue signaling according to its own definition unless you've taken action to prevent people complaining about Google.
What clock rate does this FPGA version run?
making systemd - a root service - a necessary dependency in order to orchestrate > 1 nonroot containers is both unnecessary and bad architecture.

It was a shitty decision that renders it just "a less popular docker" and not "a better docker".
> "US politics can be quite mad at times."

No question about the truth of that statement.

However, though the FTC approved the acquisition 10 years ago, the current FTC commissioners have evidently concluded that in the interim things have changed. Whether the court agrees with the FTC's logic remains to be seen.
so I finally got a luajit and some standard libs working together in my environment

the reason why it took so long is I use nixos and nix-darwin and... well, you know... it was non-obvious how to get everything working together "because Nix" but with the help of a good LLM I figured it out.

HOLY HELL IS THIS FAST.

i had the brand new chatgpt 4.1 rewrite a name=value pretty-printer terminal function from elixir (which I used because it was easy and maintainable, but at the cost of the VM startup) to lua.

272ms for the elixir version (`env | name-value-to-table`) vs. 17ms for the Lua version (`env | name-value-to-table-lua`). WOW. 1/16 the time LOL.

anyway here is that rewrite https://gist.github.com/pmarreck/47e110cbc62ea6603a0e61543d2...

Guess I'm gonna have to keep this in my toolkit! (And now that I figured out the Nix, it will remain easy!) Thanks!
You're punching your fist into the air because the contract is not in a form you'd like. In the same judgements, judges go on to either call, or quote the calling of the facility as a 'contract' facility after establishing the contract agreement.
I've updated the title as best as I could within the constraints of the max length.
I'd guess that they'll continue to sell off mobileye over time.
> WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is announcing today that, with respect to the regulation titled Registry of Nonbank Covered Persons Subject to Certain Agency and Court Orders, 89 Fed. Reg. 56028 (July 8, 2024) (codified at 12 CFR part 1092), it will not prioritize enforcement or supervision actions with regard to entities that do not satisfy future deadlines under the regulation to submit registration information. This policy applies to, but is not limited to, the upcoming April 14, 2025 registration deadline for entities subject to 12 CFR 1092.206(a)(2) and July 14, 2025 registration deadline for entities subject to 12 CFR 1092.206(a)(3). The Bureau will instead continue to focus its enforcement and supervision activities on pressing threats to consumers. The Bureau is further considering issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking to rescind the regulation or narrow its scope.

I believe these are the payday loan changes that A16Z was asking for.

Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4jWb-0nj44
My guess would be no, but I could be wrong. The current administration clearly wants more domestic capability, so even if someone like TSMC/Samsung/etc wanted to acquire as part of their US operations, my gut says it would be challenged.

When AMD spun off their fabs into what became Global Foundries, it was difficult for many to see the upside. However, today, it seems not being tied to any particular fab/tech is one of AMD's biggest advantages.
Chinese Robotaxis Have Government Black Boxes, Approach U.S. Quality
I'm not saying Trump isn't a hypocrite, but is it slightly possible that some of what he says is actually what he intends to do, as I said in my comment.

He's dumb, sure. He's out of his depth. He's greedy. But he also has strong opinions (some of which are consistent, some ... less so) on how the US should be run. The idea that he doesn't have some political agenda when he spends hours ranting about it and seems to be implementing bits of it is just pure fantasy land.
I don't think people are opposed to tariffs, at least they weren't before. Bernie Sanders has historically been for tariffs when used properly. Used properly being the important phrase. When you have someone who doesn't understand what a trade deficit is imposing tariffs based on the difference between deficit and surplus, you pretty effectively turn people against tariffs on top of the whole destroying the global economy thing.
Somehow I doubt you would apply these same principles to someone who doesn't believe in police and objects to their taxes being used to fund them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbone
Intel's problem is that they're trying to deliver short term shareholder value instead of long term stable value.
It gives me the ability to take advantage of the best available models without holding back for fear of them abusing my data.

The alternative is either not using this stuff at all or restricting myself to the much less capable local models.
2000+ Hours, 40+ ML models: How I built a UFC prediction platform with 500% ROI
I feel the spirit of antitrust being for the benefit of consumers has been lost with the recent round of actions. Virtually every action a corporation takes is “anticompetitive” because surely it wants to defeat the competition. That’s the whole point of capitalism. We shouldn’t be concerned until this is actually anti consumer. And it’s hard to prove consumer harm for free products that aren’t really necessary and have many alternatives.
The thing that makes something a competitor is the ability to act as a substitute. That means grocery stores that are 1000 miles away don't count. For photo sharing, what makes something a viable substitute is having a sufficient network effect, so photo sharing services with hundreds of users aren't a substitute for ones with millions.

This implies that mergers between large services that have a network effect should always be prohibited, but why is that even a problem unless your goal is to thwart competition?

It would also create a useful incentive: Federated systems (like email) have a single network that spans entities. If Microsoft wants to buy Hotmail, they're not buying a separate network so you don't have to be worried about it even if they each have 25 million users as long as that's not too large a percentage of the billion people who use email. So then companies would want to participate in federated systems instead of creating silos like modern social networks do, because then they would be as strictly prohibited from doing mergers.
It's quite complex, but the task is to parse some HTML content, or to choose from a list of URLs which one is the best.

I will check again the prompt, maybe 4o-mini ignores some instructions that 4.1 doesn't (instructions which might result in the LLM returning zero data).
How? That makes little sense to me from an implementation standpoint.
The Fed Can't Save This One: Why Bonds May Break the Stock Market in 2025
Most of the Silmarillion can be read out of order, if you want. That should have been made more clear to the "casual" reader (as if casual readers pick it up!).
You could brute force it by querying about all 500k English words. With 1.3+ billion iPhone users, that means about 2600 users will see any goven word, which may be enough to observe trends.
Billionaires do not get a tax exemption
I don’t know what you’re basing this on. Good psychiatrists absolutely “call themselves doctors” and definitely seek to exclude or treat organic causes of psychiatric symptoms. All the psychiatrists I know absolutely understand there’s a link between the immune system and mood disorders and will involve immunology/rheumatology for these things.

Your ideas about how psychiatry is practiced might have been correct in the 1950’s but they’re a world away from how it’s done in the 2020s.
This makes me wonder if this the way to do schema generation in Typescript. I’m working on Typeconf, and we have a separate step for translating Typespec schema to Typescript, it’ll be cool if we could just load typespec directly.
Judge Thacker's opinion was citing it. They are reflecting a contract based on evidence since the government has failed to properly record it. It just doesn't exist in the form you'd like, such as a written formal contract entered into the record.

Quite often contracts are never 'seen' and instead prosecution surrounding them involve gathering evidence, in this case including 'memos' and direct statements of heads of state.
Man I remember being excited when Intel bought Altera, maybe they'd bring FPGAs to the masses, then they proceeded to do nothing with them...
To "solve the marketing issue", you have to be able to market to them.

They have 100% bought into a totally controlled media ecosystem. How do you get your marketing material on Fox, or Truth Social?
It made their stock pop for a while which was all that mattered to Brian Krzanich who took the bonus and left the mess in the hands of Bob Swan who did the same things and left the mess ... (recursion her).
They'll give any market a good 18 months and then dip
The plural of mangoe is mangoes. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mangoe