skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Lets say i own 100 percent of my money. Just that i have to write it down, makes me shiver, what we as people accept to happen.

Am i interested in progress? Of course. Am i not smart enough to see or think long term, most likely. Give me a robo advisor, that helps me distribute my money. Give me best practises. I do not need a bloated government and their politics and interest groups for a simple decision, what i do with MY money that I have earned by working. Govt is the middle management that everyone complains about. A black hole.
> I'm also not yet sure what to think about splitting education and research. It goes against the Humboldtian Ideal, especially in the universitys both topics are connected.

According to the German constitution (Grundgesetz), schools and universities are (mainly) the responsibility of the individual German states, not the federal government.[1] (A hybrid is the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology that has a university branch under the supervision of the state of Baden-Württemberg and a research centre branch under federal supervision.) The educational tasks of the federal government therefore basically relate to extracurricular and non-university education, such as early childhood education or adult further education.

At the level of the individual states, higher education and research are generally combined in one ministry and school education in another.

[1] Actually the Grundgesetz states in Art. 30: "The exercise of state powers and the performance of state duties shall be a matter for the individual states (Länder), unless otherwise provided for or permitted by this Basic Law." The authority of the federal government in education policy is therefore derived from what is explicitly mentioned in various places in the Basic Law. A short overview what that involves can be found here: https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/416682/db04b405a48dbe... (PDF, 2009, in German).
It only takes one company to leak it
My experience was a bit different. For example, the immigration office accepts almost all applications in the end (over 95% according to their stats). They make all sorts of exceptions in the applicants' favour. The Bürgeramt, the Ordnungsamt and the Arbeitsagentur are the same. They huff and puff and make an exception "just this time", every time. The inflexibility is an act, unless you're being difficult (from their point of view). Then you get the least charitable interpretation of their directives.

Against all expectations, German bureaucracy is very "vibes-based", specifically because it's full of humans. It's predictably unpredictable. You rarely get the downside of digitalisation where "computer says no", because a human is deciding your fate and can be convinced to give you leeway.

The bigger issue at least for me is speed. The uncertainty of human decisions is magnified by the weeks-long delays. A missing document is a big issue when bureaucracy has a 4-8 week ping. That is of course if the case worker doesn't shrug and give you what you want anyway.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

There are 8.2 billion people alive on Earth ;getting drunk, high or otherwise taking psychoactive drugs is universal among human societies and you think no one has ever had a meaningful or enduring friendship result therefrom?
You’re talking about Fortune 50 companies here. I don't think Google is going to be messing around spying on them in direct violation of the no-doubt sophisticated contract that will be signed between them.
We move up, down or sideways on the stack. That's the outcome. Not necessarily bad. It requires soul searching to find out new place.
They 've then slapped Windows 8 UI into it, after that, Windows 10 UI, and lastly they've slapped the Windows 11 UI. The reason should be obvious.
There's no "leftist" party in the USA, there's a Conservative Party called the Democrats, and there's an Ultraconservative Party that's now hellbound to become a Fascist Party called the Republican Party.
Besides arrow-macros there's also cl-arrows, which is basically exactly the same thing, and Serapeum also has arrow macros (though the -> macro in Serapeum is for type definitions, the Clojure-style arrow macro is hence relegated to ~>).
Would/does that actually work? Its been a while since I watched SED Destins video about it, so I dont remember if they experiment with that. But intuitively, heating the glass so non-uniformly that the tail would melt and the bulb remained solid enough to keep the internal stresses intact, wouldnt that steep temperature gradient within the crystaline structure cause the entire drop to break?
I've seen it described as "Germans are not efficient, they're methodical". There is a lot of truth to it, but Germans are also making all sorts of exceptions either for convenience or expediency, making the method unpredictable.
Because products almost always fail regardless of whether they were tried by devs or non-devs. I think in reality, a lot more devs tried it than those who'd admit it - i tried too, and failed - several times. But more importantly, i did custom coding for 100+ startups and they all failed. Over 90% without ever getting the thing out of the door - just by realising that the idea was lunatic halfway through the process, or by running out of money, or by switching to the next shiny object, and the remaining by ending up with zero (literally not a single sale or even a single free user, ever), or extremely little demand. No one ever even repaid back development costs, and the only two who came somewhat close, were spam apps launched on jvzoo.com - a vehicle for aggressive spam marketing where "JVs" push useless nothing mostly to grandmas and children.

It's a struggle because it is meant to be a struggle and i think actual success rate (as in, "made more money than a full time job would make in the same time") are so exceedingly rare, you can do it all your life and will never even meet a person who made it. Basically a myth.

Selection bias makes us perceive the startup thing as a lot more realistic than it is, just because those who failed in their overwhelming majority never speak out, out of shame.
zero interest money and consumer demand of knock-off products that SV made a decade before and proved the market is successful
What about that visiting french scientist that got detained at the border for having criticized Trump on twitter? Is that enough for you to admit your country has a problem or shall we wait until there are literal American gulags? If so, see what's going on in El Salvador.
I have no idea why this is not the default solution nor why Docker can not engage in it?
I’m confused and not sure what you mean.

Are you implying that Google will sell a product that is designed to ‘sabotage’ their own customer’s business? The legal and reputational damage far outweigh the value of stolen information.

Or do you mean that it could be a vector of attack? That can happen with literally any piece of software, hardware, or appliance you install in or out of your datacentre.
Why Marine Le Pen should be allowed to run for president
It seems, from your other post, that your understanding of "autistic" is "non paranoid" - somebody who does not read in other's intentions what his own mind, calibrated on his own use and language, would suggest.

Now, we have more problems there: * your disrespectful attitude towards those who have to deal with dire conditions, and * your belief in what your mind tells you, and * your idea that you believing your perceptions would be good practice...

Re-read the guidelines, because your reading of people's speech is undesirable in general and here in particular.
Actually it's the other way around. Fascists in Israel and the US worked very hard to make it so that anyone seen to be sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinians is seen as pro Hamas, or pro terrorist.

Apparently there are some that even say the Palestinian flag itself is a "terrorist flag" and anyone flying it is also a terrorist.
The part here too is ‘valuable to whom’. If they can saddle the middle manager or director with the same responsibilities/expectations, while cutting 10% (say) of the costs - guess what they are going to do.

Is it ultimately short sighted? Probably. But good luck connecting point A and point B in these situations when everyone is thinking quarter to quarter.
>A very asymmetric setup exposing the underbelly of free speech cultures

As opposed to non-free-speech cultures like Russia and China where people have absolutely no say in whatever their leaders do? Because that's inevitably what happens when you give people in power the power to restrict speech: they restrict any speech critical of them. We're even seeing this in developed democracies like Germany where a journalist was recently fined for posting a meme online of a politician holding a sign saying "I hate free speech".
Cheap mechanical watches are not generally what people talk about when they brandy the usual marketing points.

They are poor timekeeping pieces bottom feeding from the expensive brand marketing. A quartz movement in the same body is an all around improvement except for the smugness.
> If anything, LLMs have surprised at much better they are than humans in understanding instructions for text based activities.

That's demonstrateably false, as proven by both OpenAI's own research [1] and endless independent studies by now.

What is fascinating is how some people cling on false ideas about what LLM is and isnt.

Its a recurring fallacy that's bound to get it's own name any time soon.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43155825
https://archive.ph/ZrTah
Thiel is Musk's old friend, the latter will make sure the former can extract as much of a valuable data as possible.
Are you working as a consultant on these topics? I‘m looking for someone to get assistance with incorporating and grants this fall.
A Lightweight External Backlink Checker
>It's be a >$10bn business already.

But not profitable yet.
For real, Watergate feels like a fever dream. Trump does 10x worse every single day and no one cares.
Cheer up - Sometimes it’s also a convenient cover for reprisals, back stabby office politics, racism/sexism, etc.
Ahhh yes ok I didn't realise that. I'm not into this kind of game at all but a friend who was into it showed me his big flying tanks so I thought they were all that big.
Common sense tells me there should be some kind of limit, but I don't know what it is, whether it's standardized and whether it exists. I just tested and Firefox _buffered_ (according to the time range) the first 27_000~ seconds, but in the dev tools the request appeared as though still loading. Chrome downloaded the first 10.2 MB (according to dev tools) and stopped (but meanwhile the time range was growing from zero approximately by one second every second, even though the browser already stopped downloading). After it played for a bit, Chrome downloaded 2.6 more MB _using the same request_. In both cases the browser requested the whole file, but not necessarily downloaded the whole file.
>Google is also terribly paranoid of the LLM saying anything controversial.

When did this start? Serious question. Of all the model providers my experience with Google's LLMs and Chatproducts were the worst in that dimension. Black Nazis, Eating stones, pizza with glue, etc I suppose we've all been there.
‘think soon people expect this service to be provided for free’

I have been using the free version for the past year or so and it’s totally serviceable for the odd question or script. The kids get three free fun images, which is great because that’s about as much as I want them to do.
Not on cars, not in robotics, not in commercially deployed AI, not in enterprise investments in their cloud business.

They've got immense potential, sure. But to say that they're winning is a bit far from reality. Right now, their Cloud AI offerings to the enterprise are technologically superior to anything else out there from AWS, but guess what? AWS seems to have significantly more %age sales growth in this space with their larger base compared to GCP with their smaller market share.

The same can be said across turn based chat and physical AI. OpenAI continues to be the growth leader in the consumer space and a collection of Claude + self hosted + Gemini now in the enterprise / API space.

They need to be measuring themselves on moving the needle in adoption now. I'd hate for such amazing progress to stall out in a niche.
Try setting a "timer" for 15 minutes instead of an "alarm".

Not sure if this is a regional dialect thing, but in North America, a timer has a duration, but an alarm is set for a specific time, which would possibly explain the confusion.
> Moving faster on a side project or at work doesn't feel like the same kind of shortcut/cheat.

Depends whether you're in it for the endgame or the journey.

For some the latter is a means to the former, and for others it's the other way around.
> Case in point, German fiber optic infrastructure is still lightyears behind Romania despite much higher costs. Means, somebody in Germany is making good money form that, even if there's nothing to show for.

Apartment I stayed in while in Germany had annual Kabelgebühr of 100 EUR. It was not related with the ISP internet subscription of course. Any negotiations or questions were responded with "IT'S KABELGEBÜHR YOU HAVE TO PAY IT".
> Google's cash-cow product is relevant ads.

As a business Google's interest is in showing ads that make it the most money - if they quickly show just the relevant information then Google loses advertising opportunities.

To an extent, it is the web equivalent of irl super markets intentionally moving stuff around and having checkout displays.
It engrains the idea into people early on, that they should work to upskill themselves or build their own jobs, instead of coasting on the idea the government will always be there for them to provide jobs and security.

Also, plenty of people in Germany live hand to mouth now. Poverty has been on the increase due to CoL.
We just assisted to the largest pump and dump scam in history, a masterclass in wealth extraction by the top 0.1%. This country is headed to a Russian-type oligarchy, becoming a sandbox for mega-billionaires.
Aaand, full-on "Rationalist" cult territory right ahead. This particular one seems like inspired by Longtermism, but I'm not quite sure.

I also don't quite understand the mathematical certainty with which they assert that "everything you know and love will be gone in the next decades". Yes, the world is a scary place right now with some fundamental changes going on - and a lot if the trajectory seems to be distinctly in the wrong direction. But to see a definitive, unavoidable end if all things in a few decades seems more like a classical doomsday cult for me.

(...ah, OK, and of course the certain doom isn't about trivialities like the reemergence of fascism, impending WWIII or unchecked climate change but about the mathematically inevitable rise of godlike super-AIs that will wipe out humanity. Got it.)

But on the chance of catching an actual Longtermist here, I'd like to ask a question that I'd never understood so far:

> One's approach to living, deep down if not at the surface level algorithms, should cash out to trying to accumulate as much value as you can. That doesn't change just because doom is likely.

We can split the value one pursues into the value one is accruing right now (I like to call this "harvesting") and the value one is preparing to harvest in the future (I call this "sowing").

Most of the value, or expected value, would likely be in the future (because there's so much of it!) but for two reasons it makes sense to harvest now and not just sow for the future.

... followed by three relatively circumstantial and mostly psychological reasons that feel like they are more "exceptions to the rule" for practical reasons and shouldnt exist in an ideal world.

But just approaching this from a theoretical perspective: If we ignored our messy, imperfect human desires for a moment and assumed we'd all be perfect AIs or whatever, the logical conclusion would be we should "accumulate" all our value in the future? (As, in the limit, the present vanishes compared to the future, I guess). So 100% sowing, 0% harvesting? But the problem is if course that there will always be a future and it will never be the present. So wouldn't this actually lead to a world full of suffering, because no value at all is ever realized, as all of it would be stashed away for an eternal future that by definition can never arrive?
I don't see any robust backup for restore mechanisms.
With the current AI/LLM wave SSE have received a lot of attention again, and most LLM chat frontends use them. At least from my perception as a result of this, support for SSEs in major HTTP server frameworks has improved a lot in the last few years.

It is a bit of a shame though, that in order to do most useful things with SSEs you have to resort to doing non-spec-compliant things (e.g. send initial payload with POST).
You still don’t need AI to write software, but investing in it will make you more productive. More money enables you to buy better tools, that was always true for any trade. My friend is a woodworker and his tools are 5-10x more expensive than what I have in my shack, but are also more precise, more reliable and easier to use. AI is the same, I would even argue it gives you a bigger productivity boost with less money (especially given that local models are getting better literally every week).
The joke's on them, because I don't have any loyalty to an LLM provider.

There's very close to zero switching costs, both on the consumer front and the API front; no real distinguishing features and no network effects; just whoever has the best model at this point in time.
I realise this is meant to be a jab at high-level programming languages, but SQL really did succeed at that.

Its abstraction may leak sometimes, but most people using it are incredibly productive without needing to learn what a spool operator or bitmap does.

Even though the GUI and natural language aspects of 4GL failed, declarative programming was worth it.
This applies to non-citizens only. In principle, the second generation should be fine
They can get "hacked" and wooops.
Lots of banks have them these days. In the US there's also stuff like privacy.com (unaffiliated, not even in the US personally :p)

Last I used Revolut 2 years ago, they even had a "disposable" virtual card, meaning after 1 charge it's automatically deleted.
No, Jack Barkers' revamped version is needed.
Try aider.chat - it is a cli you can add files for context and it will make edits to the code directly via a commit.
I don't know your experience doesn't match mine.

NotebookLM by Google is in a class of its own in the use case of "provide documents and ask a chat or questions about them" for personal use. ChatGPT and Claude are nowhere near. ChatGPT uses RAG so it "understands" less about the topic and sometimes hallucinate.

When it comes to coding Claude 3.5/3.7 embedded in Cursor or stand alone kept giving better results in real world coding, and even there Gemini 2.5 blew it away in my experience.

Antirez, hping and Redis creator among many others releases a video on AI pretty much every day (albeit in Italian) and his tests where Gemini reviews his PRs for Redis are by far the better out of all the models available.
I only AI for one reason since I'm retired and live alone: Life-like chats with a reasonable approximation of a knowledgeable friend. With the new memory features ChatGPT excels at that. I'm not even sure Google cares about that; that goes to show how little of it I've noticed with Google.
Damn, as another nordic male, why did nobody tell me?

I noticed that someone in America said so, but the US had been extreme, in all ways, for many years and no sane person takes the stuff coming from there as gospel.

I am not responsible for 'all the world’s injustices', and nobody had tried to make me. Maybe if I spend some time on YouTube I can find someone at an American college thinking so, or a right-wing podcast saying that people think so about me. But that is not the mainstream here.
People are downvoting me, but the timing was really directly linked: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIMKETPNd5p/
Often Linux is great, until
You update some esoteric dependency that breaks a bunch of stuff, and fixing it is just a little past your experience level …
Apart from Gemini 2.5 Pro they have a decent Jack-of-all-trades master of none/price Gemini 2.0 Flash.

1) is dirty cheap ($0.1M/$0.4M),

2) is multimodal (image and audio),

3) reliable rate limit (comparing to OSS ml ai providers),

4) fast (200 tokens/s).

5) if need realtime API they provide as well for more expensive price (audio-to-audio)

It's my go to model for using as an API for some apps/products.
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gemini-2-0-flash/provid...
At least for me it’s more like “this guys career is still way better than mine so it’s hard to think of his situation as suffering”.
> Doesn't that mean he was long volatility?

Now that you say it could be that he misspoke indeed.

> Taleb's point seems more to be that he saw a mispricing and traded on it one day

Okay so Taleb was literally an "option trader" as in he traded one option on one day in his life?

> Anyway, it has little to do with what's being said in the article.

How is Taleb, who is an option trader and who has written about options trading for years, not related to an article on an options trade?
It's simply a description of the style of the watch. Just as most people wearing a bomber jacket aren't flying B-52s, and most trench coat wearers aren't fighting in trenches, most dive watch wearers aren't diving. They are still useful terms, despite their relative professions moving on to newer tech.
But states don't have a right to exist. It's not a right a state can have.

The context of the establishment of Israel is also the mass expulsion of Palestinians, terrorism, the murder of British soldiers trying to keep peace, biological warfare with the poisoning of wells with typhus, etc.
Not any different from C - a given C compiler + platform will behave completetly deterministically and you can test the output and see what it does, regardless of UB or not.
While the article correctly highlights Google’s significant advancements and formidable position in the AI race, calling them the winner on every front feels like a bit of a stretch and potentially overlooks some nuances, like SGE integration which isn’t universally loved.
Too much fanboyism imho
This is why we use Gemini and its context window as the architect and Sonnet 3.7 Max for implementation.
Correct me if I am wrong C, unsigned overflow is well-defined - at least the GCC manual says so, but I'll have to check the standard.

https://www.gnu.org/software/c-intro-and-ref/manual/html_nod...

Since signed multiplication is bitwise-equivalent to unsigned multiplication, I use unsigned multiplication to emulate UB-free signed multiplication. The signed variant of this overflow check is a bit harder to read because of that, but it still works just fine.

bool i128_mul_ovf_check(__int128 A0 ,__int128 A1 ){

bb0:

if((A1) != (0)) goto bb1;

return false;

bb1:

return (((__int128)((__uint128_t)(A0) * (__uint128_t)(A1))) / (A1)) == (A1);

}

As for using `__builtin_popcountll` instead - you are right, my mistake. Thanks for pointing that out :).

I did not use the word "unsigned" before long long for the sake of readability - I know that repeating a word so many times can make it harder to parse for some folk. The project itself uses the correct types in the code, I was just kind of loose with the language in the article itself. My bad, I'll fix that and be a bit more accurate.

Once again, thanks for the feedback!
Things I Learned from 5k Years in an Alternate Universe (2013)
What have you used it for? I saw it and thought it was cool but not sure I'd do much with it (I have a colour maximite 2 gathering dust on the shelf!)
Some people also love the caste system.