skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The compound-interest intro to e (the value of 1 dollar compounded continuously for a year at 100% interest), to me, has several useful advantages over different introductions that are more mathematically rich:

- It's elementary to the point that you can introduce it whenever you want.

- It automatically gives a sense of scale: larger than 2, but not by a lot.

- At least to me, it confers some sense of importance. You can get the sense that this number e has some deep connection to infinity and infinitesimal change and deserves further study even if you haven't seen calculus before.

- It directly suggests a way of calculating e, which "the base of the exponential function with derivative equal to itself" doesn't suggest as cleanly.

I don't know of any calculus course that relies on this definition for much: that's not its purpose. The goal is just to give students a fairly natural introduction to the constant before you show that e^x and ln x have their own unique properties that will be more useful for further manipulation.
100% this. To echo another poster below, it's really important to read the Supreme Court's own words here.

>"The Government’s argument, moreover, implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U. S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene. "
From https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a949_lkhn.pdf

I suspect that is one of the main reasons behind the order. It's very obvious that citizen vs legal resident matters very little here, if due process is not given.
While this may be part of the story, it's certainly not the full picture. We know that the CCP is actively manipulating the algorithm on Tiktok to further their agenda on multiple other geopolitical issues—something we have ample evidence for. I don't know if there is a smoking gun on this one topic in particular, but the CCP's goal has always been to divide the American audience; and we know that older Americans skew pro-Israel whilst younger Americans are more oriented towards being pro-Palestinian. If someone looked in the right places, they would more likely than not find evidence of algorithm manipulation to favor a Palestinian bend.
Price means price without discount.
I think this is a great one sentence encapsulation of the situation.
> These things were not really explored in what I've read of Heinlein.

I don't know how much further you expect me to need to boil down "read more" and still be able to take you seriously. How do you expect that, when you haven't even bothered trying to justify how you chose those four novels to represent forty years?

I see that 'seriously' very much describes how you like to regard yourself. You've insisted most thoroughly others must regard you likewise, regardless of what you show yourself anywhere near capable of actually rewarding or indeed even appreciating. Do you have a favorable impression of your efforts thus far? Have they had the results that you hoped?

We would now be having a different conversation if you had said anything to suggest to me it would be worth my trouble to continue in the attempt. I'd have enjoyed that conversation, I think; as most days here, I had hopes of learning something new. You've felt the need to spend the day doing this instead. If you don't like how that's working out, whom fairly may you blame?
Because communicating changes to people as a group means less support needed one on one when people miss the communication, when changes are made, etc. This is like business 101 of how companies get more efficient.

"Less communications with customers, pushing the impact of changes onto support staff" is about the dumbest efficiency push anyone can make. Why do we now have to explain/defend the concept of why businesses make press release and that press releases are actual a useful thing? What is going on in this country?
"I asked him if it was fair on the waitress earning $13 per hour to subsidize the student loan of a Law school graduate. He changed the subject deftly."

Excellent point.
While I agree with your point about being responsible for the quality of the code you send, please remember that...

> This post is my personal opinion, not necessarily representative of Servo or my colleagues at Igalia.

...so I don't believe it's fair to say that you lost all the good will you had for Servo based on just this article.
Doesn't it make stateful the whole stack?
Like I said, I disagree with the person's overall thesis, just pointing out what they were trying to say.
BTW here is the final report from the law firm who conducted the investigation: https://boardoftrustees.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/site...

A second topic which the Scientific Panel examined was Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s management and oversight of his scientific laboratories. Because multiple members of Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s labs over the years appear to have manipulated research data and/or fallen short of accepted scientific practices, resulting in at least five publications in prominent journals now requiring retraction or correction, the culture of the labs in which this conduct occurred was considered. The Scientific Panel has concluded that Dr. Tessier-Lavigne created a laboratory culture with many positive attributes, but the unusual frequency of manipulation of research data and/or substandard scientific practices from different people, at different times, and in labs at different institutions, suggests that there may have been opportunities to improve laboratory oversight and management.
There are so many things wrong with your comment, lets list a few:

1. False equivalence: Elon Musk's interaction with the federal government is unprecedented and comparing it to lobbying of companies is hysterically bad faith.

2. Appeal to hypocrisy: whether or not someone cares about Cheney or others profiting or doing bad things in government, that has no impact on the argument against Musk.

3. Ad hominem: yes, yes, only the likes of reddit, except here we are, not on reddit.

4. Tone policing: the content of ones argument is completely irrelevant to how emotional the present it or how emotionally they feel about it. They may thump their chests as much as they like.
One very big bet I would say would be the NRLA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRLA

Switzerland sits between Germany, Italy, and France, and was getting choked by road traffic, so voters have approved the largest tunnels in the world to get goods around and through Switzerland without using roads.
I am so happy that my Win32 CS3 Master Collection still works fully-offline and will continue to do so for as long as I care to keep using it :)
What does anti capitalist mean in this situation? I'd say it's mostly anti Asian than "anti-capitalist".
Here is the thing: netflix and spotify are not in the "my X collection" business. They sell subscriptions to content and the apps reflect that. I am 100% in your/OPs boat but i would expect (niche and /or open source) apps to pop up that just make my collections of my content from other sources nice and the way nerds like us want. We have a right under EU data portability laws to do exactly that BUT companies break the laws to prohibit users taking control of their data. The only reason this is not changing is that we are not organised and there is no funded organisation suing the crap out of these companies until the final instance to give us our data.
I really don't think this is a good idea. There's already enough digitisation with physical back up in this situation. I think this is a case of not fixing something that isn't broken.

This is also quite scary.

> airlines will instead be alerted when passengers arrive at the airport and their face is scanned.
Where you planning to go?

Hypothetically, if the US economy collapses, the whole world is coming down with them.
> Adobe isn't trying to be ethical, they are trying to be more legally compliant

Is the implication of this statement that using AI for image editing and creation is inherently unethical?

Is that really how people feel?
thats also not helping, but it's not exactly a secret that German public infrastructure from roads to rails to electricity and whatnot are also all crumbling.
I definitely want a plaid horse with a dashboard, a round steering wheel and turn-signal/drive-select stalks.

and I want to use a buggy whip to smack the fingers of people reaching for their touchscreens to spring for the in-car-purchases and seat-warmer subscriptions
> I am getting major crypto vibes here, promises of greatness and bringing nothing but unnecessary fluff.

This is A16z. Calling it unnecessary fluff would be rather polite. I think they are going hard core on to their next scam. Of course crypto vibes is no coincidence here.
Cannot come soon enough. Companies like Voodoo Games have made a killing scamming gullible people with no oversight.
Can you quote the exact line for us that says this? Since the article seems to have lines that say the exact opposite in very clear language at the very top of the page.
The path generation is pretty nonsensical though,
nothing here follows the terrain, they are only good as some sort of blurry guides.

The formatting of the MRGS coords is horrible.

Just give the easting and northing is blocks please like
1234 5678.

Feels like 90 of the time is wasted on parsing this and making sure your in the right square kilometer.

Also the waypoint could give you there ID when getting near them, so you could just assign them to the waypoint number, having to type seems overkill.
I'm so used to seeing the "fish crawling onto the shore" cartoon of evolution that I assumed the branching always went that way - land creatures are branchoffs of sea creatures. But surely this is oversimplified - are there examples in the other direction, where a branching occured in land animals and one branch then returned to the sea?
At this point I'm mostly just intrigued to see whether you'll keep replying and whether you'll make any substantial points.
I need an LLM in my fax machine.
What frustrates me is that many people that claim to want a faster horse don’t actually use them where they are available

Bandcamp to me is the ideal “horse” for music (and I’m praying it stays a horse)

Those complaining about Chrome dominance but still not personally using Firefox is another example (even with all of Mozilla’s controversies, Firefox is still the “fastest horse” available imo)

Not being satisfied with the horse selection is understandable, but actively furthering the obsolescence of the available horses is not (even if the individual impact is minimal)
At that point, you'd be better off just using a recursive algorithm like the one in GMP. You're swapping out arbitrary-length for arbitrary-precision.
Sure, but you'd probably prefer a website that provides a respectable and decent service that's available 24/7 and didn't go out of their way to specifically stop providing service some of the time, often for no technical or practical reason.
Shady business, potentially, but you might be underestimating how much some guys really, really need to have the most expensive watch in their friend group.
JavaScript and Python have adopted almost every feature that differentiated Lisp from other languages. So in comparison Lisp is just more academic, esoteric, and advanced.
You mean, this bill she hasn't introduced, and hasn't worked on since 2023? https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ocasio-...
I think this is sort of a myth. There was a relatively brief period of time in the US when lobster was considered poor people's food, but in the rest of the world and the rest of history it has generally been very popular and often associated with the upper class.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobster#History

I also think it's pretty common for historical "peasant" foods to be popular today, like tacos or potatoes for example. If anything, "poor people love it but rich people won't touch it" is probably evidence that the thing not tasting good is a social construct.
It was also wildly abundant.
They are now denying visas, and deporting lawful residents, sending them to offshore torture prisons, for social media posts.

For non citizens, regardless of length of time or legality, this is the case right now. For birthright citizens and full citizens it will be the case very soon
Marine mammals.
How do you fact-check an AI?
I don't disagree with you - I'm in favor of both slashing spending and increasing taxes.

It seems as though republicans like to decrease both spending and taxes while democrats like to increase both spending and taxes. Both strategies are not helpful when it comes to national debt. Perhaps when democrats come to power again they will be wise and raise taxes without restoring all the spending/programs Trump cut.
People seeking asylum generally get work permits, but they are only ~15% of immigrants. Doctors and other legally protected professions are always difficult for an immigrant, as their professional organizations are suspicious of the standards of education in foreign countries.

I'm not saying that work-based immigration to the EU is easy. I'm only saying that the obstacles are not nearly as bad as in the US.
Concepts as Behavioral Checksums
Germany is actively killing innovation. I propose to stop for starters.

Tho when the median voter is 55 and national motto is "that's how it was always done" and "Pensions are secure" - I don't put much hope. I still remember the outcry when the digital health cards were introduced.
I think all marine mammals fit this, right?
Whales are the first example that springs to mind.
Elixir is "bad" because it is not a friendly language for people who want to be architecture astronauts at the code level (you can definitely be an architecture astronaut at the process management level but that's a very advanced concept). And a lot of CTOs are architecture astronauts.
Good. Keep this corporate PR nonsense away from Bluesky.
> “Our goal is that the world’s first fusion reactor should be realized in Germany,”

This will never happen. At some point they will notice that fusion is something with "nuclear" and "atoms" and they will immediately jump to "scary", "dangerous" and "verboten".
I can't speak for France, but for Germany, unfortunately, by most metrics that matter (affordable housing, infrastructure, subjective well-being, energy costs, labor markets, etc.) compared to 20 years ago, yes. However, compared to most other countries, Germany is still doing quite well. So it all depends on the context for how you interpret the data.

[1] https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2024/03/27/germanys-rea...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_economic_crisis_%282022...
> At this point I'm mostly just intrigued to see whether you'll keep replying and whether you'll make any substantial points.

Every substantive point I've actually made all day you have totally ignored, and this is what it's worth your time still to do. But sure. You can stop paying me rent to live in your head any time you like. Keep telling yourself that. I don't doubt you need to, to get through a day.

Also, 122d40d7236cd3ade496d0101d8029ec.
> I'm sure you are aware there is ultimately a chicken and egg problem here.

You should learn more about compilers. There is a really cool idea waiting for you.
That would be great, but I don't see it. HN has already been obviously violating GDPR and all other right-to-forget laws since forever by not allowong for account deletion, and everytime this has been brought up, dang has pretty much confirmed they don't care ("it would look bad if there were deleted comments [and that's more important than these laws]").
Will that work involve digging really deep hole for A16z partners to move in. (Of course to survive apocalypse that billionaire VCs are acutely worried about.)
For folks that pick Windows 2000 Server, why not Server 2003? Is it just because by then NT had XP out as the "Windows for Home Users" and people didn't use Server 2003 as much or were there changes about it folks hated for some reason? To me it always seemed to bring so many more features/capabilities without trashing the classic UI.
Exactly the approach I’ve taken for my startup and is baked into the business plan. I have some pretty unique flows leveraging current-gen LLMs. Then there is an AI agent marketplace. It’s there because shoot, maybe AI agents will be super potent and I want a place for them to be integrated. At the same time, the product works perfectly fine with just humans on the platform. It’s a hedge.
Was a bit confused at first, then read the article.
Germany is home to one of the most promising Fusion projects - "Wendelstein 7-X
"
Yes, but sometimes doing the things Lisp can do in another language as easily and flexibly as they are done in Lisp has, as a first step, implementing Lisp in the target language.

For a famous example, see Clasp: https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp
Wow, that's not confusing at all.
> A legal reality where you can only train AI on content you've licensed would be the worst for everybody bar massive companies, legacy artists included.

Quite an assertion. Why exactly would this be true?
That's not necessarily true. There's a whole body of law surrounding when the federal government can and cannot engage in quid pro quo withholding a federal funds. Much of it was litigated with respect to the withholding of highway funds in exchange for compliance with Federal blood alcohol limit standards and the like.

Much of it was re litigated with respect to title IX educational compliance.

I can't speak to specifics, but my understanding is that there are limitations on the withholding of funding and it must be directly tied what the funds are actually being used for.

As you say, Columbia is a private entity, so that is a major distinction. However, there's also a body of law around selective punishment for speech. An example of this came up when the White House selectively punished the AP because it did not like the content of its speech.
I could easily imagine a scenario where you do know something about a guest - enough to see that they are a compelling speaker, or have an interesting area of expertise that an audience would appreciate - without being fully "read in" on that person.

It's like when you go to a lecture hosted by an institution and they give a little intro about the lecturer beforehand. Most likely some of those little facts about the person's biography weren't known to the institution when they invited the person - they did a little extra research later to prepare the intro. They may not have known what state the person grew up in or where they did their undergrad but they looked it up in case it helps someone make a connection.
Yo, the attacker has access to the same binaries, so only runtime address randomization is useful.
> Broken glass on the street is an aesthetic issue

Unless you're walking a dog. Or wearing sandals or flip-flops in the summer. Or are a 2-year old prone to tripping and falling. Or...
Bluesky is the worst of old Twitter concentrated into one place. It's some weird mixture of the hall monitors of Mastodon crossed with wannabe members of the weather underground. Like a leftwing Gab full of only Kara Swisher and Taylor Lorenz types. This sort of of faux outrage at adobe is par for the course - its awful over there.

X is much more of an ideological mix.
I've seen worse. In terms of the most hostile, Mastodon takes the crown.
Ah interesting, so the complexity wasn't in the API design or implementation, but only in the additional rune? Is that really such a big cost?
Related:

"Trump tries a surprising rationale to kill regulations: because I said so."

* https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/climate/trump-regulations...
I always heard it as FuCK GateWay (the PC maker)
Let us get back to you on that.

Leaning towards making the modules/examples permissive, indeed.
Don't vote for dems because they caused Trump to happen, so instead vote for... Trump directly?
Worse is having to personally agree to third-party privacy policies to use tools at work. For example, if you use google docs, you have to agree to google's privacy policy, which can match at work and outside work behavior.

schools do the same thing, but 1000% worse.

Oh, and online tax stuff or dmv? all logs into google.
Oh yeah, I loved tasting that too! They really had to pull some tricks to make everything work so well, but damn did they pull it off!
Freest country, hardly anyone lives within 100 miles of the coast I'm sure https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone
>The high liquidity means you are beholden to thousands of people who view your company as a roulette wheel amongst thousands, who want immediate gains and have no stomach for any losses.

This sounds a lot like Warren Buffett's opinion of stocks. The Berkshire Hathaway Class A stocks are 780k each because he wanted people to act like investors, not speculators.
> I view content on X without an account every day.

So you view the stuff that doesn't require an account - many want to see the stuff that does.
>Not only that, they also assume or pretend that this is obviously violating copyright, when in fact this is a) not clear, and b) pending determination by courts and legislators around the world.

Legislation always takes time to catch up with tech, that's not new.

The question I'm see being put forth from those with legal and IP backgrounds is about inputs vs. outputs, as in "if you didn't have access to X (which has some form of legal IP protection) as an input, would you be able to get the output of a working model?" The comparison here is with manufacturing where you have assembly of parts made by others into some final product and you would be buying those inputs to create your product output.

The cost of purchasing the required inputs is not being done for AI, which pretty solidly puts AI trained on copyrighted materials in hot water. The fact that it's an imperfect analogy and doesn't really capture the way software development works is irrelevant if the courts end up agreeing with something they can understand as a comparison.

All that being said I don't think the legality is under consideration for any companies building a model - the profit margins are too high to care for now, and catching them at it is potentially difficult.

There's also a tendency for AI advocates to try and say that AI/LLM's are "special" in some way, and to compare their development process to someone "learning" the style of art (or whatever input) that they then internalize and develop into their own style. Personally I think that argument gives a lot of assumed agency to these models that they don't actually have, and weakens the overall legal case.
Unless one drains out every last cent from these scammers. They keep coming up with new crap everyday.
What are you suggesting then? Who should we vote for?
The secret desires of the default, untuned FYP? Those categories are known quantities to the social algo curious.

Can simply make a new genpop type Twitter account and immediately see them for yourself, the uncurated experience is heartbreaking.