skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it is absolute bullshit to compare a specialised computer with a human. Sorry to say this, but JC is missing the point or just full of shit.

Humans have constraints that are - at the moment - very hard to alter. An average human can/will read at best a few hundred books in its lifetime. You have to have some innate or acquired skill or taste to come up with something that is unique, to select what works you gonna spend your time on, that would make you better at what you do and elevate your work above others or offer something truly unique.

AI is not human, AI is billions of humans. Let this sink in, alrite?

No, copyright is not evil. Patents are not evil. Ideas are yours and you are an idiot if you give them away for free. These are your best friends if you know how to wield them.

Just look at what happened to the internet after Google put its overweight arse on it. And Cloudflare is looming in too with their totally walled garden ecosystem.

Copyright is evil... suuuure. Then what AI is that expropriates skills of humans, who have put their life to become best in whatever they do. And AI redistributes this to those who have money and power, to the elite.
Think it has much more to do with traditional EU regulator attitudes around the dual of labor & capital markets. Both are very dysfunctional in Europe, with labor probably slightly edging out in terms of dysfunction.
> Everytime I go on, I’m assaulted by fight videos, gambling ads, porn bots, ragebait, and the worst extreme takes from the left and the right.

You seem to be describing my reddit experience to a "T".

I created a brand new account recently to get away from all of the doom-n-gloom politics that polluted my feed to the point of being just downright frustrating to look at. It took all of a week to be right back to where it was, despite my best efforts to join and engage in subs that have literally zero to do with politics. What the hell does bread making have to do with seeing 843 unfavorable pictures of Trump on /r/pics every single day?
> also plans to woo scientists from abroad

but also god forbid you arrive to Germany with <C1 German.
ABH office is waiting with guns fully loaded
I don't think anyone was silly enough to believe that he would do a fanciful thing well outside his control.
Someone explain to me why I should prefer Erlang/BEAM/Elixir over something like Akka.NET?

With the latter I get a huge ecosystem of packages and wide compatibility with platforms and tooling and also a robust and scalable actor model.

Learning Erlang or any related language meanwhile feels like learning Tolkien’s Elvish for the purposes of international trade.
To me it was only when we got to radioactive decay in physics it clicked to me why the particular "e" was special and useful. Background: exp(x) was introduced as the inverse to log(x), defined as the area under 1/x etc. It was already in 1st high school year (before integrals had been introduced!). We showed how you could express other bases as e^(ax) but you could have done that with any other base, so nothing special about e. In calculus we later learned that exp'(x) = exp(x). This made it clear it was special - but not why it was useful.

The clear usefulness appeared in the case of radioactive decay. We first learned about half-life, and clearly you can write the decay function as N(t) = N0 * 0.5^(at) with 1/a being the half-life. But we then learned that the decay values in the data book are often not the half-life but this special "k" that you put in a decay equation that has e as the: N(t) = N0 * e^(-kx). My reaction was: why did they pick e here? Why not just use 0.5 as base and the book would list the half-life? But then we got to the kicker: we learned the formula: Activity = -k*N, meaning that the activity (decays/time-unit) is proportional to the amount of material with k being the proportionality constant. We hadn't learned of differential equations yet and I was confused about what k was, having first seen it in the decay equation and now in the activity equation which were seemingly very different... how on earth could the same number work in both capacities. And I read a bit ahead in the math book and it all made sense. And then I understood it was because of e as the base that the constant k got this property - which it would only get in that particular base. So this showed to me how e was special, allowing the same constant to serve in these two capacities.
Number of citizens reeducated, I presume.
That is exactly the point they are trying to make... that you enjoyed it BECAUSE you thought of it as a delicacy and not as peasant food.

I think the point is a little overwrought, really... while our expectation is part of what makes it taste good, it doesn't completely change what we think... there are a lot of foods that are considered delicacies that a lot of people don't like.
Republicans wouldn't push so hard to disenfranchise people from voting if what you are pushing was true.
You claim the dems could have picked a hundred other candidates than Hillary that could have easily defeated Trump. That is some grade A revisionist history.

If you recall, the Republicans had a very large field (15?) candidates initially, and Trump was seen even by Republicans as an entertaining but embarrassing candidate. Yet Trump beat every one of those well-financed, established GOP candidates.
The Trump administrating is currently defying a Supreme Court ruling. We'll see if they continue to do so or start complying with Judge Xini's orders on taking steps to bring Mr. Garcia back to the US.

Then you have Alina Habba threatening to investigate the New Jersey Governor, Trump signing executive orders to investigate two of his first term officials who criticized him for lying about the 2020 election.

Regarding the article, one has to wonder where the line is. When would the Founding Fathers have agreed the line was crossed into tyranny?
I think the point is that given the right social dynamics, some bugs that already are edible today could probably be considered fancy and tasty in a century or two. I might be the wrong person to ask though because I already find pretty much all seafood nauseating.
Did you completely miss the "while not necessarily 'bad'" part of my post?
Terrestrial GPS Alternative [video]
"Yet I think Tim’s single review was possibly as valuable as all the others combined".... and yet you don't even tell us anything about his review.... disappointing esp. considering the screenshots/level of details on other input.

On a different note, def. feel you pain regarding the copyeditor.
In Dune there are female characters with their own desires and designs on the world, who go out and take what they want. There is profound loss, and personal transformation. There is coming to terms with intensely sad or painful circumstances. There is overcoming doubt, building resilience, and taking responsibility and control of one's destiny. These things were not really explored in what I've read of Heinlein.
I recall he made changes at the beginning of the year specifically because "it's time to get back to our roots around free expression."

Full transcript of his remarks can be found here: https://www.techpolicy.press/transcript-mark-zuckerberg-anno...
OP here: I can see how that would be frustrating and I do touch on that in my piece. It’s not my job to convince you that you should like it, but I would say that the mystery and atmosphere and sense of discovery is what pulled me through the first hours where I wasn’t sure what was going on. If those things don’t chime with you, it can be a slog. What I’ve told other people is that it’s better not to view the game as a race but more a place to explore.
As usual, there's a (somewhat) related xkcd for this https://xkcd.com/1268/
Do they? We generally don’t give noncitizens the right to own a gun in the us, so clearly we are selective about applying the 2nd amendment protection. The 4th may need adjudication.
The colder temperatures of their new environment might have made them tastier to us. Also, salt.

I find shrimp from the cold north sea (Pandalus Borealis) a lot more tastier than the much larger shrimp found in more temperate seas.
Russia doesn’t just put people in jail for speaking against the government. They weaponise the generational fear of being disappeared by the government. This is not close to what happens in America where you can post anything anywhere and if Facebook deletes it you can always make your own website about it. If you did this in Russia you go to jail. Even if you say things like “it is sad Ukrainian children die in children’s day in Russia” you go to jail. I don’t think you can compare modern USA with modern Russia in this way. USA does plenty of other things that are bad like jailing so many people for petty crimes without pushing much on speech. USA has its own problems and all these comparisons only hide them.
As I recall, in my calculus class it went like this:

ln(x) (+ a constant) was defined as the integral of 1/x.

Then we proved than ln(x) was a logarithm to some base.

Then e was defined as the base of that function.

Nobody ever said anything about compoun interest.
Thanks for the information. FWIW, I think this is total bullshit and fascism, but your comments aren't telling the whole story.

The most important thing to point out is that "the judges" in this case was actually a single immigration judge. Immigration judges belong to the executive branch, not the judiciary. I agree this law that says that the Secretary of State can essentially just deport anyone they want can't be squared with the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and due process. But that wasn't really this immigration judge's determination to make, i.e. questioning the constitutionality of the law that Rubio is using to deport Khalil. There is a separate case going on in federal court that should address that topic.

This article has more info: https://archive.vn/D890d
Bye, asshole.
What is the intended distinguisher between this and WGPU for graphics? I didn't realize that was a goal; have seen it mostly discussed in context of CUDA. There doesn't have to be, but I'm curious, as the CUDA/GPGPU side of the ecosystem is less developed, while catching up to WGPU may be a tall order. From a skim of its main page, it seems like it may also focus on writing shaders in rust.

Tangent; What is the intended distinguishes between Rust-CUDA, and Cudarc? Rust shaders with shared data structures I'm guessing is the big one. That would be great! There of course doesn't have to be. More tools to choose from, and that encourages progress from each other.
I'm baffled it's not called The Iraq Genocide. History is, indeed, written by the winners.
Thanks for this callout, I was looking at the reviews here and on Steam and waffling, but I've got Game Pass.

Also, re: notepad writing: if you've got two monitors, it Alt+Tabs just fine. I'm writing this as the opening credits play.
If this were a sci-fi movie, it would be because the cockroaches were sentient and trying to protect themselves.
Lots of companies build/buy/sell cheap phones and presumably put some work into getting Android up on the hardware.

I think maybe that's where Purism went wrong. They tried to go pure from the get-go. But think it would be better to get a profitable product out first, and then invest in opening components, one by one.

I don't need a perfect device. Rather hardware getting better every year. Then I could upgrade, and they'd make more money.
>that you enjoyed it BECAUSE you thought of it as a delicacy and not as peasant food

When I was a child, I didn't even know the word "delicacy" let alone have any concept of whether what I was eating was a delicacy or not.
That's all good and well, but the very time you would try to start selling your tinkering, or, God forbid, hire somebody - that's where the hell begins.

Being a self-employed is a living hell in Germany, as well as receiving any money outside of employment. Esp. if money are small (but > than hobby money, 500 euro iirc) and don't justify the hurdle of dealing with Finanzamt, tax pre-payment, possible regulations with upfront Formulars etc.
Showing up out of nowhere pretending like they haven't even thought about what it means isn't helpful though.
> Bye, asshole.

If you didn't want to prove me right when I said six hours ago [1] that you were throwing a tantrum, why continue throwing the tantrum?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43655066
If you've been around for a while, and are willing to take off the rose-colored-glasses momentarily, you will realize it is not unprecedented.

Some of us have been howling about these issues for decades.

Who were the primary benefactors of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act? What about the CHIPS Act? Follow the money and you will be completely god smacked at the insanity that's being going on right under people's noses.

The riot is quelled by drawling people into their camps... left or right, red or blue, us vs. them.
Therefore with the right preparation some bugs might become delicacies.
For over 100 years, people have been focused on faster cars.
Not in that course, but I've done it at a "STEM" day; it's just about the most fun I've ever had teaching.
I probably have a higher P(doom) than most, but I also feel that it’s important to remember that we don’t even have close to enough information to predict what’s going to happen with any level of certainty. The scenarios I can imagine are not the best, but I also acknowledge that the real future will most likely be a scenario that I can’t possibly imagine from here.
To be fair, the companies are victims there. It is not so much he corrupted them as he extorted them. Those are two different things.

It does matter. There is long standing tradition of blaming what conservatives and their leadership do to everyone else. And euphemism away what they do by using softer words (corrupt when it was extortion) while using harsher words on those who fought him and lost (the company you call corrupt sued Trump and this is retaliation). That is part of the problem.
I wonder if it's actually leaking training data and these are real images, as per this:
https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-arche...
your post reeks of fascist populism:
- de-humanizing language
- we are not that bad, others are/were doing it too (this is mostly flawed, as is your comparison)
The phrase “super-high-tech ministry” doesn’t sound like the correctly nuanced translation of Super-Hightech-Ministeriums. In English, it begs the question whether they are really serious — why isn’t it “super-duper-high-tech” or “ultra-high-tech” or “hyper-high-tech”? Calling something “super-X” in English sounds a little marketingspeak-clumsy and opens you up to these jibes.
>Black_13 appears to be shadowbanned so I'm reproducing their comment here:

Pity this happens, I was looking at his posts, and most of them seem to have a higher degree of original thought than most other HN posters.
I've only seen a single-sentence post on the cryptography mailing list by someone I don't know. (I think the news is true, but it's not the clearest source!)
In my experience, that is completely untrue. I think it is more of "you are the company you keep" situation. Bluesky is obviously more socially liberal and therefore, IMO objectively smarter, nicer users and community. On Bluesky you have more control over your experience which makes me wonder how genuine your post is.
Somehow I feel this is the data modelling tool but looks like it can also modify source data? What is the use case of modifying the source data? I'd prefer to keep everything as is and do transformation afterwards to clean up.

I'd also recommend brushing up the doc. There is not a lot of things there (but we already reach v2?) and the Flowcathon seems to be the first thing a developer needs but it needs an account.
Saturday Is World Quantum Day
This looks really good. Kudos to the authors!

It's great seeing a rise of web stacks that embrace small libraries and native web technologies, and reject mega monolithic frameworks. It's about time the industry moved away from the React/Vue/npm insanity.

I'm also intrigued by Nue, but Datastar fits nicely in a full stack solution. The choice of SSE is brilliant. It's great tech that's generally underutilized.
I haven't seen this guy in a while... tbh, at one point it almost felt like he was a shill for something.

Anyway check out the symbol: NANC
Does that mean JD Vance will consume it? :)
To me, Erlang/Elixir’s power is not necessarily the Actor model implementation, the matching from prolog, immutability, behaviors, etc, but Joes desire to demonstrate you could do more with less.

It is a well thought out and trued system of computation that has a consistency rarely witnessed in other languages, much less the “web”. It is not perfect. But it is pretty impressive.

Unfortunately, I find the appreciation and uptake for what simplicity empowers in the software world pretty under appreciated. Complexity allows people to become specialists, managers to have big teams and lots of meetings, experts to stay experts.

Erlang was being developed in a period where companies were trying to implement software solutions with smaller headcounts, limited horsepower, etc. A multi decade outpouring of cash into the domain has made the value of “less will mean more for all of us in good ways” less of an attractor.
> Is this about software or is it about you?

about and not about

Kids nowadays are suprisingly proficient and using phones and computers.

...because they just click "AGREE" to every popup. They sign up. They give away their phone number or their one email address or they do the subscription, then cancel it later (or forget). They enter their credit card because they don't have any money to take anyway.
I am a metal worker, and a foodie, living on a farm, and have experience and contacts in varios parts of the food industry, and have never come across lead, in any food relate items.
As to alloying with lead, it has been used historicaly to make steal easier to machine "free machining steel" , but has no part in high strength or tool steels, and the steels used in
grinding machines are going to be food grade.....
even the grease in the bearings is food grade
silcone grease....got some in the shop....
Good stainless wears for ever, so it is always used, at least here in Canada.
So back to the lead and heavy metals, and how they are intentionaly added as "flavor enhansers"
and coulorants, and basicaly how crazy people are
and will do anything to steal a buck, but of course, not before passing it.right!
personaly
I eat only food, I make from individual single ingredients, prepared at home. The most complex food I buy is cheese, and very rarely icecream,
thats it.And even then, there are things that just seem WRONG, like some grapes, that had an impossible "floral" aftertaste that lingered for hours......and now wont rot, sitting on top of the fridge.
I could go on at some length, about all of the fraud in food, but Food is cheap, and there is no way to impliment a system with continious checks
and investigations, that would guarantee quality and purity, without quardrupling the price, and perversly, increasing the incentive, to cheat.
I think lobster tasting good is mostly about the amount of butter used.

Really, though, a lot of it has to do with food preservation technology - lobster only tastes good fresh, and goes bad very quickly (which is why you will often see them alive in tanks at the grocery store, and they are often cooked alive). Before we had the tech to either keep them alive before cooking or refrigerate immediately, they didn't taste very good.
Google Prompt Engineering
Maybe the Bluesky selects the community they want and that is why people are enjoying it.
In a different deportation case they just defied a supreme court ruling - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/trump-deport...

Didn't realize that the judge in the linked one was an immigration judge and not a judiciary judge thanks for the clarification
It was republicans who focused on trans, relentlessly and for months super actively. And it helped to win them election, outrage and anger sells votes. It was effective to make voters vote for them.

Besides, the parties are not symmetrical. This is not both sides issue, this is literally republicans causing all the damage issue while democrats are blamed for not stopping it. The "both parties are to blame" when what is happening is literally republicans doing it massive harm intentionally is what caused this situation.
Not everything you disagree with is "fascism". We expect maturity around here.
What is the impact on the user of having first class functions vs first class function pointers?

Last I checked when you implement lambda in lisp it's also a pointer to the lambda internally.
> Five years is a very long time in technology.

But it's not a long time in the OP's field of science. Unfortunately despite a strong preference for Python in the scientific community, the language's design team seem to ignore that community's needs entirely, in favour of the needs of large technology companies.

I was hopeful that in the transition from a BDFL-based governance system to a Steering Council, we would see a larger variety of experience and opinions designing the language. Instead, I don't think there has ever been a single scientist, finance worker etc on the Steering Council - it's always software developers, almost always employees of large software companies.
No, we cooked it like shit. It gets rubbery and unpleasant real quick.
And then Zuckerberg says he's all about free speech, even mocking Europe as not being free-speech enough
I think the biggest problem is how small land-bugs are. They don’t have a large chunk you meat you can yoink out and grill; you have to eat the shell.
Ah yes, the very dishonest and propagandistic Associated Press:

> Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 32, mostly women and children (Apr 6)

[1] https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-new...

> An Israeli strike hit near a charity kitchen in Gaza as Palestinians gathered for food (Apr 7)

[2] https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-new...

> Palestinian teenager who died in Israeli prison showed signs of starvation, medical report says (Apr 6)

> Starvation was likely the leading cause of death for a Palestinian teenager who died in an Israeli prison, according to an Israeli doctor who observed the autopsy.

[3] https://apnews.com/article/autopsy-palestinian-deaths-israel...

Or how about Business Insider?

> Israel's 'Where's Daddy?' AI system helps target suspected Hamas militants when they're at home with their families, report says

[4] https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-ai-system-wheres-dadd...

The Georgetown Security Studies Review?

> The Dehumanization of ISR: Israel’s Use of Artificial Intelligence In Warfare

> “At 5 a.m., [the air force] would come and bomb all the houses that we had marked,” B. said, an anonymous IDF soldier. “We took out thousands of people. We didn’t go through them one by one—we put everything into automated systems, and as soon as one of [the marked individuals] was at home, he immediately became a target. We bombed him and his house.”

[5] https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2025/01/09/the-d...

Is there any news source apart from Netanyahu himself that you would accept as true for showing that the IDF was not taking measures not to kill women and children in Gaza?
> Also as probably the world leader in data privacy and protection that's another vector working against innovation

Extremely thick irony here