MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by technothrasher | 2025-10-24 18:15:25+00:00
I think it largely depends upon the child. I thrived in a Montessori environment right through sixth grade before transitioning to a standard “prep school” and found myself way ahead of the other kids in a lot of things.

Alternately, my son was much the same as your kid. He struggled in a Montessori school which was very similar to the one I went to (in fact, my lower elementary teacher was the learning specialist at his school while he was there). He couldn’t handle the open structured style of the learning, and just floundered badly. We ended up getting him into a much more structured special ed school where he succeeded and is now off doing well at college.
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-24 18:16:34+00:00
I had the 2019 cheesegrater Mac Pro. 7TB (going from 1 to 8) would cost me $3,000.

So I bought a 4xM2 PCI card, 4 2TB Samsung Pro SSDs for $1,100. And as a result got 6.5GBps versus the onboard 1TB's 5GBps.

Same with memory. 160GB (32 to 192GB) from Apple was also around $3K. OWC sold the exact same memory chips, manufacturer, spec, speed, for $1,000 for 192GB.
by TheCraiggers | 2025-10-24 18:17:03+00:00
> They obviously didn't ask for that, and it was focused on them without their permission, and yet, here we are....

The rule is: if you're in public you have no expectation of privacy.

I think a debate on that rule would be interesting. My thought is that if I can't take a picture unless there's absolutely nobody else in the FOV, then that basically prohibits the vast majority of photographs.
by ansgri | 2025-10-24 18:17:47+00:00
Isn't the Online part here about getting results immediately after query, as opposed to overnight batch reports? So if you don't completely overwhelm DuckDB with writes, it still qualifies. The quality you're describing is something like "realtime analytics", and is a whole another category: Clickhouse doesn't qualify (batching updates, merging etc. — but it's clearly OLAP), Druid does.
by pletsch | 2025-10-24 18:18:22+00:00
The article says Trellix but the same could be written about any EDR from a capability standpoint. To add to the staff's point about giving root access, and while that's more on Microsoft needing to get vendors out of the kernel, it shouldn't be a compromise users have to make.

With that said, I find myself agreeing with the mandate, if you're using university resources, they have a responsibility to protect those resources and EDR is table stakes these days.. but they also need to be providing any devices required for the job, allowing BYOD for restricted data makes an already tough environment to secure harder than it needs to be.
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-24 18:18:24+00:00
That's a reasonable thing for you to do (especially if you have some other signal source you use for malware protection), but HN readers are rarely representative of average users.

This feature is there for my mother-in-law, who never saw a popup ad she didn't like. You might think I'm kidding; I am not. I periodically had to go into her Android device and dump twenty apps she had manually installed from the Play Store because they were in a ring of promoting each other.
by krazykringle | 2025-10-24 18:18:51+00:00
Consider ‘sc’ - dates from 1981, still actively maintained.

https://github.com/n-t-roff/sc (active fork)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc_(spreadsheet_calculator)

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/resolute/en/man1/sc-im....

Installable on mac and unix as ‘sc-im’
by MarcelOlsz | 2025-10-24 18:18:54+00:00
I bought a Gralab timer and hooked it up to an old shitty enlarger in my tiny dark wine cellar, along with a red bulb. A few chemicals and tools and you're golden. The only thing that screws me is having to cut up film and spool it but I can get more frames out of it that way since I use mini spy cameras. Yes the film being expensive isn't great but it also makes you choose your shots carefully. Get a cheap darkroom film changing tent and start there.
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-24 18:20:47+00:00
Staingate?

I had a GPU issue (that was the subject of a recall that matched my symptoms precisely (and I could make the MBP core dump on demand in the Genius Bar) but "recall declined, does not fail diagnostics".

Damaged charging circuit on an MBA. Laptop worked perfectly. Battery health check fine. Just could not charge it. "That will be a $900 repair. Maybe we can look at getting you into a new Mac?" (for one brief moment I thought they were going to exchange mine... no, they wanted me to buy one. And of course, my MBA couldn't be traded in because it was damaged...).

I've also had multiple Magsafe connectors fray to the point of becoming like a paper lantern with all the bare wire visible, despite the cable being attached to a desk with cable connectors so there was near zero cable stress (and often only plugged/unplugged once a week).
by jlokier | 2025-10-24 18:21:21+00:00
Having written a small amount of SKI, long ago, I think you can avoid having to visualise the entire graph by reasonably modular approach: naming functions and then using those as building blocks.

Names are very helpful. You get to design your own high-level world, but then you get to use it. Since you can replace any name by its definition in SKI, it's easy to expand, just very tedious.
by mystifyingpoi | 2025-10-24 18:21:25+00:00
Sure. For your type of work, that's the only solution.

To clarify, I'm totally fine with powerbanks, especially that these days even the cheapo ones support a subset of PD to charge a laptop (sometimes even 12V is enough, my Thinkpad allows that, I've read somewhere that Framework can charge from even 5V). I'm just not fine with solving an objectively poorer battery management (compared to Macs) by just buying external battery and calling it a solution. It's a workaround at best.
by samsartor | 2025-10-24 18:21:41+00:00
I'm skeptical that we'll see a big breakthrough in the architecture itself. As sick as we all are of transformers, they are really good universal approximators. You can get some marginal gains, but how more _universal_ are you realistically going to get? I could be wrong, and I'm glad there are researchers out there looking at alternatives like graphical models, but for my money we need to look further afeild. Reconsider the auto-regressive task, cross entropy loss, even gradient descent optimization itself.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-24 18:21:51+00:00
Table S34 shows that over 20% of the control group either stayed home or didn't provide info on what they did. (Compared with ~4% of the intent-to-treat group)

So, sadly, they weren't able to directly compare 'public Montessori PK3' with 'public non-Montessori PK3'.
by walkabout | 2025-10-24 18:22:00+00:00
Spam, scams, propaganda, and astroturfing are easily the largest beneficiaries of LLM automation, so far. LLMs are exactly the 100x rocket-boots their boosters are promising for other areas (without such results outside a few tiny, but sometimes important, niches, so far) when what you're doing is producing throw-away content at enormous scale and have a high tolerance for mistakes, as long as the volume is high.
by duped | 2025-10-24 18:22:18+00:00
> For instance VST3 does not support many to one, and only awkwardly supports two to one -- via second-class "side-chaining" -- sound processing architectures

This is a limitation of your host and plugins and not of VST3, plugins can declare arbitrarily many input/output busses for audio and events for many-to-many connections. It's just that in practice, hosts don't like this, and JUCE has a busted interface for it.
by HaZeust | 2025-10-24 18:22:36+00:00
It sounds more fit for the branch of government in charge of enforcing the laws. Specifically, with laws that are made by the branches responsible for making/changing them, which would be ridiculous on their face.

If the branch responsible for making and changing laws was also responsible for the reversion of enforcing those laws - effectively what a pardon is - then there's absolutely no check on gratuitous law being passed.
by chihuahua | 2025-10-24 18:22:43+00:00
Two thoughts:

1. If is were possible for an ordinary mortal to impose arbitrary curses on the god of death and justice, the world would quickly descend into utter chaos.

2. If children are completely free from accountability, adults will form them into an army and convince them to commit crimes on their behalf, leading to an intolerable situation. This may already be a standard way of doing business in some parts of the world.
by Izikiel43 | 2025-10-24 18:22:52+00:00
That policy and a long delay I had going from Iceland to London made the whole airfare for the trip (canada to london and back) free. I think I even made money.

However, you have to be insistent, I first filed a complaint with the airline, and when they didn't comply in the given amount of time, I filed a complaint with their regulatory authority, and then suddenly the airline remembered me and gave me the money.
by sublinear | 2025-10-24 18:22:56+00:00
I sometimes use AI summaries to get the answers I need out of badly written documentation. That's about as far as I find any value or productivity boost.

Consider that this "surgeon" analogy has always been applicable when docs or books are better written and full of useful examples. Also consider that a lot of the annoying "plumbing code" you probably want AI for is fairly closed-ended as there are only so many combinations of API use possible.

I'm really not understanding the continued hype in 2025.
by y-c-o-m-b | 2025-10-24 18:23:26+00:00
Hmm not sure I agree. I think we tend to be the centrist group in this duality. We give some flexibility in allowing people to "be themselves" while still holding them accountable to professionalism. I've held many different jobs in the past 20+ years, and that seems to be true anywhere I go. This makes sense because we were of working age before professional work culture changed to what we see today. We may have broken some of the older traditions and paved the way, but I don't think we're responsible for what you see today
by acdha | 2025-10-24 18:23:40+00:00
> Result of saying this at work: fired.

I think you’re significantly overstating the certainty here, especially if you couched that in being based on your religious beliefs. A lot of places have senior management who agree with that and most of the times I’ve seen things like that it gets no more than a reminder not to talk religion/politics at work, if even that.

The one exception is if you’re in a policy making position: if it sounds like fuel for a lawsuit arguing that women aren’t being fairly compensated or promoted, that is more likely to get attention. A lawyer I know mentioned that most of the DEI programs his firm setup were requested by CEOs specifically to protect the company from lawsuits, with the goal of being able to cut one manager loose rather than having the whole company be liable.
by duxup | 2025-10-24 18:23:53+00:00
>When you see the signs, and they’re all made out of a beautiful, beautiful paper. Beautiful, nice, stiff, very expensive paper with beautiful wood handles all the same. All the same color. They come from very expensive printing machines. These are are people that write out their signs in a basement, that believe in something. These are paid anarchists.

-Trump

This man is a child with questionable critical thinking skills. Now we have agents out running around chasing his imagination because he thinks nice paper and printing is hard to come by.
by pmarreck | 2025-10-24 18:23:56+00:00
LOL. Whisper may be free (I use it in at least 1 project), but it doesn't come with a GUI, hooks into mic audio and keyboard trigger, and other things necessary for something to work well on macOS.

I am willing to pay for things that work well (and don't forget support afterwards) because I know from experience that simply having an "open-source core" just gets you halfway there, if that; the last 5% of polish to a finished, reliable, supportable product is at least 50% more work.

And, to put it bluntly, since we don't live in a communist society, eventually SOMEone has to put food on the table from their efforts. I'm 100% fine with paying for that.

Lastly, I have a kid, which means that I have 0% time to spend on troubleshooting non-working open-source stuff (which I actually enjoyed doing before the kid); I am ALL about reliability now, which is why I paid for Eero home mesh networking (despite cheaper or free options), a NAS from iXSystems (despite me being quite capable of installing TrueNAS on my own hardware), pay for Apple products (despite loving my NixOS Framework laptop as well), and don't upgrade my 10 year old Tesla (because it still runs like a top, and that's my highest priority right now- reliability)

Once you get a kid, trust me, your views are gonna change, because you clearly do NOT have one.

This is what happens to your tinkering-around-with-open-source time after it:

tinker time before kid: [--------------------] tinker time after kid: [-]

Now if you're lucky, you will end up in a position where you get paid to tinker around, and where they won't get upset if you use some work time to work on "aligned" tech.
by SL61 | 2025-10-24 18:23:57+00:00
It's been years now, but I used to be involved in the trading market for Team Fortress 2. There were people who did TF2 trading as a full-time job, exploiting arbitrage between markets and holding items that were expected to increase in value (and sometimes using bots to farm items).

The Mann vs. Machine update in 2012 added a new game mode that would give players loot as a reward for completing missions. Players who didn't care about the trading market (i.e. the vast majority) would look up trading sites after a gaming session to offload their stuff fast without caring much about the value. People who described themselves as "quickbuyers" would aim for the people who wanted quick and simple transactions and then sell the item elsewhere for a markup. I did this for a while and averaged $5-10 of profit per day, usually 20-30 cents per transaction. Someone treating it as a full-time job could probably have made a lot more, like $20+ per day.

That was pretty good money if you a) were a kid with no living expenses, or b) lived in a developing country where the money went farther. I was in group A. Any time I wanted to buy a Steam game, I'd put up my quickbuyer listing on the trading sites and save up the money. But I suspected at the time that most people in the scene were in group B. If I were Valve I'd struggle to pull the trigger on a major change to the in-game economy knowing that it would affect the livelihood of a nontrivial number of people in countries like Venezuela, and maybe that's the reason they seem to have hesitated for so long.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-24 18:23:59+00:00
> You get to lie to people exactly once. Once you lie, you may have profited, but your lie gets exposed and your jig is up.

Lots of people lie multiple times without their lies being exposed. Sometimes because they are good at lying, sometimes because they are good at picking targets that are bad at detecting lies, sometimes because they are lucky, sometimes because they have accomplices protecting the lies, sometimes a combination of multiple of those factors.

> There is a lot more to be earned in the long term by staying honest.

In the long term, we are all dead; all differences in material outcomes are short term; and while it would be nice if optimally moral behavior (including honesty) were also the optimal behavior for personal benefit, that’s not usually the case, and the myth that it is, among other adverse consequences, reinforces the cognitive bias where people give additional credence to the successful by associating success with trustworthiness.
by km144 | 2025-10-24 18:24:00+00:00
"Real industry" also has quite a hard time getting things done these days. If you look around at the software landscape, you'll notice that "getting things done" is much easier for companies whose software interfaces less with the real world. Banking, government, defense, healthcare etc. are all places where real-life regulation has a trickle-down effect on the actual speed of producing software. The rise of big tech companies as the dominant economic powerhouses of our time is only further evidence that it's easier to just do a lot of things over the internet and even preferred, because the market rewards it. We would do well to figure out how to get stuff done in the real world again.
by Y-bar | 2025-10-24 18:24:33+00:00
I don’t store passwords in Firefox, nor do I use the ”Save page as”, I have never used the ”Report broken site” feature, and never activated ”Troubleshooting Mode”. I have never needed to configure network settings in my browser, and so on… As far as this discussion is concerned all these are bloat because they are not used. Seems like a strange yardstick to keep, when it cannot be properly applied, no?
by latexr | 2025-10-24 18:24:35+00:00
Then they should just say so and close the open issues, instead of letting them linger for literal decades and have people waste time on them then ignore them. That’s just bad stewardship.

Anyway, the reasons are irrelevant and I’m frankly tired of explaining this to Firefox defenders. Someone asked “what about Firefox are you missing” and I responded with what it’s missing for me. Plugging your ears and coming up with excuses doesn’t move the needle. Accept it or don’t, it makes no difference. In the meantime I’ll continue being honest with my users that I would like to support Firefox but I can’t, and many of them will keep switching browsers.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-24 18:25:10+00:00
That's taken care of in the study design. The population was all kids who applied to the lottery. And the treatment group wasn't those who actually attended the Montessori school, but those who were offered a place due to the lottery.

So I don't see how special needs would bias the results. If the lottery excludes those with special needs (either by design or due to self-selection) then there's no bias between control group and treatment group. If the lottery doesn't exclude but the enrollment decision is biased by special needs, then it doesn't matter because they use ITT and not enrolment.
by Barrin92 | 2025-10-24 18:26:02+00:00
Modern web browsers are in the range of 30 million LOC, probably 50% of that is just pure implementation of web platform standards and engine work.

Do you just need to advertise stuff among content creators these days with common sense going out of the window? It'll take them a decade to catch up without any engineering funding at the level that Apple/Google/Mozilla have.
by nico | 2025-10-24 18:26:07+00:00
Would love to see an architecture that learned more like humans. Start with just imitating one letter, then a few more, than some syllables, then full words, then sentences, etc. Progressively adding on top of previous knowledge

Also, it’s interesting that one of the big goals/measures of models is their capacity to “generalize”, but the training methods optimize for loss/accuracy, and only after training test for generalization to validate

Are there training methods/curriculums that explicitly maximize generalization?
by a-dub | 2025-10-24 18:26:10+00:00
lenovo p1 and x1 are pretty nice. lunar lake machines are posting macintarm style benchmarks for battery life for light tasks. the screens are matte by default. you can upgrade ram and disk rather than discard (all the framework hype has been the thinkpad standard of upgradability for over a decade). the keyboards are fantastic. they have a pointer stick.

no unified cpu/gpu memory, but you can get nvidia gpus and work with cuda rather than mlx.

it's actually getting really good.
by tptacek | 2025-10-24 18:26:29+00:00
I don't understand this concern. The models themselves are completely inscrutable, of course. But the premise of safely using them in real codebases is that you know what safe code in that language looks like; it's no different than merging a PR from an anonymous contributor on an open source project (except that the anonymous contributor very definitely could be trying to sabotage you and the LLM is almost certainly not).

Either way: if you're not sure what the code does, you don't merge it.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-10-24 18:26:39+00:00
> they like being able to do dev work (as well as web browsing) on a fast laptop with low power draw.

I guess that's hard for me to understand... do you just not have to compile things? Or do you just not mind waiting?

No matter how exceptional the laptops are for laptops, a real computer plugged into a wall is always going to vastly outperform them...
by divegeek | 2025-10-24 18:27:42+00:00
Much of the US/UK legal system is based on common-law rules that are several hundred years old. In some cases those old laws have been codified, in some cases not, but either way there's no need to drop them just because they're old. On the contrary, laws that have stood that long without needing to be changed have demonstrated that they are extraordinarily good ideas.
by xtracto | 2025-10-24 18:27:45+00:00
I recently spent around $6k in a new 14in MacBook Pro with 128gb unified ram and 4tb HD. To replace my old Linux running 2012 MacBook pro.

I searched throughly for something as close to that MBP hw conf but with Linux compatibility. There's just no hardware equivalent to what the Macbookpro, including the build quality.

So I de idea to go for the MBP and install vmware + Linux. It's an amazing piece of hardware.
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-10-24 18:28:14+00:00
The agents may not have learned anything from Serafini, but the visit — which took place one day before the No Kings protest — did accomplish one thing: Serafini decided against going to No Kings. He was spooked.

That is exactly the chilling effect on speech that the FBI investigating political matters risks creating.

Ugh, I might have to start caring about politics again, this is unacceptable.
by tgma | 2025-10-24 18:28:46+00:00
All of these things are running Linux under virtualization and faking it to the Mac user and they naturally have all the same limitations as running a VM. They are effectively like WSL.

P.S. I believe that specific company did some level of rug-pull early on already and started charging people who already relied on it for free because they left Docker which started charging earlier, so I would be vary of relying on them.
by I_dream_of_Geni | 2025-10-24 18:28:57+00:00
I feel the pain. On a camping trip on the banks of the Mississippi one year, my son and his family slept overnight in his minivan, with just the rear window "wings" cracked open slightly for air. In the morning, we found out that he had battled hundreds of mosquitoes that found their way in during the night. There were blood splats EVERYWHERE on the fabric headliner and walls. Looked like a war zone.
by einrealist | 2025-10-24 18:29:01+00:00
I ask myself how much the focus of this industry on transformer models is informed by the ease of computation on GPUs/NPUs, and whether better AI technology is possible but would require much greater computing power on traditional hardware architectures. We depend so much on traditional computation architectures, it might be a real blinder. My brain doesn't need 500 Watts, at least I hope so.
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-24 18:29:36+00:00
I see, that was my mistake then. I was unaware that services like FedEx were still accepting packages. My personal experience was that I have been unable to ship to the US for months because the carrier I use stopped accepting packages, and was under the impression they all had given the number of countries for which this was true and the news coverage I had seen. I wonder why so many countries' postal services have stopped while some couriers like FedEx continue to operate.