MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Telaneo | 2026-01-03 04:37:56+00:00
> For added fun, many organizations, including banks and the US Government/various federal pension boards, refuse to recognize a power of attorney letter, either.

Ouch! That's got to make things hard!

That's thankfully not a problem where I live. Here the problem is more that the banks might be a little over-eager to take agency away from seniors, since once they get a whiff of their grandson helping them with their banking and what not, they lock their account and claim to have broken their TOS or the law regarding not having other people control their account, and that if you want people to do that, you need that power of attorney.

Honestly, this is a lot better than the alternative of not being vigilant enough, and I'd honestly argue that it's better to let there be as little shame as possible in handing over your banking to your next of kind, so that when it starts getting really bad, it's not too late. But this obviously gets very individual very quickly. One senior will handle their banking just fine until their 105, while the next gets Alzheimer at 55, while the next starts to have to put a lot more effort into doing it right at 75, but they don't have any next of kin they can trust to not slowly empty their savings account once they get the power of attorney.
by Telaneo | 2026-01-03 04:40:22+00:00
> Until there is a version of Linux where you don’t have to open the console

This is already the case from the Grandma use case, i.e. nothing more than a web browser and maybe Thunderbird and an office program. The terminal issue doesn't come up until you start getting into people who know just enough to be dangerous (myself included).

The larger issue is that computers with Linux pre-installed are (within a rounding error) not a thing, and thus Grandma can't go out and buy one. Telling her to install it on her current computer makes about as much sense to her as asking her to flob the nerfwhizzle. And even if she could, would she place her bets on a (to her) completely new computer system? Not without help or solid recommendations from trusted sources.
by tombert | 2026-01-03 04:41:58+00:00
If you want every game to work then you would be better off with a game console. I've had plenty of bullshit fighting with DLL files and registry keys to get games working on Windows in the past. Maybe it's gotten better since Windows 7, which is the last time I seriously did any Windows gaming, but I doubt it.

For some reason amongst other people, these bits of debugging just "don't count". I don't know why.
by ilyagr | 2026-01-03 04:42:28+00:00
There's a way to make `^q` quit `less` and not clear the screen (like `less -X`), while `q` quits `less` and clears the screen (like normal `less`).

1. Do `echo '^q toggle-option -redraw-screen\nq' >> ~/.config/lesskey`

2. Make sure `less` is invoked without `-X` (or with `-+X` if you want to be sure).

This `^q` command is particularly useful for `git log` output and other things where you might need to refer back to them in the next terminal command you do. (In fact, `git` uses `less -FRX` by default, so you'd need to override its config to use `less -FR` instead for the above to work as intended). The `q` command is useful when you don't want to lose what you had on the screen before invoking `less`.
by inkysigma | 2026-01-03 04:43:37+00:00
Iirc, the problem with Bayesian neural networks is that they're significantly more difficult to train. Using stuff like SVI reduces a lot of the representational ability of the distribution over weights. It's also questionable how useful the uncertainty over weights is.

I suppose in the tradition of Bayesian influence, VAEs and the like are still common though.
by fredwu | 2026-01-03 04:43:50+00:00
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by arximboldi | 2026-01-03 04:43:53+00:00
I'm waiting for the Punkt to die one day before I buy a new one, don't wanna create unnecessary waste. In spite of its flaws, it is rather robust so it may take a while haha.

There is a 4G edition of the Nokia 105 which would be my next option. But I'm thinking maybe if I move to a 4G phone I'd like it to have the ability to create a wifi hotspot, which none of the cheap Nokias can.

But I dunno, I'm slowly kind of getting tired of the burner phone life... It's just getting harder and harder. I spent three months in the US this summer and it was impossible without one there, even the door of this workshop I was visiting needed a fucking app to open the door, so I did buy the cheapest Samsung (my first ever smartphone). I'm now back in Europe and using the burner phone again, I keep the smartphone for the bank app and what not. But... maybe when this new GrapheneOS device comes out this year (they promised a new non-google device with official OEM support) I may bite the bullet... Or maybe one of those ink-display devices...
by ksec | 2026-01-03 04:44:19+00:00
>I am worried that we will not do it until after we have gone through a deep crisis, however.

I hate to say this but this is exactly what is going to happen. And I dont see any way out of it. The same goes to UK as well. And even then I highly doubt "China Speed" will be possible. The absolute case I can see it happening is another "War", but even if speed or velocity were the same we will still lose on "scale".

I wish I am wrong.
by WackyFighter | 2026-01-03 04:44:34+00:00
> Stop creating sock puppet accounts to push your agenda, please.

I don't keep logins for this site. I don't really care about have a consistent presence here. I don't have any sock puppet accounts.

If I was pushing an agenda would that be then? That I don't agree with you?

I am a long time cyclist that doesn't like transport activists because I've had to personally deal with them and I don't trust them. In many cases their livelihood is tied to their activism and I've heard your statements 100 times before. You are just parroting stuff that I've heard before.

I am trying to talk to you as someone that realised that most of it is crap.

I recently visited my parents. They live in a "Large Conurbation", which means it isn't official a city. Over the last year I've seen new bike lanes installed at what would be significant cost.

All they've done is made driving more difficult, the number of cyclists hasn't increased. I didn't see a single cyclist on these new lanes. I visit my parents once every 2 months and the winters are quite mild by UK standards.

So I've seen first hand that what you are suggesting doesn't actually work. This is in possibly one of the best areas to do this in the UK.
by hnburnsy | 2026-01-03 04:45:11+00:00
For comparison, US market only...

GM +5.1
Toyota +8.4
Ford +5.6
Stellantis -4.4
Tesla -8.9
Mercedes -10.5
VW -12.5

https://www.coxautoinc.com/insights-hub/cox-automotive-forec...
by ksaj | 2026-01-03 04:45:16+00:00
I don't call AI slop. I call people uploading things with obvious errors in it slop.

If you're taking the easy route by having an AI narrator, for example, please have the decency to listen to it, and respell words that get mispronounced. "Kay Em Ess" is not a distance measurement. "Cee Dee Ess" is not an antiquated media format. etc.

Those mispronunciations and misreads are absolute slop, because other AIs end up training on it. They will just become more and more "normalized" if people don't put at least a little care into their AI output.
by yesco | 2026-01-03 04:45:30+00:00
> You are not bypassing the router, the devices need to get their packets from somewhere, and it is only like a forever-open port if the router/firewall decides it is.

This trips up a lot of people, and I think it's because NAT was probably their first real exposure to networking. When that happens, you end up building all your mental models around NAT as the baseline, even though NAT itself is really just a workaround for address space limitations.

What's interesting is that someone with no networking background who thinks of it like a postal system (packets are letters that get forwarded through various routing centers from source to destination) would actually have a more accurate mental model of how IP networking fundamentally works. The NAT-centric view we all learned first can actually make the basics harder to understand, not easier.
by simpaticoder | 2026-01-03 04:45:37+00:00
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by throw10920 | 2026-01-03 04:46:52+00:00
OK, now you're just lying. In the parent thread you said:

> To say that israel invests in defense is at least 1/4 untrue, since the US sends billions every year.

You are clearly claiming that because Israel's defense budget isn't entirely their own spending, that that claim is not entirely true.

Then someone else responded:

> That the US contributes doesn’t take away from the billions Israel did and does invest

If that hadn't been your claim, then you would have agreed with this. But you didn't - you responded and doubled down and made it extremely clear that that was what you were saying[1]:

> Actually it does? It takes about 1/4 away.

Given how incredibly clear you were about your claims, the "revised" statement:

> The defensive and offensive capabilities of Israel is about 1/4 larger because of american tax dollars not their own spending.

...is objectively and factually different.

It's not me who's misunderstanding - given not only the repeated statements that reinforced exactly the same point, and other commentators interpreting it actually the same (because they can read) - it's you who are lying about your original words.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452929
by tombert | 2026-01-03 04:47:44+00:00
I used an Nvidia card for about a year, and I did get it working for the most part, but there was definitely some glitchiness I don't encounter with AMD.

For example, I use the Gamescope/Tenfoot interface on my system, and the actual menu for that is extremely glitchy on Nvidia drivers. On AMD it's absolutely perfect (I suspect because Valve develops this interface around an AMD card).
by martinpw | 2026-01-03 04:48:26+00:00
This threw me at first. There was an NASA X-ray imaging telescope in the late 70s/early 80s called Einstein:

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/einstein/heao2.html

But this is a new Chinese instrument, also an X-ray telescope, also called Einstein:

https://ep.bao.ac.cn/ep/
by jandrese | 2026-01-03 04:48:32+00:00
Point of fact it's giving 4 billion Internets worth of addresses to every local subnet.

You will sometimes see admins complain that IPv6 demands that you allow ICMP (at least the TOOBIG messages) through the firewall because they're worried that people on the internet will start doing pingscans of their network. This is because they do not understand what 2^64 is.
by chii | 2026-01-03 04:48:33+00:00
it's not so black and white.

If a student is willing and desire to learn, an LLM is better than a bad teacher.

If a student doesn't want to learn, and is instead being forced to (either as a minor, or via certification required to obtain work & money), then they have every incentive to cheat. An LLM is insufficient in this case - a teacher is both the enforcer and the tutor in this case.

There's also nothing wrong with a teacher using an LLM to help with the grading imho.
by arp242 | 2026-01-03 04:49:02+00:00
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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-01-03 04:50:00+00:00
Will be amazed if the parent comment stays at #1

I share some of the same opinions

IPv6 should be optional, not mandatory

I disable IPv6 whenever and wherever I can

Gatway is always IPv4 only

No "smartphone" gets direct connection to the internet

IPv6 can be useful. For example, cjdns

I like having the option to use it, but it should not be mandatory
by llbbdd | 2026-01-03 04:51:09+00:00
I'm a "monitor for the Mac would be the killer app" guy and the problem for us IMO is that there is no device that does exactly the simple desired thing here: give me the ability to manage multiple virtual monitors, or individual app windows, that are crisp and readable and overlay nicely on the world around me. The Vision Pro is massively frustrating because I would eat the price tag if it could do these things, and the hardware seems to promise that it can, but they've hampered it to a glorified face iPad instead for seemingly no reason but a lack of direction. $3500 to reclaim the desk space consumed by my physical monitors is such a better value proposition than the current one, which seems to be "watch movies alone".
by jrowen | 2026-01-03 04:51:31+00:00
> It makes perfect sense that the BPM is 123.45 because that’s exactly the sort of thing you get when a manager (who’s shown at the end!) just enters some numbers on the keyboard into the bpm field. They don’t keysmash the numpad; they just hit 123456789 until the field is full!

This seems like quite an assumption. Why wouldn't they keysmash? Or make up a fake number? And why bother to add a decimal point? What is meant by "robotically beating at 123.45 bpm"? Any fixed tempo beats robotically.

Your theory could be correct but it feels like connecting too many dots to me. 123.45 is a bizarre (and kind of human in that way) tempo that strikes me as more of a cheeky easter egg than a deeper connection to themes of corporate mass-produced roboticism (if they even did intend that as the exact tempo).
by waqaar-ansari | 2026-01-03 04:51:42+00:00
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by aspbee555 | 2026-01-03 04:52:06+00:00
I have been running Deb 13 on my primary workstation for a couple months, just as stable as Debian 12 I was running for years on my primary. I am able to do all of my programming work, virtual win/mac for compiling and able to play every Steam game I try with zero problems (BG3, CyberPunk, etc), all from a $500 mini-pc. Even bluetooth has had zero issue (which is usually a problem/pita)
by ksec | 2026-01-03 04:52:15+00:00
> If at least a few of those startups become big they could sustain the Ruby community with jobs and sponsorship,

This is the one thing that most developers dont understand when ever we talk about Ruby. The economics of a programming language, you could hate Objective-C all you want but Apple could force people to program in it as long as they hold the 1 billion Active iPhone with 60% to 70% of Apps store spending and online purchasing power.
by dragonwriter | 2026-01-03 04:52:21+00:00
> People are talking about putting a mail order catalog store online. Presumably, sears already had the catalog, shipping infrastructure - so it really should have been about digital payments, and an online storefront. [...]

> How significant their shipping catalog was in the 1990s I do not know

Sears discontinued its general mail order catalog (which had declined in relevance for years) in 1993, the same year NCSA Mosaic was released, while the web had about 0 public penetration and no commercial use.

So, it wouldn't have been a matter of adapting the catalog business to the web, it would have been rebuilding it from scratch.
by Panos | 2026-01-03 04:53:22+00:00
Not the case for the class in the blog post, but we also have many online classes. Many professionals prefer these online classes because they can attend without having to commute, and can do it from a place of their own convenience.

Such classes do not have the luxury of pen-and-paper exams, and asking people to go to testing centers is a huge overkill.

Take home exams for such settings (or any other form of written exam) are becoming very prone to cheating, just because the bar to cheating is very low. Oral exams like that make it a bit harder to cheat. Not impossible, but harder.
by shetyemanasi | 2026-01-03 04:54:53+00:00
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by Izkata | 2026-01-03 04:55:28+00:00
> And then, not even a very long time ago, the mystery unraveled. What the various codec specifications actually describe, and what these codecs actually "are", is the on-disk bitstream format, and how to decode it. Just the decode. Never the encode.

Soooo with everyone getting used to creative names instead of descriptive names over the past decade or two, I guess "codec" just became a blob and it just never crosses peoples' minds that this is right there in the name: COding/DECoding. No ENCoding.
by malwrar | 2026-01-03 04:56:00+00:00
We burned thru pretty much all of our /8, RFC1918, and have begun digging into RFC6589 (a /10). Still shocks me. Hardly an expert in the space, but I think the issue comes from subnetting to distribute ranges to teams that need a consistent IP address space for some project or another. Lots of inefficiency & hoarding over time. We’ve had legitimate outages and impending platform death staved off by last minute horse-trading & spooky technical work due to such things. IPV6 has always been a distant aspiration.
by shetyemanasi | 2026-01-03 04:56:18+00:00
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by wat10000 | 2026-01-03 04:56:44+00:00
Yep. Model 3/Y do, anyway. I don’t think there’s typically any damage, but the potential is there. The alarm is a quick alert sound, similar to what you get if you open a door while in drive, or simultaneously press the accelerator and brake pedals.

It’s a silly design choice. But not, in my opinion, a dangerous one.