skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Older Americans Are Winning the Economic War of the Generations
From a bit of a ways into the article

"Ahn says she would like to see penalties for parents who make unfounded accusations against teachers or practical measures put in place so that mandated changes can be adopted in classrooms, such as removing a disruptive student elsewhere to allow teaching to continue."

So, it seems like they don't even have the power to make a student leave their classroom without fear of retaliation at the moment.
Freedom of expression is no longer seen as an important value. It's a shame.
For the Good of the Country, Older Americans Should Work More and Take Less
kinda the point
It's interesting to see how many people have forked the project repository for something that's just freeware and not open source. I wonder if there was a release of the source code in the past that I might have missed?
It’s reasonable and even good advice but the hard parts remain the hard parts.

Specifically:

// Know who you want to reach, what you need them to know, what context they have/don't have, and what you want them to do with the information you will convey.

This is basically everything but most people struggle (and actually don’t really try) to figure out what the other person has in their head and what buttons have to be pressed to take them from status quo to the new level of understanding. That’s a difficult amount of empathy to generate.

And then “what do I want them to do after reading this” requires vision and ownership. Most writing is “I’ll dump what I know and they can figure out what it means” which is horrible for the reader and jeopardizes the outcome.

So yeah the advice is “good” but the number of people who can actually figure out what they want someone to do and how to make them see the value of it is scant.
> And so when ever more people see some emotionally charged damning evidence, their reaction is no longer to race to the desired opinion.

You sure about that? Every time I go on social media, I see people falling over each other on holy crusades based on prescribed ideology and the flimsiest of evidence, thanks in no small part to selective reporting and double standards of the nationalistic/partisan media outlets they subscribe to. In addition, whatever you believe in, there's always a good number of people ready to feed you often bullshit evidence to confirm your world view; the echo chamber effect is stronger than ever. Do you really think people conditioned to this environment can really resist orchestrated state propaganda broadcasted on all national media (for instance, how often do you see "(anonymous) government/military official says blah blah" on all of them)?
No more sales of weapons, period.
hm. that's exactly my experience with my Ukrainian and Russian elders. they watched the news, made a couple of phone calls into Ukraine and Russia and didnmt believe the German media would run the stories as they did. "the Americans did it again", they all agreed.
For applications that aren’t ARM-native, Microsoft’s x86 ARM emulation works well in my experience.
Seconding this. My truck isn't half ton, it's a Tacoma, but I live in the PNW where having a truck is pretty invaluable.

I also ride my bike around my city, ride the bus, and ride the train. In fact, not that long ago I did a two week train ride to Chicago; somewhat ironically most of the people willing to make pithy statements about trucks won't ride a long haul train. They fly in planes.
Hi! Founder here, and apologies if reposting content in other comments above is too much. I can give some context on the name, although of course ideally context from me wouldn’t be necessary if the name was easier to parse.

Our very first users were test engineers who used our tool to spin up test environments for E2E and integration tests, and we called it Kurtosis because we imagined them catching “tail” errors that were out of the expected norm for devs focused on only one component of the system. We imagined a tool that detects bugs happening in a “high Kurtosis” error environment.

We’re also big fans of the book “antifragile” by Taleb, about strategies in general for excelling in the face of volatility environments (can stretch that to kind of look like high “Kurtosis” environments)

The combination of those two things felt right when we started building - but I can see all the confusion it’s now causing here!
Don’t forget the quicksand, which could be a real thing in this case.
Whoops, sorry. 34b :)
Oh no, kids might see a butthole.

One sentiment that’s different from when I was a teen till now is that the youth today is so afraid of nameless authorities. No one wants to do anything even slightly controversial, lest their peers drag them for it.

I fondly remember my first butthole. It led to tubgirl and to that one video of the fella having his throat cut after being stepped on by a boot. I was about 11. I turned out ok, and I don’t think it’s survivorship bias.

Speaking as a father now, when Kess grows up a bit, I’ll likely give her unrestricted internet access. And I’ll bet you a signed dollar that she’ll turn out ok.
I’ve not had that happen ever. MagSafe manages to align the phone perfectly.
"The difference, when it comes to AI, is one of scale. ChatGPT can “read” more published words in a few seconds than I could in several lifetimes and, unlike me, that data isn’t immediately replaced in my human-limited short-term memory by whatever I’m thinking of next."

I think this misses the point. The issue of scale isn't on the ingest side, it's on the output side. Once you train an LLM on a book (however long that takes), then the LLM can be the interface to that book for an unlimited number of users. That scales very differently to, say, a person reading a book and writing something influenced by it.

In the case of the LLM, it's a complete interface to the contents of the book. It lets you "talk to the book". If that exists, why would anyone buy the book? If I could ask ChatGPT to "summarize the new book by XYZ", then spend an hour or two asking the questions _I_ have about the book from it, then buying the book would be a net negative.

If we don't solve attribution (like BMI solved for music), then the financial upside of publishing might be majority-captured by whoever trains LLMs on the copyrighted material.
Content credentials (https://contentauthenticity.org/) appears to use a Certificate Authority (CA) system to authenticate information, and they believe it can help fight misinformation: https://rd.nytimes.com/projects/using-secure-sourcing-to-com... Anyone here has insight into the PKI behind it?
>> Notice that Israel also used phone tracking to check that civilian population moved away from the target. No county that ran a campaign of this type in the past used such an approach to avoid civilian casualties.

> What about all the people who can't charge their phones because Israel only allowed 4 hours of electricity per day before the most recent campaign? Or whose phones were lost when their homes were destroyed?

If they were trying to answer the question "how many people are in this area?" it could make a big difference, but to answer the question "what fraction of people who were here have recently left this area?" sampling just people with powered on phones just be enough to figure it out, assuming Israel has decent statisticians to analyze the data.
I guess the question is who is the one exposing kids. Is it the pirate website or the original content creator?
Killing Windows 10 in 2025 could turn PCs into eWaste
RAG is not always required. If you can fit a whole document/story/etc in the context length, it often performs better, especially for complex questions (not just basic retrieval).
The Vietnam war was another one of these fake incidents (the torpedo boats), used as an excuse for war.
Absolutely its still worth blocking ads. They abuse my compute rendering client side. Off with their heads. Presumably you could use ai to sniff out putative ai content in text and flag or block that too.
Dr Grant Osborne is on their NT translation board, and his commentary series are well regarded (I've been going through Revelation: Verse-by-Verse, and it was recommended to me by my pastor). I can't remember some of the others on their board[1], but as far as I know it seems that they've selected from fairly well-known scholars.

The project itself is funded by Bible Hub. I don't know if that will affect your view of the text or not, but their objective was to have a fully transparent translation accepting feedback from academics, pastors, and lay-readers for each revision. As such, I've found it quite readable and it seems to fall somewhere between ESV and NET in terms of readability (not as terse as ESV, not as verbose as NET).

Have you considered Logos? It's not exactly cheap, but the search tools are extremely powerful. They have a Hebrew-English interlinear for both the MT and the DSS and you can quite easily search on the MSS words, the lemma, or roots throughout the entire text. The mobile version isn't quite as feature-full, however, but I use it with some regularity in church and during Wednesday night classes (currently covering Revelation).

[1] https://berean.bible/committee.htm
A West African Philosophy of calm
My familiarity is that autistic people often experience heightened empathy not on the simulation/experiential divide but a difference in self other relations. That is, the autistic approach to intentionality places themselves verbatim in the position of the other, rather than the allistic which replaces themselves with the other.

I think given the normative social allistic approach, the autistic person generally has a higher pressure to over develop their ability to compensate. Additionally, as this process uses the self as referent, it is less swayed by differences in the other and more prone to being activitated.

I believe that this is neither good nor bad, but the austistic person often suffers on people's assumption of being able to choose where their empathy is directed, and doubly due the effects of this trait. Things like strong, real, emotional connections to inanimate objects are an instance of this that can both cause suffering or joy, but socially can be a burden.

Thus I can fully believe that your approach is functional and high performing. And that others are often flawed by it. There's an innate integrity in it, because you put yourself directly "in the shit" when you do it. I wouldn't discount it as Machiavellian or as dissociative. Could it be that the dissociation is the cost, not the cause?
The idea is good, but the image isn't.
>When the Mac was being developed in the early 1980s, the majority of file systems were crude and simple

I get that this is a Mac-focused site, but isn't starting at the personal computer era missing out a big chunk of history? My understanding was that in the early days of mainframes and then minicomputers, records/files consisting of multiple fields, in a system-standard structure, was the norm, and that Unix was somewhat radical in pushing for the minimalist alternative that "a file is just a bag of bytes [in a hierarchical namespace]". I seem to recall this being discussed in the Unix Haters Handbook, in fact. So while the xattr model may not exactly match the "old way", conceptually it was something of a return to form rather than a wholly novel idea
I wrote it as well as submitted it.

(I do not, FWIW, write or choose the headlines.)

I am puzzled. In what way do you find it "dramatic"?
That is the chapter 6: "Signal" or "Noise". The core wisdom here is that it is obviously difficult to separate signal from noise. I would say that now in 2023 is probably even more difficult because the data flow has increased while the mental/group focus has declined.

In that chapter, Andy Grove recognized the merits of both technologies, they even developed RISC chips. The preference for CISC was maintaining compatibility of the 386 line of extremely successful microprocessors recognizing that following another technology was resource intensive and against the extremely popular and fruitful 386 line of business.

The analysis is clear.
I'm not entirely sure if I would agree with what you say about Napster. While for a while what you said was true, these days we're back to most people listening to music in walled gardens like Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
Foundational models are generally trained on internet scale level of data. They have seen billions of images, so they would have seen some medical images. For example, extracted from public datasets or textbooks. However, indeed, they may not be specialized to your use case. You could still fine-tune the model with a couple of examples to be more tailored to what you desire. Having a foundation model does not exclude training and your data could still be valuable. Indeed, you could achieve better performance by fine-tuning the larger model than just using your training data alone to train a model from scratch.

Also for the medical domain, I think vision-text segmentation models like SEEM (https://github.com/UX-Decoder/Segment-Everything-Everywhere-...) are really cool. You could for example ask “Where is the tumor located on that image?” and then the tumor is highlighted in the picture.
Why do mainframes still exist and what's inside one? [video]
I agree, I thought a lot of the "before" answers were excellent and insightful. The teacher did these children no favors by foisting such a meaninglessly pedantic distinction on them at this young age.

> “When we ask ‘how many,’ the answer is a number.

How about a few is a few a number?
CodeLlama spit out some of the wildest garbage when I tested it, even against GPT-3.5. Which tasks have you found it to perform well?
FYI if your creditors are demanding their money back and you don’t have it… you really don’t have many other options.

The fact that 1 or 2 years later the people will get their money back doesn’t mean there was any hope of surviving this a year ago.
Depending on the scenario, here are some ideas:

- Write the technical explanation first, then examine what concepts are required to reach the needed level of understanding.

- Avoid loading multiple new terms or concepts into one sentence.

- Introduce terms and their definitions as close together as possible.

- Style the text of defined terms to differentiate them visually, the way textbooks bold key words, so the terms are easy to reference.

- Make any introductory text easy to reference multiple times.

- Lists of words and phrases are easier to reference if formatted as a list, not a sentence.

- Lists with multiple dimensions, such as a list of terms and definitions, are easier to reference if formatted as a table.
> The ballon will also leak.

The US solved this problem in the early Cold War for passive balloon communications satellites by putting a chunk of solid volatile material inside the balloon, so sublimation kept a constant internal gas pressure. I suppose you'd stick a cheap servo on a door to control the sublimation rate if you need a precise mirror.

Besides, so long as you've already got the expensive sensors, navigation, propulsion etc. up there, why not just keep chucking up backpacks crammed full of new balloon modules for when your old one pops?
Ask HN: What does the term "AI agents" mean to you?
I have a hunch that there isn't actually a widely agreed upon meaning for the term "AI agent" yet, despite a lot of buzz around it (even extending to some pretty big funding rounds).

What does it mean to you?
of course it wasn't unexpected, but "expected thing came to pass" doesn't make for a clickbait headline
I think for something like that you might use the `intersect` event, it's not as dependent on timing at `revealed`
this part of the story is well documented but thanks anyway.

i was wondering about the firsthand experience of realizing it's all fake in the many years after 9/11.

especially from educated professionals and financially well doing professionals.

i only know working class accounts
not from korea but I think it's the same dynamics that can be seen elsewhere where there are private schools & cram schools, ie the parent are a direct source of revenue. where you have highly disrespectful and disruptive students that don't want to learn and cause a ruckus but the teachers can't say anything even sending them to the principals office because they risk getting fired, and they tend to be easily replaced in the private sector. sending them to the principal office does nothing, because they tend to be boot-lickers scared of losing a source of revenue. They won't scold the child and what exasperate the problem is the parents have the view that their child can do no wrong. Anecdotally, The only thing I've seen that work in that case is more parents with more social influence complaining about said problematic children (since they risk losing more if the group of parent decide to move their children).
Rhythmically pulsing leaf-spring DNA-origami nanoengine drives passive follower
So you just stole their content and put it behind a flashy UI?
Show HN: FreeBSD Manager for Desktops (Via Ansible)
I started working on the original playbook some time ago when needed to change my daily OS. Recently, I decided to convert it into a collection so I could replace source pulls and awkward templating with a simple one-liner solution. The result is `freebsd-collection`. Altho not exactly a one-liner since one needs to adjust user settings for sudo/doas before the execution, it feels like a massive upgrade compared to a classic playbook workflow. To achieve this, I implemented a simple profile system [1] that imports predefined settings according to the user’s needs. Right now it only pulls profiles (variables) from its source, but I feel that I need to add some offline capabilities as well (testing, follow-up runs, etc).

The current version is still slightly opinionated as I continue to shave off the original layout (e.g. it would install `ohmyzsh` if `zsh` is detected) but it is ready for general GNOME/Sway/etc configurations.

The example command will deploy my active configuration for Hyprland (start with `hyprstart`).

[1] https://charlesrocket.github.io/essential-collection/remote_...
IIRC it was mostly useful for letting you channel surf during commercial breaks and using the PIP to know when to flip back, or making sure your VCR was chugging along making your Sopranos bootlegs.
(Founder here) I love the thought! We definitely have a smoother understanding of the name from the users in that space from anecdotal experience, but actually it comes from both our own love of the concepts in the book “antifragile” by Taleb that talks about excelling in volatile (high Kurtosis) environments, plus the fact that our first users used it for E2E test environments which we imagined were catching “tail risk” bugs between components.

Although I see how the overloading of the term is pretty confusing here
Your first link says that total pay rose YoY at 1.3%. Your link above says that the average over 160 years[1] is 1.4%[2].

I just don't know what you want. You're doing well relative to your recent compatriots and very acceptably relative to your ancestors. You're fine. If you can't find a way to be happy with that kind of wealth, well, that's on you and not macroeconomics. There's clearly no number someone can give you that's going to make you happy.

[1] Which seems awfully cherry picked. It moves the boundary all the way back to before the industrial revolution. Surely you'd agree that the turn of the century was a huge economic outlier, no?

[2] Not 2%, I can't find that number anywhere.
Yes. "It just works" is a famous Apple meme. Others using "tm" are memeing on companies that come up with stupid marketing names for every little thing that doesn't require any branding at all.
Honestly, I feel like you zeroed in on a tiny, and insignificant, part of my actual comment which in itself feels a bit disingenuous? At least that's how it comes across to me.

It's not as if using a well-known nickname for a public figure was the sole purpose of my comment.

Plenty of other folks engaged genuinely with my actual comment, and that led to some interesting conversation, which is what makes HN great.

So what exactly are you adding to the conversation at this point by trying to cherry-pick a meaningless part of my original comment to make a whole deal out of it?
I didn't take that as anything remotely like a guilt trip. If you'll only pay for what you use when it's non-optional, that's fine. Just don't read fundraising messages and don't contribute. Easy-peasy.
The problem is that the orlan only needs to survive long enough to give approximately coordinates for a lancet or artillery strike. Revealing the position of a Gepard in exchange for taking down a drone is a… poor trade, at best.
your normal distro does updates by pulling every package on your system and swapping files mid running this can cause miriad of issues just by doing it and another miriad if update is stopped mid updating(not always but sometimes). So this means your system is being recomposed at runtime

while on other hand on bluefin and simialr image based OS-s composition of your OS is done somewhere else not directly on your running file system(could be your computer just not your rootFS) then it takes that image and pulls old image(normally on startup) and places new one in its place all in one go, so any composition errors dont get triggered during update and such. (composition before deployment is a principle cloud-native pushes) This makes updates far more stable and less error prone and automatic updates are a thing you dont even notice day to day. and what happens if image cant boot it just boots the old one or you can select the old one from grub(2 old versions are stored per default if i remember correctly) This idea has been successfully used by likes of android chromeOS and such to create seamless and risk free updates.
I have some thoughts.

1. “Reliable” (I.e. “we’re reliable and trusted for 100 years”) is just branding; to be treated as equally honest as Microsoft saying “Windows is reliable” or Tesla saying “Autopilot is reliable.”

2. The first casualty in war is truth. I don’t know where the quote is from, but I agree with the sentiment.

3. The victor writes the history of what happened, their narrative the accepted one. That doesn’t mean it’s true (and even the most black-and-white wars in history have always had some inconvenient facts for the victors…)
The Django admin is much more about data entry than viewing tables.

A few key features in terms of data entry:

- custom data validation

- ability to edit foreign key and many-to-many relationships, with optional search

- inline editing of related items

- file uploads

- custom "actions", where you can select a bunch of rows at once and then run custom logic to process them in some way
Select "case-insensitive" and cybernetics/Cybernetics shows as roughly flat from 2000 on. It also, of course, changes the curves for machine learning and artificial intelligence.
AWS has trainwave, which is less off the ground that TPUs but does exist.