skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's ton of good male role models. But you don't get to the public sphere these days by being a good wholesome person with zero drama. How many of anyone do we really have like that? Maybe leBron James? Keaneu Reeves (for now?).

The public sphere gets its attention by appealing to base desires (rage, sadness, humor) and slowly slipping in the pitch for snake oil. If you're giving inconvinent truths, you're being "preachy", and "don't understand my struggle" and "are part of the problem".

Or they simply become famous in various means and in that power make skeletons to be revealed years later. It's hard to have a spotlight on you 24/7 and have your entire life be squeaky clean. That used to be the facade of politicians and even they don't care anymore.

Can't make the horse drink, even if they are dying of thirst because they keep being fed alcohol.
Most of the presentation is saying that is isn't clear how this will work, it will take a long time, and it probably won't do everything.

Indeed, you would see that if you'd read even the first half-dozen 5 slides ;)
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This is getting downvoted but I actually quite appreciated it. Story is interesting enough I'll listen to the whole podcast! I can't do that for every single podcast link that I come across. There's not enough time in the year much less the day.
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Hi HN,

I launched Swap.ventures, a marketplace where failed startups can find buyers to acquire their entire business — technology, insights, and potential — all in one, giving them a second chance. Founders retain equity and stay involved.

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What proof do you have that human reasoning involves "symbolic logic and abstractions"? In daily life, that is, not in a math exam. We know that people are actually quite bad at reasoning [1][2]. And it definitely doesn't seem right to define "reasoning" as only the sort that involves formal logic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Usually it's mainsite.com for the marketing site, and then app.mainsite.com for actual production, or if you have multiple it'll have the product name, like coolproduct.mainsite.com

We then have app-stg and app-canary subdomains for our test envs which can only be accessed by us (enforced via zero trust). No reason for marketing or SEO teams to care in any case.
Yeah. I had the same experience doing code reviews at work. Sometimes people just get stuck on a problem and can't think of alternative approaches until you give them a good hint.
AFAIK there are no Chrome uBlock alternatives, while there is a Chrome alternative with uBlock, Firefox. Beside that, you can set

"ExtensionManifestV2Availability" = 3;

as see https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/ apparently till June 2025 to keep Manifest v2 extensions like uBlock fully working, I've rebuilt my NixOS with Chromium this morning and uBlock was there so it's not removed at least if you have the aforementioned option set.
>You could argue that from the point of view of the county's social democrat and socialist city council, that the rent control have worked as intended, in that the locals where not displaced to the same extent that a rent boom would result in.

Sure, this aids the locals on the short term and is politically popular, but I fear this kind of local protectionism and NIMBYism will further nerf the EU economically on the long term on the global stage (EU economy is now half the size of the US one, when 20 years ago we were on par).

I'm thinking on SF and the Bay Area. The tech boom there caused a lot of gentrification and displacement which was bad for some of the locals, but the tech industry there was still a massive net benefit to the US economy in the grand scheme of things.

So I don't think rent control and price brakes for the locals is the right solution. IMHO you should let the free market run its course and have government programs in place to assist people who can't keep up economically so they can realocate to more affordable areas and invest in those areas with infrastructure to make them desirable to live and attract future jobs.
Which risk would TLS mitigate in this specific use case?
While the math is clear, I'm a bit annoyed by the label "paradox" as the whole setup is too simplistic and reductionistic.

The actual chance of being in the same room with someone who shares your birthday needs to include other factors like your socioeconomic background, the cultural environment you are in, your present location, and certain historical facts.

Without having done the math, I'm fairly certain that a member of the baby boomer generation in New York has a higher chance of meeting their birthday sibling than a 12-year-old in a rural part of Australia.
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I’ve wanted to build an internet radio with some small PC or maybe a Pi for a while that could be left without needing constant tweaking and maintenance. I’ve seen Icecast before. Is liquidsoap a good option for this idea?

I’d make a PCB with some buttons and a dial on it, but unsure what the software side of that would look like and how it would send commands to whatever radio software is running.
I tried to capture this on the last slide before the conclusion - maybe all AI questions have one of two answers - "no-one knows" or "it will be the same as the last time"

this is one of the "no-one knows" questions
It is the hobbled version of uBlock origin, missing features.

It may do about the same for general ad blocking now. But, advertisers are now aware there's much less potential to drive people to heuristic-capable ad blockers because that now requires more than "install this plugin".

So now, they can be more aggressive about going around ad blockers.
I know this is cool technology...but can someone give me some use cases? Like I'm not super sure how speed or more qbits factor into whatever these computers are supposed to do.

I could research it, but someone here probably has a nice simple explanation that will be good enough.
Wrong link unfortunately. Correct one is https://www.riksrevisionen.se/nyhetsarkiv/nyhetsarkiv/2024-1...
Imagine being the thief in this case and getting stuck with an entire pallet of these weird indie handhelds that you can't fence because nobody knows what they are just hanging out on your garage.
I would rather prefer responses to become smaller. If you would check TXT record for almost any big company you'll find a lot of verification records which either unnecessary (because better way to confirm domain ownership exists, e. g. by adding a DNS record with unique name instead of using main domain TXT record) or outdated (e. g. they did verify multiple times but kept records from all attempts). And more generally big companies tend to treat domain's DNS TXT record as an append-only structure and never clean junk it accumulates.

host -t txt amazon.com | wc -l
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and that's not the worst example unfortunately.
I wish Apple made a standalone Webgpu.framework spinning it off of WebKit so that apps can link to it directly instead of having to link to Dawn/wgpu.
Eventually destroying privacy on a societal level by making most standard encryption methods useless would be one.
Its regulated as an "electronic money institution" in the UK—i.e. its regulated but it does not have the rock solid guarantees that make banks a safe place to keep your savings.
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A translation of the summary:

The possibility of working remotely has not had any tangible impact on whether the authorities' activities are conducted efficiently - neither positive nor negative. At least not in the short term, the National Audit Office's review shows.

After the Covid-19 pandemic, many government agencies today offer their employees the opportunity to work remotely. In 2023, approximately 60 percent of government employees worked at home at least one day a week.

The National Audit Office has examined whether the possibility for employees to work remotely contributes to the authorities' operations being conducted efficiently. The overall assessment is that this opportunity had no tangible impact - neither positive nor negative.

However, the review highlights a number of consequences that the authorities need to pay attention to and deal with.

For example, remote work has led to several positive consequences for the work environment. Employees appreciate the improved balance between private and work life and the possibility of flexibility that telecommuting contributes to.

The changeover has also contributed to developing the authorities' digital working methods, which saves time and resources. Remote work has also provided better conditions for recruiting and retaining staff, for example by recruiting from a larger geographical area.

At the same time, remote work has had certain negative consequences. The biggest concerns that several social aspects have been negatively affected, for example collaboration, collegial learning and the sense of community. Remote work has also led to challenges for managers to lead their employees and to recognize their need for support.
> In fact try this - ask an LLM to generate some code then reply with “isn’t there a simpler, more maintainable, and straightforward way to do this?”

These are called "code reviews" and we do that amongst human coders too, although they tend to be less Socratic in nature.

I think it has been clear from day one that LLMs don't display superhuman capabilities, and a human expert will always outdo one in tasks related to their particular field. But the breadth of their knowledge is unparalleled. They're the ultimate jacks-of-all-trades, and the astonishing thing is that they're even "average Joe" good at a vast number of tasks, never mind "fresh college graduate" good.

The real question has been: what happens when you scale them up? As of now it appears that they scale decidedly sublinearly, but it was not clear at all two or three years ago, and it was definitely worth a try.
I have the same reaction to AI generated content that Hayao Miyazaki had.
That humungous internal market is also pretty poor to afford BEVs in a price tag which would have been sold in EU or USA, same like rest of the planet. Furthermore rest of the planet (expect few developed islands) have additional issues with non-existent infrastructure to support BEV.
I'm a parent trying to show the reasons why treating your kids as disabled people will make them grow up as disabled people.

Your kids are humans and can learn stuff, if you think they can't learn to cross a street or that drivers are out there to chase and kill specifically your children or that the probability of being run over is higher than falling off a bike and dying (ironically in recent years, more cyclists were killed in the Netherlands than car occupants [1]) you are a very anxious parent, hence a bad parent.

Sorry.

Yeah, it might be true that bike accidents are caused by cars (even though the stats of your Country say that only half of them are due to a motorized vehicle) but teaching them to walk to school it's still an order of magnitude safer than any other means of transport.

Don't you want them to be free and independent? why?

p.s. as a side note, in the Netherlands road deaths are growing (despite what the bike heaven propaganda says) [1]

Maybe, just maybe!, it's safer for your kids to walk to school.

[1] https://etsc.eu/dutch-road-safety-thrown-back-in-time-15-yea...
ahhhh the "electoral college" argument... :)
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It's nice to see pidgin still alive and kicking!

I hate to have different apps for similar stuff and I also prefer "native" clients over web UIs so I used pidgin a lot in my life. I impressed many people with its "telepathic" feature that would open a chat when someone starts typing, to let you type in something before they even finish their initial sentence. Fun times…

However, when I finally got a smartphone, and started a more conventional line of work which came with extra devices, I switched to grouping my chats using server-side gateways for better multi-device consistency. I started by using Spectrum [1] which leverages on libpurple (pidgin's "backend") to do that. Since spectrum is on life support (maintenance mode, no modern chat features like emoji reactions which I happen to like despite my old age), I actually started my own hobby project [2], because I'm not really interested in learning C++ (which spectrum is written in). (shameless plug, I know)

The hype these days is more around mautrix [3], but the permacomputing enthusiasth in me prefers XMPP over Matrix. I'm not that religious about it though, my gateway project includes the most feature-rich XMPP/Matrix gateway out there [4] which I try to improve and maintain when time and motivation allow it. Unfortunately, XMPP support in pidgin has historically been pretty poor and IMHO partly responsible for some of the hate XMPP gets. I'm not blaming the pidgin devs of course, I should contribute to libpurple-xmpp (if that's how it's called) instead of complaining. ^^

[1] https://spectrum.im/
[2] https://sr.ht/~nicoco/slidge
[3] https://github.com/mautrix/
[4] https://git.sr.ht/~nicoco/matridge
The production site could be www. or something else that makes sense.
I found it a miserable read. It’s a pain to get through all the tic words and aborted sentences, I gave up very soon after starting.
Agree, and the most maddening thing is that the platform is honestly better than ever. Doing your layout in CSS is so much easier now than it was 10 years ago, thanks to CSS variable, containers queries, and widely supported flexbox & grid.

It's the NPM ecosystem above that's being stupid, and believe that adding more tools and more processing is a good thing.
I think you're putting too much weight on its intentions, it doesn't have intentions it is a mathematical model that is trained to give the most likely outcome.

In almost all examples and explanations it has seen from chess games, each player would be trying to win, so it is simply the most logical thing for it to make a winning move. So I wouldn't expect explicitly prompting it to win to improve its performance by much if at all.

The reverse would be interesting though, if you would prompt it to make losing/bad moves, would it be effective in doing so, and would the moves still be mostly legal? That might reveal a bit more about how much relies on concepts it's seen before.
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Thanks. I don’t have time to listen and reading a transcript of casual conversation is awful.
Space station developers' insights into NASA's rethink of continuous presence highlight a crucial shift in long-term space exploration strategy. Their perspectives will be key in shaping the future of human spaceflight, ensuring that any transition to a sustainable, permanent presence in orbit is both technically feasible and cost-effective. It’s exciting to see how this dialogue will influence the evolution of partnerships between private companies and government agencies in advancing humanity’s presence beyond Earth.
I mean, I'm sure Apple's still the same for their own stuff.

But retail is a whole different beast.
It doesn't take very much observation of the US political system to realize that one party is generally quite good at government (although sadly is much worse at politics), while the other tends to have a higher rate of corruption and generally wants to reduce regulatory power to a minimum to benefit the corporate sector.
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Two other theories that could explain why OpenAI's models do so well:

1. They generate chess games from chess engine self play and add that to the training data (similar to the already-stated theory about their training data).

2. They have added chess reinforcement learning to the training at some stage, and actually got it to work (but not very well).
I wonder where to put it though.

> Thanks so much for alledgedly listening

> please don’t alledgedly steal our Playdates.

> please don’t steal our alledged Playdates.

> Because we will alledgedly find you.
Chinese import of EU goods compared to exports to EU are pretty small. That's why you see Chinese targeting luxury products as an answer for BEV tariffs which is more for effect than effective.
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I get the impression business-to-business shipping is a lot more informal... somehow.
"willing to enforce the spirit of the laws, lest they be easily gameable."

That is the key, otherwise I see just lots of sub or "independent" companies handling just below 50,000,000 transactions on behalf of the big company.
This got me thinking—how many of us actually keep track of old coins lying around in drawers or jars? Have you ever found something unexpectedly valuable, like one of these rare pennies? I’d love to hear any stories about hidden treasures or items you thought were junk but turned out to be worth something. Maybe we’re all sitting on small fortunes without realizing it!
Well... While I can't answer directly because I do not use personally OSX stuff, I've have had some passing through my hands to help friends and... The result is: no matter your workflows or activities OSX is a VERY BAD OS with bad iron underneath.

Some examples: a friend of mine have lost a keycap on a MacBookPro Apple told her she need a new machine... I've bough a keyboard on eBay for ~30€, opened the craptop and understood why Apple suggest to through it to bin... The keyboard can only be changed unmounting nearly the whole machine whose batteries modules are hard-glued to the chassis itself. I've used a HAMMER and a wallpaper spatula to detach them and I've had to literally rip the old keyboard. The new one in place works flawlessly and the craptop got reassembled without a visible scratch or any other issue except for half a day just to change a damn keyboard.

Another friend have lost it's MBP unique drive, he change the machine for a new one, trying to restore backup from TimeMachine and the disk seems not even recognized. I told him to boot a GNU/Linux live, the disk was good, data there in a convoluted form, with the help of a simple script https://gist.github.com/vjt/5183305 with minor changes I've restored the data.

Just two anecdote to say: do not waste money, they are worse than Windows.
I have the same conclusion, but for the opposite reason.

It seems like many people tend to use the word "understand" to that not only does someone believe that a given move is good, they also belive that this knowledge comes from a rational evaluation.

Some attribute this to a non-material soul/mind, some to quantum mechanics or something else that seems magic, while others never realized the problem with such a belief in the first place.

I would claim that when someone can instantly recognize good moves in a given situation, it doesn't come from rationality at all, but from some mix of memory and an intuition that has been build by playing the game many times, with only tiny elements of actual rational thought sprinkled in.

This even holds true when these people start to calculate. It is primarily their intuition that prevens them from spending time on all sorts of unlikely moves.

And this intuition, I think, represents most of their real "understanding" of the game. This is quite different from understanding something like a mathematical proof, which is almost exclusively inducive logic.

And since "understand" so often is associated with rational inductive logic, I think the proper term would be to have "good intuition" when playing the game.

And this "good intuition" seems to me precisely the kind of thing that is trained within most neural nets, even LLM's. (Q*, AlphaZero, etc also add the ability to "calculate", meaning traverse the search space efficiently).

If we wanted to measure how good this intuition is compared to human chess intuition, we could limit an engine like AlphaZero to only evaluate the same number of moves per second that good humans would be able to, which might be around 10 or so.

Maybe with this limitation, the engine wouldn't currently be able to beat the best humans, but even if it reaches a rating of 2000-2500 this way, I would say it has a pretty good intuitive understanding.
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The main use-case is giving the first organization that can build a really big one the ability to break most existing encryption on the Internet, forcing us to migrate to post-quantum crypto.

There are really very few other applications at the moment. It's actually a well-known and very hard challenge to try to find interesting tasks where quantum algorithms beat classical ones. Experts have spent much effort trying to come up with one of these, and nigh invariably another expert comes back some time after with a classical algorithm that is just as fast as the quantum one on the same task.
I guess you don't follow TCEC, or computer chess generally[0]. Chess engines have been _playing chess_ at superhuman levels using neural networks for years now, it was a revolution in the space. AlphaZero, Lc0, Stockfish NNUE. I don't recall yards of commentary arguing that they were reasoning.

Look, you can put as many underscores as you like, the question of whether these machines are really reasoning or emulating reason is not a solved problem. We don't know what reasoning is! We don't know if we are really reasoning, because we have major unresolved questions regarding the mind and consciousness[1].

These may not be intractable problems either, there's reason for hope. In particular, studying brains with more precision is obviously exciting there. More computational experiments, including the recent explosion in LLM research, is also great.

Still, reflexively believing in the computational theory of the mind[2] without engaging in the actual difficulty of those questions, though commonplace, is not reasonable.

[0] Jozarov on YT has great commentary of top engine games, worth checking out.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/