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I'm genuinely amazed by the distribution of opinions in this thread.

If y'all feel that way, why don't you vote for a "socialist" healthcare system like we have over here in communist Europe?

I mean, I'm over here in Germany and I'm not going to claim the system is that great, but it's really not half bad either, and it does seem to prevent the most extreme tragedies.
I have used adblock since forever and I am absolutely willing to pay for quality content. I do actively support content creators by buying merch or funding their Patreon/Github.

Subscriptions suck because it is another thing to keep track off and many business models rely on you forgetting about them.

I think micropayments would be great but the problem is that you need to consume the content before knowing if it was really worth paying for.

My dream would be some kind of general internet subscription network set up as a non-profit public service where I pay a fixed sum every month and where all kinds of content creators, news sites, basically anyone could be in. The network would pay their members a split of my monthly fee based on the sites I visited by default but offer me up and downvote buttons on every page. Downvotes means the site is excluded from getting payments from me, upvote means double payment. (Of course I can't downvote all of them, the sum I pay is always fixed.)

So I have only one single monthly payment, I don't have to think about it much while still having a way to encourage high-quality content.
I launched my sci-fi anthology podcast The Program audio series right here on Hacker News.

The Program is now approaching its #1M download. I've been describing the journey how I got here in a series of annual reports, the latest of which I just released earlier today.

I write these reports the way I'd like to read them, which is to say transparently and (sometimes too) honestly. As such, I think there's some value in them for anyone else undertaking a similar creative endeavour. Hope you find it useful (and comment which of the 35 episodes is your favourite if you happen to listen to the show! ^_^)
I had to look up. Most of the radioctive potassium 40 in bananas decay by electron emmision. A tiny part by positron emision 0.001%. So you will get a lot of noise in the radioacivity detector.

A few sources like https://alpha.web.cern.ch/science/positron-source and https://ifj.edu.pl/private/jdryzek/page_r12.html recomend sodium 22.
> I bet there's a good alignment between people making outrageous LLM claims and people who shilled for those other things too, for how they were "right around the corner".

Have you ever played the "scroll back far enough" game on e.g. Twitter?

So many guys (it is always guys) with .ai in their posts used to have .eth in their posts. They used to be all-in on NFTs.

Grifters gonna grift. Salesmen are much more likely to believe sales pitches, etc.

I would also add that "Get over it!" is a reliable tell for an awful person. It means "I do not wish to be confronted with even the smallest, most unarguable negative consequences of the position I have enthusiastically bought into".
Just wanted to acknowledge the humanity of antirez. To many of us, they're a folk hero, but they're just a normal human being with a family who wants good things for the world and their family.

Thanks for opening up to us so much and for what you've contributed to the world antirez! And welcome back!
you still do go away/offhook for a while, and (surely will) come back with fresher sight. Towards Different (kind of) gym maybe.

do not chase The Solution or that will become your gym..
What is meant by a 'hard fork'? Are there different kinds of forks?
I decided in 11th grade to be a mathematician because I read Jurassic Park, went down a rabbit hole about chaos theory, and ran smack-dab into a conversation where someone asked Mandelbrot if the mathematicians knew he was using their work in practical ways, and his answer was "No, and they probably don't care."

Something clicked -- I realized mathematics was so beautiful, it was a worthy pursuit in and of itself -- and thus I went on to get a PhD in math, decided not to stay in academia, and be frustrated that most of the web development I was doing wasn't sufficiently mathematical.

Having said that, I also cannot help but think that connections to the real world ought to be pursued -- both because some of the hardest and most interesting mathematical problems come from practical concerns, and because practical concerns draw on math to simplify those concerns and make new discoveries. Indeed, it is a crying shame that there are efforts (at least, on the philosophical level) to try to remove math from physics and engineering, as if the math is what makes those subjects hard!

Also, we don't know what approach will work with each kid. It would be a great benefit if we tried different approaches, some of which may "click", some of which will fall flat.
I am also curious if Mark Everett, Hugh’s son, has an account here.
What about SBSA, it's not universal but at least it's a target.

https://documentation-service.arm.com/static/60250c7395978b5...
Technically true, though this distinction only matters in a few countries.
It's like tapping HN on the knee with a reflex hammer, isn't it?
The Business Source License is not an open source license. Open source does mean "free to use without encumbrance" - see points 5 and 6 of the Open Source Definition at https://opensource.org/osd
I've only looked briefly at leveldb, but IIRC redis is _hugely_ more featureful than leveldb (which I'm sure is a great fit where it's used).
Thank you for your kind words and also for noticing the mistake — fixed.
I would add one more to this, which I would argue is the main reason:

(0) For a quantum algorithm/simulation to be classically verifiable, it needs additional structure; something that leads to a structured, verifiable output despite the intermediate steps being intractable to simulate classically. That additional structure necessarily adds complexity beyond what can be run on current devices.

To pick an arbitrary example I'm familiar with, this paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.00687) relies on the quantum computer implementing a certain cryptographic hash function. This alone makes the computation way more complex than what can be run on current hardware.
In England at least it was only after Reformation that the colour was removed from churches. And this has been known forever.

"Before the Reformation, English churches were typically ornate and richly decorated," [1]

So it's a surprise to me that anyone would believe that an old chapel in the south of France would necessarily be austere and plain, I would expect rather the opposite. And there are plenty of modern churches in Catholic countries that are very richly decorated today.

[1] https://www.tutorchase.com/answers/a-level/history/how-did-t...
It doesn't keep me from getting better at mine. Lol
its not only mobile games, it is proliferation of youtube and stupid streamers targeted for kids (colomelon and alike for elementary kids) and social media for middle schools (snap / tiktok)
I can relate quite a bit. I've experienced this state of overwhelm a few times and I developed some interventions for myself over time. I wrote post about it, if you want to take some inspiration:

https://yoyo-code.com/managing-information-diet/
Sad to see Mozilla rotting like this. When was the last time people cheered for some Firefox change?
The web is the equivalent of a far west, for the better and the worst.

You can't expect people to willingly support a feature that diminish their revenue, it was doomed from the start.

I think everyone with a brain cell could predict that, in my opinion mozilla would have better allocated resources on feature that are client side, not server side.

For instance the containerization of cookies, the support of mv2, integrating ublock origin by default, and so on.
Yea - software released under the BSL is “source available”, not open source.
They can't, because that would increase training loss. The training loss acts as a gatekeeper for reasoning.
We are headed towards very few monolithic banks in the near future. I imagine that if one debanks a client, they will all do so for the same reasons.
Does your envisioned product allow someone to direct deposit a paycheck? Then congratulations, it is a credit account, because a) we expect to spend paychecks including very soon after receiving them but b) payroll companies sometimes screw up payroll and can in some cases pull the money back.
How I'm monitoring my MCP server logs
We recently built an MCP server (https://github.com/tinybirdco/mcp-tinybird/tree/main) so our users could ask questions to their workspace. We released fast and since MCP servers run locally we lacked observability on product metrics, error monitoring and all that stuff you usually want when you are in production.

Built something generic to monitor MCP servers (https://github.com/tinybirdco/mcp-tinybird/tree/main/mcp-ser...) using events + tinybird + prometheus + grafana, but I'm wondering what others are using for that purpose?
Drugs are expensive, especially cutting-edge ones that have not gone generic. It's not just because of gouging, but recouping the cost of developing them, and the marketing. Paying out of pocket is not possible with chemo. Also, it's hard to predict risk, so insurance is needed there too. So expensive product + uncertainty means insurance.
Yes, there is a lot of room to improve parsing.
Yes: for eg BPE, due to how it progressively pushes compound tokens of already seen - hence more common - subtokens to the ‘top’ of the vocab), you can train a model to do regression over vocabulary index for the next token from the current token embedding - using the same single regression model for all layer depths. If you plot mse of token index prediction versus layer depth then you can see that the mse of the prediction decreases steadily per additional layer. This appears to be because token index in eg BPE is actually fairly smooth and so it seems like the model is capable of localizing to the actual correct vocab index as depth increases, so kind of like a fuzzy->discrete refinement as you go deeper in layers https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13442
Canvas (and Claude Artifacts) aren't things you use inside a large codebase, they're more for one-off tools that you may want to run, without the hassle of setting up a stack for each, copying code between the LLM and your local editor etc.

Think "here's a schema for some internal API, write me a tool that lets me put in a product ID and see the number of purchases, chargebacks and returns for that product over time, on graphs, also provide sortable by-country tables for these stats".

With artifacts, software goes from something you make once and use for a long time, to something you make at need, to do exactly what you need and no more, and then immediately throw away once it has served its purpose.
The Argentina nation's science is facing collapse
Anyone else want an AI phone that would work and it's interface would be like chatGPT's iPhone app? A stark interface with some app icons like current phone UI.

Using chatGPT's iPhone app I am able to have an entire back n forth full conversation with it and able to get things done. Soon GPT will have vision AI and can discuss/work with what it sees or I show it. Apple Intelligence and Siri won't offer what I discuss here til Spring 2026. That gives competitors time to create and release an awesome new phone experience!

I'd drop iPhone for a GPT (Microsoft) phone/ device quickly!

*Slightly off topic but hoping it's one of Open AI's announcements ;-)
> the fact that they're not on a blockchain is an implementation detail.

For a good reason. The blockchain doesn't add much over a database. Players being able to sell their items? Steam does that without a blockchain, albeit not for real money. Being able to take items between games? Almost no devs (or players) really want that. But blockchain would add difficulty changing things if there's a bug with the items (or not, but you lose the "security" it's supposed to add).
Excellent blog post. Summed up what I've been thinking for the past few years. I find myself endlessly consuming content (videos, podcasts, etc.) that I would deem "educational". It feels good, like you're learning something new, improving yourself. But at the end-of-the day you aren't. Your brain is just sitting there passively - not really doing any hard work. Instead of your brain generating ideas and solving problems, that process has been palmed off to the internet.
If I were to fork SQLite, drawing users away from the main project would be a non-goal. The goal would be to get strict tables and foreign key constraints enforced 100% of the time.
In general, if you harm everyone in an instinctively obvious but factually hard-to-demonstrate way, there aren't any meaningful penalties. The situations in which "we all suffer" are the ones where people get away with it, eh?

Personifying it this way -- finding someone who is clearly injured -- is the only way to make progress.
In 5 years:

An AI can go through all the breaking footage posted on social media. An AI can join a phone call with 400 individuals and retain complete notes on everything that is happening. An AI can go through every single expense report, every month for a decade to find the one thing that explodes into a story.

An AI journalist won't be a 1:1 copy of the human, but it can definitely do actual reporting.
So, the use case I'm thinking of is more along the lines of non-cosmetic assets. Take FIFA Ultimate Team, for example. The way it works currently is that each player in the game has one or more "cards", or sets of stats. Special versions come out all the time which have significant impact on gameplay.

FIFA has an in-game market where you can buy/sell/trade cards, for in-game scrip. Want to sell your special Killian Mbappe card you just pulled? Congrats, you can get 1,000,000 FifaCoins, not redeemable for real money. Of course, you can certainly buy FifaCoins for real money.

A blockchain implementation could potentially allow people to sell that card directly to somebody else, for real money (or more specifically, crypto tokens that can be redeemed for real money). Would you rather have 1,000,000 FifaCoins, or $100?

Whether or not this is desirable to games is a different question, but the game is already essentially pay-to-win, so it's not like it would ruin the game from that perspective. It already has microtransactions. The main reason you probably won't be seeing this is because it would cut the publisher (EA) out of the loop, which is very, very lucrative for them.
I'm a listener since day #1 / the first Show HN five years ago. This is my favourite fiction podcast, by far. What started as "Black Mirror if it were a podcast" has grown to even more. I can't recommend this enough, the episodes are entertaining and almost every time thoughtful / thought provoking.
I read the whole article, and It could be bragging
or a cry for help.
In any case its clear that the world of performance metrics has achived some kind of unimaginable gravity and angular momentum, and has started to orbit itself
Capitalism/invisible market hand is reallocating labor resources in the most efficient way (thanks to low interest rates)
Banks are absolutely allowed to ask for your income and credit history. Why would phone model be a better signal than credit score, for loan defaults?
> Having worked at Google I have unfortunately been exposed to what is possible when in comes to version control systems.

Do you also drink your tea by sticking your pinky out?
It is explained in the article.

The concept of Politically Exposed Person has nothing to do with views in US politics.

It’s really about foreign officials and their families. And, in spirit, it’s really about officials from countries with high corruption risks.

And Andreessen knows it. That’s the bullshit.
I'm sorry, but how is this a good answer? If you really only care about "two/three users in the world" and don't want users to worry about legal implications, why not explicitly write that in the license?

It doesn't matter how good your intentions are, in the long run, it's not you or Redis, inc. we have to trust, it's anyone who potentially inherits the rights of these licensed IPs, at which point the courts will not rule on what your feelings are of what the license was meant to do but instead what was actually written and agreed to. That's why an existing, well-understood and symmetrical copyright license is going to beat out weirdo "business" licenses any day, and why they will never be considered OSI-compliant, which is fine, because if we all really hated big tech they're already allergic to the AGPL anyway.

I know I'm not going to score any points by disagreeing with you here of all places, but I genuinely wonder if you really do believe this or if you mostly just don't care to actually confront the reality.

This whole thing could be a nothingburger forever, or, alternatively, Redis, Inc. could some day be acquired by Oracle. Absolutely no way for any of us to know for sure. Unfortunately, that leaves me with little other option but to stick to the forks.
Nobody has that much control. Human systems evolve from many different interests and lots of unforseen consequences. How are the extremely rich preventing access to health care for everyone else? The US is a democracy, people do vote and have a say in what they want their representatives to do. If universal healthcare was the priority for a majority of voters over time, it would have happened.
The US did this for a long time -- only numbering storms. In 1953 they switched to a list of names, female only. Then 25 years later to male and female names. It is kinda weird, and if they're destructive enough the name is retired. I think the idea is that people would pay more attention to human names in the warning process as the hurricanes approach land.
This is one of those changes that is so small anyone could reverse it when compiling Firefox themselves. At the same time I would rather add the DNT HTTP header via a localhost-bound forward proxy (one line in a configuration file) than edit and recompile the Firefox source code. I believe the term for this is "convenience".

As Mozilla likes to tell everyone, Firefox is open source. Wonderful. But making it easy for more users to edit the source code and compile it is not on their list of important things to do.

Removing or adding an HTTP header is a trivial change anyone can make in the source code of any browser. Perhaps all the Firefox forks will keep the DNT header. They certainly could if they wanted to.

NB. I am not suggesting whether anyone should or should not use DNT. I have no comment about DNT. Rather, I am making a point about the lack of user control over inclusion or exclusion of (open source) browser "features", specifically HTTP headers.
That is true, and that is how Valkey and other forks are moving forward. But the value wasn't just in the code- many folks contributed value by writing blog posts, making videos, and writing books or otherwise promoting "Redis". The Redis trademark owners had every legal right to change what "Redis" means by changing the license, but it creates a massive headache and a practically impossible task for everyone that gave so much to promoting the project to change all of these references.

Folks like to cite MongoDB as some great example, but Redis had significant community contributions in recent years. And AWS never used any Mongo code.
Yes, this is how I interpreted it. Arguably before the 20th century we had few commonplace references for most of the hues we've now named at all. Plus, most of the references we do have are often localized regionally and linguistically to people who recognize the term. The constant colors—things like "blood" and "dark" and "bright-white"—are actually pretty rare. Even the sun, the sky, the ocean, earth etc are capable of producing far too many hues to reliably use as a reference point, and often different hues in different place. Which is not so say that it's not very poetic when it works!
Depends on what you mean by "this type of device." Strictly speaking there are many efficiently verifiable quantum algorithms (including Shor's algorithm, the one that breaks RSA). But if you mean "this particular device," then yes, none are simple enough to run on a processor of this scale.
Death sentence is often seen as better because you might get an individual cell, and copious pro bono appeals for your case.
Congrats! Time to update the © years? It may look abandoned to the newbies.
I don't see people who believe hidden variable models, like pilot wave, claiming quantum computers won't work. So I don't think quantum computers disprove hidden variable models.

I do agree quantum computers disprove local hidden variable models. Because they can run Bell tests, and local hidden variable models can't violate the Bell inequalities.
Come Build Dia
You think Elon Musk swung the election all by himself?
The sqlite implementation that matters the most the next 10 years will be the one with the smallest WASM build.
All public companies, especially of this size, have their financial statements audited. Of course, shenanigans still happen but I haven't heard any credible claims regarding UNH just yet. More importantly, corporate hanky-panky is almost always designed to boost revenue and margins and not lower them so I am willing to bet the numbers here are trustworthy.

> profits be damned.

But, profits cannot be damned, at least not if you plan on being a going concern. At some point, the companies need to make a profit otherwise they go out of business and cannot provide any healthcare at all.

My point is not that UNH is a sterling example of healthcare service but to point out that the narrative justifying the public outrage is not really logically coherent or supported by evidence. If there is no public healthcare service, you will need to have private insurers. If you have private insurers, they will need to make profit. The best you can do in this situation is make sure there is competition so the profits are not out of line (which seems to be the case) and there is minimal waste in the system (jury is out on that one).

Also, public healthcare is not the panacea that it seems to be promoted as. Healthcare is expensive and at some point, limits will be placed to avoid bankrupting the system. Take a look at any number of the systems of any number of European countries and see the wait times, approvals, etc.

BTW, I support the idea of a government provided healthcare system, but I just don't think it will solve all the problems the way people seem to think it will.
The quip that stuck in my head (Kurzweil?) is that adoption is based on utility over existing practice.

Hence why cell phone took off (verse land lines) but flying cars didn't (verse ground cars).

Adding basic level creativity to automation seems like the former.

It's not going to change everything overnight, but it is going to impact everything into a new normal.
There's Openbsd's got[0].

0. https://gameoftrees.org/index.html
I had the beta as well and have been using it quite a bit. I like the concept a lot. This is exactly how I want to be using AI for writing purposes. Overall, it’s whatever content I want to write in, but then I can ask it, “Hey, help me improve this line,” or “Fix this paragraph,” piecemeal.

That said, it only worked for me maybe 70% of the time. It would either have trouble finding things, or it would just arbitrarily rewrite the entire document, even when it was supposed to be focused on a certain part of it.
I think we're all missing the point, to other AI's these are great advertisements! /s
"People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks." is up there as well
Devin comes from "dev in chat", a common phrase in livestream chat rooms to signal that the developer of the game or product being showcased was present.