skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure if suffer is the right word. Some people prefer a quiet life and accept what comes with that, because that’s what they want. And that’s fine.

Of course if you want to live a quiet life and avoid socializing very much, and want to be a successful independent contractor, those might be fairly incompatible goals.
> It's a neat project though. I wasn't aware Soldered existed so this is a nice find.

Quite neat, indeed.

I was thinking this would make a good display for Home Assistant, and what do you know, someone has built a HA integration for it[1].

This lead me down a bit of a rabbit hole - it's using a "screensaver" set up for the Kindle[2], which also lead me into the info about jailbreaking Kindles.

This adds some projects for over the coming break.

[1] https://github.com/lanrat/homeplate
[2] https://github.com/sibbl/hass-lovelace-kindle-screensaver
The article also pointed out that similar things are apparent in many other countries. Finland was highlighted as a place that avoided the trend -- a country that also had relatively low covid impact compared to the US.
The funniest one I saw was "Lispaña"
How people behave in early calotypes, daguerrotypes always strikes me as hugely informed by the shutter speed problem: you need them to hold a pose long enough to register an image. Now ask yourself, how "naturalistic" is this going to be?

I mean sure. People smashed down handfuls of spag. But, I bet they also didn't routinely hold it for 5 minutes en masse.

Side note: Early calotypes of Scots Fishwives capture an image of strong working women in amazing multi layer skirts. What they don't capture is the raw, unfettered, frankly disgusting tongue which went with it, It should not be a surprise there is a saying "to swear like a fishwife" -So "to eat spaghetti like a street urchin" could be a thing too.
> Unlike tests given to students, these tests attempt to evaluate real-life skills

Bummer that we spend so much time learning fantasy world skills in school.
Is their tipping really generosity or just social coercion?
That doesn't really explain why there's a particularly notable drop in older adults after 2017, does it?
8B models with larger contexts, or even 9-14B parameter models quantized.

Qwen2.5 Coder 14B at a 4 bit quantization could run but you will need to be diligent about what else you have in memory at the same time.
This is an interesting article (list-icle? It is pretty short and aggregate list like).

It is from 2022 and mainly focuses on pandemic times, so I'd be curious to see what these trends look like compared to pre/post pandemic. I'm sure I could do more digging and find the answers to this, but still I appreciate this, it is interesting.

One thing I think I would push back on though is the remark of 'soft generosity like tipping culture' which isn't mentioned at all in the list. I also would not consider US tipping culture generosity, but more of a social contract/obligation. Someone that does not tip anywhere, except for where they received great service, isn't normally seen as a non-generous person, they're seen as not abiding by the social contract that you have to tip.
what does it have to do with the point

> I have not met a religious programmer

> Donald Knuth
if JSX is your issue, that means a web component framework like Stencil is just as bad as React. But then again you can use React with htm to avoid jsx if it really bothers you.
Saw him play many times across multiple genres across 3+ decades from straight up classical to world music to electronica/tablatronics. Unfortunately never got to see him perform with John McLaughlin. He must have been 68 the last time I saw him live but still as good as ever. RIP!
There are a few in "A Student's Guide" series from Cambridge University Press which might be what you are looking for, specifically on a) Dimensional Analysis b) Data and Error Analysis c) Numerical Methods - https://www.cambridge.org/in/universitypress/subjects/physic...
Carry a spare phone with no cell activation, no accounts and no data to hand over to police/CBP/whoever.

Some 2FA I have run into lately will email or SMS a code (WTF?)

My watch has cellular and will show messages. Is this a backup?
I don’t think these things are different between the 2017 and 2023 test, so it all feels silly to argue about. Even if complex sentences are harder for people to understand, that’s no excuse for them to get worse at it.
Yeah, although that's better than 19937 ones in a row.
I would venture, that the same factors which make the US resilient also contribute to its stagnation.

The US government is now the world’s second oldest government. The system of checks and balances prevents large shifts in government. The lack of realistic external competition motivates complacency. Geography, and history prevent separation.
I am a little surprised the SFP is moving into the domestic market because few of us have wall-buried fibre pulls at home: It's mostly CAT-5 and CAT-6. My FTTP is delivered on fibre, but the ONT termination is where fibre ends and I get copper RJ45, from a supplier owned and managed (TR-069?) unit. It's absolutely verboten to attach to that fibre head-end AFAIK.

So while this is a cool board, whats the use-case? It's not a passive tap, it's not a good basis of a pipe-splitter. It's active, in the path. It feels like amazing tinker-toy in the DC space, so more work than play?
I’m the opposite, I think online profiles are completely untrustworthy and likely as not to be filled with exaggerations or outright lies. But I’m probably in the minority?
Excellent videos - and the one thing that sticks with me was the speculation that watchmaking and the processes that it requires eventually leads to the type of technology we have today. I think the line goes if the greeks of that era had been allowed to progress another 300-400 years, they may have been able to land on the moon...
It's a marketing term for the idea that quality over quantity in training data will lead to smaller models that work as well as larger models.
Boot time rarely matters since most TVs just sleep, and not shut down.

Cold boots are reserved for failure situations or updates.

I agree with the point that most people deal with terrible user experience.

A lot of my friends ask me why I went with an Apple TV when my TVs have built in functionality or I could use Roku / whatever Google call their dongles now for cheaper.

The answer is experience. I’ve tried to deal without an Apple TV and my god, the number of ads, the slow UI response, color handling etc.. all have me going back to the Apple TV.

But none of the stuff I mentioned is worth the price difference to the majority of people.
I would say “at what moisture level do crackers become soft” is very general. What is a “moisture level?” They should be specific.

Though I guess half of the point is they want people to tease it out.
You can download a prebuilt amalgamation from GitHub to see the amalgamated C code [1]. The GitHub repo contains the code that generates the amalgamation.

[1] https://github.com/railgunlabs/unicorn/releases/
Remarkably agonising to release after things get beyond the comfort stage. As if the muscle is now spasm-locked, and getting things to let go is itself painful and hard.

(due to kidney stones I'm drinking continuously 1.5l or more p.d. and I don't even pretend to hold it back, if it's a-comin I'm a-goin.)
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My LG does none of this.

It's also never been connected to the internet, and my router also has a static IP reservation to give the TV an IP that is not on my subnet in case someone in my house ever tries to connect it to the internet.
It works now, it ust have been an issue with the connection. It works as in: I receive an output. But it doesn't find the correct flights. My prompt was "Find a flight from X to Y on the Z of February 2025, the goal is to maximize the time spent in any layover (if the layover starts before 11 am). I prefer flying Delta but this is not mandatory".
Yeah, but kids in general need more sleep. Are teenagers peculiar among other age groups? My hunch is that they’re not with respect to how much sleep they need, but are with respect to how much sleep they get.
I’d really like to go with a dumb set, but their panels seem way behind.

Comparing their flagship 86” set: U860CV-UMRD (claimed) to Hisense U8 (measured, native/worst case):

3000:1 vs. 9449:1 contrast

300cd/m2 vs. 910+ brightness

60hz vs 144hz.

The hisense is significantly cheaper, so I think the comparison is fair.

Oddly, sceptre reports percent of NTSC gamut and not a modern color space. The percentage doesn’t imply poor color representation, but its a strange choice.
The visual-first paradigm means you need to repeat selection, not action, then act on multiple visible selections
Probably both. But it’s literally built into the social fabric. Like the politeness of Americans when it comes to well wishing.
Yeah, I totally agree with the presumption that the measure is measuring something, and that there is cause for discussion there.

I just feel very weird about how the article takes that sample question and sort of priming people with "oh everyone is dumb" takes, when there's an (IMO) likely reality of that question in particular having a 98% hit rate.
In most practices I've seen, >=128 is reserved because it uses a special bit flag, and fixed codes 64-127 are reserved. But <64 is treated as a free-for-all. Most people are only using existing code 1, but if you have a reason to return specific different exit codes you need more than a couple.
Evelyn McHale (2017)
Apparently this is quite common and probably unrelated to recent speculation about drones.
Counter point, how is letting the primary adversarial power (which happens to be an authoritarian regime) massively influence the political views of the future generation a good idea? It sounds to me like the federal government is doing its job here.
The American government can’t do anything because Congress has delegated all its power to the administrative state. But because you can’t really have unelected bureaucrats doing whatever they want, Congress subjected administrative actions to endless judicial review.

To fix this, we need to end the filibuster so Congress can actually make laws. It’s much harder to legally challenge the real laws made by Congress than the fake laws made by administrative agencies. Then we need to repeal the Administrative Procedure Act, and rely on the Congressional Review Act to ferret out bad administrative rulemaking.

The framers really did understand what they were doing. People like it when they can vote and immediately see results. If they don’t like the results, they can vote a different way next time. People don’t like it when voting doesn’t change anything, because all the actual work is being done by unelected people fighting with lawyers in courts.
Last time of wide public note was in W.A (Australia) and it was thankfully found tolerably quickly.

https://www.ansto.gov.au/science/case-studies/detection-and-...
Well-played. <golf-clap>
Add to that engineers that don’t like/aren’t good at reading (at least in my time Zone) and you end up with people asking for stuff that is documented or even understanding the complete opposite of what was written.
4 minutes? OMG. I am 12 miles from the one market "downtown" and 50 miles from a Trader Joe's, Sprouts or Whole Foods.

Count your blessings. Thinking very seriously of moving. Sure is a pretty location. Oh well.
> Can we keep politics out of Hacker News?

What does this even mean? Politics is everything, nothing, or whatever a person dislikes. If you're going to complain about it you might as well define it.
Don’t have a TV to begin with.
It only matters if you care about the actual writing. Using an AI to write usually means someone doesn’t.
An optioned up minivan is also expensive but doesn’t cost as much as a firetruck. It’s expensive but still very much consumer hardware. A 3x4090 rig is more expensive and still consumer hardware. An H100 is not, you can buy like 7 of these optioned up MBP for a single H100.
Derivatives don't always act like fractions (2021)
PCI DSS Compliance
I'm building an iOS app. I want to store a users' name and the last 4 digits of their CC number. I'll use those to match transactions I read from another API which also provides name and the last 4 cc digits.

If I'm just storing name + last 4 cc digits, do I have to comply by PCI DSS?

This thread sounds promising: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44630367/is-last-4-digits-of-credit-card-and-expiry-date-storage-allowed-in-pci-dss but not sure how accurate or dated the info is.
I have 3 machines at my desk (with 3 monitors) one running Ubuntu, (and a bunch VMs) one with Windows 11, and a Mac. They use the same keyboard and mouse, and I can move my mouse cursor and keyboard focus across the three OSes easily (I use synergy to do this).

My experience with the desktops across all the OSes largely similar. They do things differently, but once you get used to the OS, it becomes second nature.

Linux is my preferred environment for anything to do with development. I use my Windows machine for office productivity (Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint browsing) and VisualStudio. I use my Mac for the Adobe creative suite and Figma and iOS/visionOS development.

The difference in OSes isn't the desktop itself. It's the software that runs on it. I don't really want use GIMP on Linux for example, or do web dev on Windows.
Mine only does that if I accidentally hit the TV+ button on the remote. So I took the remote apart and disconnected that button from the board. Problem solved.

Otherwise it turns on quickly and it's just a dumb tv. Perfect.
I've never heard of the `@/path/to/file` convention, nor ever seen anything that documented using or supporting it. Do you have any examples of tools that do use it (maybe I've just never seen it in the documentation)?
There was a different article I was trying to think of earlier when I wrote this comment which eluded me, and it just hit me: a friend of Assange's from University where they were doing mathematics and physics wrote it.

Obviously it's a "biased" account, but the public space has been bombarded with hundreds and thousands of biased accounts from the perspective of the powerful people upset by Wikileaks. Here is the other side of the story, very sincerely told.

https://scribe.rip/@niraj.lal/rubberhose-cryptography-and-th...
Ah apologies, yeah I think there were multiple definitions of that floating around. Some people here are clearly using it to mean "everything" chat, i.e. having no other networks of any significance (which I think WhatsApp is in many places). Others are suggesting it's got aspects of an everything app, with businesses doing support over it, etc, but that's perhaps a naive interpretation of what a WeChat-style everything app is, which in my opinion is the true definition of an everything app, and certainly something that WhatsApp is not.
This is truly a work of art! Great job!
The Accountability of Unnamed Public Relations Spokespeople
You don’t have to tip. Nothing will happen to you if you don’t. Some people don’t or tip very little. Many tip well above expectations. Most people don’t mind the practice.

But it’s not just tipping at a restaurant. We tip our garbage men, helpers, mailmen, doormen, maids, nanny’s, etc at Christmas. You don’t have to do this. But many of us do because we are raised to be generous if we are fortunate enough to be.
I often wonder how many of these appeals are purely to ensure 501(c) status is maintained because of evidence there is no single-funding-agency capture.

If you don't ask for, and accept donations, your primary source may be your only source, and it's my belief this risks the 501(c) determination: it's not about the money, it's about being seen to solicit, and accept the money from the wider sources.
Pinky sideways is an akward position, Ctrl would be better remapped to a thumb-accessible key
Accepting this type of invite is how I got pitched Amway. Twice.

The go-getter networking ethos of founders and small business owners can be hard to distinguish from the way MLMs find and prey on people.
Rubberhose cryptography and WikiLeaks: Julian Assange as a physics student
If you're really worried, Dangerous Things has just the thing. https://dangerousthings.com/product/apex-flex/
The employee's welfare shouldn't exist at the employer's discretion. That's the conceit of feudalism and we've supposedly left that behind us.
Fun times; I knew some of those people.

Tech felt more nerdy and optimistic. It had its share of problems, but I miss some of the idealism.
Picture Quality and Price, definitely. Most people are buying $500, 50" TVs with really quite good picture quality.
I don’t think I’ve ever had communication with past coworker after my last day of work there. Maybe once or twice.
When it comes to evaluating literacy you take everything in the text to be fact and assume it makes sense. It shouldn't require any external knowledge or synthesis beyond understanding the language itself.

I don't like these tests very much because they live in a somewhat uncanny valley for me for the reason you're getting at. They're almost questions you would encounter in real life but play by different rules than people assume. Like no the question really is that easy, but you have to be told that because otherwise you'll assume you're missing something.
https://scribe.rip/@niraj.lal/rubberhose-cryptography-and-th...

and

https://archive.fo/2EaFZ
Why was jaccard similarity preferred here i would love to learn more about the choice process. Fantastic Work though love it
I remember Plato as a kid in the 80s. My mom wrote software for the at the University of Delaware. I remember using the touch screens. there was this game where you could drop a flowerpot on Mickey Mouse, and a game where you'd brew a potion and it would randomly generate a vector drawing of a monster.
I spend maybe 90-95% of my time thinking, looking up existing code, reading documentation, solutions, and code exemplars online, and trying to engineer a solution either in my head or on paper. I spend at most 10% actually typing. It's just not something that I've really ever felt has slowed me down.
> gpt-3.5-turbo is generally considered to be about 20B params. An 8B model does not exceed it.

The industry has moved on from the old Chinchilla scaling regime, and with it the conviction that LLM capability is mainly dictated by parameter count. OpenAI didn't disclose how much pretraining they did for 3.5-Turbo, but GPT 3 was trained on 300 billion tokens of text data. In contrast, Llama 3.1 was trained on 15 trillion tokens of data.

Objectively, Llama 3.1 8B and other small models have exceeded GPT-3.5-Turbo in benchmarks and human preference scores.

> Is a $8000 MBP regular consumer hardware?

As user `bloomingkales` notes down below, a $499 Mac Mini can run 8B parameter models. An $8,000 expenditure is not required.
I got a response to a cold application within the last year.
NotebookLM for Enterprises
Unless you are a very close friend that kind of call would raise about 10 red flags for me.
What would make it unethical?

Wouldn’t addressing those concerns make it ethical?

Anyway, things are either ethical or they are not. There is no “more ethical.” (but there are things that are outside ethics, what a red shoulder hawk does for example).

—-

One approach would be to address its use in a living will while the future patient can make an informed decision for themselves.

Good luck.
Have you tried query extraction over tabular data? Is there any free models which are comparable to amazon textract for that?
Building an AI Assistant for Legal Citations
True, WASM adoption is still low and could feasibly be removed, but TeaVM lets you target both JavaScript and WASM GC backends, so you are future proofed either way.
The TV I bought 2 years ago and never connected it to the Internet. Not even for setup. Zero issues.
What are you using to play the audio from the line-out ports?
My brother used the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources mining claim infrastructure to draw mile high letters.

http://puddle.ca/~lba/MINE/maps.html

We spent two weeks in the bush blazing trees and cutting corner posts to make it happen.

The word "MINE" was printed on official ministry maps for two years until the claims expired.
+1 for Sceptre
Later firmwares will still try to push you to the smart tv display if there is no signal for 5 seconds to get you to setup the wifi.
I agree. Hacking a smart TV to bypass/replace its OS would make for an interesting project, though.
The filibuster. You need 60 Senate votes to do almost anything and for the last 40 years the only time anyone came close was Obama in 2009 which gave us the ACA.
People don't want solutions. They want to be mad.
But how many times have you had your phone/ipad/laptop get stolen/mugged for/lost, or all three, and how did you recover/break back into your digital life? If you've never needed a second phone because you've never lost the first/had it stolen/been mugged for it, that recommendation may be less relevant for someone that habitually loses phones.
Articles on lambda calculus are not political. Nor are articles on prime numbers, golang, Haskell, regex challenges, machine learning, GenAI, history of science, new products (Show HN) et cetera - the stuff I value HN for
> The companies should stop ignoring the cost of commuting to society, the environment, and personal (from work-life balance, to family) just because they don’t get to pay for it.

Why would a profit-maximizing firm not ignore externalities it creates?

The solution is that they should pay for them; the personal ones they do as long as there is competition for employees, but the social/environmental ones need to be internalized via Pigovian taxation.
Ironic how many seem to have missed this considering the crowd (and their familiarity with what a browser is) and topic (a numeracy and reading comprehension test)
There's definitely been plenty sources of hardware capable of running LLMs out there for a while, Mac or not. A couple 4090s or P40s will run 3.1 70b. Or, since price isn't a limit, there are other easier & more powerful options like a [tinybox](https://tinygrad.org/#tinybox:~:text=won%27t%20be%20consider...).
> but only we human beings can use our abstract conceptual thinking ability and scientific process to discover the nature of nature's chemistry and then put that knowledge to use.

I heavily doubt we needed this to domesticate animals. What is the possible value of projecting 19th century concepts onto prehistory?
Optimistic times always end when people who won power in them fight to hold on to increasingly more of it, and tend to only come back once they fail, stop, or fall.
Historically, HN has not been a forum for reasoned debate about political issues. Can we please keep it that way?
Can’t even get past the age selection…
Depending on your home setup, projector seems like a decent option as well.
That's a horrible metric since charity is used as a tax dodging mechanism in the US, while other countries (non OECD ones) do not have this mechanism.
Computer languages are definitely political. Machine learning and AI is a very political topic. History of science? It’s filled with politics.
Sure. Where's properly? Your wallet can be pickpocketed,
and your luggage stolen. Any of your digital accounts are theoretically protected by 2fa, and the hypothetical is that the device you use to 2fa was just stolen.
That's great, really, but people like you are a tiny minority. MS can afford to lose a very small number of customers, since they'll much more than make up for the loss by doing anti-user stuff like baking ads into the OS. In the last 40 years, I just haven't seen very many people get fed up enough with MS to leave, and instead I've watched MS's stock price and valuation continue to rise.