skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's good comments from others here.

I'm also going to add some homeschool family perspective, as a father with several children. Hopefully this is helpful for other parents or soon-to-be parents.

Although there are basics, there truly is not a one-size fits all, even in a single family. From the start, our 2nd had a drastically different personality than our 1st, for example. Doesn't mean that you parent differently necessarily, but it's always a good idea to allow for an open perspective, especially when talking with other parents. Not only are people touchy about how they parent, there are simply many variables when it comes to being intentional about your family. It's okay to have different ways of doing it.

That said, as a traditionally-minded homeschooled household, I'll share what's worked for us.

We have only introduced technology in a limited, time-based, supervised capacity. The focus is on using it as an educational or research tool. Our children are not even aware social media or Youtube really exists. So, for example, we have done small tech projects to understand how things work (Arduino weather station, etc) or also, they're allowed to look online at pictures of dog breeds to their heart's content.

Having a background in linguistics and tech, with LLMs, I'm far more hesitant. Like with social media, I do wonder if we really understand yet how it might affect young minds. Of course, there are also the more Orwellian and political/ethical dynamics involved too.

Instead, we've focused heavily on reading and critical thinking skills, as well as them having a chance to have real conversations with adults. They regularly check out 50 books at a time from the library. Our children will likely graduate college at 16yo. They love learning and can have engaging conversations on difficult topics...with people of every age.

You might hear it in my voice, but it's hard not to be proud of this, especially in this day and age.

Anyway, two other tech questions simply to provoke thought...

- When did you first enroll your children in facial recognition profiling and tracking?

- When did you introduce firearms education to them?
You forgot it's mostly about Chinese Communist Party influence (or eventual influence) if they get firmly entrenched in the public mindset of the USA. No nation political apparatus should have such a large direct (actual or potential) influence into the minds of the US public. It's a national security risk of the highest priority. Not every security risk is saber-rattling or direct cybersecurity threats. it's one thing if citizens look up and pursue the CCP's philosophies, but this is about stopping the direct injection of said propaganda straight into our toddlers, teens, and tweens brain. They shouldn't have to suffer because of some absolutists take on the first amendment, when we have various limits for the public good all over the place.
I have an entirely separate VLAN network in my house for "appliances". Any access to the internet from that network has to be explicitly whitelisted in my router.
American forces shoot down ballistic missile in test
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Not a fair example because one was free and the other came with a monetary cost and a lot of friction in addition to that.
Not to defend that, but the question is how quickly would they be able to set that dev up with a test-bank account? In the orgs I know this would probably take a month or so.

So taking your own account during early development can make sense. Leaving it in is probably a bad idea tho.
I'd like a study that investigates how much tech has replaced face-to-face interaction. I guess such face-to-face interaction is how democracy worked in the past. Starting at the founding of the US, voting and discussion about votes was ace-to-face with a few books and newspapers. Now our face-to-face time to discuss our vote is only among family or close associates, where we can stay in a bubble.

I'd like a platform that focuses on face-to-face (video) interaction, including (somehow) with strangers.
Two annotated board-repair photos for Nokia 6110 / 5110:

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YF5WDLLK2nA/RhE6QSReO7I/AAAAAAAAB...

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YF5WDLLK2nA/RhE44SReO6I/AAAAAAAAB...

Disassembly video (2019), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdhlOlx2gxY

Schematics: https://www.nodevice.com/service-manuals/telephone/nokia/611...
Interesting how every use case is different. I personally hate swap files (they pollute directories and cause annoying warnings when opening the same file two times).
> They literally entered the building housing our legislature

Just for the record, there's nothing special about doing this. It's actually fairly surprising how open a lot of the buildings in DC are.

> and threatened the lives of our lawmakers

This part I don't get how more people didn't get shot. I mean I guess it lowered fatalities but when you get into a tug of war with the cops as the rope I don't get why shooting doesn't start.
Ok.

> That the capitalist engine achieves growth as well as it does because its relentless competition destroys old structures and methods, thus allowing more efficient structures and methods to rise in their place,

Those of us in the USA are clearly not getting the competition and creative destruction starting in January. We're clearly getting some form of merchantilism.
If you want to know whether javascript thinks `11 < 3`, then just evaluate it directly. There is lots of dumb stuff in JS IMO, but be honest about it.
Yes, it's mostly a shit show.

NFTs, meme coins, etc.

I don't understand most of that.

I keep to my niche, build with stuff I think is interesting, and keep away from most of it.
haha thank you!
The fact that the GPT-style models are literally autocomplete engines, while text autocompletion on phone keyboards remains terrible, really maddens me. Is it that they simply aren't using that style of model for autocompletion, or that the GPTs aren't great at guessing me specifically even though they're superhuman at autocompleting the Internet, or that it would be too slow to run a sufficiently good GPT for this on-device, or what?
Yeah, will definitely rewatch. I vaguely remember that it felt a bit arbitrary in the end what happened with the pianist "nick nightingale".

I read in Roger Ebert's review, that he would have enjoyed a twist in the end, where Bill would notice the body of nick being pushed out on a bed on a hospital corridor, adding some more doubt about what has really happened. (I vaguely remember some bigshot has promised Bill that Nick was fine.)
I'll add my voice to this. I stopped using Fusion360 when they adjusted the licensing terms a while back. FreeCAD has a ways to go to being at par with the likes of Fusion, but it is a capable piece of software - and once you get some hours with it you can design really incredible stuff.

Anyone who used Blender in the early days knows how far its come. FreeCAD is making that journey too. The 1.0 release is a big step. I use FreeCAD for all of my (admittedly amateur) CAD work. I've designed toys for my kid, props for my Christmas light setup, tool-holders, and any number of things I can't think of at the moment.

If anyone is finding FreeCAD hard to pick up, I highly recommend Mango Jelly's Youtube channel, which offers lots of really great tutorials on using it: https://www.youtube.com/@MangoJellySolutions
they refer in the beginning to physics classes, and I had the same exact experience in university. diffeq was not a prereq and yet instead of explaining the derivation of these equations, our physics professor just handwaved and said "they're basically just fractions, don't think about it too much"
Re-opening donation opportunities to OpenSSL Foundation
imwo(w: wrong), it's because just riding along fomo waves is a legit strat. It just doesn't matter if LLM or marijuana serves no purpose or whether it's detrimental or suggested to cause schizophrenia. It's more important for leviathan-class corporates to not be different where it doesn't pay to be different.
First-mover advantage. It doesn't matter if the product works or not, if it doesn't sell because everyone bought your competitor. The product will mature with time, what won't get better with time is your market position if you're seen as being behind the times.
If the chipset vendors never provide fixes except to customers that ask, and the customers never ask because it costs reimbursed money to do something with them, from the point of view of the end consumer, the chipset vendors haven't provided the fixes.

In PC hardware, the expectation is that most drivers are available both from the manufacturer of the device, and directly from the chipset vendors. Some chipset vendors don't play that way, but most do. In mobile, the expectation is that drivers only come from the device manufacturer and if there's no updates, it's hard to figure out who's at fault because there's no transparency.
Everyone gets bidirectional BFS wrong
Had a lot of fun making the animations for this one.
Really cool project, and thank you for writing it up so well!

My first question is "why" and the post answers that well (my paraphrasing): because Apple Watch is more accurate than anything else on the market, and health can be a matter of life and death.

OP is definitely an open source guy though so even if you'll never buy another Apple product (like myself) it's still a fascinating look at the current state of things!
What a great Wikipedia page! This is a real labour of love, I love the detail and the wry asides ("Every token had to be delimited by an apostrophe, making it hard to read and even harder to prepare tapes").

17ms for a multiplication, wow. Incredible to think that's now the budget for an entire 3D rendered frame.

Like others in this thread I was very skeptical of the SVC16 design, but this real computer feels weirdly unbalanced in the same kind of way. 31-bit instructions, but only 4K words of memory (16KB) in total? 17ms multiplication, but it can also do division? Very strange.
There's a difference between a company directly backing a candidate and employees of company backing a candidate. Most of the contributions you're referring to came from employees, which makes sense given that most well-to-do tech employees are socially liberal. It would be a mistake to attribute these donations to "big tech". You wouldn't attribute a donation from a farmer to "big agriculture".
That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that there's a trend showing that you can improve LLM performance significantly by having it generate multiple responses until it produces one that meets some criteria.

As an example, huggigface just posted an article showing this for math, where with some sampling you can get a 3B model to outperform a 70B one: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/blogpost-scaling...

Formalizing the criteria is not as hard as you're making it out to be. You can have an LLM listen to a conversation with the "customer", ask follow up questions and define a clear spec just like a normal engineer. If you doubt it open up chatGPT, tell it you're working on X and ask it to ask you clarifying questions, then come up with a few proposal plans and then tell it which plan to follow.
I need to do that kind of thing all the time—-and it annoys me to no end when people post the summaries in chats to “catch up” on a meeting, because I know they’re wrong. As an European who understands five languages well and can take some solid hints in many others, nothing beats actually listening or scanning a transcript.
Agreed. Even if no site is perfect, some of them are a lot better than just picking what's most expensive or gives the best vibe for whatever reason.
I enlarged the font :)
Relevant joke:

Two economists are walking down the street. One of them sees a hundred dollar bill on the sidewalk. Just before he picks it up, his colleague says, "There's no money there. If there was, someone else would have picked it up already." Both agree this is the only rational conclusion and walk away.
I experimented a bit with ZHA (native Zigbee integration) but soon realised I needed something better, and Z2M was that something.

It had all been working wonderfully, until I had a problem recently that meant I had to redo the entire Zigbee setup.

I run HAOS on a VM, with the Zigbee radio being passed through from the host. Recently I wanted to play with Thread so I added a radio and passed it through to the VM as well. All was fine, though I wasn't having a lot of time to experiment and the Thread dongle was connected in an awkward position so I decided to yank it out. At this point all hell broke lose. Z2M wouldn't start, throwing cryptic error messages. After a lot of trial and error, I removed both USB passthroughs, rebooted the VM, shut it down again, re-plugged the Zigbee dongle and re-added the passthrough. At this point the hardware side of things was fine but my Zigbee network was gone. To make it worse, a new one couldn't be initialised because it was trying to use the same ID as the previous one. I had to manually change the ID in the config YAML, restart everything, then re-pair all devices.

I really feel like this stuff should be more resilient to failures. Otherwise, it's pretty good!
As a US citizen I would support your right to limit facebook/twitter/etc exposure to your citizens, especially with the incoming administration. That's why I think it's also appropriate for the US to oppose a adversarial government injecting propaganda here, especially to our most vulnerable to it.
I got 10 years out of my most recent Orvis jacket.

That said, I had in to the tailor a couple of times to clean up some tears in the fabric lining.

I wear that thing every day, 9-10 months out of the year.

That one replaced an earlier Orvis jacket, daily wear (even through one cool-ish summer we had down here in So Cal). The jacket is fine, the cuffs are a bit worn. I could have probably had a tailor trim them with leather and got several more years out of it.

My current jacket is identical to the previous one. I managed to find a "new old stock" version of it.

I really like the jacket (as you can guess). It's a "ranger" style, nylon shell, fabric liner, big pockets on the outside, with hand inserts as well, big pockets on the inside, other little pockets I don't use (what do folks put in those shoulder pockets?), zip up hood, jacket has zipper and buttons and a waist draw tie. It will keep the wet off, but soak through in driving rain, which is rare enough to not be an issue.

If it's really cold, I have another long term jacket from LL Bean, or I could just layer under this thing. The LL Bean jacket has not seen substantial wear like the Orvis one has.

My Jeep Grand Cherokee is over 10 years old, and I'm of the mind to keep it as long as I can get parts for it vs buying a new one at $60-80K. I love this thing. It's in excellent shape. The interior controls are all in great shape. Most anyone can keep a motor running and such, it's the interior comforts that drive folks away and are costly to fix. Mine are good, all the buttons button, knobs knob, etc.

Jeeps are not renowned for their liability ratings, but many Jeep owners keep them for a long time.

Though I did just notice my cargo cover has some rubber that's likely disintegrating (it IS 11 years old...), so I may try to hunt that down and replace it.
Trump transition team to roll back Biden EV, emissions policies
It’s baffling that HN has not banned you for these regular tirades and personal attacks.
If there were good enough ERVs that could be installed by the DIY'er for about the cost of a cheap refrigerator (~$600 or so) then they would be more common.

I get that manufacturing the transfer plates isn't simple or cheap, but other than that one thing they're basically fans, they shouldn't cost that much.
A quick search for "Dumb TV" on amazon shows two Sceptre models, a 43-inch and a 50-inch. The 43-inch model says it's been ordered 500+ times in the last month and the 50-inch claims 50+. There is also a Pro Scan 40 inch that doesn't have ethernet connectivity. So they do exist, and it looks like there is at least some sales activity with them. I don't know if that's the last dying breath of the dumb tv as a product or if they are trying to make a comeback, though.
S3 Is the New SFTP
"Slashing red tape" and "ditch the disaster the Greens implemented in regards to energy policy" are two separate items in that list, I think. In other words, it doesn't help that they slashed red tape for their energy policy projects.
Oops sorry, I am OP and was referring to the submission link :)
Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced)
figured this might be interesting... I run just over 300 forums, for a monthly audience of 275k active users. most of this is on Linode instances and Hetzner instances, a couple of the larger fora go via Cloudflare, but the rest just hits the server.

and it's all being shut down.

the UK Online Safety Act creates a massive liability, and whilst at first glance the risk seems low the reality is that moderating people usually provokes ire from those people, if we had to moderate them because they were a threat to the community then they are usually the kind of people who get angry.

in 28 years of running forums, as a result of moderation I've had people try to get the domain revoked, fake copyright notices, death threats, stalkers (IRL and online)... as a forum moderator you are known, and you are a target, and the Online Safety Act creates a weapon that can be used against you. the risk is no longer hypothetical, so even if I got lawyers involved to be compliant I'd still have the liability and risk.

in over 28 years I've run close to 500 fora in total, and they've changed so many lives.

I created them to provide a way for those without families to build families, to catch the waifs and strays, and to try to hold back loneliness, depression, and the risk of isolation and suicide... and it worked, it still works.

but on 17th March 2025 it will become too much, no longer tenable, the personal liability and risks too significant.

I guess I'm just the first to name a date, and now we'll watch many small communities slowly shutter.

the Online Safety Act was supposed to hold big tech to account, but in fact they're the only ones who will be able to comply... it consolidates more on those platforms.
Walkthrough the steps and requirements to train an AI / ML model
I wrote this article as a preamble to a collection of tools and resources titled [ML Development Cycle](https://tudormunteanu.github.io/ml-development-cycle/).

It's meant to be open and public.

So far I received quite a bit of feedback and hopefully, it can only get better. Thanks!
People are consistently claiming that if Ukraine falls, Russia will move further west. This could bring a war on the border of Germany.
Who said that NDAs don't apply? If you need to strawman to make an argument, just save the bits and skip doing it.

And yes, in the end all code distills down to shit that is very similar to the countless billions of lines of code on the internet. Everything -- every single project that anyone on this site is working on -- is a bunch of glued together shit where 90% (more like 99% Probably 99.9%) of it is in common with code seen in countless other projects. Utterly regardless of domain or business or project specific uniqueness. Someone would have to be profoundly incompetent to not realize this.

Again, I seem to arguing with people who think that using a tool means feeding it their whole projects and having it rewrite it in Rust or something. In reality a programmer could yield immense value from such tools having a) given it zero lines of their code, b) used zero lines of the code it generated. This isn't a difficult concept, but I'm going to continue getting insane responses by all of the unique people who work on the amazingly unique situations where instead of sorting from A-Z, they sort from Z-A!
I installed a pair of these, and haven't looked back. Yes, there is a little bit of a curve with rewiring your opener, but there is great documentation available, and safety in the fact that if you mess up, your door just won't open. If you snap a picture ahead of time, it's easy to undo. And from there, you can hook it in to Home Assistant or HomeKit and do whatever you want, which is amazing. My Home Assistant notifies me when the door has been open for 5, 10, 30, 60 minutes, as well as if the sensor is obstructed for the same intervals.
Not unheard of, unfortunately.

Funny enough, in a fintech I worked for, developers and QAs actually used their own personal credit cards and bank accounts for testing.

Interestingly, they also needed to test ApplePay, but the laptops didn't allow for adding their personal iCloud accounts. So someone in the development team got the "admin" password and distributed among devs and QA team, and they all had unprotected laptops. They probably still do.
I don't know much about fintech, just that token incentives motivate people to host service I'd like to use.

Proof of work for stored data sounds like a reasonable use case for me.
> You get better at slicing your communication into individual ideas, serving them one at a time at the reader's own pace. Your thoughts become less coupled, more clear and compact, and flow better from one to the next.

... and you end up with your average self improvement book.
> I wonder if Gorbachev had any pathway available to him that wouldn't have lead to the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union?

I'm sure a slow transition, the way he seemed to intend, would have been more stable. A slower, steadier process could ensure smooth transitions to the post Glasnost state for all hardliners and other stakeholders from whom buy-in would be required. The way it happened, rushed through by Yeltsin, accelerated collapse created a vacuum that was quickly filled by powerful criminals (which is usually what happens when governments collapse - and this is a cautionary tale for Americans, BTW).

> I'm not sure it's a realistic one though, the problems he faced were likely insurmountable.

The Soviet Union was broken, and would need to drastically cut expenses in order to provide for its own citizens, but the situation could be engineered to make sure any vacuum happened in the international space in such a way anyone who stepped in would deeply regret it. Think many Afghanistans worth of problems.
I tried a Nokia-in-name-only modern dumbphone (a compact one without the retro styling), and it did what I needed, which was mainly SMS 2FA.

Until a manager for a tempting job wanted to do the first call on the phone. The call quality was so bad, it bombed the interview for me. So I kissed my privacy goodbye, and bought an iPhone.

(I've since switched to a GrapheneOS phone, which works well, with less violating.)
For most people, it's a random laptop.

The amount of people who specifically want an ARM laptop is not too big. People who want ARM based laptop AND Windows is even smaller. Most of the first group already bought Apple silicon, or some random variant of PineBookPro & Co (or that Lenovo with ARM CPU that's name escapes me. But these folks can run Windows too).

Otherwise the rest of the people amount to this (0.8% is still more than I expected - that's quite respectable actually).
It's the same that I've converged on: Agents are LLMs with agency, ie. can effect actions (by being connected to tools, APIs, etc). I break out the offerings into two groups: 1. those that are pre-built for specific tasks/areas (or can be no/low-code scripted using pre-built bits), 2. those that can be custom built to connect to you specific API/actions.

Another version of Agents is described in the paper "Agent Hospital: A Simulacrum of Hospital with Evolvable Medical Agents"[0] where instead of having one LLM prompted context, you create many that specialize in different areas, and have them communicate to distribute a task. The effect is that the outcome is higher quality than trying to use a single automated LLM.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02957