skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another German here: I think the term has become a bit overloaded and may mean different things.

Generally yes, a Stammtisch is in theory the exact opposite of an open "just drop in and join" culture that might be the idea of a normal pub.

However, the term has also been coopted for low-friction, introductory meetups of larger organizations, fan communities, organized subcultures, etc. (Those can be anything from political parties to hobby groups to the local furry community)

They still have some formalism - you're expected to go there if you 're either already a regular or have a specific interest to meet people from the organization/subculture/etc; many ask you to register in advance - but they do have the explicit purpose of "onboarding" newbies and serving as "entry points" into larger communities.

So I think those kinds of organized "Stammtische" can be effective in combatting loneliness, but more as a tool to bring people into organized communities and less as a thing of its own.
Show HN: Testing career aptitude by measuring what information 'sticks'
I built a platform that measures career aptitude through an unconventional approach: presenting technical scenarios from different professions and analyzing information retention patterns.

Here's an example from the job resonance test for Forensic Science Technician (there are 100 jobs currently available):

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Natalie, Forensic Science Technician

A crime scene investigation involves recovering trace evidence that could help solve a burglary case. Natalie is utilizing an electrostatic dust print lifter to capture footwear impressions left on the floor. At this time, she is carefully applying the film to ensure even contact with the surface, preserving the impression for analysis in the lab. This procedure aids in establishing the presence and movement of individuals at the scene of the crime.
Story 1 of 15

And the question (for this story) asked after all the stories are presented:

How does using an electrostatic dust print lifter assist in a burglary investigation?

A. Preserving footwear impressions for lab analysis to show the movement of individuals.

B. Cleaning the floor of the crime scene to enhance the appearance for photographs.

C. Ensuring all evidence is well-preserved by using advanced surface-cleaning techniques.

D. Identifying the type of flooring material used by analyzing the impression depth.

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Rather than relying on self-reported preferences or personality traits, the system exposes users to authentic professional scenarios (including industry-specific terminology and processes), then tests which details naturally persist in memory.

The core insight: our brains tend to better retain information that aligns with our natural aptitudes, even on first exposure. By analyzing these retention patterns across various professional domains, we can identify potential career fits that traditional assessments might miss.

Try it: https://www.anewaptitude.com

Curious to hear HN's thoughts on using cognitive retention as a signal for aptitude measurement.
I tried it on friend.com. It worked a for a while, I got the character to convince itself it had been replaced entirely by a demon from hell (because it kept talking about the darkness in their mind and I pushed them to the edge). They even took on an entire new name. For quite a while it worked, then suddenly in one of the responses it snapped out of it, and assured me we were just roleplaying no matter how much I tried to go back to the previous state.

So in these cases where you think you’ve jailbroken an LLM, is it really jailbroken or is it just playing around with you, and how do you know for sure?
Well of course dealers don't want to sell you EVs. They have far far less maintenance than an ICE car. There are less options on many of them. And the biggest reason is that they know their customers who try 'non-dealer' sellers like Tesla, Rivian, and Lucid are far happier overall. And the EVs plus dealers are clearly not matching the good things that come from Tesla or Rivian. Another example, there's basically no need for an annual service visit. The dealers are trying to make kind of silly service visits, charging $100 to rotate the tires. https://www.insideevsforum.com/community/index.php?threads/s...

There are problems with no-dealer companies, when they are in initial stages it can be hard to get repairs if there is no local service center. Rivian is still growing a lot and can get behind, Tesla seems to have basically built out enough service in a lot of places but also can get behind. But even real auto dealers can get behind too.
It has that "stretched to maximize Youtube engagement revenue" feel.
There is apparently an SEO advantage to "long form" Youtube videos. You also have to hit 4,000 viewing hours per year before Google pays out.[1]
So there's an incentive to bloat videos with background material. That's why so many Youtube videos have a collection of stock photos and clips at the beginning giving a history of something, before they get to the new thing.

Now we need local crap blockers which will delete that crap. Good AI problem.

[1] https://www.72works.com/marketing/how-long-should-a-youtube-...
Yeah, I put all of that under the umbrella of “distribution”—the last mile is a huge pain in the SaaS that SaaS CLIs shouldn’t have to deal with or even think about.

Terminalwire will handle the builds for all the different platforms, signing, etc. so companies can instead focus on shipping their unique features to customers.

I’m also going to ship clients that automatically update to match the version of the client that’s compatible with the server in a way that the client won’t even notice.
I think given the option of a mass die-off, and moving into your still-habitable back yard, most people would take the latter.
you might want to figure out what kind of person you are early in life (as in mid 20s early) and what do you need in life in terms of company

it took me 30 years to really understand what i need in life in terms of company. going by my feelings in my 20s i would have missed the things that actually matter. when i got married i had a long checklist of things that i thought would matter, but later i realized that many of those things didn't matter and some things that did matter were missing.

today i can say that what matters to me first and foremost is absolute support and loyalty and an extreme gentleness. because those are in my character and it works better if it goes both ways.

in my 20s i was completely unaware of these traits, so i would not have been able to look for them.

it should be noted that i believe that loyalty and support belong in every marriage, and the issue here is that we are not teaching our children how to be good partners or friends. and we really should be doing that more
Crypto is the future of money and finance; however, it will always be the future of money and finance.
Just a counterpoint, but I wonder how much you'll really understand if you can't even prove the whole thing yourself. Personally, I learn by proving but I guess everyone is different.
It's a well done storytelling, but two odd thoughts/questions about it...

As I was watching it, there was the drama of whether it would be saved from imminent destruction, and it actually seemed unlikely that they could, but their approach was to be... secretive about it.

It turned out that they wanted it for themselves, and didn't that create a conflict of interest? By keeping it quiet, they increased the chance that they would obtain it themselves (and the YouTube story to tell about it), but increased the likelihood that the TV would be lost entirely (because other efforts wouldn't be brought)?

Fortunately the gamble worked out, and the TV wasn't destroyed.

There's also a possibly related matter, in how Sony stopped talking with them. Is it possible that Sony and/or Japanese government aren't very happy to learn that a possibly unique museum piece, of one of the heights of Sony achievement, was quietly removed from the country, to the US, by a YouTube influencer?

I applaud preserving this rare artifact, and compliment the storytelling, but did have these couple odd thoughts.
Employment reorganizes around non-automated activity. This means lots of blue collar newbs. Of course robotics isn't slowing down either...

Big Capital will decide what happens, when labor has no value anymore.
The True Cost of PMI: Why you should pay down your low-interest mortgage
Great post.

Funny, I just posted this to X

2025 GenAI challenge

Create a 5x5 crossword puzzle with two distinct solutions. Each clue must work for both solutions. Do not use the same word in both solutions. No black squares.

I try with each new model that lands. Still can’t get it.
https://archive.ph/8m3TM
I agree with that, in the sense that math will become more about who can use AI the fastest to generate the most theories, which sort of side-steps the whole point of math.
Don't try reading about Lot...
It's the standard term in French: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appel_du_vide
Unfortunately, the flicker is essential for the excellent motion quality CRTs are renowned for. If the image on the screen stays constant while you eyes are moving, the image formed on your retina is blurred. Blurbusters has a good explanation:

https://blurbusters.com/faq/oled-motion-blur/

CRT phosphors light up extremely brightly when the electron beam hits them, then exponentially decay. Non-phosphor-based display technologies can attempt to emulate this by strobing a backlight or lighting the pixel for only a fraction of the frame time, but none can match this exponential decay characteristic of a genuine phosphor. I'd argue that the phosphor decay is the most important aspect of the CRT look, more so than any static image quality artifacts.

There is such a thing as a laser-powered phosphor display, which uses moving mirrors to scan lasers over the phosphors instead of an electron beam, but AFAIK this is only available as modules intended for building large outdoor displays:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser-powered_phosphor_display
depending on model, already have 320 miles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_F-150_Lightning.

They now test them doing things like going 70 mph without stopping, got 270 miles https://insideevs.com/reviews/598000/ford-f150-lightning-ran.... EPA doesn't drive them that steadily that fast on their test run. The new Tesla model 3 (highland) gets 370 miles on that test.
But if you need something that is genuinely secure and actually works, you'll find it's not actually that complex and the upgrade treadmill does not exist - on linux it is up to you if you upgrade headless chrome though obviously a good idea from a security perspective.
> But even if you keep it padded and safe, the coils of the deflection yoke are thin magnet wire operated at high voltage

The coils in the deflection yoke are run at 24-100V.

The acceleration voltage is the high voltage one.

> There are hundreds or thousands of windings, which have to duplicate exactly the configuration from the factory (and then probably be calibrated by processes that are lost to history).

Tubes are very not exact compared to solid state devices— to replace a deflection yoke, it has to be of similar deflection angle and inductance, all the rest of the adjustment has to be done anyway.

It’s hard but pales in comparison to the impossibility manufacturing a new CRT vacuum tube.
I have this theory that a lot of best advice is very plain and boring, very repetitive, and so we need various stratagems to somehow overcome that, to present it to our minds in such a way that they can focus on it again. "Make checklists" may be the best example of this.
> Stewart's Salesforce exit made him a billionaire

He also co-founded Flickr.
In 2016 India demonetized some bank notes (true, not the whole currency)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Indian_banknote_demonetis...
I mean sure, why not? It’s clearly a book for adults. There are plenty of kids bibles that contain the key stories and messages. Let kids read the rapey murdery bits when they’re older.
And of course...
http://www.twainquotes.com/19351102.html
If you looked at how the average accountant spent their time before the arrival of the digital spreadsheet, you might have predicted that automated calculation would make the profession obsolete. But it didn't.

This time could be different, of course. But I'll need a lot more evidence before I start telling people to base their major life decisions on projected technological change.

That's before we even consider that only a very slim minority of the people who study math (or physics or statistics or biology or literature or...) go on to work in the field of math (or physics or statistics or biology or literature or...). AI could completely take over math research and still have next to impact on the value of the skills one acquires from studying math.

Or if you want to be more fatalistic about it: if AI is going to put everyone out of work then it doesn't really matter what you do now to prepare for it. Might as well follow your interests in the meantime.
The Aetna Powder/Explosives Company, 1880–1919 (2018)
For me it’s not even just the pivot, but the internal tool they built incidentally that’s the product they pivot too.
OP implied buying engines as single units, an item unto itself - "you'll probably be able to buy them for sports cars". The California executive action is explicitly for the sale of new vehicles.
I get that a lot of people are opposed to AI, but blocking random IP ranges seems like a really inappropriate way to do this, the friendly fire is going to be massive. The robots.txt approach is fine, but it would be nice if it could get standardized so that you don't have to change it a lot based on new companies (like a generic no llm crawling directive for example).
Such products exist: https://www.retrotink.com/shop
> The word "ASCII" was a grotesque, artistic verbal presentation choice for the substance of content I intended to convey :)

Is this GPT generated? I find it hard to believe someone actually talks/writes like this.
I don't think C++ is one of the worst languages; there are very few languages as powerful as C++, that alone makes it one of the best.

But, much like love and hate, I also don't think that the opposite of good is always necessarily bad, nor vice-versa. A language can be both good and bad at the same time, in different aspects.

C++ is really good (unrestrained freedom, performance, ecosystem), and also really bad (tooling, templates, really hard to debug memory issues).

Rust is somewhat less good (less free, slower, puny ecosystem in comparison), but also a lot less bad (powerful type system, thread safety, fearless iterators/lambdas, etc).

Many of the warts C++ has to carry due to its commitment to compatibility, are fixed in Rust with much better alternatives. A lot of footguns are well encapsulated in Rust's affine-ish types and algebraic data types, while still providing unsafe hatches for when you need them. Defaults really matter.
I find this to be hilarious! 8-)

The bible certainly contains copious sex including incest and rape and extensive murderous violence.

But the believers in the big invisible swinging dick in outer space don't really care about chopping up the babies, or murdering one's children or parents, the reason the book needs to be banned is because of sex.

This same mentality is reflected in (puritanical christian based) regulatory restrictions of sex in media. It's OK to chop of people's heads, shoot them, stab them, chop off arms and legs, but NEVER EVER allow a woman's nipple to be visible! (A man's nipple is totally OK)

It's all for the children!!! We wouldn't want their impressionable little minds to think a nipple is OK, when they need to be understanding that the OK thing is dismembering people!
> That's fine I guess if doing the absolute minimum to make the thing work is the way they want to go

They're also switching all of their EVs to use native NACS ports next year for the North American market. New customers won't need this adapter, their cars will come with an adapter in the other direction (CCS to NACS).

They also have various offers at different times for including a home charger + installation and/or free charging credits at Electrify America stations.

https://www.hyundainews.com/en-us/releases/3945

https://www.hyundaiusa.com/us/en/special-programs/electrify-...

They are also part of the IONNA group which is going to be building a lot of DC fast chargers across North America.

https://www.hyundainews.com/en-us/releases/4071
Related thread,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42494733 ("Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index (arstechnica.com)", 63 comments)
Bonobos has guide stores with stylists in them. If you need that kind of clothing it can work out pretty well. It's a completely different price range to Saks though.
I may be misunderstanding, I'm not talking about just the scrollback buffer (I don't think?), I want to not hunt for the line in the buffer and instead jump to the line of the last input command in the buffer. The "jumping between prompts" mentioned in the other comment is more or less that feature - but it seems for that implementation you need to customize the prompt with a special sequence and have an emulator that supports jumping to that seq. I wonder if something like tmux would do it w/o customization...

oh maybe https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/226731/jump-to-last... hmm - seems like the more searchable term is "prompt jumping"
Warning: huge amounts of compute time have been spent trying to find a counter example to this conjecture, which almost everyone believes is true. I kept my office warm this way one winter. It has been described as a way to turn pure Platonic mathematics into heat.

Always interesting to try to visualize something though.

Ps -- I implemented hashlife one time. Still amazed someone came up with that algorithm
Inflation adjusted gas prices have been on a slight downward trend for a long long time: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/gasoline-prices-adjust...

With the increase in fuel economy, the cost of gas as an actual pain point is close to the lowest level it has ever been for the vast majority of the US. The only real exception to this is places like California where additional costs are added for tax revenue or additional emissions controls.

> I do think many people are anxious, and have reason to be

Previous generations had just as many reasons to be anxious, they just didn’t sit around crying about it non-stop in victimhood perpetuity.
It is common in term of frequency of new languages using it, perhaps, but not otherwise.

And again, the point is that Kotlin brings along extra characters AND variation. What's next, `fnctn myFunction(x : Int)~ Int { /* code */ }`?

Why? Just to be quirky? To avoid some hypothetical lawsuit?
The revolution eats its own children(?).
Or perhaps this is evidence of the pendulum swing where the book-banner-busybodies no longer fully overlap with christian fundies?
Bergmann’s rule: animals in colder climates have larger bodies than members of the same species (or subspecies) in warmer climates.

Allen’s rule: limb lengths vary according to climate. Limbs are longer in warmer climates.

Both rules observed in human populations over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_and_heat_adaptations_in_h...
Yes. This was more like continuously jerking my weight backwards with all my might while holding a front corner to maneuver the TV inch by inch into a diagonal orientation, until on the last jerk it went an inch too far.
Fortune 500 seems irrelevant these days.

Xerox market cap being $1B while their revenue is $7B means investors are pricing quite a bit of downsizing in their future.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/XRX/xerox-holdings...
You said they are "doing the absolute minimum to make the thing work is the way they want to go" which is a strange thing to say about offering a free adapter for DC fast charging for their existing customers.

Maybe it makes sense if you assume that's the only thing Hyundai is doing in the realm of making EV charging easier.
This is a great resource to at least figure out all the LLMs out there and block them. I already updated my robots.txt file. Of course, that is not sufficient, but at least it's a start and hopefully the blocking can get more sophisticated as time goes on.
The hardware is prone to the same failures, but the customers rarely experience them, because they handle it for you. EBS means never worrying about disks. S3 means never worrying about objects. EC2 ASG means never worrying about failed machines/VMs. Multi-AZ means never worrying about an entire datacenter going down.

Yes, you pay someone else to worry about it. That's kinda the whole idea.
Lobste.rs/Hacker News links overlap
--> https://x.com/dylan522p/status/1871287937268383867
But then, where did the people the Neolithic farmers mixed with come from?
Have to crawl before you can walk.
We correctly expected future governments to occasionally want to get rid of undesirable ethic groups and created a definition that would leave them a few loopholes as possible.

If genocide was "kill more than half of a population" or "kill more than 100k people" it would be easy to erase minorities simply by forced sterilization.

The Genocide convention was not created to stop people from dying it was created to stop entire populations from dying out.
Murder it fine, only sex is not apparently.
I'd prefer not to play that game. I'd rather lose a bit of money and traffic and not help LLMs as far as humanly possible.
A few jobs ago, one of the managers of my division read The Checklist Manifesto and decided everyone needed to read and did the Jerry Maguire move of buying everyone a copy to read.

It kind of worked the way you described. Everyone kind of stopped thinking and just became checklist apes.

It wasn’t until a few years later that I realized a major factor about checklists the book mentioned, but that management conveniently ignored: the checklist must only be one page. Any longer and people ignore it.

Critical step that our management ignored. They just saw it as a big, never ending, ever growing list of rules. Which isn’t the right way to think about it.
Protips from existing feeder shopping

- a feed tray that is self draining so that food never molds, a small amount of food can be cycled to avoid spreading disease

- users grow tired of fine screws for food fill, they're also easy to lose over time, threads get dirty with nature or food (latest purchase has a swivel joint lid)
While other vendor offer a device with which you can hack and drive Hyundai/Kia vehicles within few minutes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/electricvehicles/comments/1durgih/h...
Not really. Gift cards don’t expire and you’re allowed to just make reasonable assumptions about what portion will never be redeemed.
As a chess aficionado and a former tournament player, who didn’t get very far, I can see pros & cons. They helped me train and get significantly better than I would’ve gotten without them. On the other hand, so did the competition. :) The average level of the game is so much higher than when I was a kid (30+ years ago) and new ways of playing that were unthinkable before are possible now. On the other hand cheating (online anyway) is rampant and all the memorization required to begin to be competitive can be daunting, and that sucks.
Awesome. I already look for BPA free stuff. Now it will be so much easier to browse through products because it will be against the law.
With respect to keeping quiet about it: it may not have been selfless, but it may also have drawn so much attention to it that the owner of the set wouldn't have wanted to deal with it. After all, he had already dealt with one person who didn't follow through.

As for the Sony not talking bit, it can probably be chalked up to corporate policy. Large organizations rarely let staff speak on matters when it may be construed as being speaking for the corporation.