skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or basically 34% of adults in America exercise their right not to vote.

Maybe. Or they were unable to for any number of reasons, like not being able to get the time off work, for example. Compulsory voting does not mean you can't abstain, or shouldn't, but it does eliminate the people who want to vote, but for legal/logistical reasons, were unable to.
Nodex is not only an internet provider, but also a hosting provider. For example, you could (before the attack) rent a VPS from them.
I was chronically tired because of sleep apnea. CPAP changed my life.
California's Inmate Firefighter Program (2002)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but isn't that quote referring to the glymphatic clearance found in 2012 and not the main topic highlighted; fluid clearance via blood vessel contraction?
https://archive.today/4qlIc
"High stability plasma illumination from micro discharges with nanodiamond decorated laser induced graphene electrodes" (2024)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277282852...
Well, people can have laptops, or "unsupported" phones (i.e. non-iPhone/Android).

Locking all sorts of basic stuff to two for-profit closed platforms sounds rather non-ideal to me. It's also quite a shift from stuff being web-based, where in principle you or I could sit down and write a compatible browser and/or port an existing browser (some work, but very doable).

It's not all that different from locking everything to Windows and/or Internet Explorer like it was 20 years ago, except worse because it's so much more pervasive now. The old "mandatory Microsoft tax" got replaced with a "mandatory Google/Apple tax". Any startup has basically zero chance of entering the market.
https://archive.today/Ha4oA
I'd take some waste over the government being co-opted by oligarchs, complex systems are complex and will inevitably contain friction and loss. I'm not keen to burn it down just because of some inefficiencies
Yellowstone National Park assets' standing dead tree wildfire vulnerability
Satisfactory's scale is so massive for building that it was a shock coming from Factorio. I started a project over the holidays and I'm pretty sure it's going to end up at nearly 200x50. I am not sure it'll fit in a screenshot, hah.
Those are just your priorities. I don't have any usability issues with VLC, but would use the AI subtitles.
What I find mind blowing is how unqualified people manage to land jobs while qualified people may not even land an interview. How does this even work?
Bureaucracy Isn't Measured in Bureaucrats
I feel like if the university has an issue with it, this could all be fixed by just adding course waitlists. Which is how it was handled at both my undergrad and grad university
The Quest For A Minimal Phone (for my kid)
The problem is that their leadership may not care. Bureaucrats at higher education don't take the job because they're good at it. They take it because they're not and want a job with high job security. The poor pay and unrewarding tasks are acceptable to them as a means to coast. Couple that with a job that can be quite stressful at times, students can be very demanding, and you have a recipe for entrenched apathy. I base my assessment on my time working for a University for 8 years.

The registrar's office are the wrong people to appeal to. The deans office can fix this, but they may only move if it makes the University look bad. That's where the news and media can help, but this guy likely needs help to make that happen effectively.
The Intel Celeron mini PCs you decided to exclude because they don't fit your narrative, actually use less power at full clock and idle at the same power consumption.

They're slightly slower at peak, but they're also a much fuller package with SSD interface, Intel graphics with multiple monitor support and no need for running custom linux distros due to x86.
Adobe Acrobat DOOM Pro™
I was going to help support your argument, but I can’t because you started throwing a fit and deleted everything. My 18-month has calmer manners. You can actually delete your comment (instead of editing to [deleted]) and it kills the entire thread, you know.
Yes, anecdotes trump population studies any day. You really are dumb.
Well, according to the very article, there is a noticeable difference in performance between Android and iPhone.
Show HN: Minimalist habit/to-do tracker with GitHub like heatmap
I guess in any case, after this statement by the CEO...There will be no more good quality candidates applying anyway.
In our case, the weird Android issues we encountered a lot lately has been due to the Jetpack Compose’s bugs. It’s amazing how buggy that framework is.
What mechanism would you suggest connects wealth with polio?
3-4W mini PCs with lower peak power consumption are decently common these days - and with no need for compromises RPi requires.
Isn't blowing out all your money on fun/cool things/experiencies & helping a lot of people (friends, family) an option?
"Superconducting nanostrip single photon detectors fabricated of aluminum thin-films" (2024) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277283072...

"Fabricating single-photon detectors from superconducting aluminum nanostrips" (2025)
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-fabricating-photon-detectors-s...
> select null = null; returns NULL, because each NULL is basically a placeholder representing any “unknown value”. Two unknown values are not necessarily the same value; we can’t say that they are equal, because we don’t know the value of either of them.

Agreed with all of this, it would probably have been better if they were named `unknown` instead of reusing the `null` keyword.

Note also that since Postgresql 15, you can use `NULLS NOT DISTINCT` when creating a unique index [0]. I'm less familiar with other databases.

0: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/sql-createtable.html
Completely different kind of business but I have a friend who runs a small business doing industrial print work (stickers, metal plates with serial numbers/qr codes, etc.). Pretty niche but very interesting. He uses premium materials and machines and rapid response times to customers is one of his key selling points. Next day deliveries and those kinds of things via premium delivery services. Business is going well for him and I've talked a lot to him about how he runs things.

His machines are expensive (hundreds of thousands of euros) and his key challenge is keeping those busy and having redundant capacity when they break down or need servicing. Meaning that he has a lot of idling machines. He's mostly floorspace constrained and he just doubled his floor space so he can get more machines and improve utilization.

So, I asked him if he was going to get more people as well. And to my surprise his answer was, not really. The machines do most of the work. Setting them up is not his biggest challenge. Availability of the machines is. That's why he's doubling floor space. He was estimating that he would be able to operate the new machines with the same staff. Most of what they do is preparing print jobs, supplying materials, packaging up finished stuff, etc. Having more space simply means he can respond faster.

He also went through the process to become iso certified. Meaning he has quality control and processes. Basically any machine downtime costs him money. So, he has at least two of each. And he's good at small batch sizes. He has a lot of repeat customers that order small batches regularly. For example, cutting out metal plates means he has to put in a big metal sheet. Regardless of whether it's 3 or 300 metal plates that are being ordered. He's going to sacrifice at least one of those sheets. But he can do some clever things with combining orders from different customers in one print job (he's a software guy) which works around this. And he has supplies of pre-cut plates for his repeat customers that are ready for printing when they order 2 more plates. They pay for quality and speed. A lot of his competitors are slower.

There's a fixed overhead per job (set up time, packaging, customer support, etc.). But he's good at that stuff and gives a lot of quality support to his customers. Big batches mean he utilizes the machines for longer and that they generate more revenue. His staff can use the time to prepare the next job and take care of customers. A lot of the small stuff ends up being bundled up.

I imagine electronics manufacturing contracting is a bit similar to this.
I am working on a platform project that aims to block bots and artificially generated posts.

Take a look:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15PbRtaWFr67lfVx8yonu9XIe7RW...

https://forms.gle/povkdgYYs7RW2sYu9
I think it's closer to 2 hours now.
> The current one is a Moto G Play 2023

Interestingly, Google uses and emulated Moto G (Power) for site speed testing in their pagesight/lighthouse tool.

> Captured at Jan 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM EST
Emulated Moto G Power with Lighthouse 12.2.3
Single page sessionThis data is taken from a single page session, as opposed to field data summarizing many sessions.
Initial page load
Slow 4G throttling
Using HeadlessChromium 131.0.6778.139 with lr

https://pagespeed.web.dev/
All words are arbitrary, but how does it not make sense? "Server" is a well understood term in software. "Less a X" is well understood in English to mean something akin to "without X", or "not having X". Serverless is short for "less a server", which succinctly indicates exactly what it is: The application is without a server. Which is a shift in how these types of applications are written, as since the mid-2000s it was common to include a server as part of the application. "Serverless" makes more sense than most terms we use in industry. It literally describes itself, although does require some historical context to understand why "server" is relevant.

Understandably, if you don't come from the software world you might think a server is a person who does work at your request, like serve you food at a restaurant. Is that where the problem lies? There are definitely still people, servers, serving the care to the systems that run the software. But that is clearly not the context in which it is used. It is very much used as a software term, and as a software term alone.
This was earlier today, the current status is:

Investigating - We are currently experiencing intermittent network issues affecting some of our users. We are working to fully restore services as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Jan 09, 2025 - 16:10 CET
I think once your comment has at least one reply, you can no longer outright delete it.
I've started noticing this on cars. Not taupe, but something like 70-80% of the cars are white, grey, silver, or black, which are all monochrome in different ways. Few cars are colorful now.
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True but are u trying 2 say that aliens arn‘t as evolved or worse yet 4 mankind more advanced than us
I don't think abdicating responsibility for the consequences of technology you create is a sustainable system of ethics, but I also understand why you feel the way you do and where you're coming from. (I'm not throwing shade, we just have very different systems of ethics.)
Wait til you see how they asked employees to comeback to the office... https://www.vice.com/en/article/dont-mess-with-us-webmd-pare...
This is objectively worse than Soylent.
Abhorrently bad take and misses the biggest reason that documentation usually is a second class citizen, and that is because your code is law, and code and tests are coupled, while documentation is not (thats why there is such huge push for autogeneration). Even code comments are considered a code smell because they are not part of CICD process. The way they describe documentation here reads more like a feature story and not being able to fully complete a spec, which is a tangential problem.

For LLM aspect - My take is the better approach is similar context enrichment for rag - you ask the LLM to generate a summary for a page, and that can easily be cached against a digest/hash for any code changes - and will always be up to date.
Sorry for the confusion on terms, but it doesn't change the substance of what I previously said.

> Clearly you do believe you have a fundamental purpose for persisting

I don't. Also, believing that I have no fundamental purpose for persisting is not the same as me wishing to die.

Edit: after thinking about this a bit more, I realized that maybe we disagree over the meaning of the word "fundamental," so let me clarify: I do have reasons for wanting to continue to live, but those reasons are 1) many, and 2) not static over time. 10 years from now, I will likely have different reasons for wanting to persist. I also dislike the word "purpose," as it can imply some kind of "grand plan" or other woo that I vehemently reject. I apologize if I'm being too bristly at your use of terms, but I would better characterize my thoughts as: I have multiple reasons for wanting to persist, which change over time, are grounded in well being of myself and others around me, and not necessarily inherent to me as a person.

I don't believe any of this rises to "illogical faith in some purpose" as you originally asserted.

> Given where you are anchoring the beginnings of this discussion, I feel starting your research on the evolutionary origin of religion would be a good starting point to understanding what I mean when I say homo sapiens are a spiritual species.

If you claim something (especially something containing a term as fraught with varied meanings as "spiritual"), you should be prepared to explain what you mean, not say "go start some research," which among other things is presumptuous. Based on what you said here, I'll assume that by "spiritual animals" you just meant "animals that have developed religion," and we are in agreement. You can drop the term "spiritual" in that case as it just adds confusion.

So we are animals that have developed religion. So what? It doesn't change my initial point, which is that faith (in the traditional definition of the word) is irrational. People are of course free to believe whatever they want, but when their unsupported beliefs start to affect my life via the legal/educational/judicial/healthcare systems in my country, or when people try to assert that my evidence-based beliefs are somehow faith-based, you better believe I'm going to speak out about it.
Apart from SimpleLogin, service that they acquired - all their service APIs are down. This to me indicates, that proton managed to create a single point of failure for all their in-house services, but didn't manage to put SimpleLogin under that umbrella yet.

If something can take almost everything down - Pass, VPN, Mail, Calendar - i.e. pretty much all your services that are seemingly standalone, then something's wrong with how you're managing these services.
I was thought it years ago, and there are parents that old for using it to treat Alzheimer's
https://crawlspace.dev has a similar LLM-aware scraping where you can pass a Zod object and it’ll match the schema, but is available as a PaaS offering with queueing / concurrency / storage built in [disclaimer: I’m the founder]
Again, this sort of mind-rot is the worst...

What happens when your general approach (ignore the margins) means the "bona fide charitable causes" can't operate because they all require top-of-the-line equipment to even be functional?

Software is already shite, stop trying to justify making it more shite.
If I had to pick which fictional world our future looks most like it would be Elysium. Maybe not a space station, but we're quickly bifurcating into a world where a top elite of billionaires live in absolute luxury, safely segregated away from the rest of the world who scrapes by in misery and poverty. There was no middle class in Elysium. So many people who will be in the misery group support this future because somehow they've been convinced they'll be in the elite group.
A couple of things:

1. This idea that "you can't tell if you mindlessly scroll past it" isn't a very good measurement.

2. Given IG is slowly filling up with AI slop, I actually do spend a decent amount of time going "is this AI-generated".

3. I'm not discrediting "advancement of realism" in AI at all. I'm just saying it's much, much easier to detect AI when a generation is supposed to be of something real.
UW does have that info publicly available: https://www.washington.edu/students/timeschd/WIN2025/

You do have to be signed typically to actually make changes of course, I imagine this tool would have to have your netid login… (yikes)
You can look up Ellen Pao and her time as interim CEO of Reddit for recent example.
Excitons in the fractional quantum Hall effect
You've got it all wrong, and LLMs have it all correct.

True brains, after 16hrs of actual work, need to hallucinate strongly for 8 hours or so, in order to continue their high level contributions to society.
I own a Samsung S24 Ultra, by choice. Would not consider myself a charity case.

I got my first smartphone years and years ago, and it was an android. Then they came out with the iPhone 3GS, and I briefly had that. Didn't like it, traded for an Android. Was ready to experiment back then, even briefly ran Windows Phone flashed on a HTC device. But inertia had its way with me, and I've been sticking with Android ever since. I have all the apps I need. I have my ages-old "weird" workflows set up, like keepass synced through OneDrive. I run an andblocker on firefox. Moving to an iPhone would be just so much pain for no real gain.

If you don't provide an Android app, well, provide me with a burner iPhone if you want me to use your service.
Very cool! I'm fascinated in this world. But have no background in it other than GeoJSON stuff for Delivery technologies like UberEats etc

Looks fun what you have been doing on your blog.
I guess the idea is to do this while you are employed so that you already have the connections when you need them. I can't think how anyone finds the energy to do this after a day at work though. You may also build this at work via former colleagues, but it depends a lot of the type of org and specific job.
"More Agents is all you need" https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05120

I could not find a "Agents considered harmful" related to AI, but there is this one: "AgentHarm: A benchmark for measuring harmfulness of LLM agents" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.09024

This "Agents considered harmful" is not AI-related:
https://www.scribd.com/document/361564026/Math-works-09
Would you accept an engineering solution with 1 nine of reliability?
So basically just the concept of feedback in a cybernetic system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
It’s a very dangerous answer to try to give someone, because of how unpredictable and dangerous a wildfire is. Sudden shifts in winds and can have the flames jump (literally) miles in minutes, after sitting calmly for hours.

It isn’t theoretical either - it kills professionals too. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Gulch_fire], [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Canyon_Fire], [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude_fire] for a few examples.

Long story short - never turn your back on a wildfire, and try to stay as far away as possible.
Inspect Your Servers with DuckDB
First Multiuse Optical Quantum Computer Comes to Japan
I also prefer to up front whenever possible and never had a phone paid by contract.
I buy an iPhone preferably used and use it until major OS updates are no longer available. I currently use an iPhone XR from 2018.
I think that long term with iPhone it’s cheaper than doing the same with Android unless you go with really budget ones like 150 €, but that’s to bad of an experience for me.
What I also really like with iPhone is that you can get really cheap displays and batteries which is not the case for Android phones in my experience.
I am really impressed with how it generates rough sketches because everything in the design world begins that way.
> I don’t think anyone thought the laptop wasn’t real though.

I heard nominally credible commentators claim the laptop story was a "russian disinformation" campaign at least 50 different times.
> It's not the iPhone, it's just a recent, fancy phone versus an out-of-date or cheap one.

The article states that the fastest Android phone is about the same speed as the 4 year old iPhone 12.
Joining the dogpile to get a lawyer. Your degree is at stake, and this isn't the sort of issue that will burn up your money if you don't want it to. Go in for a consultation and see what they think. Bring all correspondence. Worst case scenario you pay him for a few hours after he has some answers for you.

An attorney kept me from making some very expensive (honest) mistakes and payed for himself many times over. Don't gamble with your future.
Focusing on edge cases doesn't change the overall tendency of nature being savage and cruel. Even herbivores like cows or horses will sometimes eat small animals given the chance. Even the humble mold, fungus, and bacteria will happily eat you alive given the chance.

Surviving in nature is outcompeting others, regardless of how fair it seems to our current culture.
Does not even seem to be a valid PDF according to Preview.app
> Doctors will often recommend exercise, but I find that these days even moderately strenuous exercise like riding a bicycle destroys my sleep quality for several days. There's something about it that appears to be too physiologically stressing, even though ten years ago I was a happy as a regular gymgoer.

I had something similar like this. I think I was able to fix it. The theory is that your sleep is still poor, even though you sleep through the night. This is causing high cortisol levels during day time and higher resting heart rate. This is elevated further after doing moderate exrercise and takes a long time to get back to normal as your sleep isnt adequate. If your heart rate doesnt go down enough, then your sleep quality gets destroyed.

The solution, for me and I am guessing for you, is this: Stop the cycleing. First fix sleep. Track it using Wellue O2 Ring. If the scores are not good, the reconfigure CPAP - use sleepapnea reddit for inputs. Once sleep is sorted as per O2 Ring, then it might take a few months for you to recover. After that you can restart moderate exercise and things should be fine.
How is he interfering with registration? I assumed all he built was a place to pair students so that they could exchange classes using the university's own system. It seems in principle as much of an interference with the university as a coupon aggregating website is to grocery stores: efficiently spreading information so that people can make better use of the existing resources available to them. In his LinkedIn post, he mentions trying to get read access to courses, not write access.
Mistake on my part... you're right!
When you write "VLC: we're gonna work on AI" you’re clearly implying AI is worthless.