skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Switzerland, there are two restaurants called "Blinde Kuh" (blind cow), where it's completely dark and you'll get served by blind/visually impaired people. There even work visually impaired people in the kitchen (besides "regular" seing people). It's a fascinating wxperience.
Kbin was just one instance out of the dozens of active servers.
You can press backspace to unlock from the target you are locked to.
Male and female brains differ at birth
Males showed 6.16% larger total brain volume and 5.64% larger intracranial volume (total space inside the skull) compared to females, even after accounting for birth weight. Females showed relatively larger gray matter volumes, while males had relatively larger white matter volumes when controlling for overall brain size.

Accessible discussion of the results can be found here:

https://studyfinds.org/how-male-and-female-brains-differ-at-...
Indeed! It's delightful like all of bash. I've used them in a few places but I try not to
The Hidden Risks of URL-Shortening in Scientific Review
Uh oh, that sounds suspiciously like querying structured data. You can't hype SQL or worse, SPARQL, to investors!
The Tusla Race Massacre took place in 1921!
Memory arenas are a nice concept but I wouldn't say they're necessarily an improvement in every possible situation. They increase complexity, make reasoning about the code and lifetimes harder and can lead to very nasty memory bugs. Definitely something to use with caution and not just blindly by default.
Atelier AI – Iranian Equivalent of PhotoAI, with Farsi Interface
Open low E is 82hz. That’s pretty low.
> charges carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines plus 35 years in prison

Any lawyer knows that is stupid math. The DOJ has sentencing guidelines that never add up the years in prison for charges to be served consecutively. The media likes to do that to get big numbers, but it isn’t an honest representation of the charges.

I don’t think charges against Schwartz should have been filed, but I also can’t stand bad legal math.
Scumbags as they were once called
>people would pay millions over a career without you generating at least that value back

Some of it is empirical observation. I've seen many friends at big/elite tech firms get paid to do very little. Many claims online to that effect, although I weigh it lesser. And I think it's completely plausible. I think because of the exponential advancement of technology, huge accrual of capital and inability of human incentive structures to keep up, value does not universally equal money. IMO many examples. Many people are tech firms do things that are very loosely related to revenue generation - so you can almost double your headcount during COVID, fire tons of them and still function the same (a substantial amount of hiring and firing was tech companies FOMOing about each othe). Meta's VR division has burned through $50 billion, but it's people got paid incredible salaries. One in three Nvidia employees are now worth over 20 million. Many of them were working decent jobs making GPUs for video games and suddenly because of AI, their net worth went up 100x. Oncology is another possible example. By far the wealthy people today are all in computers, instead of curing cancer.

I'm not saying these people are bad or anything like that. The other part of the equation, wealth as a signal, has become incredibly noisy. In some areas it is still a strong signal, typically smaller companies and startups where providing value is a lot more closely related to what you make. And conversely, I don't agree with money generated being a signal of impact in itself.
> This isn’t about clocking hours;

Translation: we are not going to properly compensate you for the extra effort we have as minimum requirement.

These grifters are looking for desperate slaves.
Adopting OpenTelemetry does not have to be hard for common use-cases. On Kubernetes, the Dash0 operator (https://artifacthub.io/packages/search?repo=dash0-operator) automatically instruments Node.js and Java workloads (and soon other runtimes) with just a custom resource created in a namespace. It works with all OpenTelemetry backends I know of.

Disclaimer: I am one of the authors of the Dash0 operator and work on Dash0 (https://www.dash0.com/), an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform.

Automatic instrumentation on Kubernetes is also provided by the community OpenTelemetry (https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-operator).

I am certainly biased here because OpenTelemetry and Prometheus have been at the core of my professional life for the past half decade, but I think that the biggest challenge, is that there are many different ways to get you to a good setup, and people get lost in the discovery of the available options.
Which morons are using AI to write Hello World
Mendeley Desktop
Inertia is a godsend. We are using it at work and it’s such an amazing combination of the best of both worlds without all the craziness going on with the more popular meta frameworks.
> She can't commit to no pursuing her career, and this scares me.

It scares you that a woman might want to pursue work that might make her feel happy or is otherwise rewarding? It scares you.

What's the weather like there in the 1950s where you seem to live?
I also started my PhD last week and honestly from my talks with the people there thus far I'm much more optimistic than the general HN view of PhDs. You still have to be realistic however. Best of luck!
I just left academia (after one three-year postdoc). Good riddance. For myself at least. I do think one can thrive in it, if you are a good salesman, don’t mind sucking up to those with money with lies and exaggerations, and don’t mind isolation
Bluesky. A lot of the devs that I followed on X have moved to that platform.
I wasn't talking about percentages of the population, but about the impact that Christianity has in the public and legal spheres. Now, I may have exaggerated a little bit, as there are a few very small countries that are likely even more religious (the Vatican, Luxembourg), and perhaps one or two bigger ones (Poland does come to mind).

But overall, the prominence of Christianity in day to day American life and culture and the political sphere is off the charts. Things like saying Grace at family dinners as a common tradition, presidents and many other politicians ending their speeches with "God bless America", "In God we Trust" on dollar bills - these are virtually unheard of outside of the USA. Not to mention, the amount of times Biblical passages and teachings are brought up in political debates is staggering, even coming from a nominally "more Christian" country like Romania. Similarly, the amount of places and institutions named after religious figures or concepts is unprecedented.
Got you an invite :)
> Django with plugins could be made to look like and work similar to Wordpress I bet.

https://wagtail.org/ is a solid CMS
There was Twitter and Facebook deplatforming him. Facebook ‘fact checking’ all his favorite ‘facts’. Google adding fact check popups around the prior election. Etc. etc.

This was all before the most recent election, before Musk bought Twitter, etc. also stuff like [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/don...], [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/27/trump-google...], etc. etc.

Personally, I never heard so much wailing and gnashing of teeth when Trump won the first time (knowing a number of Google leadership folks).

There is going to be a lot of noise.
Laziness, Impatience, Hubris, and AI
You are probably correct, legally. But given that we're talking about Aaron Swartz, who was legally in the wrong but morally (in the classic hacker's sense) in the right, I meant "copyright allows you to sell artificial scarcity" in the moral sense.

I think fundamentally we have a difference in opinion on what copyright is supposed to be about. I hold the more classic hacker ideal that things should be free for re-use by default, and copyright, if there is any, should only apply to direct or almost-direct copies up to a very limited time, such as 10 years or so. (Actually, this is already a compromise, since the true ideal is for there to be no copyright laws at all.)
The bikes and roads would have been worse than now (e.g. the bikes would have been single speed) but on the other hand in 1895 it seems like the first car hadn't been sold commercially in the US so I feel like the lack of car traffic might have somewhat offset that in the overall experience, and since people do all sorts of crazy rides now I don't think it's that surprising that they were doing it then too.

I bet a fair amount of modern cyclists would be willing to ride an 1895 bike on 1895 roads if it meant zero cars.
because he's a manipulative POS.
I don't think there's any reason to be discouraged. There's a lot of bias against PhDs for various reasons (good and bad).

I have a PhD, got an academic position and then worked in various companies (startups, big tech company). These paths aren't exclusive.

I'm glad I did the PhD.

- it gave me time to work on a variety of interesting topics. In my company, I always feel rushed and don't have time to learn as much as I'd like to.

- I had more than one career. Working only in industry after graduation would have been pretty sad I think. Not that it's bad but it's great to see something different

- I developed some skills (for instance talking in front of audience, write scientific papers) and got to meet a lot of interesting people, and worked in different countries.

I also learned that research wasn't for me but it was worth doing the PhD anyway. If I had to do it again, I would pick my topic more carefully, and go straight to industry rather than pursuing an academic position (which I actually didn't like). Also money wise, even though I'm not materialistic, the pay was too low. Certainly enough to live, but not enough to secure my future and retirement.
Microsoft Names Threat Actors
Video sex
Yet there will still be comments asking why IPv8 can't be IPv4 with another few sets of digits tagged onto the end, as if that would somehow be compatible with the current implementation of IPv4.
The Limits of Possible Multiverses
I will never understand how is it possible that htmx has become more popular than Unpoly, when Unpoly exists since a long time ago, has been very stable, has a lot more features, it has a nicer API, better docs, etc. I just don’t get it.
Why is getting a piece of paper after sitting in dozens of classes, and writing a essay considered automatically "beneficial to humanity"?

Just pulling a random site (first hit on a search) https://www.findaphd.com/phds/browsebysubject.aspx

It appears you can get a phd in dance, event management, or dozens of fields that aren't curing cancer, or AI.

I'm reminded of the Olympic break dancer who did the "kangaroo" move. She has a PHD:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachael_Gunn

thesis: "Her PhD thesis, titled Deterritorializing Gender in Sydney's Breakdancing Scene: A B-girl's Experience of B-boying" (from Wikipedia)

Now I'm sure it was worthwhile, but I'm struggling to see it as a presumptive positive move to humanity for her work.

And there's lots just like it.

I'd even go so far as to assume that it's the extreme minority of phds that actually make a difference "for humanity" and not simply a good career move for the degree holder.
I think the "How" that was in the original title would be useful, you can add back in by editing submission and then HN does not remove it.
At Las Campanas, most of the staff from the cooks to the techs and a number of the researchers were all local. I found quite a bit of interest in the country as a whole as it's a source of national pride being the best location for astronomy.

Allowing this to proceed will affect _all_ future astronomy projects in Chile. No one is going to splash out on a shiny, new 100m optical telescope (OWL) if anyone can come along and park a city's worth of light just down the road.

https://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/eelt/owl/
The first link doesn't seem to be working.
Right and it means “don’t criticize when I say stupid things,” which is how the marketplace of ideas works.
> Apparently, some extension authors figured out that the Chrome Web Store search index is shared across all languages

Oh, you mean like google ads and android app ads? Because both think I'm either Chinese or Korean, despite being neither.
Does it understand pytest, do you happen to know by any chance?
First shot on GPT 4o: https://chatgpt.com/share/6783ad9d-7c9c-8005-b2aa-660200d05e...

Asking for Declaration of Independence and comparing the output against https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcrip... and exhaustive list of differences:

1. Em-dashes in ChatGPT, `--` in .gov -> this is just an ASCII limitation of the .gov transcript

2. ChatGPT capitalized Perfidy in "Cruelty & Perfidy", while .gov has "perfidy"

3. ChatGPT writes "British" while .gov says "Brittish"

These are _all_ the differences.
> Are there real humans / customers who ask, "yes, have an AI call me?"

If it could go faster than a slow-talking human who needs to re-verify information that someone else already verified? Yes, I'd opt for the AI.
Literally these are different rights for different groups of people. Based on the dictionary and legal definitions of ‘right’. I’m again not sure what you think you’re saying, but it doesn’t seem to agree with reality.
EFF Goes to Court to Uncover Police Surveillance Tech in California
You're "allowed".
Just keep it to yourself.
I'm not in the topic really. Apparently 9 million people die from starvation each year. This is recent data, I don't know the 70ies data (things to consider: A lot less people on the planet, on the other hand the problem was less tackled than it is today).

But just going with this number, since "the 70ies" refer to a time span of 10 years, that'd be 90m people, and I don't quite understand why his forecast is considered to be so wildly inaccurate then.
Greenland under USA by example of Inuits historical treatment in Alaska
Reddit and Discord. I dislike how difficult is to find valuable information now because communities on discord are locked in custom tech.

In the past I was active on some online forums for moto enthusiasts, gaming and news but this time is gone sadly. Now I try to minimise time spent online.
Companies don't do agile, they just for some reason gaslight you into believing you're doing agile.

My company has fixed date releases with architecture proposals before a feature and predefined requirements for the whole release, but no no it's scrum because we have useless meetings every 2 weeks. I just don't understand why they care so much about pretending we're doing agile.
It's possible that both of them are more similar in thought than anti-AI people think, which is why they hung out together.
> What he did had a direct and practical effect

The main impact of Aaron Swartz’s actions were that it became much more difficult to walk onto MIT’s campus and access journal articles from a laptop without being a member of the MIT community. I did this for a decade beforehand and this became much more locked down in the years after his actions due to restrictions the publishers pushed at MIT. Aaron intentionally went to the more open academic community in Cambridge (Harvard, his employer, was much more restrictive) and in the process ruined that openness for everyone.
Every programming language should have a music video!
Any reason a lot of the Rearc jobs are outsourced to India?
Not that I disagree that with the idea that he was brilliant but the RSS spec isn't what I would consider a complex piece of documentation. Even for a 14 year old.
> “The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin”.

> He points out that throughout AI’s history, researchers have repeatedly tried to improve systems by building in human domain knowledge. The “bitter” part of the title comes from what happens next: systems that simply use more computing power end up outperforming these carefully crafted solutions. We’ve seen this pattern in speech recognition, computer chess, and computer vision. If Sutton wrote his essay today, he’d likely add generative AI to that list. And he warns us: this pattern isn’t finished playing out.

According to Chomsky (recalled in relatively recent years for him) this is why he didn’t want to work on the AI/linguistics intersection when someone asked him in the mid 50’s. Because he thought that successful approaches would just use machine learning and have nothing to do with linguistics (that he cares about).
Unveiling the uncharted Milky Way: Completing the galactic stellar map
Greenland's population is 89% Inuit. What Greenland can learn from the sale of Alaska to the US (from the linked article):

> The first Europeans to land in Alaska were Russian explorers, and the territory was occupied by the Russian Empire from 1741 until 1867, when it was sold to the USA. The USA imposed restrictions on indigenous Alaskans' education, religious and voting rights similar to those experienced by Native Americans in more southerly states. Alaska became the forty-ninth and largest US state in 1959. In 1966, the Alaska Federation of Natives was formed and filed land claims covering the entire state. Oil was discovered in Alaska in 1968, and in 1971 the US Congress passed the Alaskan Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). It extinguished aboriginal titles and created for-profit corporations in each region to administer an award totalling US $962.5 million and covering 178,068 sq km. Corporate shares, which could not be sold until 1991, were granted exclusively to indigenous Alaskans born before December 1971.

> The treatment of Alaskan aboriginal peoples by European-descended Americans parallels the history of dispossession of other indigenous peoples in North America, with many of the same effects: dependency on government income transfers, poverty (Inuit and Natives earn on average less than half of white Alaskans' income per capita), educational failure, health problems, teenage suicide, poverty, language loss, alcoholism and violence. However, because of Alaska's relative isolation and long territorial status, the principle of Native sovereignty is less well-entrenched there. The state government maintains that, historically, indigenous Alaskans have always been treated as individuals, not peoples. No treaties and only a few reservation lands exist.

> Alaska Natives widely criticized the ANCSA for imposing a corporate structure over their traditional forms of governance. Its provided only weak protection of aboriginal title, leaving lands open to eventual corporate or government take-over, and gave no recognition to traditional subsistence hunting and fishing rights. In February 1988, Congress passed amendments to the Act that extended the stock sale restrictions and tax exemptions indefinitely, but allowed corporations to issue new stock to younger people and non-aboriginals. These amendments split the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN). Some members welcomed the amendments as a way to resolve the dispute and encourage economic development. Others objected that not enough had been done to safeguard traditional lifestyles and rights.
The real problem with WP Engine is that they have been doing very well as a service. Many people believe them to be the most trusted hosting especially in the premium sector. This is earned reputation that Matt would much rather have for his companies.

All the stuff of them not contributing (while they maintain some of the most essential plugins) and them taking advantage… Is simply desperate search for arguments. Wordpress is open-source project licensed under GPLv2 you can use it however you want in limits of that license. And point of GPLv2 is that you can use it pretty much how you want - redistribute it, sell it, modify it. The main limit is that you have to publish the improvements you make to the software.

Its like if Linus Torwalds was suing Amazon AWS.

WP engine is simply not doing anything wrong otherwise Matt would sue them to the ground years ago. WP engine is just too successful for his tastes.
>I’ve been contributing for 20 years to the project, am a committer, and built several large parts of WordPress including the REST API.

Harsh lesson to learn. He who builds on the people builds on mud. GG.
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> does not accurately describe how large the ipv6

It is not the limitation, but router hardware is.

Now problem mostly eased, thanks to Moore law, but 20 years ago router memory need to store prefixes-routes graph was very expensive and have some problems with grow.

For example, I know people, bought very expensive server PC boards (but cheap compared to enterprise networking hardware), with DDR2 capability, because it was fastest at that time and promises large RAM space.

Imagine their frustration, when they seen, this hardware cannot allocate prefixes list for their installation (just not enough RAM) and they have to buy new hardware with DDR3.

This even caused "curse of /24", when some providers decided to just discard /24 prefixes and work only with /16 directly and for smaller allocations use some default route.

And this is just because nature of Internet, which is by definition "network of networks", mean, in ideal case all networks should have peer connections at least to all first circle neighbor networks, but better if have peers to few first circles, plus connections to large local hubs.

And now problem become harder, because of grow of p2p solutions, which by definition avoid hub model and use all peers directly.

BTW, colleague from telecom share latest problem - few days ago appear huge traffic. In very short time found source - after appear new "Stalker" game, their developers made huge number of fixes, so fixes are larger than installation, and they somewhere bought so powerful distribution network, distribution of fixes flooded all connections for few days.
Harper (YC W25) Is Hiring #1 Founding Growth/Operations Lead
Is there no concept like page rank that biases certain inputs to have higher impact while training based on recency and popularity?
Cool article, a lot more technical and informational than I thought from the headline.

The article gave the TL;DR as below, for those who skip to the comments:

Historically, general approaches always win in AI.
Founders in AI application space now repeat the mistakes AI researchers made in the past.
Better AI models will enable general purpose AI applications. At the same time, the added value of the software around the AI model will diminish.
It is a well known fact that OpenAI stole content by scraping sites with illegally uploaded content on it.
I went to a 2nd-Hand store and bought a bunch of teaspoons, no two alike. It reuses something, and gives you cool, weird teaspoons.
Atelier AI (آتلیه هوش مصنوعی) is a project by Muhammadreza Haghiri, an Iranian programmer, indie hacker and entrepreneur.
More computation cannot improve the quality or domain of data. Maybe the bitter lesson lesson is, lobby bitterly, for copyright laws that favor what you are doing, and weakened anti trust, to give you the insurmountable moat of exclusive data in a walled garden media network.
So what is the appropriate course of action if you are a founder? Just wait until the models inevitably get better, or help a customer with their problem now?

Computer power has been increasing all the time, but that hasn't kept people from experimenting with the limited power of their time (which ultimately led to better solutions) rather than waiting for the more powerful machines.
Does the proportion of Samoan fundamentalists exceed that of the US?

Tough question to answer, I suspect it might, Pacific Islanders hold tight to Jesus ...

* https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-20/the-christian-convert...

The US wins by weight of numbers, of course, but having the most tongue talking snake handlers doesn't make the entire country the poster child for revival tents.