skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And I don't think we have a surplus of engineers in the country, judging by what I perceive to be the gap in talent between china and US, and the moaning by tech about the need for H1B

Why take that at face value? Its generally used for wage suppression[0][1] by big companies (not only in tech) and due to how its structured, creates an unhealthy power balance between employers and H1B employees

[0]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-024-05823-8

[1]: https://www.paularnesen.com/blog/the-h-1b-visa-corporate-ame...
Same in Russian and Ukrainian in that regard.
Thanks. That was a connection worth knowing!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bake-danuki
You could also lie less often, because you blink less frequently when you lie. ;)

https://ris.utwente.nl/ws/files/23166678/HICSS47_Do_Liars_Bl...
Optical Interposers Could Start Speeding Up AI in 2025
Belt Sander Racing Is Exactly What It Sounds Like (and It's Awesome)
It was my cousins' game so we were playing it at his house to start with. Eventually he came over to spend the night at my house and I had a different TV that we could see the edges of the screen.
Oh yeah that could avoid a very costly mistake then! Good choice.

Where I flew was all VFR territory.
Wait, an optical fiber is that expensive in the USA?

In France, the price for a symetrical 8 Gbit/s optical fiber is 50€/month (about $52) at the two fastest and most expensive companies! It's also 50€/month for professionals.
They should have faced consequences for their response, as much as for their error-prone device. Multiple patients had complained of extreme burns during their treatment, and autopsies later confirmed the cause of death to have been radiation exposure, yet AECL was still saying thing like, "damage could not have been produced by any malfunction of the Therac or by any operator error."

Sure, they were laying under our radiation cannon and then died of extreme radiation exposure, but they probably got it somewhere else.
India's smartest people moved to the US
Well, maybe Britain shouldn't have colonized large areas of the globe and exploited them for resources while keeping the indigenous inhabitants oppressed for centuries, all while preaching the absolute supremacy of British civilization and culture. Hardly seems surprising that some of the people you colonized might want to see what all the fuss is about.
Start by not doing

But China on global warming

Second step do more as a country

Third step try to shame or encourage China and other countries into doing more

The US is still in the lead for total emissions historically and has a higher emissions per person. If it ignores it's responsibility it makes it very easy for China not to mention India or other lower total emissions countries to do the same.

China is doing something if not enough. The goal should not be trying to find a way to avoid responsibility because that's how you get all countries to avoid doing anything. The point is too keep pushing all countries starting with yours to to more
I remember reading about Google Fiber in the news 10+ years ago. At that time the idea of having a multi-gigabit internet connection at home felt very exciting and futuristic.
Today, fiber at home is almost a given in many countries. I mean, it is good that LA residents will have access to fast internet. But this is commodity now. I don't get it why is this in the news.
If you clone the environment at startup, then you get a situation where code in the same binary can see different values depending if it uses libc or Rust's std. It's also no longer the same environment as in the process metadata.

Using a copy by default may have worked if it was designed as such before Rust 1.0, but Rust took the decision to expose the real environment and changing this now would be more disruptive than marking mutations as unsafe.
You’re not at work, don’t be so agreeable! Tell them it’s a great article and the author would have time to write their own if they weren’t so busy having to explain things to those damned engineers.
> The author of the press release is under the mistaken belief that unchanged broadband pricing is a good thing.

You say that like it (edit to clarify: "it" = "unchanged broadband pricing") is a bad thing, though. Sure, it'd be nice if we had 1 Gb internet for <$30 like Denmark or wherever. But I will gladly sing praises to GFiber's speeds and stable prices given the hellhole of Comcast and CenturyLink I was previously living with.
This is our future: short term growth in economy and stock markets followed by massive layoffs followed by economic crash followed by societal collapse.

If you think this is all BS and you will be always smarter than any machine, realize that raw computing power grows by 10^6 every ~25 years. AI seems to follow the same growth.

If you think you are safe, read what Geoffrey Hinton, one of the fathers of ML, said about 10-20% chance of AI leading to human extinction in 30 years. Or read about Sam Altman building his bunker in New Zealand while espousing AI utopia.

If this doesn't give you shivers, enjoy your blissful ignorance.
I want to build a neutral space for people to share their craft, build friendships, and have a place to get feedback from like-minded people. I have no plans to monetize the platform, and if it continues growing after some time has passed i'm going to register a non-profit organization and transfer the rights to it (while still supporting it financially).
Good question.

My sense is that there is a lot of compute capacity, data acquisition, etc., required to create any dent in this type of automation.

Likely the next 2 years are focused on more “compute”, “data center capacity”, and “energy”. That allows for a) better training, b) more inference load, … and hence prepare for more automation.

Much like the Y2K era of 30 years back, we are entering the new era of YNA, an era whY Not Automate.
My impression is that a big part of the outrage is directed not at the conviction, but at the disproportionate sentence.

I'm not surprised or upset at all that he went to prison, but unless I'm missing a ton of details (and I probably am), 12 years is plenty for what he did.
That’s a textbook example of whataboutism if I’ve ever seen one, but it’s also a category error:

Selling cigarettes harms the buyers, but selling factory-farmed meat harms the animals being factory farmed, and they don’t have any agency in this at all.
Have you considered Monkeybrains? For the price the service is fantastic, and with some of their new upgrades speeds are pretty good for most of SF.

Caveat: I work from home so I keep my comcast subscription as a backup and have a router with automatic failover. I would say this is not worth it for most people and just Monkeybrains is sufficent.
> "We've recognized that we've reached the point as a technological civilization where the idea, there's huge abundance and huge economic value, but the idea that the way to distribute that value is for humans to produce economic labor, and this is where they feel their sense of self worth," he added. "Once that idea gets invalidated, we're all going to have to sit down and figure it out."

I suspect we'll just let those without the means to guarantee their well-being just die off then.

On the upside probably good for the environment & mitigating against climate change though.
wdym? They did their own pretraining.
From https://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/report/1993/nos...

> The last designation more precisely reflects the mission and operating principle of the system's satellites. The mythological Parcae were the three daughters of Zeus and the goddess Themida (the SSU satellites are launched in groups of three and fly relatively close together.) One of the daughters spins the thread of fate for each mortal (one satellite has a wide observation swath, but cannot exactly determine the coordinates of radio emitters). The second daughter measures out a length of thread for each person (when two satellites get a fix on the shipborne emitters, the position is obtained, but with some ambiguity). The third sister (Atropos - "she from whom one may not flee") cuts the measured thread of life (the third satellite, getting a fix on the emitters' signals, enables their coordinates to be determined precisely and then transmitted to Navy ships for weapons employment.

The naming, and its exposition by this Russian expert who was researching them, is oddly beautiful.
Well, the authors' byline says they're from Northeastern University, Shenyang 110169, China and Faculty of Management and Economics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China. I've heard that Chinese universities sometimes have explicit publication quotas or offer cash bonuses for publications. Having never worked at a university in China, I cannot personally verify that though.

MDPI also spams anyone it thinks might be willing to submit a paper or serve as an editor, and does not seem to care much about the quality of the submissions it receives.
Note that most IPS displays have 0 PWM flicker. I use a couple IPS gaming monitors. IPS displays look better for code vs OLED anyway, IMO.
there are lots of redistributions that are net beneficial even when you account for the incentive hit. marginal increases in the estate tax, for instance, almost certainly fall under this umbrella

i don't agree that debt is the problem
It's more possible than you'd think! The options are basically:

- Go to a fancy private school like Phillips Exeter

- Really luck out and get into a great public STEM magnet school

- Homeschool and take private classes / have very smart parents
Greenland is getting a lot of international attention for its mineral resources
It does align pretty closely to their mission statement "to organize the world's information and make it accessible and useful for everyone", so it might be easier to make a case for its continued existence.

It also is another branch of Alphabet so not directly in the Google mgmt chain.

Though it looks like Alphabet is looking to sell it off, according to a reuters article Feb 5th, 2024.
These all just sound like a way to say no without owning up to it. People can tell when you're bullshitting and will feel resentment. From my perspective: it feels like you're not being listened to. I would instantly think less of anyone who used language like this (and have.) Just say you can't do something and explain why.
Yes, but it requires landlord cooperation.
And when they’re all dead, there’s only one thing you can do: Run their pockets and look for loose change.
While I certainly can't claim that I truly understand their works, Hume and Kant and Hegel have taught me certain mental devices and ways of thinking that I use every day at my job.
I certainly agree that more people would be going to college if it were free. 80% of people? I'm skeptical, but the existing people sending their kids to college (who can afford foregoing that income) would certainly appreciate the giveaway
Your examples attempt to break the chain of "aboutness" between meta-levels of statements. But there's a crucial distinction your argument misses:

"Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense" isn't merely describing properties of statements like your examples do (word counts, colors). Instead, it's making a universal claim about POSSIBILITY itself, specifically, the impossibility of defensive true statements about God.

This raises a key question: What makes defensive truth claims about God impossible? This impossibility must stem from something about God's nature itself. Otherwise, what grounds the impossibility?

Your examples all involve contingent properties:

1) Book word counts are contingent features of books

2) color(X) = color(Y) involves contingent properties of objects

But the original statement makes a necessary claim about what kinds of truth claims about God are possible at all. This is fundamentally different because:

1) It rules out ALL possible defensive true statements about God
2) The basis for this universal impossibility must lie in God's nature
3) Therefore it necessarily makes a claim about God, not just about statements

This is why property inheritance examples don't apply here. The statement isn't claiming properties transfer between levels, it's making a universal claim about possibility itself that necessarily involves both statements about God AND God's nature.

While you've shown that descriptive properties don't transfer between meta-levels, this doesn't address the key issue: a claim about what statements about God are possible must ultimately be grounded in God's nature itself.
2025 is shaping up to be the year of the Linux Desktop, for a good segment of Windows Pro users.

I prefer convenience over the hoops of dual boots and Linux, but even I spent a half-day setting up a dual boot and configuring it with my Steam games.

Far easier next step: Wiping the Windows drive and make it my work and experiment Linux instance.

Side benefit: Building and fiddling with Llama.cpp will be infinitely easier.
Yeah I don't have numbers, but anecdotally a decent chunk of Gen Z in my liberal leaning circles sat about because of Gaza. Like, the Muslims I expected, but the number of non-Muslim "allies" who sat out surprised me.
If I quit I don't get unemployment benefits. Eventually there is some money, but I'll have to first spend my savings and eventually sell my house (it's not enough money to pay the mortgage). This in western Europe.

I think in the US you have the 'benefit' that jobs are not very protected. Hiring is thus more flexible. Downside of course is that firing is too.
I have also had Google Fiber since near its inception. I imagine it is profitable for Google because instead of tracking my browsing data, Google can just track all my packets now.
I found a website on the geology of Greenland, there was one project mining gold ore on the southern tip of Greenland, but they shipped the ore to Canada and processed it there.
That sounds like a great feature to me
You can tell when the AI companies need funding, because they start to frame themselves in the most terrifying terms possible. OpenAI did this to perfection and it made them rich.

When you can't sell with the capabilities you have, and promising anything amazing would be a lie, just intimate that you're BASICALLY building Skynet and wait for the love.
Krazam was ahead of the game https://youtu.be/eDr6_cMtfdA
Use nicotine pouches or vape, there is no reason to smoke and nicotine isn't carcinogenic
Ask HN: Moving a not-for-profit web app off AWS
I'm developing an app to help foreign Buddhist monks in Thailand learn Thai and Pali languages. The app incorporates LLMs for interactive learning, and I'm experimenting with spaced repetition techniques within chatbot interfaces and for long-form text memorization.

Right now I'm running everything on AWS, but the cost feels overkill for my current needs. Since my past professional background is in AWS, it was the default choice, but given that this project is currently funded through my own savings and I'm currently unemployed, I'm looking to minimize costs. Scalability isn't a concern as the user base is small.

Currently I'm using 3rd party LLM APIs, but in the future I may want to explore serving open-source models that I fine-tune specifically for language learning and Buddhist text exploration.

Does anyone have recommendations for budget friendly alternatives that would suit these needs? Ideally, something that could handle a future transition to self-hosted models if needed.

Also, if anyone has experience with applying spaced repetition or other memorization techniques to chatbot interfaces and long-form text retention, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Birds can imprint on humans when exposed to them at some critical period after hatching, which seems adorable at a first glance, but can ultimately be a problem for birds that could otherwise be released into the wild, as it’s often irreversible.
I can't help but wonder if the "requires manual update" in the title is some kind of shade being thrown at 7-Zip for respecting the right of users to control their systems. There are many ways to automatically patch 7-Zip through third-party tools. Just because a piece of Windows software doesn't phone home by default doesn't mean it's inherently bad.
i don't think we disagree that much to be honest. i just think that a lot of the issues you are identifying (like long wait time for critical care) are due to price insensitivity due to insurance & overutilization. ie. every MRI my parents have is one that contributes to inflexibility in scheduling for truly urgent cases and also raises the price for those urgent cases.

human intensive things like medical care are characterized by diseconomies to scale when viewed from the whole industry perspective and baumol cost disease. overutilization makes the problem much worse
Can't Escape Good Old SQL
This is pretty accurate and matches my understanding and what I've seen arab friends explain as their reasoning.
Carnivore as exclusively beef/pork, or do you eat bird and fish too?
Hey Ankur, The Liam team is very happy that you starred!

Thanks again for trying it out! I'm looking forward to contributing to the Prisma community. I'll do my best!
> College of Software Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110169, China
a few idea's for safeguards are first tying someone's account to their actual identity meaning one account per person. This could prevent anonymous ratings, harassment, and swarming behavior

Tying ratings to actual meetings or verified transactions preventing leaving multiple reviews from one verified account.

negative feedback can't be hidden or deleted, only improved in future transactions unless deemed harmful by moderators or community.

Anti swarming, "hey friends leave a bad review for this business I hate" wouldn't work as they would need a validated transaction, but this could also have an additional layer of " these socially, professionally, etc connected accounts have all rated this business badly in (some amount of timing factor) this might need to be flagged.

Context protocol. If someone has only ever left negative reviews their "credibility score" becomes lower which in turn lowers their trust score.

Business suddenly gets a flood of positive reviews, this could be flagged as bad behavior by the system for review.

Think less "Yelp-style drive-by ratings" and more "I trust/distrust this business/person and here's why"
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42798865>

(Final 'graph especially.)

Addresses your first point.

For the second: communication.
Pascal can definitely produce small binaries (and it looks like it does dead code elimination, under the name “smartlinking” [0]), so it may be a limitation of the WASM backend like you said or not enabled for some reason.

[0]: https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/user/userse13.html
I mean, no one is expecting commercial-grade fiber at residential prices, but even taking that into account, these hotels (which are almost all owned by 3 companies) can afford to drop a few dozen grand a month on internet and not even notice the bill
Would you please name the bank that had/has this issue?
Ask HN: Good articles or books to understand the current zeitgeist?
My classical liberal outlook (with maybe a propensity to support higher quality regulations) has been seriously rocked over the past few years culminating of course in the elections last year and the outlooks of elections to come (Trump, FPÖ, AfD, etc.)

* It appears that the US and the world-at-large is moving towards an era of inward-looking nationalism, protectionism, and a return to the Great Powers carving up of the world. Where does this go?

* My ability to empathize with the rise of the power of trollish dialog and rhetoric (see @elonmusk or @pmarca) and memes is fundamentally broken. What happened to Good Faith? Humility? Kindness?

* What happened to the rule of law? Or even the veneer of accountability at some level?

* What values do I pass on to the next generation? Those of having careful principles that you defend and practice or a cynical view of "getting what you can" because everyone's doing it at every level of society?

Do I lean into philosophy? Or history? Or something else - to make sense of a very different 2025 compared to what I was seeing, in the US, a mere 20 years ago.
that was only one of the 6 murder for hires

Chris Tarbell, the guy who arrested ross, talks about it on this podcast
https://risky.biz/RB770/ 37:08
Amazon exits Quebec operations, to cut about 1,700 jobs
This seems to be A Thing; city centers get bad internet. In Dublin if you look at coverage maps, the whole central area is an island of VDSL and DOCSIS in a sea of FTTH.

Not totally sure why.
Noticed any new abilities lately?
Philips Ultra-Definition 60w equivalent bulbs are amazing and really reasonably priced. They also work really well with standard dimmers with extremely low flicker.
it is generally not true that more demand causes things to be cheaper, economies of scale generally doesn't function for a whole industry but rather an individual firm
Doesn’t France have a lot of installation incentives and a large govt push towards 100% fiber?

Amazing what an administration with a goal can achieve…
yup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7iPp5QaHmI , starts at 36 minutes or so

the bitcoin stealing was only one of the 6 murder for hires, so even if you think thats invalidated, there were still 5 others
I can't speak for Amazon 's team directly but for large events on that scale, totally reasonable to have your own links brought to the facility.

For a casino, they probably already have spare conduit or dark fiber to a close by POP so they don't even need LoS microwave links.

Efficiently distributing all of that bandwidth across the many, many, many different wireless access points efficiently is an art and science all on its own and that's probably the aspect most people are complaining about.
I'd love to know more about how Amazon do that.

How much does it cost to get a 100+ gigabit link set up for a 4 day long event?
At least 112 and 911 are standardised in GSM. https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/wp-content/uploads//NG.119-v1....
Agreed on the Levenson paper!

Is there something specific about the Feynman appendix that you think hasn't aged as well, or is it more that you've squeezed all of the juice out of that fruit already?
Michel Lotito (the plane eater, literally)
The real heart of philosophy is that it is an academic discipline that attempts to formalize a method of inquiry that is by nature iconoclastic and resistant to definitive answers. Philosophy also attempts to create rigor in an area where, unlike some other academic fields, most humans can do it, but most do it very poorly (myself included).
I've had Google Fiber for almost a decade now. It's fine enough. I've had weird issues in the past though and it's been rather unfriendly when it comes to setting up things like a VPN on a router -- though this was many years ago. Perhaps things have changed?

I also had an issue 6 or so years ago where Google Fiber would block sites that did not have both an IPv6 and IPv4 address.

Nonetheless, service has been fine otherwise. I'd say Google Fiber has probably been the second best ISP I have used despite my ever slowly growing hatred of all things Google.
Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History
California was forcing people to abandon their horses and buggies a little faster to get rid of all the manure.

Californias moves are smart and correct if a bit too overly autious (setting it at 2035).

Ice cars are soon going the way of horse and buggies. The EU is banning them soon, EVs are taking over. The smart thing is to tell the older carmakers to not stick to what they know because that will be gone soon. And because speeding up the transition to EVs will have a modest but significant effect on preventing the worst of climate change. Remember the disasters associated with climate change are already here the longer we wait to take action the worse it will get