skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My maternal grandmother and mom were/are hoarders. I don't fully agree with your "decluttering is a luxury" statement. There's certainly an element of that, because times were lean for them sometimes. I think the hoarding is really a proxy for control, not for direct utility - and sometimes the instinct can go wrong and there's no value at all, or negative value, to the continued accumulation. Everyone, rich or poor, needs space to walk around and space to prepare food or wash dishes. Obviously there's a spectrum of behavior when it comes to these things from "cluttered, but mostly functional" to "need a strategy, dust mask and boots to cross the room". I've seen way too much of the latter to be fully on board with your point.

Here's a great blog about two sisters cleaning up their late father's mess I've found fascinating and helpful in dealing with my familys' situation: https://tetanusburger.blogspot.com/
That's ancient history. The reality today is widespread anti-Semitism among Muslims and it's backed by Mohammed. Up till the holocaust, basically everyone hated the Jews. After that, Christians changed their mind and Muslims doubled down. The Palestinians collaborated with Hitler because he promised to help them get rid of their Jews too.
In some ways the discussion on banning DJI is also a discussion of simultaneously stimulating a few home-grown companies.
How is it different than sending someone an image hosted on your server which is a tracking pixel and just get their IP+location?

This will be more accurate than the cloudflare approach.
Agreed, had a bunch of talks about this issue with the wife.

On one hand, we're both distractible people, and it'd probably be better if we could leave our phones behind on certain family outings and trips.

But on the other hand, there's definitely times where you really need your phone on said outings: for directions, for business info, to call people, to book things, etc. It's just hard to get the necessities without bringing along everything else.
Frankfurt School: Politics of Perversion
i just computed the solution mod 2 and mod 3 a la chinese remainder theorem

the polynomial is =0 mod2 and =0 mod3 so its =0 mod6

n^6 + n^3 + 2n^2 + 2n (mod 2) = n^6 + n^3 + 0 + 0 = n^3(n^3+1) = 0*1 or 1*0 = 0

because consecutive numbers are even then odd then even ....

for mod3 you can make a table

you could also factor the polynomial and see the solution easily

n(n+1)(n^2-2n+2)(n^2+n+1)
You should not ever expect an LLM to actually do what you want without handholding, and randomness in particular is one of the places it fails badly. This is probably fundamental.

That said, this is also not helped by the fact that all of the default interfaces lack many essential features, so you have to build the interface yourself. Neither "clear the context on every attempt" nor "reuse the context repeatedly" will give good results, but having one context producing just one-line summaries, then fresh contexts expanding each one will do slightly less badly.

(If you actually want the LLM to do something useful, there are many more things that need to be added beyond this)
That doesn't tell you whether that journalist is investigating you. Identifying them as the recipient of a Signal message from a suspect is valuable information.
A more correct term is "goroutine-local" storage, which Go _already_ has. It's used for pprof labels, they are even inherited when a new Goroutine is started.
When you’re trying to move a significant mass of people from something that works to another platform for ideological reasons, you’ll be met with resistance. Every time you fail you’ll be met with more until you can move no one.

“Innovation” doesn’t matter at all here, that’s not in question in the slightest, you’re conflating concepts. I’m giving specific advice, not making a general statement.
Then pay it to the election campaign of <politician you loathe>.
Walter J. Ong's Orality and Literacy is an illuminating read.

One benefit of orality is that the speaker can defend or clarify their words, whereas once you've written something, your words are liable to be misinterpreted by readers without the benefit of your rebuttal.

Consider too that courts (in the US at least) prefer oral arguments than written, perhaps we consider it more difficult to lie in person than in writing. PhD defenses are another holdover of tradition, to be able to demonstrate your competence and not receive your credentials merely from your written materials.

AI, I disagree it's more like oral tradition, AI is not a speaker, it has no stake in defending its claims, I would call it hyperliterate, an emulation of everything that has been written.
Makes sense, with laziness being one of the three virtues of a great programmer.
>IIRC the plurality of swing state voters said [gender ideology] was the most important issue for them.

I don't think that you RC. Citation very much needed here.

The issue of neopronouns is largely theoretical, since almost all users of neopronouns also accept the gender neutral 'they'. The Trump ads weren't about neopronouns, and I doubt that most Trump voters (or indeed most Democratic voters) could tell you what a neopronoun is.

Using people's preferred pronouns out of he/she/they is just common courtesy. It's essentially what everyone, social conservatives included, already does whenever they take someone's word regarding their gender rather than looking down their pants before talking about them in the third person.
I think the best keyword to seek is BCD (Bipolar, CMOS, DMOS) which is a process pioneered by ST. It is quite alive indeed.

Bipolar has for example lower noise than CMOS when it comes to opamps.
Insects are now free to do art...with subscription ai pushed by the big giant tech.
Has anyone implemented this end-to-end? This seems production ready for smaller shops where it's feasible for developers to sign artifacts individually. For a system where you'd want CI to publish artifacts, and then use the k8s policy controller to only run verified artifacts, it seems incomplete.

It appears the reason to include this system in a toolchain would be to meet compliance requirements, but even the GCP, AWS, and Azure implementations of artifact signing & verification are in beta.
This is a good point, forums are full of junior developers bemoaning that LLMs are inhumanly good at writing code -- not that they will be, but that they are. I've yet to see even the best produce something that makes me worry I might lose my job today, they're still very mediocre without a lot of handholding. But for someone who's still learning and thinks writing a loop is a challenge, they seem magical and unstoppable already.
One option is that Dokku can orchestrate k3s and Nomad. I don't know how well it works, but it sounds like it gives you the same simple ops interface with a clear incremental migration path to horizontal scaling.
Same. I am pretty relaxed about privacy. But browser extensions are usually a hard pass for me. I grudgingly installed 2. An ad blocker and 1Password. It would take a lot for me to install a third. I usually do not trust browser extensions.
> or maybe a tiny bit of oil and vinegar

That's what I mean by "dressing". We're talking about the same thing.
I might be biased but I like the name. To add to the commentary with a positive connotation, Pica pica is the Latin name for the Eurasian magpie, perhaps the smartest bird (and animal?) of all :-)

Congratulations on the launch, best of luck.
Founder-led Sales is Broken
Hello everyone - my name is Andre Smith, creator of Founder-led — you can call me Dre.

I’m solving a problem I stumbled upon while leading GTM / founder-led sales at my last startup.

Have you ever ended a meeting with a prospect and felt like the call could’ve gone better? Maybe you felt like you didn’t ask the right questions or handled an objection properly?

Feeling this way can be tough and may impact the most important elements of your sales success: confidence and skills

What I’ve noticed is — most founders do not have traditional sales training to help them become efficient with customer discovery, objections, and pricing conversations within their founder-led sales motions.

I’ve sold SaaS and PaaS for the last 12 years and the key to get better in sales is having enough at bats to practice these conversations.

Each conversation uncovers insights on where you need to improve and how to respond in order to gain trust with prospects.

In founder-led sales, teams end up practicing on real opportunities. I believe this is the determining factor on why > 90% of startups fail selling B2B products.

Some of the smartest people in the world are tackling the biggest problems, yet they’re leaving their founder-led sales efforts to chance — hoping some advice they heard at a sales enablement session would help.

If you’re paying attention to how AI is changing sales enablement, you’ve probably came across platforms like Nooks.ai, where later-stage sales teams can practice realistic sales conversations with an agent.

Founder-led is like Nooks’ AI sales coaching product but tailored specifically for founder-led sales.

I’m looking to help founders solve a couple of problems:

1. Founders without sales experience are risking their early opportunities, going into calls without the skills they need to convert prospects into a loyal customers.

2. There isn’t a sales feedback-loop for founders which helps them improve and refine early sales conversations. Later stage teams have sales leadership or proper tooling to help AEs here.

In my MVP, I’m hyper-focused on helping founders master customer discovery with an AI agent that will simulate a conversation as their ICP.

If you’re a founder in the sales trenches right now, I’d love to get your feedback on what I’ve built and see if I can help you consistently land new customers.

Get on our waiting list and I’ll send you a code for immediate access.

Thank you!!
Dre

If you’re interested in reading my manifesto, check it out here:
https://www.founder-led.app/manifesto
Did you ever get asked why you came back to the academic world in the interviews? I'm curious how PhDs who've been in the industry are viewed from academia.
Sure, but you can still re-prompt them again telling them to just do better.

In case people missed it, I'm referencing an observation recently made by 'minimaxir, described here:

https://minimaxir.com/2025/01/write-better-code/

As it turns out, you can improve the quality of code generated by some LLMs by repeatedly responding to it with just three words: "write better code".

While Max only tested this on Claude 3.5 Sonnet, I see no reason why this wouldn't work with the "thinking" models either. Even if it doesn't the results might still be interesting. With that in mind, here's the article's experiment applied to o1-preview:

https://cloud.typingmind.com/share/69e62483-45a4-4378-9915-6...

Eyeballing the output, it seems to align with the article's observation.

(o1-preview is the only "thinking" model I currently have API access to; official ChatGPT app doesn't let me reply to o1 family, forcing further interactions to be with "non-thinking" models instead.)
California’s labor board could state that anyone impacted by algorithmic decisions has the right to review the algorithm used, and that all algorithms used must be deterministic and diagrammable. If clearly stated, “flip a coin” or “choose one at random” is fine, but “trained AI network” is not.

This would shine light on algorithms used at Uber, DoorDash, Amazon, Microsoft, Workday (based in Oakland). Anyone with a worker in California whose work is subject to algorithmic intervention would have the right to request the source code to all algorithms impacting their gig, temporary, or permanent employment.

I cannot imagine a more frightening regulatory path for California tech. They would spend a billion dollars trying to stop it.
JSR supports sigstore https://jsr.io/docs/trust
The behavior of service work employers only makes sense when we consider that it's all geared towards the profits of owners and shareholders. There are few or no worker-owned companies, nonprofits or even corporate charters that make workers a priority. So without viable competition, profit-driven (as opposed to wage-driven) companies will continue to dominate.

We need a new mental framework for organizing companies to be worker-owned:

https://www.noemamag.com/overthrowing-our-tech-overlords/

Worker-owned companies would receive a seal of approval from employees so they know where to apply, and companies that exploit workers would risk losing their seal and having their employees jump ship.

To use courier apps as an example: since there is little complexity in matching vendors with delivery workers, then a worker-first app should be able to compete. After all, it's pretty easy to save millions of dollars when employees vote on who gets bonuses and their sizes, rather than just paying the board (CEO, CFO, etc) whatever it skims for itself.

There's still the chicken-and-egg problem of needing users in order to scale. But I think we've been looking at it as a tough sell for too long, instead of offering a product (consistent employment and income with low constraints and commitments) that workers are eagerly looking for already.
People who renounce contamination from digital content will be paid by AIs to answer their questions on simple terminals.
Related. Others?

Calm Technology - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29115653 - Nov 2021 (68 comments)

Calm Technology - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21799736 - Dec 2019 (155 comments)

Principles of Calm Technology - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12389344 - Aug 2016 (66 comments)

Calm Technology - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9107526 - Feb 2015 (1 comment)

Calm Tech, Then and Now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8475764 - Oct 2014 (1 comment)

Designing Calm Technology (1995) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7976258 - July 2014 (2 comments)
I think the parent’s main point is that even if LLMs sustain exponential advancement, that doesn’t guarantee that humanity’s advancement will mimic technology’s growth curve.

In other words, it’s possible to have rapid technological advancement without significant improvement/benefit to society.
water would be high humidity not low.
Didn't she get loads of donations and money once she started meeting famous people and becoming famous herself?
Haha. discord is the only social app that would be worse for this purpose than facecrook.

That said, your main point is solid.
Hole in 420 strokes!
The only path to the target was through a corner of width 1, so I had to get a very specific set of 1s or 2s. But I kept rolling back & forth on 5s & 6s :D

The specificity of the result after such a long time gambling without real reward is oddly satisfying.
I thought it would be obvious that I’m not arguing the statistical facts, but the idea that “it is easier to think about” the 100 doors scenario. There is simply no straightforward explanation that works for laypeople.
When I am traveling, i most likely use my mobile data. That data is tunneled to my mobile provider, exiting to the public internet at exactly the same server.

In my case, Cloudflare will identify me as BUD even when i'm roaming at a different country.

This behavior is very typical for the EU, because the telco landscape is fairly fragmented, and each company typically have only one, or at most 2 peering locations.

This may be different within the US where the distances are bigger, and latencies matter more, so there is more incentive to peer locally.
Considering that it's possible to levitate a live frog with a (very strong) magnet without killing it, I'm able to believe that a sufficiently strong magnetic field can be detectable by a human without killing or immediately, obviously harming them.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240629004541/https://medium.co...
Whatever you want them to be?

I don’t care about enforcing any specific interpretation on passing readers…
> wait, are you dictating into Duolingo?

Am I dictating insomuch as writing speaking free-form words and it writes them down? No.

Duolingo will present a word and ask me to verbalize them into the microphone.

Duolingo will present a phrase or sentence and ask me to verbalize them into the microphone.

I know that Duolingo will do this also for learning German.
> Do you think a large proportion of Signal users also use VPNs?

It is feasible to consider that interesting Signal users mostly use VPN as an extra protection layer.
Kahneman, Cognition, and Cultural Evolution
I was trying to imagine some neutral scenario where there wasn't onerous restriction or cash incentives.
Note: this person is the same 15-year old who found the Zendesk Slack takeover exploit a few months ago [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41818459
Second paragraph of the article starts with:

> This occurred in late summer in South Carolina, August 1980, in extremely high humidity.

But I may have misunderstood this as high humidity being key to it happening, rather than an impediment.
You can't instruct a random Signal client to fetch a random URL. Here's how this attack works:

1. Attacker sends novel image to Signal

2. Signal hosts the image on their core servers

3. Signal instructs victim to fetch preview of the image

4. Victim asks the CDN for the image

5. CDN gets the image from Signal core servers and caches it

6. Victim gets the image from the CDN and displays the preview normally

7. Attacker hits every one of the CDN cache servers

8. The CDN cache server that say "yep, saw that already" is the one closest to the victim
My Experience with Phoenix LiveView
Imma invest in fly swatters
Wow, didn't take him long to reward Oracle. And I can imagine he's cooking up something with Tik-tok that will help them and his other rich buddies.

I guess this also helps them steer OpenAI into their orbit.
Crash Recovery in Exhubris
https://web.archive.org/web/20241228230216/http://quistgaard...

Site wouldn't load for me, here's an archive version
I hope I am not overhyping this. It's just some source code and documentation. And meanwhile I found out that the libqmi team also is already working on an implementation, so none of this may be needed.

To make the source code work in a general fashion with most Qualcomm modems you might have lots of work to do.

Also, as mentioned: It's up to the vendor to decide if they keep the LPA eSIM support in their firmware, or remove it, or disable this in QMI. Sierra Wireless for example for long was known to throw most stuff out because their flash else would not have had enough space for both the PCIe MBIM and USB QMI firmware they needed to implement, so tons of stuff is missing in their QMI.

For some vendors you will need some magic commands to enable some SIM-related features.

So please don't be disappointed if this turns out to be of no use. It's just a fragment that may be able to help solving a puzzle, or maybe not.
Poor pay is an understatement. Back in 2010’s when I graduated, I was making USD$21K per year! If you calculate the hourly rate it is probably close to $3/hour given that PhDs work every day, and specially in the holidays that the advisor has more free time.

We were jokingly say that they don’t dare to call it a salary, that is why they call it a stipend.
Based on what arguments…?

Any HN user can declare any opinion whatsoever regarding “killer apps” but that doesn’t automatically make their opinions true or meaningful.
I wonder if this was inspired by this Twitter thread

https://twitter.com/flowersslop/status/1873115669568311727
Nope. Rust is not a good tool for servers. It's downright terrible, in fact. Goroutines help _a_ _lot_ with concurrency.
Maybe someone here knows a science youtuber (Veritasium/Smarter Every Day etc) with enough clout to try to get an in with 3M or similar and try to reproduce
How to Become Indistractable in 2025
> Online multiplayer games must (yes must) take place on servers with human admins.

The sheer scale of this arbitrary requirement is hilarious.
But the universality of phones also made them great tools. Maps, calls, messages all can be enormously beneficial.

The problem comes when they are both a tool and an entertainment device, as they are inseparably linked together.
There's a lot of interesting ideas in the experiments section, here: http://amasci.com/freenrg/iontest.html
not just occasionally but often, in our experience with multiple phones and iPads. I have 2 kids with devices and have found Screen Time completely useless. It is the right idea in theory but in practice it's broken (I'm guessing no Apple higher ups have young kids that they've tried to use this with.)

Also, besides the resets (and by reset I mean not just time restrictions but content restrictions too), my kid can just bypass it by entering his AppleID password.
Postdocs always seemed like a scam to me.

Almost by definition, if you're doing a Postdoc in a STEM field, you're probably qualified for a relatively well-paying job in industry [1].

And it's not like universities don't know this, people have been complaining about it for forever. They know if they were to just hire a person with a relevant PhD to do work, they'd ask for a good wage, so instead they dangle this "maybe you'll qualify for a tenured professor job eventually if you do underpaid labor for us for N years..."

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My relationship with academia is...complicated. I dropped out of college in 2012, worked as an engineer for awhile, did a brief stint as a researchey-person at NYU, got laid-off from there, worked in industry for another several years, tried school again in 2018 and dropped out again in 2019, finally finished my degree in 2021, and started a PhD in 2022, and did an adjunct lecturer thing from second-half of 2022 to first-half 2023.

Since I was working full time (and couldn't pay my mortgage on academic wages), I was doing a PhD at University of York part-time remotely. It was fun, but I wasn't just paid poorly, I had to pay them! About $15,000-$16,000/year American [2]! Even though I was doing work for the school, writing code for them that's not categorically different than the code I got paid yuppie engineer salary for, I was losing money in this prospect (and not just the normal opportunity cost kind).

I did it for two years, but I dropped it in November of last year because it was an expensive thing that I wasn't convinced was actually going to pay off for me. The PhD was already pretty self-guided, I could still research the topics I was interested in for free, academia's pace is glacial-at-best, and I didn't burn any bridges so I could go back later if I really wanted.

I might still publish a paper with my advisor in this next year (that's still pending), but of course since I'm not enrolled-in and paying-money-to the school, it won't count towards any credential. I think I'm ok with that.

[1] There might be exception to this but I can't think of many.

[2] depending on the dollar->pound exchange rate.
Headline feels like a click bait :)
I own that timer, or an Aliexpress knockoff there-of. It is great and helps my kids with their homework.

The daylight computer looked interesting too; but its website undermines the message it seems to give. I wanted a price and to order and could do neither, but there were long paragraphs about how revolutionary it was, with left to right and up-to-down transitions.
Maybe I'm slow but I'm failing to read the part where AI reminds the author of specifically cloud computing. The general premise seems to be "lot of early promises never panned out"... but then you can say that about pretty much any fads or exciting trends.
I understand that this is your preference. But I still don't understand why do you prefer that instead.