skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gen x here. There are couple things I've been on both sides of.

Card catalogs in the library. It was really important focus on what was being searched. Then there was the familiarity with a particular library and what they might or might not have. Looking around at adjacent books that might spawn further ideas. The indexing now is much more thorough and way better, but I see younger peers get less out of the new search than they could.

GPS vs reading a map. I keep my GPS oriented north which gives me a good sense of which way the streets are headed at any one time, and a general sense of where I am in the city. A lot of people just drive where they are told to go. Firefighters (and pizza delivery) still learn all the streets in their districts the old school way.

Some crutches are real. I've yet to meet someone who opted for a calculator instead of putting in the work with math who ended up better at math. It might be great for getting through math, or getting math done, but it isn't better for learning math (except to plow through math already learned to get to the new stuff).

So all three of these share the common element of "there is a better way now", but at the same time learning it the old way better prepares someone for when things don't go perfectly. Good math skills can tell you if you typoed on the calculator. Map knowledge will help with changes to traffic or street availability.

We see students right now using AI to avoid writing at all. That's great that they're are learning a tool which can help their deficient writing. At the same time their writing will remain deficient. Can they tell the tone of the AI generated email they're sending their boss? Can they fix it?
More question, how are you going to deal with SPAM and moderation?
We could design the experiment. Then try to reduce the experiment to a cheap, convenient form.

Surely somebody has done at least that.
All the research I've seen around MOOCs and online only learning is that it's pretty tough for people to stick at, and only 5-10% of people ever complete a course. I just can't see that putting people in front of a computer to do this sort of thing is a good strategy for everyone.
I'm curious why the NFC tags are required at all?

Can't you switch profiles on your phone without scanning an NFC tag already? Couldn't your app allow profile switching without requiring any NFC tags?

It's not clear to me what the NFC tags add to this experience.
Programming Languages After LLMs
The palindromic Belphegor numbers https://oeis.org/A232449

Indices of Belphegor primes: numbers k such that the decimal number https://oeis.org/A232448
If you're adventurous, you could try:

https://theweave.social/moss/

It's early alpha - here's the story behind it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh1UVlIKvNg
I use the brick app: https://getbrick.app/, and it works pretty well, but they have this weird bug where selecting certain apps on a block list crashes the app. They have a pop-up indicating that it's some apple-related bug, which I find kind of hard to believe. Is this something that also happens in your app?
I think the disappearing polymorph stories are also pretty spooky. These have real-life impacts, like with ritonavir.
It doesn’t matter what the poster believes. He is doing something for the benefit of a community that doesn’t care about whatever ideological battle he is trying to fight and inconveniencing them in the process
Also the attack can be performed multiple times and if a person travels it could narrow down the possibilities quite a lot.
Yeah, Andromeda is way too far away. The Gaia mission was custom-built to do exactly this kind of "stereo" imaging of stars in our own galaxy, but it's still not sensitive enough to cover the entire Milky Way.
Is this the repo you are referring to https://github.com/amd/go_amd_smi ? Would having a prebuilt version there help you ?
I have no way of measuring how much good Bill Gates had done for the world. He has certainly done a lot of evil as well. I literally have have no way of objectively quantifying either, and neither do you, which is why your claims cannot possibly be objectively supported by any rational means.
It is not complicated why this is happening. Even very low wage jobs in wealthy countries pay 10x what people can make in poor countries. The gig economy advances a race to the bottom for wages, in particular because there is zero identity verification or language skills needed for most of these guys.

Of course the number of deliveries that must be completed in an hour increases. Of course the pay per delivery decreases. Of course the delivery bikers are constantly running red lights and getting killed. Of course the shoddy ebikes are burning down the tenements. That is the logic of the market: more, cheaper, all the time.
What about the zen aesthetic that came with buddhism
Constant and plentiful supplies of food are, on an evolutionary scale, a somewhat recent thing. Agriculture itself is what, around 12k years old - a few hundred generations?

We're all experts at eating food but having an instinctual understanding of exactly when to stop eating was probably much less important historically.
"We demonstrate that the reasoning patterns of larger models can be distilled into smaller models, resulting in better performance compared to the reasoning patterns discovered through RL on small models. The open source DeepSeek-R1, as well as its API, will benefit the research community to distill better smaller models in the future."

From the research paper. Pretty interesting, and it's good news for people with consumer hardware.
I would love to connect! We currently have about 40 connectors ready to use, and both our team and the community are actively adding more as we go.

btw, we will be launching an MCP support in the coming weeks.

I’m excited to learn more about how we could collaborate to benefit the community :)

Here’s the link to explore our connectors: https://docs.picaos.com/api-reference/connectors
Feel free to grab a time on my calendar here: https://calendly.com/moekatib/founder-coffee
>you're arguing local, short term benefits

Whelp, we know which one is going to win then. An economic benefit now wins the vast majority of the time.
Ask HN: Is wind power financially viable without subsidies?
It's very hard to find current non-ideological information on this topic.
>I guess a smart phone could do that duty today

Not since they bravely killed off the headphone plug.
Making "This" Less Annoying
I will provide this feedback to the docs team to clean up. I found it hard when i was making that Poll :D but I looked harder instead of trying to fix the docs. So thank you for the feedback.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_number

The name is derived from a conversation ca. 1919 involving mathematicians G. H. Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan. As told by Hardy:

I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to be rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
Yes, Cloudflare should allow customers to disable that header, and Signal shouldn't cache images sent to a single person, or even groups of less than a few hundred people.
Mmmm "qualified deanonymization" perhaps?
Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology
> Signal can and should append some noise to the images when encrypted (or better yet, pad them to a set file size as suggested by paulryanrogers in a sibling comment) to mitigate the risks of this attack for those who do have threat models that require it

Adding padding to the image wouldn't do anything to stop this "attack". This is just watching which CF datacenters cache the attachment after it gets sent.
50K people is a limited community to move to another platform???
Ah, that explains why I thought I was getting very lucky to be able to get a hole in 3, and shortly afterwards, even a hole in 2.
Is it possible to get a hole in 1, or are levels constructed so as to prevent that?
Fish Startup Allegedly Faked Most of Its Sales
Color Spaces: Cielab, Oklab, Oklch
What happens if they collide at speed?
I think it's telling that said panic was short-lived, and to anyone watching the video, laughably silly. Unless you're a psychologist studying the dynamics of digital crowds, it probably isn't very interesting at all.

By contrast that same "panic" would probably have been framed as UFO's and an alien invasion pre-smartphone era.
I am not sure I understand what you mean by "trustworthy enough to send them notifications". Do you need anything other than one's phone number to send them a signal message?
Google made Release-Please to make monorepo development easier, there is a GitHub Action for it in the marketplace. Would probably make things a lot cleaner for this situation.
Upcoming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal ?
According to https://www.weather.gov/arx/heat_index, 100 deg F with 95% RH is a heat index of 185 F. The linked paper says "temperature often approached 100 F with relative humidity above 95%," and later references specific conditions of 92 F and 95% RH (137 F heat index).

Are these sorts of heat index values feasible for a plant environment? The line about 100/95 seems almost hyperbolic, which doesn't help with credibility in my opinion. Maybe I'm missing something.
I love seeing photos like this, and assumed that you would need the Hubble to capture pictures of space this good. But I have been following Andrew McCarthy [1] on twitter and am amazed at how good of pictures you can get with a backyard telescope.

[1] https://x.com/ajamesmccarthy/status/1876658931717832938
As another Canadian (who is living in the US and working in tech), this is just naive on so many levels.

Firstly, unicorn valuations does not necessarily mean innovation. There is nothing innovative about the Salesforces and Zendesks of the world, they're great market fits in a very profitable corporate world.

Secondly, the whole world is playing catchup to US which it comes to money, not just Canada.

Lastly, the valuations & money in US are a result of an insane ethos (working hard, breaking shit), very corporate-friendly government policies, and a very capitalist society.

Canada isn't perfect, our housing is way too expensive and we'll always play second fiddle to USD. But Canadian society is miles better than anything you'll see in US, and for that I'm forever grateful. Giving up that peace and security is just not worth it for any amount of money.
This reads like a good SCP.
> So, returning to your question, my answer would be, either Buck Angel should use a unisex restroom, or, if none is available, go elsewhere to find one.

So you are trading one form of dehumanization for another. I think if you want to implement this policy you need to mandate unisex restrooms. Otherwise you are excluding trans people from public life... but that's the point isn't it?

> Should a schizophrenic experiencing visual hallucinations have the right to reorder society in order to accommodate their delusion? The answer is obviously "no". So why then do trans-people have the special right, in the minds of some, to reorder our language, customs, and culture to accommodate their delusions?

We routinely set policy based on voices our representatives hear in their heads they believe to be the voice of God. George Bush is quoted saying God told him to invade Iraq. For thousands of years human history and law has been guided based on a bunch of people claiming an invisible sky wizard told them how to order society. Why do the voices in their head rank higher than a trans person's?
Beyond: The Astronomy Community on Bluesky
Who knew the textbox for "text" just created a comment? I didn't. https://imgur.com/a/1DhXNyD - assumed it was like reddit.
My admittedly limited experience with being on the other side of this amounts to receiving a number of reports about email-related DNS records accompanied by bounty requests. I realize there are different kinds of people out there, and reporting of more serious issues would warrant more respect, but it seems like a number of people are just fishing for attention/money/"experience". I really didn't need to be notified by randos that the DMARC policy I chose was "vulnerable". Thank you, I read the RFC already. If and when we do decide to change it, it's up to us and our security posture to decide, not you.
"Right" is alas undefined and undefinable,

not least as "consumers" idon't make economic decisions wrt to some a priori set of N weighted dimensions within which a gradient of desirability is defined, or in fact by any set of such dimensions.

They mostly make discretionary decisions wrt to a set of influences triggers habits and cues most of which are not about information or rational processes.

A hobby horse is that an increasing number of these are manipulated by those in a market with the resources to identify exploit them.

This is not uniquely the case for those making discretionary spending decisions... but it for those of us, that dissatisfaction—or dis-satiation—seems to perpetually "find its level." (I.e. the post-orgasmic clarify of the satisfaction of the craving, soon evaporates like the dew.)

The phenomenon of perpetual unsatisfiable desire for the Next Thing is so ubiquitous and accepted we don't even attend to it any longer; and so baked in that 2500 year old Greek myth gives us well-known parables (c.f. the myth of Tantalus).

Related: so, GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic have had discernible macroscopic impacts on "consumption" across many economic categories, enough so that the Economist magazine had a story IIRC on unease in industries most obviously based on addictive behavior.

I am curious whether there has been a partiuclarly-discernible impact in "expensive hobbies" defined by constant pursuit of the Next Better Thing e.g. audiophiles, collectors, constant-tinker hobbies like mechanical keyboards, modular synthesizers, etc..

The battle in the heavens of our psyches may be waged for the next period between GLP-1 agents on the one hand, and exploitation of ML on the other, uniquely powerful tool as it is for identifying and tuning efficacious triggers for addictive behavior.
What's wrong on my end? I get this from both Firefox and Chromium:

Firefox: Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to amasci.com.

Chromium: https://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html

Now "isdownorjustme" tells me amasci is down:

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/amasci.com?proto=https

I'm not too sure what's going on.
No, the VCs tell the founder/CEO to hire people who've done it before to help pay down the risks of unknown unknowns (which are real – this advice is overly simplistic but isn't conceptually wrong). This translates into them hiring from FAANGs if they take the advice semi-literally.
https://archive.ph/p0bG4
> $ is so important in business that every typewriter has one

I actually had a typewriter without one. I would simulate it with S <backspace> / which was not very satisfactory but generally understandable in context.
I'm no religious scholar but I've had a LOT of conversations with Mormons with various levels of training (regular folks, bishops, missionaries) about why parts of the story don't make logical sense or aren't internally consistent. The common answers are in the expected range from the standard "god works in mysterious ways" to "if you could prove God was real it wouldn't take faith and the point of the human existence is to find faith".

The Mormon church, of course, has its wings of scholars trying to find evidence to support their origin stories (like looking for their god's original home planet or buying ancient South American temples to hopefully find something supporting the story of white peoples in the early Americas) but they also fully lean in to the idea that humans are inherently fallable and human reason isn't as powerful as faith and feeling. I think this is well demonstrated by the ritual of "bearing one's testimony" in church which is always ways you FELT the holy spirit or by the modern forgiveness (and embracing of) the clear corruption and deception of the original prophet Joseph Smith (like the demonstrably false book of Abraham, for example).

This isn't even supposed to be judgement of one way over the other - I'm just describing the very strong difference between Christian apologists like the author (who want the true truth the right way) and other kinds of proselytizing (that are more supportive of "any road to the right answer").
Apps that create false data to crash advertising algorithms. Random GPS locations, random product interests, random web site visits, random follows and likes. Like how SEO poisons search results.

Apps that respond to video ads by calling/messaging the sponsor CEO and the media company CEO with the audio of the ad.
Coding problems are never solved with rag.
>Can we just be real and just say we aren't advancing humanity with AI, it is just focused on automating out jobs.

No because that's not real. AI will automate jobs but also advance humanity.

It's like saying can't we be real and admit that tractors and farm machinery were not advancing humanity they were just replacing farm jobs. They replaced some farm jobs but also provided food abundance and let people go off and work as personal trainers and the like to help people lose the weight. And work as scientists, artists etc.
A sheet of plastic. With a heavy static charge. Moving at 10mph. Assumedly in the vicinity of a big ground.

Is that the whole experiment?
Before the Conservatives jump all over the article, the full article has a few key caveats.

1. Spending on stuff, like infrastructure and public services, is substantially down. In the chart, the US has never spent less as a percentage of GDP providing public services.

2. Public sector employment has long been in decline.

3. Entitlements are crowding out everything else.
Hello, it appears you've never even ran the most basic internet platform before in your life.

Simply put you have to ask the most important questions first, then build an app backwards from that

1) How will it be paid for

2) How will it be moderated.

So, you've already failed number one. You have no means to pay for it.

Then you failed number two. If it gains even a modicum of popularity it will be completely and totally over ran with spam.
Oh cool, so they are using heat now too. I wonder what the next step-up will take? They are already at 11 platters but I can imagine you could make things even thinner :hmm:
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists
in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on
the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)
Let’s be honest, Nextdoor is about people seeing that a black person is suspiciously going into a home using their garage door opener, driving in their garage and using their key…
OpenAI took all of StackOverflow's content to train their LLM,
and now it's clear they stole their audience and revenue, too.
How to get a perfect salt ring deposit in your pasta pot
That's pretty darn far from what we're talking about here. The comparison is absurd.
Cool writeup by a 15yo, except for the way it completely oversells in the title.

Basically this allowed an attacker to find out which cloudflare data center a victim connected to when being tricked into loading something from cloudflare. This is often within a 250 mile radius of where they're living but not necessarily.

Can't one find out someone's IP just as easily by making them make a request to a URL controlled by an attacker? Is the problem that cloudflare is whitelisted for 0-click?
> is on the move... approaching the actual geographic pole.

If you're referring true/geographic north, no, it's actually moving farther away from it.

> https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/bgsmagnetic...
I am a straight man, but talking from the perspective of what women partners have told me they enjoyed, and were interested in doing repeatedly- and it has consistently involved acting 'dominant/primal,' physically aggressive, and getting deeply into my body and out of my head. Not everyone likes the same thing of course, unlike animals consent, communication, and mutual understanding are key- and much more so than usual when trying things like this.

Counter-intuitively, getting into this headspace makes sex last much longer, not shorter- I suspect human bodies and minds are different from a lot of other mammals in this regard. It is more often that anxiety, tension, and over intellectualizing causes issues with men not lasting long enough.
> If a company "offers you the chance to buy their stock" after X months/years don't do it

This generalizes to a rule of thumb, "Don't accept any deal you didn't go looking for." Same as a trapdoor firewall doesn't accept any incoming connections.

Someone on the street offers to sell you a bridge, say no. You get brightly-colored letters from your credit union selling you car insurance, recycle them. Your friend wants you to buy a bowling alley with him, refuse.

It almost always works.
I live in a part of the country where most people still have 3-5 kids. Some of their parents had like 8.

Everyone is very active outdoors here and as a family. The gyms are family gyms and have daycare services while you work out. Fitness is VERY popular here as are fitness trackers and Apple is a distant third to Garmin & Fitbit.
That's partly because of growth based valuations, and fast-acting network effects. The whole model is predicated on "get there fast, get the monopoly". Which you can't either with a traditional, non-scalable business (restaurants) or even a scalable industrial business (cars) - yes you get economy of scale, but they benefit relatively little from network effects of other people owning them. Goods like fashion which don't need a service ecosystem, even less so.

Total scalability & strong network effect points toward a "get the monopoly, now" business model. Which, IDK, might suit some things but definitely isn't the right fit for all things tech.
Training DNN in O(1) Memory Using Random Matrices
> Often all you need is olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper and you're set for most salads.

Why do you need a "dressing"? In my corner of Europe they put the above by default on every restaurant table and the salad has nothing in it (or maybe a tiny bit of oil and vinegar), you adjust it to taste.

The only places that offer salad "dressings" are american inspired and even those mostly serve it separately so you can ignore it.
All of those can be done on meetup - but then we would lose a lot of people who are not, and will not be on Meetup.

The email list is probably the single most important part of the tech stack actually.