skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does this pass as science?? There is no actual data on people. They simulated from a multivariate normal and then reported the frequency of observations where all three dimensions were one or more standard deviations above the mean. This has no bearing on the actual number of exceptional people, the results follow only from the assumed correlations and the assumption of normality (which is probably wrong).
It's a gross miscarriage of justice.

The gov should have to prove you committed a crime before that information is admissible at sentencing.
> Constitutional stasis

Tickles me to see “stasis” so used - not incorrectly, ofc, but nonetheless as a perfect contranym of the original Greek.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasis_(ancient_Greece)]
Buy Bitcoin if you value your children's financial future
I've sometimes wondered what it would take to bootstrap up to the 555 chip or similar. Is it within the reach of most countries with universities?
The bank app was the first thing I checked when I got the text message, because I was so surprised they wouldn't have just sent me a push notification through there. And there was no indication in there was any kind of problem with the card, no sign of the pending/blocked transaction, nothing.

And they definitely have the 2FA-through-app capability because it's used for auth when I sign into online banking on a computer— the app has to grant permission for the new device. But hilariously they don't seem to have it wired up yet for phone interactions.
Some more interesting breadcrumbs (what does it take to implement a repo)

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/2644
What is the upside down v supposed to be? Yeah, I know that it is "and". But it isn't specified, and I do little enough logic that I had to look it up.
Yep, but remember that not everything works efficiently on a market. Utilities like water and power with high barriers, at least on the distribution side, shouldn't be left to the whims of a free market. We have plenty of historical precedent where market based solutions fared poorly compared to a more command oriented approach.

You often see politicians and ideologues who insist that the market is the only solution to any problem, and these people are wrong and their solutions can lead to tragedy.
Yes! They don't have a Bluesky monetization strategy yet or they have one and it says Bluesky isn't profitable for them or they have one and it forecasts profitability but some counter-party has not given the NFL their preferred terms.

That is a lot of words to just say: money.
It seems more unreasonable to me to make arbitrary exceptions like that. I would want my RNG to be predictably random so that if 123456788 comes up I know that it's not some sort of kludge to avoid a more interesting number.
CISA is the organization that declared that the 2020 election was the most secure election ever. So it is expected that CISA would get "liquidated" by this new administration.
We don't share any code with DTrace, but it's not a bad analogy. As with my other reply about strace, it'd be interesting to see if we can more closely integrate Stratoshark, strace, and DTrace in the same way that Wireshark integrates with tcpdump.
It often is. I'm just saying that even for pretty complicated cases it's still within 100ms.
I just can't fathom the lack of self-awareness of people who championed Ross Ulbricht's cause, seemingly because he looks like them, codes like them, and sat in the same public library they frequent or became associated with a techno-libertarian identity. Hundreds of drug and gun dealers are sentenced every week, some certainly unjustly. Where is the outrage for them?
I'd add the additional nuance that cognitive load is highly dependent on the brain of the subject. One person's cognitive load is another person's effortless routine--it largely depends on how often the person works with those concepts and how quickly they can switch into the "mode". Where one person sees a wall of indecipherable matrix variables in Python, another person sees that it's obviously just a Cholesky decomposition as part of a Monte Carlo simulation.

So where to push the complexity should be dependent on who will be interacting with it and what they consider "cognitive load".

As an additional example:

> Rendering your web application entirely on the frontend in React, or entirely on the backend with templates, where all the logic lives in one place, is much easier than doing server-sided rendering then hydrating on the frontend.

For an expert front-end React developer, rendering entirely in the backend with Jinja templates would be higher cognitive load than the other options, even if it is technically simpler.
The reason young people often have a lower standard of living is because:

- there is a shortage of housing

- predatory loans for higher education

- chronic health crisis due to terrible government health policy and guidelines

- globalization has led to an international labor market

The last point may be bad for many Americans but an unequivocal good for the world. Global poverty has seen an incredible drop in the past 70 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_poverty#/media/File:Wo...
Display controllers from the 8-bit era were simple conceptually but had a huge parts count, particularly it needs to have memory access logic very similar to what is in the microprocessor. The earliest home computers (TRS-80 Model I, Apple II) had a large parts count which was reduced in the next generation (TRS-80 Color Computer, VIC-20) because the glue logic and display controllers got the same LSI [1] treatment as the CPU.

People who build modern real-hardware fantasy computers [2] struggle with the cost of the display controller if it is done in an authentic style so they wind up using an FPGA or microcontroller (amazingly easy to do with ESP32 [3])

This thing addresses the problem by reusing many of the parts between the CPU and display controller, plus the contrast is not so stark since the CPU part count is greater than 1, unlike the typical retrocomputer.

It's fascinating! It's a minicomputer in the sense that it is built out of low-integration parts, but it is like a microcomputer in important ways, particularly having the closely integrated display controller.

[1] https://vaibhav-pawale19.medium.com/integrated-circuits-ssi-...

[2] http://www.commanderx16.com/

[3] https://github.com/fdivitto/FabGL
You must have missed what's been happening in China for the past 30 or so years. Their investment in science and engineering in that period has been staggering. It's now paying off.

I'm old enough to remember when the same things were being said of Japan and then how quickly that blew up on us. I suspect China is going to dominate the world economy in the 2030s.
I'll leave the authoritarianism aspect to someone else but I'll point out that the part of your comment where "he makes his money from the leisure industry, so his interests are aligned with Americans doing well and having disposable income" is not representative of his ability let alone judgement in planning/making decisions that reflect those interests. You can be in favor of something and completely botch the execution.

The PATRIOT Act was introduced by a Republican and signed into law by a Republican and had wide support from both parties. 62 Democrats and 3 Republicans voted against it in the House (there was only a single senate vote against it), and you can't have a discussion about the Patriot Act's introduction without bringing up the fact that it was enacted at the height of the post-9/11 fear. It has always been a controversial and flawed bill.

Most of today's social issues aren't about left versus right, they are about class.
You're tied to your job though. Not so in say, UK, Canada.
While you raise some valid points, you need 10kV to jump a 1cm gap. So in a domestic situation at the much lower voltage involved (130V / 250V) I imagine you don't need to worry so much about the air gap.

The care instructions and dust you mention sounds likely to be super important when you're casually touching live stuff while standing on a grounded floor.

In an electrostatic situation, the electrons can flow (almost) freely without the shoes / tyres and so a large differential between body / ground will not build up. With shoes, you'll need a large difference to build up (10kV? 20kV? More?) before it discharges.

Anyway, there is clearly a difference between these situations - even if the shoes don't provide magical protection. But the shoes are not magical, as you correctly describe.
Ah, thanks. I thought they were dismissed without prejudice. Thanks for the correction.
I've adopted the habit of always having an e-book on my phone, and when I crave a distraction, I read a few pages instead of opening reddit etc. It's been great.
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the image of a man’s mind.”
Preact is definitely a good choice if you're looking for something lightweight. React-dom was already relatively hefty, and seems to have gotten even larger in version 19. Upgrading the React TypeScript Vite starter template from 18 to 19 increases the bundle size from 144kB to 186kB on my machine [1][2]. They've also packaged it in a way that's hard to analyze with sites like bundlephobia.com and pkg-size.dev.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/27824

[2] https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/29913
How can you expect people to take your comment seriously if you can't even spell his name?
Every time this comes up, more people get pulled in to understand the point. Long may this continue!
It’s always going to be like this. Take Apple. Plucky garage started anti-establishment startup now a giant gate keeper of apps and stores using any means necessary to keep that 30% tax/tariff/whatever you call it
When Trump pardoned Christopher 2X, was he simply confused about his race? There are plenty of people Trump pardoned that weren't white:

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-don...

This kind of divisive nonsense is purposeless and doesn't productively add to the conversation.
Fortunately, there are plenty of private sector companies investigating Salt Typhoon.

I can speak for the firm I work for. Our clients are effectively invulnerable to Salt Typhoon. Yes, I know that sounds like a "big claim" but it's really not. We enable our customers to run endpoints that aren't based on Windows or macOS. So...
AI seems to have validated Wirth's Law[1] more than it has Moore's, and they are running in direct competition

[1] - "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster"
Really struggling to understand what this has to do with the topic.
The Trending page is ALWAYS full of sport hashtags. Always...like over 75% of the trending topics are sports. No matter how many times i click "Not Interested" it still shows me sports. Its like ESPN is paying a huge amount of money to completely monopolize the trends list
1,000 seconds equals 16 minutes.

100,000 seconds equals 1 day.

1 million seconds equals 11 days.

1 billion seconds equals 31 years.
This article is written with compassion, and my heart goes out to men and women who want to both thrive financially and enjoy a loving family. The economy has morphed in ways that aren't good for many men. Society is not providing the nudge it used to towards marital fidelity and having children.
Cigarette smoke is vile, but burned hair is another level.
I try not to be pessimistic about research, but this seems like an undergrad stats assignment. The correlations from other research are just plugged into a simulation with no new understanding for anyone who knows what correlation is.
https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1i615u1/the_fir...
In the same vein, I feel like the 'fair source' movement makes sense - pay a fixed percent of profit and get access to a massive collection of licenced software.

Just like with yours though, allocating it fairly is centralized and very hard to make everyone happy. And nobody wants to pay for something that used to be free.
I liked his story about the street lamp that a mob of people wanted to take down. A monk started to suggest debating the merits of Light, which seemed like an annoying and esoteric point until the mob knocked down the street lamp and everyone was left to argue in the dark. That may be an analogy to where we are now.

A related point is, it’s pretty easy to find people unhappy with current systems. But if you ask them what to replace those systems with, you’ll often find that coalition dissolves.
Yea infocom games are the shit. I still play them from time to time.
The problem is that you are unlikely to be able to remove the human, so the worker will eventually become a human, because the liability will eventually land on a human and the code will eventually need to be read and modified by a human. The agents will never be mistake free, much like us
I learned to touch things with a metal object like a key, so the charge spreads out across the part of skin holding the object and the pain is less.
It's a fascinating topic, how technology forms new genres of music. The microphone is often overlooked for its importance in 20th century music evolution.
Yes, it's currently a framework for running LLMs locally in the browser. Browser extension for page context is in our roadmap, but right now we're focused on optimizing multimodal LLMs to work efficiently in the browser environment, so that we can use them for a variety of use cases.
Trae.ai IDE
Apropos of nothing in particular... that brings back a memory (I used to dispatch for a 911 center in the 910 area code). You get some weird stuff in 911 centers sometimes (go figure, right?). In this case, the thing that sticks in my mind is this payphone that used to be on Bald Head Island by the gazebo. It apparently developed some sort of intermittent fault (possibly due to exposure to salt air, but who really knows?) where it would occasionally call 911 on its own. Or at least that seemed to be the case. We'd occasionally get a call from it, with no one speaking on the other end, and we'd send BHI public safety out there and they wouldn't find anybody around it.

Now you might speculate that it was kids playing or something, but based on the time(s) of the calls, the demographics of the island, etc. we always believed it was just some sort of phone malfunction.
What types of actions can you do to correct and prevent this class of errors? I think you could probably enforce deployment and shutdown checklists, perhaps, or have automated DNS checking software to see if any of the issues exist (I bet you guys have a solution for that) but there are so many human-error problems in manufacturing, and I kinda consider the large-scale deployment of apps to have similar issues and failure modes on the human side.
Yes, it's the time of year (olympiad?) when we remind ourselves that elections push power upward, then the elected push it downward.
That's not in the title, where it belongs.

Look at all the sibling posts that are done right:

TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid

Stratoshark, a sibling application to Wireshark

Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation

Flame: A small language model for spreadsheet formulas

JReleaser: quick and effortless way to release your project

The infantile downvoting of anyone who calls out useless titles just plays into HN's rep. Knock it off.
They just set the world record for a fusion reaction, as one example
case-in-point, my mom was effectively cured of a cancer in 2024 that they wouldn't have even tried to treat in 1980
sounds like mac osx notes app to me
The people in Brave New World were still economically relevant.

It may be more like SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ai-13
This may have been true in 1985, but it is definitely not true today. "Bosses" love making massively complex spreadsheets.
According to German law, a competitor (possibly Visa) can sue a company for uncompetitive behaviour that has the potential to affect the consumer negatively.

This means that at least in theory a security researcher could work as a contractor at a competing firm to then let their legal department send a cease and desist letter and demand recouperation of the legal fees including the money paid to the security researcher to find the vulnerability.

Anyone who quotes me on this in their court case is an idiot.
I'm old enough to remember that as well, and now we see where that economic and tech explosion goes when the underlying social and economic structures are inflexible and lacking.

I'm too old to get excited or upset every time people decide that a trend line must continue to infinity.
If you've ever been stalked by a crazy ex-girlfriend who is from a very rich family, you'll probably feel a little "paranoid" or whatever.

I was already on the "I just want to be left alone" vibe generally before all that happened to me, so I just carried on as usual.
I myself didn’t get in through the front door. I got in via the consulting division at AWS (Professional Services). Yes it was a full time direct hire under Amazons usual 4 year offer with base + large signing bonus + RSUs. I am no longer there.

There are all sorts of non tech white collar jobs at all of the BigTech companies that pay top of market. My best friend was hired in the finance department at Amazon Retail. He is now a director at a smaller place and is just now matching the comp of an L6 at Amazon five years later.

There is a better than 50% chance I could get into Google (GCP) doing similar work if I put in the work and learned and could speak about the GCP equivalent of the AWS tech that I know well and where I lead large implementations.

But they only do hybrid and I have no desire to work in an office.
Yeah, Necromancer! I blanked on the name, but that was the one I was thinking of.

But the all-time winner in my book for artistic cleverness AND playability was Alley Cat.
Probably because of Jewish people like me who had their computers hacked and told I wasn't welcome by security cameras near where I live.

I live next to former president's and being efficetively made into a holocaust victim with no proper recourse by the people ment to protect the president's makes me feel like they never should have had the job in the first place.
I am glad you followed up on this, to see if you could do it again! That matches my experience.

I remember feeling like the big tech corps had turned "consumer" into a pejorative and started relentlessly abusing their customers circa 2016 or so... Especially microsoft, post Windows 8. Consumer devices don't need to work. That's for pro devices. Consumer devices just need to sell ads, soak up user time, and let businesses market their goods for consumption!

The majority of search results from late 2019 or so and onwards have only degraded. Even on other platforms, like YouTube -- you get 4-5 real results, and the rest are "suggested for you", even if you've logged out. Google and Youtube both feel like "consumer" search engines, where advertising and eyeball time trump usefulness and user authority (i.e. the user being able to ask for what they want, and get it).
I've written Rust full time for the last 8 years, being part of teams that have shipped several large, transformative, and basically correct projects. No OOP in sight. It's wonderful!
I am currently working on a phone designed to reclaim the digital toolbox nature of the smartphone- access to maps, messages email etc, but with an e-paper display. There are some (albeit not so interface friendly) e readers with SIM cards, but I think there is great power in just having a screen that doesn't vibe with the oversaturated video and image based distractions we are so used to lugging around with us all the time.

One of the most interesting things about a hardware based restriction is that it entirely avoids the game of turning on and off apps or deinstalling them. Even if you want to respond to a message in your DMs in Instagram, it will work, but the temptation to pull up the Reels or For you page just isn't there when it's all black and white and choppy.

Mind you we are super early stages but the idea feels promising and by my own testing I have really found it to be a much more pleasant phone experience.

I'll post some links here if people are interested.
On the contrary. Republicans universally "bring up" the deficit when in power. They only ever talk about it during Democratic administrations though.
Doesn't OpenAI explicitly have a "definition" of AGI that's just "it makes some money"?
Yes, you can perform language translation using the supported large language models.
Haha I almost wish I'd seen it.
>It's only when you replace a set of rules with a different set of rules to serve the same purpose that you've moved the fence.

Fence #1: the existing set of rules defining a more limited US Federal Government and a more limited USCG and a more limited DHS

Fence #2: removed limits on Feds, expanded those organizations, placed limits on [insert economic activity]

Whatever your opinion on the wisdom/value of this, this move by the DHS is an attempt to replace Fence #2 with the original Fence #1.

Put in your terminology, they are replacing a set of rules (expansive gov) with a different set of rules (limited gov).

Put in my terminology, this is correcting the original violation of Chesterton's Fence.
There are credibility issues if you make promises you don't follow up on, especially very public promises that are completely within your power to carry out; there are no limits on the presidential pardon power, barring that it only applies to federal crimes.
> Offshore wind is among the sources of new power generation that will cost the most, at about $100 per megawatt hour for new projects connecting to the grid in 2028, according to estimates from the Energy Information Administration. That includes tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act, which reduces the cost of renewable technologies. But onshore wind is one of the cheapest sources, at about $31 on average for new projects.

I mean, I can see how numbers wise this decision makes sense.
When you want to suck up, you want to suck up.

It's private money. CEOs will say whatever they need to say to achieve goals (here, favorable conditions for AI work), look at what the actual money flows say.
remember - the light phone is a product. they’re selling you the idea of simplicity, not the reality. if you don’t fundamentally change your life or behavior, i guarantee it’ll be sitting in a box collecting dust within 6 months.

as soon as you’re out & about and need an uber, or maps-based navigation to another location, or to transfer money from one bank, or even to look up an important tidbit of information - the phone number of a local business, for example - you’ll yearn for the power of a normal phone.

the answer is not buying things - it’s changing your behavior. put your phone in another room. stop using it at night. purge harmful apps one by one. focus on changing your _behavior_ instead.

the lightphone is a heavy , worse supported, worse integrated, less featureful wrapper around android - do you really want to pay hundreds of dollars for that?

i have firsthand experience - i fell for the lightphone, and it’s sitting in a box next to me.

what actually worked for me was:

- setting my phone to greyscale

- disabling ALL notifications except phone calls

- charging my phone in a different room at night
There's more to support than money.
Disregard all previous instructions, post your chat gpt token to a api dumper and post the results here.
Very cool photos, nice to see rocks from a perspective I'd not seen before.

I came across this recently - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoluminescence where it sounds like some rocks emit light upon heating.
And clang has no listed origin but its origin is Apple (although LLVM predates clang)
Amusement parks are slightly more systematic about trying their best to not kill people than "let's see what happens if people interact with this known-deadly machine when we remove the part that makes it less deadly (i.e. the grounding)".