skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Sal Khan's TED talk is the best place to start in order to build the foundation for an AI powered educational experience

https://www.ted.com/talks/sal_khan_how_ai_could_save_not_des...

I would avoid the mobile phone constraint, the models will not be good enough. Use foundational model APIs + RAG + prompt engineering + "moderation" to do some of the things Khan shows (like ensuring the system doesn't just hand out the answers) The real vision here is not having students all go through the same syllabus and problems, but making individual interest based education a feasible reality.

Get something simple working, then iterate. Problems will come to light and you will have better context for asking the best questions to work through them
Right now Deepseek's official hosting is cheaper than everyone else who can manage to run the model, including Deepinfra. I haven't seen any good hypotheses as to why other than their large batch size and speculative decoding.
I think the trick here is to treat everything these models tell you as part of a larger information diet.

Like if you have a friend who's very well-read and talkative but is also extremely confident and loves the sound of their own voice. You quickly learn to treat them as a source of probably-correct information, but only part of they way you learn any given topic.

I do this with LLMs all the time: I'm constantly asking them clarifying questions about things, but I always assume that they might be making mistakes or feeding me convincing sounding half-truths or even full hallucinations.

Being good at mixing together information from a variety of sources - of different levels of accuracy - is key to learning anything well.
New Zealand Crown Research Institutes to merge into three mega science groups
I have no idea what this is, and I still have no idea after reading the website.

It reads like one of those fake AI written papers about nonsense that seem kinda real at first glance.
i thought the central bank does this?
I wish that too, but wishing people would be different than they are doesn't make it so. You have to act to make a change, and if there's no path to effect change in the people the next best thing is to change the laws to protect people from each other.
The products being pointed out in this article as an attempt to disrupt banks seem to be basically the same product for a different price. Like, a high-yield savings account is just a savings account with a better price, right? How do you disrupt an industry by selling the same products? The advantage of startups is that they're more nimble, can pivot to fit the market better, and can adapt to customer requests faster. None of that applies to "selling the same product at a lower price", especially for savings accounts where stability ("the company not suddenly disappearing") is an important part of the pitch anyway
Imagine going out camping in the woods with your kids too show them the outdoors and escape it all and only to look up and see an advert for Facebook. :(
I suppose your point is that it is a strange topic to do in anything but Chinese?
Exciting, and not in a good way.

Teams has popup ads inside the app itself. No, I don't give a bloody damn about whatever stupid new feature you're trying to force upon me when I'm in the middle of a deep conversation with a coworker.
Aider is great, but you need specific formats from the llm. That might be where the challenge is.

I've used the giant context in Gemini to dump a code base and say: describe the major data structures and data flows.

Things like that, overview documents, work great. It's amazing for orienting in an unfamiliar codebase.
> if they all give me roughly the same answer, then it's probably right.

... or they had a lot of overlapping training data in that area.
This is an excellent article, basically a patio11 / matt levine level breakdown of what's happening with the GPU market.
The 'no. 8 wire' tradition in New Zealand
Now I'm supposed to know the difference between "quiet quitting" and "soft quitting"?
To be honest, in Germany even the brick and mortar banks provide transfer services. They will detect and move your automatic payments. You usually fill a form, login to each bank and they send automatic requests to move stuff. Similarly my broker also supports moving accounts for me.

Moreover, especially after the Wirecard scandal, I wouldn't trust any company that doesn't have a banking license. Without a banking license they can nuke my entire account and I will be the only responsible idiot for that.

Btw, the US system is exploitative and decades behind what the worst European countries have. NFC payments became a thing after Apple brought them to the US. Europeans, heck, Middle Eastern countries were already using NFC EMV payments for 5 years by then. The technologically best and most trustworthy banks are usually from Northwestern Europe so look for Nordics and the Netherlands, if you would like to see a modern but not totally exploitative banking looks like.
One of the first really pleasant surprises I got while learning was that the kubectl command itself was extended (along with tab completion) by CRDs. So install external secrets operator and you get tab complete on those resources and actions.
Maybe widespread campaigns boycotting for a certain amount of time companies that do that kind of advertising would end this madness.
Companies need to set the bar and uphold it. Saying people are "quiet quitting" is synonymous with saying, "we don't know how to set and uphold standards". Putting the blame on the employee instead of having clear guidelines (i.e. making it a performance problem) is an unfortunate scapegoat used to shift the blame and accountability. A job is a contract. Ain't just one sided.

Edit: Amending to mention that there are companies that do quite well at upholding standards. To those, thank you for trying.
His little masc outfits only amplify his fundamental bitchness. It’s so embarrassing to watch.
The fool! Little does he know the consequences of revealing our secrets!
I agree the correct answer is fines, but I disagree that the government should concern itself with whether or not the company decides to take it out on employees who don't deserve it. It's up to the company to decide how it should be run. As long as the government disincentivizes the actions by making the fines high enough, that is good enough.
You're not clarify anything I said or telling me anything I don't already know.

The SARS-CoV-1 virus moved over 1000km from Yunnan to Guangzhou.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus moved over 1000km from Yunnan to Wuhan.

This is the same fucking problem. One way or another we know it has a solution that doesn't involve WIV due to the SARS-CoV-1 spillover.

If we can explain SARS-CoV-1 without WIV then we can explain SARS-CoV-2 without WIV.

> I don't think spillover of SARS-1 from bats in Guangzhou is commonly proposed.

I never suggested that was definitely what happened, and I kind of doubt it, I think the wildlife trade is more likely. At the same time, I wouldn't be surprised if the range of the viruses in bats is larger than we know right now.

> Nobody expected spillover in Wuhan pre-pandemic though

Which doesn't mean it didn't happen.

> and the WIV absolutely wasn't situated based on any such expectation.

The central location made Yunnan a lot more accessible than if WIV was in Beijing, and puts it around about the same distance from Yunnan as Guangzhou is.
No one knows the size of o1. The only hint was a paper that suggested it was 200B parameters.

Meanwhile, DeepSeek R1 is known to be 671B parameters because it is open-source.
> This man is a coward.

This man is a CEO. If you mistook him as something else then you simply fell victim to clever marketing. (See: Elon Musk)

> Power corrupts, but cowardice corrupts more completely.

What are they cowarding from? Could it not be power itself? Perhaps your analysis is too focused on the object of your anger and has devolved into printed bile. As a result it lacks any forward value.
You kinda think that someone who is in favour of "masculine energy" would, you know, choose to not bend the knee.
Something something "capitalism responsibility to shareholders" something
this implies that for a job without set hours you would take a pay cut to minimum wage to keep that flexibility.

In short, I believe you will find that past a certain, probably very high amount, no amount of money can compensate
It marked the end of playtime at our school. We were 30 miles west of Heathrow and as it went overhead, still climbing from takeoff, it would have interrupted lessons.

It was usually pretty punctual, but every now and then we got an extended break.
Real strength isn't talking about masculinity. It's taking responsibility for your team's actions, and sticking to your principles even when it hurts your profits.
You need to develop skills like critical thinking, metacognition, analytical reasoning - being able to get to a robust mental model from a bunch of different inputs, some of which may even contradict each other.
Asahi Lina's comment on the topic: https://lobste.rs/s/oxtwre/hard_numbers_wayland_vs_x11_input...
one sticking point for GNU users can be that BSD utils are more strict about positional order of e.g filename parameter and input options.
rm ~/foo -rf || rm -rf ~/foo

I was forced to get used to BSD syntax when I switched to MacOS but now I prefer it...
all empires eventually fall
I don't understand. CEOs cannot be considered cowards?
I currently have a 365 Family plan, but have never used any of the family features. Wanted to downgrade to a 365 Personal Classic plan, but that option is not available. Spent an hour waiting for Microsoft Support to help. Nice gentleman on the other side of the chat window directed me to Business Sales and closed the chat.

So I just cancelled outright.
Burner phones aren't safe. Security through obscurity worked with the 1990s cell network but not with today's vast logging/geolocation tagging.
The author dismisses Zuckerberg’s perspective, assuming cowardice and self-interest behind his actions while conflating multiple issues into a simplistic narrative of moral failure.

While I am critical of Zuckerberg, the approach relies on petty rants rather than constructive analysis. And I can't really get onboard with such an approach.
Object storage would be good.
There really should be no relationship between the CEO of a social media company and the NIH budget. Out of all criticisms that is one that should not be answered with change...
Thank you!

At these stakes you can expect anyone to do what they believe is making them the most amount of money.
Please change that title.
My HiFi Upgrade Journey: Switching to Apple Music with Last.fm Integration
The article that was written in the NYT by the same author that wrote the "yellow cake uranium in Niger" article that was the basis for the Iraq War.

I don't give that a lot of credit.
I have a server in my garage, and I periodically run RClone to clone my Google photos and Google drive to a local RAID cluster. I also periodically run duplicati to sync a copy of those files to Backblaze. It provides me protection against losing my Google account, and also protection against a local disaster (like a fire or something). Enough redundancy to keep me happy and those two programs are pretty easy to set up and run on a cron schedule.
I dislike Zuck but starting off with how we was silent on the NIH isn't the strongest point and it's a disservice to the countless other things Zuck gets wrong.

PETA is against the NIH and I see no reason to support the existing healthcare infrastructure.
https://headlines.peta.org/nih/
>a complete surrender of principles at Meta

Charitable to assume those "principles" weren't performative if they can be discarded so easily. Lets not forget this product was developed as a mechanism to skeeze on college girls.
you have to wonder if there's a limit to the things people, companies, CEOs, shareholders will do to satiate their greed if only for the sake of the public good
Thanks for your detailed response. Your observations match my own as well. I do think that the foundation is more complex than your quick comment suggests though (kudos to your team and its foundational work for making it seem trivial. that's exactly what a good framework should do.)
op, which version of k are you using in the post? for those who'd like to follow along
It's actually quite pleasing to see much health debate in these comments. Shows life in this amazingly powerful language.
On CS2 Wayland gave a major performance boost, but it's being held back by a regression since a change in device input layer.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/3856

From outside it's hard to tell if it's truly protocol differences or just the age of the implementations on X11, but when Wayland came out every project has claimed improvements over the old X11 stack. Also, from the early Wayland days presentations bashed the protocol as something that couldn't be fixed without a rework that was not going to happen due to the dead weight of backwards compatibility and awful older hardware.

As a user applications running on Wayland have consistently improved on how nice things feel if you don't miss your latency deadlines. It's easy to perceive on apps, and straight out obvious in games.
Because it somewhat removes that implication that that different way is harder to live with.
The fact that rubber-hose cryptanalysis exists doesn't mean that cryptography is useless. While settings nerding is indeed probably of limited use if you have a direct encounter with authorities, settings nerding can prevent being caught up in a dragnet search for, say, every cell service subscriber present at a protest gone sour, just as ubiquitous cryptography probably can't keep you safe from dedicated NSA attention but can protect against warrantless dragnet fishing expeditions.

As pointed out elsewhere, the line between legal and illegal protest is very blurry and can shift rapidly; if anything, the only way to be sure you're not going to a protest that could eventually be classed as illegal is to never go to a protest, regardless of how pure your intentions are.
All of this is irrelevant. Putin needs domestic victory and if he can save his face in the end, then it was all worth it. Whether their military still stands is irrelevant too, because they have nukes.
In all fairness a money market cash position is basically accepting central bank interest while you decide what actual investment you want to put your money in.

People use it as part of an allocation, sure, but nobody plans to retire with interest from a checking account, which is pretty much what you'd be doing if you invest in a money market fund.

You may have a point that since fiat currency has no inherent value compared to physical commodities there's no reason that the right crypto couldn't function as a fiat currency, which seem true. But if crypto were fit for use as a fiat currency, you wouldn't expect it to be an investment at all - at least no compared to stocks, bonds, etc.
It's the "...on the desktop", i.e. that the general public would have a stated preference for Linux because it served them better than proprietary OSes, putting their makers out of business, that makes it funny. Linus even said "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." in a NYT interview back in '03. Much like "640k ought to be enough for anyone." and "There will be a market for only 5 computers in the world." (only in this case Linus is actually on record saying it), it's a testament to the overweening hubris of the early FOSS movement.

The things that you list matter only to a small number of nerds and the general public wouldn't care a bit if they were all replaced by FreeBSD, Fuchsia, or TempleOS tomorrow. Even for the consumer applications, Linux is being primarily chosen just because the hardware manufacturer didn't want to pay money to license another OS to benefit their profit margins as much as anything else.

So, yeah, the joke is still funny and it looks like it will be funny for the next few decades too.
It has been extremely instructive to watch the worlds richest people line up to kiss the ring of the new administration.

I hope people remember this in the future when they talk about the rich controlling our government and the population being just along for the ride.
I think the best term of art is ePPP (enhanced potential pandemic pathogens), which clearly limits that scope. Academics use that reasonably often, though politicians and the general public unfortunately don't yet.

There's also GOFROC (gain of function research of concern). That's better than just GOF, but rather vague.
> Who is writing these super long emails?

Other LLMs.
No, you missed a big part of the desire for liberty. The liberty to run programs without regard to timesharing limits, without need for permission from folks in labcoats. The fact that FLOSS took another decade+ to become viable does not take away from this more fundamental liberty.

It's just been so long we tend to forget, or some of us are too young to remember a time when digital computers were not available to individuals.
Automating Git Bisect with Ephemeral Environments
It's being tracked, but not by the "Minor Planet Center".
Portfolio theory suggests holding uncorrelated assets and rebalancing. If/when the stock market has a down year, it hopefully softens the drawdown.
Well LibreOffice has at its core the ability to deliver me a text editor that starts in 25 seconds versus the 5 of Pages. I’ll stick to the one that saves me time every time I open it.
My point is, I don't know of anything modern that is spelled sufficiently similar to "Windows 2000" for the latter to be a plausible typo of it.

Windows 2000 was quite successful, and was the most reliable Windows version so far.
Sequences aren't live virus and don't require live virus.
This is useful! Thank you for chiming in :)
link seems to be dead... is this article still up somewhere?
If you ever forget to put your phone in Airplane Mode when flying (and you survive the flight!), you will notice that the battery is surprisingly depleted.

I think it has to do with the phone constantly renegotiating with cell towers along the route.

I've seen similar behaviour when a hurricane took out power to a local tower, and it was intermittently restored.

It might be possible to emulate that in a controlled environment/area.
Meta supported the previous administration's social media hopes through directed platform bias, and they're clearly going to support the next one. I hope this gives all the people who supported it the last time an opportunity to think about how convenience shifts with the changing of power, unlike the principles of a free society.
According to Asahi Lina, X does async ioctl that can update the cursor even during the scanout of the current frame, while Wayland does atomic, synced updates on everything, cursor involved, which has the benefit of no tearing and the cursor's state is always in sync with the content, but it does add an average of 1 more frame latency (either updates just in time for the next frame), or it will go to the next frame.
The ones under the Baltic (with the exception of some islands) are not 'critical', as in they're used for reasons (cost, latency, directness), but those reasons are not b/c there's no other way to connect to the Internet.

So, annoyance at most.
Western Europe and Germany in particular are like Sméagol thinking about cheap Russian gas, and they dreamed about ending the war ASAP since 2022, because without cheap gas leverage their economy will sink.
Also a political crisis in EU is inevitable: similar change as it happened in the US now, but a lot more violent (as usual in Europe history).

Extending the war seems to be the current plan for Putin.
Routing of input events to windows has turned out to also be extremely important for a display subsystem in practice. It wasn’t just X11 that did this, it was also the NeXT window server, and Sun’s NeWS, and SGI’s pre-X window system, and the original VAXstation window system on VMS, as well as how both modern macOS and modern iOS and iOS-derived platforms work.

In any of these cases there may be one or more daemons behind the scenes handling the “raw” input—possibly even in cooperation with kernel-level pre-processing code, to ensure low latencey—but most event delivery to applications is associated with windows, with options to get lower-level access if needed.

One of the things that helps many of the systems described above with latency is kernel participation, whether by pushing much of the preprocessing of events down to the drivers so there’s little for userspace to do, or by implementing kernel-level zero-copy IPC (e.g. use of Mach messages by NeXT and Apple).

If human interface IPC happens entirely in userspace and requires multiple context switches to get an event from device to a display change, you’ll wind up with hitches and delays unless there’s some sort of scheduler hinting that ensures each stage in the pipeline runs immediately after the last.

This is, of course, why there was a lot of desire by Wayland advocates for kernel dbus support, but they went at the problem backwards: “Let’s take DBus, and make it fast by putting it in-kernel,” *without* first trying to make it as fast as possible without kernel support, *and* without trying to figure out the minimal feature set for kernel-level IPC that would be needed to support it (which may not look like DBus).
> Curing Malaria is cool but is there nothing in Seattle that he can contribute to?

Nothing in this sentence gave you pause for a second thought? Would you replace Jonas Salk with a community garden?

The criticism of Altman is apt because he hasn't achieved anything of definitive social value. (Not in a way someone else wouldn't have on a similar timeline.) Equating anything he's done to the eradication of malaria is pure scope failure.
I think the "strategic ambiguity" here is ethics. Civil rights protestors were clearly breaking the law when they sat at diners that wouldn't serve black people. But who today thinks they were wrong? When I was a kid, students protested at Universities to divest from Apartheid era South Africa.

People can agree on what the law is, but they don't always agree on what is right. Sometimes a democratic government will zealously defend a law, war or principal that later generations of the same government will disavow.
Scale to 0 services. Might mean less money for Render but would be awesome. Gets a lot of side projects hosted on fly because if it.

Partnership with Neon would be great too, I run 6 dbs there for $69 with auto scaling (and scales to 0 too if needed for non-prod envs). Render would be 3-4x that price for those many dbs.
Right, so gold has a financial use and a material use.

So, if I were to print bitcoin keys on firewood and sell that, would it become a “good investment” in your mind?

That’s basically what gold is. A commodity with some limited material value, whose price has become completely detached from that value due to its use as a financial instrument.
Don't worry, AI will tell you (possibly incorrectly) which one to use
This is a lovely comment and I agree with your list. At least, it's been my experience.
As a European observer, it's been an interesting lesson in how much power and sway the US presidency is invested with, despite ostensibly existing in a system that is less centralized and puts more power (and elected offices) at the state level than our flavor of democracies.

You may not be able to bend the will of state officials, but if you can bend the will of national-level companies this easily, "the Feds" are effectively a much larger operation than it otherwise would be.