skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be wary of "Free VPN" offers [video]
the treatment was the same (steroid cream) but now that I know what it is and what causes it (for me it was probably too much sweat on the hands from wearing a baseball glove since baseball season was often when i'd get it) I can hopefully better avoid it going forward.
I haven't read the paper, but sometimes asymptotic improvements do not translate to real world improvements due to a large multiplicative factor in the complexity that gets factored out in the O() analysis. So the dataset required to see speed-up is impractically large.
i agree, intention behind this project is - select a category add cost and done! no tags, no wallets, no budgets
Windows Firewall Control, now owned by Malwarebytes, adds notification on connection attempt as a feature, while leaving windows firewall running intact.

I've never been fully satisfied with software firewalls, but WFC comes close.
I think it used to be that the back end (hardware, kernel, services, libraries) was in many ways worse, but the front end (UI/UX) was largely better. And today we have the reverse; amazingly fast and mostly reliable hardware, solid underlying components, and ugly, hostile interfaces on top. Hence the number of folks wishing for the Windows 2k GUI on a modern NT OS, a slightly more robust version of some OS X (I think I usually hear Snow Leopard?), or those of us running CDE on bleeding edge Linux.
It's most common in Go's own tooling (e.g. `go build -buildmode`) but is also present in older tooling like e.g. GNU findutils (e.g. `find . -name something`).

The go tooling also has the irritating tendency to take a command like `go build --help` and say "oh, run `go help build` for details" instead of just printing out a list of possible options. Also: the details page doesn't always present you with a list of possible options, so you have to read each paragraph to see if there's an option relevant to your interests.
I think the biggest distinction is between archiving platforms made primarily for authors and primarily for web crawlers.

If you're an author (say, of a court decision) and you archive example.com/foo, Perma makes a fresh copy of example.com/foo as its own wacz file, with a CPU-intensive headless browser, gives it a unique short URL, and puts it in a folder tree for you. So you get a higher quality capture than most crawls can afford, including a screenshot and pdf; you get a URL that's easy to cite in print; you can find your copy later; you get "temporal integrity" (it's not possible for replays to pull in assets from other crawls, which can result in frankenstein playbacks); and you can independently respond to things like DMCA takedowns. It's all tuned to offer a great experience for that author.

IA is primarily tuned for preserving everything regardless of whether the author cared to preserve it or not, through massive web crawls. Which is often the better strategy -- most authors don't care as much as judges about the longterm integrity of their citations.

This is what I'm getting at about the specific benefits of having multiple archives. It's not just redundancy, it's that you can do better for different users that way.
I had similar experience to OP. After 5 years and 20k USD spent for scattered pieces from various expensive specialists, I finally got diagnosed with AS at 27. This is not about aging at all. The disease (or disorder) doesn't have any known treatment, it only can be slowed down with expensive meds. The diagnosis is very tricky because the destructive effect - ossification of joints - happens slowly and mostly invisible on any type of modern (and expensive) imagery.
I fancy the old fashioned term ”middleware” myself. But given it is, in fact, the current year, I suspect we’re going to have to accept ”agents” for the time being.
The Greenland Ice Sheet is fracturing faster than expected
When we talk about cities with a grid plan, all the cited examples in sibling comments pale in comparison to Mohenjo-daro. It existed around 2500 BC and one of the iconic places is the Great Bath which is the "earliest public water tank of the ancient world".

Tenochtitlan existed in the 15th century which is fairly recent.
Sorry for nitpicking but you need a puzzle that is knowledge-agnostic (be it cultural or scientific), otherwise you're guarding your site from both bots and people unfamiliar with the concept of or lacking the pre-existing knowledge necessary to solve the puzzle.

What colour is snow is close but you can't assume that everyone knows what snow is, let alone what colour it is. This includes both people with disabilities and in parts of the world where there is no snow...
I use orbstack for lightweight containers (macos docker), and https://github.com/jrz/container-shell for each project or experiment. Lightweight chrooted environments using containers. Firewalls only protect the network stack.
Shameless product promotion, this is the 5th link to the same article, violates guidelines. Stop spamming the feed.
In case people were curious: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
For mobile data, there might not even be an Internet gateway in every state, so this entire idea seems a bit ridiculous. iCloud Private Relay also regularly "crosses state lines" that way.

Of course, if this trend of state-specific restrictions continues, networks might want to invest in actually having per-state IP ranges.
There’s something about the Platinum UI that makes it timeless. I have been running XFCE with a Platinum theme on several of my machines/VMs for a while (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/04/12/2330) and I’m a bit sad that the XFCE top-level app menu plugin seems to have been deprecated in recent releases, since it really adds to the experience.
I have had a similar experience. But in my case all specialists said it was IBS and "just don't get stressed". I had hundreds of tests by dozen doctors in 3 countries: Mexico, UK and Germany. At the end I found out the root of my problem by mere chance with a neurologist in Mexico.

So I welcome the use of LLMs and other technology for this!
Doctors are just humans, in every country.
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Bruce Willis' AI likeness. Or however we are going to start referring to AI manifestations of dead actors. AI-zombie? AI-reincarnation? AI-ghost-of-so-and-so?
Yes! People have recommended me to read it.

I think I followed the approach the author recommended, unless I'm mistaken. I didn't build anything before I had that initial conversation with the potential customer. And the fact that he didn't say "yes please help me" made me realize the solution wouldn't be that useful.

In a way, I'm happy I realized it early on. It's just that I can't think of anything better at the moment ^_^
I'm not the parent comment, and I think I get the gist of what you're saying. To be fair to the parent comment though, it's not just making recruiting easier. It's reducing the risk of compromise within your organization. Just one compromised employee can present a tremendous risk, which is nothing to 2%.
Maybe they were hoping someone would complete their "TODO: finish" ;)
The 'Behind the bastards' podcast gives some background on Thiel.

How Peter Thiel Became the Gravedigger of Democracy: part 1 of 4:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-how-peter-thi...

He is a very strange individual.
Anybody who has spent any time in either place could tell you that the atmosphere is miles opposite. Wrt “choose advisor, not department”, that’s standard PhD advice when you have good options
How do you handle deployments of realtime back ends which needs state in memory?
Sounds like you’re moving the goal posts here.

You were proposing bioengineering another species of animal to limit its capacity for survival and cooperation in a complex ecosystem well beyond your capacity (or all of humanity’s capacity) of fully understanding.

That kind of hubris has ripple effects across the world that we cannot possibly predict. Like clearcutting old growth forest it’s incredibly short sighted.
Those are speculative, and seem to be based on factual misunderstandings as to what’s actually happening. For example, there’s just one non-treasury employee with “over the shoulder” access to the system supervised by treasury employees: https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1888904650906099774

People are going to make fools out of themselves again indulging every wild rumor and speculation (pee tape, etc.) without having the facts.
Run a container/vm for your project. Use VSCode only as an interface. Dev containers should do this, but I don't like the performance. I use my own docker-powered chroot container thingy https://github.com/jrz/container-shell
B corps are normal corporations.
It seems that they fail the TUV for two reasons: bad suspensions and rusted brakes. The first one is on Tesla, but the second one has to do with regenerative braking vs real braking. You are supposed to slam your brakes one or two times a year so they don't get rusty, but a lot of users aren't following this and can go a long time without using their brakes because regen braking is so convenient.
I think it depended on your workload, and how often you rebooted them. But yes, macOS reliability has come a long way since then.

UX I'm less sure about - I now use a 4K monitor to do a bunch of things I used to do quite successfully on 1024x768.

Performance of a bunch of basic apps has also taken a few hits here and there (at least in part due to that big resolution bump, and despite massive hardware improvements).

I definitely have some nostalgia for that era, but it's possibly more nostalgia for the age before the internet consumed all of computing...
I think a lot of the power and capability of LLMs comes from their understanding of a lot of implicit context in language. But generally LLMs will have a dominant understanding of each linguistic construct and if that understanding is isn't correct they struggle.

We've looked at using agents at my current job but most of the time, once the data is properly structured, a more traditional approach is faster and less expensive.
So, from what I have read about spinning a for-profit off from a non-profit, the for-profit needs to be purchased from the non-profit at market value. There have been a lot of questions about how MSFT or OpenAI's other investors would fund the purchase of the for-profit entity.

I think what this does is set a floor valuation with a fully backed bid that the non-profit would get IN CASH for essentially buying the for profit.

This really messes up OpenAI's plans because it means someone else would have to bid more and be willing to part with the cash in order for OpenAI to spin off.

Actually a brilliant move that gums up OpenAI's plans.
Not sure about the commodore but atari's floppy drive was connected via a 19200 bps serial connection so even for those days it was really slow.

Both atari 8 bit and commodore had a disk drive with a trimmed down 6502 in it so you basically bought a second computer. This is why the drives cost more than the computer itself.
This fits my experience. When the information is encoded somehow already, LLM’s excel at translating to another medium.

Combined with the old “nothing new under the Sun” maxim, in that most ideas are re-hashes or new combinations of existing ideas, and you’ve got a changed landscape.
This sounds like “Revolutionary Independence From Technology (R.I.F.T.)” from the movie Transcendence (2014).
JS/TS having code reusability isn't a problem. Other ecosystems don't have the same problems not because they have package repos just as good as npm but write everything from scratch out of virtue, but because they don't have package repos just as good as npm.
You're referring to the normal and reasonable view, but I think most are targeting this weird new(ish) concept, heavily intertwined into politics, that any and all differences between groups are due to biases or other environmental factors.

So if you see that e.g. one group is lagging behind in math then that is taken at face value as evidence that 'math is racist.' A search for that exact phrase will turn up a million hits, pushed by some very big entities, if you want to go down this rabbit hole.

But if you don't already know about this stuff - just don't. The amount of stupidity and transparent divide+conquer politics in it all is just nauseating.

On the other hand it does have contemporary relevance as a lot of the funding for this stuff is being scrapped, and it's nice to understand what we're 'losing.'
You're right, 'existential dread' was a lazy handwave on my part, I don't know how to expand un-briefly :/ "The stuff that drives people away from BigCo", which is a tautology, so perhaps not useful.

I'll try to reply with more specifics to the sibling
Ask HN: Im bored with a VPN, what should I do?
I've got a VPN with some P2P stuff running, but I want to see some other stuff I can do. I just wanna tinker around. Advice welcome!
jdietrich, I feel your pain, I am also completely convinced that 2010 was 3 years ago :(
>Investors already put their money in at around $157B+ and are not willing to take a price cut down to less than $100BN.

This is for a controlling stake, not outright ownership, isn't it?
A bird in hand is worth two in the bush and a judge will see it that way if the non-profits directors balk at this based upon an investment valuation.
There's a nice new site called https://daily.dev, but they keep bugging me to install a browser extension. The idea a website needs access to somewhere I make financial transactions is horrifying.
> No one who cares about nanoseconds is using kdb+ for a production trading system.

For those curious, what they're actually using is FPGAs and custom silicon.
There are no humans that know the word snow who don’t know what colours Snow is
Does MegaCli still ship with its own copy of libc5 because it's so old and disgusting that they can't bring themselves to upgrade it? Or did they figure out how to resolve that eventually?
PoW isn't meant to make something impossible, it's meant to attach a cost to it. Now you need to extract a value higher than the cost.
Men are more prepared for fatherhood than we think
And dementia has Chuck Norris.
Ususally the analyst, but sometimes the exec - hard to miss when a report implies your revenue has shifted 90%+ in either direction since the last time you read a report :)
I'm sorry you went through this experience, and I'm glad your son is alive and (hopefully) well.

I don't have the ins and outs of your case. I'm a student, not an obsterician, or neonatologist. That said, I do know delivering a 25 weeker is insanely risky even if perfect care is provided, for both his immediate outcomes and avoiding long-term disability. (80% of babies born before 26w have some form of disability e.g low IQ, blindness, etc [1]).

No sane obstetrician is going to deliver based on a family opinion like that - it is a true last resort. If you were wrong, or less lucky, as horrible as it is to say, your son would not be with us and the surgeon would be out of a job with the "what if" on their conscious (which trust me, all obstericians have anyway).

When your son needed to be delivered, it sounded like he was delivered. Frankly no neonatal respiratory distress at 22 weeks sounds insanely lucky to me; normally before 35 weeks it's a concern.

I can't say if this was a failure of the medical professionals in charge of your care or not, but from the information you've given us it doesn't sound like it. Tens, maybe hundreds of patients will have presented identically to your partner with a far less severe diagnosis. Getting their babies out early could have left them permanently disabled or dead, on the offchance it was percreta/accreta/increta: especially in the absence of definitive imaging, which they did attempt to perform. Medicine is not perfect by a long shot. Managing uncertainty is one of the many skills of senior doctors.

Medicine isn't as simple as a lot of people in this thread think it to be.

DOI: Medical Student

[1]: https://www.tommys.org/pregnancy-information/premature-birth...
Elon Musk-led group makes $97.4B bid for control of OpenAI, WSJ reports
Trump ignoring court orders is the last straw, really. And he's doing that today. We have a president hell-bemt on destroying America, and no, that isn't hyperbole. I'm not sure how you think we'll have business-as-usual with the dismantling of the US government.
The other day o1 hallucinated on a question of some Salesforce object properties that are clearly laid out in the docs. It took me a while to disentangle it because it was very persuasive. I concur with you though, I still find the tech tremendously useful.
https://cal.streetsblog.org/2025/02/08/streetsblog-mourns-th...
10.6.8 was solid (people often forget that 10.6 and the intermediate patches were a bit of a mess) but when I use it I definitely feel a few spots where some polish and QoL improvements would be welcome. Its theme’s dominant gray is also a bit too dark.

I don’t mind SIP personally. It always unnerved me that any random executable was just a single admin password entry away from doing whatever it pleased.

My ideal desktop OS environment would be something like a polished-up Snow Leopard using the brighter, more refined theme from 10.9 Mavericks (except with the flat scrollbars de-flattened). If I had that I don’t think I could use anything else.
I agree, and thankfully we're dealing with mostly regional visitors to small local business/organization websites. Not a global audience. That being said, it's hard to think of a simple question, with little to no ambiguity.

Once example is for a landscaper: What is the color of healthy grass?

The answer is "green" of course, but grass is common in our region. That question would not work in a culture or region unfamiliar with "lawn grass".
The intern under the analyst did.
Anyone who is paranoid about hardware backdoors might enjoy this:

https://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/BTCP/
I always really enjoyed the Numb3rs lecture on Monty-Hall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9WFKmLK0dc
We're coauthors on the wacz-auth spec, which is designed to solve this sort of thing by signing archives with the domain cert of the archive that created them. If you cross-sign with a private cert you can do pretty well with this approach against various threat models, though it has to be part of a whole PKI security design.

I think the best approach for high stakes archiving is to have a standard for "witness APIs" so that you could fetch archives from independent archiving institutions. That also solves for the web looking different from different places. That hasn't gelled yet, though.
This is legit cool. Makes me want to fire up the 3d printer.
Good, but that can also be noted in a subtitle right below the authors (I've seen this in papers myself!)
And as someone that has written an interpreter from scratch in F#, and since there's a free trial version, I'd say go for it and have fun and live your best life! Just perhaps reconsider allowing your livelihood to be dependent on it :)
Weird you are able to characterize 'you know perfectly well' as an aggressive trope without having any special insight into my mental state, but when I characterize something someone else wrote, you want to be all philosophical and say that we can't make any inferences about other people.

My original comment expressed skepticism about the idea that an expressive remark should be interpreted as a formal assertion of fact. I think your efforts at semantic policing are misplaced.
Do you believe in out-of-india theory for IE or are you just sceptical about the use of the Rig Veda specifically.
Anatomy of Oscillation
They can fail at reasoning. But they can demonstrably succeed to.

So the the statement that they CAN reason is demonstrably true.

Ok if given a prompt where the solution can only be arrived at by reasoning and the LLM gets to the solution for that single prompt, then how can you say it can't reason?
> Anyone who has a form on the internet knows that without any sort of captcha, you get lots of stupid bots just typing in jumbo.

I recall a form of "CAPTCHA" that involved a text input which was hidden via CSS, but which bots would fill in anyway. Any text in the input caused the entire form to be rejected. I wonder if that style still works today.
I think their history of breaches indicates that they are slow to learn from thier mistakes made in securing their customer's PII and as a result I am obtaining my cellular service from a competitor.

Though that competitor has also suffered data breaches, moving to another service makes no logical sense to me since it seems that none of them have a deep commitment to data security since the cost of noncompliance is too low. If meaningful penalties were mandated, something that is unlikely to happen in the current anti-consumer, deregulatory environment, then it would make sense to switch to a provider that has a strong commitment. Otherwise you might as well stay with your current provider.

T-Mobile did get hit annually between 2017-2020 making it appear to a casual observer that perhaps they were just selling the data with their low prices serving as a loss leader and making up the difference by selling everything that they could scrape from customer services annually.

It's a cynical take, I know. It keeps me from switching though.
Maybe software engineers made redundant by LLMs can retrain as psychiatrists and psychotherapists for nervous AIs.
> because they don't have package repos just as good as npm

What? That simply is not true unless you mean "good" as in "good in spreading malware". lol
Okay I had a closer look now. Tbh I don't download anything that isn't a major brand product or open-source. I'm guessing the amount of work you put into this you're planning to monetize the app right? If so my first point of feedback would be to support either a web app or mobile app.

I really enjoy the concept behind the app focusing on subjects rather than structured lessons. I enjoy going on learning rabbit holes so this would fit me better than structured lessons.

Lastly a video or demo of the app would help as the UI is quite complex. It's not clear how I would go from importing a web page to using the cards for example.

Feel free to ping me if you have updates - happy to help support another indie dev!
Scroll down to:

"Perma.cc’s Supporting Partners"

... one of those partners is not like the others ...
That you disagree there is a social contract is unsurprising. You strike me as the type to be unaware of social norms.

I've evaluated the veracity and sincerity of many nonprofits and for profit corporations alike.

I have no idea what you're on about regarding sentient robots.
> There are no humans that know the word snow who don’t know what colours Snow is

Sorry, I don't follow, English is a second language to me, but how does this stand against my statement that 'many people don't know the concept of snow, let alone what colour it is'?
There's a Firefox extension for that site.
>If the CEO doesn't think Silvergate being solvent was relevant then why did he bring it up? You could assume incompetency on behalf of the CEO to bring up a non-sequitor but why bother assuming when you can just add words to address it.

The CEO's assertion isn't a non-sequitur. It supports the claim he makes in the next sentence, which is the actual criticism of patio11's piece.

Let's simplify the example:

>>CEO: Arnold Schwarzenegger won Mr. Universe four times in the late 60s. Your implication that Schwarzenegger was physically unfit in the 1960s doesn't comport with any reasonable definition of physical fitness.

>Critic: Had we stated or implied that Arnold Schwarzenegger did not win Mr. Universe, that would have been very improper.

Is it obvious in that case that the critic is not addressing the CEO's actual point?

You can imply that Arnold Schwarzenegger is physically unfit without specifically claiming that he never won Mr. Universe just like you can imply that Silvergate was doomed for shutdown by regulators without specifically saying that Silvergate was insolvent.