skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But as Leigh Brasington spends a lot of time discussing, sources and teachers differ in their definitions of the jhanas. IIRC Brasington distinguishes between jhanas as described in the suttas (especially early suttas) and jhanas as described in the later commentaries like the Visuddhimagga, and he also gives a lot of attention to defining/translating the jhana factor terms in a somewhat idiosyncratic way. In this particular context, linking jhanas to specific EEG patterns, I think it's not entirely clear whether following another method would lead you to the same states visited by these Samatha Trust practitioners.

I further think that Brasington and Ajahn Brahm differ meaningfully, in that Ajahn Brahm in his "preliminary" steps actually sets a pretty high bar.
That’s really interesting, as a long time clojurist and recent rust user. Can you expand on that, or is it too early days?
I would not recommend applying a heat lamp to your eyes.
Personally I've picked Vue over React like height years ago and it's been mostly great, never regretted it.

Also StimulusJS and htmx are good for simple cases as long as you don't need a global state IMHO.
And the CFPB would be one of the ones looking into X as a payment platform which X has just partnered with Visa on [0]

Timing is coincidental, of course.
You might be surprised to learn they could change their ruling if the court justices were to be incentivized differently, and that Musk has a lot of influence.
>There's ire directed at high income earners who pay high income taxes? This is news to me. Why exactly?

Standard arguments about inequality? CEOs for instance attract much ire from their pay, often in the form of comparisons to their pay relative to the janitor working there or whatever.
I just had an issue yesterday in my company where a backend keeps crashing, because a function blocking the main thread, which means that the healthcheck endpoint was not responding... Async is definitely a needs
Looks cool! Super minor note -- your footer still says (c) 2024
It would be very difficult to get your bags from overhead bin when you are walking on the overhead doors.
I'm not buying domestic either. The tariffs are effectively on everything, because nearly everything will have tariffed inputs.
The challenge is differentiating between absolute and relative judgements, and when to use each in your thought process.

It may be a terrible job in the absolute sense, but also a good job in the relative sense because it pays well and most involve gut punches.
...and imagine how well it would go over for a grad student to say "actually Dr Advisor, you don't meet the criteria for authorship"
My Favorite Roger Ebert Stories
I wish pfblocker-ng was as easy to use and polished as pihole. It seems silly to run an extra DNS resolver if I'm already running one on pfsense, but the interface makes it tempting
Really? Is there no level of compensation that would make you think that getting punched was worthwhile?
But we were just told[1] IPv6 is easy, multiple times in fact, just check the top comments.

I stand by my comment there: IPv6 as a protocol might be easy relative to IPv4 as a protocol, but using IPv6 can definitely be hard.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43069533
This is my opinion as well, not knowing OP, but getting to know myself well enough. And by looking at other loud minorities on the internet, like the "don't preorder video games" crowd. I doubt the companies ever noticed the difference financially.
Certainly more popular since then; probably swept along by "blue lives matter". Have you seen that black-and-blue version of the American flag, with, what is it, six or seven blue stripes (or lines)? How old is that?
Claude really likes producing code, that’s for sure. I feel like it’s a useful tool once I’ve deconstructed a project past a certain point.
The language features in question are, to my knowledge, unrestricted JS FFI and adding infix operators. Banning the former completely removes a whole class of security vulnerabilities. Banning the latter means you can't be as terse as you want but new authors in a codebase don't have the problem that new authors in a Haskell codebase can have. So they're both tradeoffs.
Ask HN: Docs.kernel.org Misconfigured?
Every page I can find on docs.kernel.org (except for the top menu) has been showing an error for the last few hours:

"Error 503 hostname doesn't match against certificate
hostname doesn't match against certificate

Error 54113
Details: cache-bos4627-BOS 1739906110 53400645

Varnish cache server"

Is there anything I can do, or person I can notify? (I presume this has been widely noticed...)
If this is because of the piercing doig some vagus nerve stimulation, do you think a simple, small clip or something placed in the right position could help as well?
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43086347
Thank you! It seems like the people from r/politics are coming over here to astroturf and it needs to stop. To hell with their "bastion of free thinkers" attitude when the discussions surrounding such divisive topics aren't even productive. It's just rage bait.

If I want to stress myself out, I'll go and read world news.
Happily, yes. They will now earn 10,000x what a common employee earns while doing less than ever before.
However you can't use it on the phone while not at home (aside from using vpn/wireguard), but nextdns allows it.

As for the latency - is it really noticeable?
I just use dnscrypt-proxy directly.
Inference isn’t that expensive. A single junior dev costs orders of magnitude more than the amount of inference I use. Companies in growth mode don’t have to make money, it’s a land grab right now. But the expense is largely in the R and D. You can build a rig to run full models for 10-20k right? That’s only a month or two of a junior dev’s time, and after that it’s just electricity. And you could have dozens of devs using the same rig as long as they could timeshare. I don’t see where the economics wouldn’t work, it’s just there’s no use in investing in the hardware until we know where AI is going.
I didn't down vote but I'll take a shot: A valid reason to consider the question is to determine to what degree the model was steered or filtered during training. This goes to can you trust its output beyond the obvious other limitations of the model such as hallucinations etc. It's useful to know if you are getting responses based just on the training data or if you have injected opinions to contend with.
I'm sorry for that. 30 years is way too much to expect.
I usually get shit done, but demand the time for it. I usually get it, because shit gets done without much fuss.
I think the only thing its lacking compared to the base PS5 is memory bandwidth (256GB/s vs 448GB/s) but in exchange you get much lower latency. Everything else is a massive upgrade over the PS5. The cores are way newer, clocked higher, and you can get twice as many. The CUs are newer, clocked higher, and more numerous as well. It can be specced up to 8x the ram of the PS5.

Is there a workload where that 75% more bandwidth is more important than raw perf or access to more than 16GB of ram?
That reaction makes zero sense.
Garages aren't necessary for charging. There are outdoor car chargers that can mount on pole. It is a little harder to run the power to them but not that expensive.

Similar chargers would work for apartment complex parking lots. It would even be possible to put chargers on street parking.
> I’m frustrated that society has no way to compensate people that do creative work for a living other than the same mechanism that virii like this extract money from other people’s work using a paper turnstile and heavy penalties for violations.

Steam, YouTube, Instagram, Patreon, BandCamp, commissions... The creator economy is booming and is on the rise. I've seen some metrics say it's got a 40% CAGR.

MrBeast, PsychicPebbles, VivziePop, Joel Haver - all made brands for themselves. The currency is personal brand. Most of the creators I follow these days are indies, not big studios.

But even excepting that, you can always work for a big studio if you're not interested in the additional headache of working for yourself and building a personal brand. Gaming, film, and music are huge and there are companies hiring in these spaces.
Svelte compiles to Javascript. I don't think it's ever claimed to be Javascript. It's less weird and magical than React, IMHO.
Odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 have reached new high
That's actually a very good point. I was thinking a lot about whether to make async a requirement. Given that sync code is often easier to reason about and debug and Cot tries to be developer-friendly, I'm leaning towards "sync by default, async when you need to", but I'll need to explore this more. Thanks for this thought!
There are over 300 French patents in the H.264 license pool, and the very first one looks like a software patent to me, and I suspect most of the rest are the software patents that you confidently claim don't exist.
The problem with this line of argument is that nothing an LLM, or any algorithm period can ever have a theory of mind.

If behaving in a way that is identical to a person with actual consciousness can't be considered consciousness because you are familiar with its implementation details, then it's impossible to satisfy you.

Now you can argue of course that current LLMs do not behave identically to a person, and I agree and I think most people agree... but things are improving drastically and it's not clear what things will look like 10 years from now or even 5 years from now.
LLMs all fail this NumPy indexing example
When mixing basic slicing with an advanced index, NumPy moves the advanced index's subspace to the front, so in the example, A[0, :, B] produces a shape of (4, 2) rather than (2, 4).

import numpy as np
A = np.random.rand(1, 2, 2)
B = np.array([0, 1, 0, 1])
C = A[0, :, B]
print("C.shape:", C.shape)

So far every LLM I've tried (Grok 3, o1, Gemini Pro) all predict (2, 4) and can't be persuaded otherwise.
I think log-don't-enforce and per-client block profiles are probably basic to people who work with networking regularly, but are probably pretty far out of reach for the average home user who are probably needing to expand their networking knowledge just to distribute custom DNS via DHCP.

So, I agree that those would be lovely features but are, I think, a ways beyond what I would assume the p90 of pihole users would need or be able to use.
In many (traditional) companies, a CEO's mistake can easily cause 100x more harm than an average worker's mistake.
Moving on from 18F
I mean yeah, it gets brought up every time this topic is discussed. I’m not going to try to argue Plato was totally right, but I do think there is some merit to the argument.

At least in my experience, the more stuff I can keep my working memory, the better I can solve problems. Contrast to popular opinion, I actually think memorization is a great learning strategy.
I ran it on my amd 5950x with an rtx3090. It crashed when I attempted GPU process but ran fine on CPU. YMMV
> are Americans willing to either accept wage decreases in line with non-Americans, or accept price increases that would cover the cost of paying American wages? The answer is definitively "no", and thus reindustrialization cannot happen.

The answer is not "definitively" no. Trump ran on tariffs and definitively won. And I know many people (myself included) who would happily "accept price increases that would cover the cost of paying American wages". Most of these people are low/middle income Trump voters. Trump won the $30k-100k voters a year. Harris won all other income brackets.
I'm not seeing what Broadcom brings to the table here. They don't have chip mfg experience. Sure, they're a customer, but so what?

TSMC is not going to be motivated to build up a competitor who weakens the economic wall around Taiwan.

What I could see happening based on recent events is that Trump tells Taiwan they have a couple years of US security left. TSMC is then forced to consider putting more effort into mfg in the US(and other countries). What that would mean for the rest of the elec mfg supply chain is unknown. Taiwan is quite critical beyond just chip mfg.
We use Shoelace for apps.microsoft.com. Very happy with it.

Looking forward to WebAwesome!
I mean, I agree. My point is just that if you can't be bothered to read the piece but have such an insatiable curiosity to know what it was about, then do us a favor and just dump it into an llm to scratch your itch.

I find two things to be distasteful: 1) Asking others to do the work you're uninterested in doing yourself and 2) the rejection of any kind of stylistic writing as an annoying distraction. I don't know if the person I was replying to is guilty of #2 but I've seen the sentiment a lot here and more frequently than I used to. Not everything is a technical manual that needs to convey its main ideas in as straightforward a way as possible.

This article is a work of art. And I don't mean that in the highfalutin sense. But the style is meant to evoke something just as much as the words themselves. It's fine if it that doesn't work for you, but the goal was not to convey as much meaning in as few words as possible.
If Villeneuve pulls this off, then great. If not, he tried. And guess what? The world will keep on spinning.
The Scale of Autonomy
For the seconds question, it is indeed Groups. I have my SO's phone bypass everything. It's the way she wants it.

Yea i agree it's not super UX friendly.
IMO, VSCode's codebase is excellent and quite well designed with most functionality abstracted out into injectable services. However, the interaction of these services and other bits of architecture do impose certain limitations that are tricky to workaround. One option is to fork vscode, write your own services, alter the architecture as necessary. You're then faced with keeping this in sync with the rapidly changing upstream code. Another alternative is to implement it as an extension, but that has a fair number of restrictions.

For certain projects, forking/extending may be the right call. However, for the degree of customization required for Scripton, writing from scratch turned out to be the more viable path (vs attempting to workaround/rewrite yet another component in vscode). The trade off here, of course, is that you lose out on the familiarity and ecosystem that VSCode has built over nearly a decade. The hope is that Scripton remains sufficiently familiar (eg: Search / CMD+P / etc work similar to vscode) while being compelling enough in its own right.
There's a lot about polling in the lined report;

https://www.creditcards.com/statistics/1-in-5-americans-are-...

I honestly struggle to tell how much the info is from polling or real credit card data.

Also lines like:

- 1 in 5 Americans are buying more than usual

Does that mean 4 in 5 ... aren't?
Some of the new guys have great incentives to learn, but some indeed don't.
Awesome project, thank you so much for that!

I'm using 102, but only because 101 is too "loud" for my pixel 7a. It sounds great on my headphones, but the low frequencies are too much for the tiny pixel speakers. So after going over 35% volume, the ringtone distorts heavily for a fraction of a second.
I picked up a used 2021 Kona EV in the Ultimate trim that had been a corporate lease previously. 28K miles on it. The original cost for it new was around $46K. I got it for ~$18,500 after the $4,000 federal used EV tax credit.

I think part of the depreciation for the Kona in particular is due to its lackluster DC Fast charging top speeds, but if you plan to charge at home 99% of the time it's a phenomenal deal.
> So I just scrape their docs into a markdown file and ask my interns to paste the docs in their prompt before they query LLMs and it works like a charm now.

Huh. Nice hack. I may have to give that a try for some of the more obscure stuff I deal with.

> Recently, it kind of made my life hell as all of my interns refuse to use docs and try using LLMs for rerun code generation and come to me with a messy code spaghetti. It's both sad and hilarious.

I'm really agog at this. Do your interns understand that if they're just an LLM prompt injector, their job can be done by anybody? I haven't bumped into this yet, but I think your reaction was a lot more positive than mine would have been.

I know that I certainly wouldn't be rehiring any interns that gave me that kind of grief.
They output 100x more "people wanting to pay them money", that's why they are paid 100x. The same reason an American computer programmer is paid 100x more than an African coal miner in spite of doing much less work.
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Show HN: Summarize, RAG Search, and Share Podcasts - Audio Brevity
I’ve been building Audio Brevity for about a year to tackle my podcast overload and news addiction. It started as a simple email interface and has since expanded.
I’m experimenting with RAG/vector search across podcasts, and I’m curious about perspectives from both podcasters and listeners.

You can also ‘ask’ an episode questions—whether you’re looking for specific answers, a study guide, or whatever you’d like. It’s pretty handy.

It’s also fantastic for sharing episodes with your friends (https://audiobrevity.com/share/Tcrwj0dFKe), but I’m curious how people might use it. Would podcasters want to auto-summarize episodes and generate shareable links by default?

If you need more episodes or tokens to experiment beyond what’s given for free, let me know—I’m happy to help.
Would love feedback! People seem to like it, but I’m curious how others beyond my circle would use or want to use it.

Tech stack: - Laravel (Livewire mostly) - Postgres (pgvector ) - OpenAI for LLM - Whisper on Runpod for transcriptions

[Sharing on behalf of a friend who had trouble posting, he will take the comments!]
It's written in second-person.
I wonder how much this is costing Intel in terms of enterprise sales? I'm guessing that headlines like this will accelerate the switch to AMD and ARM. Who wants to design servers around chips from a company that is not likely to exist in its present form? That opens up all kinds of supply chain and support concerns.
You could slap one of those into an AMD 4700s system (PS5 APU with the GPU disabled) and build the most scuffed PS5 clone ever.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-4700s-desktop-kit-r...
The author betrays himself early with this line:

> a cynical bubble inflated by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman built to sell into an economy run by people that have no concept of labor other than their desperation to exploit or replace it.

He brings up the concept of labor and applies a moral judgement about "replacing" and "exploiting" labor.

And then he throws the kitchen sink at the technology. People use it sure, but it's because journalists write about it. How it's expensive to train. Throw a bunch of explicits and call it a hot take.

It's the equivalent of a vegan trying to convince you that eating meat is morally wrong, and will give you cancer, and make you fat, and give you ED, and ...

This doesn't work primarily due to the fact that most people reading this got real value from an LLM. And I'm sure the author did as well. Claiming otherwise is dishonest. So what is his problem?
What disinformation are you talking about? Part of VAT is paid during import (rather than after production for domestic goods) and applied to the item. These values could be different whether produced or imported, right?
I’ve been happy with AdGuard Home on two Pi4s and a little home server for years now: https://adguard.com/en/adguard-home/overview.html

I have some scripts to sync config between them and a Jenkins job if I want to pause blocking on them for a bit.

It looks like https://github.com/mattwebbio/orbital-sync and
https://github.com/lovelaze/nebula-sync can sync configs with Pi-hole 6 now, but it’s quite a bit of code for what looks like just a few HTTP requests to get the config from one using the teleporter feature, then restore it on the others using the same.
I'm sure it's not universal, but I bet a lot of HN readers have at least had one job in the past where they were 1. paid very well, but 2. their day-to-day of work felt metaphorically like a daily punch in the stomach. I certainly have, and it took me 4 years (the full stock vesting period, LOL) to break away from it.
Jetbrains originally had a "buy upgrade model". You paid full price for the first one, and then it was half price for upgrades beyond that.

To Jetbrains, this had the problem of feast or famine and the non-predictable income. They'd need to release an upgrade when they needed money and they would hold off on releasing features as a minor release so that they could justify an upgrade later.

At some point (I want to say 2014 based on my licensing), they trial ballooned a subscription only model and got some extreme pushback about it. With that feed/pushback Jetbrains went to the perpetual fallback and subscription. It addresses the subscription issue - they now have a revenue stream rather than the upgrade. It also means that they do a lot of minor releases now with new features throughout the year.

The other part of the perpetual fallback is that if you have a subscription to a version for a year, you will always be able to use that version even if you cancel your subscription. If I canceled my subscription, I'd be able to use IntelliJ 2024.2 forever. I'm currently running 2024.3.3

One other bit on the subscription - it gets less expensive each year. I've got an all products pack for single user. My next yearly billing will be $173.00. https://www.jetbrains.com/store/?section=personal&billing=ye... - the 3rd year and onwards (I've been a Jetbrains used since the end of the world sale - https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2012/12/20/jetbrains-end-of-... )

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...

Related from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21798033
I appreciate the idea of this a lot but am a bit skeptical.

The good thing is this would at least shine a better light on all those that "claim" to be Postgres but really have little to nothing to do with it. Overwhelmingly people are supporting the wire protocol despite being a completely separate database because Postgres is already so universal and it'd be a huge investment to recreate that ecosystem of language drivers and everything else around it.

The reality is even "wire protocol" there are varying levels of support depending on what you're trying to do.

Then when you get down to functionality, it could be "we support the Postgres data types"... well except this one or that one. That's fine and good until a user is surprised 2 years into building an application.

Even the notion of we support all Postgres extensions, well all Postgres extensions don't work together some take hooks and change queries that other extensions want to modify for themselves.

Having worked with Postgres and managed Postgres for a very long time. Postgres is Postgres, there are extensions that modify Postgres, there are forked versions of Postgres, and things that are "Postgres" compatible simply aren't Postgres.
Not for this paycheck :)

I've been a manager in earlier times and got shit from all sides. Nearly drove me to a burnout. Paycheck was still horrible. So i quit that.
Screenshots of things like the admin panel too.
Some folks do like hold-to-quit to avoid accidentally quitting (similar to Chrome's default behavior). However, point taken - it'll be configurable in the next update.
Good call. I am so unused to seeing that style, that I read it as first-person.