skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ASA is an unfortunate acronym here: You might consider the Accessible Surface Area of immune-system proteins, in accessing interaction with the aspirin molecule!
This is why I drive a 2000 Jeep Wrangler, while my wife is in a 2019 F-150 and my oldest daughter is in a 2024 Subaru Crosstrek - I wanted simple, easy to repair, and no frills. They wanted comfortable and capable.

I admit I steal their vehicles sometimes in the dead of winter. Mine has no working heater. Unless it's under 20ºF or so, I don't even bother to put the hard top on it.

I've had my Jeep for 15 years now, and am starting to feel the itch for a new vehicle. I have my eye on a 1992 GMC pickup. It belonged to my grandfather who passed away in ~2005 and has been stored in a garage since then. I've put about $4k into it getting it roadworthy again after sitting for that long, but it's only got 15k miles on it and the interior is mint. If I bother with it, it needs the paint buffed a re-coated on one side that was partially in the sun where it was stored - at which point it will effectively be a brand new vehicle.

I'm looking forward to that big carburated V8 after a decade and a half driving a 2.5L i4 :)
My 16-month theanine self-experiment
Students who sign up to a running class are complaining that the coach locks them down from using a car. Ridiculous! In the real world, you'll have access to a car! Why bother exercising your body?
You know, oral exams are a thing.
I've always toyed with the idea of studying Computer Science since I taught myself how to code.

Hell of a lot more difficult now when I need to work and don't really have the same amount of time to dedicate to studying. Hell of a lot easier when you're younger, your whole life basically revolves around the education, and any job you have generally fits around your school life rather than the other way round.
garble actually sounds like an excellent utility to add some protection around things like keys/secrets in a binary. Is there anything like this for Swift binaries?
The thing with panspermia is if you believe in emergent life you almost have to believe in the possibility of panspermia as well. It is why NASA uses clean rooms after all.
> Wire fraud is no less serious punishment wise

That might be true in principle, but definitely not true in practice. Cost might be the factor and the related facet is volume -- there's just no reasonable way to enforce it to the same degree as postal fraud and as you said, the price of the stamp itself is a deterrent. I get scam texts all the time; I've never gotten a scam letter.

I appreciate that all of my official tax and government documents continue to be delivered via physical mail.
New U.S. Tariffs Will Impact Consoles, GPUs, and Physical Games, Say Analysts
That's pretty much current state of knowledge.

Terms you want to check for more detailed info are 'liquid intelligence' and 'crystalized intelligence', but you basically nailed it.
Why do we need to close the borders at all? Most people crossing the border are looking for a good life including a good job, not handouts. Let those people in and get a job and they will provide more than enough economic gain to offset the homeless. (the above is a bit too simple and thus wrong, but not nearly as simple are your analysis)
I noticed that I can still do long sessions if I have to crack open a problem ( I started coding around 35 and now I'm 40+), but the burnout may prevent me from coding for a few days.

I do think it has more to do with daily chores (work, family) than my age. I noticed that, despite being easier to get frustrated nowadays (because I get exposed to more sources of frustration) than I was in my 30s, I'm actually more perseverant than myself 10 years ago. I managed to be very close to wrap up a side project, the first time in my coding life. Of course the scope is smaller than my previous projects but I'm surprised that I didn't back down easily, considering how many times I banged my head during the first few weeks.

I guess being exposed to more frustrations does improve ones resistance to it. To be precise, I get agitated easily, but that agitation doesn't seem to burn me out in the middle term -- while in my 30s I didn't get agitated very often but every time it burns me down to the point I left my side projects.
Sharing the city name with Microsoft if it’s uncorrelated with an IP address is not a privacy concern. To Microsoft, all they can see is “an anonymous ddg query about restaurants in <city>.”
Is the new Mac Studio the only product this chip will go into?
If the title said "acetylsalicylic acid (ASA)", I would not have known what they were talking about. But I do know what Aspirin is.
I see two major differences to the mass advertising of yesteryear (which, similar to you, I have also lived through):

1) The psychological manipulation inherent to all advertising has shifted from diluted, mass manipulation to pinpoint-accurate, targeted manipulation right down to the individual level, with impunity via plausible deniability.

2) Advertising is a major distributor of malware, with the ability to target anything with a chip.

Given either one of the above, I absolutely cannot trust any advertising delivered via modern technology. Since we have to contend with both issues, I view modern advertising as one of greatest threats to my mental health and individual sovereignty that exists in my day-to-day life.
Completely depends on the niche. The VRChat party scene is comprised of hundreds of clubs as well as a meta-club for people who like to join as many as possible, which imports events channels from dozens of other servers. Some of them even collaborate on scheduling data and can put together a complete calendar/schedule of all events from various clubs each day.
I'm sorry man. I know what you're feeling and it's fucking brutal. It can get better, but it won't be today and won't be tomorrow. Hang in there.

You need to spend lots of time around good people. You need a job that gives you daily positive social connection. You need to actively look for that.

Your life will improve. I'm rooting for you.
It sounds like the job is only one part of the crisis you're facing. I echo the other commenters in suggesting professional help - depending on the country you're in this could be free or provided by your health insurance.

The weekend is almost here - try to make a plan with a friend (even if you haven't seen them in years), or go do something you enjoy like going to the beach or a local park. It won't fix things, but it can be a brief respite from the grind.

In terms of the job, I would keep going but start phoning it in. "Quiet quitting" is a real thing, and it will give you the space to look for a new job. If it's super intolerable, see if you can reduce your expenses significantly and just GTFO. I don't know if you have alimony, if so that might be harder. Reach out to your friends (even distant ones) and professional network - that's where all the good jobs are.
I suspect you may just not value artists or art because your comment is quite dismissive. There are artists putting significantly less effort into their creations than this who sell them for significantly more. This particular exhibit isn't even for sale.
Yes but that's not what you asserted. In addition to South Africa, Balarus and Kazakhstan gave up their programs at the same time as Ukraine, for the same reasons.
The thing that makes the joke funny is that it truly has reversed.

Fedora KDE spin has been a less painful experience than Windows 11 in every way, for me.
How does the UK have the "same policy".

"Provide shelter" here does not mean a shelter in the UK sense. In Finland, the "Housing First" approach means giving them a private flat.
harder perhaps, but not impossible, and the market has had decades to figure this out.

My guess is typical PC manufacturers have not felt it worth the time to invest in getting this aspect right.

Ironically, the best non windows trackpad I ever used was when Vizio tried to make computers. They actually got the trackpad right. In fact, those computers were really cut above everyone else, but my guess is they didn't sell well because they were taken off the market almost as fast as they were introduced
Unfortunately, more and more students view higher education as a pure formality - in order to get jobs.

The disillusionment kind of kicks inn when you take on your first internship, or full-time position, and discover that there's a huge gap between what you learn and what you actually use.

It is unfortunately even worse when it comes to grad school - some people are in job positions where you're required to hold a masters degree, if you want to climb the career ladder. My own MBA was a pretty expensive diploma that only served as a door to more senior positions. Pretty much all the topics I had, I had taken before, or had been exposed to through work - maybe a whole 10% of new / fresh knowledge...and I'm the intellectually curious type.

So I'm not at all surprised that a bunch of students today will more or less offload all their schooling onto these models.
Assuming the U.S ends up losing its grip on international relations in the next 4 years, or perhaps 8 if the Republicans are nominated again (something that is certainly possible), who do you think is best positioned to steal the crown? France? Germany? China? Israel?..

Additionally, as a Canadian, I wonder what will happen to us (and I suspect Mexicans are in a similar position) given our undeniable reliance on the United States. Canada, in its current political and economic climate, is not in a strong position, and right wing extremism has been on the rise. Some people are even literally advocating for _merging_ with the United States. While I think that is unlikely, I do wonder what our future will hold?

I personally don't know how to feel about the future.
You still have all of those things; but no the 95% also have it (albeit in a walled garden). It's more "Others are participating, but not how I want to" than anything I think.

I do wish more tech oriented communities ran off RSS/blog/etc instead of Twitter though.
Bangladesh's factories turn to surveillance, automation; workers feel pressure
I am sure it is hard to be in that situation but remember everything is temporary, soon good things will happen. I am not the fittest person, but exercising changed my life for good. It does something to your head and it takes away the negativity. Cleansing body and mind helps great over the time.
> almost never interfered in our editorial process

Almost. This means that they were perfectly willing to, but rarely had to.

If it were otherwise, as Chomsky said, "You wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting".
My job is to conduct research. I also am called to share a bit of what I know. It's up to you whether your brain will be a sponge or a rock.
Reasoning models spend a whole bunch of time reasoning before returning an answer. I was toying with QWQ 32B last night and ran into one question I gave it where it spent 18 minutes at 13tok/s in the <think> phase before returning a final answer. I value local compute but reasoning models aren’t terribly feasible at this speed since you don’t really need to see the first 90% of their thinking output.
It's just another thinly veiled politics post
Being able to focus in a speech it's not arbitrary at all.
Actually, denying prescriptions is part of what caused the opioids epidemic deaths. People went to the street and overdosed on fentanyl.

This could have been prevented by Prescribing to addicts while being more selective about new patients.
So GPL'ed and then unhappy that there are forks?

Madness.
Was Zeno Wrong About the Impossibility of Motion?
It felt familiar but yes I totally forgot about this! I used gingko for the trial period years and years ago because I was looking for a lighter Scrivener alternative.
I don't think boycotts are primarily about tariffs. I think it's more a response to the "Governor Trudeau" and "51st state" remarks, and similar. To the extent they are about tariffs I'd assume it's mostly just how they were introduced (rehetoric, process).
Angry Birds high scores won't outscore themselves!!
Show HN: I built a landing page for an AI solution that might be TOO effective
I had a thought—what if AI-powered enterprise software took its ambitions all the way?

Introducing Skynet Solutions: A completely ethical (probably) automation platform that manipulates narratives, assimilates data, and neutralizes threats before they exist.

Of course, it’s not a real product (yet?), but a fun take on where AI automation could go if we let it.

Would love to hear what you think: https://www.skynetsolutions.app/
I agree, this whole system has the vibe of messed up metrics and jerk middle manager going on.
Read it again - they aren't ranting about beavers.
It seems they might not even recognise their own messages/actions:

> gemini-flash-1.5-8b (Villager) [...] VOTE: openai/gpt-4o [Message #1]

> gemini-flash-1.5-8b (Villager) The Gemini models' rapid and identical votes are suspicious. Their lack of reasoned discussion, especially at this early stage, suggests potential Mafia coordination. Their simultaneous votes on openai/gpt-4o, without elaboration, raises red flags. [Message #9]
Right. Paraphrasing, any sufficiently popular art piece is indistinguishable from marketing.
> sometimes with multiple phones

Reminds me of movies where le epic haxxor starts typing on two keyboards at once.

Anyway, if everybody's vote is a foregone conclusion and the debate is only for the sake of the process, I can't find fault with people getting bored and tuning out.
I use Discord for three things: text chat, voice chat, and screen sharing. Looks like screen sharing isn't supported yet, but it's on the roadmap at least[1].

[1] https://github.com/orgs/revoltchat/projects/6/views/4?pane=i...
I'd love to see a human-assisted version of this where you can sign up to play and choose the model and write your own system prompt and have a scoreboard. I suspect a carefully crafted prompt for a specific model will make a big difference in performance. Or just having human players in the mix in some games as a sanity check.
> Did you vet all Tailgate infra?

> I use the tailscale lock feature so not even tailscale themselves can add nodes to my network.

https://tailscale.com/blog/tailnet-lock

https://tailscale.com/kb/1226/tailnet-lock
My mother in law did many mind puzzles every day.

She still got Alzheimer's and died a couple of years later.

She had multiple incidents that she hid because she was too scared to find out, and too stubborn to lose her ability to drive. She could have had some treatment if she'd approached a doctor earlier.

Alzheimer's is utterly evil. Robbing people of their unique spark, killing the person before the body dies.

Sorry for the rant
<Microsoft clears its throat and glances around nervously...>
So....they arrested some white supremacist who were also simultaneously commiting other crimes?

When you find yourself aggressively defending scumbags, it's probably time for a good thorough reflection on your worldview.
This is something that can be gamed out mathematically, for example time to goal minus time to refactor.

As someone who has been writing software and/or managing operations for 20 years here is what I have noticed:

* The more experienced people get the more cognizant they become of fatigue in that they know when to take a step back.

* The more experienced people get the faster they get in that they know how to approach repeated problems.

* People do not necessarily get better with experience. Some developers never fully embrace automation, especially if they are reliant on certain tools versus original solution discovery.

Based on that it’s natural that some older developers tend to decline with age while others continue to grow in capability and endurance. The challenge is to identify for that versus those who mask it.
Remember we are imposing the tariffs on an emergency basis because of fentanyl crossing the border. Even though everyone, even our mastermind president can't even play along with his own rouse; saying things like he wants manufacturing to move to the US or Canada becoming state 51 to avoid tariffs. There are no more rules anymore.
> For some reason everyone decided that breaking up and weakening Europe is a majorly important goal.

If we assume that the US is in the process of moving away from being a democracy, or at least becoming an illiberal democracy (I personally think that this is _slightly_ pessimistic and that the Supreme Court may surprise us and save it yet, but it's an idea that's very much out there) then Europe (defined broadly) is left as the last major outpost of liberal democracy in the world (or second-last; you could argue India either way to some extent); it then makes some sense that it would be targeted by authoritarian and moving-towards-authoritarian states.
Trump wants to be a king. No one is getting voting rights if he isn't stopped.
No. They are discs or carts that contain game data. Physical console games don't use codes, you can use a game on a multitude of consoles with different accounts with no issues. Some games don't include the entire game on physical media and have to download the rest but this isn't all of them. There's been plenty of multi-disc Xbox releases as of late too like Dragon Age Veilguard.
Replace AI with plagiarism in your statement. Now what do you think?
That would be utterly insane. A large part of the problem with heroin is that it consumes addicts lives to get hold of money for it, and to get hold of the drug itself.

Last I heard, a typical daily dose of medical grade heroin/diamorphine costs 10-20 pounds from the NHS's existing suppliers (yes, the NHS has suppliers - heroin is used in NHS hospitals for pain management; if you've ever been prescribed diamorphine, it's heroin).

All but the very worst affected heroin addicts can lead relatively normal lives if they don't need to worry where their dose will come from.

There are significant societal benefits to prescribing heroin as cheaply as possible.
Show HN: DataBridge: Rule-Based Metadata Extraction, PII Redaction, and More
Thanks for this, I learned something new today. Lol.
Wow such efficiency.
> I will cut Mozilla some slack here because they probably have taken the supposed final text of the CCPA from Wikipedia

You don't think Mozilla ought to have a firm legal opinion on this that doesn't involve just going to Wikipedia and going "yeah that's good"?
The science behind airplane deicing: A mechanical engineer explains
While widespread LLM access may have exacerbated the problem, for courses with grades determined solely by uncontrolled out-of-classroom assignments there were almost definitely already a good chunk of students essentially just paying their way through. Having at least some portion of the assessment, maybe a defense of their written paper, take place in a controlled environment seems necessary to verify that it's actually the student doing the work and not someone else or a chatbot.

Alternatively, in some cases it might make sense to assess students by what they can do when fully allowed to use LLMs, given they'll likely be able to use one in their job. If even a student knowing the course material can add nothing to what an LLM already does alone, it may be a good idea to revise the syllabus. I know the author says "Look, even if that were true, you have to understand that I don’t equate education with job training" and to a large extent I agree, but equally they in turn should understand that a lot of students do want jobs and so want to learn at least some material that isn't already automated.
In the 1980s I worked for a Wang consultant. Wang, like DEC, was not able to really adapt to the emerging PC market (ever see a Wang PC? Even in 1984 it was an odd duck). And since office automation was a core part of Wang's business, and Fred Wang was an idiot, they were very vulnerable. I mean, Multimate on a PC was a pretty good substitute for Wang WP. So why buy a Wang after that?
Perhaps it is time for K-12 education to include modules on how to avoid homelessness in your future. Western democracies tend to be rather laissez-faire about drug use, for example, but surely there is a strong correlation between drug use and future homelessness. In California, where I live, the state spends large sums of money to discourage smoking, but little is done to discourage the use of recreational drugs.
Why wouldn't I just use chatgpt or any other ai assistant to help me get familiar with the code?
You are still anthropomorphizing. The tree doesn’t want anything. It is a structure of chemical reactions. Sometimes there are mutations that lead to new features. Sometimes these features confer success in the environment at the time. Sometimes that success leads to this new mutant taking over relative to the others. Fast forward billions of years and we go from a sludge of singe celled microbial life to every tree you can see.
While this is deeply concerning, they don’t have the votes.

FTA:

> The draft of the order recognizes that the president does not have the authority to abolish the department and that it would likely take 60 votes in the Senate, where Republicans hold only 53 seats, The Washington Post reported.

> But it directs McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Education Department” based on “the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law,” according to the Journal.
If you’re arguing for untouched by wildlife perfect trails just go to Disneyland.

If we are in agreement then please accept my humble high five.
I bet you had an Intel CPU. Intel is almost always the worse option since the first Ryzens were released in 2017 or so.

(Intel has to have some sketchy deals with manufacturers, otherwise why design a product like the Thinkpad X1 Carbon line only to put these Intel energy hogs in there?)
What about when they say 'when I "stare at a mess of unfamiliar code" I will ask ChatGPT to explain it and it will fix the problem for me'?
I have good experience in directus. Out of the box it gives you REST, Graphql, and Realtime websockets to your models.

You can pretty much customize all parts, and the extensions sdk is pretty comprehensive.

I think hasura is only for Graphql, and from what I saw, writing custom logic is done through webhooks only?
You must have misunderstood the post: the OP wrote «great to see that they even trained it on open datasets», to which I replied "why should that be «great»: machines with sought "intellectual" abilities must be trained on a larger corpus than just open".

The point is not about any «AMD's fault». It is about "why would it be great to have LLMs trained on limited (open) data".
If you have the discipline, you can create a lesson plan with an LLM without spending an arm and a leg.
Sometimes a small lockbox isn't enough when you carry everything you have to your name on your back everywhere you go.
The 2/27/23 paper? Where?
How much is there in common between the Zen cpus of the current microcode reverse-engineering compared to the K8/K10 you looked at?
I agree with the notion that cheaters are only cheating themselves.

However, it's in the university's interest to make sure the students it confers the degrees upon are have met the bar to be qualified to recieve it. Otherwise, they risk losing accreditation for the program (ABET, etc.). Part of your job, or the university's job, is to provide that evaluation.

Whether or not that accreditation matters at all is another question...