skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are also a few who spend all their money they might have on lottery tickets, but those aren't much of the total number of people.

Is there any evidence of that? I can recall reading that alcohol consumption, for example, has a Pareto distribution skewing in favor of so-called "heavy users" (whom most of us would refer to as alcoholics). I'd imagine a lot of vice industries are similar. Is there any evidence to suggest lottery ticket purchases are distributed across a large number of infrequent, low-volume purchasers?
Cribbed from someone else's work, presented as your own.
Wait, is Russia so weakened that it's unable to win this war or is it so strong that if it wins, Europe and eventually even the USA would be next? Pick one, you can't have both.
> AMD might be "competitive" but it's objectively worse.

Nonsense. Their drivers are better and there cards have beaten Nvidia cards depending on the generation.

> Also some games don't even support AMD's equivalent of DLSS. Also AMD sucks at inference, not even close.

I don't think you really know what you're talking about here, and I don't think you would notice the things you think you would in practice. In short, you're making very poor excuses.

It's OK to say you're scared to make the leap and/or don't care about privacy so much as you do being able to play the latest crappy CoD installment.
Mostly, but also take it when I fly, along with a mouse + mouse pad. The weight has never bothered me, usually the backpack with the laptop in it is the lightest bag and then I have a much heavier carry on as well.
Yes. The best way to avoid trouble is build redundancies to it, rather than refine the troublesome part to no end
https://archive.ph/274q9
Manually - I want as slim/minimal/resource-efficient a setup as I can, and to understand what I'm configuring.
>Now the wealthiest man in the world is using the election to unilaterally (and clearly illegally) decide how much Federal money should be spent. And on what and for whom.

You mean the person appointed by the elected POTUS to curb useless public money spending? Oh, the humanity! God forbid somebody takes a look at such spending, as the current president promised, was voted for that, and delivered.

It was only OK when unelected appointed special advisors adviced on trillion dollar wars and trillion dollar bailouts and trillion dollar wastes of public money.

But sure, it was so much better when not rich people got to control such spending: they got to become rich in the process, with bribes and post-term job offers from companies they favored.

>I have no doubt that anyone holding less than 100 million dollars in wealth will soon feel the impact too.

Yeah, the destruction of the middle class, loss of industry jobs, extra college, health, housing and insurance costs, and mega inflation was so great, things can only go downhill from here!
and that is fine, it's your choice but has nothing to do with the other party not offering an option to test, change your mind and not spend money.

I personally just put a reminder in my calendar for all such things and be done with it.
I was all on board with WireGuard myself but couldn’t get smb working reliably. Saw someone say they’re had better performance with tailscale and sure enough I can actually use it. It’s not perfect or anything but quite amazing considering it’s still just WireGuard under the hood. Whatever magic configs they have, good job
Show HN: Automatic Piano Accompaniment for Singers
This is a personal weekend project. The goal is to enable all people to have a whole band supporting their singing, no matter what their music education level is. You just press record and the music adapts to your song.

Make sure you give the microphone permissions, if you want to try it out!

Of course, for someone, who already knows music theory and has Ableton installed, this would be a 5 minute task. But there are millions of people, who want to be heard, but cannot play, or compose music.

Obvious features for the future:

- more chord progressions,
- more instruments (pianos, drums, etc.)
- more composition options for verse, etc.
Just run the same query in against R1 in Perplexity

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-is-the-likelihood-from... and got 85/100

Interesting that it comes up with a similar number.

OpenAI's 4o somewhat predictably sat on the fence and wouldn't give a number.
I assume this Tesla Takedown link is for organizing law abiding protests. But if you plan on burning something, be courteous and leave a comment in advance. Thanks!

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown
Pro-reserve argument such as it is, is that the day will come when the trading partners of the US government won't accept dollars BUT accept bitcoins/cardano/solana/whatever? The former is definitely coming on accelerated schedule, but why would the latter ever come? The new industrial and trading hegemon (aka China) would demand trading in the currency under its sole control, and by proxy, that's what everyone will end up trading in.
You own your attack surface at that point. Tailscale/Headscale is a matchmaker and key broker for the most part, the clients almost always (barring NAT issues) connect directly to one another. The normal security considerations apply as with running any service.
Show HN: Setting Up and Peering in the DN42 BGP Network Using a MikroTik Router
The only reason the government is involved is because organized crime is who runs lotteries in the absence of the state. People would still gamble with black market lotteries.
It seems I can configure it with at most 1TB of storage, and the display is lower resolution, but aside from that it does look like a nice device.
Probably looking at the realm of $50/ea for the side caps. Damn

https://www.mcmaster.com/9139K37-9139K379/
I think Slashdot's problem was that the moderation there wasn't powerful enough. The percentage of trolls reached a certain point, and then some fraction of non-troll users got disgusted enough to leave, so the percentage of trolls was now higher, and more non-troll users got disgusted and left...

That vicious circle destroyed the community. IMHO.
I did for a few years. The power cord was the only cumbersome part of that since the charging block is so big.

I'd usually unplug it if I had to move to another room and only bring the laptop itself.
I will admit that the lowly store clerk deep state will need to be dealt with one day.
Sounds like you would be well served by Debian stable then!
Additionally, the proposed currency for BRICS is going to be partially backed by gold, assuming they still go ahead with it even with the threat of Trump's tarriffs.
the "smart" kids do seem to have those skills, though. either that, or they're being tutored on the side, or they just require fewer examples to get it

whatever the case is, i think the idea behind skipping grades is that the kid isn't learning much in the classes they're in. they may not learn much in the next level either, but it allows the school to test that they've learned what they were supposed to (from class or elsewhere), while wasting less of the student and teacher's time

that said, testing out seems like it'd be better than forcing the kids to sit through yet another math class, even if it's one level higher. more time to touch grass, or read in the library, etc.
> Definitely something to do with the chip that brother checks...

There is nothing "definitely" about that; you could have just replaced a defective, knockoff or recycled chip that doesn't work: the grey market for ICs is absolutely rampant and full of trash. Replacing the chip doesn't prove some firmware check. All of the popular, disposable ICs used in mass market products like toner cartridges are cloned and/or recycled and are widely available at low cost, and problems with these are common.
>Its miniaturization allows the product to be used outdoors

Miniature? That thing is two whole server racks
I don't think blindly saving $183/year is worth throwing a wrench into our economic engine that provides everyone else an ecocomy that allows us to have jobs and things. I think we we need more thoughtful cuts rather than just thoughtlessly making cuts. Speed doesn't kill, the sudden change in velocity is what kills. All these cuts so quickly is going to kill the economy. This desire for instant gratification/change is like slamming on the brakes, for a dog in the road a mile away, and we don't have seatbelts. People will suffer and die. Depression approaching.
In something like transportation one is betting real returns come in before the asset is worthless. Bitcoin has no return so one is betting the asset goes up because it is scarce and you get out before it is worthless. Real estate at least has rents or personal use.
yeah he might even give you multiple real estate properties come to church this sunday to learn more
If I had to guess, more tariffs and sanctions that increase the competing nation's self-reliance and harm domestic consumers. Perhaps my peabrain just can't comprehend the wisdom of policymakers on the sanctions front, but it just seems like all it does is empower the target long-term.
(CG)NAT can been a real cost to ISPs, especially smaller ones:

> Our [American Indian] tribal network started out IPv6, but soon learned we had to somehow support IPv4 only traffic. It took almost 11 months in order to get a small amount of IPv4 addresses allocated for this use. In fact there were only enough addresses to cover maybe 1% of population. So we were forced to create a very expensive proxy/translation server in order to support this traffic.

> We learned a very expensive lesson. 71% of the IPv4 traffic we were supporting was from ROKU devices. 9% coming from DishNetwork & DirectTV satellite tuners, 11% from HomeSecurity cameras and systems, and remaining 9% we replaced extremely outdated Point of Sale(POS) equipment. So we cut ROKU some slack three years ago by spending a little over $300k just to support their devices.

* https://community.roku.com/t5/Features-settings-updates/It-s...

* Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35047624
A very likely culprit is the packet encapsulation changing things for the worse. An informative test would be to tcpdump (wireshark, etc) the packet stream with and without tailscale. Look at packet sizes, etc.

The overhead shouldn't be 15% but there could be some weird interaction with the link MTU for the VPN causing, e.g., smaller packets to be sent with more overhead.
All output of LLM's and diffusion models is clearly a derived work of the training data. It is radioactive.

In if you work in any sane software organization, by now you should have gotten a memo about not uploading your company IP into any AI dialog box in the cloud, or pasting generated code into company repos.
Maybe Nebula? You can do one yaml config file with all the certificates and firewall rules making it easy to script device provisioning too.
> do you know what we humans eat? Can you grow that in your bunker?

Soil, artificial UV and nitrogen extraction from air are solved problems. And you would not need a bunker, just A/C (or filtration if we’re going nuclear).

> because some humans survive when most species are extinct

If you’re talking about climate change, it’s some humans and some species are extinct. (Most cuddly wild mammals and birds we like.)

> for what we know and measure, climate change is likely to cause a global collapse, maybe human extinction

Right. This is false catastrophism. There isn’t a “maybe” human extinction within known parameters. There isn’t even an end to industrial civilisation without nukes.

People say this crap and undermine the entire climate movement because when the lie in extinction risk is shown it brings into legitimate question the other claims.
US plans to fire 80k Veterans Affairs workers
Some countries have already started. JEF can operate as part of NATO, or separately. The organisation is also nuclear armed, thanks to the UK.
Show HN: Recursive DNS Resolver
Ask HN: What else can be automated with AI?
Hi, Seeing too many AI products launching, which are automating (up to some extent) tasks. I wonder what else is left which is not in public domain yet?
That is not the case with MA they will refund you with a click of a button and it will cost them money since stripe keep their cut and don’t refund it to MA.
Subsidising (with a whole lot of money) technologies that make the situation worse instead of subsidising changes that would make society more resilient most definitely has an impact.

You want to say "oh, actually, we've seen that 99% of our emissions was due to our production of trackpads, so the solution is to stop using trackpads and all is well"? Let me tell you that the problem is a lot harder than that. We need to work on everything everywhere.
A Student Used AI to Beat Amazon's Brutal Technical Interview. Someone Tattled
I wish I would have saved his post lol
The assertion is addressed by:

1. The discovery of new facts that explain why a bank that won't let the average person take out $50k in cash would still plausibly let this person take out $50k in cash

2. The story having (verifiable) details that would be unlikely to exist if someone fabricated it, unless they went through a massive effort to fabricate a perfect story. While it is possible to fabricate a story that would pass thorough scrutiny, most fabricated stories would show inconsistencies or otherwise fall apart if looked at this closely.
Trending up at about 2-5% every year, so about to cross the threshold within the next few years. We're in the middle of the S curve.
If you're 'good' enough/identified a certain way as a kid, they'll bend over backwards to get you in things like that even if you're not well off. I wasn't from a well-off family, but test scores in the top 0.1% meant somehow there were scholarships to make camps and programs accessible once/if I expressed an interest. Whatever amount was required to make it affordable.

I'm a thoroughly useless adult, so it was a waste of money on their part, but it does happen. Or at least it used to.
You don't even need an account, you can use an RSS reader on channel pages. I think that's how newpipe populates its feed.
any qualified opinions here on tresorit? i'm using them now for about three years and the service is alright and reliable afaiac. supposedly they don't have the private key. that makes using it sometimes a little slow compared to other options. but i decided to go with them after reading numerous horror stories about dropbox et al.
One word: fees.
But the movie is about a robot assassin, it came out when robotic assassins needed a background story.

Make terminator today and you don't need time travel, just Boston robotics with latex skin and a rocket launcher, I guess.

The time travel is a trope to handwave the mechanics of a movie - you want to tell a story about one character and a robot, why should the audience care? PH this human leads a resistance that's why.
Trade, education, health services and IT saw jobs losses. More jobs in leisure and hospitality. Impact of tariffs is still not clear, also not clear how the tariffs will look like. I suspect uncertainty plays a role. Employers reluctant to hire if they are uncertain about future. Good thing it may justify lowering interest rates
Most ISPs likely have logs of all of the clients who were behind a specific external IP anyway.
Oh yeah, you’re right. But that just gets you Chrome’s behaviour (the first preferred language has to equal the browser UI language).

So I suppose GGP is mostly right, in the sense that most browsers get this wrong (except Firefox).
I had no idea Nord offered that and we’ve used them for years.
I'm genuinely trying to do something about <canvas> element accessibility. Whether it's enough ...? Probably not. But if I can do the work to try and show that <canvas> elements can be made more accessible, then there's no excuse for developers working on far more popular JS canvas libraries from making an attempt to better my efforts.

I do strongly agree that <canvas> elements should not be used to replace HTML/CSS! My personal web hierarchy is 1. HTML/CSS/images; 2. Add (accessibility-friendly) JS if some fancy interaction is useful; 3. More complex - try SVG/CSS; 4. use <canvas> only if nothing else meets the project requirements.

https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas
kind of a linguistic tangent do we say american european or american british or is that taboo?
Every now and then, a French president floats the idea of Euronukes:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09662839.2020.1...
Yes and we should legalize lead paint again while we are at it. It’s a parents responsibility to prevent their child from eating paint chips everywhere they go.
Sam is liberal, but being a republican is better for business these days. He's more of a survivalist than anything else.

I really wish Sam stood by his convictions. He has the money to make a difference (see: Elon, although obviously Sam has less).
Haha patio11 is great but he sometimes does things slowly that I can do fast. I went to Chase and needed to withdraw $50k from my account and they were willing to do it. I had some $115k at the time in it.

In the end I only needed $15k. There’s some stuff you have to fill out explaining why but it’s not something that requires too much work.

In my case, I was paying a wedding vendor and they only took Zelle or cash. I only needed $15k but I wanted to keep more in case other vendors were going to be like this too.

They asked me why, I told them, and then asked them if they’d make me 100 accounts so I could get around the Zelle limit. They said it wouldn’t work but that they wouldn’t do that anyway.
Yeah, I suppose you’re right about that.
> Humans created global warming and mass extinctions and it seems like the best way to stop it is to get more smart and dedicated humans, which aren’t rare but are uncommon. You better start hoping we pop out more people

If humans created global warming, a very likely scenario is that more humans just means more warming. I'd argue that's a saner default assumption.

Mass extinctions are not a human creation. They're natural events, like the plague.
Do you know whether the transmission costs of electricity are higher than that of transporting gas or lng, and whether that's a factor here?
This is article feels like it was authored by an anteater.
I just read up on Mark Warner, he doesn't look that bad. At the very least he seems to stand with Ukraine and against fascist dictators, which is weirdly enough a minority in Congress nowadays.
Personally, I'd flip it around to make Sudan the lead in.

And it's two words, you could make other cuts if you want.

However, at this point, you arguing a matter of taste.

I don't think Coca-Cola or M&Ms are relevant to the article itself. Gum arabic isn't that uncommon. I mean, this is a largely software developer focused crowd and a lot of people here were like "Ah, gum arabic".
Cannot tell you how many uncomfortable conversations I have had trying to explain that you still need to run cables for power to wireless cameras (the outdoor cams work off of solar quite well, though).
You're forgetting what Apple's been baking into their silicon for (nearly? over?) a decade: the Neural Processing Unit (NPU), now called the "Neural Engine". That's their secret sauce that makes their kit more competitive for endpoint and edge inference than standard x86 CPUs. It's why I can get similarly satisfying performance on my old M1 Pro Macbook Pro with a scant 16GB of memory as I can on my 10900k w/ 64GB RAM and an RTX 3090 under the hood. Just to put these two into context, I ran the latest version of LM Studio with the deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b model @ Q8_0, both with the exact same prompt and maximally offloaded onto hardware acceleration and memory, with a context window that was entirely empty:

Write me an AWS CloudFormation file that does the following:

* Deploys an Amazon Kubernetes Cluster
* Deploys Busybox in the namespace "Test1", including creating that Namespace
* Deploys a second Busybox in the namespace "Test3", including creating that Namespace
* Creates a PVC for 60GB of storage

The M1Pro laptop with 16GB of Unified Memory:

* 21.28 seconds for "Thinking"
* 0.22s to the first token
* 18.65 tokens/second over 1484 tokens in its responses
* 1m:23s from sending the input to completion of the output

The 10900k CPU, with 64GB of RAM and a full-fat RTX 3090 GPU in it:

* 10.88 seconds for "thinking"
* 0.04s to first token
* 58.02 tokens/second over 1905 tokens in its responses
* 0m:34s from sending the input to completion of the output

Same model, same loader, different architectures and resources. This is why a lot of the AI crowd are on Macs: their chip designs, especially the Neural Engine and GPUs, allow quite competent edge inference while sipping comparative thimbles of energy. It's why if I were all-in on LLMs or leveraged them for work more often (which I intend to, given how I'm currently selling my generalist expertise to potential employers), I'd be seriously eyeballing these little Mac Studios for their local inference capabilities.
I used Asahi on my company's M2 MacBook pro and it was incredibly nice. Had to return the laptop to them and Asahi is not supported on m3+...
...and before you know it the old rivalries flare up again on who is to be the leader of this fourth iteration of a European empire. Germany versus France, France versus the UK, Germany versus Poland, Italy versus France, a combination of some of these versus one of the others.

A 'European army' would be under the control of... the EU? Some new organisation to be specifically created for this purpose? Some committee-designed scheme of rotating leadership between the main powers in Europe?

These are not spurious questions. Europe is a large and diverse place, far more diverse than e.g. the USA. Would such an army serve to protect Hungary as well as Spain, Sweden as well as the Czech republic, Poland as well as Germany? Even if some of those countries do not care to fall in line with the agenda set by the Eurocrats in Brussels?
They'll just say that these are all good things because they're political enemies who should be targeted anyway. I mean, Melania Trump? Russia? Obviously we should weaponize the financial system to target people that we don't like, and vehemently oppose any system that might threaten our ability to do that.
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Power comes from the barrel of a gun. Once again the Chinese were right but we didn't listen...
Eh, Sam's actual politics are actually empathetic and smart behind the scenes. Which makes his recent kissing-of-the-ring so disappointing.