skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, under the Budpest memorandum Ukraine should have been protected by the USA from Russian aggression in exchnage for giving up its nuclear arsenal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

Given how that played out, not one will ever get ridd of nuclear weapons they have & many more will logically now need to have them as well to assure basic security for their country.
The classic paper on what went wrong (and some surprises about what didn’t, really) for the iAPX 432:

https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture_seminar/spring2020/lib/e...
Why some software development tasks feel impossible
Thanks for the suggestion! We’ve definitely taken that into consideration. We’re working hard on a reporting system and AI moderation to ensure that only serious language learners are using the platform. Our goal is to create an environment where people can focus on language learning, not on anything else.
PiKVM Switch Multiport Extender: Manage Up to 20 Systems from a Single PiKVM
The Budapest Memorandum did not promise any defense.

> Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they "should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used".

Which they did.
Exploring Warehousing-as-a-Service for Shopify E-Commerce Brands – Thoughts?
Hey Shopify sellers!

For those of you scaling your e-commerce brands, how are you handling fulfillment as your business grows? Have you struggled with finding the right warehousing or 3PL setup that keeps up with demand fluctuations?

I’m exploring the idea of a more flexible warehousing model; something that allows brands to tap into fulfillment space only when needed, instead of locking into long-term contracts. Think of it like an "on-demand" fulfillment network.

Would something like this be useful for your business? What pain points are you experiencing with your current setup?

Excited to hear your thoughts!
Scott
I don't think Darwin has been directly distributed in bootable binary format for many years now. And, as far as I know, it has never been made available in that format for Apple silicon.
As far as I am familiar, considering the actual cash flows, state lotteries do very strongly tend toward screwing poor people out of their money. Do you have some evidence otherwise?
> I don't see just withdrawing from the country as 'standing up to'. It's just giving up in a more disruptive way...actually taking them to court and objecting seems more productive to me.

"objecting" alone does nothing. Objecting + lawsuits or objecting + withdrawing might accomplish something.

I'd agree that lawsuits are a good idea but they are also entirely dependent on the courts (of the same country that already wants to violate people's rights) to do the right thing. If the lawsuit works and the government forces the government to back off it's a good thing, but if not a company keeps the power to take their technology and leave. They can choose to do that regardless of what the laws or courts of another country thinks.

Walking away might be seen as a company "giving up" on the corrupt country that wants to violate people's rights, but it's certainly not a company giving up on their principles.
A nation full of people angry that they won't be able to get highly sought after products and services can change policy too.
I wonder how it works in practice.

I share the scepticism that the UK can fire these independently. But then, from a purely technical PoV, you'd imagine these missiles can be fired:

- from underwater, away from radio reception

- as a second strike weapon, i.e. with command centres destroyed

So here's the dichotomy. If these assumptions hold, then the UK must be able to fire the missiles independently - they seem to work offline. And if they don't, then they are even more useless than I thought. Essentially they would only be good for a first strike, approved by the US, or second strike in a sub-global conflict, not even for a NATO-wide defence in an all-out war.

I can't see a third way. Maybe US satellites which would diffuse a Trident in-flight if the US says so?
Atproto by Example: Records and Views
> except that I don't feel any need for an ebook reader anymore

Is that just because you get a little more space due to folding? Personally I just loathe how much time my phone steals from me, and value the ebook reader on the basis that it has its specific purpose; no colour, barely does anything, I can't be messaged on it or watch videos, it's not as viable to use as anything but a reading device. But now that I think of it, I don't necessarily value those features in a way that makes me want to spent more than I did on it.

The way I think of the value I can derive from my phone is similar to how I assess how much value I could hypothetically get from an iPad Pro. Although it's nicer, faster, etc.. than my old as hell iPad, it doesn't do anything substantially different or that much better in terms of what I'd likely do with the device, and it seems like I only ever need one of them, since it's kind of just consumption technology, but if I was marking up A4 PDFs regularly, it might offer more utility.
These guys are great but unfortunately the ai sutton and barto book is really bad.
You would do better with Grokking Machine Learning by trask, and then a couple months of implementing ml papers.
> people thought ELIZA

But which people? Those people which show that a supplement of extra intelligence, also synthetic, is sought.
If those multiple people are updating the files via VCS, or via UIs that enforce append-only updates, it's still reasonably fine.
Having a suitcase full of money has none of those problems.. And under performs because it does nothing.
If you listen closely you can virtually hear the initial tear forming. Can the people take another round of post-2008 shenanigans though?
I agree.

I'm just making point that for AI "General" Intelligence.

That humans are also not as "General" as we assume in these discussion. Humans are also limited in a lot of ways, and narrowly trained, make stuff up, etc...

So even a human isn't necessarily a good example for what AGI would mean. Human is not a good target either.
Thiel wants to get his moneys worth for grooming Vance.

(A project in motion since 2016! Vance is the main thrust, Trusk is the tip of the spear.)
"Big 3" science fiction magazines including Asimov's and Analog acquired
Aren't the viewing angles on monitors way smaller?
TSMC to Spend $100B in U.S. over the Next 4 Years
> storage premium

I wanted to make a nice comparison chart: (prices are very rough but from NewEgg)

DDR5 RAM (Single Stick)
Memory Apple Desktop Laptop Server
16 - ~$40 ~$40 ~$60
24 +$200 ~$200 ~$50 ~$100
32 +$400 ~$80 ~$80 ~$100-$200
2 Sticks
64 - ~$200 ~$170 ~$150
128 - ~$115 ~$310 ~$250

Storage Apple NVME (Gen 5) NVME (Gen 4) SSD HDD
256GB - - ~$50 ~$20 ~$20
512GB +$200 - ~$60 ~$30 ~$40
1T +$400 ~$150 ~$80 ~$60 ~$50
2T +$800 ~$200 ~$150 ~$100 ~$60
4T - ~$400 ~$280 ~$200 ~$80

Side Note: I recently bought a 11T HDD for $120...

You can AT WORST buy the storage OUTRIGHT for cheaper than it is to UPGRADE. But in most cases you can buy more than double what Apple is offering for cheaper than it is to UPGRADE.

I boycotted Apple for years because of these issues, but unfortunately I think this battle is lost. I gave up. I have a macbook Air. It is nice, but it is a glorified SSH machine. They must know this, because I'd prefer to get an iPad pro with a keyboard but run an actual fucking desktop OS. But then again, the fucking iPad isn't even good at the one thing it is supposed to be good at: writing... The 3rd party apps are leagues ahead of Apple Notes.

What I can't figure out is:

- Why are there no good competitors?
- Why are there no good linux laptops with good battery life?
More to the point the polls do not predict who wins the election because the election is won by the electoral college, not by the popular vote. Even if you got the popular vote exact you still couldn't predict the election accurately.

What you have to do is simulate all the states and DC and run a monte carlo simulation and you will always get an equivocal answer if you do that.
If only it didn’t cost as much as a used car to get max ram capacity I’d get one. It’s so ridiculously small for how much power it has.
https://archive.is/WZGea
I suppose the question is here, who is the more incompetent manager, the machine or the human
> Sure, but an easy assumption in New York, and even Chicago, is that such a person is provided for means beyond their job income

Probably the biggest giveaway in the article was the $50,000 inheritance from a grandparent. When my grandparents died, they left the grandchildren a small amount ($500 each, IIRC), and the vast majority to their direct children. This seems standard to me, and if the ratios hold then she presumably stands to inherit far, far more in the future.

I find it hard to fault anyone for assuming people are like themselves in most ways. But maybe don't follow his twitter hot takes. Or twitter in general?
Both AMD and Google note, that Zen[1-4] are affected, but what changed about Zen5? According to the timeline, it released before Google notified AMD [1].

Is it using different keys, but same scheme (and could possibly be broken via side-channels as noted in the article)? Or perhaps AMD notices something and changed up the microcode? Some clarification on that part would be nice.

[1] https://github.com/google/security-research/security/advisor...
The AI race to zero continues to accelerate with downloadable free AI models which have already won the race and destroying closed source frontier AI models.

They are once again getting squeezed in the middle and this is even before Meta releases Llama 4.
Can I ask deep research to give me a tl;dr version?
It is actually a Protestant Bible, so just 66 books :) You can read up about it here: https://berean.bible/

I am using it because I've found it to be my preferred creative commons (no licensing required) Bible available.
Apologies for taking the phrase in a slightly farcical (& incurious ?) direction:

Who will take custody of the custodians?
Stagex is a build distribution first, but that said we are working on "sxctl" to make it easier for people to extract packages from containers and put them in your local prefix similar to nix.

Stagex can also easily generate immutable/deterministic live isos, full bootable server images, enclave os images, etc.

It was these sorts of use cases that made us realize no existing distro hit our threat model and caused us to build stagex in the first place.

Here are some standalone deterministic linux distros built or bootstrapped with stagex:

- https://codeberg.org/stagex/repros - Server distro designed exclusively for reproducible builds

- https://git.distrust.co/public/airgap - Minimal CLI-only workstation distribution designed for offline key/secret management

- https://git.distrust.co/public/enclaveos - Linux kernel, rust init system, and user supplied rust code for running whatever you want in nitro enclaves

- https://github.com/tkhq/quorumos - Linux/rust based enclave operating system that uses remote attestation and shamirs secret sharing to manage applications no single sysadmin can be trusted with access to.

- https://github.com/siderolabs/toolchain/blob/main/Pkgfile#L5... - Talos Linux by sidero labs just recently moved their toolchain from alpine to stagex for much higher supply chain security

Honestly stagex was built for your use case.
That's very impressive, super slick. The subpage preview on the parent page works so well I went digging into the source code.
Apart from the points made by sibling posters, markets reveal preferences. The eye-watering price of urban land suggests that many, many more people would prefer to live in cities than currently do.

(Full disclosure: I am one of them. Reluctantly living in a suburb because kids; will move back to the City as soon as they get their thumb out and build enough housing to make it more affordable.)
Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70%
You and I are using completely different definitions of "values".

The definition my comment depended on was one where values act as a filter for actions (or patterns of actions).

Drug addicts only value short-term highs (next fix). Someone else may value being a musician, being reliable, or being honest. In 2018 maybe someone would have bought a Tesla because they value being seen as progressive and value experiencing modern technology. Notice that all my examples start with a verb, which can often manifest as a way of being.

I didn't bring up virtues, but my understanding of virtues is that they are values deemed by at least some to be objectively "good", such as the cardinal virtues. Whereas values can be both good or bad, such as masochists who value watching others suffer.
What browser/platform?

Flutter apps don't scroll at 30/60fps on my aging Mate 20 Pro, but that website is fine for me in Chrome.
Agreed, but I'd rank the choices in this order. #3 is still better than #4.

1) Allow the child to go at their natural pace.

2) Grade skip every 2 years, with take-home exercises.

3) Grade skip every 2 years, without take-home exercises.

4) Force the child to go at the same pace as the rest of their same-age peers.
reminds me of this article https://scholars-stage.org/uber-is-a-poor-replacement-for-ut...
We're talking about the m3 ultra here, which is also wall powered and also expensive. Nobody is interested in dropping upwards of $10,000 on a Mac Studio to have "okay" performance just because an unrelated product is battery powered. Similarly saving a few bucks on electricity to triple the time the much, much more expensive engineer time spent waiting on results is foolish

Also Apple isn't unique in having an NPU in a laptop. Fucking everyone does at this point.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243580
Yeah.

If you’re not looking forward to it being the main event, you probably should just skip it all together and save yourself the disappointment.

Parenting is extremely undervalued in modern society.
> Most of them have not ended in a world war.

historically, two out of the last three have ended in a world war. The only exception being the Balkan wars of the 1990s when the collective West did choose to heavily intervene.
sure on consumer GPUs but that is not what is constraining the model inference in most actual industry setups. technically even then, you are CPU-GPU memory bandwidth bound more than just GPU memory, although that is maybe splitting hairs
16TB, 512gb ram, m3 ultra 15k+ usd. Wow.

Did they say why there’s not an m4 ultra?
I was expecting the justification to be a stodgy get of my lawn rant.

But the author does a very good and reasonable job of explaining it.

It didn't convince me to do the same thing, but I can't help but nod along to the even-handed pros and cons that he lays out.
He didn't even explain why he was arrested or what he was suspected of
The problems would be the same they were in the early 20th century. Pollution doesn't stay contained in neat little political boundaries and half the major contributors will be bankrupt when you finally want to clean up the mess. It also ends up being a shitty situation for the workers who have to endure the environment through no particular fault of their own.
I haven't looked into mich details of gibt's packing, but for a big repo you probably don't want a client to download it all nor do a huge amount of http range requests for being able to show the summary page. You think that would work well or would this need at least some caching layer?
A lot of new windows laptops (finally) have a 16:10 ratio or even 3:2 on microsoft surface.
We are in the process of adding a new special package type called "boxes" which will allow you to easily pivot your final container output as an appimage, flatpak, deb, iso, img, etc etc.

Very much on our radar, though not hard to do by hand today. Help is of course welcome on such efforts if you get cycles to spare!

First steps would be to add the actual appimage tool as a package in "user" which would be a great first package for someone. We should have all/most of the dependencies already.
I've been following Nate for quite a while and would say that's a pretty gross mischaracterization. He's always been center left and I haven't really seen that change. He does spend quite a bit of time criticizing the far left and doesn't often toe the Democratic line so I can see why a lot of partisans dislike him.

He's hardly the only center left writer who dislikes the far left these days though, quite a few are furious at progressives for tanking the Democratic brand and throwing a winnable election to the current administration. Nate has still been far more vocal against Trump and all sorts of right wing nonsense.
Wireguard is easy to block. Some VPN providers do implement an obfuscation layer for it, but Tailscale uses plain WG, so if WG is blocked, you will get no connection. Control plane would still work, though.
There is no vibe coding. It should be called "slop coding."
My $2000 linux desktop is still faster and snappier than the $4000 macbook, but it’s the only thing laptop sized that feels even close.
I honestly don't understand it either! I'm a screen reader user, and if I had to use the web without adblock, it would take me a lot longer!!! However, I have friends who also use screen readers who do!!
Show HN: An AI SAT Tutor
Hey HN, we're building Orin: an SAT tutor that can adapt to every student. You can try it here, it'll walk you though an example problem (https://learnwithorin.com).

It's not a secret that current models have the knowledge to do well on tests like the SAT - we think that the next innovations for consumer education products are going to come by finding ways to help humans learn the most efficiently.

There's two parts to doing well on the SAT:

1. Actually knowing the content that's being assessed.

2. Practice taking the test and using the right strategies.

Orin figures out what you already know and then makes a custom plan to get you to your target score by your test date. You can take as many unique practice tests as you want and set up 1:1 lesson sessions to reinforce shaky areas. We get you up to speed on the test content AND the right strategies.

Why is this worth building? Students that get personalized 1:1 tutoring consistent do better in school (up to two std devs better!), but it's really expensive and inconvenient to get a private tutor. Most SAT prep classes will run you >$1k for ~10 group classes.

So whats the difference? Why do parents spend >$1k on SAT classes, but not on prep software like Khan Academy?

From our conversations with parents and tutors, the answer is simple: personalized instruction and accountability.

Parents rightly believe that personalized instruction will help their kids more than one-size-fits-all courses and content.

Most parents also buy SAT tutors for accountability - it's hard to blow off a tutor who's sitting next to you.

So in the weeks we've spent building Orin, we've hit both of those points. Orin adapts to where you are in your learning journey AND provides the accountability you need. At any point parents can call or text Orin and discuss their student, or Orin can provide regular progress updates.

Please let us know what you think! Especially if you have kids around SAT age - we'd love to help them crush it.
I think this has a whole lot to do with the memory throughput, as well as great efficiency.

My M1 still holds right up! It is the smallest RAM model, and even that is not the end of things.
Check out the eevblog forum
>when he freely admits his process is incomprehensible.

Which one of the 4 preferred processes, not including the maligned git send-email, and infinite other accepted processes?
Deobfuscate JavaScript code using ChatGPT
If it was japanese workers in japan at a japanese store you wouldnt see it as slavery. It would be just a funny bug that would needs fixing.

There is probably a racial component to your perception that doesnt need to be there.
With many things not working, and without mainline Linux support. And with platform that is not x86.

Yes, arm and riscv are interesting. I will definitely test them in the next ten years if they still get better. For now, x86 is still the best platform for me.
This is why news is hard. Don’t serve up rose colored news and you are tagged as hard right.

The idea Nate Silver took a far right turn is laughable. Saying the democratic candidate is going to lose or that some D positions are clearly unpopular doesn’t make one hard right, just pointing out what the numbers show.

Saying the Dodgers have good chance of winning World Series doesn’t make one a Dodgers fan. Or saying most people like iPhones make one an Apple fan.
What? They had Biden at something like 90% to win. Hilary was around a 2-1 favorite which was vastly lower than almost anyone else.
Again, why are you talking about cost, when the real question is viability? How does the study you linked plan to accommodate intermittency? The answer is just a vague statement about storage mechanisms:

> Storage of energy is an important element of 100% RE systems, especially when using large shares of variable sources
like solar and wind [14], [40]–[42], and it can take various forms [43]–[45]. Batteries can supply efficient short term storage, while e-fuels can provide long-term storage solutions. Other examples are mechanical storage in pumped hydro energy storage [46], [47] and compressed air energy storage [48], [49], and thermal energy in a range of storage media at various temperature levels [43], [50].

Nowhere do they actually outline how much storage of each system they will provision. How many TWh of batteries? How many TWh of pumped hydro? Totally unanswered. They just mention the existence of storage, and avoid any tangible discussion of scale. Like I said, there's no realistic plans for a grid primarily powered by intermittent sources. The storage required for such a grid is orders of magnitude larger than what can be feasibly provisioned.

This isn't a tiny insignificant detail. It's is a foundational part of a primarily renewable grid. And nobody has a plan to solve it that doesn't amount to "assume some different system, which has never been deployed at scale, can tens of terawatt hours of storage".
You could have also self-hosted the GitHub Actions runner which might have been easier as long as you had something to run the runner on.
For me, Tailscale is worth the trouble of not maintaining my own Wireguard setup.

Everything on my home network is set up as if it were public-facing.
Honking back of course!
I Tried Using an App to Unlock Cabinets at Drugstores
Money is fungible and exactly this trick is common. Best to think of the education funding as a minimum below which funding cannot be cut. In Florida, where I live, it actually funds a specific scholarship program, so it really does have the effect of making the program difficult to slash.
Did I upset the Apple fan boys?
That's an interesting take. A design outside of fashion. I can't see that being true myself. I want to see something as bold as an iMac again.
define 'clearly'. I'll take my answer in the form of a link to any of his work.
> DeepResearch is a cosmetic enhancement that wraps the results in a "report" - it looks impressive but IMO is much more likely to lead to inaccurate or misleading results.

Yup, I got the same impression reading this article - and the Jina one, too. Like with langchain and agents, people are making chained function calls or a loop sound like it is the second coming, or a Nobel prize-worthy discovery. It's not - it's obvious. It's just expensive to get to work reliably and productize.
I dunno, this write-up both seems a lot more detailed than Wikipedia re: the hypervisor & kernel and agrees with my recollection as foolishly confirmed by an LLM:

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/xbox-360/#operatin...

Appreciatively discussed on hn!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31678045

Doesn’t sound at all like the NT/2000 kernel/HAL/Executive.
https://archive.ph/LvhrU