skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not bad faith, I honestly have not found a set of physical and technical controls that work for kids that are addicted to short form video content.

Have you tried to restrict devices against a determined child? Especially one that has to use a device to complete school homework? Because you make it sound easy. I can assure you, it is not. Just because a device is allowed at a time of day doesn’t mean he’s using it for the stated purpose. I sit with him as much as possible while he’s doing homework, but I may have to step away to cook dinner, wash dishes, drive a kid somewhere, help one of my other kids - and guess what, I come back and it’s more YouTube. So how does “time of day” restrictions help?

I may come off snide and annoyed, and truly this topic does make me annoyed as there is no simple solution. Yet people who are not in this position are so quick to point out how simple it is - yet never can back up their claims with actual facts.

Edit- before I’m accused of being too lenient, I have a fairly strict screens policy for my kids, and I still struggle. When I go out, it’s insane how many parents just let their kids sit and watch videos while the parents talk. The kids will have iPads basically chained to them while in line, at the table, in the car, it’s absolutely sick. Hell, I have my own problems with screen addiction.

Here’s some mitigations and how they’ve failed:

There are no devices allowed in bedrooms. Work is to be done in common rooms, but unlike when we were kids, there is no desktop. Only laptops. So they’re easily portable. I have had a recently wiped iPhone swiped from my office because it was unlocked - it took me a few days to realize that, and by then he had watched 22 hours of YouTube. Internet is locked out on their devices but turning it on and off is a bit of a pain so sometimes I’ll forget. Even with no internet, he will pull out the laptop while in the car driving home from school and play a cached web game. They tricked my wife into thinking the rear screen in the car was unlocked, so she toggles it- not realizing that actually unlocked the screen. Their Nintendo switches have ok parental controls once I realized you can actually set it to zero time if you do it on a day-by-day basis (otherwise the minimum is 5 minutes). I have a house wide pihole, but once he gets a cellphone that will be trivial to bypass unless I go through the effort of forcing an always on vpn. One time my wife shared the password to her laptop with my daughter (who is responsible) but my son was within earshot, so he was able to unlock it while we weren’t looking. Shall I go on?

I believe I’m doing the best I can yet I am fighting upstream the entire way.
The rare earth deal, or "raw earth" as Trump calls it, seems to actually be with Russia instead of Ukraine. Trump has decided he can spend nothing and eventually drop sanctions and in return, Russia will give the US access to Ukraine's mineral wealth.
The numerological mysteries of the Great Pyramid thing is BS, of course. Eco has a passage in Foucault’s Pendulum where he skewers this exact notion:

“He threw open the shutters dramatically and pointed. At the corner of the narrow street and the broad avenue, stood a little wooden kiosk, where, presumably, lottery tickets were sold.

“Gentlemen,” he said, “I invite you to go and measure that kiosk. You will see that the length of the counter is one hundred and forty-nine centimeters—in other words, one hundred-billionth of the distance between the earth and the sun. The height at the rear, one hundred and seventy-six centimeters, divided by the width of the window, fifty-six centimeters, is 3.14. The height at the front is nineteen decimeters, equal, in other words, to the number of years of the Greek lunar cycle. The sum of the heights of the two front corners and the two rear corners is one hundred and ninety times two plus one hundred and seventy-six times two, which equals seven hundred and thirty-two, the date of the victory at Poitiers. The thickness of the counter is 3.10 centimeters, and the width of the cornice of the window is 8.8 centimeters. Replacing the numbers before the decimals by the corresponding letters of the alphabet, we obtain C for ten and H for eight, or C10H8, which is the formula for naphthalene.”
If shaving milliseconds off of your workflow is so mission critical that spending an additional few hundred to few thousand dollars is worth it, you don’t need a snarky HN post to tell you which iPad to buy.

And I’m not convinced that person even exists except in their own minds.
Interesting, but there is a lot of "intent" in writing notes and I am not convinced it could capture the full picture without significant human supervision. Would it really save time writing paperwork if you have to go through it anyways and check if there's anything wrong? At least when I write, I know it's correct.
Transcription might be its purpose, but (as described) it does more than that.
The counter tariffs are usually explicitly chosen to make it not hurt their own citizens while hurting red states, because alternative sources of the tariffed goods exists domestically or from other parts of the world. Americans need aluminum and steel and lumber and power. Canada does not need Kentucky whiskey and Harleys.
I think not just like art, it is art. Making something for the sake of making it, not because it serves a practical need or purpose. Perhaps even because it doesn't.
The fact that Musk will probably end up like Hugenberg if nothing changes doesn't make me jump in joy. 2 of every 5 people living in the US don't deserve it (the fifth who voted against and the fifth who can't vote), and I'm quite sad that they will have to bear with it for at least a few months (it took 6 months for Hugenberg to lose his empire and power, but I don't see the long knives happening in the US in the future, so it might take longer). At least the week-long pogrom didn't get a pretty name this time and was quite limited thanks to activists and pissed of neighbours. USians are a lot of things, maybe too passive at times, but cowards they are not.
I worry that we'll get complacent and not check details like that when they are important, not just the medical field but everywhere.
I've wanted this for years. I've tried so many "ergonomic" mechanical keyboards, but the huge key travel (even if very soft switches), tends to always give me finger/wrist issues over a few weeks.
Well, you know, some of us don't like watching people be killed for no reason, even if there is an ocean between us.

It becomes a question for the US: "Are you who you have said you were for the last 80 years? Or are you just power with no morals?" I think that's actually a relevant question. Who are we going to be?
>I don't think many people realize this but we have like ~46 years of oil left in total.

My parents remember reading those in 70's
Not really a bad experience but I was able to walk as a tourist to where I wanted to go because the areas were pretty centrally located. The one time I took a bus to somewhere--don't remember location--it wasn't that convenient.
Lots! [1]

The biggest thing to be added recently is GPU programming, which given Mojo's focus on ML/AI makes a lot of sense.

It's probably not the best language to look into for general purpose systems programming, but if you are going to be interacting with GPUs or other hardware then maybe it's good to give it a look.

It is still changing a lot, so no real stability yet, but to be expected for such a young language.

[1] https://docs.modular.com/mojo/changelog/
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For those that don't remember the Dreamcast, it was Sega's final system before they left the hardware business. It was based on Windows CE, another Microsoft OS without the NT kernel.
The web server that I am building uses YAML-format configuration.
A model is bad when it doesn’t do what I told it to do, or drifts away to doing what it wants after a few prompts.
That's not true.

The WHO says there will be no detectable health effects.
I have never heard of these right-wing explanations leading to solving the problems that the poorer segments of the population face.
I use mine to browse the web a bit after work and consume RSS feeds using Feedly - always with the type cover. But for productivity, even with the Office apps, the information density on the screen is too low. Instead, I use my iPad as a thin client to RDP to my desktop computer, running Windows 11.

This is with an iPad Pro 2021.

In hindsight I should have purchased a Surface Pro tablet again, but I was so angry on the constant driver issues and similar problems.
Europe, Canada, Mexico and everyone else getting the Trump & Musk heel turn should seriously consider special tariffs on all Teslas and super-premium registration charges on their luxury models. In the same way that TikTok is a security threat to America, Teslas and Starlink are threats to the free world.

(I’d also throw in a ban on domestic content owners providing training material to xAI, but I’ll admit I have a vindictive streak.)
>> Can I buy this keyboard?
> Negative, this singular prototype is not for sale.

:sobbing:

I hope someone builds / sells this! Instant buy for me, if so.
Another TechCrunch [dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213612
Elaborate please? I googled the term but didn't get anything certain.
Totally agree with you on both points.

Yet, we don't know how strong Apple can be in the face of an adversarial government. And we do need something to compete with it, aiming to have at least the same goals in privacy and user friendliness. The task is huge, and it probably doesn't even start with tech itself, but here we are.
By the definition of Ponzi Scheme being used here, is there any capitalist country that is not running a Ponzi?
The next tax cuts are why they're going ham tryign to find things to cut because it's going to blow an enormous whole in the deficit.
Oof, I would be livid if that happened to me, too. Maybe I just threaded the needle and got lucky or something, but I'm disappointed to hear mine isn't a universal experience.
Underpinning a lot of Taiwan discourse is the idea that China has the capability to invade Taiwan. It does not. Nor do I think it actually wants to. China (IMHO) is happy to leave the Taiwan Question unanswered and unresolved.

Roughly 100 miles of open ocean separates the Chinese mainland from Taiwan. It may as well be 10,000 miles. The difference is the same. That is an absolutely uncrossable gap for the Chinese military. Taiwan has a standing army of 150K+ and a million+ reservists. I've seen estimates that China would need to land half a million troops to invade and occupy Taiwan, minimum. China simply does not have that amphibious capability.

Beyond the direct military capability, you need supply lines. The logistical effort is so easily disrupted.

On a clear day, you can see the white cliffs of Dover from Calais in France yet for 5+ years the German Army, being millions strong, was completley incapable of crossing that gap of roughly 17 miles. It took the Allies years to muster the logistics necessary to invade Europe and it really took bad strategy by the Germans to allow that to happen (eg the whole Fortress Europa effort was silly and a complete waste of manpower). A wide enough river is sufficient barrier to stop even a modern army.

Could China lob missiles at Taiwan? Sure, but to what end? Could they institute a naval blockade of Taiwan? Absolutely. But again, to what end? The American State Department will tell you it's because China is the Big Bad, the USSR 2.0. But just like with the USSR< the US likes to have an ideological foe to distract ordinary people from the fact that they're getting fleeced by the wealthy.

It's worth adding that the official policy of the US government is the One China policy [1]. The US isn't actually interested in an independent Taiwan.

So let's stop talking aobut invading Taiwan like it's a thing that's going to happen.

What I suspect TSMC is doing here is hedging against a tarde war, diversifying their production and ingratiating itself with the US for when things like chip fabs become a sufficient national security interest that the US actually wants domestic supply and/or starts restricting what can be exported to Taiwan.

[1]: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/understanding-the-one-chi...
Show HN: VS Code Server with Shared AI Coding Agent and REST API for LLMs
I created a containerized VS Code server with the Goose AI coding agent integrated, and recently added two features I thought might be useful:

- A shared tmux terminal so multiple users can watch and interact with the same Goose AI session simultaneously.

- A REST API that lets other systems send commands to the terminal and retrieve conversation logs programmatically.

The main goal was to create a coding environment that could be used both interactively by humans and programmatically by other LLM systems. You can run it as a collaborative tool where several people work with the same AI agent, or you can control it entirely through API calls.

The setup uses Docker, so you can easily spin up clean environments for specific projects. You can configure Git credentials during runtime, which makes it suitable for automated workflows that need to clone repos, make changes, and create PRs.

I'm sharing this because it seems like a practical approach to building LLM-powered developer tools that can be both interactive and programmable.
Unflavored chewing gum:

https://www.amazon.com/Falim-Sugarless-Plain-Pack-Pieces/dp/...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186114277099?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=2...
All Dams Are Temporary
At the same time, uncapped growth of physical goods is simply impossible on a finite planet. No matter how you slice it, forever growth is delusional.
> Going by past results

I'd rather go by future results like Biff Tannen.
So there are 2 Mozillas: There's the Mozilla Foundation, and the Mozilla Corporation. The corporation develops Firefox. The foundation takes donations. For reasons I don't claim to understand (IANAL, and I gather there's tax law stuff involved), the foundation apparently can't give the corporation money to work on the browser. This leads to a regular point of confusion and a complaint because people would very much like to financially support the browser, but there is literally no way to donate to it. Now I believe (again, IANAL) that there are ways they could arrange things so that people could give money to the corporation for the browser, but they have not done those things. A person could plausibly argue that that's because Mozilla Foundation wants people to donate to the foundation and not the browser, though I'm not sure if they've ever publicly said anything explicitly. (If they have, I would very much appreciate links.)
Note in terms of nuclear - using current technology you still need to dig your fuel out of the ground from very specific places in the world - though a different set of countries ( apart from Russia ).
Woah, this is pretty wild. I had to Google about it, but I found a reliable source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyzy300vlzo

Here is the exact quote:

> The [US State] department's fact sheet on Taiwan-US relations earlier included the phrase "we do not support Taiwan independence" - this was removed last week as part of what it said was a "routine" update.
Show HN: Hide – An AI Dev Tool for Real-World Codebases
We built Hide because AI coding tools mostly generate code from scratch, but real engineering is about working within large, existing codebases. Hide understands your entire project, helps with planning and implementation, and integrates into your existing workflows. We created it to solve our own developer pains.

We’d love your feedback on how it improves your engineering capabilities. Try it at hide.sh, and let us know what you think.
> Or let us run Mac apps on the darn iPad.

Pretty sure it would kill battery life, and play very poorly with their suspend-wake functionality.
I'm not sure why some people are so hostile to this tool. It sounds like Dragon Speak plus AI. It's not going to replace your doctor.
In the near term, Ukraine wants continued delivery of military equipment. In the end game, they want any sort of peace treaty ending this war to include NATO/EU/US support. Ideally, in the form of NATO membership. This is crucial to ensure that any peace deal would be lasting. Putin has repeatedly stated that he does not believe a Ukrainian state has a right to exist, and has engaged in military operations against them for over a decade at this point. There is no chance a peace deal will endure without some sort of security guarantee from another power.
I'm a fan of C3, I like that it's not trying to be _too_ far removed, but adds enough to rid you some of the tedious chores of C. Dev and their community is also really nice.
On the PC a lot more is handled by the UEFI firmware so you need a lot less device specific drivers.
Global, regional, and national prevalence of adult overweight and obesity
How would Russia help “contain” China? China’s actual territorial ambitions have never been especially wide ranging, and I really doubt that Russia would make a credible deal to help keep China’s military out of Taiwan.

To the contrary, China’s increasing power is economic. They out-manufacture everyone. They appear to be beating the US at its own recent games (BYD seems to be ahead of Tesla!). They have plenty of software expertise these days. They are approximately caught up in AI. They also happen to lead in non-petroleum-dependent energy, and Russia’s main strength is in its oil and gas resources.

If the US wants to remain a dominant economic power, how is Russia going to help?
I think this might be because of what GP said later:

> it treats all the information equally as important when that’s not really the case

In the general case (and I imagine, in the specific case of GP), the model doesn't have any prior to weigh the content - people usually just prompt it with "summarize this for me please <pasted link or text>"[0], without telling it what to focus on. And, more importantly, you probably have some extra preferences that aren't consciously expressed - the overall situational context, your particular ideas, etc. translate to a different weighing that the model has, and you can't communicate that via the prompt.

Without a more specific prior, the model has to treat every information equally, and this also means erring on the side of verbosity, as to not omit anything the user may care about.

--

[0] - Or such prompt is hidden in the "AI summarizer" feature of some tool.
[dupe]

Blogspam

Doge seeks to cancel lease on key NOAA computing facility

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43248492

Other discussions:

The American Weather Forecast Is in Trouble

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224862
Then why did they vote against themselves, family, friends, community, city, country, and other countries? Uneducated people make uneducated votes. Privileged people get it, they just want you to be more educated, but you keep voting against that too.
No, I don't think I am.

> > Big food corporations profit from ultra-processed foods that manipulate our natural systems.

> I've just never bought this

Yours is a rather strange reading if you truly mean to absolve the food of sinister intent. Clearly it has none.

Nor must the corporate entity producing it. That's the nature of moloch. You get bad outcomes even without outright villainy on anyone's part.

The food is being "manipulated" in the same way Grandma manipulates it, sure. Grandma bakes a pie from whole ingredients, sourced perhaps from an area farm or maybe even her backyard, with her bare hands. Show me how a Twinkie is made. The naturalistic fallacy is irrelevant.

It is simply wrong, not to mention naive, to think companies do not optimize their products to maximize impulse/repeat consumption. They are most certainly aware of dopamine pathways. This is one, and indeed a big one, of those

> other things

you mention. Convenience and advertising are big ones too. Why do we need so much convenience, and see so much advertising? Perhaps it has to do with the ordering of our lives around the very sort of institutions that sell us ultra-processed foods.
It is a html link and a subdomain name that is the same as a protocol.

Here pdf link:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/263698.263754
It does feel like we are hurtling towards a world where every industry will have a high volume producer of generated content, which will force the creation of a high volume summarizer of generated content.

"Having trouble processing a medical claim with 50+ pages of notes? Not to worry, Dragon Copilot Claim Review(tm) trims the fluff and tells you what really happened!"

"Having trouble understanding a large convoluted PR? Not to worry, Copilot(tm) Automated Review has your back!"

"Having trouble decided which cordless vacuum to buy? Not to worry, Amazon's Customers Say(tm) shows you what people think!"

There is definitely _some_ world utility to this arms race, but is it enough?
I'm a software engineer not a firefighter, but my understanding is that it's significantly an experience thing. Lithium battery fires clearly aren't trivial to deal with and do burn hotter than petroleum fires, but they're also very much less frequent and firefighters are learning how to handle them.

I'm not sure what the specific issue would be with race tracks. The average road course is very open and a very controlled environment; if you had to deal with a car fire, it's probably among the best places to do so, thanks to lessons learned in the blood of previous generations of drivers and track workers.
This doesn’t necessarily apply to this particular offering, but having working in clinical AI previously from a CS POV and currently from as a resident physician, something I’m a little wary of is the “shunting” of reasoning away from physicians to these tools (implicitly). One can argue that it’s not always a bad thing, but I think the danger can lie in this happening surreptitiously by these tools deciding what’s important and what’s not.

I wrote a little bit more of my thoughts here, in case it’s of interest to anyone: [0]

On that same vein, I recently made a tool I wrote for myself public [1] - it’s a “copilot” for writing medical notes that’s heavily focused on letting the clinician do the clinical reasoning, with the tool exclusively augmenting the flow rather than attempting to replace even a little bit of it.

[0] https://samrawal.substack.com/p/the-human-ai-reasoning-shunt

[1] https://x.com/samarthrawal/status/1894779710258733330
The web server that I am building has a simple in-memory cache module, that can be optionally enabled. It supports "Cache-Control" and "Vary" headers.
There's a significant amount of guesswork in this Register article. PCC[0] is an example of on-device compute being done in a way to ensure Google (and others) don't see certain kinds of data.

[0]: https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/trust-in-transparenc...
You know that most Western countries that have universal healthcare spend less on healthcare per capita than the US?

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

It's all about the willingness to regulate healthcare to benefit the general population.
Iz U Ded?
When I adopted my dog, I was living alone and knew that he'd be in danger if anything happened to me (e.g., hit by bus), as it might take a few days for anyone to notice.

To handle such a scenario, I built a service to check on me and notify my contacts if I went missing. i.e., a "Dead Man's Switch".
It is a spectrum not a yes/no answer.
Ooh, thanks for finding that. I'll definitely want to try out the Orenz models and the Uni as well.
Notably TAOCP used the MIX fantasy assembly language [1] which fits his idea that beginners could take to assembly more easily than HLLs. Of course in 1967 HLLs were pretty immature.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIX_(abstract_machine)