skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Magnus Carlsen (the multiple times chess world champion) talked about this in his recent Joe Rogan podcast. He said he passed his chess peak already now at 34. He now knows more, but when he was younger he could win via brute mental power.

> Is it reasonable to assume that the natural decline in cognitive performance over time is offset by the gains in experience and expertise?

So according to Carlsen, for chess the answer is no.

I personally also suspect the answer for programming is the same. Most, if not all, of the hotshot programmers we know became famous in their early 20s. Torvalds started writing Linux at 21. Carmack was 22 when Doom was released. Many of the most famous AI researchers were in their early 20s when doing the most groundbreaking work. Einstein's miracle year by the way was also when he was 26.
CIA Begins Firing Recently Hired Officers
Magic Containers: What Edge Computing was meant to be
The beavers were released yesterday in the UK: "the National Trust has legally released the first two pairs of Eurasian beavers to live in the wild in Purbeck, Dorset. "

https://beavertrust.org/historic-first-official-wild-beaver-... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygxvzpkevo
It's weird that anyone even bothers cracking Windows when you could just use it forever without activating it. Everything works except some personalization features--and even those limitations are easy to get around.
> It blows my mind how the software and larger entertainment industries refuse to learn the lessons of Steam

IMO it’s because so many people in large companies want to avoid ownership and responsibility.

It’s like that old saying “nobody got fired for contracting IBM.”

Nobody gets fired for going with intrusive DRM. It’s good for the company!

My understanding of Valve is that it’s a small-ish high-ownership company.
I'm not even confident they get kickbacks. They probably just believe that either negotiating service details or providing infrastructure for competitive options would require more work from them. They are probably right about that: I'm not hassling them over it. I'm really not in a good position to anyway. As much as I would like to attribute malice to this behavior, it's most likely to be no more than laziness.

If I moved into a house, I could get 1gbit symmetric from Google Fiber or UTOPIA at half the price. But that doesn't matter because I cannot remotely afford a mortgage.

The real problem is Monopoly. Not the market dominance kind: the no one gets to compete kind. We have it in real estate, where every piece of the market is overvalued so far that very few individual people can meaningfully participate. We have it with ISPs who get to literally own the last mile infrastructure, so their customers can't physically connect to a competitor.
One thing that I've found with this model is that it's not heavily censored. This is the biggest development to me, being unbiased. This could lead to more enterprise adoption.

https://gist.github.com/davidmezzetti/049d3078e638aa8497b7cd...
IaC doesn't mean your infrastructure config has to be code, it means you manage your infrastructure config like code. As in version control, PRs, tests, that sort of thing. How much of it is Turing complete is up to you.
Brief History of GPS
The obr is not the only source here, but one among many.

You seem very invested in ignoring evidence that before wasn't a great idea. This suggests you're more interested in ideology than evidence-based reasoning. It's distressing that "free thinking" has become an excuse to ignore evidence and pursue vibes-based policy.
I don't think people use suboptimal tools provided by social media simply because they "have a large enough audience there".

I think they start doing it mainly because it's their best shot to get a large audience anywhere.

The kind of archival you describe is tedious for anyone not skilled enough to set up an appropriate automation, and getting audiences to move en masse is also hard.
Not at all. Sure when I'm at home its docked, but so far in Linux battery life has been fantastic. Not Apple fantastic sure, but I can get a good 5 hours of heavy use, up to around 8 hours of web browsing and video streaming. I often use it on the road, throw back quake3 lan parties, coffee shop creative sessions.

I just want decent enough power and no thermal throttling if I do have to hammer it. I make music so the extra ram and space for sample libraries is a big benefit and why I had to keep external SSD's around with my Macs.

My Macbook Air needed a usb fan ziptied to the laptop stand to not throttle at times.

>it seems like rather than trying to give a mac a reasonable go of it as opposed to whatever else, you were trying to instead explore a fundamental difference in how you value technology products

I re-evaluate how I feel about technology pretty often and its caused some shifts for sure. My side hobby is ARM/RiscV low power computing and Apple's move to ARM tickled that hyper efficiency side of my brain, but ultimately failed to keep me interested because of all the downsides upgrade/repairability wise.
That's the problem: too often, it is not.

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/7a2cfe/comment/dp77... for details: there are a lot of reasons speakers more comfortable with another language will have their OS locale (and therefore the accept-language header) set to English.
"Would you be relieved to have passed an IRS tax audit? I know I would."

If only I had explicitly articulated a distinction vs "relieved to survive a trial imposed on them".
Couple of additional small notes (maintainer here)

> In a similar sense, why should enterprises trust OpenZiti?

you don't have to. It's open source - so you go look at all the code and judge for yourself but perhaps better than that (well different anyway) is that OpenZiti allows you to use your own PKI for identities if youlike. With third-party CA support, you can make your own key/cert and deploy them to identities if you desire. https://openziti.io/docs/learn/core-concepts/pki/#third-part...

> If services do not use e2ee

with OpenZiti you basically get this by default between OpenZiti clients. (once offloaded from the OpenZiti overlay, it's up to the underlying transport protocol)
Efficient hiring practices?
And yet ranks of successful founders are dominated by people in their mid forties. Perhaps there is something more involved with social function than pure cognitive skill?
Oh this is nifty…
Don't sleep on Kyocera printers
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43275792
Am I missing something ? I see a lot of the small-scale models results but no results for DeepSeek-R1-671B-Q4_K_M on their github repos.
Have you found Math Academy better than just prompting ChatGPT/Claude/etc. to be a math tutor?
The Valuation Guide: Discounted Cash Flow to Internal Rate of Return
Powell said no rate cuts until hiring cools. This is an interesting way to do it.

The tech cuts aren’t scary at all because who can cry foul when the ice cream machine is about to replace the ice cream man? Ice cream man was never a real job to begin with.
The 'metaverse' as a concept driven by VC funding and froth failed because the metaverse already exists it's just we call it the internet and no one in the space was trying to build anything even partly as vibrant and varied as that.

Basically it was the worst impulses of extractive platform-capitalism channeled through a vision from profoundly uninteresting people.
This is my experience as well. Geekbench heavily favors the type of workload that runs best on Apple hardware (those tends to be general case, most likely to be used by the mass) but in practice if you have complex software to run your experience will not match the bench numbers.

I think PassMark is more honest as well, because it just gives scores for calculation throughput instead of specific tasks. It more closely matches what experience you will get if you have a varied load.

But since it's Apple we are talking about, their users just want to think they have the best and that's all that matters.
I see, I see. And what is a SNARK proving system?
>The wealthier half of the world will never let Chinese auto makers in

Australia and the UK have modest barriers to entry - especially in Australia a large part of the market is Chinese.

In the EU they are allowing Chinese imports because otherwise the Chinese would restrict the sale of German cars in China. So they are coming in though still a small percentage of the market in the EU/UK.
Row major vs. column major arrays, row vectors vs. column vectors (2012)
Related: While Government Officials Spent 5 Years Planning, Beavers Built their Dam for Free in 48 Hours:

https://boingboing.net/2025/02/05/while-government-officials...

Now, if we could just train beavers to build affordable housing...
A 'Manhole Cover' Beyond the Solar System?
It's a shame. For a lot of cases, where you are happy with virtio peripherals, it seems to be a great replacement for KVM.
I'd like to offer a counter-narrative. It might just be luck, but across seven machines (excluding Pis, other SBCs, Macs, Androids), I've only ever had one WiFi issue and one sleep-mode issue with Linux. (Which easily clocks in at fewer problems than on Windows.)

By my measure, Linux has saved $1000s of dollars of my time just in waiting for updates alone. (Not to mention the employment and community opportunities it made possible.)
While you’re not wrong, you have to keep in mind that there are actors who try very deliberately to hide the fact that they are removing freedoms.

Most people aren’t on the lookout for every reduction in freedom and, at least in the US, we have surprisingly few institutional and/or powerful guards against the erosion of freedoms.
The fact that Belgium could function without too much issues for that long points to that it did not have much of an impact. This is because a lot of the things that a normal federal government does, is done by the regions in Belgium.
The date for the collapse of Social Security has always been the same: the early 2030s.

We do have a pretty good idea of what the demographic trends are: a baby boom, followed by a baby bust. That was why we moved from Social Security as a pay-as-you-go program to having a Trust Fund. We knew when the Trust Fund would top out, with more money going out than coming in (i.e. right about now), and how long it would take to deplete (i.e. roughly a decade).

Life spans have not radically increased. They have slightly decreased, extending the fund a couple of years.

But it's actually the least of our problems. That "trust fund" isn't a pile of money. It's just Treasury Bills. The government "borrowed" the money, and is now having to pay it back. That means we're going to have to either cut the budget dramatically, raise taxes, or borrow from somebody who will give us a worse interest rate than... uh, ourselves.

So indeed, the ~2034 date for the Social Security failure is something of a red herring. But only because it's actually worse than that.
Agreed! FWIW I was doing more free QA than nit-picking ;)
Shaker Desk – Paul Gold of Salt Mastering [video]
Paul Gold, owner of Salt Mastering in Brooklyn, NY, describes the custom A/B path console he designed and built to master audio from open reel tape to lacquer master in order to create vinyl records without using a computer.
I had Windows 95 running with just 4 MB of RAM. Obviously it kept swapping to disk. When shutting down it always crashed, because in the process it turned of swapping and couldn't run some of the drivers anymore. Even Microsoft support didn't know how to solve it. That thing was wild.
After adding 16 MB of RAM I never had this issue again.
I'm not sure what to take from this.

Are you worried there is some sort of anti-Windows 7 conspiracy, where software vendors stop supporting a 15 year old years out of support OS so that an unrelated software vendor receives more data?

Or is it simply more likely that nobody wants to test their software on a 15 year old OS? When XP came out that would have been Windows 95, and the same thing happened.
Don't forget: Only about 2/3 of eligible voters voted. So those 1/3 who didn't vote, effectively voted for (or at the very least, condoned) the winner.

They didn't physically vote, but by not-voting, they are literally saying "I'm OK with whoever wins."
Having the money is far, far better than _not_ having money to help you "make sense or use of the next two decades". If you don't, both the sense and use are narrowed to being chained to a job indefinitely into the future.
Hello mister! I feel with you, mister. Quit the job before they fire you. It's a part of healing. But before, mister please check which direction would be interesting to work? It can be something really different. Something totally new. I wish you the best, mister!
hence my confusion at the sudden "left" outcry over the attacks on the FBI and CIA, two organizations they have been bemoaning for my entire life, and with good reason! Those organizations are responsible for some of the absolute worst behavior associated with American history, the most shameful of shameful episodes throughout the Americas were started by the CIA and FBI.

I think the outcry is actually mostly media-oriented, because the media for the last generation has been filled with ex-Agents and funded by the Fed. The media is sad to see these organizations attacked, because the media is run by people with emotional bonds to those agencies.

Good riddance to all of them!
Enabling and Governing at the Intersection of Data and AI
Definitely not a waste of time! Keep up the great work.
According to https://linuxreviews.org/Hannah_Montana_Linux the last release of this awesome distribution was 2009
Almost Perfect: The Rise and Fall of WordPerfect Corporation (2001)
"If you can retire around 35-40" really? If you can retire that young, you probably don't need any advice.
From what I've been told as an Android user repeatedly over the years, anything-but-iMessage is a (often-times insurmountable) burden on many iphone users who only want to use one app for all the things, and for whatever reasons that one app must be iMessage. As ridiculous as it may sound, my kids have actually been left out of social groups in the past because iMessage doesn't (or didn't?) work very well with Android phones. So presumedly, if Apple doesn't implement it then there's a large group of people with no access to this feature since they are unable or unwilling to use a different app. It would make sense to me that is part of the motivation for the advocacy.
Hopefully RISC-V changes things a bit.
Windows 7 is a 15 year old OS that's been out of support for 5 years. It is utterly ridiculous to paint Discord as unreasonable for not supporting it?
The Role of Research in Preparing K-12 Students for Computer Science and AI
Ask HN: How do you deal with confirmation bias in your thinking?
When I ask myself where I might be biased, I get no answer and assume all my current beliefs are unbiased. I understand that I may be wrong on some issues, but not because of bias, rather because of a lack of information. Science says that the essence of confirmation bias is exactly not knowing where you are biased.

I thought, maybe I have no biased beliefs, maybe I have somehow overcome them. But then I thought that to overcome bias on issue "x", I would first need to realize that I am biased on issue "x". In that case, I should be able to recall moments when I recognized my bias, but I can't. The only case I recalled was when I was in love with a girl and probably biased about whether she liked me.

I checked, there is a scientific consensus that confirmation bias is real, and the more important the issue, the higher the likelihood of bias.
Political poll news site 538 to close
I think you'll find in the EU the price of the VW and the BYD will be much more similar.
Naturally there needs to be filtering and some sort of analog frontend.
My main point was that mainstream rigs now do direct sampling, instead of zero-if or superhet with dsp IF.

And WSPR sure is magic, people do thousands of km with it off an rp2040 gpio pin.
Nvidia invested $1B in AI deals in 2024
> The number of people who simply cannot or will not write a coherent paragraph is way too high. We have people in top professional positions that are functionally illiterate.

I feel this deeply in my day-to-day at a mid size public tech company.

But how do you turn this into an advantage when your audience (colleagues and leadership) are either functionally illiterate as you describe, or simply refuse to read?
Nice, good luck
I'd also be interested to know to what extent this will be possible
Judging by the state of bluetooth and compatibility with their own docks, that might literally be the case.
It seems unlikely for such a hard thing as spontaneous creation of biomachinery from amino-acids happened at the same time for both left-handed and right-handed versions. And once you got machinery that uses, for example, left-handed version, it's pretty much game over for the alternative because life grows, evolves and colonizes at insane rates compared to random chemical processes. So it's very likely that wherever carbon based life exists it's chiral rather than racemic.
Good on you! Of course even after 40, it's still not the end of the world if you don't get what you're hoping first time, but I hope it goes well.
You should not have entertained that comment.

There is absolutely zero evidence that 35 is some mystical cut off for "understanding." That poster has NO clue what they are talking about. Seriously, feel free to ignore that comment.

As for practical advice for learning, you should look into learning how to learn and then spend about 1-2 year habituating to the proper way to acquire knowledge. The science says your (not just you, practically everyone) current intuitions and habits are incorrect; as evidenced by almost everyone in this post. Youtuber Justin Sung is pretty much second to none in terms of a practical program for acquiring these skills.

If you want general guidelines to follow to determine who's telling you the truth and who isn't use the following wikipedia article to guide you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_learning#The_principles...

Note: Simply reading that article and "understanding" what it is saying is not equivalent to having a study program that implements these things, and having a program that implements these things is not the same thing as actually executing on and habituating to said program. This process takes many months to years.

Best of luck.
Yeah the private schools that use seminar-style manage it by 1) having much higher incomes than $15k/yr/kid, and 2) avoiding teaching kids who have special needs, since they can cost several times as much to educate as a kid who doesn't, and besides, they tend to drag down test scores and university acceptance rates.
Is Python execution even a rounding error in the full execution time for a LangChain flow?
For this type of research the data sample is too small.
Oh, ye of unbounded belief in fair play.

These people are typically the true believers in the Republic. They also believe they are taking down existential threats to the republic. Finally, they believe in defense in layers.

You know what they don't believe in? Playing fair.

No. I wouldn't count on new homeland security leadership appointees having a "free hand" in practice. All of them will discover that their phone, internet and location activity is known to the security agencies. All of that information is also known for their associates. Couple that with the fact that you're dealing with new appointees whose ideology is essentially based more in superiority rather than patriotism, and it points to a lot in that data trove that would be of interest to the kind of people who keep the FBI running from the shadows.

In fact, my bet is that this series of appointees will be far more easily controlled than ones appointed by some red, white and blue boy scout with a martyr complex like McCain would have been for instance. I'd wager there are probably some people in our homeland security infrastructure who actually prefer our appointed leadership be comprised of people who are more malleable.
> The ultimate communist goal is achieve a decentralized society where nobody is controlled or directed

Is this true? My understanding of communism is that everyone contributes to the community with their labor (thus the name communism)

The ultimate ideal is to have a society which does that on their own (imo something utopian and impossible in reality), but I always thought the goal was to guarantee a minimum standard of living via shared labor and wealth.
Man you need to share the whole story not just cuts here and there for narratives.

Do better.
Interesting to see AMD entering the small LLM space where practical compute constraints actually matter. These 3B models represent the pragmatic side of AI - not everything needs to be a 100B+ parameter behemoth burning through datacenter power.

The real test will be inference latency and throughput on consumer hardware, not just the cherry-picked benchmark graphs they've shared. Anyone run comparative evals against Llama 3.2 3B or Gemma-2 on identical hardware yet?

The fully open approach (weights, hyperparams, training code) is refreshing compared to the "open weights only" trend we've been seeing. This is how you actually build a community around your tech stack.

Edge deployment is where this gets interesting - having truly open small models running locally on laptops/phones/embedded without phoning home feels like the computing paradigm we should have been pushing for all along instead of the current API-gated centralization.
If you're going to play the trade war game for equal damages then neither side should play. Trade wars should be about disproportionate damage until the other side quits.
I hope we have the compassion as individuals not to ask others to kill us. That's a heavy weight to put on someone else. It's not abstract "society" conducting the euthanasia: individual healthcare providers would have to decide that you met the criteria and then administer the drugs.
he was informant to cover his ass, and run to attempts to play all sides.

slip the feds a little juice tidbit here or there and he gets to run his empire a few months longer. repeat over and over until the feds get smart.
I owned an Oculus quest 3 for about 1 week and returned it.

For me, the biggest issue was that my eyes hurt badly (likely due to strong lumination ) after taking the goggle off, (seemed to be ok when wearing it, that's strange).

But I like the metaverse concept, I don't like my immediate network.
You realize the alternative is the iPhone shutting down completely?
For the US Military pirating software while on deployment in Iraq, Microsoft would need to seek redress in Iraq's court system.

28 U.S. Code § 1498 [1] holds the federal government liable for copyright infringement (section b), but only in the US (c).

I don't know how much copyright enforcement Iraqi courts were doing during the occupation, and the US Military was operating with broad immunity from Iraqi law as well. There's no reason for Microsoft to make a fuss over this infringement, because they're not going to get compensated and the PR will be negative.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1498