skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And it’s poisoned with opinions from the internet.

This is the scary part. What current AI's are very effectively doing is surfacing the best solution (from a pre-existing blog/SO answer) that I might have been able to Google 10 years ago when search was "better" and there was less SEO slop on the internet - and pre-extract the relevant code for me (which is no minor thing).

But I repeatedly have been in situations where I ask for a feature and it brings in a new library and a bunch of extra code and only 2 weeks later as I get more familiar with that library do I realize that the "extra" code I didn't understand at first is part of a Hello World blog post on that framework and I suddenly understand that I have enabled interfaces and features on my business app that were meant for a toy example.
Whippet becomes first Italian dog to win Crufts in its 134-year history
YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients
Start with Avante or CopilotChat. Create your own Lua config/plugin (easy with Claude 3.5 ;) ) and then use their chat window to run copilot/models. Most of my custom config was built with Claude 3.5 and some trial/error/success.
I was hoping that this meant I could use Linux instead of Android because that would have the potential of making me OK with continuing to use a smartphone.

But that's not at all what they're talking about. Oh well.
Specification [latest]: https://spec.modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2024-11-0...
As a hiring manager or company owner (I wore both hats) I developed a routine during the interview that basically leads to a breaking point.

I want to either drill down your bullet points to find out if you're actually an expert in XYZ as the resume claims, or work with you on a coding problem that's simple to understand yet more complex than leetcode challenges.

I don't expect you to ace, but I want to check if you're honest and willing to admit your limitations - my philosophy is that I hire humans, not compilers, no one knows how everything, and I'd rather have someone who's fast finding correct answers on the internet than someone who had memorized a book.

That's how I like to do it. Its been so long that I don't even remember when I myself was treated this way during an interview.
Meaning, give you an example?

This morning I created a new project. I provided a postgres database URL to a remote service (with a non-standard connection string, includes a parameter "?sslmode=require"). Then, I said:

* "Write me a fastapi project to connect to a postgres database using a database url."
* "Retrieve the schema from the remote database." It used psql to connect, retrieves the schema. That was unexpected, it figured out not only a coding task, but an external tool to connect to a database and did it without anything more than me providing the DATABASE_URL. Actually, I should say, I told it to look inside the .env file, and it did that. I had that URL wrong initially, so I told it to reload once I corrected it. It never got confused by my disorganization.
* It automatically added sqlalchemy models and uses pydantic once it figured out the schema.
* "Create a webpage that lets me review one table."
* "Rewrite to use tailwindcss." It adds the correct tailwindcss CDN imports.
* It automatically adds a modal dialog when I click on one of the records.
* It categorized fields in the database into groupings inside the modal, groupings that do indeed make sense.

I know the devil is in the details, or in the future. I'm sure there are gaping security holes.

But, this saved me a lot of time and it works.
11 inch is a bit too small. 13-inch is the sweet spot. I wish Macbook Air is powerful enough for MacOS/iOS research and development but everyone tells me that I need a pro for the emulator. Kinda makes sense though.

I use a pro at work and it is pretty heavy, sometimes I could barely pick it up with one hand if I had to extend my arm. Maybe more upper body exercises?
Absolutely the same problem here. The 16" is portable, but it is not a laptop made for travel. It's to big and to heavy. You can't use it on a plane, you can't even really use it as a laptop, it needs to be supported by a table.

Traveling with that thing in my backpack is a nightmare.
I rode past the museum on a hop on/off bus tour during my first trip to San Francisco, and being a Disney Adult, went back to my hotel and looked up, prioritizing a trip before I left. I was blown away, and have made sure to go back every time I'm in the Bay Area. Highly recommended if you're remotely interested in how Disney went from two brothers to the empire it is today, and special mention if you dig behind the scenes stuff.
This is a different proposition, really. It’s one thing to move up the layers of abstraction in code. It’s quite another thing to delegate authoring code altogether to a fallible statistical model.

The former puts you in command of more machinery, but the tools are dependable. The latter requires you to stay sharp at your current level, else you won’t be able to spot the problems.

Although… I would argue that in the former case you should learn assembly at least once, so that your computer doesn’t seem like a magic box.
$1.57T wiped off value of the Magnificent Seven so far this year
At a tier 1 tech company the work will be ads/tracking on a global scale. You know that before you enter the door, and if you didn’t like it you wouldn’t be interviewing there.

So much less need for time to decide if you’re interested in working there.
(Maybe it’s because tea is better than coffee?)

Coffee contains several ingredients that act as opioid receptor antagonists, which can be unpleasant (as in "reverse the pleasant / calming effects of endogenic opioids"). Some people seem to be more affected than others, kinda like with the intensive gastrin release / coffee induced instapoop.
I do not want our science institutions to be pinching pennies and cutting peer reviewers. It sounds like an invitation to widespread academic fraud.
Okay, then $1 for 12g. Same point.
I definitely thought of the aerospace/defense company before the polymath.
TLDR; Claude code is the bomb yo. Anthropoic are the only ones who know wtf they are doing!

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Sorry that is just objectively untrue. Unless you’re confusing “the left” as “the government”, somehow.
It changes the equation because if costs per employee are high then $30 is relatively less in comparison.
Russia aggressively chases the agi-prop. Ironically, they outsourced a lot of the online presence efforts to Ukraine and Eastern Europe pre-2014; this is why Ukraine has a strong online propaganda presence, and is bolstered by NATO efforts.

Both sides have a lot to say about F-16s and it's both sides' interest to flog various angles to death.

I suspect you won't see real appraisals of the impact for a while yet, and maybe only after the war ends.
Apple has there own almost identical issue with an update that messed with batteries. Bouncing back and forth between them doesn't mean much. A punitive class action means something.
A lot of that regulation was justified precisely by appealing to the principle that private companies should not be allowed to build things that would give them such power.

I don't think it's either a winner-take-all situation or a zero-sum one.
The board I can understand, the guys having worked at SGI before and seeing how much more you could extract of the arch by having total control over the hardware (minus the CPU, obv). Essentially building customer-oriented x86 SGI machines, branching out of the gaming market and challenging workstation vendors. A 64 bits Opteron+Voodoo based Windows machine would have been something to behold. But the Sega thing probably torpedoed the funding that would have been required for them to become independent of graphic card vendors.

They knew it was a matter of time before their advantage eroded. I think what really did them in was DirectX, they stuck with Glide and allowed NVidia to develop a proper implementation of the new Microsoft thingie which was heavily marketed to developers. Their moat became a prison.
What model are you using
It'll never come from Apple at this point, if you want an 11'' device they'll sell you an iPad. But I think we're both going to be sad about the state of iPadOS for a long time to come.
> - In Europe, getting funding is literally like pulling teeth.

Because Europe was not able to print unlimited Euros to flood its economy with free cash like how the US was able to do it thanks to the reserve currency status of the dollar. But no worries - now that dollar's monopoly is ending, the American investment landscape is also coming down back to Earth. US startups and companies wont be able to burn endless amounts of shareholder/investor money to out-compete and kill all competitors anymore. That should allow all regions in the world to be able to compete.

> That was at least how things used to be. US has a long, long history of (risk willing) VC investments - while European countries have been lagging far behind
> Europeans hate risk

Right, that's because Europe did not have zirp-enabled free cash. You can dump millions on all kinds of ideas including dumb ones when you have free cash and still see 1% of them make it big even if 99% of them fail. But when you don't have free cash, you have to be careful.

So finding investment wasn't a problem or issue of the European culture or business landscape. The US being able to burn cash on even dumb ideas thanks to zirp made it appear like it was a problem.
They said "sense of proportion" and then proceeded to omit the denominator, presumably because it would contradict their overblown point. The number of college professors in the US has by far more than doubled since the 1950s, so they're essentially saying "cancel culture" is much less impactful than the Red Scare.
Number Sense in Animals
Yes, but this articles is written in our time, not his. So why not just "Leonardo da Vinci" as a compromise?
I've heard often from those of anti-science persuasions that the basis for their beliefs is a deterioration of integrity in the research community at the hands of capital and/or liberal interests. Of course, there's a tinge of truth to that fear, thanks to the replication crisis and all.

That said, I'm struggling to see how this would address that problem. If anything, it seems that it will make the problem of unreplicated research worse. I fear that is the real intent here.
Too bad Nikon practically stopped making DSLRs
See entry at 10.42 GMT ''AJ Bell: $1.57trn wiped off value of the Magnificent Seven so far this year'' discussing losses at Nvidia, Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and Alphabet, leaving Meta as the only one not facing them at this point.
I would have picked the 50 local currency units if they said the 100 was only a phone discount, not a total store discount, sigh
You Are Already Traveling at the Speed of Light – With Video
Best laptop that I've ever owned. There was something magical about the 11 inch Air.

Incredibly small and lightweight when I bought it in 2015 I was on cloud 9. It was my first mac and it was insane how good of a machine it was.
And ARM makes reference designs which most ARM chips just use.
> still compiles more-or-less directly to machine code

There's a lot hiding in "more or less". The same kind of example holds for e.g. C# : https://godbolt.org/noscript/csharp ; if you hit "Compile" it'll give you the native binary. If you write "x+1" it'll generate an add .. or be optimized away. Now does that mean it's portable assembler? Absolutely not.

Conversely there's a bunch of things that people expect to do in C, do in real code, but are not in the standard or are undefined or implementation-defined. As well as things that are present in assemblers for various platforms (things like the overflow flag) which aren't accessible from the C language.

What people actually seem to mean by "portable assembler" is "no guardrails". Memory unsafety as a feature.

> Reasonable people can disagree about exactly what transformations are legal, but at that point it's a matter of negotiation

And a matter of CVEs when you lose your negotiation with the compiler. Or less dramatic things like the performance fluctuations under discussion.
It reminds me of the song by Van Morrison about listening to (I presume shortwave) radio… “Athlone, Budapest…”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Syc4hFobLD0
This is great, Elon will replace them with Grok and make a ton of profit!
A 4.5 year old phone has battery problems? And they give you money for a phone you've probably replaced already? Seems like a great ecosystem
> much better quality texture mapping too

Debatable. I always preferred the crisp look of the software renderer to the washed out GLQuake. Same with Quake 2. I think it because textures back then were too low resolution so filtering just makes them look muddy.
Why do people feel entitled to invest in companies?
Not all types of approaches are available at all runways (or airports), and sometimes they are down for maintenance. Specific runways may be required due to wind, aircraft weight and runway condition and length. Most airlines ban "circling approaches" (using an approach to one runway end and then circling visually to land at a other) for safety reasons. ILS, which is probably the "close range guidance" you are thinking of, must be installed, maintained and calibrated individually per runway end. Visual aids cannot be used for approach if there is low cloud.

It is usual to be able to abort an approach and try again at the same airport using a different approach technology. But if the journalist wanted to find the most extreme example, it's not surprising that it happened at least once that an alternative wasn't available. This is probably "sampling bias"!

Note that final operational decisions are made by the aircraft commander. Aircraft do not "get diverted", except by decision of the "captain".
The "Big corporation analyzes everything thoroughly and arrives at the most optimal solution" is a ridiculous myth, and I don't think I even need to give examples. Maybe not Apple, but Amazon surely has a lot of embarrassing failures.
It seems every single one of our publicly funded institutions that are being asked to do more with less (money) is responding by cutting very public and important programs and then contacting a publication to write a news story about it.
The only problem is that the EPPlus library is no longer open source, so features may stall. It's still a very good module, though.
Do you think Russia is one?
Everyone is lying to you. Assuming you're talking about the iOS Simulator, the MacBook Air will do you just fine.
> It's March 2025 and the US has gone full-fascism.

It's amazing to see people say things like this as if the US was any different before. Trump just put an honest face on fascism and imperialism. Before, they were exercised in a 'polite', polished manner. Even by Obama who stomped down the Occupy Wall Street.
All the cool kids are on VScode or Cursor, but I still use and love my boring old Jetbrains IDEs every day. It makes me feel old every time I see someone else's screenshot and realize I am pretty much the only one in all the companies I've ever worked for who likes Jetbrains. Too bad! It's a great IDE.
I'm guessing the end result will put a lot of money in Musk's pocket.
the current macbook air is 1240 gram

the 12" macbook was 920 gram
That's what got me into amateur radio - with your SDR you can receive signals from the ISS repeater, and watch the frequencies change due to the Doppler effect.
Difference between G and E-type lenses is that 'E' stands for Electromagnetic Diaphrapham.

The G type lenses have an aperture tab for diaphrapham control as dictated by the camera body, the E-type lenses leave this to being controlled by the camera electronically.
Vitamin B6 accumulates in the blood - it has an exceptionally long half-life on the order of several weeks. It's not an occasional overdose you have to worry about the most, but also chronic accumulation at low doses (even not much above RDA levels, single digit milligrams) and your blood levels - apparently there's a large individual variation in its metabolism (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phanu.2020.100188)

UK/EU upper safety limits are at 10-12mg per day. US UL of 200mg is way past due for an overhaul.

I personally got sick from a B complex with 40mg pyridoxine after just 4 months. Developed dysautonomia (not a canonical example, but still a kind of neuropathy - damage to autonomic nervous system). Had random tachycardia and high blood pressure flares from various triggers every week, took a while to figure out what was really causing it. Your typical non-neurologist GP wouldn't know anything because "it's water soluble" and the textbooks say neuropathy develops at 200mg+. All symptoms mostly resolved after a month once I threw away everything with pyridoxine. Wouldn't touch it again, always on a lookout for B6 in my multis and supplements now. P5P form is thought to be safer, but also got people sick - look around on facebook B6 groups for more anecdata.

No problem with B12 as far as I know. It's not a neurotoxin unlike B6.
What's the replicability rate now ? Pretty dismal, iirc.

As for fraud, there's already plenty of it. E.g.,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_misconduc...
It sounds fine as long as you can fully trust the AI to do good work right?

I don't think there's any current AI that is fully trustworthy this way though.

I wouldn't even put them at 50% trustworthy

I think we are going to see a cliff where they become 80% good, and every tiny bit of improvement past that point will be exponentially more difficult and expensive to achieve. I don't think we reach 100% reliable AI in any of our lifetimes
About Demos (1997)
Washington Monument Syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument_syndrome
Anyone has tried GleSYS? https://glesys.com

They're based out of Sweden, and offer bandwidth in Mbit/s, rather than GB/month (as per their pricing page, https://glesys.com/vps/pricing)
It has a customs union.
I think that would be a hard pass for me.

Why would I allow some rando company’s corporate spyware onto my personal computer?

If you’re that worried about me using AI, maybe the interview should be on-site. And maybe it should be relevant to the work I’d be doing, not solving a bunch of leetcode questions.

Or maybe the dystopian future of tech interviews just involves a burner laptop tethered to a burner cell plan.

The future is absolutely flipping fantastic.
> NSO is at the other end.

I thought I was familiar with the really big players in the privacy/anti-privacy space, but I don't know this one. What is NSO? These guys https://www.nsogroup.com/ ?
Show HN: Boost Battery Life on Linux Laptops with TLP
Hey HN,

I recently worked on optimizing battery life on Linux laptop using TLP. While default Linux gives users some control, battery efficiency often requires extra tweaking.

I tested various settings on my ThinkPad T14s Gen3 (AMD) and managed to increase battery life from ~ 8 hours to ~ 10 hours using TLP, CPU scaling tweaks, GPU power management, and battery charge thresholds.

Some key takeaways from my findings:

-- TLP config tuning significantly improves power efficiency.

-- CPU scaling and boost management can extend runtime while keeping performance reasonable.

-- Setting smart charge thresholds helps prolong battery lifespan.

-- Lightweight desktop environments (like i3) & background process control make a difference.

This applies broadly to other Linux laptops as well.

Full article: https://linuxblog.io/boost-battery-life-on-linux-laptop-tlp/

Would love to hear your experiences! If similar? Anything I'm missing? What tweaks have helped you get the most out of your battery?
This is really cool! When you get a restate instance, does that just handle the durable execution journal / orchestration, or can you run code in the instance as well?
From the article this seems much less bad than the headline might imply. This idea predates trump and it does not eliminate scientific review of proposals. That said, whether the cost savings itself is worth what might be a diminishment in review quality is hard to say. I can only comment from the NSF side of things to say that peer review of proposals is a mixed bag and will unavoidably run into human error and individual predispositions regarding scientific importance so maybe this isn't a bad approach to try.
Photo archives help save our visual history. Will technology catch up in time?
There's no need to employ as many reviewers since they are also cutting funding for many studies and therefore have many fewer papers and proposals coming through.
Wishing that apple would either allow macOS on the iPad pro or bring back the 12" Macbook with Apple Silicon.
This comment thread is indeed pretty depressing.
What a bunch of over engineered solutions.

I run multiple side projects on my linux desktop using both postgresql and mysql, and using host entries work well enough.

For HTTP, using entries in hosts file locally allows the clients to all connect to port 80 on the local machine all using different domain names, and nginx can proxy the connection to whatever port the backend is running on.
Counter point: I just spent $1 and 25 minutes to try and have Claude Code figure out why a relatively simple test was failing. It repeatedly told me incorrect things about the basic functioning of the code, and ended with "Try adding debug logging in your code to see what's happening in that specific check, or look at the exact error message from the failing test."

In other words: "do your job, developer!"
> Stop spending is a bit of a myth, it reverts the spending to whatever productive entity in the economy it was taken from.

It takes a while for this too happen though right, during which time there’s some “economic pain” as the euphemism goes.
> nanoFramework which is [...] .Net Micro Framework

(nod)
Yeah, online rental places have pretty much made the locals fade away. The one in my local area requires a "deposit" worth the full sales price which makes it out of the reach of anyone but those well off.

We used to joke about the B&H rental by taking full advantage of the 30-day return policy. Even Amazon's return policy qualifies now. You just need to the up front funds available and hope that wear&tear is not noticeable to make the return acceptable. It's hard for local shops to keep up with that.
I had a similar experience but found that with a little prodding, I was even able to get it to finish the job.

Then it was a little messy, so I asked it to refactor it.

Of course, not everything lends itself to this: often I already know exactly the code I want and it's easier to just type it than corral the AI.
> I've done some intro to lean things, but no one in the maths program is into lean, so I'm just focusing on the math side. Terry Tao is big into the idea of lean tho, and combining LLMs with Lean.

One of the best things about entering an underpopulated space is that you can become one of the leading experts very quickly. If it's something that appeals to you and fits your skill set, it might be worth investing the time to learn!

(Again, I say this as someone who's always been interested in formal proof, but haven't investigated it much myself, much less explored the merits and demerits of particular systems—so this is not an endorsement of Lean specifically, though it does seem to be one of the most active communities, which is important when you're trying to get into a topic.)