skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are akin to thermodynamics which is not counterintuitive at all.

You can only say this thanks to the work of generations of previous scientists (and teachers) who managed to render the very unintuitive as intuitive.

> Realms where our senses do not operate would be microscopic or relativistic and the like

There are (a) dozens of known cognitive biases, the majority of which we cannot avoid even when we know about them (b) visual and auditory illusions. Both of these are not in the microscopic or relativistic realms, but nevertheless show clear examples of our senses (and upstream sensory processing) failing to properly inform us about the state of the world.

> National economies are completely observable and accessible to our logic and common sense.

A national economy is only "completely observable" when reduced to statistics. No individual can possibly "observe" all of a national economy, partly because it is too big and partly because parts of it are too small. A statistical summary is not without value, but is not equivalent to it being "completely observable". As for the notion that we can bring our "logic and common sense" to bear on a national economy: well, that's precisely what the arguments between orthodox and heterodox economists is all about. They are bringing their logic and common sense to bear on it, and they do not arrive at the same conclusions.

> gives up so quick on picking winners in macroeconomics theories

On the contrary, I am very much for picking winners. While the answer may not be forever (subject to new theories), I pick MMT for a winner over orthodox/mainstream theories. This is not because I am certain that MMT is correct, but more because orthodox/mainstream theories have all the hallmarks of having been invented by the winners in an economy, for the winners.
At least half things you said is a lie.
What defeats what purpose? I don't run k8s out of some love of ... managing external IPs?
The problem is not monetization of basic needs, the problem is putting the controlling interest in the hands of a few who do not care about the lives of the many.

This famine happened from the concentration of power, not because food costs money. Democratic land reform solves it, keeping the monetary impetus in play.

The Holodomor was a very similar genocide where farms were collectivized. That didn't stop millions of people from dying from hunger as their own food was taken at gunpoint and exported to other countries.

We must judge harshly, but on the proper aspect.
AI search engine study finds wrong cites in 60%+ of queries; Grok3 had 94% wrong
I think GP is saying the Irish speak and write a more beautiful or clever English, the language adopted from their conquerors, than in the USA, or perhaps even England.
If they are planting a million trees a month why "worry" that they might be getting paid, sorry "milking", to do their jobs?

The company is doing the work to earn that money.

Nobody would call it "milking" money if they were a billionaire owned company rapaciously leveraging their trapped customers for every dime. I don't think its the right word to use here.
Bluetooth support is still a shit show if you don't buy a laptop that has been in some way developed for linux (if not for your current model, then for a model using similar components). Alternatively, buying a custom bluetooth usb adapter may work but only on a supported distro and only ever with an older bluetooth protocol.

Same goes for WiFi. Good luck trying to get WiFi6 to work properly, ignoring the fact that you have to go out of your way to find an adapter that will even work in linux.
It is like the drunk man looking for his lost keys under the lamp because that is where the light is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect). For-profit companies are only able to perceive bleeding edge javascript running browsers because that is their "light". They can't see you and you don't exist and certainly don't matter if you don't execute their code properly.

What I'm saying is that there are more people (who are not tech savvy) not using Chrome than you may think. But you'd never know from the statistics. The collection method for the statistics is inherently biased.
Could very well be!

Interesting, I didn't know about the Gettier problem, thanks for sharing. You could try submitting that page as a proper HN post.
I don't understand why you're acting like a hardware failure is a ridiculous idea.

At least I think you are? You're being so hostile out of nowhere that it makes your comments hard to follow.
“One’s desires are endless, however much one gets.”

Truth.
It doesn't sound fresh at all.

It sounds like McDonald's going back to the way it used to operate.

I knew a guy who used to repair the PDP-11's under the counters that ran each restaurant. He said the #1 failure mode was soda spilled in the machines.
(Original) title tastes like clickbait. This is about companies that deal in government contracts, so of course DOGE's actions may stop the flow of federal money. This excludes companies outside of the public-private complex.
I didn't go as far as deleting my account, but just deleting Instagram/YT apps from my phone pretty much got my reel/shorts scrolling to 0/day (I already had notifications off for years). And by just deleting apps on my phone, I'm somehow don't end up using them on laptop as well. I think phone makes it easy for brain to remember and keep the habit.
>> ddns

> Yeah don't do that if you want to be a professional with pride in their craft

Why not?
Didn’t Patagonia pretty much achieve this?
Sony Music says over 75,000 items removed in battle against AI deepfakes
Maybe, but it has to be a really sharp ratio.
Who's deadline? What happens if you miss it? Sometimes getting it right is the sensible solution even if it doesn't fit the requestors timeline. In the end your team leader will get the blame anyways so have faith or expect a new team leader
The lack of diversity was not in food production, but rather in land ownership, and being able to own the fruits of your own labor. Plenty of food, just none of it for the Irish because they did not own the land.
> I have a modern Dell laptop

That's the problematic part to me personally. I want a HDPI convertible/tablet form factor, that means no DELL, and linux support is currently not an option.

I had high hopes for the 12" Framework, but again it's resolution is 1200p, which is so much less than a Surface Pro for instance.
The article addresses those concerns:

'Merit should be defined in terms of the improvement that teachers deliver to their students over the course of a school year. This framing controls for other variables affecting student performance and ensures that teachers in wealthy school districts aren’t rewarded because their students come in with an advantage.'

'The bonuses created an incentive for highly rated teachers to move to disadvantaged schools, and within two years students were performing at close to the city’s average level.'
Had the same thought sometime back about AI discovering theory of relativity with only the data before 1905. It would give a definite answer about whether any reasoning involved in the LLM output.
i hate this idea. 3hrs a day? go live in a 3rd country and spin this as a benefit cool idea
> experts say there is no evidence that a water shortage caused the California wildfires, CNN reports.
> when they are expanding they are good for everyone

They were very aware they were herding people like cattle into digital conclaves where they could be milked.

Strangers with candy are great for everyone, until...
I ran a Hackintosh as my main machine for many years. I specced (using info found on tonymacx86[1]) and built it around 15 years ago to make it work well as a Hackintosh.

And work well it did. Incredibly well actually. But now the doors are closing. macOS will soon be ARM/Silicon only and that will be the end of a Hackintosh era. That's the reason I'm not willing to invest the time or energy to do the same again.

Hopefully sometime another era of Hackintoshers will find a way to make macOS run on non-Apple ARM hardware. Perhaps it's already happening? :)

After 20 years of Hackintosh and Apple hardware I eventually lost hope in Apple due to their unsustainable practices (mostly unserviceable and unupgradeable soldered memory and storage) and moved on to Linux (https://getaurora.dev/). Couldn't be happier with KDE Plasma.

[1] https://www.tonymacx86.com
Scientists genetically modify Victorian lizard to fight climate change
Why aren't people like this simply tasered? I miss the good old days right after 9/11 when critical civil infrastructure facilities had armed security.
Stoked to see a few hundred people have already read this article (and one person's already suggested an improvement!).

What other elements should I add?
Especially when this thing doesn't even seem to give any tractability benefits.
Night workers or shift workers would have a different take on it. They’d be the ones posting in your area maybe?
What did you learn from running that site?
Ask HN: Who else is doing a local meetup? (We are, in Helsinki)
Anyone else organising a local meetup?

Here in deepest darkest Finland we find that a weekend coffee morning works well. It's a relaxed chat and a nice way to meet people in the local "tech community" (whatever that means)

And if you don't have a local meetup but want to have one: it's a lot easier to bootstrap them now that that meet.hn (https://meet.hn/) exists. Though you do end up putting your details on meet.hn be sure to check there is some way to contact you.

And if you want to join us this Sunday (16th) in Helsinki, sign up here: https://bit.ly/helsinkihn
It's really concerning that we have people trying to use tools like Kubernetes without understanding the basics that underlie them, like networking.

Post author should read Beej's Guide to Network Programming and come back when that's comfortable for them.
A succinct email in just a subject line
Show HN: Amurex – open-source chat with your distributed second brain
Seems AI-written. Doesn't give any justification for MacOS being better for older hardware than Linux or even Windows. You won't be getting updates for your Intel hardware on MacOS, so you're right back where you started with Windows 10 going EOL.
Someone has to say it, but if we were to forgo safety and morals, we could speed up medical progress by a lot. All of that safety comes at a cost.

Japan during WW2 committed many atrocious experiments, but we owe a lot of medical knowledge from that.
I would love to try it skiing and/or skinning uphill.
I thought that Cloudflare et al. just had a whitelist based on the SSL fingerprint.
Hey, Disco Stu doesn’t advertise
It is officially EDT.
Cold call, a friend, a friend, a Rust meetup group
I've also had a very "sustainable" 6800k machine with 32GB ram that was designated later for many other tasks.

But the title is more of a click bait rather than backing that claim.

The power source I guess is also a factor, since newer Macs are much more power efficient than Intel days.

Since 2016, Apple made their machines less "sustainable" in the sense of upgradability (my MacBook Air 2013 was borderline with 8GB of RAM and ended with 2TB hdd), I'm happy the new Mac minis are also going that "hackable" direction.

Anyway,
Software wise, the "Hackintosh" scene is also valuable for true macOS users just as enabling Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, you can get up to Sequoia with running those custom EFIs.
That cosine distance works at all as a concept isn't terribly shocking, especially given our habit of norming everything. Cosine similarity in a unit vector space is monotonic with euclidean distance, and we're using this stuff in "select the K most relevant vectors" sorts of queries, so cosine similarity behaves identically to euclidean distance. Tack on the fact that every finite set of vectors, with your favorite metric, can be embedded in euclidean space with at most ~41% relative error (and errors that high require somewhat special circumstances, so you'd expect most real-world data to have lower errors -- plus, the error doesn't apply to every pair of points, and many will definitely have much lower error), and you're able to use normed cosine similarity somewhat reasonably on every finite set of stuff you care about, so long as you choose an appropriate embedding. All sets of things you care about in ML are finite, and the sub-metric induced by whichever infinite set you're considering works just fine for everything we've discussed, so cosine similarity is reasonable for all practical ML purposes.

It's much more interesting that almost any set of ML-adjacent vectors can be somewhat reasonably compared via cosine distance _even without_ explicitly constructing an optimal embedding. It's not at all intuitive to me that an autoencoder's interior layer should behave well with respect to cosine similarity and not have any knots or anything warping that (associated) metric's usefulness.
Bilderberg is an actual doors-closed conference of many of the world's most powerful people, you know. It's in plain daylight too, comparatively speaking.
> user-agent had and will never be useful for the client

In the past it was definitely useful for some things. To use as an example something I was involved with, many years ago: if you were deploying software via ClickOnce and needed a particular version of .NET installed, that information was exposed in the user-agent string, so you could tell the user “you need to go install this other thing first”, rather than saying “try this, and if it doesn’t work in one of these ways, check if you’ve installed this”.

These days, it’s not often useful, and feature detection is highly preferable where possible, but platform detection (whether via user-agent string or properties like navigator.platform) is still definitely useful, for things that should be tied to what the platform actually is. For example, on a download page you want to know what the OS and architecture are in order to recommend the appropriate file to download for that machine. Or, when implementing keyboard shortcuts, Apple platforms use metaKey (⌘) instead of ctrlKey (⌃), and visually present the shortcuts differently too, such as ⌘⌥⇧⌫ or Command-Option-Shift-Delete, compared with Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Backspace for everyone else.
My db is my cluster. It's been stable for years but I'm afraid to touch it. There's a long outstanding issue in k8s that makes PVs harder to resize than it should be. And they're just more complicated.
Trying to move to managed MySQL now. It'll cost me a bunch more but at least I get a fail over node which I don't know how to set up myself... Still no master-master though, apparently that's not an option.
Communities like The WELL did and they spawned a million other things.
And we can see the IMF got on that lickity split before anyone figured it out how to make the system convenient. 4 years to detect and act on this sort of international action is commendably speedy. I'd expect that the experiment would fail. The IMF probably expected it would fail. But we can also observe that the IMF moved with the speed of bankers worried that it might succeed.
Ungoogled Chromium!
>needs new extremely expensive tires every year

Huh?
Well these listed prices are asks, not bids, so they only give an upper bound on the value. I've tried to sell obscure things before where there are few or 0 other sellers, and no matter what you list it for, you might never find the buyer who wants that specific thing.

And the electronic shop is probably going to fetch a higher price than an individual seller would, due to trust factor as you mentioned. So have you managed to sell old Windows PCs for decent prices in some local market?
I don't think I've ever seen a device where Bluetooth works 100% of the time. I had issues on Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iOS.
That would be very inconvenient for people on a rotating shift cycle.
Honestly even if they had super high executive pay like current tech companies do but then used the profits for good that's still like 100x better than tech companies now.
In the Netherlands the colonial period is mentioned, but referred to as 'the Golden Century', and atrocities committed aren't really mentioned. There has been public debate about this in recent years, so this may have changed, and the debate in general, in addition to eg museums and documentaries paying attention to it, will probably have contributed to slightly more widespread knowledge about it. It's how I learned a bit about it.
Does Cloudflare’s almost completely single point control switch of a bottleneck, on a lot of the Internet, get discussed enough? At this point I just give up before trying if I see their captcha and already start to write that site off, if it starts showing that transient “verifying your humaneness” splash screen.
I installed Kubuntu 24 on a generic laptop (Machreator N17) and it worked fine other than having to disable D3cold in the BIOS so Wi-Fi works when waking from sleep. I did spend hours before the BIOS setting trying alternate rtw_8821 drivers to no avail.
- Yes it is a fork.
- Because it extended something well established and did not reinvent the wheel. Stopped the forever freeze, answered the top pains encountered in Requests while keeping top level api as before. Genuinely not just an upgrade, but a real QoL improvement.
iOS 19 and macOS 16: The biggest UI revamp since iOS 7 and macOS Big Sur
I propose a different lens to look at this problem.

A neural net can be defined with less than 100LoC. The knowledge is in the weights. What if we went from source code of the web (HTML, CSS, JS, WASM) directly to generated interactive simulation of the said web? https://gamengen.github.io

What if this blob of weights could interpret way more stuff, not just the web?
An executable in a ConfigMap? That's interesting.

I realized somewhat recently I could put my Nginx and PHP ini in a config map, that seems to work ok. Even that seems a bit dirty though, doesn't it base64 it and save it with all the other yaml configs? Doesn't seem like it's made for files
I feel like it's been a long time since newspapers relied on subscribers, or even traditional advertisers. By now they're all loss leaders for the lobbying industry.
Then you have, in fact, mistakenly gendered trans people correctly. Just wanted to check, so thanks for letting me know.
Tariffs are a well known ineffectual move by anyone with any experience in finance.

They are simply the addition of inefficiency to a market. You are taught this in any 101 Econ course, its part and parcel of learning how to draw supply and demand curves.

It is SO basic, that discussion of this on educated forums, is fear inducing.

Furthermore, this is a trade war based on vibes. This is not implemented with something like anti-dumping in mind. It’s not based on real flaws that the target countries can address.

It’s based on a fabricated alternate reality. This means that retaliatory tariffs have no economic cut off / threshold. It is only measured in behavioral and political stances. This is now a question of faith and pain tolerance, and not economic rationality.

This was already a possibility, known in November. At this point, for many institutional investors, worst case scenario contingency plans are being put into play.

Markets are a well known measure of whether economic policy is sound. IT isn’t the ONLY measure however, but it is one of several markers that are tracked to understand what people forecast outcomes, growth and expectations of the future are.
Wouldn't surprise me at all.

One day we'll have the manpower and brains to figure out how to just have out of hour entries added to the next day's batch.
A quarter pounder with cheese and a large fry from McDonald’s is up to about $11.

I just checked the prices at a location in the downtown of one of the five largest American cities:

Quarter pounder with cheese: $4.79
Large fries: $2.39

Total: $7.18
Agent for Translating Modules and Generating Examples
That's basically the opposite phenomenon: you know so little about how an industry operates that everything they do seems like magic to you, so you end up making absurd demands of them.

The phenomenon discussed here has engineers believe they can practice law and medicine themselves. So they're not asking lawyers to get them out of a murder caught on national television, or doctors to cure their cancer in three days. They think they can do these themselves.
I think it's a really cool idea. I signed up because I had a brain fart and thought that "EST" was "European Standard Time" (I was of course thinking of CET).

So yeah, the current window wouldn't work for me, but that's fine. Everything doesn't have to be for everyone. We all live in our bubbles anyway; creating artificial rules could actually be ways of creating new, unexpected interactions.

This being said – if you were to adjust the rules to accommodate more people, I don't think it should be "open from 7:39 to 10:39 in whatever your local time zone is", because that feels like it would just destroy the whole idea – that everyone is there at the _same_ time. Also, it would still exclude people who work evenings.

An alternative solution would be to have multiple windows. For example, if you have one starting at 7:39 PM EST and another one at 7:39 AM EST, there would be more chances that there is some time during the day for people around the globe to check in. Depending, of course, on many things: time zones, sleep habits, work schedule, ability to briefly slack off during work, etc. It would remain true to the idea while opening up for some more people. Just a thought.

I also think each window could be smaller, maybe like just one hour?
The irony is that the article now reads (more?) like AI slop. Which I suppose is to be expected. GenAI is really great at generating. Not so great at critical thinking, logic, correctness, etc
Maybe Singapore?

They deliberately never accepted help from outside for that exact reason. It worked for them.
I like the idea that you need to contribute a post before you can see other peoples posts and some of the controls around having to post something in the moment instead of something curated.
I have never understood why nobody wrote a web browser on top of SmallTalk.
Cheap vs humans though.
While I admit to not having been able to read the article, this is very true. In my country, everyone has access to free healthcare, housing, food, and even tertiary education for most people, especially the poorest. But there are still endless complaints about poverty. Sometimes a person will have to live in a (free) hotel because all the immediately available free housing is in another city where they don't want to live despite being still perfectly well developed and comfortable.

We'll never get rid of poverty because people keep raising the bar no matter how wealthy they get.
I'm using k8s for my static marketing site. It's in the same cluster as my app tho, so I'm not paying extra for it. Don't think I'd do it otherwise.
During the openai gym era of RL, one of the great selling pts was that RL was very approachable for a new comer as the gym environments were small and tractable that a hobbyist could learn a little bit of RL, try it out on cartpole and see how it'd perform. Are there similarly tractable RL tasks/learning environments with LLMs? From the outside, my impression is that you need some insane GPU access to even start to mess around with these models. Is there something one can do on a normal MacBook air for instance in this LLM x RL domain?
Reinforcement learning is hard to apply to real-world problems, but one cannot deny the success that a company such as OpenAI has.