skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s always funny to read people’s hot takes about stoicism because they seem to polarize into two mutually exclusive camps. In one camp, stoicism is a “hollow, dissociative, nihilist philosophy” for sociopathic emperors and in the other, it’s just cope for people without the power or agency to change anything in the world around them. If anything the bipolar nature of this criticism itself validates the broad applicability of Stoicism.

And actually it is an accident that Marcus Aurelius is the “premier famous stoic”, largely because, as you point out, his personal journal wasn’t actually burned as he requested. If you actually engage at even a marginally deeper level than social media slop—e.g. by taking an undergraduate survey course in ancient philosophy—you’ll learn that the premier Stoic was Epictetus, who was born into slavery.

It’s also a glib misreading of Marcus Aurelius to characterize his writings as “bitter rants”. Much of “Meditations” takes the form of an internal dialogue between the emperor’s base feelings (which are sometimes bitter and sometimes as simple as not being a morning person) and his intellect as it works to apply Stoic philosophy to his own life. If you’re not an emperor you might not relate to having to deal with surly and ungrateful supplicants or the need to remind yourself that you aren’t actually a living god, and if you’re also a morning person, Marcus Aurelius is probably completely wasted on you. But that’s not what Marcus Aurelius is for. If you want a practical Stoic handbook, read the Enchiridion.
There's nothing inevitable about it. If a user would rather risk forgetting/losing a password, than governments covertly and cheaply spying on them, they can do that, and the problem is perfectly tractable. It's only intractable under the demented requirements of delegating all security to someone else, and at the same time expecting to be secure against the entity you have delegated all security to.
If you take so much users from Firefox but they are paid users then you basically have the money to do the expensive hard work.
From that same article:

> Of course, members of our staff reviewed and confirmed every detail before we published our story, and we called all the named people and agencies seeking comment, which remains a must-do even in the world of AI.

That sounds to me like they absolutely do understand the limitations of the technology they are using.
I have a samsung "smart" TV, and a few years back it started interrupting the DVD I was trying to watch every 15 minutes or so to tell me to check my internet connection. My internet was fine, but whatever server it was phoning home to had apparently gone down.

I ended up factory resetting the TV to make it forget my wifi credentials, and I just haven't put it back online since then. I haven't regretted it at all.

I think mine is compatible with the SammyGo custom firmware, so I might install that one of these days, and then maybe I'll reconnect it to my network. But, for now, I just have a PC connected to it and manage everything there.
I'll keep it in mind thanks.
>I don't like its design, I want to opt out of it in favor of something better

Others design were already tested extensively, and the one that stuck was systemd, don't you already stopped to think that the "better design" is the one that systemd are currently using?
I think it depends more on the regulatory climate.
I await the day where the companionship models are actually as good at creative writing as even ChatGPT. Of course if they're ever as good as a real person (the holy grail) then I'll be very happy, but I don't see that happening any time soon.
Back in 2003, President George W. Bush announced the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative. At the time, people criticized the effort as an attempt by the oil industry to shift attention away from electric cars. The oil industry knew that hydrogen power wasn't going to be viable anytime soon, while electric cars were already a direct threat to their profits, so they pushed the US government towards hydrogen power.

Not to disparage the talented scientists and engineers working on hydrogen power, but now that 20 years have passed I believe it was designed to fail.
What are some cool accessibility ideas you've seen?
As someone new to the field, sonification is pretty mind-blowing. I'm sighted and overly reliant on vision, so I never imagined how a combination of pitch, volume, and even instruments could talk about data shape.
Oklahoma Proposes Teaching 2020 Election 'Discrepancies' in U.S. History
"Prigozhin visited one of our prisons once; that’s the only violence there is".

No, it's not.
It is impossible for a hilly terrain to reduce the range by a third for well-designed electric buses.

The efficiency of regenerative braking increases with the power of the vehicle. The electric efficiency should be well over 90%, perhaps even 95%. The mechanical losses will lower the total efficiency to much smaller values, but even so, the total efficiency should be over 80%.

A bus with an ICE will consume 5 times more extra energy for climbing the hill and it will also consume energy while going downhill.

Values like a 50% greater battery are unrealistic, and a heavier battery adds much less to the consumption than by how much it is heavier, even when going up the hill (because most of the extra energy consumption is also recovered).

In a certain city, it may happen that the bus routes are so long that batteries are not competitive with ICEs, at least for now. However, the presence of hills in any city can only make electric buses more advantageous, not less advantageous, due to much greater cost savings for fuel and maintenance. Buses with ICEs that are operated on hilly routes also need extra maintenance, besides increased fuel costs. Well-designed electric buses do not care whether they are operated in conditions requiring higher torque.

Like I have said, I have lived in cities with hills and with electric trolley buses and there was no doubt that the trolley buses were superior to buses with ICEs exactly on the routes that were going up and down over hills.
I've struggled with being overweight my entire life. I feel like I am in control and have made a lot of progress-- so I want to preach about this.

Restrictive diets work but if you can't maintain it for a long time (keto, vegan, paleo, etc.) the weight will come back. I yo-yo dieted like many obese people do.

Anyone out there struggling here is how I've lost 160 lbs and gained muscle / mobility:

- Make sure you get good sleep. Sleep is incredibly important.
- Intermittent fast (black coffee, tea, or caffeine pill in the am) lunch afternoon
- track what you eat (there are a plethora of free apps that can help)
- track how much you walk aim for 10k+ steps
- do resistance work outs (free weights, calisthenics, ruck march, etc.)
- cut back alcohol as much as possible
- cut back sugar as much as possible
- use the scale as a tool don't be afraid of it. (when I stepped on a scale I weighed over lbs. it was so painful to see that but ultimately worth it)

The biggest thing that has helped is a shift in my mindset. I look at going to the gym as treat /privilege. I've envisioned the end goal of how I look and feel.
How was your actual UX with Briar? I tried to get family to use Briar during a flight and it was pretty poor. Messages wouldn't show up and we were worried about disconnecting from personal Bluetooth headphones while keeping using Briar. It worked okay and at one point my partner and I chatted about landing plans when the person next to us was asleep. But we found that just passing the phone around with typing worked just as well. It worked okay for the other family but again, was a pain.
Most BYD PHEVs work like that - with the additional option of connecting the engine directly to the wheels via a clutch at highway speeds. I think Honda has a similar system.
Instagram is a special level of degeneracy. That is an app made for the masses. I never used tik tok, but youtube shorts gives me actual quality content while instagram feels like its gunning for a mix of reality TV, post 2005 history channel, and animal brain fondling.

Although I will admit that Instagram has their advertising insanely dialed in. The content is gross junk food but the ads I have actually clicked before.
Is that applicable here? We're talking about speakers. For most/low security devices, a firmware rollback, or a firmware-download mode, are fine. In this case, it would probably have prevented millions in losses, with the risk being a...jailbroken speaker?
> TVs are a wildly unprofitable business... not far back the CPUs in practically every TV was single core or dual core

Explain to me then how an Apple TV device for $125 (Retail! not BOM!) can be staggeringly faster and generally better than any TV controller board I've seen?

I really want to highlight how ludicrous the difference is: My $4,000 "flagship" OLED TV has a 1080p SDR GUI that has multi-second pauses and stutters at all times but "somehow" Apple can show me a silky smooth 4K GUI in 10 bit HDR.

This is dumbass hardware-manufacturer thinking of "We saved 5c! Yay!" Of course, now every customer paying thousands is pissed and doesn't trust the vendor.

This is also why the TVs go obsolete in a matter of months, because the manufacturers are putting out a firehose of crap that rots on the shelves in months.

Apple TV hasn't had a refresh in years and people are still buying it at full retail price.

I do. Not. Trust. TV vendors. None of them. I trust Apple. I will spend thousands more with Apple on phones, laptops, speakers, or whatever they will make because of precisely this self-defeating decisions from traditional hardware vendors.

I really want to grab one of these CEOs by the lapels and scream in their face for a little while: "JUST COPY APPLE!"
IMO no real need for anything but Firefox Beta and Nightly now. A bit faster, faster features. Finally, native vertical tabs. Fully functioning Ublock origin. Browsing life is good.
https://www.vantage.sh/blog/amazon-s3-tables#s3-tables-cost

I can't make head or tails of the beginning of this sentence:-

> Pricing for S3 Tables is all and all not bad.

Otherwise lovely article!
For LLM, standard method to provide to foundation model sentence without one word (random, but already known to model) and ask to fill this word.
Looking at the linked paper:

> Our proposed framework is a novel role-playing approach for studying multiple communicative agents. Specifically, we concentrate on task-oriented role-playing that involves one AI assistant and one AI user. After the multi-agent system receives a preliminary idea and the role assignment from human users, a task-specifier agent will provide a detailed description to make the idea specific. Afterwards, the AI assistant and AI user will cooperate on completing the specified task through multi-turn conversations until the AI user determines the task is done. The AI user is responsible for giving instructions to the AI assistant and directing the conversation toward task completion. On the other hand, the AI assistant is designed to follow the instructions from the AI user and respond with specific solutions. (below Figure 1)

This appears to be another perpetual information machine. You really need to have a human in the loop at some level. I agree that you can go very far with a good initial prompt, but once you hit the first ambiguity you need an external signal to correct. This stuff goes sideways quickly with bad assumptions.

The best I've been able to achieve with "multi-agent" is to recursively invoke prompts and pass a summary of the prior context + request each time. The prompts are effectively agents, each with a goal to narrow and re-focus context as the task progresses through the tool call stack. I have never seen multiple agents talking to each other autonomously evolve into anything the business would care about.
I suspect any investigation will get shut down in a hot second - either by political donations to certain key individuals or by lack of capacity to do any investigations. Or both.

While the price of eggs was a campaign point for some politicians, the current crisis puts egg on their face which can only be washed away with greenbacks.
So you believe humans spend more energy on prediction, relative to computers? Isn't that because personal computers are not powerful enough to train big models, and most people have no desire to? It is more economically efficient to socialize the cost of training, as is done. Are you thinking of a distributed training, where we split the work and cost? That could happen when robots become more widespread.
Maybe all the AIs can be dumbed down a bit so they’ll give more conservative answers.
Funding =/= monentization, and the former presupposes a need for the latter
I still believe the nexus needs to be described clearer and more strongly in the story in order to support the title here in HN that it runs on top of Varnish. Even the blog title itself does not make such a claim.
It sucks because React sucks. A good alternative is to embrace PWAs. You can create native builds using PWABuilder.

Another options similar to React Native is Lynx

https://lynxjs.org/blog/lynx-unlock-native-for-more.html
Eh, they have lost a bit
Canada is caught in a "double trade war" with the U.S. and China
because apparently 77M Americans can't add 2 and 2 when it comes to wannabe dictators
Maybe the Rankine temperature could be provided, as well.
Wall Street is turning its back on Trump and flashing an economic warning
The app enables other features like changing EQs, etc.
One of things I find challenging is understand the meaning of the word "scales". It is sometimes used differently in different contexts.

Can it be performant in high load situations? Certainly. Can is elastically scale up and down based on demand? As far as I'm aware it cannot.

What I'm most interested in is how operations are handled. For example, if it's deployed in a cloud environment and you need more CPU and/or memory, you have to eat the downtime to scale it up. What if it's deployed to bare metal and it cannot handle the increasing load anymore? How costly (in terms of both time and money) is it to migrate it to bigger hardware?
That's quite nice! You may wish to look into implementing a PID controller, so as to avoid overshoot (your carrots become too thawed initially) and unnecessary oscillation about the setpoint (meaning you are wasting energy on cooling and heating cycles that in the end cancel each other out, where you could have kept the temperature nearly constant during that time). I loved juicing carrots so much my face turned orange from the beta-carotene.
I think most humans are perfectly capable of admitting to themselves when they do not know something. Computers ought to do better.
Lol, not often you find Welsh in the world of tech naming!
94% of Germans won't buy a Tesla.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/14/tesla-is-done-in-germany-94-s...

But on the plus side Ted Cruz is putting in work to bring their cool factor up
https://x.com/tedcruz/status/1900588329609163164
Update: Interesting paper, thanks. Comment on selection for Hydra — you mention v1 uses an arithmetic mean across timescales for prediction. Taking this analogy of the longer windows encapsulating different timescales, I’d propose it would be interesting to train a layer to predict weighting of the timescale predictions. Essentially — is this a moment where I need to focus on what just happened, or is this a moment in which my long range predictions are more important?
Fair enough, but only ~5% of Microsoft revenue comes from ad dollars. It's not clear to me why I should switch to a browser which is funded primarily with ad money vs. just turning off the Edge features I don't like. (FWIW, I used Firefox for many years, and my daily driver is currently Chrome.)
I agree, especially scientific articles should just stick to metric, period.

At least inside the article both units are actually used, just the title is imperial only.
Canadian Devs Are Backing Out of Attending GDC
Do we really need to define it? In America and Britain a sit down restaurant is defined as one where you are seated by a host and order via waitstaff.
But we could do it for our friends and families. A repair shop could do it too. Instead of a full brick.
Reticulum seems to be by far the most interesting project in this space.

I would invite anybody to explore it for a few hours at least, it is fascinating.

Now the only thing that scare me about it is that it is really a "one man" project [0].
I am not sure why, I do not know if anybody else look or understand what he is doing, but hell it doesn't make me feel confident to rely on it.

- [0] https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/graphs/contributors
US asks Denmark for help in the egg crisis
Even with that, work security in government is still unparalleled. In the private sector, if the chief executive wanted to lay off 90% of the workforce, they could.

Compare the downsizing of Twitter to the downsizing of the government.
https://archive.is/SZ8Mm
Classically, you'd do things like replace f+i with an fi glyph, or f+f+i into an ffi. Though I'm surprised that it can be used to split one glyph into multiple glyphs, then transform those glyphs again.
Chuck Schumer backs spending bill to avert US Government shutdown
> 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons

> We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time.
Looks interesting but the lack of an iOS client makes it a non-starter for me. I use Android but I have friends and family who don't.
7966 vulnerabilities found, 33% unpatched when disclosed. 99.9% of those vulnerabilities are coming from third-party plugins/themes. Plugin developers really need to step up their security game.
History tells that it isn't recommended to get a job in a fascist government, or one bordering it, maybe change to a democratic country
Dude! you're my hero! This is why I like HN :)

Thank you for many years of reassuring me when I doubted my cron-expressions.
Counting calories even when you don’t have a scale and/or barcodes gets much easier over time as long as you do a few things. One, actually bring a scale when you’re eating out for a bit. It’s a pain, but can help calibrate how much you’re actually eating. This works best with meals that have individual components. Two, use an app that has a good database of food (I use MacroFactor, but I have no clue how good Noom is). There’s plenty of entries for various salad types, and the majority of the calories in a salad tend to be the dressing and any meat anyways. With those two things, even eating out you’ll be a lot more accurate. As long as most of your meals aren’t falling into the estimation category, it also likely won’t have a huge impact on your weight loss goals either.
It can be both, and there's nothing wrong with that. Could they have gathered a few bucks more if they had taken orders as long as they come in? Sure. But at some point they'd inevitably go "we could make even more with larger batches" only to end up with considerably loss on that one last batch.

Taking the publicity instead of squeezing the lemon past the easy part is a perfectly rational decision.
This is just a director level person. Either

1. This is not important enough that a senior person (VP or above) is assigned to take care of Generative AI (the biggest shift since Mobile/Cloud) or

2. Robby Walker is cannon fodder and is polishing his resume.
Sweden & Denmark. Small discussion (10 points, 4 hours ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43364524

Smaller still (8 points, 6 hours ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43363202
Getting people to pay for something that has always been free is a tall ask. Most people are barely aware of what a browser is. They just think it’s part of the OS.
The productivity loss alone is staggering.
So, what’s modeled as a “node” in an EBM, and what’s modeled as a connection? Are they vectors in a tensor, (well I suppose almost certainly that’s a yes). Do they run side by side a model that’s being trained? Is the node connectivity architecture fixed or learned?
But this breaks DRMs if that's something you need.
Pointing out a legitimate double standard is not "whataboutism" in the least. Either you have principles that apply equally or you do not.

China sterilizing and and enslaving a million Uyghurs isn't bad enough to warrant your condemnation?

We have different values.
Gen Z Americans Don't Have Enough Saved to Cover a Single Month of Spending
No, that is not a reasonable take at all. Julius Caesar came as an invader.
Companies that "do the legwork" of decrypting ransomware for the most part just pay the ransom on your behalf.
Yeah, I'm not sure why I'd want that on my headphones themselves. I just set it to a neutral EQ during initial setup, and now I change the EQs elsewhere in the audio pipeline (music app, mixer, etc) just like we were all doing before the advent of headphones with their own apps.
You are right that it is faster but how often you are running dependency update? It will take more time to ensure that new dependencies did not break anything than doing upgrade.
Who named this, are the devs welsh?

It can be a bit of a bugbear of mine, when people who’ve never been to wales and certainly don’t siarad cymraeg appropriate welsh words as names, such as the sickmaking LA lifestyle brand Hiraeth. But then again the welsh did give the world the word penguin.
Cohere: Command A (111B Open Weights Model)
So, make electric airplanes the initial license, reduce the amount of hours to get it, and have an entire course on monomotors before pilots can deal with combustion airplanes.
> You're making a bit of a leap with "made no difference."

I was paraphrasing the results of the study, which was designed specifically to see if fasting would reduce visceral fat as compared to a non-fasting regimen. If you read the abstract I cited, you'll see that there's not even any mention of overall body weight in the abstract -- that finding is buried in a figure of the paper, and mentioned basically in passing.

As for losing losing visceral fat versus other fat, that's partially true, but reality is a little bit more complex than that. Two people with the same 20% body fat can have radically different proportions of visceral and subcutaneous (under the skin) fat, and it's the person with more visceral fat who is at risk. This is why you have studies like this designed to find ways to target visceral fat.
Do you know if there is any specific order of processing for greencards? A friend of mine got their EB1a I-485 approved within a month, and I've been waiting for more than 6 months (mine was applied before theirs).
Even if there is the scientific breakthrough in 10 years, bureaucracy and distribution would take another 10-20 years. Even worse, IPs might make it too expensive and take 20 years more.
I love bad kerning more than most, but a lot of those feel like someone just put a space in the wrong place.

That’s a shame, I like my kerning to sit in that sweet spot where people don’t notice it but once you point it out it gives them an unsettling feeling wherever they see it.
Kerning, the super easy way straight from 1986 Atari ST: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamus_(DTP)#Calamus_Intellig...
Funny how logarithms shaped navigation, astronomy, and music—yet now they're mostly a forgotten button gathering dust on our calculators. Hidden tech history right there.
Even dedicated receivers have software updates now. My Onkyo receiver had an update that added Dolby Atmos support, for example.
No, not at all. Why would it be pointless? Obviously success is preferred to failure, but ultimately the outcome isn't something I control so I shouldn't rely on it to be happy. The important questions for my own peace of mind are "did I try" and "could I have done better", not "did I succeed".