skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's actually illegal in my area to let my kid go anywhere unattended under 12.
Ngl if the price for that is a Japanese level of social control, conformity, and their mad justice system... I'll take a car line.
Our infrastructure in general is a national embarrassment. I'm more pessimistic on this category than anything else. The best possible future I can imagine in the USA, transportation-wise, is not having to hold the steering wheel during a robo traffic jam.
> The problem with LLMs is that the output is inherently stochastic - i.e there isn't a "I don't have enough information" option. This is due to the fact that LLMs are basically just giant look up maps with interpolation.

I don't think this explanation is correct. The input to the decoder at the end of all the attention heads etc (as I understand it) is a probability distribution over tokens. So the model as a whole does have an ability to score low confidence in something by assigning it a low probability.

The problem is that thing is a token (part of a word). So the LLM can say "I don't have enough information" to decide on the next part of a word but has no ability to say "I don't know what on earth I'm talking about" (in general - not associated with a particular token).
> The restaurants’ productivity growth rates are strongly correlated, however, with reductions in the amount of time their customers spend in the establishments, particularly with a rising share of customers spending 10 minutes or less. The frequency of such ‘take-out’ customers rose considerably during COVID, even at fast food restaurants, and never went back down. The magnitude of the restaurant-level relationship between productivity and customer dwell time, if applied to the aggregate decrease in dwell time, can explain almost all of the aggregate productivity increase in our sample.

One restaurant near me ditched its dine-in service entirely during COVID. They never went back; the dining area is now some odd mix of storage/prep/work area, and they're still take-out only.

Which is a bit sad; the dine-in area was a pretty cozy experience, and you'd get free tea with the meal. (It was a Japanese restaurant.)
I've heard that story for 40 years. Invest in it if you like. I'll pass.
You know the meme. /b/ was never good.
> engineering is all about efficiency

See, that’s a problem.

Engineering is all about effectiveness. Not efficiency.

Focus is great for slamming out a bunch of code that everybody else hates and has to tiptoe around you about because focus also made you so goddamned proud of your monster. Slow down and check the signposts before following your good intentions all the way to the end.
> I noticed that there you have more masonic temples than churches in every city.

This is nonsense. I doubt you've even been to the US if you're making claims like this.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/churches+in+Boone/@36.206...

https://www.google.com/maps/search/masons+in+Boone/@36.20686...

One Masonic Lodge vs 18 churches. Repeat that experiment with a bunch of random cities and you'll find that outside of the very high population cities (NYC, Chicago, Atlanta, etc.) there are rarely more than one or two lodges, if they even have one at all.
Google agrees with OpenAI that copyright has no place in AI development
Seems like this is a similar philosophy, but is missing a bunch of things the Citus coordinator provides. From the article, I'm guessing Citus is better at cross-shard queries, SQL support, central management of workers, keeping schemas in sync, and keeping small join tables in sync across the fleet, and provides a single point of ingestion.

That being said, this does seem to handle replicas better than Citus ever really did, and most of the features it's lacking aren't relevant for the sort of multitenant use case this blog is describing, so it's not a bad tradeoff. This also avoids the coordinator as a central point of failure for both outages and connection count limitations, but we never really saw those be a problem often in practice.
> Step 5: Later, you may encounter broken functionality. When this happens, look at your logs, and see which server(s) were blocked at that moment

Eventually you end up with advertisements being served because the application refuses to show the content without the advertisements.

So let me cut back to your main idea:

> Main idea: Ads, updates, etc. typically (not always) need to resolve hosts before connecting to servers. Simply resolve these hosts to 0.0.0.0 instead of a real IP.

Better solution: resolve these hosts to an address you control on your network. You could even resolve it to a "public" address and add a static route to your router.

You can then choose to serve no-content from that address.
AI race is over for us if
A crashing plane has roughly two possibilities, screaming wildly seems like the least useful and least pleasant option for either:

- You are going down in a way that might be survivable - If you want to live, you want to shut up and prepare yourself and your peers as best you can. If you're completely prepared and have time to kill, see below as long as it doesn't impair being ready when the time comes.

- You are going down in a way that obviously isn't going to be survivable - Your remaining lifespan has been suddenly reduced to minutes or seconds and there's no solving it. The only choice you have left is how to spend that time. Accepting the hand you've been dealt quickly and doing the best you can with the choices available to you rather than panicking or raging about things out of your control, is....sensible. Taking a last view of the world out the window, listening to a favorite song, a conversation with a loved one or even a stranger, etc, all seem like far more satisfying ways to spend your final moments than screaming like it's going to do anything.

> I only think that the people who are screaming when they are about to die are living like a healthy animal.

I'm not much of a biologist, but there seem to be plenty of animals, especially more intelligent ones, that pretty much calm down and await death when they recognize they are not long for the world for reasons they can't control and have no hope of escaping. (age, illness, etc).
I don’t see how explaining productivity increases that didn’t have a previous known origin is “lauding”. What measurable phenomena do you think economists should focus their research on instead?
This problem is over for me, as my son has graduated, but part of the problem is NIMBY'ified suburban roads that dead-end rather than connecting neighborhoods (in order to cut down on neighborhood traffic).

My son's school was about 250 meters from his mom's house. Due to the NIMBY way the neighborhoods were built, he would have had to ride his bike or walk 2.5 miles on busy roads w/o bike lanes to get to his mom's house. The direct route was 2 dead end roads that should have connected the neighborhoods together. But instead, there was ~30m of dense forest marked with "no trespassing" signs.

This meant that me and his mom had to wait in the school line rather than him being able to walk/bike to and from school. Even when I had custody, I would have much rather picked him up from his mom's house than school because the line was miserable.

I was so happy when he got his license and was able to drive himself.
Amazon Is Discontinuing the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" Feature on Echo
So what would one do if they happen to be paying for Beacon right now (which imo is a mess switching between 'classic' and new versions)?
Also, time-to-market pressures can result in initial shipments having (minor but not showstopping) firmware bugs. Post-sale firmware upgrades can be beneficial for the customer.
Relating to the article, better scaling. Saying run it on a bigger box is a very brute force way to optimize an application.

While they come up with some other tricks here, that's ultimately what's scaling postgres means.

If I imagine a better database, it would have native support for scaling, a postgres compatible data layer as well as first party support for NoSQL( JSONB columns don't cut it since if you have simultaneous writes unpredictable behavior tends to occur).

It needs to also have a permissible license
Original Fortran did not modified the code. Rather each function had a global variable storing the address to return that the caller had to set.
Raising children is no longer a communal effort.

If you let your kid out roaming, walking home from school, and the child causes a minor issue, you get the wrath of "Why aren't you watching your kid?"???

So we've developed this culture around ensuring that the child is accounted for at all hours of the day. Drop off, pickup from school, included.
Well, it’s us or the other guys. And the other guys’ standards are that they’re gonna eat you.
Strix Halo has unified memory, which is the same general architecture as Apple's M series chips. This means the CPU and GPU share the same memory, so there is no need to copy CPU <-> GPU.
That was my very first concern when I thought about WebUSB too, but Chromium has a block list of Vendor IDs which includes various security keys.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/967d11212c9...
I think we agree but let me just as some nuance to what you’re saying.

The Jews didn’t invent their beliefs out of whole cloth—this is true whether it’s Judaism or communism (Karl Marx, Lenin, and most Russian communists were Jewish though I think you know that already). They borrowed monotheism and a bunch of their religion from local religions at the time. Jewish communists learned a great deal from the French Revolution. They put a Jewish stamp on these beliefs so to speak, then handed off some of those beliefs to other people who, like the Jews before them, discarded what didn’t make sense to them and kept what did. China is barely communist now, by Russian standards, it’s more fascist to be honest.

Another good example is how in modern Protestantism they talk a lot of about “the biblical definition of marriage,” when what they really mean is one man and one woman—more of a northwest European definition. The biblical definition of marriage is one man and one or more wives. But you can’t get a modern Protestant to accept what the Bible says because everyone reads their own beliefs into these religions.

There is no discernible ultimate source to any religion—it’s more like a chain of beliefs, where people take their existing beliefs and project them onto their religion.

Having said that, Hinduism is is a chain of beliefs that has stayed within the same ethnic group for a very long time, which maybe is what you’re saying? And that is indeed something rare and very precious.
This is an absolutely ridiculous take, on multiple levels.
Anyone who creates a better database is going to want to get paid for it which either means DBaaS or those weird licenses.
Say what you will about Julius Caesar, at least he fought in the trenches. Many times were the battle was the toughest.

My reptile brain can appreciate that, at least!
> I'll take a car line

Push this out thirty years. One set of kids was navigating the real world since they were 4. The other has been mollycoddled with overparenting and screen time. Which cohort do you think will be happier, better adjusted and better off?

Then realise that it's not uncommon to see grade schoolers taking the subway to and from school in New York.
Actually wait, that’s the whole issue. The things being superseded for productivity here aren’t measurable.
"In the USA, the egg shortage is primarily due to bird flu"

nope

I think this is fake news

the current shortage is not actually that great, just look at the numbers

and historically any shortage would have been quickly relieved by farmers increasing their capacity

that's where the shortage lies

the big producers deliberately constricting supply by not expanding capacity, and wielding market power to prevent others doing so

I believe there is a pending trade investigation on this point, so any 'news' about eggs should probably be taken with a pinch of salt (and pepper).
Fortunately, there's homeschool. In the amount of time it takes someone to load up the kids into the car, drive to school, wait in these long lines, and then do the reverse, that should be enough instructor-led time for an entire homeschooling curriculum.

The best part is, you won't have to subject your children to marxists and people that look like literal clowns that fell face-first into a tackle box.
They are asking Denmark as well [1]…

All your eggs and Greenland are belong to us!

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/trump-egg-pr...
Probably so the appliance can let a server know to have your phone notify you that your appliance is done doing what it was doing.
> You cannot force a kid to work against their own safety instinct because of your own selfish comfort.

I got this kind of reaction from my son for all kinds of things I made him do by himself that made him uncomfortable. Now that he's 18, he thanks me for it and wonders why all his friends are so entirely unable to do almost anything out in public without help.
This problem has been mostly fixed by newer keyboard adopting UF2: the bootloader presents itself as a USB flash drive, so uploading new firmware to your keyboard is literally a drag-and-drop.

The only drawback is that it is a little bit of a hassle if you're the type of person who changes out their macros every single day. But then again, if you need it that frequently installing the configurator tool locally isn't a huge deal I guess.
Don’t worry you’ll get the control and the car line soon enough
In a cross-platform way, kinda yeah. Especially on the Mac side where OS updates always break everything.
Yea. I get it. Schools are getting farther away. I was lucky to be 2-3 miles away which I think is a reasonable distance. But it really depends on what people are comfortable with which is what this whole article comes down to.

I wonder if this also takes into account families choosing to send their kids to schools farther away. In particular, sending them to private or charter schools that are farther away.
Indeed. My kid could theoretically walk to/from school, but they carry a musical instrument every day along with a backpack full of all of their books. The school doesn't offer lockers anymore because they deemed it "unsafe", so all books and a big Chromebook need to come home each day (and be carried between every class).
Lots of people were mad that my employer developed a new distributed NoSQL database engine, but it was literally just an API to encapsulate what an application doing "sharded MySQL" would do in its own data tier. A lot of this is a question of framing and storytelling.
Look into propane (a.k.a. LPG or Autogas).

If the goal is anything-but-diesel-or-gasoline/petrol, the use of propane (a fossil fuel that is a byproduct of oil and gas refining) is a well-understood, well-implemented practice. I am not advocating for propane as a primary solution, but rather as part of the journey towards truly clean vehicle emissions and the ramp-down of heavily polluting fossil fuel refining. Propane and the equipment to operate engines with it are available today, and we have the knowledge going back over a century to implement it successfully.

BTW, I wish I could find the article from the 1970s discussing how Ford Motor Company engineers had converted a brand-new 1960s Lincoln to propane and ran it with 100% synthetic motor oil, never changing the oil or filter. After 500,000 miles of daily use, they stripped the engine down to its parts and found it to be shiny and not exhibiting the expected amount of wear seen in usual engines of those years with much lower mileage. I'd have to pour through old magazines for that story, but life gets in the way, so let's treat my recollection as apocryphal.
I thought WebUSB required you to explicitly select a USB device from a list to allow the web page to connect to it?
Then how would you expect an economist to study it, go to restaurants and report their opinions? The comment i was replying to is essentially being snarky that economist are doing what they’re supposed to. Seeing and explaining economic trends.
I've always felt like the argument is super flimsy because "of course we can _in theory_ do error correction". I've never seen even a semi-rigorous argument that error correction is _theoretically_ impossible. Do you have a link to somewhere where such an argument is made?
there are lots of companies where promotions are very very rare. Find one. Look for companies where the current managers have been in their exact same role for 10 or 20 years or more.
Same with Cybertruck, Font size is wrong, tpms light doesn't stay on if you power cycle the truck, a mirror camera opens slowly all minor software fixes, which leaves "used the wrong glue" twice, inverter problem, and windscreen motor overheating.

Point is ever car has loads of recalls, some don't get clicks so aren't reported much
Not necessarily. People can and do get left stateless (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Kateb_v_Godwin involves someone born in Kuwait but not a citizen); countries can and do reject deportations even of their own citizens (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/world/trumps-deportations...).
It appears to be an ultra-light.
This depends on how well this abstraction can be encapsulated. The systems with rigorous mathematical foundations often result in simple to use products that compose well. The 3d modelling relies on linear algebra, but the designers don't need to understand those details. The regular CSS involves very complex layout calculations too.
I think cooperation is, by far, the most ordinary case. Oppressive, normative, cooperation. This may not seems so online, which is a very unusual environment -- but the vast majority of people are conflict-avoidant.

You might say a war is conflict, but not really: the main mechanisms of war are cooperation.

Very rarely are interpersonal situations prone to disagreement.

The disgust here isn't about trauma, it's a healthy narcissm: the guy doesn't want to be deceived and thinks i'm being deceptive.

I don't think I'm being deceptive, because my heart is on my sleeve -- if I were being deceptive, I'd present an apparently objective analysis and give away little of my apparent feelings on the matter (cf. seemingly all mainstream news today).

I have a different ethic of transparency -- I want people to be emotionally and intellectually transparent. Pretending not to feel one way about an issue represses itself in a manupulated intellectual presentation of the matter -- the reader becomes mystified by the apparent disinterest of the speaker.

If there's one thing I hate with a great passion its false dispassion and intellectual manipulation. So I opt for emotional honesty as part of the package.
Thanks, but like the movie theater vs streaming video at home, my living room is far more comfortable and I don't have to wear pants.
Their safety instinct is wrong. You have to work them through it
If children can't leave without their parent, then they can't walk home, or bike, or take a bus.
10x is mostly theater. I’ve worked with 3x engineers that made everyone else better, and 3x engineers that make everyone else much worse. 4 times out of 5 a manager will point to the latter as 10x because he is getting so much more done than the people he has crippled and been loud about it the entire time. The former does well when their boss is that 1 in 5 person, but they are often fucked if the boss leaves.
I dunno... I grew up in the 80s/90s and most of us took the bus or walked if we lived within a mile or so. A parent drop-off/pick-up was the exception - going to a doctor appointment after school or something.
You can do precisely that with ascent: https://s-arash.github.io/ascent/
CS SYD – Nix does not guarantee reproducibility
8-10 years might be tough but definitely speak with an attorney to talk this through. Is this your first reentry permit because you can get reentry permits totaling 5 years?
> Each time there is an algorithmic advancement, people quickly rush to apply it to both existing and new problems, demonstrating quick advancements. Then we tend to hit a kind of plateau for a number of years until the next algorithmic solution is found.

That seems to be how science works as a whole. Long periods of little progress between productive paradigm shifts.
That's not a counter anecdote. Both things can happen in the same world without invalidating each other.
> So in effect you’re saying the article is also location dependent?

The article is literally about how location effects are driving the changes.

> Pick one. If you knew the statistics on kidnapping in the US, you would not think of this as a “life-style” choice.

Child abduction is extremely rare in the United States.

You might be confusing sensational headlines with statistics. It's common to report missing children or parental disputes as kidnapping, which people conflate with children being abducted off the street

Here's an article about it with some real statistics from the FBI: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wisconsin-missinggirl-dat...

For some perspective: The number of children abducted by strangers in the United States every year is similar to the number of children who die from head injuries from riding a bike: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8909479/

More people in the United States die from lightning strikes every year.
"... and that's why we did it!"
What hardware reset typically does, in my experience, is to reinstall the last firmware you installed. Many don't even have the space to keep some original and/or safe image in addition. I'm working on one device where we delete much of the existing system to make space for even downloading a new firmware image. It's wild.
The problem is that these firmware images are user-specific. Think of ergonomic keyboards[0], with a lot of dual-use keys, key combinations, macros, and layouts tailored to the user's intended use case. The configuration is baked into the firmware itself, so you can't just serve a single firmware image to everyone via LVFS.

[0]: https://www.zsa.io/voyager , for example
The call-out has been around at least since the early '00s.

Just like all security theater, it's easy enough to get around. All you need is the same looking card and the identifier. Most of the time, that's just the kid's name on the card. Some color code the card by class grade as well.

I know this as I was helping a friend scoop their kiddos up from school, and they just sent me to the school with the card. Nobody questioned who I was. They just saw the card, radioed the name, and the kiddos were waiting at the curb when I eventually crawled up to the spot. Since the kiddos expected me, there was no "who is that guy" situation. Otherwise, just fake a card and get a prize is how lame this setup is
This is easy to say when it's someone you like, not so much when it's someone you don't.

Do you also think a foreigner should be allowed to openly advocate for Nazism while on a green card, without consequence?
Well, ofcourse it does! :)

Another (battle tested * ) solution is to deploy the (open source) Postgres distribution created by Citus (subsidiary of Microsoft) on nodes running on Ubuntu, Debian or Red Hat and you are pretty much done: https://www.citusdata.com/product/community

Slap good old trusty PgBounce in front of it if you want/need (and you probably do) connection pooling: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2017/05/10/scaling-connection...

*) Citus was purchased by Microsoft more or less solely to provide easy scale out on Azure through Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL