skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What Tim Berners Lee doesn’t know or understand -
Social media is like fentanyl or cocaine for the masses."

First, I've a similar expression I've used for years which is Social Media is addictive electronic heroin.

I agree strongly with your comment and from my observations I've little doubt what you say is essentially correct. The evidence is everywhere; whenever I'm out and about I inevitability come across people staring transfixed at their phones, some whilst walking, others motionless, and still others walk across busy roads oblivious to traffic. These people are so engaged they really haven't a clue what else is going on around them.

(OK, critics would argue engaging in Social Media isn't all that people do on their phones and clearly that's true. But I'd counter that by saying Social Media is a large aspect of a broader addiction to electronic tech.)

Unless HN counts as one, I've no Social Media accounts—not even a Google account—so it's not surprising I'm a little curious about what so occupies those who do.

This raises questions about why so many engage in Social Media and I reckon you've answered that to a tee, it also raises the matter of why people like me find Social Media repulsive yet I've still no problem participating in forums such as HN.

Clearly, Social Media is having a large impact on human behavior and much of it negative but where's the proof and what's to be done about it? Social Media is now so entrenched that regulating it is essentially impossible.

It seems to me we need much more research into the effects of Social Media on human behavior before we can arrive at any definitive conclusions, and the most likely way to determine that is through a large longitudinal study—and that might take years.

Unless there's watertight scientific evidence that certain aspects of Social Media are having negative effects on behavior then nothing will happen to correct the problems—as commercial pressures to maintain the status quo will just quash any attempt to correct the situation.
Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices
I just checked the current numbers on FSD Tracker. It is at 95% now for the last 30 days. That's a number I would call reliable under supervision. It is way higher than it used to be. It was at 73% when I checked it the last time.

https://teslafsdtracker.com/
The claim there is that they never saw the terms of service updates, and thus weren't aware of an arbitration clause, rather than terms of service generally not being valid.
This makes no sense.
Currently 24GB is the sweet spot to stay competitive and 32GB is the maximum amount of memory you could stick on a card and still have a decent memory to bandwidth ratio.

What they should do instead is make the cards thinner and more efficient so that you can easily put two of them in a case.
You clearly read that from a few miles. It is that obvious.

Somewhere enshitification fits all over the place.
How dare you Scumberger! (Me sitting in a scumberger wireline unit rn)

You're completely right doodlebug, our MD is around 30,000 with a TVD of about 26,000' (ballparking here so i'm not violating any contracts).

I also appreciate your other comments here!
There is nothing inevitable about this.

It a business decision to use an LLM.

It's a business decision not to beef up the Alexa hardware to support an LLM.

These decisions are weighted against reputational damage by Amazon with the outcome discussed here.
Agreed, but you can stylize them now with ttk (https://tkdocs.com/tutorial/styles.html and https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Ttk). There are other ways, too, but I do not have the source code at hand at the moment (as I have done this before).
They do. Even your bluesky/mastodont account does.
It's not about archival quality, it's about being able to reference your notes a year from now.
In Germany LRAD systems have been used to deliver Covid 19 information, not against protesters. Used by the fire brigade. I haven't checked uses in other countries.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_acoustic_device#G...
Well, thank you and good luck!
The problem is that neocolonialism, just like colonialism, works best if master culture is tame and at least somewhat compatible with slave cultures. Current US/west culture is quite contraversial to say the least in many parts of the world. At the same time, this culture does not seem to tolerate allies who don't sign off on the full package. This „take it or fuck off“ attitude is not helpful IMO.

I'm not surprised that China is doing so well in „global south“. US/west needs not only to return to colonialism game, but update their offer as well.
Secrets of Genius [pdf]
If you think there is a constitutional crisis, a coup took place, that the threat of ethnic cleansing in Gaza is repugnant, the talk of robbing Canada of sovereignty is unconscionable, the idea of invading panama, greenland, or mexico to be reprehensible, and the abandonment of Ukraine to be betrayal of the highest order.

What do you think better more acceptable options are that aren't equivalent to just asking nicely and hoping the actual extremists in power decide to be nice?
Only partially. The chapters on edge detection, for example, only have historic value at this point. A tiny NN can learn edges much better (which was the claim to fame of AlexNet, basically).
Afghanistan is called grave of the empires for a reason :)
> stolen unimaginable amounts of IP

something something software patents
European tech industry coalition calls for digital sovereignty
Can you share some details about this EU support?
"Can guess fake words"? It told me "shitbutt" was a real word.
They definitely are allowed to use leaded fuel (though these days it's low lead). Problem is there's no good replacement. Nobody bothers making the bigger GA aircraft (eg not ultralight) with an engine that was designed later than the 50s. It's like technology just froze.

In reality it didn't freeze but regulation and certification costs rose and it no longer became viable to build new engines for such a small market. The old ones retain their certification even though they don't meet the new rules.

The ultralight sports category has much less regulation and they do have modern gasoline and diesel engines like Rotax.

There's a few aftermarket turbodiesel options for GA aircraft but they're usually not manufacturer approved, and they need a complete replacement every few years instead of just an overhaul.

Anyway this is why the stupid lead is still around. Us pilots all hate it because we breathe it too and we get it on our skin during fuel inspections.
Really interested in why you would say that. I always think of the AGPL as the strictest/strongest possible license...
There’s an ignorant, trolling comment on this thread I’m not going to dignify with a response that suggests rural Americans somehow deserve a lack of proper medical care because they “chose” to live in a rural area.

Many of these people have no choice to live where they do because of high home prices in Bluer cities. The reason why home prices are high is because zoning restricts the supply of new homes. This often prevents poorer Americans from moving to cities with better jobs.

Instead of inflaming Red vs Blue state politics (which is really Red rural America vs Blue urban America), we should think about how our housing policies act like Medieval walls of centuries past, keeping the poor and disfavored outside the city gates.
It is explained well in the video, well worth watching.

Tutorials are teaching a method, like which ends of the pliers you grab. They do not assume a lot of domain knowledge.

HowTos pick the user up where she stands with a concrete problem and walks you through a possible solution of that specific problem. Like how to use pliers to twist a wire just firmly enough to hold two things together.
Recursive stability test: entropy vs. alignment in probabilistic systems
I ran a small entropy model that uses recursion and structured probabilities.
It either stabilizes or shows instability based on parameter sensitivity.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15037369

Would love to hear others’ interpretations. I’ve seen consistent stabilization under specific conditions, curious if others get similar results or can break it.

Interesting how some systems resist correction — maybe suppression of recursion?

Could this be relevant for model tuning? Stability seems linked to structure…
Right, the analogous thing for people is "air". That's the first thing I mentioned. Breathing is not necessary in order to take notice of the air. It is sufficient, though.
> some don't use notification categories (like the Amazon shopping app)

Pretty sure this is entirely intentional. It is indeed super annoying.
"AI" isn't even profitable, it is neither good nor valuable outside of for creating a massive asset bubble. The export ban was made by old dinosaurs that don't understand the tech and is more about China than "AI".
Dang, didn't see it :) And thanks for the patch.
It doesn't really detect stringing together latinate nonsense, so all of my coinages got perfectly coherent definitions. On the flip side, I guess if you're erudite and willing to butcher other languages for sport, nothing has ever stopped you from making up perfectly quasiaryiumaryesque words.
Windows 95 was what has started the dominance of Microsoft in office suites, so in 1995 it was too early to see the results.

Until Windows 95, many people were already using Windows, but never exclusively, all serious work was still done using MS-DOS programs and Windows was regarded more as a toy. This has changed with Windows 95, which was the first Windows version that you could use for doing everything you needed on the computer.

The advantage of Microsoft was that the other companies were not able to keep up with it in issuing new versions of their programs for Windows. The Windows versions of Lotus 1-2-3 and Wordperfect have never been as good as their MS-DOS ancestors.

To achieve this, Microsoft has not hesitated to cheat, i.e. the MS Office developers were aware of the next Windows API versions a long time before competitors, so they had much more time to update their programs and the MS Office suite also made frequent use of undocumented Windows APIs that competitors could not use, unless they discovered them by reverse engineering.
this is a common misconception, which I think arises from the ideas of index investing. one must remember that while the index itself increases over time, many of the names on the index in eg the year 2000 simply don't exist anymore; consider companies like Kodak Eastman

if you held all of the energy drink companies including a placement into monster for 25+ years you would indeed make money on the 1-2 winners and end up net ahead.

But if you missed monster, you could very easily have just bought a basket of dog companies that all completely fail and the money is gone
Author here. A few decades in IT, but still like to learn new things at home.

I do port forwarding for IPv4. But port forwarding on IPv6? You must be kidding me, the /56 I get from my ISP is meant to be used on the inside. It hasn't changed yet, and maybe it never will.

I am running Unifi as router, and they are claiming that the prefix IDs assigned to the networks won't change. But I have had it happen - probably through my own fault. Wish I could just hardcode the prefix. As for the metalLB IP addresses, since writing this I have done away with hardcoding the actual IP addresses and just let the pool assign them. It still means I need to update the firewall rules on my router, though, should they change. And my metalLB range would of course need to be updated.

The IPv4 is still hardcoded due to the port forwarding, and since it's private space that I won't change anyhow.

As for why I don't do it manually, you must be kidding me. You are. reading hacker news, and you question why people tinker with complex automations and just don't do it manually? Because I can of course, and that's the only reason I need.

I like to pretend like my home network matter, that I run a mission critical service.

I run services at home. Multiple. Because I can, and I like to learn. The blog runs at home, of course, even though hosted blog services have existed for years now. I also run Nextcloud. It saves me the cost of extra storage on Dropbox and/or Google Cloud, I do it to my home network instead. Then there's plex, home assistant plus all the other services a geek would like to run. They all run in my K8s cluster now. I was served well by docker for years, but I wanted to test K8s, and that was the only reason I needed.

And a cluster? Well, it's called that in Kubernetes. But in reality, it's only one node. Because two would be overkill for home usage.

To sum it up:

I did it because

1) I wanted to
2) I could
3) I would learn something from it
4) It would give a modest benefit.

It's all the reason I needed to.

As for why automating things I could do it manually should it happen, see 1, 2, 3 and 4 above.
Oh yeah I had those in my old place in the Netherlands. They were really hard to open with wet or greasy hands too. I replaced them all with real handles.

I also really didn't like the tiny little twist lock, it's hard to turn and hard to see if it's locked or not.

They're really uncommon here though. But guess what, most kids still slam the doors because they're lazy lol. What does help is the cheap paper doors we have here.
'I thought I was going to be someone': how Gen Z became a generation of rejects
Grounded as in they are heading straight down to the ground sure.
I think Peter Naur's description of levels of computation is a better one for considering an actual layering of levels of abstraction:

> Each level is associated with a certain set of operations and with a programming language that allows us to write or otherwise express programs that call these operations into action. In any particular use of the computer, programs from all levels are executed simultaneously. In fact, the levels support each other. In order to execute one operation of a given level, several operations at the next lower level will normally have to execute. Each of these operations will in their turn call several operations at the still lower level into execution.

The old term "problem-oriented languages" seems to still be quite useful. Programming languages are always focused on allowing the programmer to solve a set of problems and their features hide irrelevant details.

These language sets seem like a helpful grouping of features that suit particular problem domains but I don't think it works as a taxonomy of levels of abstraction.
America's lack of customer protection will hurt continue hurting its people. Ladies and gentlemen, please do something about it.
Regardless of that, the only function that requires this extension is the "except" macro, if you are willing to not short-circuit, you can still use the other functionality of this library.
Not really, back in the days of UNIX glory workstation days also as something to put on the desk,

https://blog.pizzabox.computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza-box_form_factor
Show HN: The creative emoji storytelling game
A while back someone shared on here a fun little demo that let you drag one on top of another and AI would decide what those two things combined to be.

I thought it would be fun to custom make little storytelling adventures with emojis so after a few failed iterations that I tested with my friends, I settled on this concept.

New five round puzzles every day.
We do use conventional drilling for geothermal!

We just have to be more selective with the location to ensure that there is heat nearer the surface. They're right, if you drill deep enough, it's hot everywhere. Even in non-geothermal oil and gas wells, we commonly have temperatures that exceed 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Our tools that we send down whole are commonly rated for 300-350 degree temperatures. Plenty of temperature down there!

Although I admit, I'm an oil and gas guy and don't really have any industry knowledge of geothermal.
Safari doesn't support zstd, that means if you want to use it you have to support multiple formats.
Three fermion generations with two unbroken gauge symmetries from C \otimes S
> too big to run on a smart speaker.

how convenient.
> The stock is the product and whether you are selling a real time machine or a crystal is irrelevant.

This is the right answer, some people think that the dot-com bubble and mortgage bubble is something for investors to regret, when in fact they made such a ridiculous amount of money they're just searching for the next bubble. Not the next great product.
I have occasionally wondered about that. If Steve Jobs did not get fired by Sculley, would we still have the Apple we do today. I lean towards unlikely. I do think Steve had some growing up to do.
I kind of feel the same about 2007 - 2012 or when I first got into tech.
Why does it need to cost a lot of tokens, and why can't it incrementally update?

How do the VS code integrated AI helpers do it?
I think this is a valid point, the tesla is not necessarily worse than humans. This whole test setup is built around the advantages of lidar which of course will detect the obstacle.

Human driving through painted wall:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NRerHC7g-0
Could you clarify what the “oh boy” is for? Is it something to do with the minority run aspect, like they were doing something illegal with other minority run firms?
There are a small number of people who use standard keyboards for stenography: https://www.openstenoproject.org/plover

That said, I don't know if any work as professional stenographers.
I think both models have a place. Sometimes I just really want a persistent identifier that I can take with me (unlike an IP) with minimal maintenance. Even if it is something unreadable like a UUID.

We should totally have a free .uuid TLD (which will predictably get blocked by 90% of networks... Although DoH would probably still work)
> With AI, I would not be surprised if the quality actually improves and the cost comes down(or stays same). Of course, more bad software will be written by now many aspiring entrepreneurs to realize their dream idea of spotify clone, then sacrificing their life saving on complex cloud bills and ever so profitable rise of revenue of all cloud services citing this as benefit of AI while doing some more layoffs to jack up the stock prices.

At this point we all speculating really. But from logical point of view, LLMs are trained on code written by humans. When more and more code will be written by LLMs instead, models will be trained on content written by other models. It will be very hard to distinguish which code on Github was wrote by human or some model (unless the quality will differ substantially). If this will be the case I would say that quality of code written by them will drop. Or the quality of models will drop. Or code written by model will be still using the pre-LLM patterns, because model-written code will not be part of training data.
It may be that LLM written code will be working but hardly comprehensible for human.
For now models does not have negative feedback loop that humans have ('oh code does not compile' or 'code does compile but throws an exception' or 'code compile and works but perform poorly').

Anyway, I am sure that there will be impact to the whole industry, but I doubt models will be primary source of source code. Helpful tool for sure but not a drop-in replacement for developers.
Most of Geneva Convention items are things that are huge liabilities to the own sides. e.g., there were such chemical gases that react with gas mask filters so to specifically bypass filtering. No one in Europe wants to pay welfare costs for factory leaks or downwind collateral damages in neighboring countries or army of veterans maimed with that thing, but they will have to if their enemies would use it to their advantages. Agreeing to a universal ban solves that problem.
This is fun, but what I think would be even more interesting and potentially actually useful would be to generate a word from multiple ideas — to help express complex ideas in one word. Like Frühstücksbrotübersättigung
The future continues to be AGPL
No thanks. I still need to follow up on that 10mg escitalopram prescription from 2017..
... the internet? I get the impression you're trying to ask something that you haven't articulated. I don't know why it'd be assumed that this approach will stop at websites.
> Imagine if the roman empire went "on holiday" sometime around 100AD and just declared "Rome first!" but withdrew from the known world and let the chips fall where they may.

Actually, the ongoing collapse of the American governmental systems makes the collapse of various ancient civilizations seem less puzzling to me.

The US is at a point where the president is deliberately destroying his own government bureaucracy, ignoring the courts, and probably bringing about the end of constitutional rule. Meanwhile, Congress is just sitting back and watching it happen. Trump's wealthy backers support all this because they don't want to pay taxes or follow regulations, and Trump's voters are deeply angry and willing to lash out at whoever Trump tells them is to blame. You can't pay your mortgage because: "the EPA exists," "all our money is being given to foreign aid," "immigrants stole your job," etc.

It almost makes me think that maybe the Late Bronze Age Collapse occurred for internal social and political reasons that are impossible to piece together 3000 years later. 3000 years from now, will anyone be able to explain why the US political system imploded in the 2020s?
Subreddits are a strange place. I feel like they're below average IQ but have some kind of cargo cult going around that they seem to speak the same language without understanding it.

Every now and then someone will make some post about "Tech A is overrated" and they'll make some good points, but because almost nobody in the whole subreddit understands Tech A, there's no proper discussion going on.

Not all of them and the new ones can be pretty good. But I feel like beds there's no real community and such, there will be a bunch of smart people going in and out leaving traces for the natives before they disappear.

tldr: there's a lot of advanced beginners but be careful not to get trapped there
The exceptional Jordan algebra (2020)
Nothing like FB/Insta (which I am not using), but for me HN still counts.
LLM can take audio as input, e.g. Gemini 2.0 Flash can take audio as input and is very fast and cheap (costs 25 audio tokens for a second, and prices $0.1 for 1 million input tokens).

But I get your point that e.g. whisper is also very good and can run fast locally on edge devices. We also have recently phi4-multimodal LLM that is 5.6B params and is good enough to do inference locally on beefy smartphones. Problem is probably those smart speakers have really low CPU/GPU. Also LLM with audio input probably can be better re WER and take your mood/emotion into account when doing inference.
I do understand the point you’re making but my counter argument to that would be that physics hasn’t relied on our sensory input for a hundred years or more.

It’s been almost entirely based on maths and careful measurements from machined instruments purpose built for observing phenomena.

So at this point you’d hope the limitations of our biological senses would have been long surpassed.
Peter Stuckey, the co-author of this paper has a series of courses on modelling for constraint programming on coursera.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/basic-modeling
Pascal Van Hentenryck has another one
https://www.coursera.org/learn/discrete-optimization
Håkan K has a blog with a big collection of models for a wide variety of solvers
https://www.hakank.org/
The PM who asked for this deserves to be arrested
Please share more details, what work os do? is it exactly the same as ssojet? and do you have any doc to migrate away from ssojet?