skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cannot legislate positive cultural attributes into being. There's no way to fine people into reading to their kids, picking up trash when they see it, deciding to put the grocery cart back, prioritizing academic achievement, etc.
For signal integrity issues increasing the link power can often overcome some of the issues caused by longer traces and connectors in the line - while less of an issue for desktop devices, then that goes against the ideal of a low-powered device with limited cooling. Doubly so as it's hard to re-clock in the timescales needed for intermittent use power saving, so will be using that extra power when idle.

I suspect the earlier comment about "Half the performance with CAMM" is likely at iso-power, but that might still be a pretty big dealbreaker.
Hi Peter,
Thank you for doing this!

I'm on H-1B with an approved EB-2 via my current employer and an approved EB-1A (self-petition). I want to switch employers or take a break. I expected my priority date to become current in Q3 or Q4 2025.

Questions

1. If I switch to an H-4 status for a break, can that affect I-485 via EB-1A?

2. I need to visit family urgently and I have got a few offers in hand. Can I quit and travel internationally while the H-1B transfer is in progress and re-enter the US? My stamp expires in 6 months and my partner can mail the approved I-797. What are the general risks here apart from the mail getting lost?

3. Can a change of employment lead to issues with an AOS application in the future using EB-1A?
The CDC 6600 of blessed memory had "return jump" instruction that wrote an unconditional jump back to the return address into the word prior to the first instruction of the called procedure. So one would implement a subroutine return by jumping to the word before the entry point.

(Fortran programmers are probably wondering how alternate ENTRY statements worked; yes, they had to allocate a word before the ENTRY, and copy whatever jump instruction was placed there by the hardware into the main subroutine's jump word, so that RETURN or END would work for all entry points. Recursive languages like Pascal had to copy that word to and from the stack. Reentrant code had to avoid using the return jump instruction entirely.)
Right. All my family and friends see me as some kind of genius wizard because of my school grades and because I do stuff with computers that they don't understand. And they hear about all the fancy new stuff happening in the industry all the time, not the negatives. So the idea that I would have to look for a job just doesn't compute for them. They expect me to be headhunted, not sharpening up my LinkedIn page.

Of course, I shouldn't let their misconceptions bother me, but there it is.
Yes. The founding mythos of Silicon Valley is of plucky upstarts destroying all the middle men and dis-empowering the establishment.

But now tech is the establishment and has all the power so that story isn't useful anymore. Instead they are justified in their control because they were so successful and are so wealthy. To fight against them is to fight against "progress" and "the market has decided".

Put another way:
"The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny"
> In the USA, the egg shortage is primarily due to bird flu, which led to the culling of over 40 million birds last year.

So that's, what, roughly 10-15% of egg-laying birds across the country? It takes less than 6 months for a chick to mature to egg-laying hen.

This source[1] asserts per-capita egg consumption was already realizing proportional decline for years since 2020 peak.

The real game[2] being played has a distinct smell.

[1] https://unitedegg.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UEP_Website...

[2] https://doi.org/10.7275/cbv0-gv07
The problem was specifically routing the 256-bit LPDDR5X out of the chip into the CAMM2 connector. This is hard to do with such a wide bus, because LPDDR5X wasn't originally designed for it.

LPDDR6X is designed for it, and an use CAMM2.
So well put. This should be posted every time someone is nostalgic of those times.

I'm not pro-walled garden, all is dandy and barbie but there is an opposite extreme.

For me the most fun time as a teenager was role-playing on forums: free, fun and harmless.
> It was popularized in the early 20th century by John Harvey Kellogg

oh weird, American breakfast cereals company says breakfast is the most important meal...

...for their stake/shareholders.
> Remember, no form of official sideloading existed before the DMA.

MDM has long existed. In fact that was Apple's counterpoint to alternative alt-stores.

Certainly it didn't allow you to bypass any execution restrictions any further than the regular app store.

Random link:
https://it-training.apple.com/tutorials/support/sup530/
they are the crypto browser. with all respect for everything else they do, crypto and newscorp have overlapping populations.
It's exactly as risky as any other possible stateless authenticator implementation, if you think about it.

For example, another way of doing it is to derive the private key from the key handle via deterministic key derivation – which the attacker can brute-force just as well as the encrypted per-site key stored in the key handle.

The key insight is that a stateless authenticator is by definition globally (i.e. across secrets and sites) deterministic, and given an input-output pair, you'll be able to brute-force its internal secret. The solution is to make that internal state large enough for that to be computationally infeasible.
Come on, did you read more than just the headlines?

> Samsung's spokeswoman continued: " Should consumers enable the voice recognition capability, the voice data consists of TV commands, or search sentences, only. Users can easily recognize if the voice recognition feature is activated because a microphone icon appears on the screen."

So it is not like it was listening without your knowledge. Only when you use the voice features is the data being sent over. Like with every other online service. As much as I don't like samsung, this is a bullshit reason to hate them.

And why provide two links basically saying the same about the same story?
I actually picked up a Samsung soundbar for my mom this past Christmas and there were quite a few negative reviews. Usually around the soundbar dropping its connection. However diving deeper on them seems to revealed that the issue was resolved with an update. It's not super smart though and needs a USB drive or phone app to update. So it has prevented this situation from happening.

Considering the soundbar connects to a TV, console, phone, etc that are constantly releasing new versions and upgrades it makes sense to build in the function to something as simple as a soundbar to fix bugs and compatibility issues.

Samsung doesn't have the greatest track record with updates though so obviously you don't want to jump the gun on these. Hopefully not a Galaxy Watch 4 situation where they need to be mailed to Samsung to be reset because they didn't think about this during the design phase.
I feel like sometimes I’m the only person in the world not shipping ultraniche paywall aso slop
"Multiple Teslas Set On Fire in Germany" - https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-vehicles-set-fire-berlin-germ...
DataGubbe has slowed down publishing new articles this year, so I love it even more when he releases a new one!
Uff. I can't even imagine. I'm so sorry for you and your kids alike. And I guess it's not the precautionary floor lines that strike me, it's that this style of violence really is so pervasive—and we've concluded that it's such an inevitable part of childhood now—that the reasonable thing to do is to reify it in the physical architecture of their day-to-day lives. And in training young minds to imagine themselves unarmed in a situation of combat...

Of course we don't get to just choose innocence and be surprised by a style of evil behavior over and over again. But I wonder also sometimes if, just as suicides can inspire people who hear about them, large-scale and permanent institutional response to kids-shooting-classmates gives form and legitimacy to that avenue of acting-out, when disaffected kids think about acting out.
The original plan for LAX's center was much more ambitious. Pereira and Luckman proposed a giant glass dome as the main terminal.[1] But each airline wanted their own terminal back then, and air conditioning that huge glassed volume was going to be a problem. So the central dome was downsized into the somewhat useless Theme Building. The center column, with restaurant, remained, but the arcs that suggest a dome structure seem to be decorative only.

The original architect's rendering shows a huge amount of empty floor space surrounding a central ring of ticket counters. It's not clear how they thought this would work. Huge queues at the ticket counters? People standing around waiting for their flight to be called, rather than waiting close to the gate?
It looks like they took their traffic flow model from train stations, where all the gates are close together and don't have their own waiting areas. Probably just as well that it wasn't built.

Really big airport terminal concourses remain a thing in China.[2] The empty space is underutilized, and much of it is used as a shopping mall. That's a Zaha Hadid design.

[1] https://neverwasmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Pereira-a...

[2] https://mymodernmet.com/daxing-international-airport-zha/
In what way? Console makers wouldn't gain anything by weakening DRM and making devices rootable. It's not like they are making that much money from device sales.

Of course then you have MS which basically just turned XBox into a cheap but totally locked down gaming PC (since there are very few Xbox exclusives these days).
I haven't read Yann Lecun's take. Based on your description alone my first impression would be: there's a paper [1] arguing that "beam search enforces uniform information density in text, a property motivated by cognitive science". UID claims, in short, that a speaker only delivers as much content as they think the listener can take (no more, no less) and the paper claims that beam search enforced this property at generation time.

The paper would be a strong argument against your point: if neural architectures are already constraining the amount of information that a text generation system delivers the same way a human (allegedly) does, then I don't see which "energy" measure one could take that could perform any better.

Then again, perhaps they have one in mind and I just haven't read it.

[1] https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.170/
Scare bleu!
Identity is tied to the physical Bluetooth MAC if I recall correctly.
thanks for this summary

speaking of visceral fat, do you happen to have pointers how to reduce that?
Different person. The person mentioned in the top-level comment is surnamed Mooney.
Over the years, I come across thought provoking comments from time to time on this platform. I usually take a moment to ponder what I just read. Then I ask myself who wrote this..? Then return to look at the username. More than once I find the name echelon. Echelon, you have a great mind and do a lot to further the HN commentary. Thank you.
Nice. What laws are you referring to?
That undersells it. The data on hybrid drivetrains is pretty clear--it's definitely more reliable. Even mechanics will tell you that; certainly mine did, and he's not a masochist. Start+stop is hell on mechanical drivetrains. It's a no-brainer when purchasing a new car except that there's still a premium for hybrid, so the RoI might not be there given baseline reliability and depending on your preferences. Though the premium gap is closing, at least for non-plugin hybrids. Plugin hybrids are the new premium option in model lineups, so traditional hybrids are moving down market.
Yes, adults walk ~2 miles/hr. 1.5 hours is too long. But there are bicycles which go ~5 times as fast. Now it's a 15-20 minute trip.
Thanks. This is interesting. What kind of equation is used to assess an ebm during training? I’m afraid I still don’t get the core concept well enough to have an intuition for it.
We actually found Aurora to be about 3x slower than community PG for small queries. That was back then, maybe things are better now. Migrating to another database (and Aurora is Postgres-compatible, it's not Postgres) is very risky when you've been using yours for years and know where the edge cases are.
Ghost kitchens instead of community gathering places. 100 year old bar space used to stack outgoing uber-eats orders instead of for people to meet and chat. More plastic waste used on packaging. Fewer home-cooked meals. More time spent in front of the TV instead of in your community. A disrespect for expensive and supply-limited food - delivery sushi in particular strikes me as a culinary crime.

It's really not that big of a deal, but I will never not be a bit irked by that bar space being used to stack bags instead of to serve beer and brisket.
I turn off CEC all the time and my tv refuses to acknowledge it if I ever unhook the device or HDMI. Always defaults back. Drives me crazy.
can't that be spoofed/overwritten?
Waitlisthub.org – Simple directory for your next project
Hey everyone! I’m so excited to finally share waitlisthub.org with you. I built this directory to help fellow founders, creators, and startups collect early users and build excitement before launching. I’d love your feedback—what do you think of the concept, and how can I make it even better? Thanks for checking it out!
Yeah this seed is what’s stored on Keychain
Are you denying that Hamas is a terrorist group? Committing terrorism is literally the central part of their operations. Are you denying that October 7th was terrorism? Are you denying that launching thousands of rockets against Israel to kill as many Jewish people as possible is terrorism?
Show HN: Psyllium, a Ruby Gem to make Fibers behave more like Threads
Hi everyone!

I created this small Ruby Gem to add some convenient methods to the Fiber class to make it easier to use in the same way a Thread object can be used.

This was born out of my frustration that the current implementation of the Fiber class makes it difficult to retrieve the final value of a block passed to a Fiber, especially when creating a fiber via the `schedule` class method.

I appreciate any feedback anyone has.
It takes a lot more than legislation, but Japan's modern culture is in large part the product of its education system. It has a strong focus on teaching exactly that sort of prosocial behaviour.
Yes. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36425375, believe there's been more)

There's a quite intense backlog of new stuff that hasn't made it to prod. (I would have told you in 2023 that we would have ex. switched to Mamba-like architectures in at least one leading model)

Broadly, it's probably unhelpful that:

- absolutely no one wants the PR of releasing a model that isn't
competitive with the latest peers

- absolutely everyone wants to release an incremental improvement, yesterday

- Entities with no PR constraint, and no revenue repurcussions when reallocating funds from surely-productive to experimental, don't show a significant improvement in results for the new things they try (I'm thinking of ex. Allen Institute)

Another odd property I can't quite wrap my head around is the battlefield is littered with corpses that eval okay-ish, and should have OOM increases in some areas (I'm thinking of RWKV, and how it should be faster at inference), and they're not really in the conversation either.

Makes me think either A) I'm getting old and don't really understand ML from a technical perspective anyway or B) hey, I 've been maintaining a llama.cpp wrapper that works on every platform for a year now, I should trust my instincts: the real story is UX is king and none of these things actually improve the experience of a user even if benchmarks are ~=.
> But it's somewhat hyperbolic to compare a mandatory cost that you have to pay to someone regardless, to being kidnapped.

It's not hyperbolic when you don't have a choice in who you're paying.
why connect the junk to the internet to begin with? it’s a TV. I can buy a better streaming box and plug it in. People really over complicate things sometimes IMO.
I don't think someone with more capital should be able to make the decisions

That's what we're getting with "democracy" because ultimately swaying the opinion of a lot of people (in this technological time) requires money. No wonder the powerful elite or their puppets end up making decision for the majority.

No, what I advocate for is for decentralisation of power, I don't want any central entity making choices for me.

Someone with capital should be able to offer to buy me out but they shouldn't be able to tax me or decide what happens to me or my property.
> The classic yellow school bus is a national icon.

It is, but like the pickup line, it’s also a national embarrassment. Half the buses in my town are ancient and belch black smoke like a semi rolling coal.
Good thing AES is quantum-safe, so quantum computers are completely irrelevant when it comes to symmetric key wrapping.
Any transformer based LLM will never achieve AGI because it's only trying to pick the next word. You need a larger amount of planning to achieve AGI.
Also, the characteristics of LLMs do not resemble any existing intelligence that we know of. Does a baby require 2 years of statistical analysis to become useful? No. Transformer architectures are parlor tricks. They are glorified Google but they're not doing anything or planning.
If you want that, then you have to base your architecture on the known examples of intelligence that we are aware of in the universe. And that's not a transformer. In fact, whatever AGI emerges will absolutely not contain a transformer.
I believe he’s talking about some sort of ‘energy as measured by distance from the models understanding of the world’ as in quite literally a world model. But again I’m ignorant, hence the post!
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I get sleepy if I have too many vitamins/minerals (eg: a whole PowerBar or entire Orgain drink), so maybe it's the minerals, perhaps Magnesium?

[Magnesium helps my wife sleep better, but she can only take it at night or it makes her sleepy. I take half in the morning, and I think it helps because we're likely not getting enough in our mineral-depleted foods.]
Another batch of features for Claude Code
Ask HN: How much traffic do you serve and with which database engine?
It's common to see here that Postgres hosted in RDS can handle 99% of workloads up to millions of users. I'm building an IoT app with a plan to ingest the IoT traffic into dynamo partitioned on user id (I'm quite familiar with the tradeoffs) and everything else be in Postgres. A few services but not microservice (basically: core service, identity service, IoT data service, notification service). Ingesting and monitoring about 1,000,000 IoT devices daily (1 packer per device per day) and about 1,000,000 users with only 5,000 active users per day (basically we monitor user IoT devices 24/7 but only some 5,000 users will have anomalous results and log in).

In the database posts & discussions here I sometimes find that the opinions are strong but the numbers are missing. Obviously applications have wide variation in traffic and query complexity so apples to apples comparisons are hard. Still, I would greatly benefit from hearing some real world experiences with numbers.

Rough approximation database questions for current or prior applications:

1. How many customers do you have?

2. What's expected daily traffic? Peak traffic?

3. What database engine or engines do you use?

4. How many rows or how much storage does your db have?

5. What else about your application is relevant for database load?

6. Microservice, Service, or monolith. Happy with it?
You maybe tilting at windmills. The problem is greed-oriented corporations will inevitably find the path of least resistance to more money against the interests of its workers, customers, and even the environment. Only worker-/user-owned co-op organizations have a real chance to break this cycle. We must stop feeding billionaires our time, our money, our labor, and our votes because they will never look out for us.
Notifications say nothing about the account - just that you got this cool number on the app. And yeah you need the device unlocked to read the notification anyway

But yeah security concerns with it are overblown, the more realistic concern is trusting me personally vs a name brand!
> It’s very easy to go 8 hours without eating this way.

It's 16 h:

> restricting daily food intake to an 8-hour timeframe […] As long as 16 hours of fasting were maintained

Eating was restricted to an 8h window. Fitting 3 meals into an 8h window would be … tricky. I feel like most people's schedule is "[breakfast], [work], [dinner]" (with lunch in the middle of work), and assuming you work 8h, then you're already outside the study's fasting window. Throw two commutes in there …
Please remember that you are slowly dying anyways. You can have a donut every now and then.

It won't kill you. (Unless you choke on it)
Not really (which is an improvement over fake/random statistics)
The exact same people calling CPS on kids walking down the street claiming it's too dangerous are the people who advocate for turning communities into low-trust economic zones.

The reason it's more dangerous now is because of them.
They privatized profit (in this case, the warm fuzzies of addicts shooting up on playgrounds) and socialized risk.

That is pollution. We should clean up that pollution, and ban those who created it from causing more.
Several states seek end to property taxes
18 weeks is the typical age for the first egg, although it does take a little longer before they're laying daily.

The market should be responding quickly to shortages. That it isn't does smell.
I find it unfair that there is no Audubon location in Audubon, NJ :p

Saved the link for more bird news.
> I grew up walking and biking to school because I was lucky enough to live in a nice suburb close to my school

So did I. Have you been back? The kids in my school are dropped off when I biked.
Zombies, Run and Marvel Move maker lays off majority of staff
In all honesty, statistically, that person's assertions are highly likely not to be fact.

It's like the man who has happened on "several" three-alarm fires in his life. How many times does a person happen on even one three-alarm fire in a lifetime? Let alone "several". The likelihood you're either speaking to an arsonist or a liar is very high.

Same is true for people who are robbed at gunpoint "several" times. The statistical likelihood that you're either speaking to a criminal or a liar is extremely high.
In the Netherlands they build the neighborhood like that, but at the dead end of the street is a small path for walking/biking. So driving to school would take 2 km, but walking only 500 m.
The magical applications of zero-sized types in Rust
The alternative architectures must learn from streaming data, must be error tolerant and must have the characteristic that similar objects or concepts much naturally come near to each other. They must naturally overlap.