skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flatly absurd. These are the kinds of connections only a schizophrenic mind could make.

"For example, surgeons performed 484 (31%) fewer procedures to remove something from a child’s nose in 2022 compared with 2012."

So your sample size is so absurdly small that your conclusions could not possibly have any meaning. What a waste of time this article was.

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EDIT: The population of the UK is 68 million people and this is an entirely retrospective assessment. There's probably a reason they just didn't link to the RCSE page itself as it's speculation is far more reserved:

https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/news-and-events/media-centre/press-...

That reads far less like a paper trying to "nudge" people in a preferred direction.
I hear Linux server is looking hot these days. Security updates patch automatically without reboot with unattended-upgrades (on by default in Ubuntu). Updates take about five minutes and zero downtime.
Just puttin it out there.
People like you must get scammed a lot.
Any idea what Oracle’s mail server is called? Is it the thing I linked?

I don’t find it all that surprising:

- Sun/NeXT were doing stuff together before Apple and NeXT merged

- Lots of Java stuff at Apple immediately following the merger including a Cocoa-Java bridge and WebObjects is rewritten in Java

- Oracle/Sun stuff doesn’t need to be run on Windows

- Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison were good friends
> The class involved numerous example numerical computations using the Julia language, which you can install on your own computer following these instructions. The material for this class is also located on GitHub at https://github.com/mitmath/matrixcalc
The people don't want to leave. Even if the company moves, most of the people won't.

This is a paper exercise that can be resolved once and for all with paper regulations.
Why do maths textbooks never explain how to read the equations? I've tried reading a few and before you know it there'll be some matrix stuff in, integrations or whatever and no explanation of how to read them in normal English like a maths teacher does.

They all seem to assume you're still at school rather than it being decades since you last had to read them. Even using Greek symbols - WRITE THEM OUT. Jeez, it's so elitist.
Fred Finn: A Conversation with the Most Well-Travelled Man
No, sorry, I think you're missing the point. There is one Hotmail, and a million businesses that need reliable email. I don’t want to outsource my key infra, but that’s the only viable option for most companies.

Getting email right requires lots of infra expertise, steady financial expenses, and time. Most companies just don’t have any of these available, and it makes zero economic sense as well if a product like Microsoft 365 exists.
>This political event is just like when the good guys fought the bad guys in the heckin' marvel movies !!

>Edit, thanks for the updoots kind strangers!!
Great answers! Couldn’t agree more.
Note that while this may be first state to ban fluoride, it's not the first state to not have fluoride in the water. That would be Hawaii (effectively).
Somewhat related: the Lambek calculus[0], which is kind of a general type system for written languages. Words are either functions or concrete types, and functions can take their arguments on the left or right.
Does the system of electromagnets do anything to enforce legal vs illegal moves? Seems like another way for your untrustworthy friends to cheat. When your opponent's distracted, just put your queen anywhere you like.

Also, is there a rule about moving one piece at a time? I was surprised I didn't see anyone two-handing it. If it were me, my opening move would be to grab 4 pawns at one (2 in each hand) and shifting them all forward two spaces. That would have been my first instinct.
> The link between fluoride ingestion by children and pregnant women to lower IQ in children has been known for years

Not at the levels it is found in water in the USA. Those studies were done in countries with much higher levels of fluoride.
Hawaii does not add fluoride to their water. Utah may be the first to out-right ban it, but there are quite a few local communities and cities that opt-out of adding it to their drinking water.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67e8572d-c5f4-8000-9393-c2e894c922...
Fluoridation of water isn't the best grounds for arguing the US is backwards, given that it has hitherto been an outlier in how much fluoridation is happening [0]. Most of the developed world doesn't come close to the reach that the US has.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_countr...
This feels like such a bad faith question, but I’ll assume you’re not asking with mal-intent.

No, I don’t think it’s ok, and I don’t understand how you would make this assumption about my opinion unless you’re just speaking emotionally or intentionally rage baiting.

It’s like you didn’t read my comment.
Video editing is not as portable as coding, there ain't no git. It doesn't surprise me that they have to do that, I imagine it's simply speedier and comfier to connect to a desktop that already has the work in progress in the latest state instead of ensuring everything is synced on different devices one uses. I also imagine that beefy MBPs with M3 and upwards could handle 4K editing of Severance (or maybe 8K) and they'd edit on local machines, should it be actually more convenient than connecting to a remote desktop. It's a bit shameful to admit, but still something we have to deal with while having such crazy advances in technology.
One state's desperate new plan to fix its egg shortage
For good and for bad. Its strengths are available to all and its gaps (melody!) and quirks (lack of variation) impact everyone’s development.
the one way you can look at $45bn is ability to buy election(s). as long as there are enough sheep orbiting that platform the value is there - in buying election(s)
Interesting how this site talks about the bad experience using google and while I scroll through it I'm shown more than 10 advertisements.
"Censorship through free speech", in other words.
> To collaborate on a shared presentation, people you share with need any of the following:

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> A Mac with macOS 14.0 or later and Keynote 14.3 or later

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> An iPhone with iOS 17.0 or later and Keynote 14.3 or later

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> An iPad with iPadOS 17.0 or later and Keynote 14.3 or later

Those OSes were released around June of 2023, so a little over a year?
Hacking into a Locked Microchip – Reverse Engineer shows you how it's done [video]
I didnt look too closely, but the concentration recommended by the FDA is much lower than many of the sample sets in that linked study. Some 10 times as much. One is a hundred times as much.

Not sure if that first link was to the Harvard summary intentionally but heres the actual study: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1104912
You ever done any boxing? You can keep your guard up always but you'll still get hit in the face every time you go in there.
That's an assertion, not fact.

Certainly, privatisation of state companies across the EU has been a disaster and no efficiency has been gained, so I wonder where the historical record you're reading is?
This is a "midbrow dismissal".

Yes, the fire marshal has also thought of the first thing you just thought of to post. They aren't stupid.
The US is, according to Wikipedia, among a small minority of countries in which a majority of people drink fluoridated water. Various European countries have discontinued doing so. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation>
Well, they forgot to scrub this page: https://alliance.iu.edu/members/member/8580.html

Someone else has archived it, just in case: https://archive.is/UyV3P
Seems it was quite impactful at U.C. Berkeley.
> But I think the analogy in TFA is also insane.

Why? This change has happened over the course of a couple of months. The trajectory is there.
I remember a physics department that was funded by BP, on the provision they’d stop their research into solar technology.
There isn’t any. The very little research showing any effects on cognitive abilities are experiments using very high fluoride levels - nowhere near the levels in water. Like most conservative “stances”, it’s a farce.
Like into Huawei cell towers, $9 doorbell camera firmwares, all sorts of cheap/outsourced proprietary codes, and Chinese webapps?
The question wasn't about "speaking out", it was about publicly disclosing your own strategy. You can do one without the other.
I think the trend of "Spiritual But Not Religious (SBNR)" is the most interesting.

I suspect a large number of people leaving religions aren't militant atheists convinced by the logic of Dawkins/Hitchens/Harris et al. Instead they are people who believe in some kind of higher power or spiritual unity in a way that is totally compatible with deism (or even light theism).

However, the traditional religions have left a lot of progressive minded individuals behind. Rigid dogmas and suspicious meta-physical commitments seem to turn people off.

This is an interesting space to explore. Many of these people would happily affiliate if there was some organization that met their needs.
I wish it had better data to back it up, but it's reasonable to think that coins are a popular thing for kids to play with.
A lot of opinionated variations on chord spellings, too, with tritone subs sometimes included or not, 7b9s represented different ways, etc.
Even online I’ve noticed Britannica is much more fair on politically controversial topics, whereas Wikipedia is well understand to be a command post to control to influence public opinion.
Indeed, in 5 years we'll have centrist "thought leaders" telling us that maybe we should give up on women's suffrage because it's a losing issue.
Experimental Tauri Verso Integration
Just because someone is wrong about one thing does not mean they're wrong about everything else too. That does not follow, rationally.
Why? Vram has to be powered as long as you're scanning out of it, any competent design is going to support powering down most of the GPU while keeping RAM alive otherwise an idle desktop is going to suck way more power than necessary
What you are describing is not a constitutional democracy. It is a kind of mob rule.
Commercials that David Lynch directed (2018)
None. And that metaphor does not really apply here as neither of these groups are actively advocating for the annihilation of the other, especially in the context of the US. They may have in the past, but we're talking about the present.
Well, yeah, and US hostility towards Europe on top. Why should ASML obey US foreign policy decisions while US doesn't care about ASML?
Thanks. I guess then my next question is, why are they doing this? Whom is it benefiting? Big Water?
Isn't it that models themselves are public (like BSIM) but what you get in a PDK is a macromodel wrapping BSIM with another zillion of fudge factors, or at least binned by device size? That's what I understood by peeking into various PDK models.
Not saying it's surprising. My day job is doing exactly this, not in any FAANG.

Working on a platform that hides so many low-level details is a challenge, and the fact people have to go to such length to get access to it is noteworthy. 'maxas' was noteworthy and unneeded on many (most ?) other platforms.

Not saying Intelstuff or armstuff is 'easier' but at least you get access and are tooled to work on the actual low-level asm.
It's a concept called solidarity. We are going to need more of it if any of our institutions will survive this.
Im not interested in replies from someone who has alerts turned on for this topics.

> It's been 18 hours and 3 replies on your end

You appear nowhere in comments I replied to. Is this your alt account?
>One shouldn't base their experience on what they read on the internet either.

Not saying you should, just that it is a valuable supplement
There have been several posts on HN about Google no longer indexing the entire internet. My understanding is that AI generated content has become so common that Google has become selective about which content it will index. If low traffic sites don't put effort into getting their content indexed then it won't appear in Google results.
There is considerable overhead of the user space <> kernel <> userspace switches, you can see similar with something like Wireguard if you compare the performance of its go client Vs the kernel driver.

Some fuse drivers can avoid the overhead by letting the kernel know that the backing resource of a fuse filesystem can be handled by the kernel (e.g. for fuse based overlays FS where the backing storage is xfs or something), that probably isn't applicable here.

If you're in kernel space though I don't think you'd have access to OpenCL so easily, you'd need to reimplement it based on kernel primitives.
I rode in a handful of BYD vehicles recently. They’re fantastic. It is early days yet so we won’t know how their quality and reliability stack up over time, but electric cars require 1/3rd the maintenance so it might turn out not to even matter as much as it does on an ICE car.
Yup, you're thinking of "postponed evaluation of annotations", which is currently optional with `from __future__ import annotations`. But as you said, would not fix the circular import here.
Though I deplore detention and deportation for immigration violations, it’s worth mentioning in this case that this poor woman was asked to bring some biological samples back from France by her adviser and didn’t declare them. That’s not in the headline.

There is no suggestion in the article that she is being detained for her opposition to the Ukraine war.

She probably doesn’t have a great case. The culpable party here is 1000% her adviser who asked her to bring the samples back given “the complications [her adviser] Peshkin has experienced when French colleagues try to mail him research samples.” (Ok so you aren’t supposed to bring such material here…)

It’s unconscionable and incredibly stupid to put a foreign student at risk by asking for such a “favor”, which she surely didn’t feel in a position to refuse. He shouldn’t even have asked an American (who can’t be deported) to do such a thing!
copyleft is less free than permissive. noone should be compelled to share their work if they don't want to.
Hey HN, quick update on the Evolving Agents toolkit (https://github.com/matiasmolinas/evolving-agents). Thanks again for all the great feedback on the original thread!

Following up on the feedback and refactoring mentioned previously, I've focused on solidifying the architecture based on the agent-centric philosophy. The key components and their interactions are now detailed here: https://github.com/matiasmolinas/evolving-agents/blob/main/d...

In short:

SystemAgent (ReAct): Orchestrates using specialized tools, not hardcoded logic.

ArchitectZero: Designs solutions, outputting a structured JSON design.

SmartLibrary: Manages component persistence and semantic search (using ChromaDB).

SmartAgentBus: Handles capability-based discovery and routing between agents/tools (basic implementation working).

Workflow Lifecycle: Clear Design -> Generate -> Process -> Execute flow managed by the SystemAgent.

The recent discussions on ACP (https://github.com/orgs/i-am-bee/discussions/284) have been super insightful and are guiding the next steps:

Dual Bus Architecture: Based on @ismaelfaro's suggestion, I'm planning to split the SmartAgentBus implementation into a dedicated system bus (for metadata, discovery, system-level messages) and a data bus (for agent-to-agent payload communication). This feels like a cleaner way to manage the different communication needs.

Smart Context/Memory: Addressing concerns raised by @QuantGeekDev and others about context pollution and determinism, I'll be exploring concepts for smart memory and smart context. The goal is to develop mechanisms that help agents pass only the most relevant context during interactions over the agent bus, potentially using prioritization or summarization.

I also evaluated how MCP might fit in. Components like the SmartLibrary or SmartAgentBus could conceptually act as MCP servers, while agents like SystemAgent or ArchitectZero could be MCP clients. However, I ran into a fundamental question: If agents themselves can also act as tools (like in the OpenAI Agents SDK), does requiring potentially numerous MCP servers (one per agent/tool instance) scale well? Or is a different abstraction needed for direct agent/tool comms?

Given this, my immediate focus will be on refining the core communication patterns (dual bus, smart context) before deciding on the best way to integrate MCP specifically for agent-to-agent communication.

This is all evolving (pun intended!), and I'm actively working on the dual bus and smart context POCs now. You can see the current architecture details in the ARCHITECTURE.md link above. Keen to hear your thoughts on this direction!
The FBI got a warrant to search his house. That's not immigration-related.

https://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/03/iu-professor-bloomin...
>> If the output you get matches pre existing content, the license these AI companies give you won't save you.

Really? Isnt that the purpose of the indemnification agreement the vendors have underwritten?
"elite institutions devoted to freedom of inquiry and the telling of uncomfortable truths"

That's rich. That hasn't been true for our "elite institutions" for some time now, although I do remember some notable exceptions... University of Chicago comes to mind.
Wait... Trump did it, and he violates the constitution every day since he took office... The democrats and republicans are irrelevant already. He and those money behind him, already changing the government. Do I get it wrong?
On-prem Exchange. And as someone on the user end, it was even worse.
Well a priority should be to make RISC OS truly preemptive multitasking, as they’ve talked about doing for decades. Right now it has cooperative multitasking. I’d love to see RISC OS saved, it’s a very quick operating system. In my anecdotal experience one of the biggest problems is its confusing status of some versions being closed source and for profit and other versions being open source and free. Until recently I owned a PineBook Pro and I wanted to run RISC OS on it. The only way to do that was to pay some company £399 British Pounds Sterling. This company sells a PineBook Pro, that comes pre-installed with RISC OS. When is explained that I already owned a PineBook Pro the salesman said he could “do me deal” and sell me an SD card for £299. Meanwhile I can run RISC OS on my Raspberry Pi. For FREE. You find these exploitative individuals and companies in many of the retro communities, people that want to make a buck off your desire for tactile nostalgia: these people hold back RISC OS from adoption. I also own Amiga 500 computer. The best accelerator available (in this man’s opinion) is the PiStorm. A completely open source project made better by emu68, another open source project. The PiStorm (including the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A) cost me IIRC €75. While it’s competitor the closed Vampire accelerator costs €400.
I’m genuinely hoping there’s something that pushes the AI/ML academic community off the site but until that happens it’s one of the better places to discover info
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoCYbQBTmlY
Even if one could verify grammatical correctness, there are many ways to produce unnatural Japanese phrases.

To give an easy example: 9つ (9 things) is natural, but 10つ sounds extremely strange. However, 10個 sounds fine. When the number is large enough, it's also common to not use 助数詞 at all.

Sometimes, grammatical mistakes are natural Japanese. For instance, there is a concept of ら抜き言葉 (words with ら dropped), where people will say e.g. 寝れない ("I can't sleep") instead of 寝られない. This is an error in conjugation, yet it's natural language and applies to a few other words, too.

Validating both grammar and word choice is still insufficient to judge naturality of a Japanese phrase. A common "mistake" made by many Japanese is writing 「違和感を感じる」. The verb is redundant because of the 「感」 in 「違和感」. The "correct" word to use in this case is 覚える. In practice, however, either choice of word is understandable and considered correct (except to those with the trivia of 「違和感は覚えるもの！」)

Sometimes, redundancy makes phrases considered incorrect (see 二重敬語 for an example). In other cases, nobody will debate the correctness of the phrase.
The Bolsheviks didn't want people who got the message and shut up. They were extremely paranoid about them. They wanted people who had been raised in the new system or who had supported it when the choice was free. I don't think that self-interest is morally right as a guiding principle or that people who have written things as clearly "aware" as your comment have the option you're suggesting.
>what was hotmail using?

IIRC as they've been acquihired they had their own software stack back in 90's.
Yes but bear in mind that those benchmarks were taken on an ancient system, with an ancient OS/kernel and FUSE:

- OS: Ubuntu 14.04.01 LTS (64 bit)
- CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4.0 Ghz
- RAM: 8GB DDR3-1600
- GPU: AMD R9 290 4GB (Sapphire Tri-X)

So that's an Gen 2 CPU, with DDR3 RAM and a PCIe 3.0 GPU.

On a modern system, with a recent kernel+FUSE, I expect the results would be much better.

But we also now have the phram kernel module, with which you can create a block device completely bypassing FUSE, so using phram should result in even greater performance than vramfs.
I find it difficult to trust these (recurring) Kagi is so much better comments. Because a) no one I personally know ever mentions it and b) everyone seems satisfied with Google.
Advent of No-AI
> I do speak German, I know how Freud is pronounced and I will pronounce it as it should be pronounced when speaking German, but when speaking English, it is Frood for me.

That... isn't the normal English pronunciation. The English pronunciation would rhyme with "joyed", if "joy" were a verb.

/'sɪg.mənd fɹɔɪd/

There are some other big names where the same vowel sequence isn't recognized: Euler (usually pronounced with /ɔɪ/) and von Neumann (not so much).

Euler suffers from beginning with the "eu", which makes it look more Greek.
Wonderful, now we're at a point where Hacker News has people defending a fundamentalist antisemitic hate group that's quite literally performed suicide bombings and launched rockets at civilians.

Maybe you haven't felt terror from them because you aren't one of the innocent Jewish civilians who have been deliberately targeted. Can you go back to reddit where your similarly deranged opinions are tolerated, and stay off of what is meant to be a relatively sane forum?
But we collectively should be compelled to protect it under IP law?

I’m personally completely fine(legally not morally) with people or organizations who want to keep trade secrets secret, but not if they also want society to protect anyone copying their work. The tradeoff is you show society how to accomplish your innovation and we’ll guarantee you profits for X years with the might of law

Edit: this was in response to the comment about no one should be compelled to share their work. I don’t know enough about the nuances of copyleft vs permissive licenses to have useful commentary
Catastrophizing may be a cognitive distortion, but it's also a behavior encouraged by certain political affiliations.
Well, I for once dislike what they are doing, but mostly because what they are doing is both ineffective and loud. Instead of carefully, efficiently dismantling the federal regulatory state into nothing, they are not only failing to actually achieve much but giving the whole project a bad name.

Which protest do I join? "Handsaws, not chainsaws! But do cut the trunk, and as close to the ground as you can!"