skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fantastic to see! I've used XML off and on since it was the red hot tech of the early 2000s. I wouldn't choose it today for a green field project, but it's still around in so many places, so we definitely need a high-performance, high-quality library written in Rust for this.

This could become a great foundation for a typed, (mostly) etree-compatible, python library built on top of this. I've used lxml for years and it's still my goto, but there are lots of places where it could be modernized.
That commercial for Dior is wild. It's like an outtake from Inland Empire... but still very obviously a commercial for a handbag.
Just a warning that the article ruins the ending of the anime if you get interested in watching it.
Neural networks are not ML now?
Apple went from $170 to $220 after the Apple Intelligence bs promises.

Still sits there despite having long plateaued in revenue and is still priced for some impressive revenue growth.

Go figure.
These 60-year-old geckos could be the world’s oldest
I'm diagnosed with inattentive-variety ADHD. I worked in an office for 17 years and remotely for 5 years. I often feel more distracted at the office than by myself. Having a glass office wall/door and monitors facing it did very little to demotivate me from distractions.

Nothing has been anywhere as effective as sleep, nicotine patches and (prescribed) ritalin. But having someone actively working near me (even my daughter doing her schoolwork) does help a lot.
> In my experience even the best open source 7B local models are close to unusable. They'd have been mindblowning a few years ago but when you are used to "full size" cutting edge models it feels like an enormous downgrade

Everything has limits - the only differences is where they are, and therefore how often you meet them.

If you are working with AI, using local models shows you where the problems can (and will) happen, which helps you write more robust code because you will be aware of these limits!

It's like how you write more efficient code if you have to use a resource constrained system.
Two thoughts:

The first is that LLMs are bar none the absolute best natural language processing and producing systems we’ve ever made. They are absolutely fantastic at taking unstructured user inputs and producing natural-looking (if slightly stilted) output. The problem is that they’re not nearly as good at almost anything else we’ve ever needed a computer to do as other systems we’ve built to do those things. We invented a linguist and mistook it for an engineer.

The second is that there’s a maxim in media studies which is almost universally applicable, which is that the first use of a new media is to recapitulate the old. The first TV was radio shows, the first websites looked like print (I work in synthetic biology, and we’re in the “recapitulating industrial chemistry” phase). It’s only once people become familiar with the new medium (and, really, when you have “natives” to that medium) that we really become aware of what the new medium can do and start creating new things. It strikes me we’re in that recapitulating phase with the LLMs - I don’t think we actually know what these things are good for, so we’re just putting them everywhere and redoing stuff we already know how to do with them, and the results are pretty lackluster. It’s obvious there’s a “there” there with LLMs (in a way there wasn’t with, say, Web 3.0, or “the metaverse,” or some of the other weird fads recently), but we don’t really know how to actually wield these tools yet, and I can’t imagine the appropriate use of them will be chatbots when we do figure it out.
No you looked at pyramids the right way.

The disconnect here is what is the meaning of the "width" of the triangle/pyramid in the analogy.

The idea in the journalistic inverted pyramid concept is that the width of the pyramid correlates to the importance of the information.

So you start first with the most important information (the base of the pyramid, at the top) and then as you continue you fill in the details that may be interesting and necessary to support the important information, but not necessarily important on their own (the tip of the pyramid, at the bottom)
I have weekly body doubling meetings with friends. It's a good way to socialise and get work done. We usually run a shared pomodoro timer. When the day is over we can slowly ease into other activities. It's fun and effective.

I want to combine it with brunch, another regular event of ours. It would be nice to start the day with a lavish breakfast, before everyone settles into their work day. I have a bit more free time, and it would make me really happy.
Great course. I highly recommended anyone interested in this topic to check it out on the MIT website, taught by the same authors. They are great lecturers.
AI working with your OS is absolutely the letdown. I do not want to give my personal computer's data a direct feed into the hands of the same developers who lie about copyright abuses when mining data.

90% of the mass consumer AI tech demos in the past 2-3 years are the exact same demos that voice assistants used to do with just speech-to-text + search functions. And these older tech demos are already things only 10% of users probably did regularly. So they are adding AI features to halo features that look good in marketing but people never use.

Keep the OS secure and let me use an Apple AI app in 2-3 years when they have rolled their own LLM.
privatise your additional work on top of the public work. the public work doesn't stop being public.
John Roberts has been a believer in expanded executive power since before he joined the supreme court.
It's unfortunate that Unix sockets isn't being used for local connections like this.
PoC from shell scripts with Linux framebuffer, https://github.com/rzr/dialog-lvgl
this is dope, seems a more modern django. the work done here can be leveraged into making django more awesome.
The desire for control never went away.
I was always curious about its performance. How is the latency compared to alternatives like Parsec, HP Anywhere or NoMachine?
I don’t quite recall Biden storming the Capitol, phoning politicians to “find votes,” and sending in a slate of fake electors to subvert the democratic process. But sure, the “activist judges” and their “lawfare” are the real problem here. Not, say, Judge Cannon punting and deferring rock-solid cases without precedent until it’s too late.

Fucking horseshit.
That's a very unhelpful link if you want to buy or comparison shop. Online walmart sells over 300 different styles of countdown timer, including ones shaped like a tomato. Note that the Pomadoro Technique recommends a timer that ticks or makes some other unobtrusive sound to remind you that you are in focus mode, and to associate the sound with focus.

https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/countdown-timers
If anything Apple's gone in exactly the opposite direction, given how much effort they've put into having photo processing, Siri, etc happen locally on specialized hardware. Even stuff like their autocomplete is now using invisible-to-the-end-user LLMs running on local hardware.
Its just another tool (or toy), great at some stuff, almost useless or worse for another, and its fucking downed our throats at every corner, from every direction. I start to hate everything AI-infused with passion. Even here on HN, many people are not rational. I am willing to pay less for AI-anything, not the same and f_cking definitely not more.

Cargo culting of clueless managers which make long term usability of products much worse, everything requiring some stupid cloud, basic features locked up and you will be analyzed, this is just another shit on top.

You have any massive hype, you normally get this shit. Once big wave dies down with unavoidable sad moments for some, and tech progresses further (as it will) real added value for everybody may show up.

As for work - in my corporation, despite having pure dev senior role, coding is 10-20% of the work, and its part I can handle just fine on my own, I don't need babysitting from almost-correct statistical models. In fact I learn and keep fresh much better when still doing it on my own. You don't become or stay senior when solutions are handed down to you. Same reason I use git in command line and not clicking around. For code sweatshops I can imagine much more added value, but not here in this massive banking corporation. Politics, relationships, knowing processes and their quirks and limitations is what progresses stuff and gets it done. AI won't help here, if anybody thinks differently they have f_cking no idea what I talk about. In 10 years it may be different, lets open the discussion again then.
article repeats itself so many times that i quit.
You interpret this as applying to DEI laws and anti discrimination laws of the foreign country, in this case France, and everyone else including me interprets this as obligations on the foreign entity to conform to US DEI and new anti discrimination rules which forbid positive discrimination.

Interesting difference.
Important caveat: this is not itself a vulnerability; you still need a kernel `CAP_SYS_ADMIN` vulnerability if you want to actually do something evil.

(I also expect that if you're already in a restricted AA profile it's not easy to switch to a less-restrictive one, but I think a lot of security tools are bad at thinking about multi-process interpreters)
I find it difficult to grasp than someone on HN would take anyone’s word for it instead of trying it out themselves…
This is a pretty common problem with all true workstation level computer systems. It's like taking a rack from a data center and putting it in your office. You've got a dozen or more spindles and fans spinning. I've seen systems with $200,000 worth of RAM in them, but that was back when 256 GB of RAM was $100k. And, yeah, they had 15k SAS drives. If you think servers are expensive, you've not priced workstations.

Every time I've seen higher end workstations, the actual workstation itself was always in a separate room, and there's been some kind of remote KVM solution used. The workstation was always very noisy and generated a lot of heat. It's also just... a lot of money to shove under a desk where people kick it all afternoon.
The linked promotional materials [0] say that they remote into a mac mini running Avid.

> he works on iMac, which remotes into a separate Mac mini that runs Avid

So the conjecture from the article that the mac mini isn't powerful enough is false

> In other words, little of the horsepower being used in this editing process is actually coming from the Mac Mini on this guy’s desk. Instead, it’s being driven by another Mac on the other side of a speedy internet connection

And based on other comments here, this is a pretty common way to do things.

Why the sensationalism?

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/03/how-the-mind-splittin...
No. Local but it always tries to connect and the deamon to which it tries to connect is optional, which means that the default is attackable. An attacker can run their own program on the port and send bad strings that will cause an overflow.
for me, i just search for the biggest files in my devices, then dedupe the ones with same file-size. Then I take a look on thumbnails of the big files and dedupe in case the thumbnails are the same (^but the file-size is not). Then I sort all the left files on size and look out for general data of same file-size and then decide whether to delete without breaking things or just leave them.

but, I'm thinking putting a NAS in my home and do all the neccessary backup onto that.
Almost certainly yes because Apple acquires a lot of companies.

Many of which take time to be migrated into the mothership.
I swear some of the most productive teams I had we did tons of pair and mob programming and solo programming was not the norm.
I do this a lot; it's just nice to have some quiet companionship while working on something.

The difference between body doubling and "working in an office setting" is mutual agreement to avoid distracting each other. I usually combine body doubling with a pomodoro timer, so 25-30 minutes and then a break. This isn't conducive to deep flow work, but it's great for getting your taxes done, booking a trip, researching a dreaded thing, reviewing a PR, etc.
Non-academia.
AI->ML.
I can do math-heavy work. Part of my school curriculum right now, involves a lot of courses that I'll get credits for in college. These classes are a bit tough, but maths is usuallythe subject I enjoy the most while studying.
"Apple made a rare stumble"

Auto.
Vision Pro.
AI.

Is there a pattern emerging here?
First, facts don't rely on the amount of experience the person sharing them has. But I do get that it's easier to take someone at their word when they have lots of experience, so yes, I've worked on all sorts of projects of all sizes.

I think you've been sold a bunch of ideas. For instance, Avid has no dependency on Blackmagic. They use Open IO, which means you can use any card that supports Open IO, whether Aja, Blackmagic, Bluefish, Matrox, whatever.

Nexus / ISIS isn't special. The flag is literally just a flag that tells Media Composer to enable bin and media sharing. It can be enabled on any kind of sharing - NFS, AFS, SMB, et cetera. For example, check out Mimiq software for enabling it wherever you want.
Most grounded and realistic take on the AI hype I've read recently.
At one point, I was living somewhere that had access to someone's C64 and I wrote a VT100 emulator in FORTH to access a remote VAX via 300bps modem into MeritNet. Then I wanted to do graphics on the VAX and remembered the GiGi (which ran BASIC with DEC Regus graphics if booted in standalone mode) and began creating my own escape-sequences to draw. This led to discovering the NAPLPS standard and then to building my own backend BBS using 900 (reverse bill) numbers for C64 dialup users. Years later I saw the PRODIGY service at a Sears store and smirked.
I want to answer the question of whether our pursuits are meaningful.

I want to say yes, but with the caveat that we don’t deserve the outcome as a sick society

Creationists love to use the human eye as proof of a higher plan. A semi useless collection of structures independently but a powerful system.

I see the same in all of us. Let’s make an eye.
I haven't installed this yet, but does it require camera access? i.e. does it "transform" your own image to the target image while maintaining facial expression, pose, etc.? Based on the animations, I'd assume it doesn't use the camera since there are techniques that can lipsync from audio.
Private compute cloud is apples solution. It doesn’t matter what specs your phone has because the inference is sent to a data center.

They literally have data centers worth of devices running inferences anonymously
Well can we really make inferences from the population of the UK to that of bigger countries? Maybe only people on tiny island nations have this problem.
Nowhere in your quote does it say it only applies to government. It only says that government won't make laws restricting it. It is intentionally elevating freedom of speech to a precept that is fundamental to the constitution of the state.

You have people in this thread asserting that freedom of speech is an inherent right while simultaneously supporting a corporation's ability to infringe that right and suppress speech through petty punishments.

Your main problem is that you're misconstruing the nature of freedom. Freedom isn't merely freedom from things, it's also the freedom to actually do things.
> snakes in a pane

Bravo. It would have been brilliant even if you had not realized that this MUST be the catchy title but wow. chefs kiss
I don't know about labels but if you call most banks and say do you accept money paid in from crypto transactions in my experience they'll say no thanks. It's getting quite hard to find ones that will touch it due to money laundering regulations / risks.
what about Ms Teams?
Nope. Here's a corporation that tried to restrict speech and failed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama
Did you stop reading at that sentence?
The worst impulse in me wants to get highly specific and detailed about how you are confidently painting with too broad of a brush, but I just don't have the energy. I'll just say two things:

1. Physicians earning story is very unique from most other professions (e.g., higher debt load; later career start; limited salary increases after starting) and doesn't correspond as well to the mental models you've constructed.

2. I'm not a physician myself, but I'm friends with several AND my professional experience includes two projects setting physician and surgeon compensation strategy across multiple geographies. I'm familiar with the macrodata and anecdata.

But I will say this: when it comes to surgeons or physicians on the "ROAD to success" (i.e., radiology [increasingly less so as the work is offshored], ophthalmology, anesthesiology, or dermatology) you are mostly right.
Google Docs is something I would implement with vanilla js.
Based on the comment of 15k spinning drives this must have been quite some time ago, but there's very definite reach length limits on DVI and displayport cables. Let's say this was in 2007 and the maximum state of the art was a dual link DVI 2560x1600 display, you can't extend that in any practical way beyond about 15 feet. Extending USB keyboard and mouse by comparison is trivial. Unless all of the desks and workstations were set up directly on one side of an acoustic barrier wall, a hard problem to solve.
The Candid Naivety of Geeks

> Did you really think that "marketing" is telling the truth? Are you a freshly debarked Thermian? (In case you missed it, this is a Galaxy Quest reference.)

Did you really think that an article humiliating your readers is going to change anything?

Yes, we the people, are stupid. No, we the people, are not keen on being called stupid. We might accept that from people we admire but not from someone we have to look up on the interwebz. Someone who has to point out that there is a page on him - in, for god's sake, the FRENCH wikipedia! And yes, I missed it, because Galaxy Quest is nice popcorn TV but nothing I would commit to long-term memory.

No matter how justified the cause, badly voiced anger just sounds like something between bad impulse control and idiocy.

I get the points the author is trying to make, I sympathize with them, but I would never send that text to anyone I try to convince.
> Utah achieves great aggregate outcomes even compared to states that spend a lot more money

That's because you're not counting the money the church spends to replace government programs, which in Utah is significant.
For some reason abandoning belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy are seen as signs of maturity, but abandoning belief in God is seen as moral decay.
I agree with you in general, although my case was the other way around. My company was 10k+ people. But my client was probably the most technically advanced company at that time, with famously hard interviews for their own employees. My employer also didn't want to lose the client (it was beginning of collaboration), and since everyone wanted to work there (and move to US+California) my shop applied pretty strong filter for their own heads, even before sending them to client's vendor-interview.

And client was very-very happy with the quality, and that we didn't fight for promotions and could maintain very important, but promotion-poor projects. Up to the point that client trusted to completely gave couple of projects fully to my shop. When you don't need to fight for promotions, code quality also improves.
As far as I understand Kagi displays results based on calls to Google and/or Bing. How can it be better than those then?
It does seem you grew into it?
The lady is indeed in trouble, because she apparently broke an explicit regulation: «Biological materials imported through passenger or pedestrian travel must be presented to CBP for inspection» [1]. I very much doubt though that it's a kind of offense that should provide grounds for deportation.

Deportation to the country that would certainly incarcerate her for her political position is a bad idea on may levels; first of all, it's inhumane. If the case really devolves down to the deportation for real, I wonder if some other countries would offer her asylum, because it's definitely better that a prison, especially a prison in Russia.

[1]: https://www.cbp.gov/border-security/protecting-agriculture/i...
“Moonshots” Initiative to Secure the Future of RISC OS
> Maybe not psychologically healthy for the individual, but likely provides some social benefits.

I never understood this line of reasoning. What good are "social benefits" if the happiness and well being of the human beings that make up that society are sacrificed? Isn't this the basis of totalitarianism? "Everything for the State, nothing against the State".
> ChatGPT alone has hundreds of millions of active user that are clearly getting value from it

So does OG Siri or Alexa, Letdown does not mean completely useless, it just means what the users are getting is far less than what they were promised, not that they get nothing.

In this context AI will be a letdown regardless of improvements in offline or even cloud models. It is not only because of additional complexity of offline model Apple will not deliver, their product vision just does not look achievable in the current state of tech in LLMs [1].

Apple itself while more grounded compared to peers who regularly talk about building AGI, or God etc, has been still showing public concept demos akin to what gaming studios or early stage founders do. Reality usually fall short when you run ahead of product development in marketing, it will be no different for Apple.

This is a golden rule of brand and product development - never show what have not built fully to the public if you want them to trust your brand.

To be clear, it is not bad for the company per se to do this, top tier AAA gaming studios do just fine as businesses despite letting down fans game after game with oversell and under deliver, but suffer as brands nobody will have good thing to say about Blizzard or EA or any other major studio.

Apple monetizes its brand very well by being able to price their products at premium compared to peers that will be at risk if users feel letdown.

[1] Perhaps new innovations will make radical improvements even in the near future, regardless that will not change Apple can ship in 2025 or even 2026 so still a letdown for users being promised things for last 2 years already.
I would say look for a college that has many other colleges in close proximity. I had a great experience at Northeastern University because of where it was situated in Boston (between BU, MIT, Berklee, NEC and the colleges in Longwood medical area). I use it only as an example because I can no longer wholeheartedly recommend Northeastern after their adversarial actions to the classical CS program and indications they want to shift focus to a bootcamp mindset. I'll add I got great value from a college that taught me PL from the ground (lisp) up, and taught a lot about graph theory and proofs.
No need to go that far.

Search in Mail is abysmal since forever. Everyone knows it. Apple knows it. No change still. So, no surprise here.
They used to call this "peer pressure". Admittedly this is a narrower form of it where you harness the power of vanity and shame for purposes of good, not evil.
It does less but costs the same as those devices that do more. I'll go with practicing self discipline, thanks.