skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not hyperbolic, you're obtuse.

If you think you can bury your head and ignore politics for any amount of time, you are mistaken. Your purchases, comments, and actions are all political and strategic, whether you want to believe them to be or not.
It would be weird for me to object to vibelearning, since most of what I know is self taught, but. Maybe it's sort of weird that we're talking about vibelearning while also talking about the value of RTO? The stereotypical ivy league classroom is like a small group of 10 people sitting in a room intimately going back and forth guided by their teacher? I suspect a big part of learning is hearing the wrong answers from your classmate; going back and forth with a professor.

But the weird thing is it's not even clear what future we're trying to educate kids for? There will be no white collar jobs in 10 years, right? Here goes tech optimizing the humanity out of the human experience.
This reminds me of watching the original infomercials for P90X and Insanity and thinking that their testimonials seemed to include a disproportionate number of tech geeks... Maybe we're the real prime market for this after all
Great idea!! What are some cool use cases you're planning to build with this? Really nice to have MCP without needing desktop apps
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A somewhat shallow comment, but why do post-Cold War U.S. weapon systems have such intentionally bland names? ATACMS, HIMARS, etc? They used to give weapons names that made them sound aggressive, dangerous, legendary, bold: Thor, Dragon, Phoenix, Patriot, etc. It has happened to vehicles as well, which used to be named after venerated war leaders: Abrams and Bradley are now HMMWV and MRAP.

To avoid anything that might be deemed not diverse and not inclusive enough.

Any real names might make someone feel bad about something. A sequence of random letters does not.
Archive link: [https://archive.is/2025.04.02-101319/https://www.nytimes.com...]
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not looking for a discount, looking for subtle improvements on the hardware (i.e. maybe magnetic joycons will fail fast and be fixed in Switch 2.0.1)
Trump makes history by pardoning a corporation
We will never rename ADHD because of laws. ADHD is a bad name, but the laws that help or protect those who have the condition would lose all of that the moment they stopped having ADHD and had a better label for the same condition. Unfortunately the laws and protections are for the label not the condition
Duke Nukem had some 2.5 D stuff going on that was more powerful than what doom was doing, but just barely. I think the first fully 3d game that meets your definition is probably 'Descent'
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TikTok platform is not the same as it was in 2020. The creator ecosystem really dried up when they changed the algorithm and suddenly it was very hard to go viral.

I don't see TikTok being that valuable. There is a Lemon8 app that ByteDance came out with that feels like a fusion of TikTok and a Vlog, but it doesn't get nearly the traffic the 2020 version of TikTok did.
I don't understand why people get so up in the arms about the Chinese room. It's very clear that a major part of human intelligence is a mental model of the physical world, and linguistic concepts have an (often complex) relationship to that model. There's no magic here. Nothing about that argument implies anything about neurons. The process of forming a mental model of the world and mapping words onto it could easily take place within many many neurons within the human brain, because it does! It does not take place in an LLM. That does not imply that nobody will ever develop a positronic brain that could do the same. We just clearly haven't done so yet.

Saying, "if you can't point to the neuron that does X, then you can't prove X happens" isn't a scientific perspective. It's a willfully ignorant one. If you're confident in the scientific process, then we will eventually understand how all kinds of human mental processes make sense in the context of neural networks.
The red button is an absolute delight, be sure not to press it.
Can't the person register their device on the Nintendo website, with a serial number and date of purchase? That's often needed for electronics repairs. That alone should be enough to determine whether the person is a scalper or true fan.
Yes you can. See Patagonian Toothfish -> Chilean Seabass.
While true, anxiety looks for nice pockets to throw fireballs at you from. And bulldozing these pockets is a part of reducing it. It's sort of an insect control. You can't get rid of them really, but there's a world of difference between a room full of insects and a single mosquito flying around.

If you learn to accept it as part of your natural response, you will calm it down

How do you deal with mind numbing effect of experiencing it in the first [how much time?]? Or is it just a feeling that doesn't intrude your intelligence? I guess I do just accept it most of the time when it's <= "3.5/10". But when it's high it's just debilitating, mentally and even physically. What was your method?
Just moved to Utah (wife's job was relocated here) a couple of years ago after many decades in the southeast and midwest. Some stuff grows like crazy here, some stuff doesn't.

Nothing in the continental US competes with the gulf coast when it comes to sheer masses of flowering vegetation. Everything is green and most of it flowers. Everywhere you look, there's actually really neat and beautiful plants. But most of it is what folks think of as "weeds". Non native stuff in yards (what people think of as "flowers") often struggles. E.g. yapon is native and is often an ornamental and it'll grow like crazy, or even worse, try planting some Mexican petunias... I love those things, but they are a purple swarm that will swallow everything.

But plant your daffodils, and while they'll grow, they get overpowered and outspread by everything native. A lot of common ornamentals can't take the fully saturated then dry cycles and clay soils, too. Then there are the bugs. Everything gets eaten by something. So so so so so many bugs.

But in Utah, those common ornamentals absolutely thrive _if_ they get water. When you irrigate here, things grow like crazy. Flowers are huge and there are basically no bugs here at all. (I don't count box alder beetles or brine flies as "lots of bugs".)

But native vegetation can survive the actual climate here, while most ornamentals can't without extra water.
Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS
Avid go player with some basic familiarity with other classic abstract strategy games here.

There are some interesting ideas here but it feels like it's lacking a driving force pushing the game forward. It seems like the players can just keep rearranging their pieces in their own area refusing to engage and risk capture. Retreat seems to often be a sensible strategy.

Perhaps this is most similar to chess but in chess if your opponent just moves back and forth you can easily line up an unstoppable attack while they are messing around. It's unclear here how to avoid the situation where the opponents just dance around each other making sure they never get captured.

Could also compare to Stratego where there just isn't anywhere to retreat to, forcing players to engage.

Other abstracts like go and Othello are always adding pieces to the board so there's no way to stall or slow play the game.
2016…

This type of content is becoming rarer on the internet nowadays.
Happy to answer any questions!

A bunch of us are currently in https://meet.google.com/qre-gydb-mkv chatting about this. (Edit: the hour is over; we all left)

The earlier Apr 1st blog post was https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-enterprise-plan-9-suppo...
golang seems to manage being 100% statically linked (unless you go out of your way, by using plugins). It just forgoes the stuff that the article mentions glibc doing dynamic linking for, and does it the simple and direct way.
Only on HN do we get these great music recommendations.
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Should we also then be flagging posts about Rust due to the low-effort drive-by comments sniping at the language and Rust community?
The value is hard to see now, but go back 20, or even 10 years ago. Having a plain English conversation with a computer was absolutely painful. Not in a "that fact isn't true" or "that citation doesn't exist", but more like "this thing didn't understand the question at all" or "it seems like all these responses are canned".

We've gotten to the point where it's almost a baseline expectation that an AI can be indistinguishable from a person. Now the question is -- how smart is this person and if this person has any traits that are problematic, e.g., hallucinating.
Limbo is almost 2x faster than SQLite
This is only for `SELECT 1` but the importance of this is explained here[1]. Limbo is v0.0.18

1- https://x.com/glcst/status/1907454682055991576
It would be interesting to see what would happen if they would get paid more if they could correctly identify human/AI.
Mine is Burning Airlines Give You So Much More, also by Eno.
There is pretty much a hard limit on how much protein you need to intake. Often you'll hear one gram per pound of bodyweight as a rule of thumb, but in reality that is actually the ceiling. At the very most you need one gram per pound of lean body mass, not including fat (and most people are at least 15% body fat, even more for women).

Basically, the only way to know if you need a protein supplement is to track your macros. That means logging everything that you eat throughout the day. Personally, I eat lots of meat, and only need a protein shake occasionally. Before I started tracking I way over-indexed on protein. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it was a waste of money (carbs and fats are both cheaper).

Additional protein won't hurt you, but it's not going to increase muscle growth. Especially not without hypertrophic exercise.
Funny you mention "Mary Jane's Last Dance". The Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Dani California" overlaps with that (the chord progression is the same and rhythm style is pretty close too).
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Holy smokes, it's big news that Nintendo is bringing this functionality in-house so to speak. There were many third-party Switch games that implemented similar features with codes in the box or required downloads that would confuse users.

Coupled with those confusing cartridges, Nintendo sells cards that could be redeemed for a copy of a game. They're shaped like credit cards, and I always thought they made for horrible gifts. They just don't look good as a gift. These cartridges solve that problem.

This is a clean interface in terms of the software and the sales experience, is as cheap as possible for the devs, and preserves the resale value (so long as Nintendo keeps their store open). This, my friends, is the future of physical games.

If I were Microsoft or Sony, I would pay attention to the reception of these cards. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony's next console has a cheap card reader to allow physical copies with a similar system.
That was referenced in the post as the impetus for making these. Unfortunately it just links to a Google search.
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Go ahead and judge. It was an obscene amount.
Combat vehicles still tend to get good names. American Indian tribes are traditional for helicopters, while ground combat vehicles still get named after troops & their leaders, like the new M10 Booker assault gun:

https://www.defensenews.com/land/2023/06/10/us-armys-new-com...

While it's entirely justifiable to name trucks after famous logistics officers or heroic motor transport drivers, it's just not done. Artillery is interesting, with Paladins (in action) and Crusaders (cancelled), but nobody refers to them by those names. Ships and subs are their own kettle of fish.
There's a market. Almost everyone is a market taker.

For instance, a company has to figure out how much to pay people. If McKinsey comes in and says "pay them less and we'll tell everyone else to pay them less" that just doesn't work. Why would any company that is 1 of N decide to pay them less when they can just pay them slightly more and attract the talent from all these other places. There is an incentive to cheat and without a legally binding agreement all collusion services will collapse. And this even ignores new entrants. You can have individual (illegal) agreements between companies like Google and Apple where they agree to not hire their employees, but those break down and have nothing to do with consultants (why would you want a middle man in an illegal activity?)

The reality is there is a market for most things. To hire an analyst it'll cost you X. McKinsey and other try to discover that and tell their clients. But they can't change the nature of the market as much as someone installing an HVAC unit can change your temperature but giving you a rigged thermostat.
It’s mentioned in the article under the images as the inspiration for this work
I don't think they're quite synonyms. In math they denote two different things. The reciprocal of f(x) = y is g(x) = 1/y. The inverse of f(x)=y is g(y) = x.

https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/reciprocal

https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/inverse
Trump pardoning fraud. Shocking. Not.
Suit yourself, but when the captain has steered the ship into an iceberg it's smarter to jump into a lifeboat instead of going down with the ship. The math doesn't work for Illinois any more. They have unsustainable public debt and employee pension obligations, a declining population, and no more room to raise taxes. Minor tweaks to state housing development policy or school district funding formulas won't prevent the inevitable drastic austerity program that's going to hit when the state becomes unable to pay its bills.

Other US states have their share of problems but overall Illinois is in the worst fiscal shape.
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Whey protein is mostly a convenience supplement to hit macronutrient goals. Calculate your daily protein intake target, then consider your food options to hit that goal. Often it is hard (and boring) to hit that protein goal using only animal protein sources without exceeding your other macro (i.e carbs and fats) or calorie targets. Whey protein offers a convenient, cheap, and healthy way to ensure protein intake is sufficient without consuming too many other calories, which might cause non-lean mass gain. I wouldn’t consider any other “health benefits” to protein supplementation; if they exist, they are tangential. Also consider that whey protein causes some gastrointestinal distress in many folks.
> It's very similar to the whole gay panic thing. I was surprised when I realized how worried some cis men were about being "tricked" into sleeping with a trans person.

Most of the time I see the argument that people feel pressured/forced to date someone they're not attracted to it's not about men being "tricked"

https://web.archive.org/web/20211028041752/https://www.bbc.c...
Finding the full path of sl requires looking at $PATH
Keep in mind that this is Nintendo's store policy. If you buy your Switch 2 from any other retailer, we do not yet know what the requirements will be.
I've been doing this for nigh-on twenty years now, and my rules of thumb:

* If you're building an API, use fastapi+starlette
* If you're building a CRUD app, use Django if:
* You don't expect to need to "hyperscale" in the near future
* You need an admin UI
* Your project resembles a blog or newspaper site (i.e., a collection of articles)
* If you're not using Django, and don't need or want async Python, Flask+SQLAlchemy+alembic is still a 100% valid and effective choice.
It is more of a case study of the various utopias that have been tried and what the outcomes have been.
Yet I still wonder how cool things would be if Plan9 was the most popular and used OS
Transpiration by plants, especially in large forested areas like the Amazon, plays an important role in creating future rainfall
Please consider RISC OS next!
This is a good point. It's really remarkable how many people think ChatGPT's default "voice" is the only thing that can come out of an LLM.
This is an interesting idea.

The next test should be that they have a debate with an AI or a human on different topics and see who can convince more often. If the AI turns out to be the more convincing debater than the human -- that does start to get into scary land.
The list of MCPs (https://mcp.so/, etc) is so big and so fastly growing that the opportunities are unbounded, I hope people will be creative with tools like this and be able to control. In general, I'd love to see MCPs for robots :)
https://designshack.net/articles/graphics/twitters-new-logo-...
Natural-selected plastics biodegradation species and enzymes in landfills
https://archive.ph/Rq4KK
Isn't that a joke.

He didn't actually go to the olympics.

https://wiki.c2.com/?RobPike
We had to do some Plan 9 work, which makes sense when doing something new, but the actual Tailscale implementation is far _less_ work than for other Unixes.
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A useful error message would have made this a 1-minute investigation. The "fix" of trying to detect this specific program is much too narrow. The right fix is to change Yarn to print a message about what it was trying to do (check for a Sapling repo) and what happened instead. This is also likely a systemic problem, so a good engineer would go through the whole program and fix other places that need it.
I have way too many things that catch my interest, but right now I am designing a paper and aluminum foil based linear electric motor. The idea is to create an electromechanical display that pushes a colored piece of paper into place to create a pixel, and see if this can be done cheaply and at scale. The electronics that I have selected look very promising, all I have to do is test the idea and see if this is worth pursuing further.
Seems like a great article, and I followed the war (maybe we should call it genocide & imperialism and not war) pretty closely for maybe 3 years or so. Why's does this the author talk about dates and not include years?

> ("At an international conference on April 26 at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, General Milley introduced Mr. Reznikov and a Zaluzhny deputy to Generals Cavoli and Donahue.")

Is this 2021? 2022? Seems like a nitpick, I know but like, why make your readers work?
Ask HN: Probability that Chinese intelligence backdoors consumer electronics?
It seems kind of inevitable that we will discover that Chinese intelligence agencies have been spying on millions of people's homes, businesses, and government offices.

Their government is hostile to most Western countries, to some degree or another, and have the ability to intercept and control the products of every Chinese manufacturer without any legal recourse.

It seems obvious, or at least very likely, that Chinese intelligence agencies backdoor consumer electronics (TVs, routers, switches, wifi APs, ESP32s, air sensors, and the rest).

Maybe they're risk averse and only enable spying on specific devices (government workers, specific targets, and the like)?

Technically any device that supporters auto-updating could be backdoored at any time, for example with targeted firmware delivered to specific devices.

Maybe the NSA is on this and spends a lot of time reverse engineering consumer electronics but sadly I tend to doubt it.

Are there any independent security researchers that spend their time looking into this potentially massive problem?
> And yet the OP study claims otherwise.

Why is this one study more believable than the others?

> Also hell, your own damn link says that elite athletes seem to get no benefit from creatine vs younger ones,

Where are you seeing that? All I could find was the opposite:

> In trained athletes, creatine has been reported to reduce body fat and improve some measures of anaerobic exercise performance, strength, and power output.

But regardless,

> meaning that its not really increasing muscle mass, just a combination of placebo, water retention, and maybe a burst of energy in the early stages of getting fit.

doesn't follow; it's perfectly plausible that something could help more in initial training but actually work then.
Judging by previous outages it was probably a poorly tested overcomplicated regex which matched to much.
I suppose, although if the student is able to show the prof with the tools that the chip they have (which based on the story should be visually identical or very similar to the rest of the chips) behaves incorrectly, that test can be repeated many times. It's possible the student could have acquired it elsewhere and is snowing, but even if that's the case the fact that they can do the analysis and show (and waited so long in the class to get there), and have the history of asking for help throughout the course, all add up to pretty powerful evidence IMHO. The prof could even do his own test with the chip if he doubts. It seems hard to believe that one student would intentionally try to "cheat" by making his life much, much harder. It's surely a path of much less resistance to just follow the book.
ADHD is both overdiagnosed and underdiagnosed, but I suspect that neither will be helped by renaming to ADH. Perhaps we should just normalize encouraging kindergarteners experiencing difficulty to spend an extra year there, whether they're just a little young or neurodivergent or both. We're the ones who stigmatize that, and it affects more than just ADHD kids.
> The top usb-port is a great addition

I hate that port, because they removed the USB-A ports from the dock in favour of this. This means their flagship camera needs to be plugged in every time you dock. It's classic Nintendo ridiculousness of one step forward, two steps back.
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My thinking is that if movable robots were useful, then we would see centaur robots. Instead of spending effort making it walk on two legs, they could spend time making the arms work for useful tasks.

For factory tasks, which have flat floors, don't need legs but wheels would be fine. Most factory tasks would be fine with fixed robots that can be pushed around to stations.
> that everyone has been asking for

That hardcore Switch gamers have been asking for.

Most people I know that own a Switch use it rarely and casually. For them a mere hardware iteration isn't enough of a reason to get the new one. I would suspect that a good 60% of Switch owners fall into that category. However, even if it only gets half of the sales that the switch had, that would make it the most successful current generation console.
> According to Stack Overflow developer survey [0] Rust is at 12.5%, ... So definitely not niche.

The annual survey is very popular in the Rust community. Its results are often used for advocacy. Participation by Rust developers is very high. So what you have is a classic case of a selection bias.
They are in fact currently at least entitled to a hearing to ascertain that they are removable. Absent that, the state could just start snatching anybody and shipping them to CECOT.
Archive link, since the original seems to have disappeared completely: https://archive.is/1s9Jd