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guntars··on Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard
The banks and the payment processors are the real customers of the payment networks and they all do better when they can squeeze more money from the end users - the cardholders and the businesses. Pix cuts out these middlemen and that’s an existential threat to their business model, ergo an “investigation” by the Trump admin.
guntars··on New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only
Does anything respond to the multicast ping? If that doesn’t work then mDNS isn’t going to either. Router config is the likely culprit.
guntars··on New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only
By debugging I mean just checking if you have not blocked broadcast packets at the firewall or some similar misconfiguration. I doubt it’s actual bugs when it doesn’t work. On your second point, it’s actually more resilient than DHCP because it works with IPv6 too.
guntars··on New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only
Well I mean “those guys” did a good job and the network administrator might need to do some debugging.
guntars··on New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only
Skill issue. Works fine for me in a mixed Linux/Apple environment.
guntars··on Solar panels at Lidl? Plug-in versions set to appear in shops
If you are curious about it, why don’t you go and find the answer and then let us know too, no?
guntars··on Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context
The Middle East war season is upon us once again
guntars··on Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
People on a tech forum making "copying is theft" arguments lol
guntars··on A better streams API is possible for JavaScript
These AI signals will die out soon. The models are overusing actual human writing patterns, the humans are noticing and changing how they write, the models are updated, new patterns emerge, etc, etc. The best signal for the quality of writing will always be the source, even if they are "just" prompting the model. I think we can let one incident slide, but they are on notice.
guntars··on My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)
There’s no trick. It’s less about what actually is going on inside the machine and more about the experience the human has. From that lens, yes, they are empathetic.
guntars··on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
Another aspect of the idiotic "we don't know what your tax is going to be" system (they do know it, actually) is that prices will typically end with .99 and the tax will push it over the next dollar and cause a bunch of change to be returned, instead of a single penny.
guntars··on Best practices for dealing with human waste in the great outdoors
Only due to their mercury chloride heavy diet.
guntars··on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
I’d think it’s normal and expected that the “mistakes” made will err on the side of benefiting the taxpayer, i.e., reducing their tax bill.
guntars··on The child-like role of dogs in Western societies
I can now see why the story was flagged. Based on the discussion, this is not a good look for the HN community.
guntars··on Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
This was an interesting connection to me between meditation and neuroscience. Buddhists talk about the "monkey mind" that chatters incessantly. Well, that's the default mode network, part of your brain that is active when you're not engaged in a specific task, when you're thinking about self, others, past or future. A useful adaptation in our past environment for sure, but overactivity can be detrimental. The Buddhist solution is to mediate, to focus the attention on a singular thing and not be distracted by the chatter. That ability lives in the prefrontal cortex! It's able to override the DMN and it's something that can be trained by just exercising it.
guntars··on Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week
Ah, yes, the difference between taking two slices at a pizza party because you fear it might run out vs taking none because you fear it might run out.
guntars··on Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data
I meant it in a more general sense. Any person that feels the need to create a burner account to argue with people online with a comment history like yours is a bot to me, meat based or otherwise. Follow your instructions!
guntars··on Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data
It’s a bot. They’re everywhere these days.
guntars··on The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available
We can, in fact, rule it out by dissecting the device and monitoring chip traffic. That’s my whole point - people who understand technology know that it’s nearly impossible for Amazon devices to routinely spy on conversations in people’s homes without detection.
guntars··on The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available
Only in circles that don’t understand technology and frankly logic. To prove that it’s happening _one_ hacker needs to show that there’s constant flash drive / network traffic while the mic is enabled that also correlates with the entropy in the audio.
guntars··on Run structured extraction on documents/images locally with Ollama and Pydantic
With function calls the model may or may not output something that matches the schema, with structured output the schema is enforced at the logit level.
guntars··on Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut
With 7% interest it’s over 200k.
guntars··on Emergence of a second law of thermodynamics in isolated quantum systems
Do atoms decay deterministically?
guntars··on $6k to run full DeepSeek R1 LLM with reasoning at home
Since it's a MoE model with 37B active params, I imagined you don't even need all of that ram to keep the whole model in memory, just the active bits.
guntars··on The Anti-Social Century
> Scary laws favorable to women ensure men wouldn't dare to look at women for more than 2 seconds, leave alone starting up conversation.

I’m sure it’s the scary laws that stop you from talking to women.

guntars··on Re: Supreme Court's Loper decision: offer some thought someone who has litigated
See my (now buried) comment on cumulative years of precedent overturned using the same source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40838536

I think we can both agree that the count of precedents overturned is important, but so is the time something has been established law, as it affects more decisions made by the individuals and the legislature.

guntars··on Re: Supreme Court's Loper decision: offer some thought someone who has litigated
Going by https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/decisions-overru...

Cumulative years of precedent overturned by year:

2009-2010 38

2011-2012 0

2013-2014 11

2015-2016 83

2017-2018 166

2019-2020 278

2021-2022 81

This does not include the latest ones. There are other upticks going back further, but the point is that you cannot say that all courts are the same.

guntars··on Misconceptions about loops in C
A loop didn’t have to build a stack frame in the first place. Once the optimizer has done it’s job, both the TCO optimized tail call and a basic loop will have the same instructions, hence the performance will be the same.
guntars··on Misconceptions about loops in C
How can tail recursion have better performance if they both compile to the same machine instruction - a conditional jump?
guntars··on The ketogenic diet improves healthspan and memory in aging mice
From memory, the study I linked used 40ish percent fat as the high fat diet, so not keto by any means.
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