What do you do in the summer when the homes don’t want the heat?
People still take hot showers and use hot water
Readit Newsjairuhme commented on Is TfL losing the battle against heat on the Victoria line? swlondoner.co.uk/news/160... · Posted by u/zeristor
jairuhme commented on Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools yle.fi/a/74-20158886... · Posted by u/freetonik
My daughter brings her phone to school with her
- If he bus doesn't show up, she can call and ask us to come drive her to school
- If she wants to go somewhere after school, she can call us and let us know she won't be home at her normal time
- If she forgot something at home, she can call and ask us to bring it
- etc, etc, etc
There's a ton of reasons for her to have her phone on her. Enough so that, when she gets punished with phone removal, we generally still let her bring it to school.
The fact that the phone doesn't contribute to the schooling itself (although it does when she forgets something she needs for school) doesn't mean that it doesn't contribute to QOL overall by being with her at school.
These are good examples of why a non-smartphone is valuable and a smartphone is not necessary. Also the linked article states that they will be allowed to use their phone when given circumstances require, which I think covers the cases you outlined
I hear this all the time on HN. I am nearly a neckbeard at this point as a programmer. I have never once used any linear algebra in my career. Discrete math: Only a tiny bit, and mostly to pass HackerRank/LeetCode questions for interviews. Looking back, the highest impact (to me) undergraduate comp-sci course was intro to algorithms. You really use those over and over again, even if you are just "using the library" (vector/map/etc.). It helps to know what and how they do it, even if you cannot write it from scratch yourself.
While you haven't used linear algebra, someone working in MLE would probably find it useful to understand. Now I'm not saying you need to take a linear algebra class to understand matrix/vector operations, but it would be useful as it comes up.
jairuhme commented on Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit unsloth.ai/blog/deepseekr... · Posted by u/noch
An 80% size reduction is no joke, and the fact that the 1.58-bit version runs on dual H100s at 140 tokens/s is kind of mind-blowing. That said, I’m still skeptical about how practical this really is for most people. Like, yeah, you can run it on 24GB VRAM or even with just 20GB RAM, but "slow" is an understatement—those speeds would make even the most patient person throw their hands up.
And then there’s the whole repetition issue. Infinite loops with "Pygame’s Pygame’s Pygame’s" kind of defeats the point of quantization if you ask me. Sure, the authors have fixes like adjusting the KV cache or using min_p, but doesn’t that just patch a symptom rather than solve the actual problem? A fried model is still fried, even if it stops repeating itself.
On the flip side, I love that they’re making this accessible on Hugging Face... and the dynamic quantization approach is pretty brilliant. Using 1.58-bit for MoEs and leaving sensitive layers like down_proj at higher precision—super clever. Feels like they’re squeezing every last drop of juice out of the architecture, which is awesome for smaller teams who can’t afford OpenAI-scale hardware.
"accessible" still comes with an asterisk. Like, I get that shared memory architectures like a 192GB Mac Ultra are a big deal, but who’s dropping $6,000+ on that setup? For that price, I’d rather build a rig with used 3090s and get way more bang for my buck (though, yeah, it’d be a power hog). Cool tech—no doubt—but the practicality is still up for debate. Guess we'll see if the next-gen models can address some of these trade-offs.
At my work, we self-host some models and have found that for anything remotely similar to RAG or use cases that are very specific, the quantized models have proven to be more than sufficient. This helps us keep them running on smaller infra and generally lower costs
jairuhme commented on Apple squandered the Holy Grail xeiaso.net/blog/2025/squa... · Posted by u/caust1c
It still really isn't that close to Google Maps, with public transit in particular Apple Maps is pretty much useless. GM is typically more complete with paths and building data outside of North America too.
I have had a really good experience using Apple Maps for public transit. Earlier this year I went to NYC for the first time as an adult and it was super easy to use for finding which train to get on. Had a similar experience in Europe this fall as well.
Every time it buffers for me, Netflix does an internet test only for it to come back and say its fast...
jairuhme commented on MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2... · Posted by u/pabs3
This is awesome and I am happy to read that she was able to remember the device and asks if things have been added to it. My parents have just retired and I wonder if something like this would be advantageous to introduce prior to signs of memory loss. My grandmother had Alzheimers and while it is different than the amnesia that OP references, her memories were lost in reverse chronological order (can't remember where her keys are, but could remember where her last job was, later could not remember that last job, but could remember her first job, etc). So introducing this prior to those recent memory lapses could help solidify that device in my parents head so that they could benefit from it even if they do start to exhibit that behavior.
jairuhme commented on Ask HN: What are the algorithms used by predictions markets like Polymarket? · Posted by u/callmeed
Ok, that's helpful but I'd argue even a limit order book has an algorithm (albeit simple)
I think you are referring to the [order matching system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_matching_system) of exchanges. This page lists a couple of the common and simple algos used.
jairuhme commented on Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
It has a terrible potential to corrupt sport. When you can bet a lot of money on how long a college players plays, or how many points they get in a particular game, what's to stop them from having a relative make a bet and they just fake a cramp?
The stock market is heavily regulated. I don't think you should ban sports betting, because like many vices it's easier to control if it is legal. According to Nate Silver, the more you let people make bets on obscure things the more opportunity their is for participants to cheat. So you should probably restrict betting to things no one participant can control (like the score). You also should try to make it difficult for a person to lose too much. You can't stop it, but you could probably make it harder. In the stock market there is a "qualified investor" that is allowed to take much bigger risks. You could make rules to punish betting sites that accept too many bets from destitute addicts. It wouldn't be perfect, but you can have liquor laws without having prohibition.
That's not new, RIP Pete Rose