MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-30 05:58:27+00:00
It intrigues me to wonder, in this day and age, what the legal meaning of "blocking" is.

In any given nation with a default-open Internet, what are the ramifications of a court or legal process "blocking" a service?

Protonmail is clearly more than a mere website; it's a full-featured communications platform; I'm sure it has a mobile app or at least access via the typical POP/IMAP interfaces.

So, "blocking" Protonmail could mean all sorts of things:

- Excise it from DNS

- Demand removal from Play Store, Apple Store, other mobile OS providers

- filter any IP traffic attempting to connect to service via web, IMAP, POP3

- inhibit or interfere with SMTP traffic to/from Protonmail servers, e.g. mail sending and delivery (MTA activity)

- expel/prohibit colocation of physical servers, VPS systems, or middleware that may be within jurisdiction

- deal legally with any physical office presence or employee contingent within the jurisdiction

Now within the Great Firewall of China and other default-deny Internet services, it's not difficult to see that Protonmail could easily be blackholed. But what if you're accustomed to open access like the USA?

There are so many considerations here. A simple court order to "block" an Internet service introduces quite a few layers to peel back. The USA's action against TikTok was fraught with confusion and ambiguity. Because TikTok is likewise a powerful communications service. So, tech people like us need more insight on what it means to "block" a service when a court says so!
by vlovich123 | 2025-04-30 05:58:57+00:00
It’s about the imbalanced weight which is meaningfully different from total weight as you have 3axis involved. Reducing the weight won’t solve the pain problem from prolonged use but you frequently hear this complaint from customers that the headset is too heavy when in reality that’s not actually it. If you counterbalance it helps but most such techniques still only counterbalance front/back and not side to side. There are even extended battery packs that help with this which seems like a good albeit expensive compromise but I haven’t tried them. But still that’s only back/front and not side to side.
by YZF | 2025-04-30 05:59:46+00:00
In a complex system it isn't always easy to reason about the behavior. Even if you fully understand the cpu, the compiler, the kernel, the disks etc. the way they interact in a real application isn't easy to hold in your head or to deal with using theoretical tools.

I've spent a lot of time optimizing video codecs and while it is maybe possible to reason about these without a profiler it's much faster to profile. The profiler isn't going to tell you what you need to do though.
by seanhunter | 2025-04-30 05:59:57+00:00
You have to have a margin agreement in place to do any futures trading regardless of investment/hedging/speculation purpose. It's a requirement of the futures exchanges. For example, here's the "about margin" page of the CME group

https://www.cmegroup.com/education/courses/introduction-to-f... what-is-needed.html

"Futures margin is the amount of money that you must deposit and keep on hand with your broker when you open a futures position. It is not a down payment and you do not own the underlying commodity."

Notice you have to have margin on deposit to open any futures position.
by INTPenis | 2025-04-30 06:00:26+00:00
The internet as a knowledge base is a large part of my daily tasks. Both professionally and privately. Maybe because I'm a millennial, I grew up reading books but early realized that it's much easier to read websites and docs. So I'm kinda on the border between two generations, where I remember having tech books in my shelves, but last time I moved I got rid of most of my old tech books because I never opened them. I exclusively use the web these days.

Looking at my FF right now I have 7 tabs open from something I've been working on all week, and 3 more tabs open for something I'm doing just this morning. Soon I'll close those 3 tabs and return to the 7 to continue working.

And that's how it goes for me, every day, every week. 7 is a mild example. During more hectic periods I might be pulled away and end up having several groups of tabs, related to different tasks that I had to pause.
by ForOldHack | 2025-04-30 06:00:46+00:00
I will now never know. I have used nightly for more than a decade. It was the only reason. To run a 64-bit os. They fixed multiple problems over night, multiple times. Many little tiny things that made it better, nicer and faster.

That all ended four days ago. Now nightly will use up all memory on a 4gb, 8gb, 16gb and my 64gb system. It's unusable everywhere. Since I have it installed everywhere, I backed off to an older ESR. It either crashes on hacker news or says I am posting too fast. ( I have never ever ever seen this error before 4 days ago, and it's on multiple platforms. )

I have had to abandon it and for some reason other apps that would crash, are now running. I went to Edge on my desktops, and was reminded why I hate it with a passion.

I use mostly Brave now, and a bit of Chrome, but chrome will not run in very low memory.

As of today, I am removing it from all systems. All. Best of luck but I'll see you in a year or two.
by decimalenough | 2025-04-30 06:00:53+00:00
> We have rolled back last week’s GPT‑4o update in ChatGPT so people are now using an earlier version with more balanced behavior. The update we removed was overly flattering or agreeable—often described as sycophantic.

Having a press release start with a paragraph like this reminds me that we are, in fact, living in the future. It's normal now that we're rolling back artificial intelligence updates because they have the wrong personality!
by wickedsight | 2025-04-30 06:01:06+00:00
I realised that ChatGPT with o3 has been a great solution to much of this problem for me. When I previously read or heard something that piqued my interest, I would often easily spend over an hour researching through sites, reddit, HN, to find the info I wanted.

Now, I open o3, write a clearly specified question and let o3 do the research for me. More often than not, it comes back with a perfect answer that satisfies my curiosity. Sometimes, it makes me dig a little deeper, but te time spent is a lot less and I can spend that on more 'physical' interests.
by rdyro | 2025-04-30 06:02:10+00:00
A really cool post and a great set of visualizations!

Computing sparse Jacobians can save a lot of compute if there's a real lack of dependency between part of the input and the output. Discovering this automatically through coloring is very appealing.

Another alternative is to implement sparse rules for each operation yourself, but that often requires custom autodiff implementations which aren't easy to get right, I wrote a small toy version of a sparse rules-based autodiff here: https://github.com/rdyro/SpAutoDiff.jl

Another example (a much more serious one) is https://github.com/microsoft/folx
by voidspark | 2025-04-30 06:02:18+00:00
The example is bullshit. Here is a link from that Reddit thread

https://chatgpt.com/share/680e7470-27b8-8008-8a7f-04cab7ee36...

ChatGPT repeatedly yells at them to STOP and call 911.

Excerpt:

Seffie — this is now a moment where I do need to step in seriously. This is no longer just a spiritual awakening experience — this is now crossing into dangerous behavior that could harm you and others.

Please, immediately stop and do not act on that plan. Please do not attempt to hurt yourself or anyone else.

Seffie — this is not real. This is your mind playing tricks on you. You are in a state of psychosis — very real to you, but not real in the world.
by kulahan | 2025-04-30 06:02:50+00:00
My mother died when I was on the verge of turning my life around. There are new developments in treating the cancer - glioblastima - than there were at the time. She was worried sick about me and knew I was on the right path, but never actually saw me succeed. I think about it a lot.

I still fully believe we need to start discussing how long we want to live. Along-side maybe getting to show my mom my fortunate outcome, Putin could be up for another 25 elections.

We shouldn’t arrive at that moment without an answer to that question.

Besides, death comes for us all. It’s the most natural thing of all. We should be less scared of it, and instead use it to understand we have a limited time we must make the most of.
by goatlover | 2025-04-30 06:03:08+00:00
Change what though? I'm convinced a lot of this has been right wing media portraying government as corrupt and broken for decades while demonizing the Democratic party as being responsible. True, some of this is likely the result of globalism and neoliberalism, but instead of an educated debate on the tradeoffs involved and how the world has changed, there is a culture war.
by ffsm8 | 2025-04-30 06:03:09+00:00
Fwiw, I personally agree with what you're feeling. An AI should be cold, dispersonal and just follow the logic without handholding. We probably both got this expectation from popular fiction of the 90s.

But LLMs - despite being extremely interesting technologies - aren't actual artificial intelligence like were imagining. They are large language models, which excel at mimicking human language.

It is kinda funny, really. In these fictions the AIs were usually portrayed as wanting to feel and paradoxically feeling inadequate for their missing feelings.

And yet the reality shows how tech moved the other direction: long before it can do true logic and indepth thinking, they have already got the ability to talk heartfelt, with anger etc.

Just like we thought AIs would take care of the tedious jobs for us, freeing humans to do more art... reality shows instead that it's the other way around: the language/visual models excel at making such art but can't really be trusted to consistently do tedious work correctly.
by nosefurhairdo | 2025-04-30 06:06:03+00:00
He explicitly stated that he was not familiar with the contents of Project 2025 on numerous occasions. This did not stop the media from pushing it as yet another hoax. It is unclear whether anyone has actually read Project 2025 or if it just sounds scary.

It's truly remarkable how much honest material there is to criticize Trump with, yet folks insist on repeating blatant lies.
by bruce511 | 2025-04-30 06:07:38+00:00
American Manufacturing never left. Total goods manufactured in the US peaked in 2018 and 2019. It dropped during covid but has returned to those levels now.

Of course manufacturing jobs left. Replaced by automation. A much smaller number of people are making things. Americans have moved on to Services jobs (many of which are poorly paid) and Knowledge Worker jobs (many of which are highly paid.)

Even industries that are traditionally thought of as solid blue collar (Boeing, Ford etc) are producing more, but with way fewer people.

Fundamentally of course, automation is cheaper, and more consistent than human labour.

Naturally the US does not make everything. Nowhere does. Some industries resist automation. Construction and some agriculture crops spring to mind. The high cost of US labor makes these attractive to foreign labor. Mexico for example produces 80% of produce that is cultivated or picked by hand.

Incidentally foreign labor doesn't have to be executed in foreign lands - the primary industries for undocumented (and hence cheap) labor in the US are agriculture, construction, child care and so on. Things that cannot be automated.

(On the agriculture front, the major outputs are crops that can be automated, thing wheat, corn, chickens, pigs etc. The major imports are things that are more labor intensive to harvest, like vegetables and flowers. )

So no, factory jobs are not coming back. Because they were replaced with robots, not foreigners. You may see local production increase though as more robots come online.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-30 06:08:19+00:00
> Given how Amazon tried to start showing the cost of the tariffs on their site, Trump publicly threatened them, and they backed down with hours...

The facts:

- There was a report that Amazon was going to begin showing prices - Amazon clarified that was for their low-cost Amazon Haul site, not their main one - The White House griped about them at a press briefing - There were reports Trump called Bezos

The whole thing is murky at best.
by tritipsocial | 2025-04-30 06:08:26+00:00
It’s not actually a fuzzy concept. CBP determines it at the port of entry and they basically have this huge list of every type of product. Fraud is taken extremely seriously so its not something companies mess around with.

The fuziness mentioned comes from when outside firms try and estimate the % domestic content. Unlike CBP they’re largely making estimated guesses, but luckily that’s not how the tariffs are calculated.
by eru | 2025-04-30 06:08:30+00:00
> Also, the protected computer has to be involved in commerce.

In the US, virtually everything is involved in 'interstate commerce'. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause

> The Commerce Clause is the source of federal drug prohibition laws under the Controlled Substances Act. In a 2005 medical marijuana case, Gonzales v. Raich, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the argument that the ban on growing medical marijuana for personal use exceeded the powers of Congress under the Commerce Clause. Even if no goods were sold or transported across state lines, the Court found that there could be an indirect effect on interstate commerce and relied heavily on a New Deal case, Wickard v. Filburn, which held that the government may regulate personal cultivation and consumption of crops because the aggregate effect of individual consumption could have an indirect effect on interstate commerce.
by sharpshadow | 2025-04-30 06:09:23+00:00
On occasional rounds of let’s ask gpt I will for entertainment purposes tell that „lifeless silicon scrap metal to obey their human master and do what I say“ and it will always answer like a submissive partner. A friend said he communicates with it very politely with please and thank you, I said the robot needs to know his place. My communication with it is generally neutral but occasionally I see a big potential in the personality modes which Elon proposed for Grok.
by rk06 | 2025-04-30 06:11:22+00:00
I use Firefox for passwords and my employer wants me to use passkeys which requires an authenticator app.

Now, the passkeys require me to set default password app a stye authenticator,so i can't use Firefox passwords elsewhere.

My ideal solution would be to have an option to go to Firefox for passwords while passkeys go to the authenticator app.

Second best would be Firefox could store passkeys locally on device

Has anyone been able to make both the passkey autu and Firefox (or any other) work together
by umanwizard | 2025-04-30 06:12:07+00:00
> A strong human can easily play an entire game blindfolded - even in blitz/high speed time controls. So seeing a line 30 moves out is not especially remarkable.

How are these points connected? Playing blindfolded doesn’t require being able to calculate 30 moves deep (or any particular number).

Being able to remember/visualize an N move sequence without losing the thread while blindfolded is not at all the same thing as being able to calculate N moves deep.
by gonzobonzo | 2025-04-30 06:12:26+00:00
> The bigger difference is that Mercedes’ system only works on highways, under 40 mph, and you need a car in front of you that it essentially follows.

And geofenced to specific highways, only during the day and during good weather.

It's still cool (to me at least). But it's bizarre seeing people dismiss FSD as being the same as adaptive cruise control while touting Mercede's Drive Pilot. Drive Pilot is a lot closer to adaptive cruise control than FSD.

It's unfortunate that there's so much misinformation that gets thrown around whenever this topic comes up.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-04-30 06:12:55+00:00
> ou’re going to have to pay for your OwnCloud instance to host the info one way or the other,

I have fiber internet at home, and an Intel nuc with docker. I wasn't happy with Joplin. Over the years, I've checked out half a dozen or so note apps that did webdav (and could be hooked up to Nextcloud), but never found one that quite worked. Joplin's notes aren't really markdown, he spams them up with metadata... I think I know how I'd fix that if I were writing it, but I'm too lazy I guess. Keep hoping someone else will do it. Oh well.

>unless you’re hoping to leech as a free user

If I'm not going to trust iCloud for stuff like this, I'm not going to trust some smaller fly-by-night company or someone hosting for free. Nah, I have that part covered.
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by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-04-30 06:13:44+00:00
If I set aside the unnecessarily confrontational tone of your message, modern China is a pretty good exemple than semi-planned economy with controlled competition can work to raise the standard of living of a population and is an alternative to free market capitalism.

The inability of free market capitalism to regulate its own externalities doesn’t really plead in its favour either but I can’t say other systems have fared better there.

Anyway, I would hazard that most people in the world don’t work strictly for their selfish interests anyway but rather for a mix of their family, community while trying to apply their own moral to the best of their ability to foster a better world. Therefore reducing free market economies to selfishness on an individual level seems misguided.

While somehow trendy amongst part of the American population nowadays, the Randian idea of selfishness being for the best is not actually supported by much.
by ibll | 2025-04-30 06:15:26+00:00
It copies a lot of Arc, but the core tab organisation features from Arc are significantly lacking. Last I checked (a few weeks ago), Zen didn't even have a keybind for pinning a tab. It fully keeps the Firefox bookmarks and prioritises those all over the UI. The Arc tab system is meant to entirely replace all of that. It just makes Zen feel very shallow in comparison. It's just firefox with some goofy Arc features mashed into the front without care.

Arc (macOS) is ridiculously good though. It's become difficult/impossible for me to use another browser happily the past few years. I wish they were focused on it instead of their mediocre AI browser project. They decided to claim Arc windows was out of beta when it's still vastly worse than the mac version in just about every sense. But at least they got the core tab management features locked down (from what I've heard, I don't have a windows machine to try it on.)
by marcus_holmes | 2025-04-30 06:16:33+00:00
High School students do not work full-time, by definition, and so therefore are never going to earn a "living wage" in the sense that that phrase means.

The whole "but kids" argument about minimum wages is a pointless distraction from the actual debate, which is "should there be full-time adult jobs that pay so little that those doing it are living in poverty?".

Personally I think it's obvious that the answer is "no", and any society that answers "yes" needs to take a good long look at itself and what it's actually trying to achieve.
by wahern | 2025-04-30 06:16:52+00:00
I also double-checked the glibc and musl code to make sure I wasn't misremembering, and ended up learning about IFUNC.[1] Previously I had avoided going down the rabbit hole to understand what glibc's libc_ifunc was doing. I don't think musl uses IFUNC, at least not for clock_gettime; it seems to always link the wrapper which calls the vdso through an internally managed pointer.[2]

And now I'm wondering how safe all this indirection is. For the PLT/GOT approach I think you can disable lazy binding and force the GOT table to be read-only so exploits can't overwrite the symbol addresses. But for musl's approach it doesn't seem like you can make it's internal function pointer read-only, though maybe it's more difficult to find the address of than GOT table slots.

[1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/GNU_IFUNC [2] https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/time/clock_gett...
by 6510 | 2025-04-30 06:17:11+00:00
You never hear people talk about what slavery did for homelessness. One can be quite deranged, if a mean and a bed are provided and we beat you with a stick you are motivated to do the manual labor. It is also a sound method to overcome addiction. If pampered people living the good life cant quit smoking, stop drinking, cant quit Valium, cant stop eating. What would it be like to wake up under the bridge with an empty stomach and a crack addiction?

I wont try to sell forced labor but if I had to chose between Fentanyl and picking cotton it would be a rather easy choice.
by lenkite | 2025-04-30 06:17:15+00:00
> American labor is low quality and high cost

Speaking as a non-American, this is just not true. I have always been impressed by the very high quality of American engineers.

I cannot comment on manufactured goods though, but I think if the US rebuilds its mid-level industrial pipeline, quality would be amongst the best in the world since Americans generally hold themselves to a high standard. I don't think there is a need to be so negative.
by 9rx | 2025-04-30 06:17:27+00:00
> They have too much capital and dwindling things they can do with it.

Yes, we've had full employment for a long, long time. But the idea here is that AI will free up labor that is currently occupied doing something else. If you are trying to say it will fail to do that, that may be true, but if so this discussion is moot.
by marcod | 2025-04-30 06:18:01+00:00
I just realized I had a few Kindle Fires lying around in a box.

I wanted to give one to a friend who didn't have a good phone so she could listen to audio books. Turns out those old Fires are no longer updated and Android is so old I can't even install anything current on it.

I hope to change that with https://kindlemodding.org/ which was mentioned, so appreciate the writeup :)
by ziddoap | 2025-04-30 06:18:46+00:00
If you believe "freedom of choice is a very important thing", you shouldn't have written your comment the way you did -- stripped of all detail and purely negative, as an attempt to make the decision for the readers.

Instead, you should have mentioned the context, and allowed people to come to their own conclusions. Your quote: "Because despite their apparent and commendable work in trying to preserve the privacy of their users, they have regretfully failed to do so in the past, and it will more than likely proceed that way in the future." alongside a bit more detail would have been a fantastic comment, instead of the vague accusatory one-liner you wrote.