skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw that, I saw trains with more than one MTA person onboard, and saw some construction work which had 30 workers sitting on their phones and 2 working (passed by multiple times that day, the ration never changed).

Grand Paris Express' president also talked about this, and compared the 2nd avenue subway to the Grand Paris Express (well, one cost $4.45 billion for 1.8 mi / 2.9 km and 4 stations; the first line of GPE, 15 south is 33km, 16 stations, and costs ~8 billion euros so it's a really bad comparison), and has said that if he had to do things the way the MTA do it, GPE would have gone nowhere.
Permeating the PTFE layer with copper electrodes in order to get both hydrophobicity and conductivity seems stupidly simple, but the best ideas often are. I also greatly admire how their model looks like a s'more lol
This is super cool.

Last time I searched only https://fdw.dev came up (from Supabase).
Quality journalism just doesn't make any money because everyone expects such content for free by now.

Also outrage sells more and bad journalists outclass good ones by clicks. The "modern activist type" of journalist rarely writes anything substantial or interesting, only very few master the balancing act between helpful news and entertainment.

I remember articles that more often than not could really broaden your understanding on a topic. Sometimes research for a short text took months. I have no idea how you could finance such endeavors anymore.
Sure, but the fact that weird stuff is possible means that someone, at some point, will try to use it in your codebase. This might be prevented if you have a strong code review culture, but if the lead dev in the project wants to use something unusual, chances are no one will stop them. And once you start...
LXD/Incus for hypervisor-for-containers use-case.

Podman for "like Docker, but made by Linux people". It supports both application containers and system containers (which have systemd as PID 1).
I don't, but I can't speak for everybody else. In my case the telemetry was on the backend so the users had no say at all -- though my teams made sure for there to be zero personally identifiable information (plus our API endpoints never got even one piece of information about the customer's devices / desktop browsers; I code-reviewed those PRs and enforced it).

Don't look for boogeymen on HN, they are not on this forum. ;)

I'll again agree opt-out by default is not the most privacy-friendly approach but voluntary user surveys had almost non-existent user base. So some companies took a more aggressive approach. Those I don't like. But a Linux distro? Dunno, seems like an overreaction in this particular case.
I argue ANY money making mechanisms or language need to be detected and contribute to the commercial score.

When I am looking up baking recipes or paleontology text on T-Rex, that should not be a commercial[izable] activity. Full stop! Commercial activity is like sexual activity in this specific regard: it's unwanted! 98% of my searches are for information that autists would pour their hearts into for free out of love, and that commercial interests will only detract from (such as pirated content and software cracks... lol wut did u xpect hm?). If I could pass a law which bled webmasters and search engines dry in fines until something like this is set up... I would! (Elect me BDFL of the world.)
Messaging around what to expect from the processor and for whom this is should be a lot clearer.

They shared a future product roadmap at Ubuntu Summit: https://youtu.be/byPpJW5l6pg?t=3366

2025Q1: 64-core build machine, presumably SG2044 64x C920 with RVV 1.0
2025Q2: 8 core, presumably ESWIN EIC7700X
2025Q3: 4-6 core, last laptop, with alibaba collaboration, no idea which CPU
2025Q4: 12-16 core framework board, presumably SG2380, not sure if this will happen with the TSMC Sophgo thing going on

It wasn't explicitly mentioned, but I presume the 8 core will also be in a framework main board.
It would be really cool if we actually end up getting the 12-16 core with something in the performance area of the SG2380.
I see the current framework main board as more of a proof of concept to drive software enablement for the future devices.
Did Michelangelo conceal a medical treatise in his artworks?
Technically neither Russia nor Ukraine are in war with each other.

Then the "technical" distinction is obviously irrelevant.

That's why officially it's called "Special Military Operation"

And the official justification is pure hogwash, of course. The real reason they call it that is simply, and obviously, to mess with your head.
Even assuming your theory is true (which I kind of doubt), you could be confusing the symptom for the cause.

Why didn't software work for Japanese business purposes? Keep in mind the 80s and 90s were the peak of the Japan economy, and if they actually wanted a software system that could handle Japanese requirements, they had the resources to build it.

Where's the Japanese counter-part of Lotus 1-2-3 and Visicalc? Why didn't any Japanese firm make this software, or if they did, why didn't it become popular?

Certainly Kanji makes things a bit more complicated, but IIRC I've seen systems that mainly dealt with Hiragana and Katakana. It's a limited character set. Nobody says you need to use ASCII.
true, that reminds me of my friend hex-editing his savegame files for WarCraft 1 in DOS - he would have been 10 or 11 at the time.
Nice tidbits here. I'd summarize good conversation as balancing:

(1) Creating conversations that are fun and interesting for you.
(2) Give attention to the person. Make them feel comfortable, seen, and understood.

More details:

- The better you get at creating you're own good time (and it is a skill), the more you 'energy' you have to give.

- If you feel akward, you'll make the other person uncomfortable. Being comfortable with yourself is the foundation to having a sense of presence and charisma. Even if an interaction is going poorly and its feels like your fault, it can be funny. So many sitcoms are based around comedically bad interactions.

- Focusing on giving attention and comfort to the other person helps take away the anxiety of "what are they thinking about me?". Your focused on doing something for them instead of what they think of you.

- Seeking validation is a form of trying to get something from somebody. When you seek validation, you bring an agenda to the conversation, even if unconsciously, and thats why it feels uncomfortable.

- Most people just talk to be heard, so its a real gift to give someone your genuine interest and attention.

Other tricks:

Take a guess instead of asking a question:

- "You look like your having a good day" instead of "how are you?".

- "Do you work in {field}?" instead of "what do you do?"

- "Are you from {place}"

- You're guess should be educated, something you notice about the person (remember how attention is a gift?). If you're right, you make an immediate connection. If you're wrong, the conversation has a natural place to go.

Pay attention to your body:

- Notice the sensations in your feet, hands, shoulders, etc. Don't change them, just notice them. Especially your breathe. It helps you be connected with the person in the moment instead of in your head.
(Not parent) The quickest way I could do it is if I just used my existing wireguard setup to directly access the docker container IP. In that case it's just one compose up away even without mapping/exposing ports.
Automate creation of the content which must be created but is useless and ignored by everyone. Like advertisements, both short and long. And then automate receiving and deleting such useless content. It's like a self-propagating smam+antispam machine. Same with pictures and maybe videos soon. Some pictures much be placed in some spots, like headers (aka ads) of the articles, and are now massively replaced with generated content. After we will be swamped with these pics, people will start working on filtering them with the neural nets. Very useful tech as we can see :)
The MTA is a huge outlier but still gets less money for upgrades and upkeep than they need. They limped along for years on extremely outdated train tracking infrastructure and are just getting around to doing updates that needed to be started two decades ago.
No such thing as "automatic opt in", there was no opting in that scenario. That's called opt out.
Secure bluetooth requires manufacturers to get the cryptography right. Even big brands like Logitech have gotten that wrong in recent memory, allowing attackers both to decrypt what you type [1] and to inject keystrokes [2]. And these are long-lived devices, even if vulnerabilities get patched in newer devices there are still plenty of 5 year old or older mice and keyboards with outdated firmware floating around. Not to mention the possibility of 0-days known to your attacker.

Wired connections are inherently more difficult to attack. In security critical applications banning bluetooth is perfectly reasonable.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRJ7i2J_Y80

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EksyCO0DzYs
I think you are missing the size distinction and range for rogue planets, which I specifically highlight.

Claims about self formation pertain to rouge planets as a class, which includes brown dwarfs. That does not mean an earth mass object IS a brown dwarf.

If you want to want to focus on Wikipedia text, it also says:

>Pre-JWST observations have shown that objects below 3-5 MJ are unlikely to form on their own.[4] Observations in 2023 in the Trapezium Cluster with JWST have shown that objects as massive as 0.6 MJ might form on their own, not requiring a steep cut-off mass[1]

Those limits are ~1,000 earth masses and ~200 earth masses, respectively

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet#Formation_like_a_...
The government is going to be brutally gutted like Twitter. Our nation’s deep institutional knowledge destroyed for no good reason. Sad.
> now see this as not disagreements, but a religious war

Your mind is detaching from reality.

MAGA policies directly hurt some people. Let me say that again. MAGA policies DIRECTLY hurt some people.

They're not being your friend because you're conservative, it's because you're supporting policies that will hurt them. Would you be friends with someone who hurts you?

For example, I am a gay man. Conservatives across the country have been trying to undo protections around PrEP under the guise of religious freedom. The true motivation is inciting another HIV epidemic.

I take PrEP. I don't want HIV. I don't want my friends to get HIV. If you vote for these people, you are directly contributing to bodily harm to me and my community. I cannot support you, because that would be self-destructive.

But that's just me. Now look at abortion - many women know people or have themselves, required an abortion. Many have brushed with death. What conservatives propose will DIRECTLY harm them. Trump plans to chase people leaving states for abortions - this will actually, tangibly, directly, harm people!

You don't see this from "trump fans" onto liberals because the left does not propose any policies that will hurt them. If Kamala would've won, nothing bad would happen to conservatives. If we believe Trump, which I do and you should as well, then MANY bad things will happen to leftists. That's the difference.
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There’s a simple reason there’s so much SEO spam: Adsense.

Maximizing ad profit on search traffic necessitates more paid ads, both on search results page and the web pages. They won’t say that directly of course but that’s what we’ve seen play out over last 20 years.

Vague metrics like “good user experience” get trumped by hard metrics like total $ / search.
The modern equivalent doesn't look the same at all if you want equivalent motivation.

We all dicked around with "shitty" computers and learned all the stupid trivia you had to memorize to use them, back then, because that's all there was and you could make your own bad text adventure or crack some commercial game or whatever and your friends might think it's cool, because that was state of the art, or close to it, and anyway you had to get about half-way to being able to program a computer just to be able to run games or play around in a text or image editor. The extrinsic motivation for hacking on some modern C64 clone or what have you is far lower than it was then.

Minecraft modding is probably the closest modern equivalent.
Pixel phones get a major kernel upgrade with Android 15 QPR2
How do you let the 99.999% of the population know that your site is better? I have seen friends and family now directly search in FB, if it does not return anything satisfactory, they open the very default browser that came with their device and type the query in the address bar, now whatever the default search engine is on their device that came preset gets the traffic.

Only people I saw manually typing the url are my office colleagues(mostly engineers of some sort), even management does the same(skipping the FB part obviously) and you can see it when they are sharing their screen and they want to search for something.

To pull people out of google moat, first step is becoming their default search engine.
I hated taxis lol. I don't like ridesharing companies either, but taxi companies where I lived were a cartel. Taxi groups would camp at train stations and greatly overprice beyond what was legal. I believe even in the US, there were things like taxi medallions and a whole economy around medallion loans which really don't sound like they contribute to equality.

I was also a big fan of Uber in its time, and drivers would tell me stories of how they quit a job at the factory so they could be better paid driving Uber. One guy even quit his bank manager job because it paid that well, but sadly he is now a victim of enshittification.

Gig work also resulted in gentrification of large areas, because work was actually there. It was something to do after hours. Crime dropped in some places because it was easier than robbing someone.

I'm not entirely optimistic this is how it will be; centralized power is dangerous and AI will mess things up badly. But for recent data, I feel like it's helped inequality a lot.
Super Micro Stock Falls as Server Maker Delays Quarterly Report
The linked poll has "opt-in" leading at 75% of the vote.

May be premature to start switching systems. Hopefully they won't proceed with opt-out. I can understand telemetry being tempting/useful, but the fact they made the poll signals deference to community feedback.
Most people dont need rolling release, 24/7 availability, auto scaling, etc.. on their home server, so managing k8s just add way more complexity. My main reason to not use is because I would need to host a artifact service somewhere else which is PITA. Some k8s runtime support local building but is not as easy as compose in my experience.
As this is more of "can we make carbon sequestering commercially viable, or at least less lossy", I'm less worried about that and would be more concerned about the global market for ethylene being "316.8 Million Tonnes in the year 2023"*, compared to the tens of gigatons of CO2 emissions — though on the plus side, I'm optimistic about removing most of those emissions and this kind of thing is still fine for the last 10%.

As for "less lossy" even if it's not always a commercial winner alone: my guess would be there's always going to be an easier way to get CO2 than "from the air", unless you're on Venus or Mars: take tree (or coal), cut up, put chips in oven, set on fire. Much higher CO2 concentration than air, likely to make most things that need CO2 much easier.

* https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-ethylene-industry-repo...
Musk's AI Nightmares Could Blunt Trump's Tech Ambitions
CHN Energy has connected the 3 GW Mengxi Lanhai solar facility to the grid after 14 months of construction. The project in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, required a total investment of approximately CNY 12 billion ($1.6 billion).

The project in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, is a key part of China’s “West-to-East Power Transmission” initiative and is expected to generate 5.7 TWh per year, powering about 2 million households.

CHN Energy connected the facility to the grid after 14 months of construction. The $1.6 billion project spans 70 square km and features more than 5.9 million solar panels. It also includes two 500 kV gathering stations, eight 220 kV substations, and transmission lines that send power eastward to coastal regions via an 800 kV ultra-high-voltage line.
> You're just plain wrong... Most physical products have no software

I'm just trying to be thought provoking. I can't generalize about whole cultures, other than to say, no one culture owns excellence.

Down this thread people are talking about stuff like, I don't know, home goods, or you're talking about cosmetics.

Are cosmetics software? Well the people who sell the most cosmetics have to master digital marketing.

"Chinesium" on Amazon is mastering software. It doesn't look that way. But the reason you are choosing things on Amazon is because of fulfillment software, advertising software, logistics software, that specifically the manufacturers of those products have all mastered. They are really smart sellers. The reason you choose a particular cosmetic is due to mastery of advertising and logistics software. You will never buy a cosmetic that isn't marketed by software.

Sure there's this box of, software on hardware means the thing that draws the pictures on an LCD screen. And indeed a lot of things that don't need LCD screens end up with them, and you know what? Consumers choose them. But that inside-the-box thinking aside, anything that reaches an industrial scale where you are able to buy it in many stores in America depends on mastery of some kind of software. The best of those choices happen to master both the logistics and the end-user software, whatever that may mean.
What I want is the LLM to be the last layer of filtering. Basically I want to take the "regular" search results and ask the LLM if they are actually a good match, and downrank them if now.

So instead of getting a list of pages that contain that error message the LLM can evaluate which ones are closest to my configuration (are they the same OS, are variable parts of the error message the same or similar to mine, does the page have a solution or at least a discussion, or just one person posting the error with no other info).

Additionally search engines generally suck at negative phrases. For example I'm looking for some JS library that doesn't depend on React. Current search engines really suck at differentiating between "Foo for React" and "Foo, no React required". LLMs are pretty good at this.

That being said LLMs are also imperfect, so I wouldn't want the results that they reject to be completely hidden, but they can be ranked much lower. I think the biggest improvement would come from searches with many candidate pages (like looking for some library that fits my needs) rather than rare ones (like that error that has only been mentioned twice on the internet). But lots of times I am just looking for something with a very specific set of requirements that could be evaluated by an LLM (with pretty good accuracy). That can greatly improve my experience compared to getting all textually matching searches and doing the filtering myself.
The usual points

- Elsevier is bad

- Reviewers are not paid 99% of a time

- Editors choose reviewers

- Editors should be managing conflict and avoid that

- Editors in chief is probably the only paid position in peer review process

- Academic publishing industry have higher margin than Tech industry

- Publishers don't have enough incentives to minimize number of publications for quality.

- Again, Elsevier is evil
This is not exactly a new tactic, and not something that would have to have been implemented without any cloud solution. A randomized 'kill -HUP' could do the same thing, for example.
I wish the NYT would have asked a follow-up to this question:

> Q: Could airlines close this loophole, if they wanted to?

> A: Yes, it’s their own prices that allow this.

> If they want to shut down skiplagging, they could do it tomorrow. One way to do it would be reducing airfare to hub cities. The reason the price is so high because they control this market and want to maximize their profits. It’s the reason hidden cities even exist.

I mean, yeah, that's true. To eliminate the allure of hidden city ticketing, the airlines could reduce the prices on some of their most profitable routes. But my understanding is that airlines don't tend to have huge profit margins overall. If government mandated that the price for segment A->B is always cheaper than A->B->C, would the airlines be able to service as many marginally profitable routes? How much of the comprehensive air network that we take for granted would disappear if such a rule went into effect?

I'm not generally a fan of the airlines. I think their pricing practices have become those of pathological assholes. But I guess I would actually prefer the status quo over a future with simple, straightforward air fares that only serve a fraction of today's airports.
Falling inflation hits 'snag' as housing costs accelerate
They have shareable block lists - like starter packs, but for blocking accounts. We'll see how that works out as the network grows.
The ability to load up an on call schedule would be handy.
Addendum: any productive, constructive people, especially 'good' ones who immigrate with bunches of bad and 'ugly' are worth the risk of increased negative social impact. The Social Body can handle it.

It's necessary to create counter-measures tho, because legal or illegal barely matters if it serves a big and influential enough interest-group, which nobody can be blamed for but if you don't get caught "nailing" some shady stuff to a wall, you're fine.

And it's never about 'then the next guy will take his place'. It's a cute bullshit narrative but not how balance and active balancing work.
It's actually what they did. I heard from people involved in the CJK-unification project that the Japanese representatives insisted this be done as a condition for their participation.

Given that there were thousands of such characters, some characters slipped through and the same code point was used by both Chinese and Japanese.

The Japanese have been bickering about the handful of those cases ever since.
No, it's just a USB device at that point. Unless they are against USB mice and keyboards, it's fine.
> there must be reasons he claims they have to be blank NANDs

If you are building new SSDs, it makes sense to be certain that used NAND chips aren't slipping into your supply chain.

They do have a limited number of write cycles that they are good for, after all.
The State of SQL Injection Today
I understand how their approach worked well enough, but I don’t get why they couldn’t selectively target the VMs that were currently experiencing problems rather than randomly select any VM to terminate. If they were exhausting all their CPU resources, wouldn’t that be easy enough to search for using something like ansible?
SoftBank taps Nvidia for Japanese 'AI grid' project
I value flexibility in a product more than just about anything else. I will quite often choose the product with more features and use cases, even if it means paying a little extra money, just to have the _option_ to use a particular feature, even if I'm quite sure I won't use it on a daily basis.