skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You will obviously have a change management system which describes all the changes you have made to your putative standard distro configs. You will also be monitoring those changes.

Which is now a list you will have to check for every issue. I don't think they are complaining they don't trust the writers of the code, just that it adds confounding variables to your system
Do you know what other countries are not respecting UN resolutions? So, Israel is part of many countries not accepting UN resolutions, and instead of saying "Israel needs to stop it" you should mention every country that is not respecting UN resolutions and acting similarly.
There is an obvious path forward, but apparently this is a minority opinion, possibly fringe. It doesn't make the traditional tradeoffs.

A bit level (non von Neumann) general purpose systolic array could greatly speed up AI computations, along with almost everything else. It's a chip to do general purpose computation.

The chip design is almost trivial. I'd expect someone with a few years of experience could knock it out in a few days. I hope to field a design in the next TinyTapeout (I'm on a fixed income, so I've had to wait a while)

The real problem is programming. We're talking vast greenfields that go on forever. There's no good way to target the architecture, you certainly wouldn't want to use Verilog or any other HDL.
Part of what the article says is "Adults need at least 150 to 300 minutes of moderate aerobic activity or 75 to 150 minutes of vigorous aerobic exercise per week, according to the World Health Organization."

It bugs me when people leave out the units. The title says we need 150-300 minutes of activity on our adult lifetime, which is woefully inadequate.
Dokuwiki has been my go-to solution for docs everywhere I've been for the past ten years or so unless they already have a (usable) wiki in place.

Trivial to set up. Trivial to migrate to, and from (should you ever need to). Doesn't need a database. There are lots of plugins available and it's sooo easy to write plugins for. Even if you hate PHP.
NASA will be sold to friends like they privatized the Soviet economy.
Larger battery? Why? I already don't remember when I last charged it, plus I can charge it while using it anyway.
FP in Python is rather weak. Even JS does a better job there.
Some of the code exercises will need completely different solutions than in Scheme, due to not having TCO.
What do instructors do, when their 1 to 1 translated code fails? Tell the students, that due to the choice of language it does not work that way, and that they simply need to believe it? Or do they treat it all as externalize the stack problems and solve it that way?

It seems rather silly to force SICP into Python.
add `ssh_pwauth: false` if you can edit the cloud-init configuration - that's what I'm doing
Clumsy phasing initially, sorry.
I meaning that they may feel compelled to take the money for some reason. It might not be the donor putting the pressure on, it might be someone else.
We have already suggested this below my original comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35305018

Still waiting... :(
Hypocritical about…what? You need to actually write down the argument, if there is one…
MediaWiki doesn't have full WYSIWYG. The Visual Editor is nice, but doesn't support templates.
So we all blow ourselves up and kill everybody? † To own Russia?

†: everybody == a lot of people, just to be clear
I think it makes sense to include it because not all Singaporeans are literate in English. For example 17% of Chinese Singaporeans were only literate in Chinese according to the 2020 census report.[0] Additionally, Singapore is not even highest on this list; Netherlands and Norway are slightly above it.[1] However, by the same token, the US should probably also be included due to its high level of non English-speaking immigrants.[2] It's worthwhile to note, however, that the EPI does not test a random sample of the population so the usefulness of these results is not certain.[3] This would be even more of an issue in the US were almost all EPI testers would be immigrants, so the results would look much lower than they actually are.

[0] https://www.singstat.gov.sg/-/media/files/publications/cop20... p. 42

[1] https://www.ef.edu/epi/

[2] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio... p. 8

[3] https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/d4a8d621480672a1c99...
Acid rain is still on the table
SVN didn't even work well for small teams. 6 years ago, I worked on a small team where the team lead refused to go with anything besides SVN. We constantly had merging problems that cause countless hours of extra work.
I think that misses the point too. If China has such competent indigenous aerospace industries then they shouldn't be relying on foreign designs for their engines and aircraft. If everyone else can design a proper 5th gen aircraft, why can't China?

Part of China's overall strategy, since the theft of the Su-27 design, has been to exploit foreign concepts to give their military a modern-looking edge. But it's purely a paper tiger - China does not have the industry to even match the engine performance of USSR designs. Hundreds of their J-11 designated Su-27s fly with Russian engines and their current fleet almost entirely relies on potential engine overhauls to meet their minimum operational requirements. The PLA Air Force is an optimistic application of technologies that do not yet exist in the hope that one day it will achieve the desired tactical effect.

We can see the effects of this strategy already. China's J-35 has been reportedly very unstable during flight with avionics and engines only reaching basic functionality. Of course, there is no F-35B clone either, so they've really only implemented the least-strategic models with what sounds like a skin-deep reverse-engineering job. China stole the designs to look tough, and now they're hiding the prototypes before they embarrass them in action. You might as well have just given the designs to India at that point, at least they're honest about their reliance on Russian technology.
It's a shame to see this kind of connecting-the-dots-in-a-movie-plot conspiracy thinking on HN.
The other problem is that this is for roleplaying. What if you wanted to roleplay a suicidal couple situation? To what extent should websites be legally obligated to verify the mental condition of its visitors?
It looks like there's also a fix for that nested virtualization bug causing host reboots on Ryzen 7000/8000 CPUs [0]. It's nice to see that the cause appears to be known and that it's being addressed (even if the kernel here is technically not at fault).

Apparently this problem is caused by a CPU erratum (or unsupported functionality?) with some (many?) BIOSes still reporting the broken/unsupported instructions (VMLOAD/VMSAVE) as being available with these CPUs, at least according to some discussion about it on the LKML [1].

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Clear-VMLOAD-VMSAVE-Zen4

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/11/5/1006
this is an insane reply and proves why NATO never put nuclear weapons in russia-adjacent states like the Baltics

Nuclear war is not something to be lightly risked
Feels like time for someone to make a newer version?
>laying on a table so someone can implant a device that handles it for you forever does sound a whole lot easier than having to actively balance your intakes for your entire life.

Even better would be an implant that not only removes excess glucose (or other material) from your bloodstream, but also monitors your bloodstream for nutrients and tells you the levels of all of them, and lets you know when you're deficient in something. Then you can get a notification on your phone from your implants saying "Warning: your iron level is low. Please eat some beets soon."
I played for a few rounds, it’s fun trying to guess the word from the picture because the generator is coming up with some unintuitive combos.

Maybe you should consider adding some indicator for if a word is valid or not? I found it a bit annoying to have to figure out why my guess was not being accepted by the “submit” button.
https://archive.ph/9oIT4

I wish it would have adjusted for inflation. One quote: "The average transaction price for a new vehicle sold in the U.S. last month was $48,623, according to Kelley Blue Book, roughly $10,000 higher than in 2019, before the pandemic." However, about 9200 euros of that is due to inflation according to this calculator: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

That's a nitpick though. All in all, an interesting article, which can be summarized as: the EV car market is lacking demand, and car makers definitely don't want to make cheap EVs since it's already so hard.
<rant>
The commentary mocking people for their poor English, followed by disparaging remarks about an entire country as if the email senders represent a typical sample from that nation, says more about the blog owner than about the email senders themselves.

The blog owner exudes elitist vibes in the commentary. A quick skim of the blog reveals a request for Bitcoin donations, suggesting $3 as the amount, without considering that a large portion of this donation will be eaten up by fees.
</rant>
I work for two companies as a contractor. One company likes us all to have our cameras on. Because I've been there so long, I can usually have my camera off in most meetings and nobody cares, except if it's with upper-level management.

The other company is strictly no cameras. I love it. I don't think I've had one meeting where anyone had their cameras on.
I am sure the bajorans among us are appalled
I remember a version of PageMaker also came with Windows. [0]

"Until May 1987, the initial Windows release was bundled with a full version of Windows 1.0.3; after that date, a "Windows-runtime" without task-switching capabilities was included"

I actually thought it was cut-down, but it only had task-switching disabled.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker
Great writeup! And it's good to see Apple pushing the envelope on device security.
They call it Thermogoddamics for a reason ...
Famously, Carl Sagan, when pitching the Voyager missions to President Nixon, said

"The last time that {alignment} happened was when Thomas Jefferson was President, and he blew it."

https://www.planetary.org/articles/stories_murray
My mother was at one of the Division Bell concerts. She showed me the newspaper clipping and way up in the sea of thousands of people, there's two sticking out, standing. That was her and her friend. "I wasn't going to go to a Pink Floyd show and sit!"

I'd love to see Rory Gallagher in Cork, 1974. They band made a live album and there's a documentary about the tour which took place in Ireland and Northern Ireland at the height of the troubles. I want to see it but I had a lot of trouble finding it online previously. In any case, that live album is one of my favourite things to run to as it's long and bounces between calm and energetic. There's one guitar solo where I always sprint nearly as fast as I can, and the rush I get from it is an indescribable runner's high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Tour_%2774

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Tour_%2774_(film)
All Learning Counts advocates for recognising all forms of learning—formal, informal, and non-formal—as essential to personal growth and employability. Tools like Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL), Personal Evidence Records (PERs), and AI-powered skills assessment are advancing skill validation beyond traditional resumes or transcripts.

Embracing diverse experiences can bridge skills gaps, promote inclusivity, and support a future where every learning journey is valued, ensuring fairer access to opportunities.
I wonder how different the world would be if we behaved ourselves and welcomed fair competition?

Maybe it would be close to paradise.
> Update: At some point, WordPress started automatically converting emoji in this blog post to <img>s. I’ve replaced some of the examples with CodePens to make it clearer what’s going on. Of course, the fact that WordPress feels compelled to use <img>s instead of native emoji kind of proves my point
Let me share a scenario I personally encountered. One day, I came across an introduction to a Star Wars animation on a video recommendation website. I was drawn to the fancy covering image, which briefly flashed by in the homepage slides. However, I got busy with other things and only had time to search for it later that evening. Without this project, such information would have been almost impossible to find back because, as part of the website’s recommendation system, the content changes every time you refresh the web page. But this time was different, I was able to retrieve the content by searching for the keyword “Star War” and narrowing the search by time range.

Of course, I know that such a feature might seem trivial. Some things are simply forgotten and that’s fine. But what if it is a more important clue, like a bug for the web site which only trigger in some narrow condition and hard to reproduce.
The solution to your sarcastic anti-immigration comment is not to shit on immigrants but to make where they came from a place where they want to live.

"Put a McDonald's on every fuckin' corner."[1]

[1] https://www.quotes.net/show-quote/125804
Fiber still relies on electronic circuits. While they can be isolated network wise they are not immune to attacks in the way a pneumatic system is.
Having it all in one tested function means it’s much easier to keep in line. Woe be the one that decides to change a common section in something coopied all over the codebase.

Modifying those boolean flags within the context of your tests is practically free. Trying to merge 4 files into one is… not.
Thanks for that it’s very interesting. I had no idea the virtual machine system was so advanced. Device drivers and such were all still real mode but yes I can see how this would make DOS a component of Windows rather than the other way round. All for nothing if the apps aren’t bought in though!
Show HN: The App I Built to Help Manage My Diabetes
Hi HN,

I’m Joshua, a student, and I’m excited (and a little nervous) to share something deeply personal that I’ve been working on: Islet, my diabetes management app powered by GPT-4o-mini. It’s now on the App Store, but I want to be upfront—it’s still very much in its early stages, with a lot more to go.

I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes while rowing competitively, and that moment changed everything. It wasn’t just the practical challenges of managing insulin, carb counts, and blood sugars; it fundamentally shifted how I see myself and the world. It forced me to slow down, prioritise my health, and take control in ways I never had to before. My outlook on life became more focused on resilience, adaptability, and finding solutions to problems that truly matter.

This app started as a pet project over the summer, a way to see what I could create using ChatGPT and explore the potential of LLMs to help with real-world challenges. At first, it was just about making my own diabetes management easier—understanding patterns in blood sugars, planning meals, and adjusting routines. But as I worked on it, I realised it could do more.

Right now, Islet offers personalised meal suggestions, tracks activity, and provides basic insights based on the data you enter. It’s far from complete. Even so, the process of building Islet has already taught me so much about how powerful AI can be in creating personal, meaningful tools.

This project is deeply tied to how my diagnosis changed me. It’s about more than managing diabetes, it’s about showing how anyone, even a student experimenting over the summer, can use AI to potentially solve real, personal problems. I believe tools like LLMs have the power to democratise solutions for all, making life just a bit easier for all of us.

If you’re curious, you can check it out here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/islet-diabetes/id6453168642. I’d love to hear your thoughts what works, what doesn’t, and what features you think would make it better. Your input could help shape the next steps for Islet.

Thanks for reading !

joshua
I would expect an LLM's internal modeling to be on approximately the level of "this is a diagram of a capacitor circuit for some student's homework; electrical component calculations for homework tend to use the adding-in-reciprocal rule, because simple addition would be too straightforward for homework".

> “they didn’t even teach me this in 4 years of Electrical Engineering!” (Really? They don’t teach how capacitors block DC and how RC filters work????)

My experience with being an adult, in general, is that many people who went to university don't believe that any given course taught them anything meaningful.

I can absolutely believe that such people didn't learn and remember anything meaningful from those courses. Whether the course is to blame, is far more questionable.
I’m like 94% sure that I could guess a list before lunch that would be closer to the truth than this one.
Giving the client the executable to run, not running it for them. This means you can't hide the artifact from the client; for an interpreted language, this means recovery of the source code would be much easier than with a compiled output.

That being said, it's still possible to reverse engineer the code; it just makes it harder.
Thanks for the advice. I will work on this feature.
Jets of liquid bounce off hot surfaces without ever touching them
There was a way to “drop to DOS” alright, which is what you would have had to do for games and the like. Can’t remember the exact mechanism but it could have been the x on the “program manager” window.

The raise Windows you’d type “win” and if you wanted to “boot to windows” you would call “win” from your autoexec.bat
Yeah, Fukushima was a management disaster, not a technical one.
Not sufficient on its own to qualify it as an OS though. The VM subsystem described in sibling comment makes a big difference though!
Came across this today. Especially the collection highlights on Wikipedia [0] really made my day.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Bad_Art#Collection_h...
How do these things work with devices inside a NAT gateway? Most of our devices are inside a LAN. Even if a server gets started, it won't be visible to the outside world, unless we play with the modem settings.

Now, a hacker/state who has penetrated a device can do an upload of data from the local decice to a CNC server.

But that seems risky as you need to do it again and again. Or do they just get into your device once and upload everything to CNC?
Incidentally, this is why most drivers broadly support 2000/XP (NT5), Vista/7/8/8.1 (NT6), and 10/11 (NT10) in those specific groups.
This isn't a fantasy. Real airplanes have flown using synthetic kerosene manufactured using renewable energy sources. This isn't magic, it's just chemical engineering. Currently that fuel is significantly more expensive than fossil fuel but the cost differential will narrow over time.
We (in IT security) are expected to abrogate responsibility to funky AI or whatevs anti virus and other stuff. Buy and install a security package from ... whoever ... and all will be well.

This is an expert system/advice run by real people (at a reasonably well respected firm) not an AI wankery thingie. It is literally expert advice and it is being given away and in code form which you can read.

What on earth is wrong with that?
My bad. My frustration with the iframes stopped me reading.

Edit: Can't you downvote your own comments??
I will plan to add a lot of data to this example for each country. Now focused more on the UI part
There’s ways to write this that still keep the entrypoint to a single function. Having different function names as your parameters doesn’t make them any less so.
Profit taking at the top before Nvidia earnings, and insiders are also selling.

Are we preparing for disappointment. I hope not.
> the EV car market is lacking demand

There is scant evidence for this. Every time prices improve, sales surge. Sounds like the demand is there, but price matters. As it always has.
Have four public api functions, which call a private function underneath to avoid the duplication. Everyone is happy.
sorry, you can now find info on how to use it in the comments
From my experience, complex exponentials were a much more important fundamental than matrices.
Is "infostealers" an actual thing or just the article coining a new phrase for malware?
I may be too hung up on the FIDO2-ness of it all, and not paying enough attention to what they're trying to say about the particular configurations of the protocol are.
I get that making GPUs isn't the most environmentally friendly, but the Cardassians literally conqured the homrworld of the Bajorans and enslaved them and strip mined their planet for fifty years. Whatever crimes you think Nvidia is guilty of, they have, at most, one planet they've done things to.
My understanding of the narrative was that Apple showed up with a lot of stuff regarding USB-C at the outset, even if they weren't the first person with it on their device.

This was just stuff I heard though. Vaguely, many years ago.
I just don't see how it is any riskier than what we are doing right now, flooding the atmosphere with CO2 and watching the ocean acidify.
C64 Uridium = NES the Last Starfighter? [video]
I like the idea of having a wiki be mostly serverless -- like lambda backed by s3.
A little searching found this:

https://github.com/raboof/serverless-wiki
Something has to disconnect here. Everyone complains that everything costs so much, but the average Americans' paycheck is not rising the same way, so they can try all they want to sell $95k electric vehicles because of thin margins for cheaper products, but if purchasing power doesn't rise with inflation, then that market that "sucks" is going to be the only real market one day...
Money quote:

“As automakers were profit maximizing during the supply chain crisis era, you are going to prioritize the bigger vehicles, the more expensive vehicles with their higher margins,” Tyson Jominy, vice president of data and analytics at J.D. Power, told me. “Now we just don’t have” these cheaper models.
How would you determine how much carbon was used throughout the entire supply chain of an imported product? If the product is produced domestically, the government can enforce every business to measure its carbon emissions, but cannot do the same for imported products
This is pretty cool! I'm not sure if I'm the target audience since I have virtually no experience developing Android apps, but I'm giving it a try. It might be helpful to clarify that the intent is everything is solvable using the on-device developer tools, nothing needs an ADB desktop system connection.
A water treatment plant would need about 2 people to a shift (and 4 sets of people) to have 24/7 monitoring (one to watch the control screens, and one to handle tasks like running tests on water, handling deliveries, etc., that takes you away from the screens), and that basically doesn't change if you're a small facility making 10KGD of water or a large facility making 100MGD of water. There is serious economy of scale going on here.

If you're a small facility servicing a few thousand people, you can't afford to have that kind of monitoring, and so you have to economize in various ways. One of the popular ways is pooling together with other small facilities so that you have one person doing that monitoring for several sites at once, which requires some form of remote operation.

Furthermore, when I worked at a large water company, all of our network, even the telemetry to the various pumping stations dotted around the service area, was on a private network airgapped from the internet. But there's also economy of scale here; a large company servicing 1.5 million people in a large metropolitan area can afford to do custom fiber backhaul in a way that even a bunch of small companies in the rural Midwest cannot, and so the control systems end up being Internet-accessible because it's too expensive for them not to be.
Does it get flagged at VirusTotal?