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Happy New Year y’all !
Happy New Year all! You’re all wonderful.
Solving intelligence requires new research and funding models
I have never played a fantasy game where characters regularly had to take a dump (maybe Dwarf Fortress has defecation but it's more of a simulator game than an rpg). Yet the lack of shitting in fantasy games has not caused hordes of nerds to scream about how it is internally inconsistent that players can eat, but not shit.

And yes there are actual aircraft flying around in many fantasy worlds.
> aggressive technicians trying to convince me to install their bloatware on my computer

I still remember the look on the tech's face back around 2002 when he saw a text login prompt on my FreeBSD box.
What's so weird about that?

Studying how a specific ancient culture potrayed and felt about disability seems like a reasonable thing to study.

Sure, maybe its not as immediately useful as say science, but if you are going to study ancient cultures, analyzing the writings they left behind is one of the main ways to do it.
I was working in telecom research company where the director looked my in disbelief that hacks can actually in telecom, his eyes became wide just when I showed few small hacks, wonder what he is thinking now, lol
Well things have already been a tad rough around this square, so if we follow the trend, the next square might turn bad even sooner. So maybe around, I dunno, 2101?
Incidentally GSM-R problems led to a nationwide train service shutdown in Norway on December 25. Related?
Nowadays it would be shot on a stage in Houston. There is something very physical about movies before CGI.
The best LLM for code right now, in my opinion, is still Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

The big challenge is figuring out how to use it. I usually like working at the function level: I figure out the exact function signature I want in Python or JavaScript and then get Claude to implement it for me.

Claude Artifacts are neat too: Claude can build a full HTML+JavaScript UI, and then iterate on it. I use this for interactive UI prototypes and building small tools.

I've published a whole lot of notes on this stuff here: https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming/
There is a draft spec for transferring keys between password managers. It's complex because they don't want to make it possible to have your passwords dumped insecurely on your computer. But to have them transferred directly between credential stores securely.
This is the kind of thing I would expect to read in the internet forums of an unfree society, rationalizations of why the status quo of censorship and lack of freedom doesn't really affect anyone with legitimate purposes, etc. etc, the oldest yarn..
I use bitcoin as a currency occasionally. I don't often trade my stonks for goods and services either.
Great feedback thank you! I ended up purchasing a different domain to only showcase the screensaver portion. I added your changes on that domain: https://screensaverchess.com
You are not alone. I'm also just shy of 2 decades of experience, and have had extreme difficulty.

My last salary was as a contractor for a 10 month project, which ended Dec 2019. Then came a divorce, the covid lockdown, and a horrendously difficult bout with depression.

I've moved back home, and have been looking for work in earnest for the last two years. I've finally had some nibbles with freelance, but interviews for salary positions are still few and far between, and even then solid, successful interviews have not gone in my favor.

For comparison, in 2013 I was poached after a recruiter saw my linkedin profile, and given an offer I couldn't pass up.
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If you don’t defend it. A court could tell you one day it’s not yours to defend.
What are you talking about?

The Anafi drone uses regular wifi, with ESSID and password, and that's how the security is achieved. There is no need for additional encryption on protocol level.

It's really the best way - instead of making ad-hoc security mechanisms, rely on well-researched and well-tested wifi security.

(That first sentence, "Start by connecting your PC to the Parrot Anafi’s Wi-Fi network", really carries a lot of load... As Raymond Chen likes to say, "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway")
$ ./ts_sms.exe d -F base64 elonMuskSuckss=
As a result, there are safety mandates on radium-based medical devices

LOL!

That "decompression" is reminiscent of Terry Davis of TempleOS fame, who had written a random sentence generator that he interpreted as "speaking to God".
Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea are closeby and large+stable enough to easily create such data centers. Small batches for experimentation by team can be easily smuggled. China is too large and powerful to be completely sanctioned.
OSs should add support though because it lets desktop apps auth without having to open a browser login page.
It may feel opaque, but it is not. It is just not at all intuitive. Read up on "sunshine laws", then go find where they post your local council/boards meetings to meet those laws. Typically, there will be a web site with all the info. Read old agendas and minutes. Go to some meetings to see how they flow - that will help understand how the info is packaged on the sites. You might want to pick a topic and trace it flow from a new topic to a proposed action to a vote. If you do that homework, it won't feel as opaque anymore.

It is kind of huge, though. Each individual government entity is not too big in and of itself (aside from the federal gov), but there are just so many governmental entities that it figuring out who controls what can be a lot of effort. Read through existing policies, ordinances, and other legislation to try to get a sense of that. And take a look at citations when you do so - especially when looking at policies, there will be cross-references to navigate through it all, sometimes including citations to laws that the policy implements.

Once you know how it all works, you will at least know how to engage with your local government and be part of the discussion. Actually convincing them to act in the direction you desire is another story, but step one is just learning how it all works.
You guys are really great.

Happy New Year to all of us
Yeah but the limiting factor for ages has been software and batteries, both of which have been improving a lot in the last 5-8 years.
For many reasons bigger than this place, Happy New Year!!! You deserve a great 2025 - have a good one!
That is such supremely bad writing that it can only come from AI being told to spice up the original opening paragraph, and short of the original author being barely literate (and possibly even then), the original text would have been better writing.

The overuse of the $15 synonyms is almost always a bad idea--you want to use them sparingly, where dropping them in for their subtly different meanings enhances the text. But what is extremely sloppy here is that the possibilities of "no solutions, one solution, infinite solutions" is now being described with a different metaphor for solution here. And by the end of the paragraph, I'm not actually sure what point I'm supposed to take away from this text. (As bad as this paragraph is, the next paragraph is actually far worse.)

Mathematics already has a problem for the general audience with a heavy focus on abstraction that can be difficult to intuit on more concrete objects. Adding florid metaphors to spice up your writing makes that problem worse.
Jordan Peterson too. Putting Chomsky in the same sentence as those two is just insulting
Is there anyone even close to Waymo in this game? Is Waymo going to own the entire market?
Probably fairly low because the future is still talking to us so there have to be at least some timelines extending from the present that make it
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PWAs on iOS get their own local storage, for example. And deleting the PWA from your Home Screen will delete its data, just like deleting an app would delete the data of the app.

I got a basic offline-capable TODO list (the hello world of web apps) working as a PWA for my iPhone. Almost all of it handed to me by ChatGPT.

https://ctsrc.github.io/todo/

If I exit the PWA, turn off WiFi and open the PWA again, the PWA still works.

The only annoying thing is that the way you add a PWA to your Home Screen on iOS is too convoluted to realistically get most people to do it, if you were to make a PWA that you actually wanted people to “install”. Although the JS solution that someone else posted ITT with a small pop-over that explains the steps is pretty near to ok. Certainly helps the situation a bit at least.
Insane that it took this long to happen.
tnx mods! https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
There's certainly a hypothetical universe where American universities didn't buy these books, and they were instead acquired by Indian libraries which managed to preserve them. But that isn't our universe, and there's no clear means by which the US could brought it about.
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GSM-R, Global System for Mobile Communications – Railway
Between this and learned patches and ModernBERT and DeepSeek?

I think it’s time to read up.
that's a hybrid compacting data structure: compacting within the btree node, normal btree topology otherwise.

And it works much better than pure compacting (i.e. the leveldb lineage), because you avoid lock contention at the root on multithreaded update workloads, and the compaction/resort is much lower overhead when it fits in l2.

incidentally, there's a filesystem that uses this technique.
I created an account in 2022, but had been a regular reader much earlier. From Slashdot in 2002 to Digg in 2004 to Reddit in 2010 and now HN. Happy New Year (+30). Here's to a personally productive 2025!
I personally think apart from GPU and compute for intelligence for meaningful robotics to take off we still have lot of things to crack like better battery, better affordable sensors, microelectronics etc, I'm pretty sure we will get there but I don't think one company can do it.
Did Chapter 5 ever get released?
2025 = 515 (palindromic in base 20)
This works really well for subset testing, especially if sets sorted.

Walk the larger tree, using the smaller tree.
Anything that speaks mavlink is this. It's also much harder to get from 0 to 1 with this than it should be.
> the best site on the internet

You know the internet has porn and discount bulk goods on it right
I could have told you everything Snowden told you back in 2001. It was no secret that every phone call and every txt along with all your mail was being scanned and archived.

Everything he revealed was already revealed years earlier, it's just no one really cared or was paying attention in 2000-2001.
Why won't Mercedes let owners open the hood? [video]
That blue and that green are... not very different.
Happy new year folks!
The nord stream 2 cut off a major source of income for Russia. This is between two NATO members with no upside.
If is funny how a site that otherwise stays away from politics turns into reddit as soon as China is mentioned.
Also k8s is living proof that control loops can and do work. That's like the entire point of its existence.
It shouldn't bypass page protections, that would be a kernel bug. And quite a bit harder to achieve too, since the kernel would still be using the same virtual address mapping as user space there.
Note that Nvidia is also working on self driving. The Jetson robotics platform is based on the same SoC as the DRIVE platform, but is a separate product.
This is like going back to CNNs. Attention is all you need.
It’s nuts. Went to bed one day and couldn’t sleep because of the fan noise coming from the cupboard. So decided to investigate the next day and stumbled into this. Madness, the kind of traffic these bots are generating and the energy waste.
Happy Gnu Ears, Y'all!!
Starship is heavy lift / heavy expense. If you want to put 1 small-sat in orbit, you don't use Starship, you use a Rocket Lab Electron. It's MUCH cheaper. Or you wait until you find 600 other small sat users who want to launch into the same / similar orbit.

The talk I heard was that New Glenn was supposed to be BO's answer to Starship (or more likely Falcon Heavy) that could launch a bunch of Project Kuiper satellites into LEO so Amazon could compete with Starlink and feed Amazon's Ground Station as a Service offering.

If we are to believe the published numbers, New Glenn can lift 50 imperial tons to LEO, Starship Block III will hoist 200 tons and Falcon Heavy will lift 50-60 depending on how re-usable you want your launch to be.

I'm not a heavy lift sales-person, but I've been in the room when they discussed what they thought they could sell to govt / mil / commercial customers. So take this with a little bit of salt... Seems to me BO was targeting a slightly smaller launch vehicle than SpaceX was going with so they could decouple schedule with Amazon's Kuiper Project. You don't want to have that cool new rocket you developed dependent on a satellite constellation that gets delayed. So you have a rocket that would be easier to fill with a number of small to medium sized satellites to LEO or (fewer) to GEO.

And like other people on the thread have commented, it seems BO is a decade behind SpaceX, so... yeah... a big rocket that competes with Starship is pretty risky for BO.

And yes, I understand that BO is independent from Amazon, but from what I've seen this is just so they can execute on a schedule that isn't determined by AMZN's board of directors. They seem pretty closely related, just from talking with Kuiper, GSaaS and BO engineers.

I don't work for any of the above mentioned companies and have no insider information. YMMV. Just my guesses from watching some of the personalities involved for the last 30 years.
I'm not sure I see it that way, I wonder sometimes how much of the expensive construction can be systematized into something less expensive, and how much of Starship's "cheap" construction will remain as they work harder and harder to get to their reuse and turnaround goals. My intuition is that Starship will get more expensive to make over time and New Glenn less expensive but beyond that I can't say if they would meet in the middle or cross.

That said, platform construction costs only dominate when you can't re-use the platform. Anything you can re-use gets amortized over each re-use. That is what had made Falcon 9 so cost effective. Mostly because they get nearly 10 flights per booster.
Yeah. I was hired to do a job and didn't want something that would really piss people off (Windows). But Macs were increasingly acceptable and that seemed a comfortable middle ground at the time. (And became increasingly so over time and I really grew to like a lot.)
>LG sill makes the best Televisions, though.

They may make best TV Panels, I would disagree they make best TV. That honour and title stills belongs to Sony. Although LG is getting close with image processing as seen in 2024 TVs.
Also, (20 + 25)^2 = 2,025! Happy New Year :)
I've heard similar things, but I'm not familiar enough with Peterson to say for myself. I've read enough Yarvin.
#1 is not accurate. Here [1] is a visual map of the last census showing the percent in each region where Russian is the native language, which is a reasonable proxy for Russian ethnicity. This [2] shows Ukrainian ethnicity by region. That census is also from 2001. It's unclear what happened in the 13 years to 2014, though after 2014 it's safe to say it became majority ethnic Russian due to the constant conflict going on. That area in the East/Northeast is Donbas of course.

Crimea is far easier on #2. Crimea has never been majority (or plurality) Ukrainian. Prior to the Russians it was Tatars, but they were exiled after WW2 by Stalin for collaboration with the Nazis. The reason Crimea ended up under Ukrainian control is because in 1954 Khrushchev 'gifted' it to Ukraine to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Pereiaslav Agreement. That agreement is when the Cossacks that lived in 'the ukraine' (Ukraine translates to something like at the borderlands/frontier) signed a treaty swearing allegiance to Russia. At the time of the gift it was mostly just a token gesture, because Ukraine was just another normal part of the USSR and so basically nothing changed.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_U...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Demographics_of_U...
It distilled bulk information into a form the author cared about. If nothing else it was probably fun, and a personal report on the things you care about can save minutes each day.

I did something similar awhile back without LLMs. I enjoy kayaking, but for a variety of reasons [0] it's usually unwieldy to break out of the surf and actually get out into the ocean at my local beach. I eventually started feeding the data into an old-school ML model where I'd manually check the ocean and report on a few factors (breaking waves, unsafe wind magnitude/direction, ...). The model converted those weather/tide reports into signals I cared about, and then my forecast could simply AND all those together and plot them on a calendar.

An LLM is less custom in some sense, but if you have certain routines you care about (e.g., commuting to my last job I'd always avoid the 101 in favor of 280 if there was heavy rain), it's easy to let the computer translate raw weather information into signals you care about (should you take an alternate route, should you alter your schedule, ...).

Off-topic, do you know of a good source of weather covariates? E.g., a report with a 50% chance of rain for 2hr can easily mean light rain guaranteed for 2hr, a guaranteed 1hr of rain sometime in that 2hr period, a 50% chance that a 2hr storm will hit your town or the next town over, or all kinds of things. Does anybody report those raw model outputs?

[0] There isn't any protection from the open ocean (combined with a kayak that's a bit too top-heavy for the task at hand), which doesn't help, but the big problem is a sand bar just off the coast. If the tide isn't just right, even small swells are amplified into large breaking waves, and I don't particularly mind getting dumped upside down onto a sand bar, but I'd really prefer to spend that time in slightly calmer waters.
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If you're approach to fix things in Linux like the way you talk about Linux, no wonder you spent hundreds of hours fixing it. Work smarter not harder.

It's neither about if it works for me, it works for everyone, nor it should be, if it doesn't work for me then it doesn't work for everyone.

You're making some points, that most of us Linux users knows to be wrong, and pointing it out.

You're just a hater, with some outdated information about Linux. Obviously Linux is not for everyone, no one is saying it is. But it provides a open, no bullshit, interruption free, environment, that I own, not some corporate doing business with my data. That is alone enough to me, and many other

Please don't let the door hit you on the way out
Right. They sell the order flow to the dark pool who then front runs the order. I haven't looked at this since like 2018 but last I checked the only major brokerage that didn't sell order flow was Interactive Brokers.
Merry 2025! My goals for next year are to write more and try to change the world for the better.

Spending the last day of the year without electricity was a huge wakeup call that big changes are needed. It has left me wondering why fusion energy has taken so long to develop, so that's a topic I'm really interested in exploring.
Title is missing a "How" at the beginning. Without that it doesn't make any sense - I was wondering why people were expecting food in libraries.
This may be too paranoid, but if your mobile IP is persistent and phone was compromised and is serving as a proxy for bots then it could explain why your IP fell out of favor
I've always argued that antiquated books, sculptures and paintings should not be repatriated back to India due to lack of preservation ecosystem and culture. Just look at the historic sites (barring a very few popular ones), they are either literally pissed on upon or become a poster board for election campaigns.
Love may not but there is nothing inherently unworkable with Lua and iOS. I released an iOS game which used luajit on ios and it worked great.
Care to expand? Happy to answer your point which is interesting but I'm unsure of the dimension you are thinking of.
The Feds are not one person, and they cannot affect as much as the President. The main board is 12 members, with several others rotating in and out, and by statute they have congressional oversight. The members also have to answer to the regional banks their section oversees, so there is significant checks and balances.

Several of the powers I listed above for the President are absolute (well, up to impeachment, but I doubt any President would be impeached for trade war tanking of the economy.). There are many more powers a President can invoke, such as nationalizing industries, seizing production, halting trade, all under various War Powers Acts, which the President alone can invoke. Of course after the fact Congress has some oversight, but not much.

Last Trump term he declared all sorts of things were national security issues then applied tariffs, despite those powers never being used as ham handedly as he did. I suspect we’ll see more of these uses soon.
I do not believe this sort of rant is helpful.
Happy New Year from Acworth!

Hope this is a great year for everyone!
Ask HN: Does the Framework laptop stand the test of time?
3-4 years ago, several HN submissions of the Framework laptop got 1k-2k+ upvotes. I'd like to ask those of you who got the laptop: does it live up to the hype? Will it last you longer than any other laptop? Did any paint points emerge? If you had no laptop today, would you buy the Framework laptop again?

I would like to know how long you have used it, and which model you have.
Yes. I've known people with robotics startups, and have visited some of them. They're all gone now. But that was all prior to about 2015.

Robots are a branch of industrial manufacturing machinery. That is not, historically, a high-margin business. It also demands high reliability and long machine life.

Interestingly, there's a trend towards renting robots by the working hour. It's a service - the robot company comes in, sets up robot workers, services them as needed, and monitors them remotely. The robot company gets paid for each operating hour. Pricing is somewhat below what humans cost.[1]

[1] https://bernardmarr.com/robots-as-a-service-a-technology-tre...
I do think there is. For instance, I can convince you that two graphs are not isomorphic while avoiding you the burden of having to do the computation yourself.
Show HN: Computesim, learn compute shaders and control flow
Hey HN, I wrote a compute shader emulator that started as a 50-line script to help me understand reduction shaders. What makes this implementation interesting is its technical approach; I've leveraged Nim's macros and closure iterators to simulate lockstep execution of logical threads.
The emulator runs GPU compute shaders on CPU, simulating workgroups and subgroups with proper synchronization. It supports GLSL subgroup operations and provides nice debugging messages. The emulator works with Nim code that follows compute shader patterns

I've documented some technical aspects here: https://x.com/planetis_m/status/1873857578931011614
Demo/Repo: https://github.com/planetis-m/compute-sim