skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two kinds assets of financial assets, but both of them work the same way - you pay back the investors or face the consequences, i.e. the loss of control over how the company functions.

In other terms, it doesn't matter to the end user who exactly introduces the resulting enshittification - Bluesky's current leadership that doesn't want to lose control of the company, or Bluesky's future leadership that replaces the current one.
CADO-NFS makes this surprisingly easy to do. A few weeks back I factored a 512bit RSA DKIM key for work using my desktop computer in only 28 hours. Specifically, an AMD Zen 5 9900X.

Unfortunately 1024 bit keys are still out of reach of a hobbyist effort but could be pulled off by academics roughly of the same scale as the 2010 effort to factor a 768 bit key (https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/006.pdf)
Yeah, it's unfortunately only viable if you're near one of their data centers – and even then, some of their international third-party partners have crappy graphics cards and networks. In the US, though, it is an amazing experience, more like streaming in 4K (which it can do) with minimal lag. Even first-person shooters are perfectly playable, as long as you're not trying to go pro. No compression artifacts or visible degradation at all for me.

> But Steam + Proton is literally zero management.

Absolutely. I had a Steam Deck for a few weeks* and that experience was amazing. Valve did a really really good job there. Unfortunately that's just not how it is in the Mac world :( We have Whisky and Crossover, which are much much harder to use.

(* The Steam Deck is a great piece of kit. I eventually sold it only because I already had a Logitech GCloud, https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/cloud-gaming/cloud-..., which does the same thing except streamed from GFN and with a bigger/better display than the Deck.)
Not that impressive when they started a green revolution (Grünewende) in the late 90s.

And during all this and specially recently people had pretty high energy prices.

And during all this time huge amount of coal dust is still spread over central Europe.

You can most certainly change things faster then that.

First of all, not turning of almost 20% of electricity supply off simply because of some delusional misconception about nuclear energy.

My own quite conservative calculation show that they could have finished this whole transformation by now for far less money if they had simply replicated what France did decades earlier.
That's not quite right. Nothing (or almost nothing?) needs 60 Senate votes to pass. The difference is that they've agreed not to filibuster tax laws, and you need 60 votes to break a filibuster.

So you're right on the practical effect, but the details are slightly off.
hey everyone, our startup is building a journal style note-taking app for analysts and data professionals.

we kept hearing that analysts especially have trouble keeping track of findings, discoveries and in general context around their work.

It's mainly built/modeled for data analyst style of work, but feedback so far has been that it could also work for other roles e.g product managers.

we're gearing up toward a wider launch and would love user feedback to iron out any last minute kinks, bugs. It's free to use and takes 2 min to setup.

you do need to signup/create a user because each journal gets a database provisioned to store notes in (privacy is a topic close to heart)

If you're curious, the native app is built with Tauri (currently Mac and Win support) and it has single tenant dbs with Turso.

also when I say video game inspired I mean quite literally - you store notes around quests and the mechanics are similar to games like skyrim/fallout.

thank you everyone
also check out jpegli.
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2024/04/introducing-jpegli...
Ask HN: Pros and Cons of the Dart Language?
I have been working with flutter and have come to really like Dart. I'm primarily a Java dev and to me Dart feels like a lighter Java with better dev experience. I am considering using it in other areas - command line projects, webapps - basically places I would have used Java, Python or Go. What are pros/cons people have found in using Dart outside of the flutter ecosystem?
You can just pay people, regardless of their place of employment.
Multiple Apple employees fired for Matching Grants fraud; six charged so far
This title is so bad it's basically a lie. Better title: spinal cord injuries from mountain biking in BC exceed other high risk sports.

The terrain in that area and parks include things like a lot of 30 foot tall one foot wide wood walkways.

And as a MTB destination this terrain is often attempted by basically tourists.

This is like saying "hiking injuries exceed other high risk sports" on Mt Everest.
You should have gone for "Work nothing, play a lot" instead of the typical one.
Artificial Agency Ladder (an essay written by Claude and me)
I'd expect them to not write a piece about something with which they have no familiarity and that their target audience has no particular interest in.
Hold up, I'm going to send a email to every synth company that sells synths with filters and explain to them that they aren't selling synthesizers but transformers. I'm positive that it will be received well!
Also, html 2 pdf would be nice too. :-)
And Gen-Beta are still shitting their diapers and crying unintelligibly when they don't get their way. An age-period-cohort analysis is appropriate when looking at that sort of data.
I have watched this scene many times, each time for a different topic, and yet it never gets old!
Well, I know HN is pedantic but the issue is why would so many people be trying to flee to the U.S. if it is worse than some "backwater". It makes no sense. I would assert that in extremely impoverished Southeast Asian countries, immigration is not a central concern.
What mobility exercises do you prefer? Any particular routine you can recommend?
If you're playing fast and loose and consider a chroot running under a the devices' kernel (that also handles all syscalls directly) to be the same as a hypervisor, then yeah, Windows is approximately a Linux distro by the same loose considerations. Tomato/tomato: hiring a translator is basically speaking the language, right?

On the other hand, if you're a syscall purists and are particular about the dependency on virtualization microprocessor extensions (or the lack thereof), then the stack requiring a hypervisor to run a guest isn't equivalent to the OS it's hosting.

Bottom line is: if you have a shell access/ a terminal emulator on stock Android, you can configure it to run a desktop Linux using the kernel loaded on the device without installing am emulator or hypervisor. To me, this is materially different to WSL or ChromeOS' crostini.
It's not quantum-safe though.
That's unlikely to change the conclusion. US household income is so high and south east asia is so poor that it's impossible to claim it's poorer than some "Southeast Asian backwater", even if adjust for high housing prices, healthcare, and cost of living (which already includes both).
How would that work? Valve implements a bunch of kernel modules for each of the different KAC libraries an arbitrary game might use?

Both Valve and MS have been making moves to steer game publishers away from KAC. I think the problem will solve itself when the platforms just say, "you can't do that anymore".
For engineering we had to pick either multivariate calculus or linear algebra for more upper level math courses. I picked multivariate, and I'll say it was also my least enjoyable there. I look back wondering what would have gone different if I picked linear algebra instead, but who knows, maybe I'd have just as blech of an experience with that. Lot of great classes in the EECS department though.
Teams spaces are just embedded sharepoint, which has many awkward edges.
There is a lot of inter-game variability, unfortunately. (I'm a regular tester and contributor to the Crossover compatibility database: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility)

Some games, especially simple indie titles, run flawlessly. Others won't launch at all. Most mainstream AAA titles launch but with severe lag and/or graphical anomalies. It's a far cry from native, Proton on Linux, or GeForce Now. I wouldn't recommend it except as a last resort.
JWST spies record-breaking hoard of stars hiding in a warped 'dragon' galaxy
Yes, but the decline is real in the underground scene as well.
The toxic legacy of Agent Blue
That sounds either really difficult to make and maintain or an absolutely fridge industry destroying innovation. Given weather and stuff I fear the first. Sick idea tho. I know nothing of fridge engineering besides basics so could be way off.
Plenty of embedded microcontrollers in the 70s and later not only used floating point but used BASIC interpreters where math was floating point by default. Not all commercial embedded applications are avionics and ECUs. A lot of them are more like TV remote controls, fish finders, vending machines, inkjet printers, etc.

I agree that fixed point is great and that floating point has portability problems and adds subtle correctness concerns.

A lot of early (60s and 70s) embedded control was done with programmable calculators, incidentally, because the 8048 didn't ship until 01977: https://www.eejournal.com/article/a-history-of-early-microco... and so for a while using something like an HP9825 seemed like a reasonable idea for some applications. Which of course meant all your math was decimal floating point.
Yes, that could be. And you could focus on being annoyed at this guy's social media behavior, if you like. However, it doesn't mitigate, and is less important than, the problem of the car getting into this state and Waymo not having control over it.
RTX Neural Shaders bring AI to programmable shaders
EU Politicians Suggest Shutting Off X's Algorithm
Fair, but my intuition would say in Canada, hockey is more popular than mountain biking, I would even be willing to put money on saying "considerably more popular" to be honest. Hockey Canada reported 600,000 registered Hockey Players in 2019, Cycle Canada reported 22,000 in 2018.

58 mountain biking SCIs over 14 years (4.1 per year) in British Columbia
3 hockey SCIs over the same period (0.21 per year) in British Columbia
We are. 1024-bit keys are being retired across cryptosystems everywhere, and have been for over a decade (don't get me started on the one laggard). Nothing threatens 2048 bit keys other than QC, which threatens RSA altogether. Progress isn't linear; it's not like 2048 falls mechanically some time after 1024 (which itself is not practical to attack today).
SteamOS does provide support for common anti cheats (don't know details though), made in collaboration between anti cheat maker and valve, but many games decide to specifically opt out of this support
No, I suggest that there was no update at all and the lags were caused by wifi
Problem gamblers' brains rely on slow learning, increasing losses: Study
What expert considers it a matter of time before 2048 is broken? 2048 is 112-bit-equivalent security.
The FT is actually entertainingly into this sort of stuff.[0]

Honestly my favourite news outlet these days, despite my being well to the left of their editorial staff. I read it mostly for their drum and bass coverage.

[^0] See https://www.ft.com/content/7796593c-08ac-485c-afe9-a45ac2c28... or
https://www.ft.com/content/084bab07-c5cf-4b25-ba7d-769af6b42..., but there's loads.
I appreciated this. Lots of solid advice and positive and pragmatic thinking here about aging in the context of being a programmer, and more generally too.

I'll take this opportunity to make a related pitch regarding back pain in particular, which can become more of a problem if you are sedentary as so many programmers are: if you have chronic back issues you owe it to yourself to at least check out Stuart McGill's Back Mechanic (https://www.backfitpro.com/books/back-mechanic-the-mcgill-me...). It's very much in line with this post; in particular the idea that you just have to deal with back pain as a fact of life is--for most people--not the case. Please take a look if you are struggling with back pain. The process he lays out takes work but it's based on solid research and experience and it has helped me tremendously.
Related:

Germans turn to balcony solar panels to save money

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42633159
I did a degree in Politics and then an MSc in International Relations, which are not subjects where there are definitive "canons".

To put it another way, you can go very far down the tech tree of one set of ideas without necessarily having to have the prerequisites from other courses, although you do build up your own inner library of useful tools, touchstone texts and concepts that stick with you for the long run.

I may never have directly put many of those into use in my career, but they've certainly given me a useful framework to interpret other things I've come across.

These days, I read a lot of effective altruist/rationalist discourse where they're reinventing very old social science concepts from first principles, and I feel it's a weakness of the monoculture that they have so little connection to what came before.
You mean the pads? Those are the connection points for the wires that connect to the external package pins.
Europe has many globally successful technology companies. ASML and Siemens, The Pirate Bay and Spotify, SAP and Accenture. It also seems Swedish Match has managed to "innovate" quite well on cigarettes by introducing tobacco free nicotine pouches to the US, which I'd expect to be a continuing financial success story over the coming years.

Infringing on people's data protection rights isn't a precondition to product development and innovation, that's just a weak justification of tyranny.
From what I’ve gathered, nowadays, “raving” refers to all legal parties that are posted on RA as well. The biggest difference is, younger people associate specific venues/music as “rave”s, where mainstream music isn’t played, and people are more likely to party in the brains. It’s just the definition has shifted since the 2000s.

I wouldn’t discredit FT writers as well, as I’m assuming they’re writing for a specific audience.
Leaving Facebook, Instagram and Twitter a few years ago (and never joining TikTok) has been the number one top decision for my mental health. I wish everyone and society as a whole to make the same decision.
Did you read the article? It's mostly about the business of running nightclubs and organising music events. Something that falls cleanly with the interest of the FT and its readers. The headline is just some SEO optimised clickbait to get traffic.

Plus, as I mentioned elsewhere. A non-trivial number of today's FT readers are the same people that were at those original raves in the early 90s.
> Yet even in oil soaked Texas, renewables account for most new capacity being added to their electrical grid. Why? It's cheaper. Simple economics

Texas is still building gas generators [1][2].

Renewables are cheaper, but on the margin. Their production remains low, and despite massive growth, won't going to rival whole-grid growth for at least a decade. (Growth + replacement takes us into the 2040s.) That means we need other power sources for decades to come. America went with gas, which makes sense–we have lots of it. China with coal for the same reason. (Europe, also gas, which doesn’t make sense, but they don’t want to do coal or nuclear and don't seem to be deeply thinking about this.)

In the long run we’ll probably be all solar with marginal wind, hydro and experimental sources. That will not happen in our lifetimes. Texas and Germany are prime examples of why simplifying our grid’s future to a single source is not only economically infeasible but also politically self defeating.

[1] https://www.power-eng.com/gas/calpine-affirms-plan-to-build-...

[2] https://www.powermag.com/new-gas-fired-power-plants-proposed...
Yeah but to modernize a company to switch from oil to electricity, if possible at all, requires significant investments.

In Germany this has been a major problem for many companies that invested to be greener and the costs were huge. It doesn't matter that 1kwh costs 10 cents less when you need to invest 100 millions to change your infrastructure.
France is leading the way. Their repeated failures to complete nuclear plants on time or budget is probably a big factor in people not considering it a valid alternative.

Them phasing out more nuclear than Germany over the last few years is quite a message.
12 years after I created r/functionalprogramming, and the post with this video is still the top submission on reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/functionalprogramming/top/
Hey, Nipsuli the tech co founder here. If you have questions on the experience of building with Tauri + Turso + Yjs go for it! It's been lot of fun and "fun" :D
It's a lot easier to swap out the renderer or the CSS engine for a new one than it is the whole core of the browser engine.

Mozilla decided that replacing Gecko as-is was not reasonably likely to actually happen, and that further efforts towards Servo would be better made by continuing to evolve Gecko.
An introduction to Plato's Republic (1981)
OpenWhateverMap
LLMs for AGI
This is basically the answer.

Note that a lot of the content that Jack posted on his site or in the newsletter was written years, if not decades ago in one of his books or when he was writing for "Embedded Systems Programming" magazine. He was (completely retired last year) pretty good about only reposting content that was still relevant, but every so often you'd see something that was now completely unnecessary.
... it squashed all future developments

What squashed future development was the cost of trying to make nuclear energy cost effective using reactor designs that were inherently unsafe.

Newer, inherently safe designs are now in the pipeline.

https://newatlas.com/energy/bill-gats-breaks-ground-first-us...
All-in-one local AI workstation for better privacy
This is always a possibility but I'm guessing the happy path is the more likely believable scenario and could be verified OOB.
Apple, Amazon, and Google are examples of companies that struck an absolute gold mine to the point at which it doesn’t really matter how badly they fuck up, they’ll be fine.

Google and Apple have been flopping for years. They’re poorly run. They’re going to continue do great despite that.
2048 achieves the same security level NIST requires from AEADs, doesn't it? What plausibly attacks it? Pushing people past 2048 seems counterproductive.
Interesting that there was a port of Speedscript to the VIC-20. That was a word processor originally published in Compute! magazine and ported to most 6502-based computers (and MS-DOS, but that was a rewrite in Turbo Pascal as the original was in 6502 assembly language). That probably would have been the best option for the VIC-20 -- Speedscript was a pretty amazing program for something published in a magazine and was better than many word processors for sale in the 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedScript
I love Linear Algebra. I took it in college almost 20 years ago and I still use it everyday. The higher level maths almost broke me academically. And it was a course in LA that really kept my head in the game. Even now, when I'm talking to students I try and encourage them to take the class if it's available.
Most people don't need 3 monitors. Pretty much everyone needs or has a fridge except for the least fortunate in society. He said most people, so u just fall in the much, much smaller minority with a bit of a questionable claim. Like, If u had to give up one, it'd be your fridge over monitors? Utility of the monitors runs out when u have to spend time getting fresh ingredients every other day.
Actually posted about learning something new in 2025 and Synths came up. Quite like this site.
Location:Martinsburg, WV
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Flask, MySQL, SQL, Pandas, html5, JSON.

Résumé/CV: yes and can email it to those reaching out.

Email: lewiscol85@gmail.com
Yeah, it happens.

As far as Apple Intelligence goes, I've liked the features in my Apple products so far. It doesn't feel like it "goes too far".
100%.

I enjoy watching the UCI downhills races. And some of the RedBull stuff.

But I'll never attempt trails like those on my own. I don't have the equipment. I don't have the skill. I don't have the will (balls).

Almost all of the spinal cord injuries I've heard about have occurred when the mountain biker was airborne on purpose. And not just airborne on a natural 2 foot rock ledge, but engineered ramps/jumps/etc.

The "Everest : Hiking :: DH/freeride : mountain biking" analogy is correct.
One thing that I think a lot of introductions are missing is an extremely simple first model of a Von Neumann style computer. I teach the undergrad computer systems class and two models I have found extremely useful are:

- But How Do It Know/Scott CPU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeYAtkbHvuQ&list=PLYE0XunAbw...)

- The Little Man Computer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AWN_ntHfPk)

Especially these days, where the computer is more and more abstract from students experience, i think these tangible, visual tools are important for them to get a feel for what's going on at the lowest level of computation (at least in some sense)
"Robots".

Chick-Fil-A could have used a machine to squeeze lemons in the 1950s, if it had existed then. Robots.
But give me headers to connect after market control, or tinker with Arduino control.
Study: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1/e0080242024 | https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0080-24.2024
Currently evaluating tailscale as a VPN-like solution and read the same thing:

"At a less granular level, the coordination server (key drop box) protects nodes by giving each node the public keys of only the nodes that are supposed to connect to it. Other Internet computers are unable to even request a connection, because without the right public key in the list, their encrypted packets cannot be decoded. It’s like the unauthorized machines don’t even exist. This is a very powerful protection model; it prevents virtually any kind of protocol-level attack. As a result, Tailscale is especially good at protecting legacy, non-web based services that are no longer maintained or receiving updates."

Source: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works#bonus-acls-an...
>SEEKER $19/ month

>DISCIPLE $49/ month

>SHEPHERD $99/ month

I can only respect the hubris of a grift this shameless. Bravo. slow clap.
Given that wgpu is based on WebGPU, it is kind of limited by a graphics API designed for the Web sandbox and managed languages.
>I read [The Financial Times] mostly for their drum and bass coverage.

Brilliant. I love this on 174 different levels.
In case anybody is wondering about whether the 512bit number is big or small it depends on whether it is symmetric or asymmetric encryption technique. Always presume asymmetric encryption is 8x weaker than symmetric encryption.

DKIM is asymmetric. So a 512bit DKIM equivalent symmetric hash would be 64bits, which is long broken. Even 160bit SHA1 is considered broken. A DKIM of roughly equivalent strength to a 512bit SHA3 would be at least 4096bits and still does not include SHA3's techniques for mitigating replay attacks.