skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're interested in experimenting this, but don't want an implant, you can buy magnetic rings (for your fingers). Why do these exist? Magicians.

They can be non-surgically removed prior to MRIs, instead of during.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=magnet+ring
I tried to replicate this and couldn't. I think this might be the straw that breaks the camel's back for me re: Prime Video if it turns out to be true though.
Ongoing incident report: https://status.proton.me/incidents/wt2fwstm0rcg
I really need to write that up in one place - closest I've got is this section from my 2024 review https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/#-agents-...
Images from BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby
Haha. Thank you for confirming. It certainly seemed familiar. Sometimes I worry that what we view as a cautionary tale about wealth (satire) is seen as a goal amongst the elite.
This is the first time in several years of (free tier) ProtonMail use where there's been an outage for this long (currently sitting at ~1 hour).
This image shows how it was in Brazil around 2006:

the general manager of Worldwide Anti-Piracy at Microsoft, Keith Beeman, looking at the copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007 sold on Sao Paulo streets for R$10 (something like 5 USD).

https://web.archive.org/web/20070119230014im_/http://g1.glob...
I did start dabbling in computers in the early 80s, but I think there are far more people doing that now who have no concept of what actually happens and are are often sold pups because things are given deliberately obscure and cool-sounding names. (And people who name it like that are often extremely hostile when you ask questions, see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549723) Of course buyer should beware, but I still think it's not OK to do.
"That's not everyone of course, but that level of CTO with his hand in the bits just seems constantly dangerous."

The biggest danger of a CTO being too deeply involved at a technical level is it does not scale. Knowledge and deep understanding helps you scale, but actually writing production code that has to be maintained puts a burden on scale.

Of course at a startup that might be different, especially in the beginning, but the faster you get someone working for you that is even better than you at the job the faster you will be better at your future job.
butter is one of the most easily substituted things around and most vegans i know don’t care about honey.

definitely more restrictive but i think the dairy/cheese thing is the big one

people also feel that vegans are judging them morally and people are very defensive about their eating habit, hence the dislike
Slashdot was the Hacker News of its day twenty years ago. Imperfect, sure, but a good source of tech news, discourse, and insight. The moderation was community driven and a privilege to participate in. It's also a sad shell of its former self.

But, yeah, lots of people skipping straight to comment too.
ML is a pretty wide category, eg this is one example which would be hard to blame for "slop": https://pweb.cfa.harvard.edu/research/topic/machine-learning
Is this really news? He said they hoped to do it, and now its looking unlikely. Obviously?

Hell, I'll take 200B in cuts. Anything... just taxpayers noticing the waste more is a good thing. Less pork is a good thing.

I can't imagine anyone NOT being OK with trying to limit government waste.
Now I am interested in the result. Care to share some photos?
The people that would fill those jobs go on to do other things. We have been replacing jobs for years now.
I see this as a trade off for moderation. The question for this could be rephrased as "which takes less moderation?" Option 1 is moderating the votes, voting reversals, and bounty reversals... or changing the user name so that it's less visible?

The tools for doing the moderation of personal votes and reversals and whatnot are blunt and clumsy and time consuming.

The tools for doing the "change the account name" is similarly blunt and clumsy, but much less time consuming.

From a mod perspective, it isn't necessarily "what is right or wrong" but rather "what do I have time to do? ... and if I don't have time to do this, what are the outcomes?"

There is a lot of "the tools for doing (diamond) moderation haven't been built out well" combined with "the stance of Stack Exchange Inc (I specify it this way to distinguish between Stack Exchange the community) has been inconsistent on social issues in the past." Running a social network (but not wanting to admit its a social network, and sometimes denying that it is, but having engagement metrics like a social network) with a diminishing paid moderation team combined with taking stances that haven't been run past a lawyer before a proclamation or actions being taken... and then as often as not going back on (or not following through with) those actions or proclamations...

And we've got problems. The actions themselves may not be of Stack Exchange Inc's direction actions this time, but the underlying confusion and lack of communication of clear policies (and lack of enforcement of the clear policies), or the tools to allow for less blunt actions... well... we've got problems.

I don't see this getting better as Stack Exchange Inc has taken very little action to increase the paid moderation team or take responsibility for the content that is published on their sites.
And it’s also transactional. Despite the facts about TikTok, the ability for the executive branch to suspend information based on domain is a precedent more important than TikTok.
Yes. And in the past days email notifications on android had some "off-by-1" error for me: when a new mail came in, the notification had the subject of the previous email. Did anyone else observe this?

(They are not accepting bug reports on their github repo currently.... )
This is missing the point. Shouldn't software generally work well for the people who use it? Or are we really just saying out loud that we build software for our own enrichment and the users are just a means to that end?
eggs could easily have multiple arguments for it, honey i’ve personally never met someone who was vegan who didn’t have honey
Combining graphene and nanodiamonds for better microplasma devices
Crafting the Perfect Bite of Meat
Just goes to show you how incompatible your morals are from others, I suppose.
I agree that the visual style was not for me. I had a much better time with satisfactory, which is quite pretty. It also spares you the threat of factory destruction.
The article did indeed get to where the actual scam is, albeit quite a bit into it.

These fake agencies obviously give no advance, then push you to buy services related to supposed publishing of your book. 5k this, 10k for that, we're almost ready, just another 15k for xyz and we'll totally pay you that 350k for you book!
The article tells you why, even the fastest Android phone has the same performance of a four year old iPhone.

And you can get a phone plan for $15/month

https://www.mintmobile.com/plans/
Interesting, what's the tech behind it?
>- you review the workflow (can be an intuitive list of commands, understandable by non-specialist)

so you define a DSL that the LLM outputs, and that's the real UI

>- you don't need to learn a product's UI, you just formulate your problem using natural language

yes, you do. You have to learn the DSL you just manifested so that you can check it for errors. Once you have the ability to review the LLM's output, you will also have the ability to just write the DSL to get the desired behavior, at which point that will be faster unless it's a significant amount of typing, and even then, you will still need to review the code generated by the LLM, which means you have to learn and understand the DSL. I would much rather learn a GUI than a DSL.

You haven't removed the UI, nor have you made the LLM the UI, in this example. The DSL ("intuitive list of commands.. I guess it'll look like the Robot Framework right? that's what human-readable DSLs tend to look like in practice) is the actual UI.

This is vastly more complicated than having a GUI to perform an action.
From Typewriters to AI: Can Translators Thrive in a Changing World?
That's cool! I'll definitely look in to Databend.

Looks like I could integrate it using BendSQL? How much does BendSQL differ from PostgreSQL and other more widely used dialects? Thinking I might have to fine tune a model specifically for BendSQL to make it work well with Query Fast.
Microsoft's Azure Linux Introduces New AMD Graphics Driver Options
I’m sure that’s a great answer to a question I did not ask.

My question: What is your reasoning on why a CEO, the Chief Executive Officer is just another cog in the wheel?
I'm gonna win the lottery. If i play. /s
uhhhh explain?

is there some extreme amount of suffering that goes into the production of root vegetables because afaik that’s the only distinction between jainism and veganism?
How A Utility Sets the Price of Electricity
Atari Breakout for PDF: https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments@...
You should check out Math Academy.

It schedules everything for you including the review so you just have to keep showing up to do the work.

Even as little as 30 minutes per day done consistently for months will have you make tremendous progress.

And once you master multivariable calculus, fields like probability and machine learning will be unlocked for you.
Why do you think these CEOs do not get that? If you can be replaced by AI and it shows better value/risk I am sure you will be in the job market. As long as AI isn't trusted the cost of a CEO to a company is small compared to scale of the company.
This is the right answer. A large institution like a university is not a monolith. The university will produce antibodies to external participants, like lawyers (or the media). You're most likely to get better outcomes if you can ensure the conflict plays out within the university and its rules, structures, and participants. Your work now is to convince other members of the university to advocate on your behalf. (It should not be difficult. If this is as you describe, reasonable faculty members will be your allies.)

The same goes for publicizing this further. The student newspaper is probably okay, but keep talking to other media in the room as a bargaining chip. Bad press may well force some administrator's hand.

To be sure, a chat with a lawyer may be helpful to get a sense of the universe of possible outcomes pursuing extramural action, but don't let anbyody send any lawyerly letters yet.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645862
If you are only focused on the US market and have a paid app, maybe.

Outside the US, Android is the dominant platform by a wide margin and iOS support is lower priority. And for many services you can't just exclude users anyway, be it for legal reasons or because network effects.
How lightweight are the Real User Monitoring solutions the article suggests? I'd worry it might be somewhat counterproductive to fight software bloat by adding even more fingerprinting and tracking...
I heavily dislike the article. It misses at least two points.

One, the Nazi (or rather, the nationalist coalition) was on the decline, as were the conservatives in power, and were set to loose multiple seats in the next elections. Seizing power, fast, was needed.

Two, Hitler used laws set in by the radical center and the conservatives to take power. Yes, he used violence, but the holes that allowed the takeover were set before, by judges and previous governments.
I agree that the selection for memorization is high, and I've worked with many neuroscientists who cared more about biological "stamp collecting" than understanding systems.

But in my experience neuroscientists have to have a solid level of systems thinking to succeed in the field. There are too many factors, related disciplines (from physics to sociology), and levels of analysis to be closed off.
I guess on the animal model research side, the gap in various metrics between artificially "cleaning" the brains of sleep-deprived mice vs mice that get to sleep would be one way of measuring some of the non-cleaning functions of sleep (e.g. memory consolidation).

In some far hypothetical future human device, I think even if amplifying a "washing" function doesn't replace sleep it could still be helpful ... but outweighing the risks involved in the intervention (attaching a person to a pump?) would be a high bar. But if decades from now you were already going to put in a neuralink v20, perhaps it would seem reasonable.
C requires malloc (and the heap) for anything that lives beyond the scope of the function lifetime. C++ adds smart pointers and copy/move semantics, but default behavior is still like C, and defaults matter.
> The brain truly is a system with terrible service availability. On average, after running for just 16 hours, it must be offlined for 8 hours to run maintenance tasks such as "scrub", "garbage collect", "trim", and "fsck".

There's hope. If the carbon chauvinists can be prevented from messing things up, AI is on track to provide something with a better SLA, which will finally allow us to decommission and junk those troublesome legacy systems without disrupting the business.
I'm driving a car that's nearly as old and am in the same boat. Maintenance seems to be about $1500/year at this point. That seems to be a lot cheaper than a monthly payment on a new vehicle. Vehicle costs have just gotten out of control. I want something that safely gets me from point A to B with decent fuel economy. I don't care about much else. I could go buy a new car today, but I don't see the value. People seem to keep buying things like $100k trucks despite them being way outside of budget.
the way eggs are industrially farmed is generally not like this
This is a fair point, even an optimistic read for Android has their best phones sitting somewhere on the lower end of the iPhone distribution.

I wonder if the relationship between Geekbench score and TTI etc. are linear though. My guess is the areas that slow Android down are crappy phones that are freezing up from lack of RAM lack of headroom in processing power due to system overhead. ie any phone above a certain threshold score is probably fine.

I could be very wrong though!
https://archive.is/vD0Gm
unless youre looking for a phd topic, a lot of this stuff is a matter of: wake me when it happens
I will agree that the free market has really shined here as far as product development is concerned. I have a hard time believing any government effort short of a war-time incentive would have produced anywhere near the same results.

That said, I think we're also going to see exactly where capitalism always fails - the negative externalities. If AI goes off the rails and ends up deliberately or incidentally wiping us off the globe, it's likely to be because of this relatively unregulated space race.
Born into money and making obvious investments that plenty of people with similar opportunity would make isn't particularly impressive.

It's not outright bad like failing to make money from a casino, but it's not particularly good either.
= Value Database

I've added this feature to QuickJS [1] and it works quite well in Sciter as persistent Storage [2] mechanism, used in Sciter.Notes [3] for example.

let storage = Storage.open(filename);
let persistentData = storage.root;
if( !persistentData ) storage.root = persistentData = {... initial storage structure ...};

Everything written to persistentData will be persistent between runs.

= Semi-Dynamic Language

De-facto we already use similar approach quite a while. In form of GPU shaders or WebAssembly. The solution is not in making script JIT friendly (that is against its nature) but with an option to use native/compiled/loadable modules written in languages that were designed to be compileable from the beginning.

My Sciter, as an embeddable engine, is an example of such environment. Native host application exposes native functions/classes to HTML/CSS/JS engine that implements UI layer of the application. UI is dynamic (fluid,styleable,etc.) by nature while application backend (a.k.a. business logic layer) is more static and linear by nature.

[1] https://gitlab.com/c-smile/quickjspp

[2] https://docs.sciter.com/docs/Storage/introduction

[3] https://notes.sciter.com/
It's hard to see how the same article, word for word, would seem like a shoddy smear if it had come out last year: it doesn't explicitly discuss current-day anything.

In fact, a reader who is invested in current-day politics could mine it to support an argument either for or against Trump. And a reader who is of two minds about Trump, could read the article to form their own opinion.

There are many political articles that don't belong on HN but this particular one isn't polemical or ideological enough, imo, to warrant pissing anyone off.
So while HN users talk about the value of PWAs, web performance on the flagship Android phones are about the same as a four year old iPhone.

Isn’t the lesson just the opposite? If you want performance on an Android phone you have to write a native app - especially for low end Android phones
We had like, tech layoffs, 264,220 in 2023 to 150,034 in 2024.

I know a few tech people who are still unemployed after numerous layoffs.

And, I also know of entire departments that are all H1B at multiple fortune 500 companies, so don't tell me they couldn't find 1 US citizen.

So to me, it seems like we have some H1B fraud going on.
Might be a Vimes boots theory case.

Considering iPhones tend to stay usable much longer than the $150 Androids, it may be cheaper in the long run.

Of course, not for the early adopter types who change their phone yearly. But that's their own fault.
So it's possible to port C compiler to PDF. Compiler is already done https://github.com/Mati365/ts-c-compiler. We can run DOS in PDF basically..
Superconducting nanostrip single photon detectors made of aluminum thin-films
As if performance is a consideration for 90% of phone buyers. It is to a point, yes. But any decent phone is well past the point of it not mattering.
The rate of an army's advance through a particular town is 0 until they get there, but if you were to see the front lines moving towards you and put forward this argument as a reason to stay, you would be in for a rude surprise.
I can't find the expression "den parlamentarischen Sumpf" anywhere. The article seems to imply that Hitler used it.

Does anyone have a source of him saying it or writing it?
>To people in the amputee community, the coverage disparity amounts to discrimination.

True. Also most people with this issue probably served in Bush II wars. The Military should pay for these and continue to pay.

For others, we will need an add on to ACA, there is no reason people in an economically advanced country should suffer like this.

But sad to say, this will continue for at least the next 4 years and coverage will probably decrease during this time, especially for the poor.
It's dismissive without substance. The point is discussing if the whale feels grief. A blanket dismissal of all animals feeling anything "just because" is not a critique. If there is some reason science should dismiss everything like this as valueless and not worth even considering then I don't know it yet and a comment talking about that would be constructive.
I actually found the new mechanics on Fulgora and Gleba very enjoyable. Fulgora especially, for whatever reason. I enjoyed spaghetti-ing my way through all the planets by primarily using the resources available on that planet ("starter" rocket full of belts and power poles notwithstanding).

Aquilo is just so barren. The new mechanic it introduces locks down player choice, as opposed to the other planets that are rife with opportunities for exploration and creativity.
Elon Musk's Boring Company is tunneling beneath Las Vegas with little oversight
"I count my remaining years in much shorter spans. I do not look back and say, I should have spent more time working and traveling."

I specifically waited to have children until a bit later because of work/startup travel. Time goes in one direction and there is a giant locomotive at the end waiting to smash into you.
I don't remember, but probably yes.
At the risk of this devolving into a typical online veganism argument: why are eggs bad? Say I keep 3 chickens in a coop in my backyard. They're going to produce unfertilized eggs that will just go to waste
This is now on Kickstarter.

Backed for two 7" units and hoping that they will have a keyboard for that size as an add-on at the end of the project.
He is comparing high end phones though and traditionally Android phones come with more RAM than iPhones.

If a low end hypothetical iPhone SE comes out this year with the iPhone 16 SOC, there will be no iPhone that is as slow as the fastest Android phone.

The iPhone 14 is the slowest iPhone Apple sells and soon won’t be selling that or the SE in the EU at least because they both use Lightning instead of USB.
Im sure some sites could use performance loading as a filter of sorts: if you want to keep a certain economic class out, make the website require a fairly high performant (read: modern and expensive) device.

Irony here too is that the linked site features a weird display of the author’s image and bio that takes up the entire screen and more on iPhone. It took me a couple seconds to realize it wasn’t a focus of the page.
No & 2 be honest working in web should make it easyer 4 u
Show HN: AI Agent that turns Jam bug reports into Playwright Tests
This is an AI agent using Anthropic MCP and the Stagehand MCP server from Browserbase to convert jam.dev bug reports into Playwright automated end-to-end tests.

The website has a video demo, link to the real jam bug it’s solving, and the output Playwright scripts in both Python and JavaScript.

The website itself was built with Lovable which I highly recommend for quick frontend development.
What if there are many cans of beans?

"It's just a few seconds" is the sort of mind-rot the article is targeting... every second matters, even when it seems like it doesn't...
Couldn't this also just syscall mmap directly? I mean malloc itself is a memory allocator it feels a bit strange to use it in an allocator implementation, but perhaps I'm missing something.
I barely looked at Adobe Reader so not sure about that one, it definitely does not work with this PDF though, likely because it's not compliant in several ways. Besides that I wouldn't be surprised if it supports all the required JS APIs and more, just possibly behind some permission prompts.

It might work in Foxit as I believe it supports some scripting. Most of the other native PDF renderers are more static, as far as I know. In either case, I was most interested in the browser-native engines, as I always thought of them as more "static"/limited.

As for documentation on specific features: to be honest, I just looked at the implementations of PDF.js and PDFium. Both only support a subset of the "standard" API, likely for security reasons. But PDF.js for example allows changing a field's background color (colored pixels!), and PDFium allows modifying their position/bounding box (I tried a high res color display by moving a row vertically as if it's a scanline, but things become quite laggy).
I would argue Go is a poorly designed language, though people are free to their opinions. Keeping things like null pointers when other languages got rid of them entirely (or used union type proofs to ensure they could not be referenced). The lack of tuples, pattern matching, enums, return ADT, etc. make it unwieldly to use in practice and verbose in nature. Sure, it is "simple", but that isn't the goal... the goal is to make it "easy" for the users to write correct programs.

The article also highlights explicit errors vs. exceptions. Sure, I would agree, but that isn't the only comparison. The best comparison would be via "return ADTs" ala Rust (and they could have been special cased for a return type as Go's designers did for special generic list/maps) which make it possible to disambiguate errors from valid return values without risk of error.