skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple could be subpoenaed to look at the account holder's registered tags still, no?
Map of California roads for cyclers (1895)
If an attacker can somehow make sure that there is an array with 2³⁰ elements, you have worse problems than a binary search crashing.
I’m also a misplacer-of-items. I hot glued an AirTag to the inside of my glasses cases but was frustrated at the poor signal. Turns out most cases are made of thin metal. Switched to a case with a cardboard core and it works great now.
AI is already taking our jobs: programmers are the first
>There is an unstated and unnamed assumption in modern American culture: that you have experienced trauma, and more importantly that trauma is what has constructed your personality

This is not "American culture", it's American leftism. Almost no conservative American thinks like that. And it's dying out by itself because American liberals aren't having enough children and views/values are partially heritable.
Dead, Loud and Snotty: AI and the Coming of Slop Culture
I agree on there not being much difference between 2^30/31/32. But it’s not “nearly any arithmetic.” If your size is an actual data size, then 2^64 is fine.
My impression is the US has pretty consistently tried to dissuade the EU from developing any kind of capable military organisation and to instead do it as part of NATO.

Although I have to assume that with Trump as president for a second time a lot of people in europe are going to have to worry that the US can't be relied on in the way it could in the past so I think you might get your wish.

Where that leaves NATO afterwards, I don't know.
> It’s used for the same reason we write shell scripts

Only worse since it also uses $ for its variables leading to "thing:\n\t env FRED=$$HOME/thing some-command -p $$AWS_PROFILE $(OTHER_THING) -d $$(date +%s)" level of squinting

So for those using it as a task runner from the 60s, without dependency tracking, now it's just laziness over a shell script that has "dependencies" in an imperative and shellcheck-able way
Go ahead and tune to your favorite station on an analog FM radio without using any digits, please.

Do you mind sharing what that station is with the class, or where it is on the dial?
I've tried the "don't care too much or too little" dance, and it's only a temporary fix, at least for me. It's really hard to walk that tightrope.
I don't think the one character solution introduced at the bottom of TFA is convoluted. Could you explain why you think the solution - introduced at the bottom of TFA - is convoluted?
Knots and nmi are not US customary units. 1nmi is 1 arcminute along the Earth's surface -- 1/60 of 1 degree. Knots are simply nmi/hr. Navigation is really just the application of spherical geometry. Not sure why they're referring to yards, I've never heard of those used in a navigational context.

If you want odd American units you should check out surveying. Units vary by geographical region.
The founders weren’t pro universal democracy. They were pro mitigating a coming riot and knew they had to unify disparate interests into a rabble that wouldn’t become a mob. The result is as weak a democracy as you could fashion.

Social medias ultimate result will be a mob. When that reaches a majority, they’ll go after any minorities. It’s their nature.
Why do you believe skin color is the only possible thing “diverse” covers?
And yet, the stakes feel so much higher and the problem more immediate
How does vim support this? I thought you had to use custom scripts/extensions to do it?
Is there anything special to learn about occultations like this or are they just curiosities like alignments?
They're literally scraping Google on the backend and returning the results to the user as if they invented a new search engine. The links are exactly identical to Google's, in the same order.
Ideally you'd have a language model that can predict a good continuation after any byte. If an existing model can't do that because it's too reliant on a specific tokenization, you might nonetheless be able to fine-tune it until it can gracefully handle the unexpected tokenizations that result from splitting at a random byte.
Why does everyone talk about binary search in terms of arrays? Binary search works with any monotonic function. Looking up a value in a sorted array is just a special case of a monotonic function.
Interesting night vision device that creates outlines around objects
Even Predator did not have stuff like this
Eh, 2006 was right on the cusp of the 32-bit/64-bit flip. 32-bit was still pretty common, but my first task at my first job that year was migrating a search app to compile as a 64-bit binary, for servers that had (I believe) 8GB. They were good-sized servers for the time, but not particularly exotic, commodity hardware at a startup.
What you're talking about is generally not considered production-ready. While you can use these tools you will almost certainly run into problems. I know this because as an active PHP developer for over a decade I'm very much paying attention to that field of PHP.

What we see here is a classic case of benchmarks saying one thing when the reality of production code says something else.

Also, I used go as a generic example of compiled languages. But what we see is production-grade Go languages outperforming non-production-ready experimental PHP tooling.

And if we go to look at all of them https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#hw=ph&test=fortune&s...

We'll see that even the experimental PHP solution is 43 and being beat out by compiled languages.
You can confuse the LLM to reveal its system prompt even if you put it behind a service API IMHO, as long as a user has access to the chat and can freely interact with the LLM.
> and without a formal declaration of war congress could step in at any time and declare the whole thing illegal, enabling the military to refuse orders relevant to the invasion.

I’m pretty sure that war requires congressional approval BEFORE an invasion full stop. Congress in recent history has been fairly cavalier about letting the executive launch military action and looking the other way, but it’s not actually supposed to work this way.

> The Cold War is over, the Russian tank hordes that once threatened to roll across Western Europe haven't managed to roll halfway across Ukraine with even reluctant, intermittent, indirect western support

This is a gross mischaracterization of the situation that significantly underplays what actually happened I think. Without what Biden did right before the war saying “it’s going to happen” and mustering broad domestic and international support as well as using sanctions to freeze Russian assets and use them to pay Ukraine for reparations, Ukraine wouldn’t exist today.

We’re talking about $70B of military HW and $23B in terms of economic and humanitarian aid and another ~87B for the Ukrainian government to keep the lights on. That’s from the US alone. The international community has also contributed another $100B.

> We aren't going to see a WWI or WWII rematch unless the AI "revolution" actually turns out to be more than smoke and mirrors for dumb money and enables perfect missile defense or something.

It’s a slower burn. Putin isn’t going to try to take everything at once. It’s the Hitler annexation strategy over a longer time period. A little Georgia here, a little Crimea there, now it’s the entirety of Ukraine. Partly because his country is weaker but also because war is more expensive to prosecute than 100 years ago due to technology and the resistance is much better prepared for such an attempt.

Where do you think Eastern and Western European civilians will flee if any of those countries is drawn into conflict with Russia? Conflict forces desperate immigration which then creates anti-immigration counter responses in domestic populations here in the US.

China is important but what are we going to do there? Do you think we’re going to successfully defend an invasion of Taiwan when it happens? Cause that’s going to be their first military action. And if people are complaining about supporting Ukraine, how do you think they’ll fair regarding Chinese nationalists?

Finally, I’m pretty sure the troops and equipment we need there are also fairly different. If China is delivering huge numbers of land troops to Taiwan in the first place I’d say the battle is very lost. It’s going to be a sea/land siege so if the US gets directly involved it’ll be a meeting of the navies.
> Meanwhile, large chunks of cities have relatively affordable, but not as attractive neighborhoods with homes that could be converted to house the homeless for a fraction of what it would cost to build new housing.

If they are "relatively affordable, but not as attractive" they are probably largely housing people currently, and not available to house the homeless.

If they are "in total blight, with abandoned neighborhoods, with windows blown out", they've probably also been stripped, structurally compromised, and contaminated with hazardous materials, and already sheltering squattors, and would need to be cleared, cleaned up, demolished, and have new housing built, making it a more expensive (excluding whatever differences there are in land costs) effort to use that space for housing than other places which might still require demolition and new construction, but not the clearing effort.

> Just the other day, I heard a news report in my area where they allocated money for homeless at $100,000 per bed in order to add more beds to an existing shelter in the downtown area. Yet this city has neighborhoods with cheap and unoccupied homes that could be bought to house these homeless for much less than 100,000 per bed.

I suspect if you research what the $100,000 covers, much of it is stuff that would still need to be done after buying the units. At least that's been the case most of the times I've seen comparisons like this.
>> but you are at the mercy of who is in charge

Once you realize that that person is an idiot or is against you it kills you psychologically because you realize you are in a dead end.
I think the teacher shortage is the true reason.
I swear some of you read 'C++' in the submission title and immediately assume it's tagging on inscrutable, additional ways of doing things. This is making C++ code _less_ intricate.
Why would those quality traits be specific to females in engineering? Engineering as a whole is a skill fungible regardless of gender so if a gender is hired by big-tech at 3-4x their graduation rates compared to the other gender, then there must be something at play.

Think about it like this, if you'd use the same argument you gave me if the roles were reversed with men being 3-4x overrepresented in a well paying white collar career, everyone would cry sexism and discrimination and action being taken to "fix" that. So why isn't it when the genders are reversed?
Can we turn down the dogmatism please? I think you will find that there are other equally valid perspectives if you look around, and that the world is not so black and white.
A) Totally agree. This is a great, very short book -- I highly recommend for anyone in this industry, regardless of philosophy experience. The author is Byung-Chul Han.

B) This is a great point to call out the author for a bit of a myopic view in the bits about "Burnout isn't well-studied or understood." Beyond the philosophy above, there's pages and pages of empirical articles, conferences, even books on the topic: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=burnout

This just comes across as a fallacy I see quite often in intellectual circles, and have surely been guilty of myself: "The problems in the world are caused because the people in charge are too dumb to see everything as clearly as I do; if I was in charge, it would be easy to decide what to focus our resources on!"
Holy crap is one drop of stupid consuming a lot of mental energy. This is after the drop of stupid that was Terence Howard's "1 x 1 = 2" physics rant fell on everyone's head. Individual drops quickening into rain would drown us all, apparently. Do serious people like Charles Petzold (here) and in other venues address this stupid out of fear that the stupid spreads, or because they just can't stand someone being wrong somewhere like a cognitive itch that must be scratched?
If one troll flooded the zone with 30 of these over a month, mayhem would ensue. Absent knowing the true origin for this diagram, we don't even know if was stupid or malicious.
At my previous employer, moving from .NET Framework 4.6.1 to .NET Core 3.1 resulted in response latency of one of the particularly heavy requests going from ~2s to ~300ms :)

The difference between 4.8 and 8 can easily be tenfold, depending on the workload and bottlenecks (if it's a slow DB query - EF Core might compile it to a more efficient variant in, say, EFC 8, but if it's linear scan - not much can be done).
The article removes all the smart features (not just the annoying ones) and requires pretty serious knowledge of analog electronics. Probably it doesn't fit the bill for the parent comment.
315,000 repositories + 10,000 per day? They were obviously correctly concerned this wouldn't be able to go on forever, hence the pre-emptive email, and of course they got the response saying it was okay, but I really feel like this is the kind of thing that's too dangerous to leave your company sitting on because sooner or later they were going to be told "no". It feels too much like it's found a point of arbitrage in Github's ToS, and indeed ended up causing problems.

I suppose they did respond pretty fast, but if I were them I'd have liked to have had the S3 option in my back pocket earlier. Maybe I'm just being too risk-averse here...
My barber haircut in columbus Ohio was $38 prior to tip yesterday. I selected the lower tip option which was $7.70.
The New $30k Side Hustle: Making Job Referrals for Strangers
Just before New Years, we were headed to The Woodlands from my hometown in Bell County, and passed through Zabcikville. I decided to get a hostess gift for the high school friend we were visiting, so dropped into Green's Sausage House for a dozen kolaches. I figured I'd be out about $30-40, given how expensive everything else had gotten both where I live now and where I grew up.

It was still $16.

The cottage cheese and the peaches and cream are the best two, in my opinion, followed closely by the cream cheese and the apricot.

If you're eating lunch behind the wheel, their sausage and sauerkraut "kolaches" (more like sausage rolls, but made from the same dough as the sweet kolaches) are an excellent option. One is a heavy snack, two are a solid meal.

Discovering that there were kolaches over the border in Czechia after moving to Central Bavaria: happiness!

Discovering that those are more like what Americans would call a danish than a Central Texas kolache: heartbreaking.
With suno.com this would be quick to create
> tune to your favorite station on an analog FM radio ... dial

I mean, when an ad says "Listen to 123.4 FM!", they are literally conveying that information to you digitally; they are telling you the number to tune to.

A fully analog radio has markings to give you a rough guide of where the frequencies are, e.g. 99.0 MHz, 99.1 MHz, 99.2 MHz, etc. When you take the number in your mind and map it onto the markings, you are performing a digital-to-analog conversion (DAC). And because the dial is analog, you can make it fall between any marking you want; there are no steps that you're forced to take.

Meanwhile, a digital tuner would let you tune to 99.1 MHz and 99.3 MHz with nothing in between.
That's the wrong model for the example. Some nasty surprises are derived from real world complexity. Imagine something like a timezone library.

Also:

>you should fix them!

OK, great! See you in 10 years when you've fixed everything and are ready to start implementing stakeholder requirements.
> The Tsunami of Burnout Few See

Who in 2025 does NOT see the "tsunami of burnout"? It seems to me that everybody is talking about it since at least the stabilization (not "end") of the COVID pandemic.

I've only skimmed through the article, so apologies if I missed some important bit of info.
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Right side of assignment cannot be destructured

The video looks awesome, but I couldn’t get the demo to work using an iPad, so I assume mobile isn’t supported fully? I’d use it for my personal dashboard and for organizing llama.cpp chats if I could.
It's like impedance matching.
ACU – Agents for Computer Use
Hey everyone, sharing a curated list of resources about AI agents for Computer Use, including research papers, projects, frameworks, and tools.

It's made by a friend of mine who is working at Microsoft, and I think it's great to learn more about the field :)
https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau
I think you may have reliably heard he is a fascist, which is objectively true, and confused that with unserious people saying this will be the last election.
> It's heavily used by non-programmers not because it's simple but because it's easy, which isn't the same thing

I burned myself with Micropython. Sometimes the syntax was wrong but the worst was that reading an input did not gave the desired result. You had to run it twice.
No, I didn't mean that. Clearly you have a problem with understanding what you read as demonstrated with your earlier post. I also see that you are dropping your claims as soon as you are called on them... either an idiot or troll, not worth the time either way.
My wife is a Wend, and so we visited this area in Texas. One of the things I found interesting was that there was a local paper that printed articles in German, English, and Wendish (Sorbian) – there’s a link in the Wiki article. The church we visited was so beautiful.
I was taking these sort of improvements for granted. They'll certainly make ai cheaper, but most of the cost is up-front for generative models, and the models don't seem to be getting linearly better.
> Knots and nmi are not US customary units.

Uh yeah they are. They are _customarily used_ in the US, so they count. They're literally used on all ships and planes. Any unit that is broadly used in the USA is USC. Further, they are indeed listed under the USC page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units .
A good example of socialism in practice would have been to give the defaulted housing stock to people to stay-in surely? As opposed to underwriting the debt loaned by purely capitalist companies?

I'm not an expert in socialism but governments underwriting a capitalist housing market does not appear close or aligned with socialism at all.

I will say I've never associated the US government with socialism, at any level, so perhaps this bias is part of why I find a difficult argument to envisage.
https://archive.is/Dn2NX
I don't have all the answers. I don't even know your situation. For me, I am still in tech. Like everyone else, my family needs the money. Once in a while I do something that satisfies me personally as well as the company I work for.
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Alternatives? Well, I think anything you can start up on your own where you have the autonomy and can dictate your hours/balance would be your medium term goal. I'm working towards mine, but I think its different for everyone. Contract working, consultant working, small personal business with a reduced hours main stream 9-5.

My assumption is people like us, we care a lot, we are smart, we are capable, and when we get stuck in corporate swamps our inner candle starts to go out. We just need to find ways to spend less time in the swamp.
In a few years from now, they will be everywhere tho. But I understand the points of the article!
I kind of agree with this. On the one hand when DLSS works well, it's amazing. I didn't notice any issues at all playing Senua's Sacrifice and Senua's Saga. They were both as good as playing on everything maxed without DLSS. On the other hand when using it on Jedi Survivor, it's a very janky experience. You can clearly see artifacts and it trying to "self-correct" when using DLSS vs without DLSS.
Even at a higher level what you are observing frequently use caused by politics (which admittedly frequently go hand in hand with incompetence or putting personal gain over company outcomes). Especially technical efforts frequently come under attack by product people who are in turn frequently under pressure my sales staff. Nobody along that line has the full picture and pushes for their issues to be solved which seem most urgent to them. Sometimes this business pressure results in correct decisions which still suck. An example might be interrupting a project or cutting corners to get a feature out to get a contract signed and make payroll. Two years later people wonder why the code is shit but the answer is that the company was struggling to survive and corners were cut left and right. Of course often it's just stupidity. I've seen cases where a PM would ask to get a unvetted pet project staffed ("all I need is two people for a week!!") outside of department planning cycles and later this was used in a write up with new leadership as an example of "engineering refusing to work with product".
AI is the same as any other hype cycle, and creating ML algorithms is boring monotonous work.

Neuromorphic computing on the other hand is very interesting, as it gets into ambiguous state resolution rather than layered weighting.

The idea AI could even replace a chickens cognitive performance in laughable. =3
And diversity was the goal all along, after all.

More seriously though, it should be a policy that the change is atomic; complete or not at all.
AirTags are generally loud enough to solve that problem. I wish they put the same speaker in the ATV remote.
As someone who has been building "agents" for about a year, definitely over-hyped. They work well in extremely narrow use cases where:

1. A human is there to keep it on the rails

2. Tools are domain specific

Most agents being shown are basically LLM calls encoded in a graph structure - which I don't think an agent is. As a part of having "agency", the agent needs to have control over its control flow, sans the start and stop node.

For example, coding agents are great because they operate in a highly predictable environment and can verify their outputs iteratively using a combination of static analysis and tests.

It's like when first self-driving cars came out. The real work is slow, painful, and involves good engineering.
Ask HN: Any good mail scanning services you can reccomend?
I’m about to embark on a somewhat nomadic next several months to a year, can anyone recommend options for me to have my mail sent (bank and credit card statements, insurance, etc)? I thought about having mail sent to friends or family, or renting a PO Box, the problem is I’m not sure how often I’ll be able to check the PO Box, and I’m not sure I want friends and family opening my mail, I’ve been thinking about subscribing to one of these mail scanning services, but was curious I’ve anyone had experience with them? I’m a little concerned about security and privacy, but not sure what my other options are.

Very open to other options or alternatives, appreciate the input!
I personally wouldn't even bother with that yet.

Once it's available in even one browser not behind a flag, sure, but while it's still entirely undocumented and only available to people who both use Chrome Canary and know to go turn on a specific flag?