skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's in China's best interest to go full steam ahead without caring about the neighbours until they become the political super power in the world

This worked, because in the post-Cold War high realpolitik took a break. Unfortunately, now, it will do the same thing every other rising power trying to steamroll its way to superpower status does: inspire balancing alliances.

Sort of like how Xi being impatient with Hong Kong not only pushed Taiwan away, it also nudged various nations around the South China Sea together and towards the U.S.

To the extent the history of great powers has been written, it's that superpower status cannot be claimed. Simply relinquished. An emerging power trying to steamroll to the top tends to preserve the status quo more than bring about its demise; unfortunately, while waiting for America to next stumble is something an immortal China can wait for, it's not something a mortal dictator can afford. Hence, America's luck. (And again, not forecasting downfall. Just not inevitable rise.)
Probably the person who came up with the idea remains the most invested in it, and they should to watch for number 5 “the right moment” to bring it up again.
This is about NotepadJS not Notepad
This one will not display an invitation that was in an email you forgot to even open.
>I'm not trying to say we need artificial scarcity, university should be a market like any other product or service.

Whats a truly competitive market place where all competitors, broadly speaking, are playing on the same playing field and the best business wins?

There's been nothing but waves of consolidation across nearly all industries for the last 40 years. Competition is scarce, it seems.
I don't really get that impression. To the contrary: How dangerous blue light is supposed to be is commonly repeated, with many products for filtering it out, like glasses, and software in all devices that does the red shifting. Android has it by default, Linux does, macOS - is Windows missing? Or is there something in the implementation of those measures that you object to?

But note that the wikipedia article you link states clearly that the eye strain attributed to blue light has no scientific evidence. That's also what I found out last time I looked into it - all those very strong statements about how dangerous blue light emission is supposed to be has no equivalent scientific studies that prove them. I think there was also a prominent article about that here on HN.

I think the effect might be completely made up, as it is something that is easy to believe and to subjectively feel that it works, by a placebo effect basically.
I think there's a narrow window, at least in some programming languages, when environment variables can be set at the start of a process. But since it's global shared state, it needs to be write (0,1) and read many. No libraries should set them. No frameworks should set them, only application authors and it should be dead obvious to the entire team what the last responsible moment is to write an environment variable.

I am fairly certain that somewhere inside the polyhedron that satisfies those constraints, is a large subset that could be statically analyzed and proven sound. But I'm less certain if Rust could express it cleanly.
So I’d take my expensive, heavy PS5, unplug it, and carry it to a download kiosk? And then wait 2-3 hours for a patch because it might be server-side throttled? And I’d also need a display of sorts to monitor progress.

I don’t think the idea is going to sell in this day and age.

For a laptop I could just occupy a coffee shop WiFi, and get coffee.
And then there's my parents, who live in a rural area and have a tiny fiber ISP charging $70/mo for 50mbps. That's not missing a zero...
It started in 2010. How much longer should we wait for your prediction to come true?
this is so stupid and impractical and I love it so hard
Their thinking is .. one hand if we ack the problem we risk losing millions in share value. If we deny, a bunch of nerds will whine a bit more.

Without a proof of compromise, sadly it's difficult to force. With a proof of compromise, you're going to jail.
[A search](https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/search/?q=twitter+ban&t=day) confirms there are many more.
using surplus cinema lighting equipment is genius.
Immigration from where? China might allow in a few immigrants from neighboring countries with bad economies but the notion that they would take millions of poor people from South Asia, Middle East, Africa, and Central/South America is just ludicrous. The level of xenophobia and racism in China makes that a non-starter regardless of the consequences. And the scale of their demographic time bomb that will explode in 15-20 years is enormous.
On another note, I'm living in Switzerland and have 10Gbit/s symmetric up and download. For CHF 50/month ($55/month).
I was told by the pundits on here that it would be shutting down. Is there a new estimate?
Anthropic Chief Says AI Could Surpass 'Almost All Humans ' Shortly After 2027
Oral History of Bertrand Serlet [pdf]
But literally everything you describe is worse outside of the browser.

My browser does a better job of retaining state than most of my apps. My desktop apps have clunkier auto-update than my browser. My browser apps auto-save to the cloud, my desktop ones often don't auto-save at all.
That was a recent change in bankruptcy law. You could literally just revert it. It should reintroduce some caution into some of these institutions of "higher education."

I'd rather fix the law then try to decide who to hand out tax surpluses to.
NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
> what method would you propose judges use to impose restrictions

Judges are appointed (or voted in) by the very people you think they "impose restriction" on. Any ruling against the ruling class in our favor is nothing more than a happy accident.
Gut feeling: adds so much more complexity in the core language without a strong enough value prop.
For what it’s worth it’s not even remotely a factor of price/bandwidth. The capex of laying the fiber and doing the last-mile construction is huge and highly variable depending on existing fiber, construction costs, regulatory requirements, etc. What bandwidth they can provide is also due to these requirements, and if they’re profitable as well.

Once they actually get the service in place the final price-per-gbps is more a factor of physics than of corporate greed.
Holy. That's an achievement very few people can claim. Wonder if HN has a "hall of fame", a worthy entry.

You did the smart thing there with the SoM (for the uninitiated: power sequencing to individual parts of an SoC and its external components is an epic hassle to get right and that's assuming you actually have proper documentation - without it it's an utter pain), but how in hell did you get the high frequency stuff working out on what was likely your first or second try? This is IMHO where your work really shines.

USB-C, DisplayPort (at 4K to boot) and PCIe at modern speeds are all but black magic to most, this isn't digital any more, this is good old analog circuitry and physics at work that most people don't even learn in university any more.
Large capital is not controlling the housing supply, though. That's entirely done at the local level by the petit bourgeois, which are the NIMBYs. You can read their investment filings which openly state this, even. Or go to any local government meeting.
Show HN: I built an AI e-learning app where you can learn anything – code here
Simple template to build on. Code is attached, and here's a video demo: https://www.tella.tv/video/cm68cr61u001a09l47iscfh2d/view
> Their clear goal is to build superintelligence

One time I bought a can of what I clearly thought was human food. Turns out it was just well dressed cat food.

> to unlimited energy, curing disease, farming innovations to feed billions,

Aw they missed their favorite hobby horse. "The children." Then again you might have to ask why even bother educating children if there is going to be "superintelligent" computers.

Anyways.. all this stuff will then be free.. right? Is someone going to "own" the superintelligent computer? That's an interesting proposition that gets entirely left out of our futurism fatansy.
When the owner of a previously public-ish, sometimes-useful platform makes it preferentially their own platform, and they've indicated they think acting like Hitler (or his sycophants) is okay, will you continue to use that software and social network?

Twitter seems an MMORPG, anyway; nonessential, possibly entertaining but with a lot of idling, and ultimately a waste of time. Privatizing public services for profit doesn't feel in line with what I understand to be a healthier path, that of public luxury, private sufficiency.
A search engine that presents answers as news briefs
Huh I was able to get a /60 ipv6 prefix from my ATT fiber just fine, and it has been available since circa 2016.
Heart disease speed run any%
Of course? I've pretty pro-animal foods, but I don't follow.
Eh, not quite. The microbiome is a quickly emerging and remarkably complex system.

The calorie values on food are 'bomb-calorific', which is about as far from what goes in your gut as possible.

'Bio-availabilty' is the term to look up.
It seems like we agree on the many problems with the current system.

I agree that no matter if we go to a more private or socialized system, a whole system of broken regulation needs to be removed, and this will be the main point of resistance from those who benefit from the status quo.
There should be reputation points on bug reports where somebody loses the ability to file after a certain amount of bad behavior like that...
Mainly due to infant mortality. Life expectancy at age 1 in the past was a lot closer to the current day than you’d think.
I got both malfunctions by running the machine successfully once, changing the Beam Type and then running again.
Or you work at a non-software company where the technical folks ultimately report to a non-technical boss, or are outnumbered by nontechnical executives. In which case, there's the real danger of a bunch of 0 getting shoved down your collective throat to the tune of "it's all a priority, get it done."
The owner of said publishing platform has already limited who I can listen to by breaking his site so badly that links there usually don't work.

I have no idea whether this occurred through engineering incompetence or as an attempt to strong-arm people into creating accounts, but it hardly matters; either way, links to x.com are nearly worthless.
Here's why I know that OpenAI is stuck in a hype cycle. For all of 2024, the cry from employees was "PhD level models are coming this year; just imagine what you can do when everyone has PhD level intelligence at their beck and call". And, indeed, PhD level models did arrive...if you consider GPQA to be a benchmark that is particularly meaningful in the real world. Why should I take this year's pronouncements seriously, given this?

OpenAI is what you get when you take Goodhart's Law to the extreme. They are so focused on benchmarks that they are completely blind to the rate of progress that actual matters (hint...it's not model capability in a vacuum).

Yann indeed does believe that AGI will arrive in a decade, but the important thing is that he is honest that this is an uncertain estimate and is based off of extrapolation.
https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk
The largest hotels around, like Caesars Palace, might have 4000 rooms.

So if they had, for example, a 10 Gbps link for the building - that's only 2.5 Mbps per room if everyone wants to use it. Fine when 98% of guests don't want to use it, totally inadequate if all your guests want to use it.

And as I understand things, if someone's offering you a 10 gigabit link for $150 they're relying on you only using it a tiny % of the time. So if you put your 4000 room hotel on a Google Fiber link you'll probably run into the secret download limits after a day or two. And the price for a non-oversold 10-gigabit link seems to be "call our enterprise sales team for pricing"
> The water board says that the island had reverted from a hunting destination to a tidal marsh over 10 years before he bought it. For Sweeney, it was a duck club in disrepair with an abandoned levee that needed patching up. He also claimed that when he bought the property in 2011, no one told him it was protected.

This seems to be the crux of the issue. If what Sweeney is saying is true here it's hard not to be sympathetic to him being caught in a sort of Kafkaesque trap. It seems common sense that you'd be able to repair levees on the island you bought.

The artificial wetlands being built in the Netherlands come to mind too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marker_Wadden
Recently I had to get a panoramic dental x-ray and I was making small talk with the person who was running the machine.

I joked that I'm always cautious about machines like this, even knowing the dosage of radiation is low, simply because of the history of software safety controls and the story of Therac-25. She hadn't heard of it before and I gave her the gist of it, that an issue with the programming made it so it was possible to accidentally dose a patient considerably more than the intended amount (in a few different ways). It was interesting to her but I then had to pause so she could run the machine. I shut up and she did her thing.

Then, after a few minutes of scanning, she sucked her teeth a bit and apologized, saying she needed to run it once more. No worries, let's get it done! She starts it again and as I'm getting scanned she explains that "for whatever reason I was getting an error so I just had to restart it, this happens sometimes and I'm not really sure why." I give a little half-nervous chuckle and then the scan completes. Once I pull my head out of the machine, I finally get to finish my lovely Therac-25 story wherein I explain that one of the issues was... a combination of non-descriptive error codes, insufficient failsafes, and operator error resulting in patient casualties as the procedure was restarted one or more times.

We shared a little laugh and discussed other things, cost of living primarily. I'm still alive so I'm at least 63% sure I didn't get megadosed or anything but its been a funny conversation to revisit now and then.
Fuzzy APIs: A New Pattern in AI Engineering
I hate that this is true.

There's always some third party thing I'm trying to figure out why it's telling me 'no' and not providing useful error messages and it's because they can't tell me without also telling the mischief-makers.
Re: climate change, what can the US and other actors do for "support" when China's still at Yes Minister step 1? China's the biggest emitter and doesn't care. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...
eBay Sellers Are Hawking Used Phones with TikTok Preinstalled for 1000s Of $
I also switched to Nothing(tm). Being slightly out of the loop with friends and current events is jarring at first, but also markedly less stressful. Over time, the jarring part went away. I have to make more of an effort to keep up with friends, but this means I have been having actual conversations with people and making plans to do stuff again, whereas before I felt I had nothing to talk about and already knew what everyone was up to because I was effectively just monitoring them.
There was a spur from them starting up at all. I don't want to diminish that too badly. But since then, increasing their coverage area from a fraction of a percent up to 1% of the US population, I don't think that has spurred very much.
Holy cow, I've been playing for 20 minutes without realising. This is amazing!
I, too, experienced dry eyes and found it challenging to consciously blink regularly. A few years ago, someone gifted me one of these "3-D puzzles" (similar to this: https://www.amazon.ca/Bookend-Miniature-Bookshelf-Birthday-B...). I kept it on my desk and it helped me somewhat regulate my constant focus on the screen by prompting me to glance at it occasionally. That's just something that worked for me.
AFAIK Xfinity (Comcast) is not deploying FTTP anywhere. It's a cable network on DOCSIS. The fiber usually stops at the CMTS which is far away from the home; one CMTS serves multiple neighborhoods if not the entire town.
Weird — it seems that "doomscrolling" is used here just to describe regular social media addiction.

For me, "doom" scrolling is what you do when there's actual doom. When there's a terror attack and you don't know if you your close ones are safe, when there's a coup, when another war in one of your countries starts. You're horrified as hell, but you can't actually do anything useful, so you are glued to the "scroll": news, hearsay, and all the images and videos that you really should not be looking at for the sake of your own mental health.
I don't like it, but how would you prevent everyone from getting expensive schooling and then immediately declaring bankruptcy?

Just better redistribution and georgism/UBI type stuff but also keeping the need based stuff (medicaid, social security disability etc.) I think would be more fair and not punish people who paid off their debt or worked a job during school. Expanding free public education to K-16 and maybe ?more heavily taxing elite universities that get most of their value from the prestige of their own high ranking students who then have to pay more for it and other things like prestigious journals and even startup funds like YC, top law firms, etc. that work largely as prestige money redirectors where the value comes from those capturing the prestige but is redirected almost entireoy to just whoever kicked off the prestige flywheel early..
Is it possible to distribute this extension outside the Chrome Web Store? I am met with a sign-in wall.
I don't feel the rectangle/square example is valid, given that both alternatives follow different designs - there's no Shape base class in the inheritance example. Moreover, I don't think that switching from a base (abstract) class to an interface is enough on itself to call it composition.

The two issues the article mentions have imho less to do with the LSP itself, and more with the limitations that different programming languages have when it comes to define contracts through interfaces (not the same thing), like the lack of exception specs or non-nullability enforcement.
Well, it isn't. Not ever close. Watch and you'll see why.
NotePad runs on Windows. You need to include Windows.

The argument doesn't really pass the sniff test frankly. Windows is a general purpose operating system much like Chrome is a general purpose web browser.

Infact nowadays to get this sort of NotePad you'll always have Edge installed in your computer, so you don't even have to download Chrome!
Even if OR roll out symmetrical I doubt that many retail ISPs will sell it because that's one of the main selling points for Ethernet/"leased line" circuits for businesses
What you say might be true. But what do you actually know about this committee and their work? Chesterton's Fence is a good rule of thumb here. As an outsider, you might look at this and assume it's a superfluous service. But until you've figured out why it exists, it seems premature to assume it shouldn't exist.
I think you misunderstood me to be talking about just the politicians. Mark is claiming the gov is going to limit new entrants and give an effective monopoly to the large, established entities with political power.

When the US applied arms export restrictions on cryptography mathematics during the cold war, they gave exceptions to companies like IBM.
The video team has a wiki [1] and the NOC a few photos on mastodon [2]. There used to be at least one more detailed report but FFS Google is useless these days.

[1] https://c3voc.de/wiki/hardware

[2] https://chaos.social/@c3noc/media
> It is fairly trivial to create basic HTML files. SSG + MD have removed a lot of the remaining obstacles

These are advanced computer skills IMO

> It doesn't just magically "arise from the structure", as much as I wish it did. The web site is a clear example - the lack of understanding how humans consume info, and what helps/hinders, leads to odd boxes around each paragraph

I appreciate the criticism. It's impossible to please everyone in terms of design, and I think your antipathy towards this particular style agrees with the general premises.

Regarding if disposition arising from structure is desirable or not, I think it's a matter of culture and habit. The time and complexity savings for authoring and publishing afforded by this model, for me, satisfactorily offsets whatever could be said that it misses in the aesthetic or funcional department, which can always be patched and improved. The positive feedback I had from interested users, all of them tech-illiterate, is what gave me the confidence to pursue investing in the research, and also made me realize that my insecurities towards its acceptability, which stemmed from sentiments quite similar to what you put forth as criticism, were mere whims. As far as experience and perceptions can be trusted, I believe serial multimedia has been proved as a viable format.

> And hierarchies alone are insufficient.

Not disputing that. The fact the document model is hierarchical does not mean the document system has to be. In fact it was never planned to be. There are many mechanisms in place affording hypernavigation, down to the design of the in-memory representation. Just haven't been implemented for lack of resources.

> you're getting a very rough first draft, sorry :)

I'd love to hear more. Feel free to ping me anytime if this is a subject you find exciting to discuss!
I hope the incoming administration takes "tomato government assistance" seriously. A lot of my closest tomato friends have fallen on hard times.
> and doesn't produce a very even grind at any setting.

Moving from an oxo pepper grinder to a Peugeot was night and day. The Peugeot is very consistent, and even the “coarse” setting is more uniform than any other grinder I’ve used. I don’t have this issue at all, very much the opposite.
So he tweeted about it? And Altman replied? This is quite different than shutting the project down.
Most American financial service companies don't use DNSSEC; most American companies don't use DNSSEC; most of the tech industry doesn't use DNSSEC. Just to note that not finding a DS on mastercard.com is unsurprising.
That's the problem. I'd be afraid that if I signed up for it they'd just cancel it a year or two later.
That is how Comcast slices their meager upload capacity, but it looks better for them to advertise their bigger bullshit burst bandwidth numbers than advertise a pathetic upgrade of 5Mbps upload, which probably just means they downgrade someone else’s upload.
it's mostly an artifact of shitty ISPs like Xfinity that haven't figured out that in 2025 non-symmetric download and upload is really dumb. I have 300mbps currently because if I dropped to 100, my upload would go from 30 to 5, and it's nice to be able to upload a file at higher than dial up speeds
Amazon during re:Invent somehow manages to set up fast WiFi networks that service literally tens of thousands of attendees.

It's a skill issue from the hotel owners. They can't be bothered to fix their stuff.
I had this until I lost it in a move. Decided to upgrade to a Peugeot. The Peugeot is way better.
I'm good. I forgot to add there would be a nazi salute too!
stupid but not interesting
Well There's Your Problem Podcast (with slides)

Episode 121: Therac-25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EQT1gVsE6I
Pro tip:

x.com → xcancel.com
because the chasm between people aren't perfect and the fourth reich is very tiny
Wow this is super cool but how do you ensure the content is useful and correct?
Did you actually look at the video/transcript? They were specifically talking about the internet service in the rooms being bad, and how it used to be good in specific hotels.