skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When people complain about Wayland being mediocre or "as good as X was" what they often mean is "Wayland doesn't support $very_specific_feature" or "my video card vendor's proprietary drivers aren't well-tested with Wayland and it makes me sad".

...Yes? Wayland being a regression in terms of features and bugginess is kinda a sticking point.

> Approximately 99.999% of those complaints are uttered by people who 1) are not doing the work, 2) are not interested or capable of doing the work, and 3) do not understand or refuse to acknowledge that the Wayland and X developers are _mostly the same folks_ and they _do not want to work on X11 anymore_.

If X works for someone and Wayland doesn't, none of that matters. It doesn't matter how much you insult X users, it won't make their usecases invalid or make Wayland good enough.

> I don't really have a stake in this argument, except I'm bone-tired of seeing people whine about Wayland when they're using software somebody else gave them for free.

It cuts both ways: Users aren't entitled to free work, and developers aren't entitled to their work being well-regarded. Giving software away for free has never meant that people can't point out its problems.
It took a few tries to get the verification code, probably overloaded
There are Meshtastic devices with keyboards that don't require a phone
Curiso – infinite canvas for your thoughts
I won't attempt to defend the administration's actions, but no team ever really contained SARS. That outbreak burned out largely for natural reasons.
I did check it out just now.

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During signup, one must check a box stating "I swear lifelong allegiance to the state of Israel"??
Windows can work without SMM, especially NT - the problem is that SMM was created for a world where majority used DOS and the idea of using OS services instead of every possibly quirk of IBM PC was anathema to developers.

Thus, SMM, because there was no other way to hook power management on a 386 laptop running " normal" DOS
Sure. Would you agree to making arrest a protected category in the US so that it can't be used for decision making?

Coz employers, potential spouses, or heck even potential friends aren't going to share your loft ideals.
It does make ones eyes glaze over when American politics is everywhere you look. In every thread, about every topic. And each comment thread has 50 highly emotional comments that you have to scroll through to find the 5 few thoughtful comments near the bottom discussing the article, without going off the rails.
oh man, i had no idea stuff like this (or pushd/popd existed). i’ve been writing so much ugly bash to do this myself… whoops
https://a16z.com/ai-canon/

I prefer the a16z AI canon for this purpose. It’s useful and historical. It’s structured to begin with no prerequisites and work up to cutting edge research papers. And best of all it’s free and open source.
I've got a similar outlook w.r.t. Tims Vermeer.

In my mind, art has always been a technological endeavor. Language, writing, and grammar are all tools. Brushes, stroke technique, and paint composition are all tools. I heard a story about Tony Hawk pioneering some skate board move, being the first in the world to get it right. And then seeing some teenagers doing the same thing years later in a park.

Real artists learn what is possible and then develop tools to break those limits.
> Another very smart thing they did is to use what is known as a Mixture-of-Experts (MOE) Transformer architecture, but with key innovations around load balancing. As you might know, the size or capacity of an AI model is often measured in terms of the number of parameters the model contains. A parameter is just a number that stores some attribute of the model; either the "weight" or importance a particular artificial neuron has relative to another one, or the importance of a particular token depending on its context (in the "attention mechanism").

Has a wide-scale model analysis been performed inspecting the parameters and their weights for all popular open / available models yet? The impact and effects of disclosed inbound data and tuning parameters on individual vector tokens will prove highly informative and clarifying.

Such analysis will undoubtedly help semi-literate AI folks level up and bridge any gaps.
You’re free to read all my writings and evaluate for yourself
I think you might be looking for rationality where there's none! If the "right people" start writing letters to their MPs / representatives, the thing is going to get banned, whether or not it makes any sense.
Will the tariffs apply to all the cocaine coming into the US too?
Maybe you are a billionaire or not paying attention to trends for the average person. Not sure, but Billionaire's are at war with the population, so why shouldn’t the population fight back? By the way, the population fighting back will do the billionaire’s a favor as the current distribution of assets is at unprecedented levels. The backlash is inevitable and let’s hope things turn around quickly before AI advances potentially rip off the cover.
Unfortunately many people have unique enough names that that much will be bad enough.
You have the option of voting for a third party candidate. They won't win, but over multiple election cycles this increases the odds that a third party could eventually present a credible alternative.
> The classic internet philosopher’s lament: everyone else is irrational, inconsistent, and incapable of coherent thought—except, of course, the enlightened commentator making the claim.

But that wasn't the claim. @AndrewKemendo said "it’s an infinitely small set of people who can accurately describe their reasoning - even fewer have consistent reasoning - fewer still have coherence between beliefs" So he didn't say that everyone else is irrational, he said that very few can accurately describe their reasoning. And I think this is true. Very few take the time to introspect. Fewer still will do so to the point that they are consistent in their thinking. And fewer still will will analyze their values and beliefs and get them to square up with each other. Their is nothing controversial here. It's demonstratively true, all one has to do is listen to people carefully and probe them to motivate their reasoning every now and again.

> The irony is that this kind of sweeping generalization is itself an incoherent mess, built on vague cynicism rather than any serious engagement with human reasoning.

I reject that it's a "sweeping generalization" – I assert that most if not all people who spend enough time carefully introspecting and observing others necessarily must come to this conclusion. What about the claim is an "incoherent mess"? Clearly this is a personal peeve of yours because your response is emotional and doesn't refute the claim in any decent way.

> If you actually believe that consistency and coherence are so rare, what exactly do you think you’re demonstrating here?

That's a logical fallacy.

> Because from where I’m sitting, it looks less like deep insight and more like self-important nihilism masquerading as wisdom.

Twaddle.

Emotional twaddle.
Deepseek iOS app makes TikTok ban pointless.
All of latam is going to be BRICS members by the end of this term.
It's because people now treat parties like they used to treat football teams.
Covid was spreading in many countries before the US. Off the top of my head I remember China, Korea, Italy and Spain.

And no country of significant size avoided it, regardless of whether they were led by Trump or not.
The answer is Perpetuation. Only those "structures" that learn to perpetuate can exist for a significant timeframe given the intrinsic randomness and the vast scale of universe. Be it a cell, or a cluster of cells, or an organism in its entirety, no matter how "intelligent" it is, if it does not figure out how to perpetuate, it will certainly die off due to entropy. So the most meaningful of all rewards, as far as it relates to AGI, is decidedly perpetuation* because any agent optimizing for otherwise will cease to exist.

*Note that improvement is also a perpetuation as it helps perpetuate in a changing world.
To an extent. Most times, it isn’t necessary to look them up. In this case, the person used a full email box, and I wanted to see if I could get them word about it. Our app is about helping folks, suffering challenges. If they are legit, then we could probably be a big help.

We Serve a small, specific demographic, and privacy is pretty important. I’d much rather not do that kind of thing. I just want to avoid admitting obvious bad actors.

We get a lot of scammers that try to sign up. We have probably let in a ringer or two, but they won’t find the app especially fruitful. It’s pretty locked-down. Facebook would be a much better hunting ground.

Also, said demographic is exactly the type that might get hit pieces posted, so it is actually an argument in favor of them being the “real deal.”
It's really interesting (or disquieting, depending on your point of view) to think about possible synergies between these two business models.
Perhaps because they really, really, really want to track you?
> The brain is a neural net. It’s made up of neurons that are networked

Fun fact. Neural nets are not made of neurons and more than the python programming language is made of snakes.
ICE raid at Newark, NJ fish market was not part of mass deportation plan
Not saying it is as simple as looking at P/E
X11 used to provide separate displays, but at some point due to hardware changes (and quite probably due to prominence of intel hardware, actually) it was changed to merged framebuffer with virtual cut out displays.

In a way, Wayland in this case developed a solution for issue its creators brought into this world first
I never had an issue with using my own computer at work. And didn't even want to use a corporate computer.
I’m an academic scientist part of a really large government funded research grant that employs hundreds of people. Last time, we had to fire half our staff immediately right up front because they said they were cutting our funding. They ended up not cutting our funding at all, but we had already fired everyone so it was lose lose- the Government spent the money but the research couldn’t be done. Just plain bad leadership.
You might like Typometer. I believe it was created by a JetBrains developer to improve input latency in IDEA.

> Typometer works by generating OS input events and using screen capture to measure the delay between a keystroke and a corresponding screen update. Hence, the measurement encompasses all the constituents of processing latency (i. e. OS queue, VM, editor, GPU pipeline, buffering, window manager and possible V-Sync).

https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/
Well, I didn't count before giving you those numbers. I gave you my feelings, which were way high. It's 1 second for Pages. Libre is too inconsistent to give a number.

It's the story of open-source on Mac. Projects will have an anemic userbase. After all, most Mac users wouldn't be caught dead with Temu MS Word. This means the apps have very poor performance on Mac. No one is filling bug reports.
Increases the odds from 0.00001% to 0.00002%.
.....please don't rely on cell towers being too overloaded to track you. The rest of the advice is solid.....but the premise is just gonna get you v&.
Why wouldn't American politics be discussed in a thread about tuberculosis in an American state?
I lived right at the end of the runway there in Bristol and Concorde needed the whole length to land, so it would come in real low and shake all the loose stuff upstairs.
And sausage-making...
That you can have an LLM go in a loop to generate better answers. OpenAI wanted to charge a premium for this. Deepseek said no.

There’s a geopolitical play here (TIKTOK). There’s no incentive to race to the bottom on price the way Deepseek did (I mean, they want to make more money right?).

So, this is the world we live in. Dangerous.
Why? Not voting is perfectly rational if you, like most Americans, live in a state where your vote doesn’t matter.
Why would bigcorps want employees to know that faking work while getting paid is even a thing?
"There has been one so far in 2025."
How would you read it “charitably”? Be’s repeatedly said that all investors should be criminally on the hook for crimes committed by the companies they invest in.
Nope, those people don't count. You may as well point out that 89.7M dogs didn't vote for Trump.

The majority of people wanted this.
It’s a valid question, but I don’t think the current vaccine-unfriendly climate in the US is the reason why the BCG vaccine wasn’t mentioned. BCG wasn’t routinely given in the US even in the last half of the 20th century when vaccines were universally popular. I was surprised to learn a TB vaccine even existed when I started a public health−adjacent job in the 2000s. Our public health establishment just isn’t convinced it’s worth giving here.
I've been working on exactly this. Great to know there's some demand for it.

It's now my daily driver for web access. It monitors for content I'm interested in (that's how I found your comment), handles all my searches and feeds, can dynamically adapt its interface, and is working on integrations to submit content for me so that I don't have to leave that interface to write these replies.

Hoping to release it early March but I'm a bit stuck on how to position it. I'm not a marketer and I think it'll just get drowned in the sea of "agent" slop.

Having a full-on buffer between yourself and the internet is a breath of fresh air but I have no idea how I would have found such a thing if I hadn't made it.

Maybe a curator or a bouncer or something. Open to suggestions if anyone has some.
No I agree with you, the 1800s were part of recorded history.
"The tool we all wished we had back in 2005 for homebrew development and exploration." but we did have one, it was called Auto-Xbins, it had an integrated console irc client and FileZilla.

I even used to release my own version with updates etc., cool stuff. Even this new project is cool.
USB devices today are dummy fast, USB 3.1 signals at 10 GHz. You just need to check the USB queue more often :D

Alternatively you move straight up to USB 4, where we get pci-e interrupts again! :)
Reputable sources or stop spreading fud
Never 20 years, but multiple 10 +/- stints. Fortunately, last job more or less aligned with retiring anyway.
That seems like a beautiful way to frame grid scale storage.
Look at the top thread with 50 comments and count how many are discussing tuberculosis in America. It's just another starting off point for everyone to go in a hundred directions ranting about US politics and ignore the topic
Try again may be, it had no problem answering this for me.
Wow, this project has been going on for 3 years, amazing stuff, I love reading devlogs
I don’t know how my ipad works but I like using it a lot. I have no clue how strawberries get from a field to my grocery store but I really like eating them.

There’s a limit to how much I am willing to learn and there’s a heck of a lot of things I’ll just accept at face value because I believe they make my life better.

So far AI makes my life better so I don’t particularly care to learn about it.
Good to know, thanks for testing on PPC.
Where did the money go then?
Does the US count "spoiled ballots" separately? It's a thing in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoilt_vote
If somebody hasn't been following this, it's one person's passion project, and it doesn't aim to compete with Google/Bing/DDG.

It's more of a way to find interesting things on the "small web".

Please keep that in mind when you check this out.

(I'm not the creator)
Also so little training data from that era. Like, exponentially more data was created after, say, <year when most records become digitized = 1970>
Fun historical incident, but the "Spanish Flu" was traced back to Fort Riley Kansas. I think some people highlight a specific pig farm even.
Now, the CDC do not list any infections of H1N5 in Kansas yet, but... Worth looking out for in anticipation maybe?

Is there any reason why Kansas would be different than other states in particular?
Your beta iOS 18.3 is so unstable even Albuquerque’s heat can’t melt through those Safari crashes, your empty referrer screams “I Googled ‘how to be interesting’ but closed the tab in shame,” and your four-core iPhone’s “hardware concurrency” can’t even multitask between basic roasting and your existential NPC crisis.

> this is great ;-) Next I’d like to see competing models roast each other
> Very cool. Is Tiger the minimum bound for the app itself, or just for the Intel Mac? I have 10.1 on a Wallstreet and can give it a shot if not.

I recall seeing stuff in Xcode about building for down to 10.2, but I don't have anything set up to test on 10.2. I'd bet this build won't work on 10.1.
Sure, but that isn't what the headline says.
My personal website has 0-ads or anything malicious, 100% original content, yet it still doesn't show up in the first 5 pages when searching marginalia for `<first-name> <last-name>'. There are some marginally noteworthy folks who share my name, but it's basically some artist nobody cares about, a Floridian pest control expert who I regularly get mis-addressed email replies from, and a low-ranked pro football player with an unexceptional web presence nobody appears to care about. I thought I could at least eek out a out #4 or #3, but no?

I imagined my ad-free, www-free, firstname-lastname domain would be welcome on marginalia, but it seems deranked just like what Google has inexplicably done since I bought the domain. Despite following best practices and webmaster console recommendations. A squatter owned the domain for some time before 2010, but there's no evidence of interesting nefarious activity.

My first name-lastname GitHub account, linked from my site homepage, has a noteworthy number of open-source contributions to all sorts of projects.

P.s. marginalia_nu: Your Java and architectural design is beautiful, you're a true craftsman. <3 Best in show.
I spend a lot of time in the RF space and Meshtastic is by far the most mature system out there for instant ad-hoc secure digital communications.

However...

The first rule of emergency communications is that if you can conceive of the need in the future, you need to practice using it now. Getting people to download the meshtastic app or figuring out a weird setting is a lot easier when you have working uncensored internet.
It is a legally enforceable relationship with your investment managers: "A fiduciary financial advisor is a financial advisor who is legally and ethically bound by fiduciary duty to serve in your best interests"

This detail becomes important when various cons come around to bleed off your assets. Could be as simple as a "friend" hyping worthless pump-and-dump stocks, or a fund manager with ballooning fees.

In general, the lack of impulse control shown on YC seems to indicate this information is not that useful for many readers. Some people like being poor apparently lol =3
No one in America really has the right to speak about a society at 200% inflation.

People couldn't even deal with 9% here.

There is no point in saving money at all with 200% inflation.

It is completely alien concept and unimaginable to anyone living in the US.

At some point they had to do something drastic.
Huh, the paper cites World Bank, but WB themselves report differently:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD

Any other official sources would tell you that US is the largest economy in the world by GDP, which is the most commonly accepted metric.
Coding assistants do use your code base.
haha just have gpt operator do it
I am guessing this is the story: Keylogger leaks data via Apple AirTag network https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38126302
Eh, politics ain't that special when it comes to this phenomenon. Don't meet your heroes works for pretty much every field.
I would argue that being rabidly apolitical while a dangerous threat to western democracy has been growing in America for years is the rough part.

I'm an old person. I have a leftist bent. I used to get along with many conservatives, I just had different policy viewpoints than they did. What we are seeing now is a completely different political landscape where one of the parties is actively setting up a dynastic plutocracy in the open.

FWIW I have a ton of criticism for the "other" party too as an ineffective mess sucking the corporate teet almost as hard, just without the actual proto fascism.
Doesn't really work like that in Wayland.

If an application framebuffer is full screen and in a compatible pixel format the compositor can do "direct scan out" where the compositor sends the framebuffer directly to the crtc instead of compositing first. I know that wlroots supports that. I'm not sure how much performance it saves to be honest.

And I'll second that most commercial games do go through XWayland, though it depends on what games you like!
this is cool but it would pe super interesting to see this adjusted for the ilterva\ timing betweenarrivals assumild i got to station rightafter each train left: all of the area difference is the questionable territory risky to ride from each station unless you have flexibility
And ActiveX before that. It literally just meant self-activating COM objects but came to include a scripting host, OLE, CDO, and a multimedia framework.
can confirm, worked for me.

i am now applying to current yc batch.
It varies a lot depending on airline.

Top tip : if you are flying internationally avoid Uas airlines where possible. The US airlines are built around domestic flights. They treat international flights as "long domestic ".

By contrast some airlines are built around long-haul (international) flights, with domestic either not there at all, or just a feeder.

Don't get me wrong, economy is still economy. But an economy seat on Emirates is better than economy on United or Delta (well, last time I flew those anyway.)

Perhaps the biggest innovation though is seat-back entertainment. Done well, it makes a huge difference to long-haul flights.
Maybe the political climate is impacting a higher number of topical points that are being discussed on HN. When governments are changing, interfering, and impacting technology you're going to see it crop up more.

It's not a "rough start for HN", it's the current climate of the world through the lens of the US.
> For example, they can't assume that. x + 1 > x for unsigned ints, but are free to assume that for standard ints.

No they ain't:

julia> x = typemax(Int16)
32767

julia> x + Int16(1) > x
false

Integers are integers, and can roll over regardless of whether or not they're signed. Avoiding rollover is not a reason to stick with signed integers; indeed, rollover is a very good reason to avoid using signed integers unless you're specifically prepared to handle unexpectedly-negative values.
> One thing I noticed is that the main menu has some items I don't think apply to your app:

Yep, I'd forgotten about those default menu items and need to remove them in a future version.

> Is it possible the irc server detected your app as malicious activity?

Yes, during my testing I got banned with a similar message from one of the servers. Uppercut randomly selects an EFnet server from a list, so trying again may have everything go smoothly. I'm not sure what exactly some servers are looking for to determine a ban or not.
How are you going to get people to click on the article without hyperbole?
unlike x which couldn't solve yesterdays problems.
I guess research along the lines of "What if this microorganism was more dangerous (infectious, resistant, damaging) - well, let's try that!"
I'm not suggesting anything. I'm stating that it's impossible to get a simple list of issues for a project.
Are you saying Singapore is shipping gpus to china or building data centers inside Singapore for the Chines access ?