skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pebble watches used a Sharp transflective LCD MiP Memory in Pixel display, meaning that the back surface of the LCD was slightly reflective for daylight reading, with front lighting for night.

Memory in pixel means that each pixel remembers its current state, saving on a lot of power budget because the bus/LCD controller is completely shut down, it essentially only uses power to update the display. Versus a traditional LCD or oled where you need to send it data at x refresh rate continously, meaning the high power draw bus and controller are constantly slurping power.

Even though eink has gotten better I still wouldn't use it for something like this, the refresh rate is still a tad too slow, the controllers are always proprietary weirdness with crazy voltage waveform magic to clear the display properly, resulting in that ugly multiple flashing that most eink/epaper displays do.
by "unknown numbers", I mean "not at my address book", which is pretty small. So this excludes my bank's security department - why would it be there?

And if scammer spoofs my friend's number, I should be able to recognize it's not my friend, or at least understand thar my friend won't need my bank code.

(Sadly modern phones don't make it easy to tell if the label is from your address book or from external syatem. Adding personal prefixes to end of names, like "John (from NY2020 party)" helps a lot with this.)
Feel free to donate to the charity of your choosing then. Forcing citizens to donate to only state approved movements seems coercive.
this is really helpful, thanks. how much are third-party models changing these workflows (LLMs etc)? would you still spend as much time on feature engineering and evaluation? I'm wondering whether any saved time would be refocused on hosting, especially optimizing GPU utilization
> It's just not a constitutionally-defined single-party totalitarian state.

Why is this specific thing worse than a similar way of describing the US system?
I agree that Claude can be very preachy and frustrating. But I disagree that DeepSeek is the most neutral. I think it is actually the least neutral because the censorship is by design and forced by the government. Claude basically has clumsy safety features that are not sophisticated to stay out of the way but without malicious intent, unlike DeepSeek.
Concorde didn’t use afterburner during cruise. There’s a lot of discussion from pilots and engineers in a long thread https://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question-7.h... describing the actual flight profile.
This doesn't say anything about today's flight though?
I posted this on the other thread but they can only pay 25000 now, not the full severance package they are promising.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restruct...
I have Kagi Ultimate and it is nice for this. But a cheaper suggestion would be to use OpenRouter and then use these models via Fireworks or TogetherAI. It also integrates into much more applications. AFAIK Kagi doesn't document a user facing API for the assistant feature.
Time dilation means that the closer you get to the speed of light the less time you experience passing. So even a 12000 year long journey as seen from earth, if moving fast enough, could feel to the travelers like a much shorter amount of time.
What's worse, that inequality is not based in competency or meritocracy but in inheritance, corruption, money printing, and connections.

The poor reading comprehension is the purposeful product of decades of indoctrination, torture, and selective interference to breed out and reduce intelligence.
Uv's support of inline metadata is super handy. What if the person running the scripts doesn't have uv yet though? For fun I wrote a double shebang script that will handle that too:
https://paulw.tokyo/standalone-python-script-with-uv/
That's interesting! I think I've run into it but it has rarely been a problem.
What is "numbers of groups responsible" in context of Cargo? Github orgs?
> gateway API (aka BFF)

A gateway API is an API that gates other APIs. A BFF is a gateway API used for a particular purpose, clearly identified by the name ("backend for frontend").

Thus, they are not the same: one is a wider term, another is a focused implementation of that concept.
I think the change in standards of presidential discourse have affected how we talk to each other; e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nicknames_used_by_Dona....
Trading within a few seconds is not really considered HFT, it's mid-freq nowadays. High frequency is in microseconds end to end nowadays.

High-Flyer says it took directional bets and held positions, which makes at least part of it not HFT.

Also, I doubt that most quant money is in market making nowadays. That was true at some point and that's true of HFT, but I doubt it is of quant trading in general anymore.

Besides, High Flyer certainly isn't a market maker, or they wouldn't be a hedge fund. You can't really be both, hence with Citadel and Citadel Securities (Market Maker) are so strictly divided.
The Reddit thread has supposed screen shots of the email:

https://old.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1icfqi5/voluntary_...
He'll just fire any civil servants that follow through and obey court orders that he disagrees with. And as president he has immunity, while they're going to have to lawyer up to try to sort it all out. So as a civil servant employee at what point do you just put your head down and do what your direct boss says?
Trump threatened to invade and/or take over Denmark, Mexico, Canada and Panama.
The “current sense” is more similar to the Acid Test than Jonestown.

When we say “drinking the Kool Aid” we mean adopting a dumb way of thinking. Not killing yourself, or even harming yourself. Just being stupid.

We wouldn’t say “they drank the kool aid” if someone committed suicide.

More important for present discussion, “The Kool Aid Acid Test” referred to actual Kool Aid, not a generic equivalent.

The Kool Aid marketing team embraced and promoted its countercultural image. Many brands did.

But this left the brand vulnerable when the counterculture became associated with extremism.

Recent parallels to this exist.
Over land, sure, but over the ocean, I don't really see the problem? Just wait until you're clear enough of the coast and then floor it.
It's also a way of incrementally forcing their supporters to humiliate themselves, bending the knee to promote crazy excuses for dumb/evil things.

This strains and breaks the supporter's social relationships with everyone outside the cult, eventually stranding them in a prison of their own making.
My cynical take on this is that he's shaking everything up on "day 1"-ish because that's what the people who funded him want and giving them what they want right after the election hits big and will secure more funding. I wouldn't be surprised if he's expecting all of these changes to be shot down and whatnot but doesn't care because they'll have forgotten all about it soon enough but they will remember this last week or so.
Just a reminder that if, for some reason, we discover technological civilization on that planet, it's very, very bad news for us as a species.

I'm talking about the Fermi Paradox. Basically, given all the stars we can see and that we see planetary systems around virtually every star we look at, then a decent portion of them should have rocky planets in the habitable zone. A portion of those should have the conditions conducive to life. A certain percentage of those will develop technological life.

Each of these steps that reduces the likelihood of technological life is called a "filter" in Fermi Paradox parlance. These vary from small filters to so-called "Great Filters". The idea of a Great Filter is almost no species gets beyond it. All the heavy elements we have access to might be a Great Filter.

As a reminder, anything heavier than helium is made in a star. Normal stars only make elements up to iron. It takes a supernovae or a neutron star merger to make elements heavier than this. So, for Earth to exist as is, there had to be a star relatively close to us that was the right size to basically go supernova. It had to be born, live and die before the Sun formed and that material had to be captured in our proto-planetary disk and ultimately become part of Earth.

We have thus far found absolutely zero evidence of these alien civilizations so the question is why? If we find an equivalent civilization to us on a really close neighbour then by Bayesian reasoning, it means it's significantly more likely that a Great Filter is still ahead of us.
I think the reason it is relevant is because there are a lot of people flocking to the DeepSeek app who don’t know about these things. And discussing this makes it clear that there can be subtle manipulation and propaganda if they rely heavily on this app. TikTok has the same vulnerability since it is also subject to the same power of the CCP, but we saw that millions use it without awareness. There’s a chance to build that awareness now when the censorship is obvious instead of difficult to detect.
I'm not from CCP, but since I don't live in China, Chinese "alignment" is not really a concern for me.

Is chinese-specific censorship a concern for you?
Chinese government being an oppressive regime has nothing to do with the West, it's just the context that comes with news about Chinese companies.
>nasa has been experimenting with aerodynamic shapes that all but eliminate the sonic boom effect.

Yes, they've been trying to do that since the 1960s. I haven't seen any signs that they've been what I would call successful.
20GBs is considered an achievement? why don't all games ship with such size? everybody hates downloading and storing games that have 100+GBs, devs are becoming so lazy it's getting absurd, every game should fit onto 50GB bluray, since we don't have 100TB SSDs in consumer PCs yet
Given your attitude, this comment is probably futile, but here goes nothing.

Your attitude here, to give a somewhat more illustrative automotive example, is akin to shunning many modern safety devices, standards and common sense. Driving on bare tyres is fine pretty most the time when sunny, until the road is wet, upon which you will likely end up in a ditch. Same deal with seatbelts, where you're fine for >99% of the time, until your knees end up sandwiched in the windscreen after an accident. Not to mention ABS, AEB, and a whole slew of other safety advancements.

You can keep driving your '70s wagon with bench seats and no seatbelt, no one will stop you. But when your banking details are sniped or your system is subject to a cryptolocking attack and you have to deal with the subsequent inconvenience/crisis, you know why.

If you're going to adopt "but it hasn't happened to me" attitude, you should drop the "just SHUT THE FUCK UP" attitude in your post and start ignoring those comments instead, since the people telling you to upgrade are plainly, objectively correct.

You don't need to use Windows at all to have a modern and secure computing platform, BTW. Once ads started appearing in Windows, it was clear they abandoned all reason for madness. Any power user using it as their primary OS is just asking for it at this point.
Concorde development was a (UK & France) national project. They would have had easy access to military aircraft. Aircraft like the Lightning might only just have been able to intercept but would easily have observed pre-arranged tests.

I wasn't on the engineering team ;) but apparently they planned 4000 hours of test flights. https://web.archive.org/web/20150316210132/http://aviationwe...

It's almost inconceivable that the test flights would not have been closely recorded, especially the significant ones including trans-sonic and supersonic ops. Despite the best design and air-tunnel work, you'd expect that things would go wrong and you really want to learn as much as possible from any incidents/events.

Unfortunately, all this happened well before the internet age, and so records and images are not so easily found :(
Not obsessively enough to employ some actual moderators though.

I find it interesting that the only understanding of "safety" was to put the players into a sort of digital straitjacket which made the social aspect of the game effectively unusable (and if used as intended would have made it impossible to get to know new people inside the game) - but at the same time, when people figured out how to break the straitjacket, apparently no one cared.

Did the company ever check if the players inventing that "furniture protocol" or sharing codes on message boards were just inventive kids or exactly the kind of harrassers or groomers that the system was supposed to prevent?
It's been really quiet. I was laid off twice in 2024. First in April after 10 years at the same place. There wasn't a lot. Got a new great opportunity, but restructurings happened, I was the last to join and... again laid off.

But now it feels even more quiet than April-May-June. I've been debating cutting down my cover letter into a couple of lines just telling the company why I find the role interesting, and removing the rest.

But it's hard.
The point is they know how to do it and they have the designs. Supercruise is also more about the design of the whole system and not just the engines.
People are downvoting you, but Apple does actually offer this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105120

I think they've gotten away with it because it's a pretty obscure setting and they say a bunch of things like "most users should not enable this, and if you do enable it you should expect things to break".
It took Chrome and Firefox years to achieve complete tab separation, so yes, it does seem too close, unfortunately.
Obviously. What else could Chinese engineers do? The most they can do is to convince the company/party to make the model open source and it seems they've done that.
void* malloc(size_t size);

void free(void *ptr);

You use it a lot more than you think ;)
That legal requirement is also finding its way into private requirements. Bytedance required US based TikTok employees to sign agreements to uphold the same exact things, effectively turning TikTok into a company subject to the policies of the CCP. See details from this lawsuit:

https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/14/tiktok-forced-staff-oaths...
Yes! Where did enthusiasm go in this world? It's easy to be a critic but when blanket pessimism is the default answer its very tiresome reading the comments.
> They proclaim the intention to report on all the relevant news with as little subjective bias as reasonably possible.

I don't think that's ever been the case.

> Opinion and editorial pages are not relevant news with little subjective bias.

Even if it were somehow possible to produce a piece of reporting totally devoid of subjectivity, it wouldn't be interesting and no one would care, because most people aren't subject matter experts in the area of whatever the piece is about.

That's the value provided by expert editorialists, which Krugman was: they frame events in a meaningful way, be it historical, personal, based on experience in whatever field, or with other meaningful comparisons. Yes, such framing is necessarily subjective, but it adds value. Subjectivity doesn't imply corruption.
I was thinking recently how there used to be about a lot of talk about waldos and nanotechnology. I think the idea was to build a Waldo that can assemble a 1/10th scale Waldo, repeat and voila you are soon building nano scale contraptions. It’s a very intriguing idea, seemingly not practical though.
Goodbye, Slopify
It's only job security if you are fixing another person's bug, otherwise management will rightly ask why you introduced the bug.
> before we can get anywhere close to human lifetime achievable travel times.

Humans are an intermediate step. We are not the final shape of earth-origin intelligence.

Why would we continue to fill these bodies when we develop the tech to no longer be so limited? Constrained to the parameters of our gravity well and to short lifespans without backup?

Or maybe we just get replaced outright.

Or, the worst outcome, everything from this planet dies without ever having left.
It has the same vibe as the email Elon sent to twitter employees soon after the buyout.

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/musk-to-begin-layoffs-of...
Not in any way relevant to an example of leveraging Python's new inline metadata PEP via uv.
Any perception that OpenAI are playing catch-up, and moreover by taking ideas, will have a great negative impact.

Anyway, we may be past peak OpenAI at this juncture.
It would appear that more voters think the cost is too high.
Related:

Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42847758
TBH we backed out of it as we didn't need to make the change now.
Played a bit of Toontown when it was released just to see what other games were doing and thought the chat was pretty restrictive for communicating even in game tasks but appropriate for the intended audience of small kids, only wishing there was a larger "vocabulary".
I disagree, I observed censorship at the RLHF level on my local GPU, at 1.5B, 8B (llama) and 7B (qwen). Refuses to talk about Uyghurs and tiananmen 80% of the time
> The real tragedy is that our processors try to win a bit more speed by sacrificing simplicity and therefore increasing the chances of such exploits.

This gets repeated on every thread about speculative execution exploits, but I think people who say this are underestimating how huge the difference would be. I suspect processors without speculative execution would be many times slower, not "a bit".
Unfortunately, you appear to be missing the point. You're focusing on personal corruption, when the main issue is policy corruption. The fundamental corruption of our privately funded political system is that politicians mostly do what their wealthy campaign donors want them to do, and what their wealthy campaign donors want is mainly to rig the system in their favor. This is not "low stakes small ball". It affects everyone. In our system, the voters are mere tools for acquiring power; the power is rarely exercised in their favor. That's why people become disillusioned, and yes, it is "both sides".

If a politician happened to enrich themselves while simultaneously helping the public, then shrug, I can live with that. But the latter part, the most important part, isn't happening.
Roughly, yes. But it may be just one developer such as burntsushi.

For example, by adding the aes-gcm crate to your dependencies you pull whooping 19 dependencies in total, but 13 of those are part of the RustCrypto org and remaining 5 are fairly "foundational" (libc, getrandom, cfg-if, typenum, subtle), meaning that security implications of such "big" dependency tree are not as bad as they seem at first glance.
I'm confused. According to other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859645, <= 70b DeepSeek models are just a fine tuning of Llama or Qwen? So we shouldn't take any thought of these models to actually being DeepSeek.

I think people are confusing the smaller non-DeepSeek original models (Qwen/Llama) with the 700B DeepSeek R1 model being talked about in here and that very few people can run locally.
Discovery Coding
A lot of our society depends on good-faith participation and restraint when wielding power.
That’s awesome - I worked at the pebble office a bit at one time helping with some launches. :). Good luck Eric!
Really curious as to your gotchas.

One thing that hit me in Pipenv, but worked well in Poetry, is when a given dep has different wheels for different platforms.

The pipenv lock lockfile would only include the deps for the platform you locked it on.

Poetry adds all platform variants to the lockfile.

And haven't found any documentation around uv's behaviour in this regard.
Openstreetmaps is not based in the USA. I don't think they care in the slightest what EO the American president may sign on this matter.
The vendor requested embargo timelines can get pretty crazy.

Intel requested an embargo for 21 months for SRBDS/Crosstalk.

For Downfall, a more recent one, Intel requested a 12 month embargo to release a microcode update.
I think severed employees are expected to continue to work from home through Sept 31. This doesn't appear to be a complete one-time payout.
> Imagine you just installed a new web browser (or pdf reader, tax software, video game, ...). It should not be able to read and send all the pictures in your camera roll to a third party.

But I use my web browser to upload my photos to the cloud, so it absolutely should.

(I do somewhat agree with the general point, but I find it very funny that your very first example would break my workflow, and I do think that highlights the problem with trying to sandbox general-purpose programs)
Why do you assume the executive has this power? The president has an explicit constitutional duty to faithfully execute the law. The president has no line item veto power. Maybe this Supreme Court will make up this power in the future. But it doesn’t exist at this moment.
I wonder, is there any human endeavor other than space exploration (and maybe an occasional particle accelerator) that works like this? Sure, a big factor in the history of scientific progress is its structural resilience against localized political and economical kerfuffles, but that's more of an accident of how discovery and innovation are done - in small increments, achieved near-simultaneously by independent people or groups around the world (only one gets to take the credit, though). Meanwhile, it seems to me that space exploration needs to be organized into a competition to survive and thrive. To make things weirder, it's not about regular market competition - it's about staying in public consciousness, through continuously one-upping each other by Doing Something Impressive, which ends up attracting funding to all agencies each time (and conversely, when things get slow on the impressive achievements front, funding starts to dry out).

(We had one dry spell after Space Shuttles were retired, and IMHO this one could've been fatal to the entire field. Thank $deity for NASA's funding of commercial launch services, and SpaceX surviving 2008 and taking advantage of it to get the Falcon 9 to work and effectively re-light the public interest again.)

I imagine this is a transitional period; we're past the times of Cold War - times when everyone poured ~infinite money into weapons programs and space exploration got to leech some of it off - and we're not yet seeing the bootstrapping of cislunar economy on the horizon. I wonder if there's a more sustainable way of getting through to the other end, because relying on public interest feels rather risky. And, again, I can't think of any other field that is in this weird position.
"Over land" in this case is just the US. and that was driven more to hamstring the uk/euro Concord. Sell this to rich playboys in the mediterranean or middle east.
Expecting websites to defend themselves against CPU side channel attacks is also absurd!
Apple promotes privacy, sure. I'm not sure whether they promote security. Of course they are not against security, but I don't remember it being a significant theme in their marketing.
Recreating Delicious Library in 2025?