skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How could this even be enforced if Apple pulls out cloud services of the UK ?

Honest question, how Apple is doing it in China? Maybe the exact same scheme will work for UK.
No True Scotsman fallacy. You're declaring that people aren't true scotsmen (believers in climate change) if they advocate against Tesla because the leader of that company is causing significant geopolitical harm.

If Tesla is harmed, then mindshare/marketshare/investment can simply migrate to other companies.
This user just joined HN, 1 hour ago and has 3 points. This is literally astroturf. No comments. No discussion.

Looking at the merits of this ... idea. Sure sounds dystopian to me. Just look at the Appendix for '1729'.

> "Crazy-but-correct ideas..."

Who says this is correct? The person writing the sentence?

"A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder..."

Whose morals? What national consciousness? A recognized founder? You mean a single monarch? These are all within the first part of that paragraph. Which means they have huge importance.

Here's how I read this:

"We don't like being just CEOs of companies, we want to own our own country too!"

Sure sounds fucked up to me.
Democratizing AI Compute, Part 2: What Is "CUDA"?
Semi-counterpoint: the actually smart, high-achieving young people adapt to the status quo. The ones one rung lower, who the prevailing system cast aside for some deficit or other, begin their own independent revolutions (often at the margin of society, and achieving little).

The rubes who blindly join someone else's revolution are neither the smartest nor the most high-achieving; they're just... useful.
The phones auto-install updates all the time with no user intervention or even notification.
I unironically think maybe you should maybe add some banned words to your own list
> Are AI-written books getting published?

Yes, online bookstores are full of them:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/travel/amazon-guidebooks-...

The issue is there's an asymmetry between buyer/seller for books, because a buyer doesn't know the contents until you buy the book. Reviews can help, but not if the reviews are fake/AI generated. In this case, these books are profitable if only a few people buy them as the marginal cost of creating such a book is close to zero.
From the article, they took steps to avoid using their IP addresses. Individuals doing the same using a VPN are pretty much immune from any legal issues.
Same. I am back to Copilot sadly. I don't know that there are any other good alternatives for autocomplete (good as in: so much better than Copilot that it's worth switching to).

It feels like nobody's working to improve the autocomplete/copilot experience, everyone's focused on the "chat with the code and get AI to make all the changes for you" instead of "I know what I'm doing, just predict what I'm about to type and save me the effort of typing it out".
I mean, "Apple refuses to hand over private data to government at cost of UK business" is a pretty good headline.
They should get a real job
Kinda terrifying that you can get away with shit if you just argue that it's not politically motivated, you did it because you really wanted a yacht.
Let's start supporting parties that have principles.

And stop making excuses for parties that don't (i.e. Labour, Lib Dems and Conservatives).

At the moment, the UK public (and media) considers it a sport to disparage and smear parties like Reform, whose leaders want to shrink the power and over-reach of the state.

We are so concerned with appearing virtuous and internationally generous, we cannot be seen to align with a party that wants to put UK citizens first (border security? deporting dangerous criminals back to their home nation? gasp, how could we be so ghastly!)

This self-defeating attitude needs to change if we want a better future for our children.
Would Aaron have preferred us to download the material and train the AI?
FOSDEM 2025 open source Kite for Wind Power Generation [video]
At least your human right of watching a netflix show is unaffected
So, I bought the Original, the Steel from Kickstarter, the Time Round, and Pebble 2.

The story was about unintrusive technology. An Apple watch is an iPhone on your wrist. It does so much that you forget all the things it does. Problem is:

1. Doing things on the watch sucks. It just does. It is too small and takes too long.

2. The ability to act on things makes it a tool for distraction.

The Pebble watches were simple -

- Watchface display

- Fitness Tracking

- Calendar

- Media Controls

- Notifications

The last one was important, by not being able to act on notifications and by being able to filter the notifications in the app, you could configure it to only buzz you when things actually matter. You can see that notification and then the hint of resistance to reply to it made it easier to stay in the moment.

Other advantages were:

- Battery Life (weeks, not a day)

- Weight & Size (The Pebble Time Round being the smallest smartwatch ever made)

- Tactile controls

- Transflective LCD (Made for incredible outdoor lighting performance)

I would also note that their design team was ungodly good. The Timeline OS's perspective on time and how it interacted with your day was 4D chess brilliant. Liron Damir's ux was some of the most fun ever, sadly the guy got stuck on all kinds of brave products that were good but failed due to biz sabotage. (They worked on the WebOS team at HP, Portal Team at Facebook, etc.)

This is a great read as well: https://medium.com/@ericmigi/why-pebble-failed-d7be937c6232
> despite the deluge of cancellations and heavy (self-)censorship

That was for (some) sexual and racial issues, not violence though.
The singularity stuff was mostly coming out of the lesswrong/miri/etc crowd. Maybe they've moved on, or maybe they've lost influence.

The AI safety stuff seemed like half an extension of that, and half early movers (eg openai) calling for regulators to hand them a moat. Between things like deepseek on the one hand and laws already being passed on the other hand, there's probably less use in spending energy agitating for moats now.
Whatsapp has had end-to-end encryption since 2016. But it only added encryption to cloud backups in 2021. They didn't share any key material with Google, just backed up the messages and media without any encryption to begin with.
The roughest way is to add "display:block; overflow-x:scroll" to the table or an element containing the table. "display:block" wouldn't be needed for a block element like div of course.

For ideal presentation you can very quickly end up in a situation where you need to use media queries and set particular styles for particular situations.

In this case I would also remove the border from the table element (the cells have a border).
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a band selling merch that didn’t also have a tip jar.
We Reduced Manual Regression Tests by 70% Using AI Tools
Vegas was much bigger before Indian casinos and others too off. It used to be Atlantic City and Vegas, and the name lives on even if the reality has changed.
Correct. 70 years ago the Hays Code [0] was still in use.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code
What is the point of this comment? Just a stream of consciousness for a future LLM sweep? Nobody thinks that the actual creator should get nothing. Are you asking for better T shirts? Do you want more direct ways of just giving cash?
I had a similar reaction. I had a lot of reactions, and found the paper interesting.

First, it reminded me of something a stats professor said in grad school: "there are two kinds of mathematicians, those who are good at arithmetic, and those who are not." He was speaking as someone who identified with the latter.

I can't tell if this is something related to this domain of math in particular or something broader. My guess is it's something broader.

I have colleagues (speaking as a professor) who have complained about admitted students who come in with very high grades and test scores, but who can't actually reason independently very well and despair when they are not "told exactly how to respond" on tests and whatnot. You have to be careful because sometimes these complaints hide bad teaching, but I think this is a common sentiment, and I've seen articles written about similar sentiments at other places.

The paper touches on a lot of issues, like applied versus abstract concepts, generalizability of learning, "being a good student" versus actual cognitive ability, learning how to take tests versus learning concepts, the difficulty of measuring cognitive and academic ability, and the fallibility of measuring complex human attributes in general.
AIUI France took sci-fi somewhat more seriously than the anglosphere did from earlier on (maybe due to Verne?); in English-speaking countries it was really seen as pure genre fiction with negligible literary merit until quite recently.
Three Simple Principles of Trade Policy
The paper is full of grammatical mistakes and typos, and full of obvious errors in how they classify statements in their own examples. I don't think it 'confirms' anything. And using a reddit dataset as a way to classify "abusive" language makes zero sense if you're using it to evaluate movies from the 1950s. What counts as abusive language is extremely context sensitive -- to give one example: the word "retarded" used to be seen as a euphemism and not a term of abuse. It'd be highly abusive in the 1980s or 1990s, but in the 1950s, it might be a kind way to refer to someone with a mental handicap.
> Are AI-written books getting published?

actually i think they are. lots of e-book slop

> If they start out-competing humans, is that bad?

Not inherently, but it depends on what you mean by out-competing. Social media outcompeted books and now everyone's addicted and mental illness is more rampant than ever. IMO, a net negative for society. AI books may very well win out through sheer spam but is that good for us?
Stop Worshiping the American Tech Giants
I was thinking this myself.
When significant amounts of real money are sitting on the spin of the wheel and bouncing of the ball,
a bad PRNG like the one discussed in the article would be disastrous.
From an implementation point of view, I'm not sure how this could work unless the new Pebble either has wifi (not out of the question) or there's a mechanism to pair multiple of them to a single phone and clearly mark out which are kid-devices vs primary.

As a parent, I totally get you though. Ultimately kids should learn to pay attention and stay on task without the crutch of a digital nag, but it sure would be useful to be able to send them reminders or even do something like have their devices hooked up to a shared family calendar, so they could get certain periodic reminders automatically ("it's Friday morning, don't forget your toonie for popcorn day at school!")
Agreed.

It was two years ago that the standards were released. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/28/2023-03...

The product development lifecycle for big, well integrated, software-complex infrastructure hardware I would assume is not short. Actual roll out would likely tail that significantly.

By comparison to some of the other actions afoot now, this doesn't feel like the worst. But it sure feels like it's in the same category of absolutely foolhardy, spiteful, and harmful Deconstruction & smashing of the State.
Indeed, the file format is easy to read! It took me a few hours in one sitting to implement a reader.

I have some visualization tools too, but with way less features than the OP's software: https://www.nayuki.io/page/sqlite-database-file-visualizatio...
Return of the California Condor
Context

I struggle to follow the LKML through the web-interface. LORE seems to provide a better view:

1. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a869236a-1d59-4524-a86b-be08a15...

Maintainer of DMA wants to keep the code clean and not mixing languages[1].
And tries to avoid dangerous offers like "we will maintain it for you".[2]

2. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a869236a-1d59-4524-a86b-be08a15...

Somebody references social media posts.

3. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a869236a-1d59-4524-a86b-be08a15...

If shaming on social media does not work, then tell me what does, because I'm out of ideas.

4. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a869236a-1d59-4524-a86b-be08a15...

Torvalds reaction.

My impression, while still struggling to follow the message flow:

I think social media and shaming are harmful and understand the reaction of Torvalds. The position of the DMA maintainer seems also to make sense for me, to keep code maintainable over decades it must remain in a nice and tidy state. That is the hard work.

PS: I want to avoid actual names of persons.
abolish knowledge rentiers
It's super dystopian and it creates bad incentives (the harder the underclass is squeezed the better a product it is for the middle class), but I have to agree that gig work is often a lifeline for poor people.

I consider it similar to access to unsecured credit that way - it's easy to feel like "wow this industry is scamming these people it should be illegal" but people without any other backstop will probably need access to unsecured credit sometime and it's better than losing their house/car/job/pet/family etc..
While this is true, I see no reason why the contents of the rest of the video might be untrue or affected by the sponsor.

It would have been better for the creator to use a different sponsor for the video, or choose to not sponsor this video due to the journalistic value of the content. They have also adressed this in the pinned comment under the video, stating that the sponsor didn't get any editorial say.
What if the model simply substitutes synonyms here and there without changing the spirit of the material? (This might not work for poetry, obviously.) It is not such a simple matter.
why bother infering such intent when the obvious answer - that they simply forgot about it with no ill intentions - is right there?
I feel like there is a part more difficult to be captured in technical definition. ECS designs usually pay more attention to seperate data and logic because systems are constantly updating data (world state) regardless there is an event or not. In the case of k8s the specs create a target world state and kubelet/controller constantly update the current world state (status) so a control system can be created.
"ask whether, in the urban Indian context, the arithmetic skills that are used in market transactions transfer to the more abstract maths skills taught in school."

I have a hard time with this notion of 2 different maths. I wonder if it is specific to the "urban Indian context" as the authors seem to suggest in their literature review -- I didn't pursue their references. Intuitive math that is not associated with memorization sounds like g.
Will Cutting Calories Make You Live Longer? (2018)
Linux kernel is also one of the few that do not use C ABI as entry point for user programs at all.

As for C compiler presence in POSIX, only existence of C-accessible APIs with specific structure are mandated, C compiler is optional just like Fortran runtime and compiler are.
Unless Meta 'fessed up to this (which seems unlikely), the headline here is missing the word "allegedly".
In Anno 2025 how does 3DES get past a reviewer?
I'm immediately reminded of the Slavoj Zizek quote,

"I already am eating from the trashcan all the time. The name of this trashcan is ideology"
The Science Behind Fasting Diets
Ask HN: Would you allow your closed source code to be used for AI training?
Maybe only 10% of your closed source code is sensitive and so you might allow 90% that is not sensitive to be used for AI training?
It’s funny I know two people who did startups, I think I think most fail the way one did, failed to get traction, slowly dissipated and after closing up shop, ended with an offer to joy another company as principal engineer.

As opposed to the other who was largely self funded, had a start of like 8 people who relied on him, kept getting enticed with exits that fell through, that grinded away at his mental health over multiple years until he went full on right wing conspiracy theorist prepper and moved his family to an off grid homestead.
https://archive.ph/JvNbw
When Louis Armstrong conquered Chicago
Microplastics in the bloodstream can induce cerebral thrombosis
Show HN: I made an app for couples to find movies, games, and music by mood
It is not three years to build them. It's not like the initial plan got created in 2022 and then it's time to grab shovels, pull cables, and pour concrete. There is a lot of planning required for states to create corridors and what not. Most of the projects only got approved in the last year or so. Several states only just got their proposals submitted.

Most of the money spent so far was only spent in this last year.
shouldn't there be a lot of political will from the traditional hotels and taxis, and their lawyers? i can see that the answer is "no", but i don't know why

especially with hotels, i would have expected there to be small enough oligopoly to overcome the freerider problem (taxis are more regional, so i don't expect them to be able to fight an (inter)national company very easily)

plus the president owning a hotel chain
It's not that easy... there is inertia, investment, mindshare and messaging. What some fraction of the public will hear, no matter how clear your messaging, is not Fuck Tesla, they will hear, Global Warming isn't that big a deal.

You are literally saying that hurting Musk is more important than the fight against global warming. That sends the wrong message. And you would only be willing to send that message if you don't truly believe that climate change is an existential threat.

Nobody complains about how shitty the landlord is when their apartment is on fire, they just get busy putting out the fire and protecting their family and property.
I don't agree with the jury decision. Daniel Penny was not defending himself or anyone else at the time his victim died. What Luigi Mangione did was wrong too.

It's not political. I am against the death penalty whether committed by a vigilante or the justice system.
Yeah, its those underdeveloped details that actually make it awesome. It just hints a world that is quite different and _maybe_ that has everything to do with the play/book? Its quite uncomfortable indeed. I really like it.
this is super cool! Do you know how they achieve this effect?
I think that works, but I think they'll need to use it to implement an external lock rather than coordinating writes to a single object as those comments suggest. They use an object per page, not an object per database, so they have to synchronize updates to multiple objects instead of just one. But a global writer lock is what SQLite does locally, anyway. It's a good idea.

I see some challenges, though. Can we implement a reader-writer lock using conditional writes? I think we need one so that readers don't have to take the writer lock to ensure they don't read some pages from before an update happening concurrently and some pages from after. If it's just a regular lock, oops--now we only allow a single reader at a time. I wonder if SQLite's file format makes it safe to swap the pages out like this and let the readers see a skewed list of pages and I'm just worrying too much.

A different superpower we could exploit is S3 object versions. If you require a versioned bucket, then readers can keep accessing the old version even in the face of a concurrent update. You just need a mechanism for readers to know what version to use.
Give me that sort of commitment to privacy and translucent colorful cases for future Macs and Tim Apple's got my money for the next five years at least.
You are assuming that they only know how to use an LLM, that doesn't follow from knowing that someone uses an LLM. Chances are they got others skill. A bit like someone who doesn't know how to make a fire and relies on a lighter. He doesn't know how to do it, but knows how to start, knows how to ask for help, knows where to look for help and how to apply the information received
We didn't have any standards before. Standards were made in 2023. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/28/2023-03...

Now products have to be developed that are compliant. That's not going to be fast!

And then chargers have to get installed.

I'm surprised as many are installed as there have been. Nice work teams.
This argument ignores the fact that there were other alternatives to Uber at the time, ones that didn't break the law! Believe it or not, there were multiple ride hailing apps on the iPhone, but none were as great at accumulating capital or breaking the law without recourse.
The double MMAP() magic ring buffer (2012)
Great article! I really love electro-mechanical designs from the birth of electronics up to the 1960s. Using a little hammer to strike two bells is such a simple, cool, and intuitive design. Today it would be replaced with a piezo buzzer or speaker which works, but isn't nearly as interesting.

You don't really see cool little designs like that anymore - it's all almost all digital now. Though I will say YIGs and RF designs are pretty cool in terms of combining mechanical with electrical elements. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I miss when electronics weren't so standardized. Tube amps, flip displays, tube displays, etc.
The right to read and study you have by default. It's getting your hands on a book that has legal caveats attached.
My observation is too weak, the coins keep spinning.

Maybe I am so disconnected from the rest of reality, I count as absolute, non destructive observer?
> a back door that allows UK security officials unencumbered access to encrypted user data worldwide

As far as I can tell, China is asking to keep Chinese data in China and have access to it, but it is not asking to access data of American or European citizen and if it did we would be pissed off.
They can, if people are growing. So many mid level engineers at my company spend their energy on the same year of experience.
I will stop using a service or hardware that could grant peaking rights into my folders to a possible administration like the one currently in the US. On day 1, zero hesitation
Google Play adding permissions we don't use, then failing us for lacking reason
We have 10 learning apps that have been in mobile stores for over 12 years and make 7 figure revenue yearly (we are legit, though not Epic). They are all the same code base and utilize the same permissions etc, just vertical specific assets and content.

Our recent Google Play update submission was failed on a single app because they said we weren't filling out the reasoning for camera / photo permissions (READ_MEDIA_IMAGES, READ_MEDIA_VIDEO). The catch is that we do NOT use those items, nor did we include the request for that permission (and all the other apps passed).

We recompiled, submitted again indicating that we don't use the permission, but were rejected immediately again (likely an automated test).

We force removed a permission that is tangentially related (though not the one indicated), recompiled and resubmitted. Oddly, the permission reappeared AND we subsequently failed again.

The whole situation is bizarre and we haven't been able to speak / email with anyone at Google to resolve it.

Has anyone run into a similar situation? Tips for actually getting to someone that could help get us out of this catch 22 loop?
I've wondered for a long time what the user experience for quantum computing will look like. I had imagined some library with a type for "qbit" and an dsl for making them interact in certain ways and then some kind of async thing where your classical code could run locally while periodically shuttling data to and from wherever the quantum computer is.

This isn't quite that but I guess it's a first step.