skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other day I counted that 70% or so of the people at Crunch wear airpods, which I think are a menace. If you're sharing a space with people you really want to be able to ask a question like "are you done with that machine?"

It used to be that I expected to yell at old people who couldn't hear, now if I'm trying to warn young people about something dangerous in the environment (elevators in my building, traffic on the street) I have to yell or gesture like Brain from Inspector Gadget to get the attention of young people. [2]

I want a Bluetooth jammer, not some crappy barrage jammer, but at the very least something that can figure out the hopping sequence, and better yet something that can target the control plane. (You can jam 4G cellular networks with 2% of the power you'd need otherwise by targeting control signals in frequency-time space)

[1] Stereotypically you find your relatives watching TV with the sound turned up so high it shakes the house

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0_Q4uFAc5Y
Can we agree that the first picture used to illustrate the article (and the original source on the seller's website) is AI generated? Where is the disclaimer?
The rejection of woke ideals goes well beyond the US. The Japanese people also hate elements of woke getting into their culture and they don't even speak English.
it really was one of the rare games that had my whole family playing after dinner. what a fun time.
What do you use for search?
Yeah, as a child I felt the effects of a pure community, as I perceived it, but I was convinced that the world was how it looked on radio and TV. So working in tech I realized how bonkers and hypocritical that could be, and began clinging to forgotten traditions and lost arts of the past as if I could recover them or convince others to go full Luddite.

Rather than following the threads back and forth to see that it's all a journey in space and time, and I had no idea about 1,000km away, much less 80 years ago in my own state!
The time I spent on nostr was toxic and pointless. Discovery sucks. Love the idea, but all you get is anonymous hate speech
I actually think about it a lot:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42540862#42542151
I understand you prefer to be able to browse the code online, and that does seem to be largely the norm with most projects, but from a technical/legal perspective, my understanding is that the only actual requirement is that source code is provided if requested, they don't even have to post it anywhere on the Internet in advance. It could just have been emailed to you or something. But people usually put a link up somewhere just to make it easier.
In my experience it has more to do with quality and affordability. If you like your Toyota Camry, you're probably going to get another Camry. Subarus are slightly different in that they have cornered a niche (snowy mountain driving) that many owners swear by.
I assume it would be somewhat of a judgement call. I mean that is the case with nonfree packages as well - licenses and whatnot have to be evaluated. I assume that there are no cases of non-trivially large software packages in the wild that have been formally proven to be reproducible, but I could be wrong.
You're welcome to care about as many things as you desire, at the same time, friend. It's a question of perspective and relative importance. The reply didn't comment about A and B and C, only A - implying A was the most important thing to consider and discuss.
Citation needed. In 2024 Tesla reported average margins of about 20%, excluding all that. I get it, you don't like Musk, but let's not get carried away here.
His prosecution was blatantly motivated (the CEO who replaced him has far bigger embezzleme^H^Hfinancial irregularities that no-one cares to charge him for). I doubt people would have been so eager to help him escape if he had actually broken the law rather than being charged for running a big company while foreign.
> I have occasionally wondered if, in some kind of time-travel scenario, I could convince the local royalty that subsidizing healthcare for the masses would ultimately benefit them years down they line when they need an experienced doctor who knows how to do some kind of surgery.

Your intuition that subsidies can increase outcomes for even the super wealthy is correct, but it should be noted that this already happens today.

Subsidies for healthcare, including for highly specialized and technical procedures that are expensive, yield:

- Increased Access to Cutting-Edge Treatments

- More Skilled & Experienced Surgeons

- Lower Costs Through Economies of Scale

- Encouragement of Medical Research & Innovation

For instance, for heart surgery in particular, in the US, there is Government Subsidies and Assistance (Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, VA, and ACA) as well as Private and Non-Profit Aid (HealthWell and PAN Foundation, American Heart Association & Mended Hearts, Hospital Financial Assistance).

Then there are major healthcare foundations funded by billionaires, focusing on medical research, global health, and disease prevention. Some of the more notable and impactful ones are:

- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

- Howard Hughes Medical Institute

- Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

- Helmsley Charitable Trust

- Open Society Foundations

- Bloomberg Philanthropies

- The Wellcome Trust
> Despite what Sam Altman (a high-school graduate) might want to be true

> I linked a Yudkowsky paper above examining how empirically feasible it might be

...
(author here) some people in this thread and elsewhere asked me about whether an LLM could decode this, and the answer seems to be: not likely by itself, but it often can if it has access to a Python interpreter!

Here's a demo of Gemini Flash 2 solving one in 7s: https://bsky.app/profile/paulbutler.org/post/3lhzhroogws2g
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There are two well-known documentaries about the Goshn captivity and escape from Japan.

The first is from Netflix:

https://www.netflix.com/title/81227167

The second is from Apple:

https://tv.apple.com/us/show/wanted-the-escape-of-carlos-gho...

Carlos Goshn participated in the Apple documentary.

IMDB is also showing this one:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt15048602/
It’s not even the content of the article. We can’t read the article because the page keeps jumping back to the top. In no world is this defensible.
You can means-test a parking permit. It's dumb, but some cities do.
I think you're missing the point. People are saying that government should make sure AI is not weaponized against the people of the world. But lets face it, US and UK governments will likely be the first to weaponized against the people.

As DeepSeek is shown us progress is hard to hinder unless you go to war and kill the people....
I had the same instinct as you, but this comment changed my mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030614
> unless you're dumb enough to ask questions about whom your selling to and have active knowledge you're assisting someone in breaking some law, selling to the black market is perfectly legal

This goes directly to the concept of “willful blindness”

https://www.mad.uscourts.gov/resources/pattern2003/html/patt...
The title is semantically questionable:

- US?
- AI has power to erase?

I did not create AI & believe even autonomous AI systems are for time under human moral responsibility.

The effect of AI socially obviously is that there will be no public forums, so we get back to middle ages, except the peasant is smarter & more obedient, which is a good mix for mental health issues.

Regardless, when one needs more data:
1) Pick small nation with slow democracy & bureaucracy
2) Do massive AI horde campaign targeting politicians & keeping them busy
3) Simultaneously ship SpaceX connected drones in crates & humanoid robots.
4) Now the people cannot sleep in peace & you start gathering behavioral surplus very effectively.
5) Sell behavioral data & reinvest in sociological ruin of the government before they close OODA.

The interesting step is what happens when standard baseline human has eventually no more surplus to give. I would guess models develop far enough that you can nudge the non-wallnut humans who don't care about privacy or anything to vote for candidates that then pass laws to outroot more eccentric people by cutting the rights to any sort of privacy.

I personally believe in the instrumentalist view of philosophy of science & endorse the "instrumentarian power" term Zuboff coined for this. It's the very significant difference, Zuboff probably said it also but I cannot recall as I read the work young, that would you rather have no free will and no one else's interest dominates completely over yours or would you rather have no free will and some other human have chosen what matters?

As endgame, such state makes lots of AI alignment literature paradigmatically obsolete.
Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust)
Regulating is very hard at the software level but not hard at the hardware level. The US and allies control all major chip manufacturing. Open AI and others have done work showing that regulating compute should be significantly easier to do than other regulations we've done such as nuclear https://www.cser.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Computing-Power-a...
> How did you keep the change from feeling overwhelming?

They’re really taking the piss. They changed the red imperceptibly and added a gradient that makes it look like a pamphlet that got discoloured from being in the sun too long.

Had I been on part of this change, I’d have been embarrassed of lending my name to this post and would have vehemently asked to be excluded. The fact they published it shows a lack of self-awareness and only makes graphic designers look like professional bullshitters. Add some random circles while you’re at it, go full Pepsi/Yahoo.
It’s remarkable how carefully the page is worded to not incorporate Apple’s desktop and mobile CPU performance changes over time - but they screwed up because they said Linux, which doesn’t exclude Apple Silicon like it used to thanks to Asahi.
Nah, I read that but I'm not convinced. The reply to them from palijer is correct: inaccurate does not mean lower, it just means inaccurate. Fewer samples means less data means more room for weird sampling errors skewing the data. There's nothing inherent in that that suggests we ought to assume an upward skew.

The best we can say is that the sampling skew this month is different than the sampling skew in past Januaries. That could be due to some interesting cause, it could be totally random, and there's zero point in speculating about it until we have more data.
To whomever posted this, this is awesome, and why I come to HN. This article speaks to the relationship between Corona and Silicon Valley. I did a quick search and found more pointers: https://steveblank.com/2010/01/18/the-secret-history-of-sili... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORONA_(satellite). The names mentioned where the satellites were built and controlled from will be familiar to anyone in the valley: Sunnyvale Lockheed-Martin, Stanford Page Mill, and Onizuka Air force base in Sunnyvale.
What playbook is this? Genuine question.
I am not very Agile nor am I certain I want to be. Do not get me wrong, I am not satisfied with how my current employer operates, despite claiming to be Agile, but I do not believe becoming more Agile would eliminate a lot of the issues either.

Much of the article reads like a great idea on paper, but I can see plenty of problems arising during execution. Can some teams make it work? Perhaps, but from what I have read, witnessed, and experienced, Agile is a burnout-machine.
Did we just invoke “Godwin’s Law”?

Did you choose a job where you didn’t have to go to work and cause carbon emissions?

You purposefully chose a job where you decided to drive into work. Did you buy a house close enough to work to walk or ride a bike?

Whet sacrifices have you personally made to reduce your carbon footprint?
On top of that I always felt that this is generally aimed towards hobbyist who may accidently stumble on something to give them additional incentive to finish the job and make an actually summary and repro, rather than hollywood hackers.

Sure the gray market will pay more, but how do you contact criminals and make sure that you actually receive payment?

I know nothing about the market, but I think it's similar to buying drugs - we all know that drugs are everywhere and criminals are making a ton of money out of it, but if you haven't been introduced before how do you actually buy them? Go to a club and start asking random people?

(that last part might be different in US, but in EU we don't have people standing on every corner selling cookies)
> On top of that, once you finally get a feature merged and deployed, it can often happen that there’s a bug causing users to have a poor experience. Since your new feature lives directly in the code, deactivating it requires rolling back the code you merged, building it, waiting for the tests to run, and redeploying the application

Why aren’t you using feature flags to gate new behavior/functionality?
GoL is always so interesting and a lot of cool implementations here I haven't seen before. I made a 3D on a 2D board version a while back in Web XR with A-Frame that turned out pretty neat if anyone wants to check it out --> https://mintycrisp-a-frame-game-of-life.glitch.me/
> there's an open bug ticket noting that it doesn't protect against contraction (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/91674).

Huh. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I didn't really mean the loop thing as much of a problem for the goal of reproducibility (easy enough to just not explicitly request a vector math library).

aarch32 NEON does have an implicit FTZ, and, yeah, such are annoying; though gcc and clang don't use it without -ffast-math (https://godbolt.org/z/3b11dW559)

I do agree that getting consistent results would definitely make sense as the default.
Utilities do have incentive to be cheap as long as there are is the presence of competing offerings and the lack of collusion.

...which is unusual with many utilities, but is also pretty common with wireless carriers in much of the world.
Even kids figure out how to manipulate unicode text. If you want to bypass a swear filter, replace a letter with an alternate representation of the same letter.
It would be nice to be able to see some gameplay without being required to log in first.
Interesting experiment! This feels like it could really expand the potential applications of LLMs. Exciting to see how AI can assist in debugging with live runtime context!
> Increasing the cost of every rung of the ladder, like for example slogging out a shitty commute and parking situation for some time decreases the number of people who make it up the ladder. It's almost like a pseudo welfare cliff.

No, it's the opposite. A city built around everyone having a car makes car ownership a cliff. Normalising not having a car (and a reliable bus service - like the kind you get by turning street parking spaces into bus lanes - helps with that) makes the ladder gentler. If people are late for work because they couldn't find a parking spot just as often as people are late because the bus was late or didn't show, maybe there will be fewer horror stories of people getting fired because their car broke and they couldn't afford to get it fixed.
It was a cousin on my dad's side, they don't live near me and we just don't talk that much directly.
I’m looking to set up an Asterisk server that takes calls over Bluetooth on any paired cell phones inside the house, or falls back to a VoIP line if no phones are at home.

Similarly, I find that it’s hard to catch family on their cell and much easier when I call their home.
If regulators do this, it would have to be municipal carriers, like the one in that city in Tennessee.
Yeah, I've noticed the same things with roads. They are common carriers owned mostly by the government, so they never get upgraded. That freeway near my house is always clogged.

Oh wait ... the reason that freeway is always clogged is they are ripping it up, doubling it's width. And now I think about it, hasn't the NBN recently upgraded their max speeds from 100 Mb/s, to 250Mb/s, and now to 1Gb/s. And isn't the NBN currently ripping out the FttN, replacing it woth FttP, at no cost to the cusytomer? Sounds like a major upgrade to me. And wasn't the reason we got the NBN that Telstra point blank refused to replace the monopoly copper infrastructure with fibre?

If I didn't know better, I'd be think the major policy mistake Australia made in Telecom was the liberals to selling off Telstra. In a competitive market when a new technology came along a telecom is forced to upgrade because their a competitors would use the new technology to steal their customers. That works fabulously for 5G, where there is competition. But when the Libs sold Telstra it was a monopoly. Telstra just refused to upgrade the copper. The Libs thought they could fix that though legislation, but what happened instead is Telstra fought the legalisation tooth and nail and we ended up in the absurd situation of having buildings full of federal court judges and lawyers fighting to get reasonable ULL access. In the end Tesltra did give permission to change the equipment at the ends of the wires. But replacing the wires themselves - never. That was their golden goose. No one was permitted to replace them with a new technology.

Desperate to make the obvious move to fibre, the Libs then offered Telstra, the Optus, then anybody money to build a new fibre network - but they all refused to do so unless the government effectively guaranteed monopoly ownership over the new network.

Sorry, what was your point again? Oh, that's right, public ownership shared natural monopolies like wires, roads, water mains is bad. The thing I missed is why a private rent extracting monopoly beholden to no one except the profit seeking share holders owning those things is better.
"Common carrier" tends to raise prices for minimum service, though. And once the network is built the carrier is just going to keep their monopoly. You bet they're never upgrading to any new piece of technology until they're legally required to.
presumably there are a great and growing number of people who will have no one to clean up there online presence, and depending on how things are set up, and how much money is floating there, possibly earning, then itd hard to say how long things might last.
where things will get tricky is with personal AI, that could in such a case, become imortal if so instructed, or rather, given the scale and general wierdness of things, there must be something like that happening now
so one more trueism is gone, you CAN take it with you when you die
Not related.

The blog post is a mini-rant complaining about how other people are complaining about having to link "all of libc" on BSD when their standard libraries are not based on libc (libc is the interface to the kernel on BSD). He's talking about static linking.

Honestly, I'm not terribly sure I get it, as almost all "other languages" link to libc in some way on most OSes, and don't call native kernel interfaces directly at all. But maybe it's more common than I think. Famously, Go went this route and it caused them no end of consternation with their FFI, and they've gone back in the other direction of linking with libc directly.

In your case, reordering has to do with ASLR (address randomization) in dynamic libraries. OpenBSD takes ASLR a step further and so not only randomizes the libraries themselves, but the archives inside the library and the functions themselves- they call it KARL. That's what it's doing when you see that message.
Apple: Ads are bad, and platforms that allows users targeting needs to die

Also apple: lol, gimme some of that.
That would not change the expectation of having faster hardware with time at the same/lower price.
> China's economy remains on track to surpass that of the United States within just five years, and yet they did sign that agreement.

China has signed on to many international agreements that it has absolutely no interest in following or enforcing.

Intellectual property is the most well known. They’re party to various international patent agreements but good luck trying to get them to enforce anything for you as a foreigner.
I feel like the fall of public schools has nothing to do with Christianity. Public schools have seen increased spending, worse performance, and lots of distractions like wasting school time with political stuff. I hope it all goes away and parents just get vouchers to spend on the best solution for their needs. Competition will lead to better education.
Thunderbird on my PC, K9 on Android. The "search on server" works there quite well.
Probably because they'd be cheaper and easier to see in direct sunlight.
The funny thing is a km^3 scale detector like km3net or icecube has roughly the same mass as all humans combined
quick devil’s advocate on a tangential point. is designer better killing tools necessarily evil? seems like the nature of the world is eat or be eaten and on the empire-scale, conquer or be conquered. that latter point seems to be the historical norm. Even with democracy, reasoning doesnt prevail but force of numbers seems to be the end determiner. Point is, humans arent easy to reason with or negotiate, coercion is the dominant force through out history especially when dealing with groups of different values.

if one groups gives up the arms race of ultimate coercion tools or loses a conflict then they become subservient to the winners terms and norms (japan, germany, even Britain and France plus all the smaller states in between are subservient to the US)
Wacom driver adds support for Windows 11 on ARM
This is really cool, thanks for the writeup. Love how thorough you were, one of my first thoughts was whether you could hook it up to a gamecube and it was already done in the blog post :).

One cool advantage of real cartridge compatibility I hadn't really thought about is that lets you not have to think about memory mappers (I'm mostly familiar with NES's dozens of different mappers, not sure if GB carts work the same way) and other custom cartridge hardware since you're just "emulating" up to the cartridge boundary. I guess this means even crazier hardware like the camera/rumble/sewing machine would "just work" with an original cartridge without any special support right?

I guess that doesn't save too much for this though if it supports loading ROMs. For that do you still end up having to emulate all the different mappers in the FPGA?
> You could issue street parking permits to the residents of the old properties but not of the new ones.

London does this and it works well. New buildings have to be zero parking, there's some grumbling but residents of a new apartment block don't feel so bad when they lose something they never had - they know from the day they move in that they won't have parking, so if that's going to screw them over then they don't move there in the first place. And then you gradually reclaim the parking spaces as the area is developed.
this one is my own implementation in blender geometry nodes. i did it in only 10 nodes and i think it's interesting:

https://x.com/deadfoxygrandpa/status/1819204922271060440

screenshot of it here:
https://i.imgur.com/Iq9XXi4.jpeg
It's not enough. Driving is always the better option for an individual, even in cities with great public transport, so you need a bit of stick as well as the carrot.