skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that in general it's going to be hard to square the liberal bedrock ideal of government accountability with networked mob violence, individual superempowerment, the rise of surveillance capitalism and the surveillance state, and autonomous swarming weaponry. When the people winning every armed conflict are those who can protect their anonymity while penetrating the anonymity of their opponents, republicanism itself seems like it has to be politically unstable, much less the consent of the governed.

Briefly, in the firearm age, respecting the popular vote was a Nash equilibrium, because if you lost the vote, you probably wouldn't be able to field enough riflemen to win on the battlefield either, so your best option was to lick your wounds and make do under the opposition party until the next election. Despite the resounding defeats of the US by masses of riflemen in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and of the USSR in Afghanistan in between, that equilibrium seems increasingly unstable in the drone age. The first warning signs of this were the staggeringly unequal death tolls in the US's first Iraq invasion, reminiscent of the Scramble for Africa. Recent examples of this instability might include the US's successful initial invasion of Afghanistan, the US's successful eventual defeat of Daesh in western Iraq (despite the relative hostility of current Iraqi leadership to the US, which counts as a sort of defeat), Israel's utter dismemberment of Hizbullah, Israel successfully stymieing Iran's nuclear weapons program, and Ukraine's surprisingly successful resistance to the invasion by Russia's much larger army. Also Hamas doesn't seem to be doing very well at defending Gaza.

Unfortunately the literature I could recommend to you on this topic has mostly been flagged as wrongthink, so I won't recommend that, but Slaughterbots is probably still safe to watch. It contains the memorable line "nuclear is obsolete", a riff on Putin's remarks at Valdai in Sochi 11 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

It's fiction, of course, but thought-provoking fiction, scripted by leading AI researchers to be as realistic as possible, and it may have more truth in it than we would like.
Yeah but they're sold off. The founder sold out the community. A lot of feeders have stopped but I was wondering where they went :)
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So yesterday was a windchill of -5F or something equally miserable. I spent about 20 minutes out in it and then drove home. When I got into the car, the heat felt perfect on full blast as I shivered and thawed. About 15 minutes into my 30 minute drive, my body temperature caught up and I had to turn the heat down to low as I was getting too warm.

A couple months from now, I'll have the same situation, except it will be 95 F outside after a long, hot work day and I'll jack the AC up to get down to a comfortable body temperature. Once I cool off, the AC on full blast will be way too cold to tolerate.

Thankfully, I've got an 8-year-old base model car that allows me to do all that with physical dials that don't take my attention off the road. I can't imagine what it would take to program an "auto" mode that knows how long it takes for my body to reach a comfortable temperature after being out in the elements. I think I'd lose my mind if my car just blithely set itself to 70 degrees and assumed that would work for me. That may be an option for office workers in milder climates, but they're not the only ones buying cars.
> Because programmers know the right questions to ask

What fundamental limitation in AI makes you believe reasoning agents won't be able to gather requirements, ask clarifying questions, and make decisions in 2 years?
I agree about everything else, but I'm not sure about this:

> The situation wasn't as absurd with EVs, but we definitely could have built a commuter EV at least a decade before we did. Look into the GM EV1 from the 1990s, which pre-dated the Nissan LEAF -- the first mass market EV, which did beat Tesla on that front -- and it had similar range and performance. The EV1 was killed in spite of demand becuase the conventional auto industry hated EVs. Some still do, like Toyota.

Could we have actually built an affordable commuter EV a decade earlier?

Eyeballing this graph, batteries were about 6x more expensive a decade before Tesla actually started delivering the Roadster: https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline

OTOH, perhaps the extra demand would just have made prices fall sooner, given the other graph in the link shows the relationship between market size and price, rather than year of price…
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Hey there HN. Co-Founder at Naptha AI here. Happy to answer any questions either in the comments here or via email at mark@naptha.ai
Maybe Apple should do the same and kill their many half-baked software products.
More generally, you can use encoding formats that reserve uninterpreted byte sequences for future use to pass data that is only readable by receivers who know what you're doing, though note this not a cryptographically secure scheme and any sort of statistical analysis can reveal what you're doing.

The png spec, for instance, allows you to include as many metadata chunks as you wish, and these may be used to hold data that cannot be used by any mainstream png reader. We used this in the Navy to embed geolocation and sensor origin data that was readable by specialized viewers that only the Navy had, but if you opened the file in a browser or common image viewer, it would either ignore or discard the unknown chunks.
Same here. I use SublimeText, or more recently, Zed, for quick-and-dirty stuff.
World would become a better place, and it didn't, so probably not.

And thinking that business is being made by fulfilling needs is very naive. Next big and successful SaaS do not need to do anything new, or anything better for that matter. It is enough that its marketing team would convince people otherwise.
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This looks like a great project and something that could be adapted into what I've been looking for unfruitfully (an OSS/self-hosted and cross platform version of Noteplan 3 for family use). Not expecting too much movement on your part into the crowded task management space but the screenshots and examples gave me the same feeling.

Signed up for early access and looking forward to it!
Hmm if they're not filtering now they will soon. It's an executive jet charter company. What other reason would they have to buy it?
There are still few models of Japanese cars in Japan that can be ordered without infotainment. It'll come with a warning sticker to not poke your fingers. Those are intended for customers not satisfied with selections of stock infotainment upgrades - there are multiple choices of poverty specs to luxury infotainment units for the same model, in the first place.

IMO, one of contributing factors to ongoing touchscreen apocalypse is "off the lot" model of American car purchasing, which penalizes custom configurations, which in turn eases development of customer hostile integrated infotainment.

If manufacturers can't expect cars to retain stock, standard, integrated infotainment for the life of the car, some of the features can't be implemented by the infotainment team, but must be handled by chassis team to be offloaded to a separate computer. It can happen.
Projection is hell of a drug.
My mind went the same place.

Anyone know a more convenient way to search larger blocks of text for this?
Real-Time Batching in Go: A Clean Pattern for High-Frequency Database Updates
We Live Like Royalty and Don't Know It
It sounds like your perception of how a computer works is incredibly flawed. ram doesn't sit unused, the kernel uses it for caching and locality. The more RAM you give the kernel, the more you can have resident in the slab cache, the page cache, the filesystem cache, the network backlog, etc. Even on very large machines with more RAM than an average desktop, the kernel can still make use of almost all of it.

I work on efficiency so when people say things like "it's ok for my IDE to be an inefficient pile of garbage that locks up resources" it makes me wonder what kind of program they are producing.
Cretaceous fossil skull from earliest known modern bird
Only slightly related, but port binding in Docker also binds to 0.0.0.0 by default: `-p 8000:8000`

To be safe, this should be used instead: `-p 127.0.0.1:8000:8000`
Right now they fly for months, but years is possible with the right design.

The can sometimes leak slightly but they make up for it by dispensing small amounts of ballast material.
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Well, you see the devil has a very beaver like discipline. It’s in the details of that intricate Dam building that the nothingness of the Beavers simple life is hidden (simple != moral).

Some Beavers are nazis that build Dams. Infrastructure they call it.

Not all Beavers are nazis. Not all Dams are Nazi Beaver projects. I get you, I really do. But I’m going to pay attention anyway.
I use the PyCharm CoPilot plugin. Works great. Can't comment on how good the CoPilot model is vs say Claude or ChatGPT, but it seems decent for what I use it for (autocomplete, small snippets, stuff that I'd look up in the docs or SO, etc.)
iPhone has this as the “Reachability” feature

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/use-reachability-iph1...
Readwise Reader does PDFs very well (and apparently can do TTS on them, but I've never tried that). https://docs.readwise.io/reader/docs/faqs/text-to-speech
The interesting part here isn't the color - it's the temperature range (-15°C to 65°C) and massive 75" size. This could enable practical solar-powered information displays at bus stops and other public spaces.
OP might be referring to: https://github.com/openai/whisper
> The poster clearly is aware of the drawbacks of such patents, and didn't clearly play any role in filing the patent (they said "we … filed it," not "I filed it").

A person with the same name as that commenter is listed as an inventor on the patent.

> it can't possibly change their past behavior

Obviously, but it can change future behavior. Maybe realizing that they made the world a worse place by filing that patent will prevent them, or a reader of this discussion, from doing it again in future.
Where is the profit for the individual product? There are a lot of services at every BigTech company that would not make sense as an individual product. But they make the overall ecosystem better or make money only because they are a part of the larger company.

That’s part of the stupidity of the DOJ trying to force Google to sell Chrome. Who would want it? And how would they profit from it?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43018251
How to Think About TPUs
Honest question here - do people actually constantly fiddle with climate knobs? I honestly don't understand the whole "knobs are important because I can change without looking", I get it, but are you actually doing this?

I've had a Tesla for many years now, the temp is set to 21C and I don't miss knobs because I don't change this. I prewarm/cool the car from the app so I never enter a hot or cold car, only a 21C car. Occasionally (ie a dozen times a year) I'll change the temp for some odd reason, but rarely while the car is moving. Seat and steering wheel are also set to auto. I just don't think about the temp in my car, but climate knobs seem like a huge sticking point to lots of people?
My experience using Westlaw Keycites at work is that they’re not primarily created by fishing a quote out of a holding, but instead by synthesizing a rule. If I want a summary, I read the Keycite; if I want a money quote, I root around in the case linked to the Keycite.

Have you seen different? I’m curious what area of law you practice and in what state, for comparison’s sake.
They can remap the electrodes to find ones that work. Also the thing seems relatively easy to replace and brain implants go. It's a bit early to say how much use they'll get.
Ignorance is bliss when you're drowning in information
I gave up on cars in the US for few years now... I just bought a hyper electric escooter and use it to travel 60+/- miles per charge... no gas, no insurance, no maintenance (only the rare flats and brake pad changes), and no plate and safety/emission... etc etc.

Buy once, use till the battery dies... rinse and repeat... gear is inconvenient though but can put up with it.
Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat
Or be a black hat. An incredibly common hat.
People don’t want to pay for things.
Yes, this is exactly why I think my comment was fair. Meta itself is where it is because it was first and got initial traction. Now it has an effective level of vendor lock-in. It's the equivalent of saying someone who won at slots on their first round is an expert gambler because they got a multi-million dollar payout, even if they've then subsequently lost every other turn on the machine.
It is likely, but life has very strange ways.
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> Sources requested. I don't even know why you'd claim this.

I think the original quote is most favorably interpreted in comparison to other languages with a runtime that require external C code to know its calling into another language (for example, Python with manual calls to increment/decrement refcounts).

One of the reasons Rust dropped its original runtime was specifically to allow it to "pretend" to be regular C code - if you build it to be consumed as a C library external C code can use it and be none the wiser that it is calling into another language.

There's also other affordances for playing well with C (extern "C", no_mangle, #[repr(C)], etc.)

In that sense, Rust is indeed specifically designed to play well in C codebases as the rest of the C code can basically pretend it's only working with C code.

> Another C project has not had good experiences with all interop attempts, pulling the plug on interop with one Rust library, while keeping support for two other Rust libraries.

I'm not sure that example is particularly relevant. At least at a high level it seems the primary reason the hyper backend was removed was because of a lack of interest rather than some innate issue with Rust interop. If anything, the continued existence of the other two Rust backends would seem to hint that Rust interop is not really that much of an issue.
I'm not familiar with Groq, but it looks like:

https://sdk.vercel.ai/providers/ai-sdk-providers/groq

Some open models support it. It seems in theory that you could use your own cloud AI then right?
A tip:

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It's a problem all languages have, but some are better at sorting it out. The way NPM does it solves one issue, but causes others.

The big issue, IMHO, is that when you're dealing with interpreted languages it's very hard to lock down issues before runtime. With compiled or statically typed languages you tend to know a lot sooner where issues lie.

I've had to update requests to deal with certificate issues (to support more modern ciphers/hashes etc) but I won't know until runtime if it even works.
Algorithm to compare similarity of directed paths through directed graph
you consume more than one whole animal a day? you might want to cut down on that
A nice read. The intensional / extensional duality is echoed in the data / codata duality that is core to how I currently view program design.
There are atomic oxygen issues for VLEO sats, the front of the satellite slowly corrodes away from the impacts. They're longer lived than current balloons but mission lifetimes more than low single digit years aren't really feasible right now.
I work with many tools from JetBrains with the main one being CLion. I think in average their tools are superior to anything else on the market.
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ANE is different architecture and it's not easy to port existing models to it. TPU vs GPU difference.
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> you felt things are seemingly going to shit in relationship yet no reaction, no quitting but maybe even double down? Abusive people will be abusive with no easy fix in sight

I loved them so much that constantly fighting and being abused was still better than their absence now. I believed we would both turn things around, but it only got worse every few months. Being in this situation felt like a 90/100 misery scale, that I couldn't bear, and leaving would be asking me to volunteer for 95/100

> Same for work it seems, working on edge of what you can handle means any little bad thing happening on top can send you over and down the spiral of breakdown.

Also thought it would be temporary and not do permanent damage. In the midst of crisis, I'm thinking "just get through this month, it will get better" and then before you know it years have went by and all those months accumulated their toll
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You can create Foreign Keys as NOT VALID and then VALIDATE the constraint later. This only takes a RowShareLock.

Dropping the constraints takes an AccessExclusiveLock for a very short time in both tables so yes, that would interrupt traffic but the online migration tools also do this to switch the tables so I give it a pass.
This is an anti-renewable energy hit piece that is completely divorced from reality.
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>A clamshell 5090 with 2GB modules has a max limit of 64GB

How does "clamshelling" get around the 32-bits per module requirement? Do the two 2GB modules act as one 4GB module when clamshelled?
No. The author could not be sued for this successfully. All they did was write a blog post about an interesting technique. They could literally read the patent application and write a blog post about that, assuming the methods are the same.

What percentage of your actions are based around making the world a better place, instead of personal fulfillment or gain?
John Gruber of DaringFireball has said his blog has still not recovered completely from the Google Reader shutdown and he has the most popular blog in the Apple ecosystem
This is the best thing I've read in weeks. Thanks.
“Except as otherwise provided… whoever without authority… uses… any patented invention… infringes[.]” 35 usc 271
Long term, I think it is a mix of expectations that:

- AGI/ASI would be a breakthrough worth trillions in market value

- whoever gets AGI/ASI first may have a permanent advantage (goes for other labs and other nations)
Apple's article from the past has more info
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/neural-engine-tra...
Please see the first paragraph of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
thank you for sharing. what you describe is akin to what other survivors of utter helplessness describe. usually we think of "trauma" as surviving naked angst, fear for our life or health, uncontrollable horrific events. and that's also in classic medical definitions. but we're slowly learning how many existential crises of utter helplessness, also proxy-helplessness for a dear loved one, can put our brains into a out-of-place state. If that resonates somehow, the good news is that there are exercises, guided approaches to help the brain reconfigure back into the original state of empowerment and optimism. "Somatic experiencing" is one of them, emdr another one (in the hands of an experienced and trained trauma certified clinician), and there are some more. long story short: there are paths forward.

I apologize if I overshared, hth.
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I didn't say it's an inefficient pile of garbage. It's obviously making use of the memory in order to provide information and quick navigation etc.

My computer works completely fine while I have multiple jetbrains ides and browser windows, Docker etc running.

So maybe your perception is the one that's flawed. I know for a fact that my computer can handle it, but it seems like you mistakenly believe that it can't?
> the difference between private sector debt and federal government debt is the former has to pay it off or face consequences

Absolutely not true. There are nation strategy-class companies. Whether or not the companies that have been bailed out are in that class is another matter, but it'd be stupid to think that a company should die just because the unfree market said so. That's certainly not how the Chinese have been playing this game.
There's denialism going on in a variety of posts up above. Please go tell them that.
The bounty is not a market. It's a subsidized incentive to subvert the market, and to give greyhat hackers a reason to be white-tinged instead of black-tinged. I would conservatively guess this guy could have found at least 30 people willing to pay $500 for details on this exploit, and he would've netted $5000 more than Google paid him to do the right thing.

Probably the risk of going to jail outweighs the extra $5k, but if a company is serious about the bug bounty program, they would offer a reward that's competitive with what you could extract from the black market, and I don't think that's hard to do.
The Pathologies of the Attention Economy (2022)
Bank branches for physical contact decreased everywhere, Covid was the last nail in the coffin for many. In the meantime, backoffice jobs rose or even exploded. More and more complex IT, way more regulations from everywhere.

Not sure how overall numbers look like, I would expect slight decrease overall, but for IT definitely grew. Those are really not same type of jobs, although in minds of public are all 'bankers', since all are bank employees.
What does “no bot” mean? I don’t see any elaboration, tho maybe I’m just blind!
Ask HN: What browser to use after Google limits adblockers?
Today Google Chrome disabled my adblocker, and the internet with ads experience shocked me.

I can still re-enable it, but it seems like June 2025 is the actual deadline for support removal. Ostensibly because uBlock Origin doesn't comply with Googles "best practices", but in reality because it threatens their business model.

Now I'm faced with the personal question of which browser to migrate to. The whole ecosystem seems very unhealthy to me, with Firefox getting 80% of their revenue because of Google, Brave being based on Chromium, and there virtually not being any other independent browser because writing a browser is an insanely complex undertaking.

Thoughts from the HN crowd?
No.. it’s not dead. But it is at a point where the bar to get traction is raising significantly. You can’t make something mediocre and get traction just because the alternative is pen and paper. Need to design something that sells well and provides value.
Nobody can be a real scientific heavy weight anymore, whatever filters against that is in the culture ,in the institutions. we filter for knowledge reproduction automation .
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It occurred to me a while ago that if 1 human year is the same as 7 dog years, we could calculate the date you and your dog will be the same age.

So, the doggo calculator was born!

https://doggo.tshows.us/
Sounds like they're making a 2-in-1 convertible (a la Lenovo Yoga, hence the yoga reference), a charger (presumably what the lightning bolt means), and some piece of gaming hardware, perhaps a handheld.
And it’s no secret he has been lying either. A few years ago Tesla’s senior most liaison to California’s road safety folks was on the record as saying hey we’re years away from true FSD, while Musk was at the very same time telling investors that they were going to crack it and deliver it in a year.
As a wise man once said: "Don't hate the player, hate the game."
Respectfully: how the hell would that be a valid patent? Feels like patenting the idea of writing text in white on white on a Word document such that you don't lose it but it doesn't get printed.

It's just insane to ever call that "an invention".