skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Utter nonsense. He's trying to end the war. That may not happen on terms that make you happy, but people will stop dying which is quite the opposite of what you said

I was going to say just like Neville Chamberlain did with Hitler - but realised that would be grossly unfair on Chamberlain as he never tried to exploit Czechoslovakia for half of its mineral resources.
I hate these articles so much. "Kids love paper maps", "Kids are trading in their smartphones for dumb phones", etc.

No.

No they are not.

Period.

It's a vanishingly tiny group of "kids" and in this case it's because they aren't allowed a smartphone... Ok, sure, any port in a storm but it's not like it was a choice.

I'm not interested in debating when kids should get a smartphone but replace "landline phones" with "discord servers" and it's the same thing. Kids don't care about landline phones (sure it might be interesting initially), they care about talking with their friends. If they only method to do that was via cans and string they would be using that, not because they want to or it's better/best but because it's all they have available to them.
Point taken about the snark, but ideological conformity is a growing pressure everywhere, and the fact that it has two poles in the US doesn't lessen the negative effects on education.
Man people can’t stand that Elon turned Twitter into a free speech platform. Anyways, I'm more of a long-form article, book, podcast and travel guy when it comes to informing my opinion.
No? I can clearly see the post just fine logged out.

The replies don’t show up, but clearly the actual video and description is there.
No, presidents can kind of claim national emergencies all the time. Usually they're used for sanctions, but they can also be for economic or security reasons (security being interpreted as times of war and in a very broad sense).
I like being able to type fast enough to take meeting notes in realtime with minimal attention to what my fingers are doing. I find this method to be great for helping me actually remember what happened. FWIW I was a hunt & peck-er until I wrote my masters thesis in 2021, and touch typing is absolutely one of the most useful skills I've ever learned.
Discussion on the original source (303 points, 5 hours ago, 93 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43102284
Why? Do they not follow the news?
> It was acquired by IBM in March 2015, and the service was discontinued.

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blekko

Perhaps GP has a more interesting answer though.
Yeah, I think so too; modern cell phone voice quality has been pretty good in my experience. Granted, I'm mostly only calling other cell phones, so maybe there could be a quality downgrade if you call something truly analog that's still attached to a landline?
I really like uv and I have successfully got rid of miniconda but :
- I wish there was a global virtual environment which could be referenced and activated from terminal. Not every new scripts needs their own .venv in their respective folder. uv takes the route of being project centered and based on file system, this works for me most of the time but sometime it doesn't.
- I wish we could avoid the .python_version file and bundle it in the pyproject.toml file.
Exact text from Project 2025 have shown up in dozens of Trumps EOs.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2025/trump-executive-o...
> Processing almost 200 transactions per day demanded a solution capable of processing high volumes during peak hours without any compromises.

That is surprisingly low.
Why?

There are lies that don‘t poison anything.

For instance police lies in an online chat to be a 12 year old girl to catch a child predator.
I use a Boox Note 2 almost daily for reading and regularly with a bluetooth keyboard for writing. It has a stylus, and the OCR is good enough for even my terrible handwriting (I should have been a doctor apparently) and I use that to scribble in the margin of PDFs etc.

My setup uses Autosync [1] to synchronise a folder from my desktop to the device. On my desktop I have Zotero (a Citation library) and Calibre both configured to export to that folder (in subfolders). With two way sync my notes are back on my PC almost instantly which is fantastic.

I also run Readwise and Obsidian on the Boox.

1: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.au...
Save money and go analog! Calibrate against a known spectrum. One example would be a sodium vapour street light but there aren't as many around these days.
Not just digital, this trend started back in the analog TV era. Gaming consoles certainly contributed as well.

Note that the decrease in crime coincides with a decrease in teen pregnancy, but also a decrease in fertility rates in general.
Two possibilities:

Trump did sexual stuff with Russian hookers. They have the vid. Would be embarrassing. Apparently it was quite standard for the KGB to gather such data and Trump was in Moscow in his playboy days and would quite likely have done things.

or Trump broke money laundering laws in his extensive dealings with the Russians.

Both seem kind of possible to me, especially the first. I note that around the first Trump Putin calls the Russians put various naked pictures of Melania on their TV channels which may have been a reminder of possible hooker photos?
For anyone interested in some more reading about the exact nature of the powers and Congress's attempts at limiting it, I found this link to be a decent introduction: https://protectdemocracy.org/work/presidential-emergency-pow...
So, where's the footage from the target area? Someone should have been there with a camera. Just how close was it?

Throwing stuff up into space looks great but so would a bolt of thunder from out of the blue where the missile hit the target.

If we don't see it land, it's not a demonstration.
Uncommon tptacek L. "extensive internal checks" that's laughable given what's been going on lately with the executive overreach.
> REST is not a browser concept

I didn't say that it was specifically. REST is still a convention that is usually tied to and influenced by HTTP and its methods. It doesn't necessarily have to be that way exactly, but that's how many web applications are typically written.

> There’s no need to “kill” it.

We don't necessarily need it around either.

> If you’re sure you need another set of verbs and nouns, use http as a tunnel.

That is somewhat along the lines of what I'm suggesting. REST is not necessarily better than an API that just takes POST requests in a way that serves the application's needs directly rather than some abstract standard that homogenizes data in ways that require extra work to be done. For some odd reason, many frontend-oriented developers look at me like I've got bugs crawling out of my ears when I say this, yet the idea of allowing the server to do the bulk of the work is both old and resurging in popularity (e.g. Hotwire, LiveView, HTMX).
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The national emergency declared in 1979, against Iran, was done under the IEEPA which grants the President the power to block transactions and freeze assets against foreign threats. It doesn't grant the power to make laws.
The 12" MacBook Abomination was a short-lived, badly-designed, performance-limited computer. Apple doesn’t sell them anymore, and modern Airs are very respectable computers.
Following the conversation down, it sounds like what you're really saying is that Signal stores sensitive information encrypted with PIN+SGX, which is controversial. And maybe you have a good argument for why it's bad (and I'm uneasy with it myself). But I think people don't like that you made the assumption for them that PIN+SGX is bad.
(on the topic of defense vs. offense above)

I think one of the coolest missiles is the sprint missile, turns 90 degrees goes fast af and glows orange almost immediately

Another tangent the kill vehicles which I'm not sure if they still use

Payload delivery is interesting (the multiple cones in the head separate and spin on re-entry)

And finally last tangent, a study on the effects of clouds/air particles hitting the faces of hypersonic glide vehicles, I remember a picture it looked like a #2 pencil tip but it was partially ablated

edit: I found that image I was thinking of sorry it's on X was just on Google Images

https://x.com/masao_dahlgren/status/1488632918465470467

(Reentry vehicle nosetip after flying through rain at Mach 10)
These days it's not uncommon to stack multiple lossy compressors in a chain. Your VoIP phone -> service provider is one codec. Then the phone company to the other phone company - quite possibly re-encoded - then on the other end they re-encode it yet again, to send to the VoIP or cell phone.

IT doesn't have to be that way. Ideally we'd stream the data (whether compressed or uncompressed) directly to the other end. There are standards for this but, well you know how standards are: so many to choose from.

In hindsight I think lossy compression of telephony was a mistake. It's 64 kbps for classic narrowband. GSM and other early digital cellular technologies could provide perhaps 5 - 10 kbps per handset and voice just had to be crammed into that. It made sense in the early 90s in that one application. It makes little sense in other applications, either then or now.

The long distance network of the late 70s into the early 00s was mostly uncompressed digital PCM, while the local loop was analog. The result was a basically distortion-free channel from about 200 to 3 kHz. Oh, and it was mostly synchronous too, so the delay was generally under 100 ms even cross-continent. You used to be able to immediately interrupt the person while talking just as in an real-life conversation. Some telephony systems running over packet-switching with buffering end up with such significant delays in practice that you have to take turns like it's a walkie-talkie.
possible, but the dude is a terrible business man and has been bailed out constantly by the Russian Mafia. no need to blackmail him when he's terrible with money -- just turn off the tap or offer more.

add in a huge quantity of narcissism + a pathological need to bang Eastern European women (aka the classic Soviet/Russian honeypot), and you've got him locked down easily.

his ego, plus his complete inability to get accepted by NYC high society make him easy to manipulate after you've satisfied his immediate needs for debt-payment money and Slovenian pin-up models.

top-shelf asset handling by Russian intelligence, btw. Farage and Trump -- those asset account managers are damn good. deep web rumors have suggested Melania herself was his handler, and if so she's probably the most accomplished case officer in history.
Probably the bigger factor is consequence, not just rate at what’s missed.

But zoom out and we see job loss that could be stated as productivity, but what do those lawyers and law degrees do that’s more productive for society? They’re already near the top of an information economy; we’d need to invent an entire next phase. That takes time and pain management; and yet those 14 jobs are gone now.

I used to think all of this was much further away and we had time. But now I’m seeing that we don’t actually need hallucinations fixed, actual AGI, or major quality boosts before displacement begins.
Hopefully they manage to not-fire / re-hire the folks that maintain the actual weapon systems:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43076137
Any alternatives to this forum? I've never heard heard of this until now and as someone who spends a lot of time making music as a hobby sounds like a community I'd like to be part of.
anything similar for k8s?
This is true for public universities and private universities; you see the same thing happening in academic papers (and especially the university PR around the paper)
I looked through their docs and it seems very close to what I described.

Thanks for sharing!
One way to think about it is job orchestration. You end up with some kind of DAG of work to execute. If all the work you are doing is based on context from the initiation of the workflow, then theoretically you could do everything in a single prompt. But more interesting is when there is some kind of real-world interaction, potentially multiple. Such as a websearch, or executing code, calling an API. Then you take action based on the result of then. Which in turn might trigger another decision to take some other action, iteratively, and potentially branching.
But the AI doesn't push back while still offering the obvious answer. It just waffles. I understand what you are saying, but if the AI is "safe" and rejects the framing, then that makes it not useful for a whole class of problems that could genuinely come up (for example, choosing between suppressing people's right to speech on the platform and protecting people's right to be free from harassment). Now, maybe AI shouldn't do that at all. Fine. But the benchmarks and tests of AI should tell us how they do in such scenarios because they are a class of problems we might use this for
I'm not sure if it's practically possible to corrupt the training data that much while still giving sensible answers. After all, reality has a well-known liberal bias.
it would have to be bad. like baaaaaad.

like CSAM, snuff, donkey sort of bad. cuz otherwise the dude has no shame and doesn't give a fuck.
The ideas that underpin their device have been around for some time and aren't called by that name in the literature -- it appears to be entirely a branding exercise. A clear signal to me they don't seriously think it is a good name is that don't use the name outside this article (it appears nowhere in their Nature paper or anywhere else for that matter).
How do you know he's trying to stop the war and not just looking for personal benefits? His words are worth little.
Honest question: isn't that really how 99.9999% of all startups are? Wouldn't those who chose to work at Humane realize the moon-shoot risks of working there? I have eschewed working at VC-backed startups for this very reason; if they're not self-sustaining they're a no-go for me. I don't play the lottery either; but, there are plenty of people who do for a 1 in a 400B chance at winning.
If people want a zero-effort LLM summary, they can get one themselves.
The battery may be smaller, but the power draw of the GPU and screen will also be smaller.
A New Model for Firefighter Fitness Development
… such as?
> This isn't decline. It is the foundation of a nation's success.

The foundation of the US's success was how it managed to unitd the world in general and the US in particular under it's influence, which was only possible due to its spirit of cooperation and spread of unifying values.

The Trump administration is single-handedly dismantling the very foundation of US's success and hegemony for the past century. It's attacking staunch allies and turning them into at best sceptic neutral parties, and it's excluding itself from international trade and forcing the world to reconsider using the dollar.

Each of these issues individually would be disastrous to the US. The Trump administration is speed running through them all in record time. It would be impossible for a bad actor who captured the US administration to undermine the US at the same rate.

This marks the US decline and path towards irrelevance, with terrifying consequences to the world.
Mozilla really is in a bad spot if advertising, AI, and fundraising are the only innovative ideas their leadership could come up with. I will begrudgingly still use Firefox as my daily driver, but the mismanagement being shown is really appalling and I worry about the future of a free and open Internet.

Suffice to say that we all deserve better.
All of the big tech companies today are the result of 100s of smaller, well intentioned tech companies that got acquired into these behemoths.

I always look at how WhatsApp played out as the company. They were the good guys, and didn't want to get acquired. Zuckerberg, almost bankrupt FB at the time giving into all of the ridiculous demands WhatsApp made. No one at WhatsApp thought it was going to happen, until it did and did result in a once-in-a-lifetime transfer of wealth to several hundred employees.
> In light of the one that failed in November 2023,

That's concerning. If we rely on MAD for survival, we shouldn't signal weakness or unpreparedness with our nuclear arsenal.

Nukes are such a double-edged sword. If nuclear proliferation continues, I wonder if the MAD doctrine will even work. All it would take is one suicidal despot or slip up to destroy the world.

The fragile world hypothesis as an answer to the Fermi Paradox seems uncomfortably likely to me. (A "fragile universe" where the first aliens to initiate vacuum collapse to restart the universe also seems plausible.)
They post on Bluesky.
Throwing another vote out there for Supernote. Very responsive, particularly around handwriting - which feels flawless. Been a perfect device for me, but more limited than a Boox. That’s fine for my use-case, but still worth calling out.
I wish Mozilla would get into revenue generating, web-maximalist products like an office suite alternative to Google Workspace and Microsoft. I think there are a fair number of people who want a significant brand behind these, but also an alternative to the mega-corp offerings.

ie, instead of Thunderbird (which I know isn't developed by Mozilla anymore), create a hosted email platform with a PWA that can run and store data locally.

These types of products would have a virtuous relationship with Firefox.
the problem is it's intended to be an open source device so haskell would be harder to work on than something simpler like C++

again my point is about adoption, hence offering multiple languages in most products like stripe for ex

edit: it's alright, when they actually ship these things (after putting down $3.5K) I hope I will take it upon myself to port it to C++ myself

edit: "general purpose" is probably the wrong way to put it, Haskell is harder to read than C++ is my pov
I like that landlines call a house, not a person. If I call my parents' landline, I never know which of them I'm going to talk to, and sometimes I just want to talk to "my parents" and not specifically pick which one.

I also like that landlines can't be used to hijack your brainstem to the same degree that smartphones can. My friend's five year old gets to call her grandpa and grandma whenever she wants but can't get pulled into some YouTube Kids nonsense just because the screen was handy.
Driving a car in Manhattan is inherently regressive: in addition to the high cost of owning, insuring, and operating one you’re looking at a ton of money for parking in one of the densest parts of the country.

This forces an interesting dynamic: congestion pricing makes the city healthier and safer for everyone who actually lives there, speeds transit for (on average) poorer people, but it’s portrayed as regressive by the (on average) more affluent people who expect a city that they don’t live in remade for their convenience because they’ve already locked in a more expensive lifestyle.
I think that was everyone's first thought! It's the first comment on the video too!
So pretending to be a 12 year old girl to catch a child predator is illegal then?
> No really, we had this. On the Vax it was DEC$PHONE and allowed up to four (or was it five?) simultaneous participants in a real-time text chat channel. If you “phoned” someone using their account name on the system then a “ringing” text alert would appear in the middle of whatever else they were doing on their terminal. Awfully like getting @here alerts in Slack in the modern era.

Seems like an oversight not mentioning IRC in this section.

> Like DEC$PHONE you had talk I believe? Instant messenger but far more network friendly and so closer to what we think of today.

We also had (still have...) Zephyr:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyr_(protocol)

That's what we used primarily in the CS dept at my university in the early 90s and the tech staff were still using it at my first job in the late 90s.
Then wouldn’t all jobs include some “goon work”?

Even the front desk secretary of a mid size tech company has to deal with the occassional deranged person wandering in.
Just go to PiHole's "Domains" page, in the box labelled Domain, type youtube.com, enable the checkbox for Add domain as wildcard, then click the button labelled Add to denied domains.

Now youtube.com and all of its subdomains are blocked, for all clients.

If you wish for it to only be blocked for some clients, then assign your clients to groups, and set the setting appropriately on the domains page.
No, you use your eyes. That's why you play it with a fellow commuter.
I've never had a cell phone that can match the latency of a 80s or 90s landline for local calls. Maybe the audio is as good, but that delay makes calls distinctly worse.
The A18 in the 16e is also binned, one less GPU core compared to the regular 16.
Russians and Chinese saw it land.
Poland is not Russia, nor is Bulgaria, Croatia, et al

a spurious correlation
For mobile (React Native) our two questions are making an app that matches the design from a figma file or writing a bridge to a native library we provide.

For front-end we ask they either match a mock from a figma file or writing a small library that handle async data fetching efficently.

For data we ask for either writing a simple scraper for a web page we host or we ask them to write a SQL script that does a tricky data transformation.

For back-end we either ask them to write a simple API that has some specified features on its routes like multi-sort or we ask them to come up with a SQL schema for a tricky use case.

For 3D visualization we provide some data and ask a question about it, Ill share an example below.

For computer vision we ask about plane detection or locating an object in space given a segmented video and 3D model.

For AI we either ask them to find the right threshold for a similiarty search in a vector database or we ask them to write a script to score the results of an AI process given a golden set of results.

For platform we ask them to write a script to do some simple static analysis or specify how they would implement authorization in our system.

We also have a few one off questions for roles like search, infra, and native mobile. I also have some general data structures and algorithms questions.

Here's an example of one of the 3D Viz screens: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yWLXvbGValKDsglaO5IUVgRS...
Even if everyone agreed that the system was secure, and they absolutely don't, see for example

https://web.archive.org/web/20210126201848mp_/https://palant...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkyzek/signal-new-pin-featur...

I think we should all agree that outright lying to users on the very first line of their privacy policy page is totally unacceptable.