skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SpaceX is clearly better technology, but I believe what matters is whether Verizon was fairly awarded the contract.

If the contract was made fairly and in good faith, cancelling it would be bad for contract law precedence in the new administration.

I take contract law over advancement in technology in this case.
jmp.chat should, though I have no direct experience with it outside the US for long periods of time, I can't seem them caring.
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"What you describe could happen, but it's far enough off that we have not seen even the first warning signs yet."

Well, some disagree on there being no warning signs.

https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/2025-statement/
> But America was asked to leave things alone

By whom?
Not everything is, but Mozilla specifically has been more loud in its support of various political causes most of the world has no interest in than in developing a good web browser for about a decade now, so GP's reaction seems quite appropriate in this case.
The full force of this administration's destruction is about to hit
The fictional block exists, but it's not the entire 555 prefix. It's 555-01xx.

It was the entire "Klondike-5" block, but got narrowed.
Maybe the only way to get out of a cycle is, trying to get out of the cycle?
I agree it's overbearing, but if that is the case they should consider choosing a different method to distribute their app for which they are trying to solicit my money that they don't find overbearing.

Mixing money and third party app distribution platforms that want a cut is complicated and if this is a serious project it would have considered this.
Here’s a CCC talk[1] which shows how you can send mails from other servers by „SMTP Smuggling“.

1: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11782-smtp_smuggling_spoofing_e-...
Skype was perfect BEFORE the Microsoft acquisition. Everything afterwards was unnecessary. Source: I used Skype before and after 2011.
I'd expect something like a super-C that provides a counted-byte string (still NUL-terminated for interoperability) type and support functions, `defer` or similar, `with`-like macros, etc., `mutable`/`immutable`. Such a thing could be like C++ was in the beginning: a front-end that translates to C99 or whatever standard is your lowest common denominator. You'd still have to do manual memory management, so you'd still have use-after-free issues, but they'd be a lot less common. Similarly you'd still have races, but a lot fewer.
I'm perplexed by this university press release. Do they really not link to the underlying research article that they're discussing?
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>The integration is much deeper than what Vimium and the other WebExtensions allow.

Rather a dubious claim. Vimium is what VimFx is modelled on, and Vimium was always intended to be pretty minimalist compared to, eg, Vimperator, whose only real successor, Tridactyl, is a WebExtension.
What stands out the most to me on that landing page is that scrolling craters the framerate on my high end phone even though there doesn't seem to be any animations tied to scrolling. Maybe a Chromium browser would handle it better than Firefox, but ugh.
Even giving the benefit of the doubt that they would do a good job: The ends do not justify the means. That's really all it is. Pragmatically speaking, Americans simply abhor an unelected hundred-billionaire who behaves in a mean, trollish, and "hateable" manner, forcing himself into the institutions of their home country in a way that appears destructive and careless. For each individual case, whether it actually ends up improved by some metric (and whether Elon is even actively involved) is overshadowed ten-fold by the societal damage caused, the dangerous precedent created, and the fighting spirit of Americans against authoritarianism.
I think you forgot to add /s???

Otherwise, you might want to stop drinking so much kool-aid.
What I don't understand about people complaining about governments removing programs and reducing their staff is that implies either the status quo is just right or it's already not enough. Should they have hired 900 new workers too or just left it alone? Where were the complaints about previous governments not growing them fast enough? Will they accept any correction from an overshoot in finding the right amount?

Apparently NOAA grew rapidly in the previous few years [1], so was it underfunded by Obama?

[1] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12406/3
Because later generations shouldn't be forced pay the cost for such violence that they didn't perpetrate or perpetuate.

To make it real when there's no compassion, loving kindness, or the golden rule:

War reparations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_reparations
If you think of every super-Jupiter in the Goldilocks zone around their stars as the host of half a dozen Earth-sized moons, the number of possibly inhabitable worlds in the galaxy grows by a factor of half a dozen.

We really need to find a way to travel faster than light. I don't want to wait a thousand years to be able to study these places.
If you have a decent connection I find just using Windows Remote Desktop (RDP) over VPN (Tailscale) works really well.

The value prop for the proprietary services like TeamViewer for me is they work much better over poor connections and cross platform. (Are there any decent RDP servers for Mac/Linux? In any case it’s another thing to have to install.)
Wasn't the whole point of O.G. Skype that it was entirely peer to peer, and did not require a central service? Then, once Microsoft bought it, the first thing they did was ditch that and make it require centralized servers? IMO peak Skype was right before it was bought. Agreed though, every time Microsoft touched it, they made it worse. But many (most?) software is like that now. I dread new releases, because everyone makes software worse now.
> Huffman lamented the loss of "hundreds of scientists and experts at NOAA" who helped collect data that kept the public informed about dangerous weather events.

Perhaps I should learn to stop worrying and love this anti-science (anti-intellectual?) zeitgeist we find ourselves in.

(Bummer, seems divinginrods.com is taken, redirects to britishdowsers.org Gotta move fast, I guess.)
Wikipedia says this about the name:

The name "Tencent" is based on its Chinese name Tengxun (Chinese: 腾讯), which incorporates part of Pony Ma's Chinese name (Ma Huateng; 马化「腾」) and literally means "galloping fast information".

So maybe it's just concidence?
Their first product was also a messenger software so I don't see why they would name themselves "ten percent". The investing thing came later.
And yet the closed-source Safari is less scummy than open-source Brave. "I can check myself" is, for the vast majority of people, a purely theoretical option. Even if you happen to be a C++ wizard, diving into a 65k+ files code base is not done over a weekend.
Most of the Linux Nvidia driver bugs seem to be related to the DRM/KMS layer, not the shared code. That's still a pretty big surface area.
Oh, and you can drag app icons into the Finder symbol bar. Possibly an App made from that AppleScript. Not tested.
I'm surprised to not see a mention of "This is Water", the commencement speech by David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College, which thesis is that the point of a liberal arts education is to help you escape your default setting.

http://bulletin-archive.kenyon.edu/x4280.html

I think the title of this post may be a reference to "This is Water", since I haven't seen the term "default setting" anywhere else, but I could be mistaken.
This sounds backwards. All the big players in AI are getting sued while most of the minor players are flying under the radar.
Anyone looking to get temporary containers working properly:

1. about:debugging

2. This Waterfox

3. Find the Temporary Containers "extension"

4. Inspect (which opens Dev tools)

5. Go to Storage > Extension Storage

6. Change containerPrefix value from "waterfox" to "firefox"
Well, Project 2025 and conservative tech billionaires have banded together and we see the executive branch executing the playbook.
Does this value translate to anything real, like tons of money or tons of free time?
The Constitution only protects you from the government, it doesn't bind individuals or companies. The government cannot make laws that take away your freedom of speech, but that doesn't mean other people or companies are legally obligated to let you say whatever you want on their turf.
Interesting to see how much Assembly was used in Red Alert (19.5% of code base), whereas all the rest is < 3%)
The hardware itself seems like it will be welcome in the market. But I find AMD GPU launches so frustrating, the branding is all over the place and it feels like there is never any consistent generational series. Instead you get these seemingly random individual product launches that slot somewhere in the market, but you never know what comes next.

In comparison nVidia has had pretty consistent naming since 200 series, with every generation feeling at least somewhat complete. Only major exception was (mostly) skippin 800 series. Not saying they are perfect by any means in this regard, but AMD just feels like a complete mess.

Checking wikipedia, Radeon has recently gone through (in order):

* HD 7000 series

* HD 8000 series

* 200 series

* 300 series

* 400/500 series

* RX Vega

* RX 5000 series

* RX 6000 series

* RX 7000 series

* RX 9000 series

Like what happened to 8000 series? And also isn't it confusing to partially change the naming scheme? Any guesses what the next generation will be called?
The problem is not pre-calculation. The problem is that because you don’t know your MAC address, you need to broadcast all of those things, since you don’t know which one will be valid. Either at once or sequentially. Either way, iOS will not let you set up that much broadcasting.
> because that meant that I didn’t need the disk space for an additional browser

Is that even a consideration nowadays? That's wild!
I think mdq [1], which was recently on HN somewhere, fits this.

[1] https://github.com/yshavit/mdq
It was depressing enough to watch The West Wing back when George W was president. A rerun now would cause a measurable spike in suicide rates.
Hester M. Peirce on the Dismissal of Civil Enforcement Action Against Coinbase
We love to debate headlines, don’t we? But along those lines, it seems like they could just say it’s “new” and that would be good enough; a headline doesn’t need to be any more specific.
> Both AMD and Intel provide well maintained open-source drivers for many years[1]. Nvidia doesn't. You need to use closed-source drivers with Nvidia in practice.

Is that what this is? https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules
How is that not phishing? They made the URL bar a search bar so they can steal and sell everyone's Google search history?
you can put the researchers names into a search engine (ask an academic librarian if you need help). I'm not sure if it's in the scope of the press release to link directly to primary sources.
But it's no longer a donation (regardless if that word is used or not) when you offer things like material support of the app in exchange for the money. Then it is actually a support contract. If they are not registered a non-profit in the US, they it's just regular income and they have to pay taxes on it. Because they made a profit.

My point is I don't believe this is a serious project worth giving money to until they can say they have resolved this with Apple.
Usually Viber
They could save a lot more if they started firing all people who wear glasses.
Then why do we keep seeing musk talking about the “achievements” of doge at press conferences and meetings instead of her? Musk is a special government employee, and his companies are beneficiaries of government subsidies, how is that not a conflict of interest?
What percentage of your taxes do you think are actually going to vegan local climate action? Is that what you're really worried about?
Is there a good tuinfor web?
Hi team--and hello Fred! You and I had some great conversations about Slack's direction--as well as its missed opportunities--back when we worked there together. I was leading developer education at the time, and frustrated with the decisions that were coming down that caused us to pivot away from what we agreed on was the "true core experience" of a collaborative messaging system: connecting users with the knowledge they need without having to parse through other knowledge that may be important in different contexts.

I'm genuinely excited that you're in this space now, too, as I myself have had my nose to the grindstone building out what the collaboration app for distributed teams that I've always wanted. We need options/competition in this space; just this year alone, I've had a little over a a dozen conversations with interested folks in teams across the United States working in industries from agricultural sensors manufacturing to game studios for hire, and the same pain points that you and I were reasoning about back at Slack are the same pain points that users still unwillingly tolerate.

See you around--and good luck out there!

PS. As an English major I'd be remiss to not share that I love the name emdash. :D
To present a counter perspective. I like to believe that I possess a fair crop of sane defaults here and there upstairs.

And there are some things that I refuse to write down. They’re motivated more by a raw feeling than what can be found through their transliteration. Language of the guts gargles into scribbles and scripts.

Lest I be forced to result to pictography. You know sketch pads are also helpful.

Maybe the writer’s resort is toward the days he ain’t writing. Eventually stopping and becoming content.
I just used Skype the other day. I still find it useful for certain things. Is it that these companies can't maintain a piece of software unless they see a way for it to grow and dominate the world?
I think I prefer spam to AI moderating the internet, to be honest (although I have little doubt that this feeling isn’t shared by big tech and almost all moderation is going to be done by AI)
Basically indefinitely because Intel may not be around anymore by 2030.
Have you not heard about how successful Thunderbird's funding campaign had been? The reasons as I see them are simple: they ask for money directly, and use it for developing a good email client, not for fighting the boogeyman of the week (and/or chasing the latest fad).
As far as I know we don't have any way to objectively measure or compare "quality" or "coding performance" or "best" when looking at code produced by human programmers.

You may find this useful:

https://www.gitclear.com/coding_on_copilot_data_shows_ais_do...

Or this analysis if you don't want to sign up to download that white paper:

https://arc.dev/talent-blog/impact-of-ai-on-code/
$2M laundered: the YouTube crypto tutorials' scam (investigation)
> Oh - you didn't want that? Well you should have been more specific.

But that license agreement does the opposite - it gives Microsoft more general permissions. You tell them to host & share your content by clicking "share", but then they also give themselves all sorts of other permissions.
This is different. This person wants a solution that can be built with common materials with fairly standard tools and at small scale, not a scalable commercial power plant. You can build Stirling engines at home with common materials. We're not comparing 10MW power plants here.

So the question is, for a comparable weight and size as this solution, how difficult would it be to build a solar powered Stirling engine and what would the power output be? I expect the Stirling engine to easily come out on top.
Sudden unconsidered change in any direction is virtually always harmful.
The original research[0] is available for free online.

It goes into more detail about how they established the genetic signatures and has a lot more images as well.

Epigenetic signatures of intergenerational exposure to violence in three generations of Syrian refugees

[0] - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-89818-z
The US are both, one hand chaos, one hand order.

Remember Escobar payed for hospitals to be built.

Nobody is 100% evil.

But now the lose this balance.
> I've seen none that even hinted at making the DVD ISO a target, leading me to believe it wasn't well supported 20 years ago.

One of the most underrated things about UEFI in my opinion is how it made booting simple. No longer did you need to use special tools (or arcane knowledge) to stick a special real-mode binary in to a normally hidden area of your intended media, now you just drop a few PE binaries in a filesystem your UEFI can read and let it figure itself out.

I just created a bootable restore image for one of my clients and it's literally a zip file that can be extracted in to the root of a FAT32 disk drive and will boot on any x86-64 UEFI PC, with Secure Boot fully operational. No special tools required, just drop files on any disk using a filesystem any computer that matters can read/write.
They are working on Orion for Linux this year as well
Here’s two:

Jordan Mechner’s 20 tips: https://www.jordanmechner.com/downloads/library/20tips.pdf

Liz England’s blog: https://lizengland.com/blog/2014/04/the-door-problem/
>If the US was the only thing standing between order and chaos and they want chaos: give them chaos.

hmmm US brought quite a bit of chaos with decades of forever wars. All refugees in Europe and US you see - all created by the USA's wars.

The world indeed will only benefit if USA starts caring more about its own people and infrastructure, instead of toppling regimes halfway around the world
> Preferring Firefox to free Chromium alternatives requires a level of nuance and tech literacy that most people will never have

I think it's already the case that only tech literate people prefer Firefox over Chrome or Edge (I bet a significant part of users don't even know about Chromium or what's the difference from Chrome). So putting a price on Firefox wouldn't change this in a meaningful way. The real question is how much tech literate people would be ready to pay, most of the users will stay on Chrome/Edge for the foreseeable future.
Gamedev is sweatshop for a single person because it requires not only the programming but also art, game design, music and all should work together. The key thing here is keeping high resource and motivation. In gamedev the can evaporate easily and they can appear suddenly. Don't expect any feedback in early years. It takes time.
maintained a few clojure code bases at my old company for 10+ years

i find core.spec did wonders for that problem.

also, i have a tendency to write a lot of in-code documentation, whichever language i use. so it probably helps too.
I'm very interested in this branch of same-generation evolution, as this is one of the core components excluded from Natural Selection theory

I'm very skeptical about it, but they do suggest they have a control group to observe in this study. Despite not being able to pinpoint an actual effect of these genetic markets.
>Mozilla is banning the use of their Firefox browser for porn? That's going to hurt adoption.

If you'd like an alternative, the State of Utopia[1] could eventually finish building one.

Our browser does not currently have any usage terms (we are still writing our code of laws so it is too early to have terms and conditions), you can use it to browse whatever you want right now, but it barely works:

https://taonexus.com/publicfiles/feb2025/84toy-toy-browser-w...

(Read it, install the required libraries and run it with Python.)

The browser can access URL's and can load and display images. It currently doesn't include all of html, css, and JavaScript because that is too difficult for AI to do.

If there is interest we will continue to use state resources to create our state-run browser. It doesn't collect any analytics of any kind.

You might want to see some proof that State of Utopia will actually be able to make useful things for you:

- A complete free implementation of chess, it is fun for people and has no analytics or ads:

https://taonexus.com/chess.html

- a fun version that shows blunders, so you can practice not making serious mistakes:

https://taonexus.com/blunderfreechess.html

- an alternative rendering of it, with heatmaps on the squares:

https://taonexus.com/blunderfreechess2.html

- infrastructure:

here is a Skype/Zoom replacement that is free, peer-to-peer, has no analytics or terms of use, and supports video, audio, and chat via WebRTC. It is the Utopian communications infrastructure at the moment:

http://taonexus.com/p2p-voice-video-chat.html

If you want us to continue to put resources into a working browser, we believe that html, css, and javascript are very well-defined and AI will be able to autonomously make a complete state-run browser eventually.

At the moment the State of Utopia owns $221/month in AI and $180/month in compute. We are exploring the possibility of letting people get to Utopia faster by donating computing resources, but so far the feedback has been mixed. People would like to get free stuff without contributing anything themselves. This is fine, the State of Utopia will still happen, but since the State owns such little infrastructure at present, it will be a bit slower than if people contribute their GPU's.

Let us know if you are interested in the State completing our browser, and if so, we will put additional resources into it.

[1] a sovereign state where AI controls everything and owns state-run companies, giving out free money, goods and services to citizens/beneficiaries. It will be available at: https://stateofutopia.com or https://stofut.com when ready. Citizenship is free (compare Form N-400 to become a U.S. citizen which costs $640 plus an $85 biometric services fee, totaling $725). The difference between a company and a country is that companies exist to maximize the value of their shareholders whereas countries exist to maximize the welfare of their citizens.
That is one way it's done, yes.
RX 2025 7+
> On Linux, AMD is far ahead.

Depends on a metric. I found Nvidia drivers to be better on every platform. It's just because it's closed-source it's PITA to install and update, but everything in between is great.

I've switched to AMD for religious reasons, tho. Even update story is worse on Windows for AMD, at least it was when I had RX 6900 XT.
Yes, it is. Top universities do.
Thanks for that.

Off-topic; it’s great to see a good old-fashioned XHTML web page – with a Strict doctype to boot! I remember hand-crafting websites using XHTML (at first Transitional, then Strict) using Server Side Includes as the only backend technology and being proud at how semantic and human-readable the source code was. The markup on this page is elegant, clear and readable while the rendered XHTML is both accessible and responsive.
I still don't think that is against the rules. As long as the app itself is not telling the users to go outside the app to donate/buy things, Apple can't do anything about it.
This is basic Mediterranean basin wisdom, known for a very long time: “I am a jealous God punishing the sins of the parents to the third and fourth generation.” One of the two mentions also says blessings are passed down 1000 generations, both of which seem pretty in line with modern evolutionary and epigenetic theory.
Typical policymaker: "noted, so we have confirmation for condemning whole generations"
Obviously I wasn't referring to those, which are also a "dancing bear" technology.
Idea from FOSDEM: Power 11 AI workstation
I went from Alfred to Raycast and then back again. They're both great, but I prefer Alfred. To each their own!