skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WhatsApp chats are E2E-encrypted.
> Brave has sync which does not rely on a centralized server

Didn't they change that to some more centralized solution in the past couple of years, citing difficulties with peer-to-peer syncing?

> Sync v1 was a completely custom sync system, built as part of the old “Muon” browser. Sync v1 stored all data into an encrypted log on S3. New browsers joining the sync chain had to download all the logs and re-assemble the events in order. The browsers were also responsible for cleaning up out of date data records.

> Sync v2 was rebuilt to be more directly compatible with the Chromium sync system (Chromium is the same open source base of Google’s Chrome and Brave). Brave built a sync server that more directly followed Chromium’s sync protocol, but defaulting instead to use encrypted data records. Sync v2 more easily supports more sync data types, while still keeping the client side data encrypted, so only you can see your data.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047642371-Syn...
They have a bad business plan.
Bizarre. :) From one well-traveled ~40-year-old to another, eat more breakfast.
I read a bunch of comments in here before doing the demo. I wasn’t expecting much but was very impressed! Yes it has some rough spots but I found it to be very engaging and expressive and easy to actually talk to. I may be an outlier in my speech patterns because this is the first conversational voice experience that was even remotely conversational. Great job!!! Can’t wait to see where this goes!
If you ever had the misfortune to read The Emperor's New Mind (published 1989) you would know that he has not had a plot to lose for quite some time now.
Some people (e.g. Penrose) reject this, believing that there's something mystical about human thought-- perhaps a soul, perhaps some quantum magic.
Psychiatrists do that triangle shape with their hands.
Kinda funny to think of geothermal energy as non-renewable.

Of course they all are in some sense…
It was taken from the Silk Road.
We are talking about a form of power that is not free. Solar panels and installation have initial costs and refresh costs. Your 90%/20% notes are a hypothetical, and may apply to some settings, but I expect they will be niche. People want to heat their homes, and boil kettles and run webservers.

I have no problem with aesthetics like *punk. But when these aesthetics influence public policy we end up with dysfunction, like countries that have lots of electric vehicles being powered by new coal power plants. The original post said our era will be looked down on for not covering buildings with solar panels. I don’t think that is correct.
I think the point is that Hanlon’s Razor applies here. Though there are definitely cases like this, I’m not sure how one could prove that the penny-pincher was intentionally oblivious to the damage from failure.
But we are working on quantum magic!
You're not offering any benefit that I'd get from using the command line over my current process, except, apparently, being able to express your superiority over GUI users.
I feel like the incumbent for running llm prompts, including locally, on the cli is llm: https://github.com/simonw/llm?tab=readme-ov-file#installing-...

How does this compare?
I don't necessarily worry about measles, it's all the other things that the locals around here are politically conditioned to ignore. If something else came down the pike and people were dropping like flies a lot of my neighbors would blissfully continue as they always had with no regard for anyone else in the building.

My grandmother was a nurse. All of my sisters became nurses. Two of my aunts are/were nurses who followed in their Mom's footsteps. A couple of my cousins became EMTs and another is a microbiologist. One of my kids is a biologist. I'm a geophysicist so not quite the same. My family has a pretty good feel on the pulse of the region where we live, which things are problems today and which could be if people are not paying attention. Luckily many of the societal issues that have torn other families apart have not affected us. We're a pretty tight group and we look out for each other. Too bad that others have been conditioned to be so selfish that ordinary people have to wonder what they could be spreading this week.

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones who got measles and had no long term issues. I still remember the warm soak in the tub to help control the fever.

It's pretty funny that all of us kids and cousins remember the same thing about visits to grandmas. It was like it was a perfect opportunity for her to practice her skills. We all had to take our turn getting checked out for everything from diabetes to pinworms. If you showed up with a sore throat you were definitely gonna get some merthiolate or mercurochrome swabbing. A cough got you some of the nastiest tasting cough syrup - don't worry it tastes like wild cherries - and after that you might end up like me and go years before tasting a real cherry because the memory of that syrup was so dominant.

I have family up around Lubbock where the Texas outbreak is growing. That's originally why I commented on this story, because I had discussed that outbreak with them that morning since I knew they were not in a position to follow all this stuff in real time due to their job duties.
Defense Secretary orders a halt to offensive cyber operations against Russia
Darn, if only HN had any non-dev content.
That was a separate lander, from Japan!
Even in the rural midwest in the early nineties you didn't get a big shop education in middle school, and I was on the academic track in high school. But we did a lot of woodworking in Scouts. Pretty much everyone grew up in families that worked with their hands. Some of us came factory work, the farm kids all learned how to use tools. And even the "rich" kids families owned small companies who worked in these areas.

Fast forward to the beginning of architecture school and we all had to draft by hand (which I had been doing in some capacity since 7th grade) and learn to and use the shop. We didn't learn to draft because it was a necessary skill anymore, but to learn 1. spatial thinking and in turn 2. how to turn ideas into real things you could communicate. Same with the making of physical models (even if you didn't use the shop).

These require the attention to detail and understanding of process necessary to break a sophisticated design idea down into individual actions (single lines, cuts, etc), and are of immense value even if you never touch a wood shop after undergraduate.

Even today, 25 years later and a time when we don't even necessarily teach 2d -CAD- drafting anymore we still require shop work, physical modeling, and hand drafting of ALL our students. So much that in a lot of places the first year of a 5 year professional Bachelor of Architecture doesn't even touch digital modeling of any sort.

If you want a foundational read that touches on deeper meanings around workmanship let me recommend David Pye's The Nature and Art of Workmanship[0].

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319901.The_Nature_and_Ar...
TLDR: sunset clauses for regulations, performance audits for homeless programs, streamlined permitting for housing and water infrastructure, and so on. It always gets back to water.

Redemption from "Progressives"

And P.S. San Francisco is NOT a shithole. I worked there before Twitter moved in, and it was an great experience. I bought a 3-bedroom home in the foothills with a view like Jackson Hole for under $200K, 10 years ago.

Go cry in your Russo-Baltique Vodka.
It's a cool aesthetic, but as a practical movement has some issues with reality. You get stuff like the solar powered website that runs out of batteries when enough people visit it. Cool statement but it would probably have been more environmentally friendly by any measure to deploy on a tiny virtual instance living ephemerally on cloud hosting. Bumping AWS's power consumption up by a tiny fraction vs having a bunch of components shipped to your house.
Why would you say PU rubber? ~30 years in an environment with some thermal cycling seems rather high for PU rubber.
Async, Sync, in Between
I mean the guy states that the concepts aren't new to him. If you start from there then most people wouldn't need to study very much.

I'm sure as a graduate I could go back, not study and score well.

If you've never heard of it before then it's going to take a lot more effort to understand.
I mean if it hasn’t been obvious that Trump is in bed with Putin for the last 8 years, it should be obvious now.
Lipstick on a pig, I'm sorry to say. Especially jujutsu which is literally just a wrapper for git.

These tools have better CLI for sure, and some nice added features too. VCS-integrated collaboration tools in fossil is nice. But my point was more along the lines of "why don't we have a radically different architecture that is better matched to the problem domain?"
Need some sort of dancing gif, maybe user upload. Should fully stop / reset position when not scrolling. Also someone make AI bonzai buddy.
It's at least partly because, starting with NCLB in 2001, schools got defunded if students didn't do well on standardized tests. That resulted in curricula being redesigned around those standardized tests, and in an even more exaggerated way for obvious reasons in poor schools.
Version control that is simpler to reason about, and doesn't have such complex layers of tooling underneath is quite possible. It is network effects that keep us on git.
Great story. The GW bridge is one of the most stressful driving-in-city-you-don’t-know-well experiences I’ve ever had. We were literally shouting at google maps as it blithely delivered nonsense while we were surrounded by cars who wanted very much not to let us change lanes.
The worst for me so far has been the following:

1. I know that a problem requires a small amount of code, but I also know it's difficult to write (as I am not an expert in this particular subfield) and it will take me a long time, like maybe a day. Maybe it's not worth doing at all, as the effort is not worth the result.

2. So why not ask the LLM, right?

3. It gives me some code that doesn't do exactly what is needed, and I still don't understand the specifics, but now I have a false hope that it will work out relatively easily.

4. I spend a day until I finally manage to make it work the way it's supposed to work. Now I am also an expert in the subfield and I understand all the specifics.

5. After all I was correct in my initial assessment of the problem, the LLM didn't really help at all. I could have taken the initial version from Stack Overflow and it would have been the same experience and would have taken the same amount of time. I still wasted a whole day on a feature of questionable value.
you don't even know who the person in charge of librewolf is or what their affiliations are and you want people to hop from Firefox to some random dude on the internet because you think they are trustworthy?
We don't know every fact, either, so I don't know how you can use that idea to say that we're not Turing machines. Apart, of course, from the trivial fact that we are far more limited than a Turing machine...
Interesting. I loved Flow and I'm glad the stars aligned for it on this particular occasion. This article [1] lists a bunch of other Oscar-related firsts:

* Gints Zilbalodis, who is 30 years old, is the youngest director to win the Oscar for best animated feature.

* Flow is the first fully-European produced and funded film to win the feture animation Oscar.

* Flow is the first dialogue-less film to win the feature animation Oscar.

* Flow, made for under $4 million, is by far the lowest-budget film to ever win the category.

It also says the winner of the animated short category, In the Shadow of the Cypress, was unexpected since the Iranian filmmakers couldn't do any of the usual in-person campaigning of Academy voters due to visa problems.

[1] https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/underdogs-win-latvias-flo...
Best Before Dates by Bass
That was it! Thank you!

I had Animation Effects off on Windows.

https://i.imgur.com/vqBmNUn.png
I'm not sure you have a proof of that to claim there is no point in theoretical discussion. He has a point, that current "AI" isn't conscious and so far there is no indication that it will be. It doesn't mean it can't happen either.

Basically we aren't up to "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" so far.
its impossible to have 100% occupancy. People move, units are remodeled.
The argument is, cheapening your products to break after the warranty expired is sufficiently hard that it would result in plenty of products breaking before the warranty expires.
Personally I believe the worst with llm is it's abysmal ability to architect code, it's why I use llms more like a Google than a so called coding buddy, because there was so many times I had to rewrite the entire file because the llm had added in so much extra unmanageable functions,even deciding to solve problems I hadn't asked it to do.
Also paying extra does not in any way mean you will get any better quality these days. It is indeed a market for lemons.
In many cases the difference is whether you write your configuration in a file with a '.yml' extension or a '.rs' extension.

It does mean that you end up with per-app binaries, which is either a pro or a con depending on the use case.
Mr. Penrose stands as a living testament to the curious duality of human genius: one can wield equations like a virtuoso, bending the arc of physics itself through sheer mathematical brilliance, while simultaneously tripping over philosophical nuance with all the grace of a tourist fumbling through a subway turnstile. A titan in the realm of numbers, yet a dilettante in the theater of ideas.

ps: i'd like to take a moment to thank DeepSeek for helping me with the specific phrasing of this critique
Not well, at least for ChatGPT. It can't follow my custom instructions which can be summed up as "follow PEP-8 and don't leave trailing whitespace".
It’s to signal low value concessions in the public that Putin can use to accept a deal without looking weak in front of his people. This whole game is to bring each side to a point where they would say yes to a resolution. That won’t happen if either side doesn’t do it in a way their voters would accept.

Zelensky said he would accept the mineral deal to get additional support, but insisted on coming to the White House to sign it, even though the administration wanted to get it done sooner (as Rubio revealed in his interview). A part of me does wonder if that White House press conference was all theater to show Putin a false “tough on Zelensky” front, or if it was a genuine continuation of Biden’s frustration with Zelensky.
I've had a short discussion with Brian Goetz about a similar case (sealed types in Java): https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/amber-dev/2020-April/0058...

I wonder when we are going to re-discover OOP style dynamic dispatch (or even better: multiple dispatch) to deal with software evolution.
>Projecting out to 5-10 years: what happens when LLMs are still producing hallucinatory semi-sense, but merely comprehending it makes the machine temporarily own you? A bit like getting hair caught in an angle grinder, that.

Seriously? Do you suppose that it will pull this trick off through some sort of hypnotizing magic perhaps? I have a hard time imagining any sort of overly verbose, clause and condition-ridden chatbot convincing anyone of sound mind to seriously harm themselves or do some egregiously stupid/violent thing.

The kinds of people who would be convinced by such "dangers" are likely to be mentally unstable or suggestible enough about it to in any case be convinced by any number of human beings anyhow.

Aside from demonstrating the persistent AI woo that permeats many comments on this site, the logic above reminds me of the harping nonsense around the supposed dangers of video games or certain violent movies "making kinds do bad things", in years past. The prohibitionist nanny tendencies behind such fears are more dangerous than any silly chatbot AI..
LibreWolf has uBlock Origin built in. uBlock Origin also works with Orion - it's explicitly advertised as a feature at https://kagi.com/orion/
In one case, yes.
I feel like point of lectures and classes, if you have a good professor/lecturer, is to be able to have the opportunity to understand how someone else understands a concept and is able to convey it to you. I personally think I did learn alot from passionate lecturers and professors, so I'd try to give some courses a chance, especially in upper levels when class sizes are smaller and curriculum is more specific (vs a intro to programming class, sure skip it if you know how for loops work)

The strategy itself is pretty nifty though, I feel like lecture notes with no person speaking behind it are very dry and content light, so claude being able to read it and probably look at external references to populate a study guide is pretty smart.
I still don’t follow.

If the geothermal plant isn’t ran at or near capacity all the time, the capex takes longer to recoup.

You can’t just, say, run it at 50% for a while, and then at 150% later, because a) ya typically can’t run plant at 150%, and for power generators ya can only run them at whatever you’re contracted to supply, so you’d typically want to run geothermal at capacity all the time.

This is true of anything that requires capital expenditure.
The entire p-zombie concept presumes dualism (or something close enough to it that I'm happy to lump it all into the generic category of "requires woo"). Gravity having an effect on something is measurable and provable, whereas qualia are not.
> Counter-argument against exempting the demo page

I really don't think that's a counter-argument for exempting the demo. It's an argument against ever implementing this feature on an actual website. Or, an argument for using the prefers-reduced-motion check on an actual website.
It would certainly with sufficient accuracy honestly say to you that it's conscious and believes it whole heartily, but in practice it would need to a priori be able describe external sense data, as it's not separate necessarily from the experiences, which intrinsically requires you to compute in the world itself otherwise it would only be able to compute on, in a way it's like having edge compute at the skins edge. The range of qualia available at each moment will be distinct to each experiencer with the senses available, and there likely will be some overlap in interpretation based on your computing substrate.

We in a way can articulate the underlying chemputation of the universe mediated through our senses, reflection and language, turn a piece off (as it is often non continuous) and the quality of the experience changes.
Saying quaternions require thinking in 4 dimensions seems like a lie with no proof. The geometric product is just the quaternion product broken up into scaler and vector parts.
Hopefully the American working class.
Oooh, just tried upvoting this one and it looks like your karma stayed constant at 8301. Strange. I wonder if there's a limit to how much karma one account can give another through upvotes within a certain time period.
All these failures help progress the industry. Lessons learned are a gift
Thank you, but also: it feels appropriate.
People adding a fun little visual gag to their own personal website is not active malice to you.
If country A attacks B, doesn’t that make them enemies?

What was that thing about aiding and comforting the enemy?
They didn’t lock it down. It’s a bit unfair to say you don’t own your mac hardware. (vs. iPhone, iOS, or even Android, where even the things with unlocked bootloaders can’t run non-android-derived operating systems).
Guidelines are one thing, but I am against prescriptive requirements of any kind. They harm innovation significantly. Of course I don't approve of a particular AI being mandated.

Currently, yes, AIs don't replace humans for code. AI only empowers the human to discover approaches that could help.
Providing public APIs to such information sounds great and I think it should be done but is also probably realistically expensive and peone to security problems. The government seems to have a very difficult time in general running all sorts of web services, it's a nightmare in some jurisdictions to even pay the government money for e.g. tickets... I had a hell of a time paying a ticket in San Diego and had to visit the the courthouse multiple times and file a paper form because my paymentment became "late" when it never showed up in their online database weeks later. I was TRYING to pay them and even going to suffer through the "convenience" fees because they outsourced the website to some crappy company and they still couldn't get it right.
A year back or so I sat down, read through all the pros and cons including many HN posts just like this one, and I came to the same conclusion. Default to string enums. If I really need to iterate over the keys (generally an antipattern anyway), possibly refactor it into a const object literal. Never use const enums, number enums, or implicit enums.
Why 2042 will be a big year for AI [video]
You can do it with stash too!
Based on the design shown, large version might have applications at places like USPS, FedEx, UPS, and DHL for multi-path conveyor assembly merge and split locations. Industrial food prep like shown in the Dorner example below for flat objects like pizzas, and obviously companies like Amazon and Walmart might be a market.

Do per axis spins underneath packages to move them onto the correct conveyors nearby. At least in some configurations, it would be easier than the variations shown from these types of vendors for merge conveyors, and fairly easily handle split conveyors.

https://www.dornerconveyors.com/solutions/merge-diverting-an...

https://www.bastiansolutions.com/solutions/technology/sortat...
This was funny.

The vast majority of Windows laptops will run Linux just fine, and are significantly cheaper.

All the small volume manufacturers have issues. Just install Pop OS on a think pad and keep going
> Do you think it would be a good idea for this to be rolled out by: online banking, government service sites, medical clinic portals

Um... why are you asking this? Feels like an odd tangent. The OP never suggested this was a good idea anybody should use.
It's technically biopunk but I nonetheless feel that The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi shares a lot of the same aesthetic.
This is basically Singapore.

But even Singapore isn't perfect—way too hot and humid, somewhat car-centric road planning, and for many Western people, too authoritarian.
Whoa—you can't post racial/national putdowns to HN.

I realize you might not have meant it that way, but given a large audience like HN, a comment like this is guaranteed to land that way with some readers, and some of those readers will be activated enough to comment angrily, then we fall into flamewar hell. So if you could please not post like this, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree, this is the one place where upstream crates should be allowed to make breaking changes for downstream users. As a consumer of another crate’s enum, it's easy to enough opt into “never break my code” by just adding default cases, but I'd like to have to opt into that so that I'm notified when new variants are added upstream. Maybe this should even be a Cargo.toml setting — when an upstream crate is marked non-exhaustive, the downstream consumer gets to choose: require me to add default cases (and don't mark them as dead code), or let me exhaustively match anyway, knowing my match statement might break in the future.
Even worse with Kaja Kallas, she flew into US and Rubio cancelled the meeting. Not sure if she was supposed to meet Trump or not but that's still a case of US bullying its allies all the while sucking up to Putin.