skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...

In general, uBOL will be less effective at dealing with websites using anti-content blocker or minimizing website breakage because many filters can't be converted into DNR rules (see log of conversion for technical details).

https://x.com/gorhill/status/1792688494999155147
No, of course they can't. You can't beat extremely cheap labor, government subsidized lithium, and devalued currency without tariffs.
I once explored doing just that: https://github.com/nhanb/boast

However I never got around to finishing it, mainly because I couldn't decide on where to stop: should I also generate commits from all non-master branches etc.

I flirted with the idea of a browser-side repo viewer too, but re-implementing git packfile parsing in js didn't seem like something I'd want to spend my time on, so I moved on. Glad to see others pondering the same thing though.
Why are we attacking our allies like this? What have Mexico and Canada done? Or Greenland, Panama, the EU? Why are we aligned with Russia over our allies? Who benefits from this?
I think a lot of the problem with Slashdot was cultural change. When it was new, most of the readership was made up of IT professionals and programmers. Sure, there were trolls but most of the comments were kind of like what you see on HN.

Over time, the civility and intelligence in the comments dropped. It didn't feel like a community anymore - or at least a community the original readers wanted to be a part of, anyway. So more and more of the original readers left until the comment sections looked like 4chan.

Slashdot had its scandals and drama, but I really believe it was the readership change that killed it.
Bribes. Again.

I miss the days when most politics disagreement were over things like whether it was better to have more taxes/services versus fewer... As opposed to today, where it seems to be "government shouldn't commit evil crimes" versus "but I really wanna crime and you can't stop me".
So true.

A huge factor in this: 87% of US teenagers have iPhones [1] and that's not going to change anytime soon.

[1]: https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-stock-teens-iphone-e5...
While 3:2 pulldown isn't atrocious, a 120Hz screen does have the advantage that it's a simple multiple of 24 fps, which can't be said of 60Hz.
> Everything on my home network is set up as if it were public-facing.

That's Wireguard, I have the same, just Wireguard + VPS, everything I want available that is. I don't put every PC on my home network on the VPN, I could though, pretty easily.
> left side of the political spectrum has for a very long time advocated for an interpretation of 1A that is "free as in liberty" while the right prefers a "free as in anarchy" approach.

This is incredibly incorrect.

> right prefers a "free as in anarchy"

The right wing of USA politics claims this but clearly act in opposition to this claim.

Also, “anarchy” is the most extreme is “leftist” politics.
Uh, buses have had ads on the sides forever, at least in the US.

Buying a car, which haven’t had ads previously, only to discover after the fact that it serves ads is a change to the status quo. Even more so if the ads were pushed via firmware update and not something that was originally spec’ed (no clue if this is what happened, but sounds plausible, given lack of details).
Reusing the map between benchmark call spoils the benchmark. The first run needs to allocate data structures that might remain after a call to clear(). Allocate a fresh one for each run.

And use JMH, run some iterations. You might be surprised at the variability.
> Most people buying an entry level computer these days should at least consider stretching to get a MBA than the $300-400 shovelware, they’ll get so much use out of it.

I don't think that expecting everyone to waste 3x the money to scratch the same itch is an informed take, specially when the $300 shovelware has far better specs in terms of RAM and by far HD.

Nowadays you can even get better performing miniPCs for half the price than your MacBook Air M3, such as any of the systems packing a AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS.

I think some people look at the shiny computers and don't look past that.
There's an interesting talk involving Baroness Hale, who'd later go on to be President of the Supreme Court, where she mentions the Belmarsh case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYR414Q8v6A&t=2605s
The framework series are about as good as you get in non apple land in my experience.

Still MacBook is a better product for most use cases.
Will the future of software development run on vibes?
The server markets want ECC and Apple has largely stopped shipping ECC. I don’t recall seeing any assurances that the ARM Mac Pro had ECC.
Kind of:

Schedule A
Tailscale Entity
Existing customer accounts as of September 2, 2024 Tailscale Inc., a Canadian business corporation
New customer accounts on or after September 3, 2024 Tailscale US Inc., a Delaware corporation

My account is associated with Tailscale US Inc., unfortunately.

https://tailscale.com/terms
Guys, this is super cool. As someone building a canvas product that also has a (prosemirror) notepad I am super inspired by this. The way you can flick from a canvas on the notepad, back to the notepad, and it doesn't feel like you're locked in to any block because you can still slightly see where you came from.. love it.

All the best!
> Not all that disappointing considering that most of the performance improvement in M4 seems to come from increased power consumption

Disappointing for those of us who don't care about power consumption in a desktop.
They don't. A BYD Seal or BYD Dolphin or a Sealion 7 look like 'normal' cars inside and out.
Not coming to the US. :(
> It's not a Veblen good.

What do you think it is then?
https://github.com/intel/ipex-llm/blob/main/docs/mddocs/Quic...

Requirements (>8 token/s):

380GB CPU Memory

1-8 ARC A770

500GB Disk
That's part of Apple's DNA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
Not an expert but my understanding is Trump's announced but not yet enacted 25% tariffs on EU goods, cars being one of the main motivators[0].

So assumung 25% tariff then 8% sale on top, the $20,000 would wind up at $27,000 sale price for the USA (although like other people have pointed out, this isn't going to be sold in the USA)

[0] https://www.statista.com/chart/18771/passenger-car-trade-bet...
I am behind on episodes. I will give these episodes a shot.
Sounds about right.

VMS is the only OS (that I know of) that uses all 4 processor privilege modes.

Side note: The 21064 has such bizarre IPR mappings, the read values have lots of bits scrambled around compared to their write counterparts. This is likely a hardware design decision affecting the programmer's model, if I had to guess.
Looks like proofreading (sign being wrong) to me.
I'm sure Elon is horrified.

Imagine if he lost a $100B and was only worth $1/4T?

How would he even get by?
There is a relevant document you might be interested in with respect to this topic.
Moreover, the the sentiment of non-Americans always seems to mirror that of the author.
We are not allies with Russia. We are opposed to many things with them but we can still work to find some strategic cooperation from time to time.
MAGA is not buying Tesla vehicles, regardless of their enjoyment of his recent politics.
After Obama turned it down: https://decider.com/2025/03/05/severance-obama-turned-down-r...
Thanks, that seems to be reasonably close to Turing's rules. And predictably: no program ever convinced the judges that it was human and the real human competitor was a computer. No program passed the Turing test.

> In addition, there were two one-time-only prizes that have never been awarded. $25,000 is offered for the first program that judges cannot distinguish from a real human and which can convince judges that the human is the computer program. $100,000 is the reward for the first program that judges cannot distinguish from a real human in a Turing test that includes deciphering and understanding text, visual, and auditory input. The competition was planned to end after the achievement of this prize.
I just schlepped 150 kg (in 30 kg chunks, and not 2km but some distance with lifting) and I’m entering my eighth decade on Earth. No back pain. Did have a little back pain in middle age, but a few years in the gym with a personal trainer fixed that right up. Fitness, my friend, fitness.
I think people are in denial but don't you think you're answering your question with your question ?

What about Ukraine? No more weapons or intelligence, just as it starting to get even worse for Russia. Hmm how weird?

I can fully imagine a time in the near future where you will see US arms and fighters going to Russia and people will be fine with that because their leader said so.

Which other country would be obsessed with Greenland? Doesn't the US already have a military presence there? Isn't already a US ally ? Odd ?
Yes, you are right. Unfortunately HN somehow truncated my original URL link.
Same folks presented DREAM stack and some use cases at Ray Summit last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaaKT0IyutQ.
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McjH0WfdAyI
Manus: SOTA AI Agent on Gaia Benchmark, Beating OpenAI Deep Research
The lottery doesn't work the same way as most other forms of gambling. For the house, it is not zero-sum. Their profit is a fixed percentage of sales, and the bigger the prize, the more tickets people buy. The money won from the lottery was set aside at the time of purchase, it's already gone to the people running the lottery.

So the lottery makes more the bigger the prize gets. They don't really care who wins or how much they get.
It's an insult to InfluxDB open source community
In 2017 I was working for a company that was trying to develop foundation models and I was developing a framework for training what were then large neural network [1] and other models.

It was "yet another mac-oriented startup" but I had them get me an Alienware laptop because I could get one with a 1070 mobile card that meant I could train on my laptop whereas the data sci's had to do everything on our DGX-1. [2]

Today it is the other way around, the Mac Studio looks like the best AI development workstation you can get.

[1] I was really partial to a character-level CNN model we had

[2] CEO presented next to Jensen Huang at a NVIDIA conference, his favorite word was "incredible". I thought it was "incredible" when I heard they got bought by Nike, but it was true.
The Lessons of the Lucy Letby Case – Private Eye Special Report[pdf]
In what way does the Avalon look weird? It looks like a typical car to me. If you want weird look at Citroen cars.
Sounds like submission "helper" tools are working about as well as normal :).

Did you have the chance to try this out yourself or did you just run across it recently?
looks like a generalist version of Devin
Slightly tangential to the article itself, but quite relevant to the overall vibe of this comment section (and others like it): it seems like a large percentage of the HN community genuinely thinks that we should always do whatever is best for ourselves personally when it comes to politics.

"Voting against their own interests" has been a common refrain around here for the last months/years, usually in reference to Trump supporters and usually in reference to economic interests, as if your own personal economic benefit is the only thing that matters when in the voting booth.

Maybe some people believe in more than just their own economic self-interest? In fact, Benjamin Franklin once said that "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." And yet I feel like there are many commenters around here who are effectively encouraging everyone to do that, and/or gleefully experiencing schadenfreude when people don't do that.

Now that I have articulated this though, I realize maybe a community built around a startup accelerator is exactly the place you'd find people that fixate on economic self-interest.
I'm guessing the first word is either "get" or "eat"
So then the notch is abusive. I knew it.
You're in a cult. Why would you want to work with the aggressor, who broke his peace vows 27 times? Why wouldn't you work with your closest allies, Canada, Mexico and Europe?
I wasn't sure and still am not what your statement means, I checked Google, their AI tool offered this:

"Yes, WireGuard does support NAT traversal, though it doesn't handle it natively; it relies on techniques like UDP hole punching to establish connections between peers behind NATs."

That makes no sense to me, I have my peers talking to each other on the Wireguard VPN behind my ISP NAT. I do have one UDP port open on the VPS that they all talk to. Is that what you mean by, "Wireguard doesn't do NAT traversal on its own, which is, IMHO, the killer feature of Tailscale."?

If so, how does not having to open one UDP port which can't really be detected anyway, justify having all your traffic controlled by a third party through servers (I forget what Tailscale called them) you don't own?
Funnily enough, this is exactly Putin’s own logic — just flipped.

“We had to support those rebel Ukrainian states so Ukrainians fight them, not us.”
“We had to preemptively disarm Ukraine, or we’d be fighting Ukrainians inside Russia within five years.”

As for China — surely they’d be nervous if Taiwan was one-third of their population and shared a land border.

Ukraine isn’t just a border state, it’s alt-Russia, as Taiwan is alt-China (and so was Hong-Kong). A competing civilizational project trying to jump off the imperial train and build a Polish-style normal nation-state — and that makes it an existential threat. Not because Ukraine is strong, but because it offers Russians a dangerous glimpse of an alternative path — a Russian identity without the empire.
You can replace that with a 2TB SSD yourself.
Also see the demo from Jason Dai's post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jasondai_with-the-latest-ipex...
We saw the EU's commitment to Article 42(7) when France invoked it in response to the Bataclan attacks.

To say it was underwhelming would be an understatement.
Or get postponed like all car tariffs

Or reduced like energy imports

It's just a scam
No, it’s not easy. At all.

I’ve worked in parenteral pharmaceutical manufacturing (IV drugs) and making sterile products at scale is actually quite hard to do.

It is true the ingredients are basic. Where the challenge comes in is running a manufacturing line where all products that come out the other end are guaranteed to be 100% sterile.

And actually calling them “sterile” isn’t true, they need to be “pyrogen-free” or "aseptic". Pyrogens are basically “fever causing” materials like fragments of bacterial cell walls.

You can’t just mix up the ingredients and then sterilize it (heat or radiation). There may not be any viable infectious agents (bacteria or viruses) but it will contain fragments like LPS (lipopolysaccharides) which will make patients very sick.

And the finished product is a fantastic growth medium for bacteria since it doesn't typically contain any preservatives to prevent bacterial growth.

So the process requires a number of steps to remove all pyrogens (micro pore filtration) on a large manufacturing plant which is quite challenging when you’re dealing with ten thousand liter process vessels then filling millions of IV bags. Every vessel, line, filter, connection and package in the plant is a potential source of contamination. You also need extensive testing throughout the process to ensure nothing goes wrong.

It’s one of the reason why there are often shortages of generic IV drugs. It’s expensive to set up and requires expertise to maintain the process. If problems happen, production lines can be shutdown for months while the issue is fixed. As a result a lot of manufacturers just exit the market when prices drop because the profit margin gets eaten up every time an issue arises.

You can read the FDA's guidance document and the cGMP guidance to get a sense as to the complexity.

https://www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2003-D-0145-0005
That didn't answer any of my questions. Suppose I wanted to be the 15th of those 14 people. I have identical claims, except that mine, unlike theirs, are fraudulent. How will this be determined?
Why in the world did this get flagged? Seems incredible relevant to the HN crowd.
> Conservatives have been consistently in the lead, and there are studies showing how much more prone to believing misinformation they are.

No, that's misleading. Conservatives have also been consistently in the lead on "authoritarianism" to the point that it was considered a purely conservative phenomenon, until someone actually thought to ask questions like "what would left wing authoritarianism look like?" and suddenly they found it everywhere.

You seem not to realize how unreliable the data is on these questions. Not only is the replication rate of psychology and sociology ~35%, but the demographics of those fields yields a clear bias on exactly these questions. You simply cannot draw such sweeping conclusions from the unreliable data we have.

When conspiracy and biased thinking are tested directly, as with the study I linked, there is no difference in how the biases impact their thinking. Both sides are extra harsh on their enemies, are overly forgiving of their allies, etc. Confirmation bias and motivated reasoning all around.

> There's at least reasoned arguments for that.

Do you think that there were reasoned arguments for Trump having won in 2020?

> That isn't the same thing as rejecting useing masks during a pandemic.

They could cite reasons for that too, you just don't believe they are valid reasons. It's the same confirmation bias in all cases though.
What if your cpu microcode already has malware which injects itself into the microcode update?

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/358198.358210
Other automakers are arguably worse off as they operate factories on both sides of the border, have more complex supply chains and are less agile. I honestly don't know how the auto industry is going to survive this chaos. These guys have 5 year lead times on designs, assembly lines, suppliers, supply chains, etc. How does any of that work with weekly tariff policy changes? I wonder if it's all going to backfire and we'll see more cars just fully assembled overseas & shipped in, regardless of tariff.

Tesla has a lot more agility in swapping parts out and handling any differences in software, for better or worse. We saw this during the pandemic with chip shortages.

They have a much more move-fast-and-break-things mentality so for example while they are first to put tablet screens in cars, they were not automative grade which is what lead to a lot of short lifespans in early Model S vehicles. Similar for the flash memory rewrite issue affecting early models.
You really got him good..?
Intelligent Find and Replace
They've been able to reap some real technological efficiencies because of their vertical integration. Notable ones I know about:

- The integrated on-chip RAM dramatically speeds up memory access. Your full 16 GB of RAM on an M1 functions at cache speeds; meanwhile, the L3 cache on an Intel processor is 1-8M, more than 3 orders of magnitude smaller.

- Apple takes full advantage of this with their software stack. Objective C and Swift use reference counting. The advantage of refcounting is that it doesn't have slow GC pauses, but the disadvantage is that it has terrible locality properties (requiring that you update refcounts on all sorts of different cache lines when you assign a variable) which often make it significantly slower on real-world Intel hardware. But if your entire RAM operates at cache speeds, this disadvantage goes away.

- Refcounting is usually significantly more memory-efficient than GC, because with the latter you need to set aside empty space to copy objects into, and as that space fills up your GC becomes significantly less efficient. This lets Apple apps get more out of smaller overall RAM sizes. The 16GB on an M1 would feel very constraining on most modern Wintel computers, but it's plenty for Apple software.

- The OS is aware of the overall system load, and can use it to determine whether to use the performance or efficiency cores, and to allocate workloads across cores. The efficiency cores are very battery-efficient; that's why Macbooks often have multiple times the battery life of Windows laptops.

- The stock apps are all designed to take advantage of efficiencies in the OS and not do work that they don't need to, which again makes them faster and more battery efficient.
538's final forecast was Kamala 50%, Trump 49%.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/
You should consider getting a hobby.
All glory to arstotzka!
> Also, “anarchy” is the most extreme is “leftist” politics.

Depends on what you mean by 'left' and 'anarchy'.

See eg anarcho-capitalists as an example that most people would see as 'right' and that uses the term 'anarchy'.

(I'm explicitly not saying that their use of 'anarchy' is the correct definition of the term, just pointing out that at least a substantial number of people use a definition of 'anarchy' that makes this concept possible for them.)
> The 8086 and 80286 were so difficult to program, both in assembler and higher level languages.

286 protected modes, sure.

16-bit 8086, no way. difficulty of use did not hinder.

celebrating proper 32-bit protected modes, absolutely agree. but x86 was still well liked and used and was not the clunker that 286 was.
This baffles me. What's to maintain? I've been running wireguard for years and never had to do anything except scan a QR code when I get a new phone.

By "as if it were public facing" I assume you mean locked down as much as possible using either router or host-based firewall rules?
If it’s such a concern, the government could just use their money to say buy the firmware rights from Qualcomm and Broadcom or just force their hand (they’re US based) to create a certified firmware to push in a less liberal free OpenWrt approach. Except this is more than not lobbying by Cisco just to pile on the e-waste.

And yes, tp-link firmware is just more poop spat on top of others but it’s the same from all manufacturers that insists on gathering and selling your data, and pushing their branding. Security is an illusion if you’re the product.

Do yourself a favor and check if there is an open source firmware provided by OpenWrt and remember binary blobs are an unfortunate reality.
You mean polls like this that put Clinton 15% ahead? https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/blogs/wisconsin-voter/20...

I think there’s a stronger argument that those polls were intended to suppress Trump voters into thinking they were not the majority (when in fact they were).
The Mozilla Firefox New Terms of Use Disaster: What Happened?
A 'Third State' Between Life and Death That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious
Does a thriving auto industry mean that its industrial workers can't afford eggs?
My guess is people in mainland China don't care either, but in normal countries people are crazy about soccer. It was on my mind because I was in a hackathon [1] last weekend and before I started a bunch of international students were watching the highlight reel for the last world cup.

Soccer is picking up in interest in the US, slowly but surely. MLS games are worth going to and I enjoy a lot of soccer games.

(My own soccer story was that I had a terrible fight with a recommendation engine I built to convince it that I liked the NFL but didn't like the Premier League. I started thinking about feature engineering for sports and that got me reading soccer articles closely and I'd just read incredible things like games that went 7-0 or 1-0 and it was an own goal and such and next thing I know I am one of those people who wakes up at 9am on Saturday to watch soccer...)

[1] we won! (not because of my strength as a coder but because of my mvp obsession and demo/presentation skills from startup land)