skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having lived around the world and now residing in Denmark for a decade plus, I can confidently say PostNord is the worst postal service I've ever seen in my entire life.

If you Google r/copenhagen PostNord you will see countless horror stories, mostly focused around delivery drivers simply refusing to do their job by purposely not delivering packages. I doubt freeing them of their obligation to deliver letters is going to improve things.

We also have the full might of the state behind them who will happily charge you multiples of the value of your item coming in from out of country because they "inspected" it.

People in the US don't understand how good they've had it (well until very recently with tariffs), as you could get any item you wanted delivered to your doorstep with no additional fees and better customer service at a fraction of the price it costs us.
If that's the case maybe you should surveil the business people making the shady deals instead?

But no.. surveiling the dealings of multinational oil companies would be a totally bizarre intrusion into their privacy and the private property right of the owners... but extremely intrusive surveillance of public servants is fine and their just punishment for doing very demanding work for relatively low compensation.

Sounds completely brainwashed if you ask me. You need to recognize who your friends are.

If you think our economic system has this severely corrupting influence maybe we should consider doing something about that. You don't strike me as a stranger to radical reform.
It's not widespread, but I have heard about it.
ECB dodged a payment disaster in 10 hours of tech meltdown
Yeah, what a pity. I love reading vintage computer manuals. They were well written, sometimes even with a bit of humour. I can imagine myself carrying a Powerbook and some manuals going into the mountains to write some software.
This is not correct. It is like VRAM, not like normal PC RAM.

Lowest latency of DDR5-6400 on normal PC starting at 60ns+

Lowest latency of VRAM on GeForce RTX 4090 starting at 14 ns

Lowest latency of Apple M1 Memory starting at 5 ns, its more like L3 cache

And on Apple M chip, this ultrafast memory is available for CPU, GPU and NPU.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/microbenchmarking-nvidias-rtx-4...
I know that both GCC and LLVM back-ends exist. Now, why do you think neither is used anywhere? (well, the LLVM one seems very new so it will need time regardless)

Also, it is not gogcc, it is gccgo. You may try to handwave away this but the above is legitimate criticism of very real Go weaknesses as observed on the example of this library
The problem is everyone is forced to donate whether they like it or not. It's not something people get to vote for.
This is a very cool project. However, with a 100 Mbps Ethernet, WiFi 5 up to 433 Mbps, no OpenWrt, at €150, who is this device for? Save for the 4G, a Pi is a much better deal, with a much better support.

And for professional customers, CM5 seems like a much better deal, or go fully custom.
It just means that those values are easier to see when you live in or at least travel to other places and compare.
I see I did have a misunderstanding. I believe there is still the meta data angle, but yes, private keys on endpoints would ensure E2EE. I will update my comment.
How do you fit podcasts into that philosophy? RSS/atom based and still going strong.
This is beyond silly.

You could be using your phone to factcheck something that relates to the ongoing discussion. Or having a side-chat with another member, privately expressing/requesting an opinion to provide context. Or to take quick notes. Or, nowadays, you might even be using an AI to keep a running summary of what the speaker has been rambling about in the last 50 minutes, translated from 'buzzspeak' to 'humanspeak'. All legit uses of technology, which enhance the politician's attention rather than detract from it.

I'm not saying I'm having a hard time believing people 'could' be checking out 9gag instead during parliament, but unless you give me an AI that can detect people who are on their phone AND verified to be slagging off, then you're just bullying people for having phones and being able to use them.

Also, I like how laptops are somehow exempt from this bullying for some magical reason.
I find that feature very annoying. I don’t like long form text interspersed with micro-blog posts/disussion.

Needed feature (partially why they acquired Revue) but implementation was botched. Also now many individual tweets in a thread are too long and expanding and scrolling through them is busted UX as well.
It's not illegal, but unlawful for data controllers to process such personal data without free permission. But in this case there's likely an exception in GDPR article 85, for "For processing carried out for journalistic purposes or the purpose of academic artistic or literary expression" [1].

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj/eng#art_85
Oh, Win 2000...that was my fav OS. I stretched using it until XP is almost history. But XP was good for me too, especially comparing to 10/11.
> they arent really selling anything i would consider valuable or sellable (eye of the beholder?).

Which meshes well with art, so maybe the OP, in fact, is an artist.
Yes, this. And I don't have a PhD, I have a Master's. I'm not saying the wall doesn't exist - that's why I specified I chose an 'easy' path. I'm just saying in my case the wall wasn't intellectual.
It's somewhat tricky to measure the effectiveness of your MP, because of course their work output is politics.

We have https://www.theyworkforyou.com/ in the UK, which is a fantastic site, listing everything your MP does in Parliament. But the truth is that most MPs always vote exactly how their party tells them, and rarely speak. The main chamber in Parliament is mostly national debate on how to run the country, and amendments and motions are put forward outwith that chamber, by teams of MPs communicating with the Speaker's office.

Most MPs in the Commons are just waiting their turn to speak, and they wrote their speech the day before. The rest only turn up at voting time, and vote how they were told to by their party, then leave again. They don't listen to speeches, it's not going to make them vote differently.

So perhaps we need all the MP's official emails and texts to truly scrutinize their activity. Their presence and focus in the chamber is of limited importance.

What's more useful, IMHO, are when MPs join the various Parliamentary committees and listen to witnesses, scrutinize legislation line-by-line, and such. Those are meetings where I'd like MPs to be fully focused.
There is even better one - Postal

Probably the only really good Uwe Boll movie.
And that simple approach can be ridiculously scalable. Look at how mailing/parcels/printing could scale up during covid. Mail can put a document in the hands of tens of millions quickly.
u havin a laff?
i'm on a number of discord servers. yes, some have that 'mean girls' vibe but considering the content, i expect that. the more tech oriented ones i'm on...that's not an issue at all.

to me, in general the vibe of a given discord is similar to the general vibe of that topic (i.e some games have terrible, vitriolic cesspools for communities and those discords reflect that. other things, such as one of the rust ones i'm on, reflects that community's vibe which is a lot more wholesome imo).
Taiwan similarly can't trust Starlink. Putin, on behalf of China, asked Musk to not activate Starlink over Taiwan:

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversat...

Taiwan's space agency is developing a domestic system:

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2025/02/27/...
But they trained on open datasets…
The idea of Hamas will never be eradicated for as long as Palestinians live under occupation and dehumanisation. Hamas came to be after Palestinian land was occupied, large swathes stolen and its people killed by Apartheid Israel.

There already are 5.6 million refugees in Jordan and neighbouring countries, created by Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians; that's almost half the population of Israel. Why should Palestinians forcibly leave their own land?
I have quite the opposite experience. PostNord called me once because I was not home, and I could tell them to just leave the package at the door. Now you can just do it via the app.

While I quite often from friend in America see that packages get re-routed multiple times to states around them.
> Quite obviously "the worst climate change prediction" implies that we all die.

If you understand "prediction" to mean "any bullshit made up by anyone" then yes. But if you mean by "prediction" what we think is likely to happen based on available data and knowledge then not.

> Not sure if you are aware of that problem or if you are just mentioning it because you quickly read it here.

I'm aware of the problem. That is why I wrote what I wrote.

> If we reach 4 degrees of warming (and that's a prediction if we don't change anything, knowing that we have already passed 1.5 earlier than expected), a large part of Earth around the equator will become unlivable

Correct. And that is really, really, really bad. So bad that we don't have to overstate how bad it is.

> That's wars, global instability, lots and lots of deaths, and the end of society as we know it. That's collapsing.

That's societal collapse. That's really really bad. But you were talking about species level collapse. Let me quote you "We literally are failing to survive on Earth." That's not the case. We don't have to overstate our case. Extinction is not the danger we are facing here. It is continued living on the species level in a much more precarious, dangerous, unpleasant way. It's failing to thrive, not failing to survive.
Apple debuted dedicated machine learning hardware in 2017 with the Neural Engine on iPhones. While I don’t think they predicted the LLM explosion in particular, they knew machine learning was important and they have been allowing that to influence hardware design.
> But hardship will teach some much needed lessons.

To whom is this lesson being taught? The general public or the leadership that is increasingly untethered from the general public's oversight?

Seems to me that the lessons of the war on Iraq was to subsidize regional dictatorships even further to fend off Iran and Syria. The Great Recession of 2008 caused suffering too. The lesson for that appeared to be to cut interest rates to 0% for corporations for 14 years while retail consumers paid 'market rates'. And now they're about to pay higher prices due to leadership committed to speedrunning the 1920s.
Half of the US think trump is saving them, the other half think we're witnessing the end of the republic. Depending on which bubble you live in you get bombarded with information going your way.

> How does his behaviour in this administration differ markedly from his first?

Was there a government purge during the first term ? Did we have 20 years old non vetted civilians getting access to critical systems ? Did we have the entire tech sector rallying behind trump ? Did we have a foreign billionaire melding with internal politics straight from the oval office ?

No, we had an old man selling cans of beans from the oval office: https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5f1091ef3075b61a6e553443/...

We had people who mistook the "Four Seasons Hotel" with "Four Seasons Total Landscaping": https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/Four_Seasons_...

It was a clown show with minor influence on the long term direction of the US and the world, it's hardly comparable to what we're witnessing right now.
What happened during covid with the postal system?

More people ordering online?
Have you ever stopped to think that the "long tail" — that endless array of niches and microbusinesses that flourished in the digital age — might be coming to an end?

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Mas não se trata apenas de um “fim” inevitável, e sim de um convite à reinvenção. Ainda há lugar para quem combinar a sensibilidade humana com o poder das máquinas e, com isso, gerar experiências realmente únicas.

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One underrated thing I appreciate about the USPS: postal fraud is serious business so I know that if it's important, it will always show up in my mailbox.

Easy to avoid email and SMS scams.
Ask HN: Why GPT should be reminded of the connection between some topics?
Sometimes, LLMs need reminders about the link between related topics (e.g., A and B), even though this connection exists in their training data. I suspect that while A is often mentioned alongside B, the reverse is less common. Are there practical techniques to reinforce these connections?
ISIS-style groups hate 'fitnah' (fragmentation or sedition) and 'rafidah' (rejectors, of a certain succession), i.e. shiites, a perceived internal enemy of the ummah, more than they hate non-muslims. This makes Iran _the_ enemy, and enemies of the enemy tentative friends, and friends of the enemy enemies.

The US has never had any qualms cooperating with more or less nasty groups or regimes. They recruited the mafia to keep unions and socialists from gaining political power in Europe, exchanging a revival of the heroin trade for their own political gains.
This just keeps getting grubbier.

The US is indeed now a Russian ally.
This may be useful: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/deepseek-r1-recipe-for-o1

but the tl;dr of the idea is that we can use reinforcement learning on a strong base model (i.e. one that hasn't been fine tuned) to elicit the generation of tokens that help the model reach a result that can be verified to be correct. That is, if we have a way of verifying that a specific output is correct, the model can be trained to consistently produce tokens that will lead to that result for a given input, and that this facility generalises the more problems you train it on.

There are some more nuances (the Interconnects article goes into that), but that's the fundamental idea of Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards.
I'd believe it.

At least I found it odd how many weird and straight-up unflattering scenes of Trump, Musk and Netanyahu were in the video, for what should ostensibly be a video to sell their idea. (Bearded belly-dancers? Trump and Netanyahu in skimpy swimsuits? Musk standing in a rainfall of dollar bills? What audience would see those as positive depictions?)

It seems like obvious satire (even though extremely tasteless), except for the fact that Trump posted it in all earnesty.

So I guess this says more about Trump than about the video creator...
Honestly think they should just disable all iPhone functionality but phone calls and the politicians will fold within hours.

End of the day people love their devices more than their rulers and it’s a tangible way to action citizens who would normally sleep though this into having their privacy protected.
Also, it ignores that perhaps sometimes slacking off (or perhaps better "taking a break") may be a good thing.
Posten is owned by PostNord, which is owned by the Danish and Swedish governments.
By that logic you could justify American involvement in the first gulf war by saying it was “the largest war in the middle east since WW2” or Vietnam as “the largest war in Asia since WW2.” The logic of opposing american interventionism never rested on the fact that there wasn’t a conflict happening.
Occupational Downgrading and Our Performative Work Future
I have more electronic documents saved up from 15 years ago than paper ones. It works both ways though.
...And also leave the people who own companies that see those "productivity gains" massively richer, explicitly at the expense of the people who are now unemployed.

We are seeing in real time right now what happens when inequality grows too stark. The people at the top abuse their disproportionate financial power to capture the government, and then start ensuring that the government can never threaten their economic dominance, regardless of the consequences for the 90% of people who do not share in it.

There are a number of potential solutions to this. Many of them involve violence. Among the least violent are various forms of UBI.
Interestingly, the well respected head of the Home Office announced departure around the same time as this story breaking.

There are always lots of juicy things going on in the big government departments, so connections could be made at almost any time. But the timing and quick departure does seems notable.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/matthew-rycr...
They have to use another carrier.

I'm actually not sure if you still can get government communication in paper form, in Denmark.

Edit: Ah, yes you can get an exemption from digital post: https://www.borger.dk/hjaelp-og-vejledning/hvad-har-du-brug-...
In a gold rush you'll make money selling shovels as the saying goes
Yes, I discovered this the other day as well. I was looking for information related to housing prices in a foreign country and was having a hard time because the only results I could get were for “luxury homes.” When I VPN’d into the country I was able to get better results.
Wikipedia says that PostNord is the resulting company of merging Post Danmark and PostNord Sverige, the former being the national provider for mail in Denmark after it got privatized.
They really don't tho. Transformer was invented in 2017.
I mean from what I can tell a lot of its recent success is simply because Slack is terrible. Most of the discord "servers" I use which aren't actually gaming related would be almost the same on slack, but slack has a less generous free tier.

I don't think discord has much of a real network effect, it's just a good value proposition. When the screws tighten that may change.
Ethereum faces challenges in efficiency, scalability, and usability as it matures. A debate within the community is whether to focus on Layer 1 (L1) enhancements or embrace Layer 2 (L2) solutions. At Devconflict, leaders discussed this issue, with a strong argument made for L2. The recent development of PeerDAS, introduced through EIP-4844 in the March 2024 Deneb-Cancun upgrade, is pivotal for L2 scalability.

L1 improvements involve core protocol upgrades but risk increased centralization and require slow consensus among participants. In contrast, L2 solutions, like Rollups, significantly enhance transaction speeds and reduce costs without altering the L1 protocol. Currently, Ethereum processes about 13-24 transactions per second, while L2 solutions are scaling to around 337 TPS.

PeerDAS enhances L2 scalability by allowing nodes to perform partial data availability checks, easing bandwidth requirements and improving scalability and cost efficiency. This development makes Ethereum more accessible, particularly for smaller users. While concerns about security and decentralization persist, innovations like PeerDAS aim to uphold strong security guarantees and stimulate further decentralization by reducing barriers to entry for new participants.

In conclusion, while L1 enhancements are necessary, focusing on L2 solutions like PeerDAS may provide the scalability and efficiency Ethereum needs while maintaining its core principles of decentralization.
What happened at the SuperDay?
Maybe I'm the crazy one, but I personally consider any group that worships nazis to be an extremist group. If they were in the US and hadn't done any kind of "extremist act" I would feel the same way.
Sounds like your average web development project though; frequent releases are a good thing, although I suppose for each individual they'll want to slow it down a bit.

I just wish there were more native applications instead of all the web desktop stuff. But, visual design options and developer availability is a huge factor there. Native iOS designs come the closest to what I'd like to see on the desktop.
on the other hand, the "humanure" handbook talks about how to compost "human manure"... maybe not to be applied to crops, though
My pet peeve is the trackpad

How on earth are there literally ZERO non Apple laptops with a trackpad as smooth as Apple’s?

This is an old technology. Surely someone must have reverse engineered this by now?
As an Arab person myself (and not getting into the Palestine occupation debate). It's sad that a non-Arab speaking nation is creating LLMs to better understand Arabic but I am not aware of any Arab nation doing the same effort.
Point!

Just thinking, agents are coming more and more to light. In example of deepseeks kind and wise to reason. What I see there reasembles two different agents talking to each other. While reasoning of claude ai doesn't look for me like two different agents but rather one talking to himself. So, if one would set up an organization structured agent hierarchy of boss (adviser) and managers (controller), workers (thinkers), it would be possible to do human-like decision-making.
If you have a powerful computer at home, you can also offload your ai work to it. It's still local in the sense it's your computer, but it would require network access.
Same for me. Workflow handles everything from web dev to Photoshop to Ableton - all working together - without hesitation
How on earth are there still no non Apple laptops that instantly and reliably go to sleep when you close the lid?
It would have been great if they had disclosed which products.
I've been building tons of projects with AI lately, and while this is a massive productivity boost, the code itself doesn't scale.
The acceleration when you start with zero is massive, but with a growing code base, AI hits a wall at some point.
You better understand what you've built going from there.
“…Trump is sending a deliberate message…”

Let’s not ignore the obvious—He doesn’t seem interested in government or leadership, but he is interested in power.

If his long arms can take something away, then you must make treaty and negotiate to get it back. And it goes the other way, if China is upset about the service, he can turn it off and see what leverage or opening that gives him in negotiations.

I see these moves as distraction, and power play. It’s difficult to see any deliberation in service of values.