skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At any location on the moon that has a clear view of the Earth, you'll have access to >= half the GPS satellites -- so 15-16+. On Earth that number is as low as 4. The logic would be different (having to pick the farthest apart to get the clearest data to work with) but I can't imagine that it would be problematic for determining location.
It kind of is, when compared with native compiled languages, hence why rewriting JavaScript tooling is the new fashion is JS world.
This is very promising!
It's called the American Dream rather than American Reality for a reason. People follow this dream into the country. If China had enough of a hold on Western culture, it could too manufacture this perception which would draw immigrants in.
Rust values can be ignored as well.

There is no language to my knowledge that prevent you from ignoring values.
Doesn't make any sense, perhaps it's AI-generated nonsense. There was a DX4 100 but no such thing as a "DX3". The 486 included an FPU so there'd be no reason to have a "487" which was a complete replacement for the 486SX chips. There were Pentium Overdrives but those were CPU replacements on the 486DX.
for algorithmic nudity detection, would open source / open weights actually make it easier for an adversary to make saleable tools to bypass?
There are no gas stations on my route. I'd need to specifically drive to one.

And the one closest to my commute has a massive queue _every_ time.

I just rather drive home, plug in and the battery will be at 80-100% next morning, depending on how much I drove that day.
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Facebook needs to implement this as a flag, immediately. (kidding, of course -- it would nuke 98% of their content)
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Amidst severe overproduction, intense market competition, declining consumer purchasing power, and growing concerns about social equity in China, I have conceived a collective customization business model as a solution. I firmly believe that this model is an inevitable path for future social and economic development.

In this model, ordinary consumers unite to form collective customization groups, which place direct orders for consumer goods and services from suppliers across the three major industries. By doing so, they enjoy cost-price purchases (factory price + warehousing and logistics costs). At the same time, these consumer collectives establish their own quality inspection institutions to ensure product quality.

As the scale of the collective grows, it gains increasing bargaining power over suppliers, allowing it to demand better working conditions and improved employee benefits from manufacturers. Eventually, suppliers will become service providers for consumers, overturning the existing economic order and realizing economic democracy.

The collective's influence on suppliers will also drive rare-product manufacturers to unite, leading to a scenario where money alone will no longer guarantee access to goods. This shift will reshape the economy by reversing the flow of wealth from the consumption side, fostering a fairer society.

In the future, multiple customization collectives will emerge, competing, merging, and evolving. The ideal outcome would be the consolidation of these groups into a single entity, enabling "distribution based on demand" (allocation according to collective will). Production will be entirely driven by consumer orders, allowing China’s rural areas to develop large-scale American-style industrial farming freely, while state-owned enterprises that currently serve as economic stabilizers can be phased out.

Collective customization is not just a business model; it is a hybrid economic system. It combines planned and market economies, enabling companies to produce in an organized manner, enhance product quality, reduce waste, and promote environmental sustainability. At the same time, competition between consumer collectives and suppliers benefits the broader public by leveraging market dynamics to advance social equity.

This business model is driven by both self-interest and collective consciousness. Consumers seek high-quality, affordable products, making it an irresistible proposition. At the same time, the innate human pursuit of fairness—especially among ordinary consumers—fosters unity, which is the key to the model’s success.

This model can be expanded worldwide, transforming the global economy and ultimately paving the way for a more harmonious and equitable world.
https://archive.ph/APhpU
"Thankfully, despite its age and total lack of security, NFS is still well supported under Linux."

NFSv4 can run over TCP, which means that any encrypted wrapper can carry it. While SSH port forwarding can be used, stunnel is a better fit for batch environments. Wireguard is another option from this perspective.

Encrypted ONC RPC works at a lower level of the protocol to secure NFS, which is documented in RFC-9289.

Obviously, none of this will help with a machine using RARP and TFTP over 10baseT.
I truly despise Click and the ways you're supposed to test it
So are you expert in grids?
is it cheap to make it possible to get the electricity from homes, and resue or add new transformers to raise the voltage to medium then high voltage and use the same high voltage lines and whatever they use to get the energy from homes in Italy to homes in Romania ?

About costs, if the solar panels will cost me 20 years of paying my bills but they will maybe break in 10 years then it is a waste of my money, I can buy the energy directly and lose less money.

I bought the panels because they were subsidized otherwise there would be more profitable to buy the energy, without subsidies and if energy will be cheaper or I would get paid to use it then solar panels would make no sense .

Imagine then a country that needs to over build solar panels, why would private sector accept this?
The paragraph on Go AI looked accurate to me. Go AI research spent decades trying to incorporate human-written rules about tactics and strategy. None of that is used any more, although human knowledge is leveraged a bit in the strongest programs when choosing useful features to feed into the neural nets. (Strong) Go AIs are not trained on human games anymore. Indeed they don't search the entire sample space when they perform MCTS, but I don't see Sutton claiming that they do.
ok but I was asking for some reliable sources, not a paragraph of anecdotes. I could go google each one myself, but I don't even want to imagine in what kind of hellhole websites I will end up in if I do that.
I think the author of the article got a few things wrong. As far as I understood, SafetyCore is not "scanning all your photos". It is an API that apps on your phone CAN use to LOCALLY detect nudity and other potentially inappropriate things in photos.
The 486DX had an FPU. It was the 486SX that lacked it. The "FPU" upgrade for a 486SX was a entire special version of the 486DX that disabled the original 486SX entirely.
There's a weak connection, but to me it reads like clever marketing.

Actually finding chirality in space would be extremely cool in that it would mean one of two things:

- the panspermia hypothisis is correct, or

- some non-biological process creates chiral molecules.

Physics itself has plenty of chiral processes, but they only show up in the weak interaction. As the name implies, the weak interaction is really really weak and essentially doesn't exist on the energy scales of molecular interactions. So chirality would be a bit of a smoking gun for panspermia.

On the other hand, not finding chirality just means we don't have a smoking gun. There might be another asteroid flying around that is 100% chiral, or maybe 50% of them and we were just unlucky.

The briefing joins the point about chirality with evidence against panspermia, but really that might miss the point. Chiral or not, abundant amino acids in space means that one of the many steps to create life is relatively simple. If we could show that every subsequent step is simple that would be a big blow against panspermia. But in that case ruling out panspermia would be pretty cool, since it would suggest that life exists everywhere.
Happy to fix that for you. You can no more go to jail for "posting a meme" than you can do for "speaking some words".

Context and content is important. There are limits to allowable speech (yes, even in the USA) and if you transgress that you can be breaking the law.
This comes at a good time for me as I’m being threatened with a promotion from dev to management. But I have a question: I am being told that for SOX compliance, the manager approving a release can’t have any code in the release. Any devs or managers at publicly traded company that can tell me if this is bunk or not?
> And its new founding team thinks AI could be the secret to pulling it off.

Here's the sentence I went in looking for, really all I wanted to know. I feel so weary.
Now think about a field you know. Maybe laptops or phones.

Would a standardised battery block in laptops work? The same battery would work in a Frame.work, System76, MacBook air, MacBook pro, a Lenovo Thinkbook and whatever gaming monster there is from Asus.

Sounds stupid, right? It's just as stupid for cars.

And if laptops had battery swapping, would you swap your brand new battery, but empty, to a random one at a swapping station? Would you trust the people and systems that the battery hasn't been tampered with and is in good working order?
Very cool to see this! It turns out my wife and I bought Andy Barto’s (and his wife’s) house.

During the process, there was a bidding war. They said “make your prime offer” so, knowing he was a mathematician, we made an offer that was a prime number :-)

So neat to see him be recognized for his work.
It was a nice 4 years
So 2025 really is the year of agents.
The two UK cases:

- Nazi pug man got a fine of £800; no jail.

- Cheshire people; in the context of rioting and the consequences of rioting.

For the record I think (personal view only) that the Nazi pug man should never have been prosecuted, I personally find it grossly offensive but I think that the harm of stopping people saying these things is greater than the harm of the idiot saying them.

The Cheshire thing I find much more serious, it seemed to me that this was about people calling for other people to get hurt and killed. Is it really the case that it's ok to threaten people or to call for violence against a community in the USA?

Also, what about folks like Snowdon and Assange? I mean if freedom of speech is absolute in the USA why can't they just tell the CCP about USA nuclear control?
Life is so complicated.
Ask HN: What software needs to be tailored to AI agents?
I recently came across a winning project from TreeHacks (Stanford) that was basically an AI-native website. The dev made an HOC that could be wrapped around UI components (somewhat like ARIA labels) and communicated their purpose, appearance, and location to the agent.

He paired it with a GSM that synchronized user-agent interactions in real time allowing one to actually interact with a website through natural language.

This got me thinking, what type of software actually needs integrations like this? Do we need forms that agents can fill? APIs that agents can access? Payment gateways for agents?
> I havent seen anyone stuck to one gear (except hipsters on fixies, making a fashion statement)

Fixed wheel cycles aren't just for hipsters - there's a fair few cyclists who enthuse about them for teaching cyclists to have a smoother pedalling style which can help with higher cadences. I've only ever used fixed wheels on unicycles (which to be fair could be described as making a fashion statement) as they don't lend themselves to having gears.
That definitely brought back memories. Around '92, being a poor college student I took out a loan from my credit union for about $2,000 to buy a 486 DX2-50. For you younger people, that's about $4,000+ in today's money for a pretty basic computer. I dual booted DOS and Linux on that bad boy.
Doing great work at dismantling the US and making it a 3rd world country.
Ridiculous to think animals are Not Like Us, Not Like Us.
Are you using wifi? I have the 4850 and the wifi would sporadically drop out after a few hours and I wouldn't be able to reconnect without a full factory reset. It was the most frustrating thing. I was about to return it then moved it to another location and connected it via ethernet. It's been fine since, but a $350 printer that doesn't have a reliable wifi module is terrible. After searching on reddit, it seems it's a common issue.
and you will enjoy it
Wow, I absolutely hate this. We do not need "a new, better social platform" with founders from Reddit and Powered by AI!!!!™

Maybe we should consider, you know, new social media platforms that are build and designed by communities of people that need them and will use them. This top down approach by tech oligarchs with insatiable dollar signs in their eyes over providing anything of actual value will just lead to more misery and worthlessness.

The social media business model of harvesting data and forcing engagement over user experience has proven to be broken and not sustainable. I hope they fail.
You mean "Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction"? Or did they write another one?
It was a nice 4 years...
It's not surprising that editors / IDEs supporting less features are going to be faster. For example, https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5065, according to that issue Zed doesn't support Build/Debug actions, which makes it a no-go for embedded development immediately. At that point I'd rather just use nvim with plugins.

When I had an old computer that couldn't deal with the indexing done by JetBrain's CLion or Microsoft's Visual Studio Code - I used nvim. It was a pleasant experience, however it lacked support for visual debugging (and please don't talk about GDB TUI as if it is an option). Now that I have a computer that can deal with the indexing, Visual Studio Code is just fine. In fact, it is considerably more lightweight than JetBrain's CLion IDE and is very easy to setup.

For example, https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/create-dev-..., allows you to setup development inside a container. In practice this allows anyone to quickly pull the repository and start working on the code, including building and debugging without having to worry about setting up toolchains or environment as it'll be done automatically for you.
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Wow, fantastic analysis with enough ‘inconvenient truths’ to cause most people to ignore the hard message of where the USA stands in the world and some things we can try to sustain our economy and productivity. Are George's suggestions all practical? Sadly no, but I think it is generally good to have strong goals, and then achieve what we can.
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Yes I saw that but the salaries table is split among UK HQ, US HQ, and "everyone else", with all categories high, with US HQ the highest, indeed. But that's not a "type of software engineers"... Or perhaps it is based on a small subset of top-tier companies in all 3 categories.
> I frequently run into dynlib issues with regards to incompatible glibc references when sharing binaries

Assuming you’re talking about rust binaries, this would only happen if your binary is using glibc symbols that don’t exist on an older version of glibc, and then try to run that binary on a system with the older glibc.

But glibc is a red herring here, because rust is only using libc to call syscalls on the host, because that’s how you’re supposed to do it on every OS, and that’s how you have to do it on every OS but Linux. (Only Go seems to want to implement their own syscalls on Linux.)

It’s a red herring though, because even if rust made their own syscalls and didn’t use glibc on Linux, you’d just fail with ENOSYS when these syscalls are used, instead of failing with undefined symbols at load time. If you try to run stuff that was developed against newer kernel features, on a system without these syscalls, you’re going to run into an equivalent issue. (You might get lucky and not need those syscalls in your app, but that’s not always going to be the case.)
It seems sketchy as hell legally. The problem is that unlike e.g. car manufacturers, there is no specification or standard for what consumables must satisfy (like SAE10W30 engine oil). If you use the right oil, you should be fine.

If someone uses some $0.50 ink cartridge from wish that completely gunks the printer I'd probably say "you used bad ink, sorry" if I was the manufacturer. I mean in practice there's probably great ink that's half price and as good as the original. But in principle.
5 points on that some scammer is going to buy the domains and doing shady things with it.
> And the vast majority of people hate ads like me.

I don't mind respectful¹ ads, and refrain from using sponsorblock & similar. What I object to, and actively block, is the stalking that is endemic in the ad industry and is in no way respectful.

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[1] i.e. not the pop-ups/-unders of yore, not those that autoplay video or, worse, audio, not those that otherwise interfere with the normal use of the page I'm trying to look at, stalking etc.
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I mean yes, but I don't really like hand writing exception tracebacks via error wrapping.

That said... I did like a clever bit I did where you can use a sentinel error to filter entire segments of the wrapped errors on prod builds. A
Dev build gives full error stacks.
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The article misses that this stems from a Diggnation reunion.

It was originally a onetime show but they had such a good time they picked it back up. Then they started talking about how they should try to get Digg back.
This is, what, the third Digg reboot?
> ... This describes Go AIs as a brute force strategy with no heuristics ...

no, not really, from the paper

>> Also important was the use of learning by self play to learn a value function (as it was in many other games and even in chess, although learning did not play a big role in the 1997 program that first beat a world champion). Learning by self play, and learning in general, is like search in that it enables massive computation to be brought to bear.

important notion here is, imho "learning by self play". required heuristics emerge out of that. they are not programmed in.
I am running multiple mailcow instances and am very happy (supports sub-addressing). The only downside is that if you need mailpiler for archiving purposes you need to set it up manually since that is part of their paid offer.
The thing is people keep making this assumption that we could just win if we tried harder or stayed longer or whatever else. We occupied Afghanistan for more than two decades. And it's not like we were there just occasionally droning people. We were actively engaging the Taliban with local proxies on a very large scale - total deaths were in the hundreds of thousands. And we spent in excess of $2 trillion on that war! For some scale we spent $4-$5 trillion (inflation adjusted) in WW2. These are absolutely massive efforts.

The withdrawal from Afghanistan was bungled, but the problem was being there in the first place. If Bin Laden was ever there, obviously a wide scale occupation is going to cause him to leave. So the entire idea was just nonsensical to begin with. If you're ever going to enjoin a war, you need a realistic plan. For these wars that plan did not exist, and we ended up trapped in inescapable quagmires. Getting out of Ukraine after just a few years is perhaps the smartest military decision we've made in decades.

And I disagree with you in regards to overall safety in the coming era, but from an economic point of view. As the world becomes more multipolar, the US's ability to export our inflation will fade, and along with it the endless printing of funny money. War is much more difficult to carry out when you have to really pay for it. Keep in mind that in spite of being on the winning side in WW2, that war practically bankrupted Great Britain and led directly to the end of the British Empire. Money being "real" completely changes the nature of war.
I know this isn't really about bike gears, but... "people will get it" - yes and no. Since the shift-of-least-resistance is the one to smaller sprockets, a lot of clueless cyclists with 3x gearing are riding around in small-small gear combinations which are the worst - least efficient and most wear-prone.

Maybe that's why the bike industry went to 1x drivetrains. That, or being able to sell you $250 cassettes where a $20 one used to do.
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> Going back to a gold standard will limit the money supply. This means that there will be less capital for building $thing.

That's precisely the solution. The current state of the hollowed-out US economy is because of the zirp enabling a hollowed-out financialized economy riding on bloated stock prices and valuations. That is where that 'capital' came from. And like in every case of printing money, the bill eventually came due.

> A gold standard means that when the economy gets overheated it pops, then contracts and you get deflation

That can be fixed with other measures and regulations than enabling a scammy free cash economy that causes only hollowed-out bloat.
It's funny, I've used that exact term, kapo, for Shapiro for probably a decade now, but I was thinking more of the "Commentary Magazine" crew. They are (as far as I know) not rich and make Jewish identity a stronger part of their brand.
The geometry will reduce the accuracy of the fix though as all the satellites will be in the same 8 degrees of the sky.

I wish they had said in the article what the accuracy is!
its not about hard power necessarily, but soft power. If the EU united politically and made these harassment attacks consequential then they would stop.

E.g. perhaps something along the lines of prison for captains who were 'derelict in duty', rewards to crews who grass and seizing ships that, by dragging anchors 'by accident', have proven themselves unseaworthy etc.
Its even funny, since 2005 the major economists are calling for a major collapse in the Chinese economy, but it never happens as they hope...