skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HumanEval has 60 authors. They thought that they could make up "leetcode style questions" and that because they were "hand written" that training on GitHub wouldn't spoil the test set. Hand crafted questions like returning the decimal part of a float or parsing nested parentheses. Have they seriously never heard of lisp? But you can find many of the canonical solutions verbatim in code prior to the cutoff. I guess no one checked.

I'm not sure if people are just being quiet and going along with it or they are that disconnected. All those questions were obviously spoiled. The same is true, as you're noting. And if my CVPR reviews are any indication, they're laughable. I rarely see papers that do proper hypothesis testing. I shoot down poster papers that don't and will champion papers that do, even when I'm outnumbered. But I get why people don't write papers following the scientific style. If you isolate variables and make your work clear, reviewers take the easy way out and say the work is not novel.

I've lost a lot of faith in my community.

But then again, are we surprised? Look at how many experts supported Rabbit when it debuted. Every single one of them should have been able to sniff out a that scam. They were claiming the ability to do stuff beyond state of the art, on a tiny device, and did a really poor job faking the demo. I think there's an incentive structure for blinders and it's hindering our progress towards AGI or even more useful ML
Isn't an air fryer already the poster child of a "can't have a regular oven because I have no space in the kitchen, I'm renting the apartment, or both" appliance?
Apple Music sends ads to my Lock Screen, every time I search it’s automatically set to “Apple music” despite being turned off and no subscription so gives me no results, I have to change the option every time, every few months I get an ad I have to dismiss opening my music collection. The listening queue doesn’t seem to work anymore I can’t add things to it and repeat no longer works in a sane way.

I feel this would be unthinkable in the time before Tim Cook’s Apple.
How would you bock China's access to the sea along it's 14000 km coastline? That woulde be a heck of a blockade, with or without Taiwan.
The definition of the word "sell" has a different meaning in a post-AI world and in specific California have a new bill adding some other contexts to it, so despite not actually doing anything differently (go and look at the Firefox source tree if you don't believe me) they have to change their wording.

ETA: Setting Google as their default search engine in exchange for funding from Google has been cited as an example of "selling user data to Google", if you'd like a concrete example of what I'm talking about.
yes, this was a big screw-up all things considered, but crucifying people for a (relatively straightforward, imo) comms issue just seems...borderline violent?

> For instance, Mozilla said it may have removed blanket claims that it never sells user data because the legal definition of “sale of data” is now “broad and evolving,” Mozilla’s blog post stated.

> The company pointed to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as an example of why the language was changed, noting that the CCPA defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”

mind you, I sincerely doubt this ever even came across the desks of leadership—if it's legalese compliance bullshit, why would it?
The only use for me has been to put a recoverer middleware[1] to catch any unhandled panics and return HTTP 500s in my applications.

[1] https://github.com/go-chi/chi/blob/master/middleware/recover...
I can't reproduce the crash. Does it happen every time for you or only after a few times?
Many of those plugins will almost never use their combustion engine. Particularly in western Europe where most of these are selling, the average person doesn’t drive far enough per day to exhaust the battery.

So it’s not just feel-good, it’s a real impact.

That said, I don’t think that’s what this report is doing?
Tell me this response was not generated by AI
Sounds like the blog post shows that they are explicitly selling user data. Specifically data relating to the ads they show in the browser. They claim it's carefully anonymised and aggregated, but they are selling it nonetheless. The blog post is a nonsequitar with the claims in the updated 'TOS', which make no sense because they don't need a license for an executable on your PC to process and send data to the website's your visiting in line with what's expected of a web browser, only a license if they are also sending it to themselves or on behalf of themselves, which is not "what you intend" if you visit a web page or just open up a new tab.
I'm going to give it a listen, thanks. I found this funny and interesting interview with the host, safe to say, you're right he's not a fan! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usXS9ciS0gs
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Probably just Proton and Perodua. Plenty of manufacturing plants in SEA for the Japanese brands.
In Europe, we are messing up microservices because we have tiny pizzas
I completely agree, it all hinges on the quality of the document.

I really don't mind twenty-page docs when they are well-structured, have a clear drill-down from less details to more details through the relevant parts, documents where I feel are guiding my reading towards the important bits I need at the time, and making me comfortable to get into the weeds when I feel prepared enough by understanding what's the general point of the document. It's actually pleasant to read those.

The issue is: almost nobody has (or puts in) the time to properly edit a twenty+ pages document to make it pleasant to read, I've been guilty of that too in the past and do understand it usually comes from having so much of the context in one's own head that it gets lost taking the view of someone reading all the context for the first time.

I've strived to be better at it for years and it isn't an easy skill to learn but in a larger organisation it's immensely valuable to save everyone else's time.
There's only the small issue that the people who live there don't want to be Chinese!
Publish it. Let it get abused. Eventually they might fix it.
Select/Copy/Paste has been bad from the start on iOS, another I can’t get over is how the backspace behavior has the absolute worst timings for jumping to words and paragraphs.
I've started self-hosting mailcow (dockerized) on a Hetzner VM ~6 years ago or so. It took about 6 month to clean the rep of my IP address as it unfortunately been in spam lists previously - but after that, it's been a pretty smooth sailing. And all for a measly ~10 euro/mo including daily backups.
I guess if you know the type but it's not in the enum, then you can save it somewhere else. If the enum changes afterwards, that data can be used to update the enum value.
http://archive.today/2025.03.03-183004/https://www.ft.com/co...
I guess he really doesn't want those tapes to go public...
The history of your posts, oh my... But I will attempt to provide an answer in earnest.

All sane people are against an endless war. Or, any war for that matter. The only state that can be compared with an endless war is a mid-war period: the time when both sides know that the war is coming, and they live in misery, entrenching and militarizing, while the rest of human development stands still: economy is military-spending driven, birthrate falls, population flees, etc. Do we agree on that or do you need examples?

So, taking your question at its face value: the alternative is lasting peace. The history tells us that the only condition for lasting peace with Russia is either strong and decisive resistance or military alliance membership. Again, examples are a legion: both positive (Finland, Baltics, Turkiye), and negative (Georgia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, Chechnya to a certain degree).

The only path for lasting peace for Ukraine is to humiliate Russia on the battlefield. For that to happen they need weapons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loebner_Prize
This is clear, long before Elon Musk came along - although previously, these corporate-capture individuals have worked to hide their malign influence, and in Musks' case, he seems more inclined to make it obvious and open.

Although it has to be stated, I don't think Elon has been calling for the bombing of innocent human beings at the same rate as his predecessors.
Notes on my laptop would take minutes to load, it was only fixed in the latest macOS release, after more than a year.
I would not be surprised if he announces he has sold California to Russia for $1 next week. What a traitor to everything American stands for.
Interesting calculation and I did not read your assumption carefully.

"keep up the current growth in energy use "

But this was not what I was talking about at all.

Energy comes to earth via sun, whether we use it, or not. For all our practical matters, it will be plenty to recycle all of our solar panels.

Because human population growth won't continue, like it did after industrialisation moved the limits of growth.

Discovering (allmost) speed of life travel would again moved those limits.

Till then humans will mate, as long as they see a future for their babies. As long as there is food and space. If there isn't, they largely won't reproduce. It is a common effect, can also be studied in rat populations in a lab. Self regulation.

"Have you seen what happens to slime molds once they run out of resources?"

They try to find a better habitat. Some succed, some fail.
If I remember correctly, more than 50% of their revenue came from Google Search in the past.

They are now at 2.6% market-share, I can imagine that revenue-stream is making it hard to keep the lights on.

It's sad that it came to this, but somewhat understandable as they don't really have these other lucrative side-businesses of Google, Apple, Microsoft.

FWIW, the change is that the new wording allows them to build a revenue-stream based on telemetry data, while the original wording prohibits them from such a financing model at all.

Outside of Europe this might be significant, but in European legal context the difference is that they could now ASK you if you allow them to use your telemetry to create revenue, and only do it IF YOU AGREE (small nudge to push for privacy-friendly laws).
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> that war has done permanent and lasting damage to it's economy and global position

Assuming the Ukraine is forced to surrender and Russia keeps the territories, Russia's reputation will increase. They'll be able to say they fought NATO and won. Even today, people say with a serious face that Ukraine started the war and many believe it.

Russia is damaged, but if it's allowed to win, it will recover and become a beacon for the global authoritarians/south.
Robert Evans did an introduction to the life and deeds of Lawrence a while back, which I thought was interesting.

First episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o77rpNge5Uw
either way the chips aren't getting made and China is more equipped to survive this than the EU or the US for that matter.
It sounds a bit more like they were lying before, frankly, and they were forced to come clean by this act.
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> In 15 years or so I imagine most countries with sane leadership will be mostly running on renewables & nuclear.

I think it's good to mention that in Europe, 40% of all the electrical energy usage was renewable in 2024 [1]. This number is higher than it was in 2023, and will increase again in 2025 due to many new solar, wind, and battery installations.

In the US, 19% of all the electrical energy was produced by renewables and 20% by nuclear [2].

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People can do a lot of amazing stuff if their hands aren't bound.

I remember reading a German's enterpreneurs lament about wanting to lay a single electrical cable between his two nearby buildings. The paperwork demanded by German authorities dragged for half a year. He said that a similar work in Poland was papered through in two weeks.

Or, as a friend of mine in Prague quipped: "We want to build traffic lights. We need 28 stamps, including one from a forest management service. The closest forest is 5 km away (3 miles) from said intersection, but they still need to confirm their approval."

The Baltics are comparatively lean in this regard and it shows.
If your Sonos speakers are old enough, take a day out and downgrade them all to S1. Just like magic it will all start working like it did the day you got it.
I use a 6-digit PIN to unlock my iPhone. I get it right less than half the time. Often one or two numbers just fail to register. ISTR someone else confirmed this bug.
> ... the same thing will apply later on after the successful "non-invasion" of Taiwan.

Maybe. I never commented on if the situation is good - just that invasion is the wrong term. Perhaps it should be self-implosion.
Tim Cook overrides the advice of high-ranking employees in the name of greed and profit, even when warned such decisions will sour long term relationships.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/02/26/testimony-on-external-pur...

I’m not saying anyone will be better than Tim Cook, I’m saying he’s actively bad. Will his successor be actively bad too? Maybe, but the sooner we find out, the better.
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Sync Android Notifications to Mac – No Cloud, No Extensions

I’m building an app to sync Android notifications to Mac over WiFi—no cloud, no browser extensions, just seamless, encrypted transfers. Notifications appear just like native macOS alerts.

Would you use something like this?
If you compile a minimal linux kernel without a tcp/ip stack -> 400KB.
If you add a tcp/ip stack -> 800KB.

For a project where I should just send the temperature, I just made a small C program in userspace that sent the value over a crafted UDP message, saved a lot of space (and complexity) :-).
To answer my own question: This looks like it is being run on real hardware (with some sort of SD card adapter/loader):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrcZ2-I0CbQ
and no, a decent manager shouldn't have to literally review every little thing every single one of their employees does

obviously something needs to change here procedurally, but micromanagement across the entire board is not the answer

and therefore firing management for this is not really solving anything other than satiating the bloodlust of the mob
Exactly. We have a westerner bragging about blocking a 5000 years old country's access to the sea like it's a normal thing and they're not the intruder. Hilarious.
Most consumer electronics companies are like this.
It's not only a yearly release cycle but a Christmas release cycle.
New Shiny Thing has to be in the stores by late November so all development has to be done in August so the factories can start producing the first trial batches.

I never buy products when they are first released.
I prefer to wait at least 3-4 months so that production has had time to tweak all the settings and weed out the funky first component deliveries.
Also the software devs will have fixed the worst bugs by then.
Go never had a stance on "unrecoverable panics kill your program". Go always supported recover, but encourages (correctly IMO) error values because they are more performant and easier to understand. The Go standard library even uses panic/recover (aka throw/catch) style programming in specific instances.
There are certainly many enemies of Mozilla who've used disinformation
and exaggeration to agitate against them.

From where I stand, Mozilla have done little to deflect that,
everything to encourage it and generally been been their own worst
enemy.

Taking on an operation like running Mozilla is not just running some
random tech company that makes a browser. Standing up for software
freedom is an ideological stance (in the best possible sense) and
requires more capable people who are prepared to dig deeper, work
harder, take risk, and stand up for what is right.

I do not see those people at Mozilla. Correct me if I'm wrong (and
let's have their email) so I can apologise and invite them to discuss
why Firefox is no longer a browser that I can trust.
>We need to get behind Mozilla and Firefox

No we need to get rid of Mozilla (the org and the company), transform/fork Firefox and Thunderbird to a community project with (maybe?) a Foundation behind like FreeBSD or Blender.

Mozilla's CEO's and Manifesto writers did nothing to support Firefox but fill their own pockets and hype the AI train, I really wonder how much money goes directly into the development of Firefox, if we compare it to the Linux Foundation supporting Linux (the Kernel) it's about 3%, it's probably even less for Mozilla.
59% in urban areas:

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/8135...
The difference is Israel's enemies are easy to defeat. Russia, not so much. Europe made the same mistake as in world war II. Believing their own propaganda and convincing themselves that Russia would be easy to defeat. Trump talks to the military and knows what's reality.
The UK is still implementing the Large Combustion Plant Directive ( https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1973/2015-12-31 ), so separate UK level legislation would be required to legalize any new coal plant. Very unlikely scenario.
Defence roles have always been quite prominent in the UK IT sector. I've been offered at least 3 roles in defence in the past but not accepted one yet. The first was following my masters in electronics and was related to radar design. The others have been related to managing sensitive data. At that time WFH would not have been acceptable, but since then I've known security cleared staff to be able to work from home on these kinds of systems. This would work better as military bases are often in the middle of no-where so not ideal to get to from most cities.

I guess I've put them at the bottom of my list previously due to moral reasons, although the problems are often interesting.
We allied with Stalin in world war III, now that's evil. Putin will be a good ally against China, who is an actual threat to the United States.
So 40k is Lawrence of Arabia, neat.
Ask HN: Unusual distribution of steps needed to reach Kaprekar's constant (6174)
In the distribution of the number of steps needed to reach Kaprekar's constant (6174), I observe an unexpected distribution pattern, with three steps being the most common number of steps required. I cannot think of why this is the case. Has anyone done some though about this phenomenon? See a plot here: https://earth.hoyd.net/posts/distribusjonen-av-antall-steg-til-kaprekars-konstant/
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You're forking the FAQ? Because that's the only thing that's actually changed here.
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> it was the only member you couldn't freely immigrate to

Aside from not being the only nation outside of Schengen, Schengen only implies freedom from borders checks. As an EU citizen you could still emigrate freely (or as freely as anywhere else in the EU) to a non-Schengen countries. I know I did.
It's plausible that Trump owes some $$$ but what would stop Trump from just refusing to pay the debt back?
I don’t know anyone who actually uses Grok.
I am from the (possibly naive) believe that beauty will change the world. So if you want to present any changes, it has to be beautiful. Ethical and logical arguments only work if people already desire your vision and are only used to rationalise their emotions.

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Are the ps5 controllers supported without having to buy software? If not, then I sarcastically say "I'm shocked that a competitor's peripheral works poorly on their product"

Because why wouldn't it work poorly?
I'm not that price sensitive when it comes to phones, but I open and close my Galaxy Fold several times per day minimum.
You wrote "He suggests that all of the fat models will eventually red ring due to being stress tested at the factory" - it directly states that stress testing at the factory is the claimed reason that the fat models will red ring. Or was the video host somehow stress tested at a factory?
I just wish I could get enthusiastically behind Mozilla, right now I stand behind them in spite of their leadership.