skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google also uses your browsing history to create a profile for advertising

https://support.google.com/My-Ad-Center-Help/answer/12155451...

And Apple provides end to end encryption of browsing history so it can’t decrypt your browsing history

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2021/03/25/whats-in...

> What’s interesting about the Apple decision is that it appears to explicitly separate browsing history and bookmarks, rather than lumping them into a single take-it-or-leave-it package. Apple doesn’t claim to provide any end-to-end encryption guarantees whatsoever for bookmarks: presumably someone who resets your iCloud account password can get those. But your browsing history is protected in a way that even Apple won’t be able to access, in case the FBI show up with a subpoena.
This was already going on over a decade before (in the US); hadn't even heard of Kardashian shilling for Pronuvo. Previously it was the walk-up/no-appt-needed full-body MRI places in shopping malls.

A few randomly-found pre-2020 citations to corroborate:

“I Want a Whole-Body MRI” When Patients Demand Unnecessary Tests 2019 https://www.midwestmedicaledition.com/articles/i-want-a-whol...

"Are MRI’s Being Overused?" 2015 AdventHealth University https://www.ahu.edu/blog/are-mris-being-overused
Wait, what? You said that like it was so casual. I need to know so much more about this story of yours.
I think Firefox will live. Maybe Mozilla dies, but somebody will raise funds and pick up the work.
But are tourists and foreign students people? This is a real question, as current interpretation appears they are not.
https://science.nasa.gov/resource/view-of-surveyor-iii-in-it...

NASA did it right, but that surface looks like a no-joke bed of razors. Thank you NASA.

When do we launch the lunar tow truck? Cash or charge?
Who hasn’t known this since 2018 or earlier? Im14andthisisdeep vibes
How do you deal with LLM hallucinating api parameter or endpoints or using imaginary library?
I have also found that Next.js is shockingly slow.

I recently added some benchmarks to the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks suite, and Next.js ranked near dead last, even for simple JSON API endpoint (i.e. no React SSR involved): https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23&hw=...

I discussed it with a couple of Next.js maintainers (https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/75930), and they indicated that it's only a problem for "standalone" deployments (i.e. not on Vercel). However, I'm not entirely convinced that is true. I wonder if there are major optimizations that could be made to, for example, the routing system.
Placebo is a fantastic treatment for hypochondria.
no wooden horse in The Illiad
Visas can be revoked at any time for any reason. USCIS can revoke your visa because the supreme leader doesn't like your haircut and that's probably good enough for SCOTUS.

> In the Court’s opinion, they noted Section 1155 as an absolute confirmation of discretion. USCIS may choose to revoke previously approved visa petitions at any time, for any reason the Secretary and USCIS determine is a “good and sufficient cause.”

https://bizlegalservices.com/2024/12/12/supreme-court-confir...

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/24

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/604us1r03_3f14.p...

Disclaimer: My understanding, IINAL, etc. etc.
No, “modern” does not mean “in the last 30 years,” but credit cards have evolved extensively in that time.

Without contemporary (vs modern ) credit cards you don’t have airbnb, you don’t have online airline booking, you are not putting things on your visa in other states much less other countries. Credit cards have changed a LOT.

If you think debt is the main way credit cards enable travel you are missing a ton. But the fact is that is a key function too, regardless of whether you approve. Most of the country and world are not living as comfortably as folks on this board.

Appreciate what we have instead of dismissing a whole industry as useless. It seems useless until it goes away, sort of like the police, competent politicians, etc etc.

I’m a passive investor too but there needs to be some ACTIVity happening for those index funds to make money. Startups, restaurants, hair salons, housing developments, and factories don’t get any money without expensive humans you dismiss as useless making decisions in the field of financial services and economics.
Ahh very cool. Guess I can say goodbye to Power Point/Keynote/etc.
several times since 2012. The last of these was just last year, on a whimsy in which FF didn't disappoint in by now predictably disappointing.
Original source: https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/state-department-ai-revoke-...

“Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another
site, submit the latter.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The only way most people are going to encounter self-published (e-)books being marketed to them is Kindle (Unlimited) or online stores. Brick-and-mortar stores wouldn't do this, it wouldn't even economically make sense to carry the stuff and it would damage their reputation.
Which militia?
YPG
Gell-Mann says: "yes, but just medicine"
Constant-Time Code: The Pessimist Case [pdf]
i'm also not professional networking engineer but overall open core will allow;

better interfacing and integration as a wifi chip on SBCs like raspberry pi, potentially allowing faster rates and lower latencies on SPI or I2c buses

better security and possibly handling further standards than the espressif allows.

for example, you may implement wpa3 or wpa4 (if it comes out at some point) without needing to wait for espressif to implement and release themselves. plus, they may never have the incentives to do so if a newer chip (esp64?) comes out...
Y Combinator is literally a venture capital firm. This is about as for-profit as a forum can get.
I was watching the 38c3 talk about this a few months ago, and just laughed seeing the recent news. Guess they have a good reason to be paranoid, hmm.

https://youtu.be/r8IqkUTGjlA
Only if we agree that a tutorial on how to use grep to find things, instead of just putting up with not finding them, is an "ad for grep".
> In the Court’s opinion, they noted Section 1155 as an absolute confirmation of discretion

Discretion by the Congress on the President. Congress is still bound by the Constitution.

If they’d cancelled the visas and left the reason blank, that would have probably been legal. By explicitly tying the reason to speech, however, I believe it crosses the line.
Definitely cured my leprosy and phantom pregnancy. Hasn't reduced my PSA yet.
> The point is there are non-trivial examples where it’s really hard to switch your default search engine away from Google/Bing

Bing is the only one you really get stuck with, and that only happens outside of the browser. You can change the search engine for searches started inside of Edge.

Bing is also not an example of collusion. It's Microsoft promoting Microsoft.

> I don’t really know what we’re arguing anymore.

Here is what I'm arguing: If you want to say there is a mixture of different types of collusion and monopolistic self-pushing connected to search engines, I agree with you. But the claim earlier was about a very specific type of [deep] collusion, that would make it difficult to change the search engine that a browser uses, that is easy to see when trying to use Kagi. But that difficulty only exists on iOS. It's not true in general. (And I'm not convinced that the specific issue on iOS is a collusion problem rather than an Apple-knows-best problem.)
No I understand dual key encryption, and like I said, there is still something stored (the key as well as the passwords in the vault). What you do not understand is how this is inherently less secure than not storing anything at all.

To give you a concrete example, 1Password doesn't guarantee you from say, being compromised by a keylogger, and someone stealing your master password (never mind the key which is in fact stored). A secret heuristic doesn't necessarily face such risks. Sure that doesn't automatically mean a secret heuristic guarantees you better security, but that's not the argument.
Being ripped off hard. Shovel your money into VTSAX, get .04%
. Fidelity actually has lower fees.
Interesting. My hunch is that Next.js is not optimized for the dockerized Node server deployment. I would say that you could get much greater prerendering performance from Next.js by just fronting the assets directly using Caddy/Nginx.
Define your terms - what theory are you talking about?

You said most financial services and economics is useless but seem to be taking about a specific part of that world. Portfolio theory? Seriously? You’re clearly thinking that consumer retirement investing == financial services. Totally wrong.

“ Like, 90% of economics and finance is absolute nonsense.” -you

I disagree - you may be bitter from your experience but from where I sit this world falls apart without financial services in particular.
I would love to read a story about a protagonist that is incompetent in spite of being earnest and trying hard.
Similar criticism was made of television: "The great thing about television is that it's so passive." - Ted Turner (TBS, CNN). A sizable fraction of the population has a TV on all the time.

His more important point is that recommendation algorithms combined with replies create terrible conversations. That helps explain why it's so hard to discuss anything complicated on social media.
… and you are watching it because the HackerNews algorithm put this link on the top of its feed.
Mutual funds have a lot of risk aversion, they even keep some of your money in cash. This poor performance shines through in the up years since the risk aversion wasn't needed in hindsight. They'll do better than index funds in down years but we haven't had one of those in a while now.

That's ultimately all this is. The fees are similar really but if one puts something like 50% in stocks, 30% in bonds, 10% overseas and 10% in cash while the other puts 100% in stocks the stocks will win if stocks alone were the best investment. That has been true since 2008 but may not always be true.
Algorithmic feeds were about when I stopped feeling proud of Silicon Valley.
I can see a little bit about what inspired the "spark" of his children's books – love, but also a need for escapism, normal but heroic figures in the middle of bewildering and impossible situations, nurturing. It think Danny, Champion of the World, was the first children's book he wrote approximately after this time period?
https://termui.sh
Unless it's the active D vitamin, it takes weeks to convert it into reserves.

Taking vitamin D once, right before bed will do nothing. Our bodies don't use it that way.

Cholecalciferol = weeks

calcidiol = hours
Just as a bit of a devil’s advocate thought process, isn’t reading a newspaper, magazine, or watching a TV station very similar in basic concept to an algorithmic content feed?

They’re more crude but it’s the same idea. You tell a company you like a general topic by choosing a channel, magazine, or section of the newspaper. They give you content that is curated. This curation is automatic and sophisticated in social media apps but is more manual in legacy media, but the idea is generally the same. At some point someone or something is taking a guess at what kind of content you want to see.

All of these forms of passive content involve advertiser influence just the same as social media algorithms.

Maybe algorithmic media isn’t always so alarmingly bad? Maybe it’s okay to have some downtime and just allow someone else to fill that time? It was acceptable for the comics section of the newspaper to waste some time in your day but it’s so harmful for for some silly meme content to do the same just because technology was involved in the latter.
As much as I do not want to believe this, it sounds like the horrid truth. Feynman did it his way and furthered the science. Randolf of blacklite power was a shister.

I do agree.
But How Does GPT Work? A Step-by-Step Notebook
His two autobiographical books a still a really good read today, and they only cover his life up to about world war 2, which he was extremely lucky to survive. Dan Stevens does a good job narrating the latest audiobook versions my library has.
Similarly, Orion is built on WebKit.

Ladybird might be onto something with the sponsorship model, but we’ll have to see how it goes in the next couple of years.
Not bitter, I love finance. The specific nonsensical theory I call out there. Those are course names (ie every business school has a course called something like those names).

You can disagree, but you seem to have taken none of the courses... the vast majority of financial services are based on very basic financial theory developed 10 thousand years ago. I never said financial services are nonsense - the academic fields are largely nonsense.

Respectfully - you have something like Gell-Mann amnesia. Not quite the same, but similar. It seems like you know just enough to be dangerous, maybe enjoy the shallow knowledge, but can't go deep enough to realize the massive amount of nonsense. It's kind of lame to appeal to authority, but go through all Warren Buffett's letters to the shareholders - he also calls out the nonsense.
The entire developed world is in population decline. It's not just Russia.
South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong are far worse off.
There is no hope in a violent revolution.
Don’t hate the player…
Presumably because it's a shared practice with secular humanists and so un-christian by associative guilt.

Musk does not want to save western civilisation. Musk is an experience addict using Ketamine and lives in a self perpetuating bubble of autodidact belief. Whatever he does is right, because he did it.
Yeah, be careful, curry will poison you, that's why there's billions of people that eat curry on the planet regularly and they all died from liver poisoning.
The default list is so small that I am inclined to believe you used an untested and unmaintained 3rd party block list. Use the lists from firebog.net and hagezi. They are well maintained and documented
Show HN: Basketball Statistics Research Assistant
Our goal is to build tooling to eliminate hallucinations for data-driven queries.

We have built a demo that showcases an application of this technology - natural language basketball statistic search. https://basketball.offbynone.ai

This enables asking data-driven questions in ways that have never been possible before.

Try asking it things like "If Shaq scored half as many points, which victories turn into defeats?" or "Of the players who have missed half their shots, who has played in the most games?"
These questions are unanswerable by current LLM technology, even when enhanced by RAG.

The tooling we have built works from URLs or uploaded files. It auto-detects the structure and semantic meanings of the data into a blueprint. This blueprint is used to import the data into a mongo database. Additionally, it uses the blueprint to convert human-language questions into database queries.

You can have a high degree of confidence (but as with all llm technology, not 100% confidence) in the generated answers because you can verify that the LLM isn't making up the data. You can see the queries used to fetch the data as well as the raw data fetched from the database. This approach eliminates issues with the LLM making up data, but the generated answers are only as accurate as the provided source data. For example, some of the NBA records for 3 point attempts before 1982 can be a little spotty, so questions involving percentage accuracy before that date might not be accurate. Like all LLM technology, there is also a chance that it misunderstand what you are asking for.

I'm open to feedback and questions. We are open to the possibility of open-sourcing the tooling if there is enough interest.
since the cost is so low

As someone who has had to deal with the output of absolutely stupid "AI code reviewers", I can safely say that the cost of being flooded with useless advice is real, and I will simply ignore them unless I want a reminder of how my job will not be automated away by anyone who wants real quality. I don't care if it's right 1 in 10 times; the other 9 times are more than enough to be of negative value.

Ditto for those flooding GitHub with LLM-generated "fix" PRs.

and many humans can't catch subtle issues in code.

That itself is a problem, but pushing the responsibility onto an unaccountable AI is not a solution. The humans are going to get even worse that way.
This makes no sense to me. CL is not an astral technology. It’s just a parentheses-rich language that is worse than almost any other until you get to macros, continuations and psychotic polymorphism. Which are cool to talk about at hacker parties, no /s, but don’t do much business-wise.
https://archive.is/0RsTk
Not only can Tailscale directly integrate with NextDNS and therefore not require extra configuration on-device for DNS, but you can use Tailscale ACLs to assign different NextDNS profiles to different devices (for example, a parental control profile to a kid's device or an Apple TV, or an IoT profile, etc)
Build Data Pipelines from Plain English – Soft Launch March 31st
Nothing on that page supports what your claim.

In reality even permanent residents could be deported for what would be 1st Amendment protected activity for citizens.

In Harisiades v. Shaughnessy the deportation of legal residents for membership in the Communist party was upheld as Constitutional. This hasn't been overturned or narrowed and remains good law today.

Whether current immigration law allows for this I don't know, but this isn't a 1st Amendment issue based on current precedent.
In these times the saddest tragedy here is that Dahl was so preoccupied with medical care and expertise for his family – and the one time he let up, his daughter died because his brother-in-law thought "let the girls get measles[...] it will be good for them".
> If it was truly intelligent it could reason about things like API specifications without any precursors or shared structure, but it can’t

I can reason about any API or specification. But when I'm trying to get a different, compound, and higher-level task done, its quite a bit faster and less distracting if I can rely on someone else to have already distilled what I need (into a library, cheat-sheet, tutorial, etc).

Similarly, I've seen LLMs do things like generate clients and scripts for interacting with APIs. But its a lot easier to just hand them one ready to go.
I don’t dispute that there is a lot of BS taught in business school and shoveled in economics. But the MBA pipeline is distinct from the actual financial services industry. There is a lot of basic lifting and moving in financial service that gets done by people who did not attend ivy league schools or get mbas or get massive year end bonuses and that has helped make the US economy particularly dynamic and resilient. Try spending time in specific industries and you will start to see entire ecosystems of financing. (Sometimes you will even see a message board.)
Are you including RenTech in your definition of "pro"?

My working theory is that the vast majority of portfolio and fund managers are full of hot air, but there are some at the top that are actually successfully using non-insider information that is not well known to their advantage quite successfully.

Unfortunately it also seems that investing in such plays is infeasible except for a select few, so I stick with index funds.
I haven't read TAOCP myself, but if I recall a lecture that Knuth gave, his algorithm analyses sometimes include cycle counts for his virtual MMIX architecture. He mentioned that these are counted by hand. If I were seeking a reward check, I would write a verifier to look for errors there.
Pi-hole shouldn't be recommended anymore. The recent breaking change pretty much broke everyone's instances and also the downstream projects which has a plugin for pi-hole. Plus, pi-hole has very less configurable options and it's nothing more than a giant wrapper of dnsmasq. Instead, AdGuard Home seems to be more reliable and can be highly configurable with options to separate the DNS resolvers based on groups
Ford can't make them fast enough, apparently
Because selling those coins and paying down debt reduces our interests payments. It’s risk free revenue. Holding assets, be it stocks or bitcoin, is making a bet on something. There’s risk in exchange for potential reward. Will the government be better at making those bets than, say hedge funds? I don’t know, but kind of doubt it.
Nope. The 1st Amendment (as currently interpreted at least) doesn't protect non-citizens against deportation. See Harisiades v. Shaughnessy
Ask HN: Help Anyone here work at WhatsApp?
HELP! Anyone here work at Facebook or Whatsapp? My dad forwarded a Whatsapp login OTP message to some random phone number (don't ask me why would anyone do that!), and now he is logged out of his Whatsapp and has lost access to it. When he tries to log in to Whatsapp, it asks for a "code sent to your other device" which goes to the hacker. I need help getting his number logged out from all devices so we can recover the account!
and yet it shows a warning about "upgrading" to another browser.

Ironically, such "warning" also shows up when browsing discuss.kde.org. Yes, the very KDE discussion board warns you against using KDE's own web browser.

Such is the propaganda of Big G, that user-agent discrimination is actively encouraged to further Chrome's marketshare.
“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". This is so depressing to read from one of the most influencial leaders in the world. I think empathy is a basic condition for a healthy society, and it lifts the average of human happiness.
Is this new information to anyone? People have known it's not coming to PC since the first trailer dropped in December 2023.
Some people add yellow lead salts to turmeric to increase profit margins.
Most of this stuff is just takes from random people, not medical research. For example, the article links to 5-month old HN thread where the first comment says:

> And you do not want to mess with the 5-HTP and alcohol at the same time

so I googled it

> Internet forums are full of horror stories of people vomiting, blacking out or having seizures after drinking while on 5-HTP. It’s impossible to know if the stories are reliable, but there is little other evidence of known interactions between 5-HTP and alcohol.

https://www.drugrehab.com/addiction/alcohol/risks-of-mixing-...
I've used both of these a lot, Marp being really easy to get started with and Slidev being a little more complex but well worth the (minor) effort. To me, presenterm doesn't appear to offer any compelling features compared with these.
How many more excuses for an incomplete vehicle can we make for this company?

Lucid, Rivian, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Mazda, Hyundai/Kia, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, and BMW all have design studios in California. They don’t all have this problem.

Do we really think that Tesla engineers and product managers have never seen rain or snow before? And if so what kind of lame excuse is that?

Aren’t some of Tesla’s biggest markets in cold weather climates? Places like Canada, New England, Scandinavia, Germany, and China (Beijing).
Why is this a flagged article?
No, rentech are brilliant guys. But, those guys are right out there, they sort of represent nothing even close to 99.9999% of folks in the business.

The thing is, most fields aren't basically zero sum (not strictly true, but true enough) like money management. So if you are the 90th percentile doctor or lawyer you are hugely valuable. 90th percentile money manager is losing v index fund.
Firmoo for example. Probably a local optician should also be able to make this choice.