skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least in my clique in Finland, BeReal is alive and kicking. Definitely nothing like Instagram in terms of popularity, but quite active
It's very hard to find reliable sources for this story. Lots of news sites that have plausible sounding names, but then turn out to not really be a thing. And nothing at all in the mainstream media I can find.

If you have a link to a real news site carrying this, I'd love to see it, otherwise flagging for now.
There is a narrow set of circumstances where the previously undocumented commands could be exploited by malware running on a host machine or on compromised firmware. It’s kind of a nothing burger because compromise at this level is already pwned and the undocumented commands really don’t add much to that.

What it doesn’t have is a backdoor.
> As it stands, we don't even know of any functions that exceeds the Turing complete, but are computable.

That would require the universe to be discrete, we don't know that. Otherwise most continuous processes compute something that a Turing machine can't, the Turing machine can only approximate it.
This article seems to be missing important context - prior to the mid 20th century sex had profound implications - it resulted in more babies, STDs (all diseases, really) which were much more threatening and the risks to the womans health in the event of pregnancy and/or abortions must have been a major concern. The workarounds to that were all terrible. And there was nothing in the way of social safety nets and not a lot of productive work for single mothers as I understand it.

It doesn't make sense to look at pre-1950s attitudes to sex as a religious phenomenon - or if it does it has to be acknowledged that religion wasn't working with the world we've built for ourselves today. There were real practical concerns that have only recently been worked around. It does seem fair to trace religious traditions on the subject but that really isn't the elephant in the room; sex had to be looked at through a different lens 100 years ago.
Interesting gap in the market there, someone who can solve that can probably make a lot of money. With the help of AI, of course! /s

I guess the solution is to have an intermediary that can be the in-between, but don't have them be from the IT systems supplier, because they'll bone you (including promising you everything you want without checking with their developers if any of it is possible; with a good 3rd party they'd be able to ask the devs if it's possible and to see a proof-of-concept).
Reconsidering Debian's Inclusion of Non-Free Firmware – A Call for Discussion
I don't think the Spanish address it at all. I lived there for a while and I remember visting a lot of glorious cathedrals and castles. Most of them were funded with gold looted from the Americas, but there was never any mention of it. And neither do the Spanish (or Portuguese) people seem to associate themselves with the historical empires those countries ruled.
> Espressif will provide a fix that removes access to these HCI debug commands through a software patch for currently supported ESP-IDF versions

> Espressif will document all Vendor-specific HCI commands to ensure transparancy of what functionality is available at the HCI layer

This is great. While this practice may be common and it may not be considered a backdoor, undocumented functionality is definitely a risk. I’m glad that people didn’t just take it as “well that’s how it’s done” but instead are pushing for a better way.
My guess is that it was hosted on a physical server on campus, and they didn't want to pay IT to support it during winter break.

It is probably easier to just close it down to avoid handling all the angry phone calls if it would happen to have an issue during the break.
> Using students still has problems - have they coded before?

Why would it matter if we're doing randomized experiments with students placed in groups of different languages? That's how randomized experiments work: it doesn't matter if they've coded before because the selection process will randomize a statistically relevant number of students.
What other mode of transport did you have? ships was all. even if you used an oxcart (not a horse - they eat too much for this work) it was slow.

okay 15km is too short. Average walking speed is 5km/hr and you would expect to walk 10 hours a day. So movement would have been more like 50km per day.
"I'm almost at the point where I consider any type of firmware update for anything to be actively hostile and to be avoided if at all possible with the sole exception of patches for specific, significant security bugs."

In recent years not one of my printers has been on the net, whether it's a printer on a standalone PC or one on a network.

The same applies to printer utilities. With driver bugs I'll download an updated driver, which these days is often in the form of an executable, and I'll block internet access before running it.

I take the view that printer updates include user-unfriendly afterthoughts that manufacturers have since dreamt up to further line their pockets at our expense. I always assume that manufacturers will slipstream crud and spyware into driver updates.

As for HP, I'd never buy another HP product let alone a HP printer, the last printer I bought would have been around 2005.

Why do people still buy HP printers when it's so widely known that to do so is to buy a 'lemon'—nothing but a pile of trouble?
I should have said minimal, not decent.
On desktop the map is huuuuge and it's not particularly fun waiting for them to slowly move all the way to the opposite corner. It's cool that one can prototype this quickly, but needs some tweaks from play-testing as with all games I guess.
> That is the ENTIRE purpose of religion: to help us create peace and happiness for ALL human beings.

This is a very Abrahamic take. The ancient "God Kings" like the Roman Emperors or followers of Marduk like Nebuchadnezzar didn't place much value on peace and happiness. If anything they actively despised it.
Brave holding out for the rationals! In hindsight you could have shorted an ice cube in this market and made money. I thought it was likely Trump would fuck the market.
I feel that way with every x-ray I've ever had taken during my life. Its like, how exactly is that nebulous blobby grey area an indicator of a fraction, I've got no idea.

I trust the doctors, I just don't see how its so damn visible every time. Like, they look for shadowy shapes with certainty and I just can't see them, myself.
I don't live in USA, the west includes Europe. 7 is maybe a lucky number in USA but not where I live. So I think that would be more of an American thing than a western thing maybe. Or maybe its related to some parts of Christianity but not others.
> social media where everyone gets one post every day

That was Fotolog at the beginning of the century.
What would be the purpose of such firmware? The ESP32 is a complete SoC, the “firmware”, “OS”, and “application” are all the same binary.

So yes you could write a malicious “firmware” without using undocumented commands. But what would be the point? Said firmware already has complete execution privileges on the devices already, with the ability to read any memory it wants to, by virtue of said firmware being literally all the software running on the devices, and owning all of the memory.
It kind of was, but I’m happy that it happened because the way it was done (and still is with other vendors) is bad. This resolved that and in my most optimistic dreams other vendors would now follow.
For these kind of things (common repairs that are easy (for a specialist with the right tooling) to do), you're often better going to the cheap local phone repair place rather than the official store.
yes, surely a good approach, and as you say the performance is likely to be fine given the vast increase in raw speed since the old days...
I don't think either party ever didn't have that incentive. If elections could feasibly be rigged then they already are I'm sure.
>Those who listened correctly predicted a whole bunch of things and were called paranoid by enablers.

was being called paranoid not also predictable?
Is the failing Cybertruck a common sentiment? Is it based on sales or more subjective metrics?
Sure it's not the prettiest, but even if you styled this with CSS directly you'd need to target those selectors. `#range-input::webkit-progress-bar` etc.

To your final point, I completely agree that it should be packaged up — I'd package this up into a component (react, partial etc.) which would encapsulate the styles via Tailwind, HTML and logic.

I like Tailwind as a way to more closely tie my markup with styling. I'll package it all up into a component anyway, but Tailwind keeps it all in 1 spot (the markup) rather than spread across multiple files.
What I think you've failed to account for is that what you see as important is not what a lot of people see as important. And you may or may not have better reasons for your perspective.

For example: a lot of people see massive beurocracy as a bad thing. Cutting it back, even in very rough fashion, even with potentially selfish motives, is seen as a good thing.

In your example re: tariffs. What's interesting is that tariffs are fundamentally a social exercise. You can use them with a light touch, to encourage/discourage specific industries in fine detail, or you can use them as a club to force concessions from other countries. Using it as a club requires an aggressive approach that many people don't even understand and have never themselves experienced. When you don't know how it works, it just looks dumb.

There's a lot that probably is clumsy here, but I think that making absolute statements is showing your hand a bit.
Same in Finland, we have a few local options (one of which was bought by a massive Nordic conglomerate) that were established well before FB Marketplace became a thing.

One of them even has an escrow system where the money stays in escrow until the delivery is confirmed as being correct, the money will also be released if the recipient never fetches the parcel.

FB Marketplace is just scams wall to wall, reporting does nothing. The only way to do business in via FBM is face to face and verify the item.

Usually local FB for sale groups are better quality and actually moderated, which marketplace isn't.
Yeah, I don't think you could meaningfully prove the hypothesis.
Beneficial genetic changes observed in regular blood donors
> I feel that this is a major source of why Britain (and Europe to a larger extent) is unable to come to terms with reality on a majority of issues today - immigration, foreign policy, economic policy etc. They simply have not come to terms with the loss of their empires and the wealth they brought.

I would be so bold at to assert that no millennial really taught that a) Britannia had an empire and b) Britain ruled the waves.

Two world wars, and slavery is pretty much all we were taught, unless you specialised.

"modern" immigration was/is much more driven by our former membership of the EU than empire.

Empire is why our friends had Caribbean grandparents. WWII for polish grandparents, and Idi Amin why they also might have had indian parents born in Uganda.

But they were all pretty British to us. They sounded like us, dressed the same.

"modern" immigration when I was growing up was mostly Portuguese and Polish, later more baltics when that opened up to schengen.

But those later countries were also a product of another empire: USSR.
> It'll break

If you add additional piece to chain, chain becomes weaker, not stronger

> get AI-DoSed

Thats not that common. There are specific industries prone to DDoS, like gaming, but your average site don't get DDoS-ed. Then again CF free service really don't protect your site from DDoS. I have seen several times CF becoming source of DoS (not caching or denying malicious requests) and if back-end is on shared infra, CF goes to firewall.

> will have an expired cert.

Your back-end still needs certificate
Brainstorm: Model-Agnostic AI Safety Testing
Polymorphic Extensions: Impersonate Any Browser Extension
I once made a boid-thingy, which this also reminds me of. https://matsemann.github.io/boids-workshop/ (and since the parent game is mostly boid behavior with a goal condition, I guess that's why the LLM is so successful in implementing it?)

The link is the final result with lots of controls, but the idea is that it's a tutorial/workshop where you build it step by step yourself, in Norwegian though https://github.com/Matsemann/boids-workshop
And how effective has it really been? All the usual tools are still out there, notably MakeMKV.
If you ask someone with Alzheimer's what year it is, you'll get a confident answer of 1972. Would you class people suffering from Alzeimer's as non-intelligent?
Addicted to basic survival huh. Can't have that.
He should stop tweeting and get back to blogging. Or even cross-post to a platform not controlled by a megalomaniac billionaire.
> in general besides the 16 bit aesthetic people are so put off by the look of older games they tend not to get as engaged.

One of the most prolific indie developers of recent years (David Szymanski) has basically all of his games looking like they came out of PS1/early 3D accelerator days. And he isn't alone, there are many games that have midlate 90s / very early 2000s looks. There are also a ton of horror games that use exaggerated PS1-styled graphics with bit crunched filtering, strong dithering effects, etc (wobbly low poly environments where you can barely make out what you are looking at are giving horror vibes basically for free :-P).

This is something i've been saying for a long time now: if you can point at a game and say "this looks like a PS1/PS2/3/4/5/NES/SNES/DOS/Win95/etc game" then this means there are enough visual characteristics to define such games and thus you are really pointing at a visual style - something that people will use at some point in the future even when the technical limitations that birthed the style aren't there anymore (which means that some games may give the feel of that style but not really be bound by the actual limitations).
i dont understand how the minimum non taxable income is 12 lakhs per annum (~10000 GBP) when a generous daily wage is like 1000 rupees (~10 GBP) a day.
I think their real goal was to gain customers for their security research business
Chickens are notorious poop eaters as well.
Trump says he's buying a Tesla to support Musk and counter 'illegal' boycott
The Central Limit Theorem smooths any errors. Decades of observation data make instrument errors very easy to spot.

In recent decades daily MODIS (satellite) polar orbit overpasses provide air column and ground temp data that infills station data (from 1900 onwards).

There's a science to ground truthing, error detection, and data correction.

Here's the gross single number continent wide average over a century: http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi

It's not hard to find raw data, finer grids, methodology, etc.
> Would you class people suffering from Alzeimer's as non-intelligent?

Yes, I don't think they are generally intelligent any more, for that you need to be able to learn and remember. I think they can have some narrow intelligent though based on stuff they have learned previously.
Full exposure: A practical approach to handling sensitive data leaks
It was feasible even without these commands. If you already had code execution on the host then you could've already done what you wanted with the device
Apple’s decision not to sync cookies reflects its commitment to privacy and control over user data. While inconvenient for some, it aligns with their broader strategy to prioritize security and minimize exposure to third-party risks. For users needing cross-device functionality, alternatives like iCloud Keychain or password managers offer safer, more targeted solutions.
Mercurius: A GraphQL HTTP Server for Fastify
330k, not 50 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...
It has far less potential to be sold in millions than the Model 3. The cybertruck is built ignoring certification standards in many jurisdictions (no way of legally drive on in Europe). Then the design is super controversial. Compare that to a Model 3 that is sold worldwide and that has a design which is acceptable to many.
Do you play video games?

They've got a good trick: Send the velocity of the scrollwheel instead of what the client thinks its y-position is. Fast mice can give this to you at 100hz, but most USB mice are delivering data much slower. Remember the server knows what time it is and what the RTT is so it can compute the correct row number and send frames at frequency.

You can also send a little bit more than 60 lines to help hide the latency at the start of scroll, and if you need more you're probably scrolling so fast you wouldn't notice some deliberate motion blur.

I guarantee if the server can send a million rows a second, it can definitely receive one sample and send 100 rows 100 times a second no problem, and you know what? You can also scale that down under less-than-ideal network conditions trivially helping those users who would absolutely prefer to get the result on the screen faster once they've stopped scrolling than to be waiting for TCP buffers to uncork.

Like I said, I still think about this...
> Instead, Slim is going to turn to Chinese and European companies.

I think that is going to be a common theme in the next decade.
Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Bad Celebrity Portraits
Just because there are open source stacks, doesn't mean the radios implemented in silicon are open source
A Chinese battery factory sparked a political meltdown in a Michigan town
I applaud flagging non-reliable stuff, but since when is mainstream media a reliable reference for "truth"?!
By objective metrics of being a good 4x4 vehicle for actual off loading it's easily beaten by a somewhat decrepit 20 year old Toyota 4runner.
he's wasting his time with the way he's doing politics.

I'm all for having a good time, but I wish he'd cut out the 5th grade sense of humor and be a man.
I just downloaded it.

It works way better for Youtube than the one I had, and after some more testing I don't need the additional annoyance blockers I had. I might just go back to Safari!

Thanks for the recommendation.
Tons of editorializing and no source cited other than this: https://monterreydailypost.com/2025/02/24/carlos-slim-orders...

Which cites this: https://www.milenio.com/

Which is just a home page.

Anyone got an actual source on this?
I looked on the McDonald's app.
Canada cancelled a $100M Starlink deal. So $22B also seems like an extreme amount.

Other news sites say Slim was willing to invest 22B in better communications. So maybe Starlink was a part of this investment but I have a hard time believing Musk lost a $22B deal.
Sounds like a early classic blog?
I suppose those news are more of interest to the global south communities which is why western media don’t report on this (but that’s speculation on my part, since the news are indeed huge) - here’s an article from an Indian financial newspaper: https://www.livemint.com/companies/carlos-slim-cuts-ties-wit...
https://mexicodailypost.com/2025/02/24/carlos-slim-orders-to...

https://www.milenio.com/negocios/slim-echa-pa-acuerdos-con-s...
All in all, it's a sentiment, but one that's hard to ignore. As a halo product, the Cybertruck is terrible for the Tesla brand.
> Elon is wasting his damn time in politics.

He would very much prefer not to be in politics.
Dunno, about Gemini, but I experienced this with o1 - it created a non-recursive algo, for a recursive problem.

When I asked it about it, it doubled down on being right. When I pointed out the flaw with a specific example, it was like 'If you wanted to have it work with recursive cases, you should've said so, dumbass'.

So my conclusion is that these new LLMs are not more sure they're right, they're just simply right more of the time and are trained with a more assertive personality. (Also step on me, LLM daddy)
Well, then only buy stuff where you control the software.

Check LineageOS build support before you buy a phone.

Check Linux distro support before you buy a laptop.

Check postmarketOS support before you throw things away.

There is options, and they work fairly well. It's just that you have to compromise on convenience for it. And convenience is the most monetary exploited weakness in human behaviors.
The idea that LLMs just repeat their training data is just wrong. It’s easy to test them and prove this is not the case. In some situations they may do that, typically when they don’t have much data on some topic. But in many other cases, it’s easy to verify that they are able to synthesize new output that is not simply a repetition of their training data.

Software development is a great example, which also illustrates the ability of LLMs to reason (whether you want to call it e.g. “simulating reasoning” doesn’t matter - the results are what counts.) They can design new programs, write new code, debug code they’ve never seen before, and explain code they’ve never seen before. None of that would be possible if they were simply repeating their training data.
For business decisions: forever
>"they should be thankful that we went there and did all those things, how nice of us"

I think that is a tacit assumption that a lot of British people make.
An option to use a local LLM on network without needing to download the 2GB "default model" would be great
Minja sneak attack poisons AI models for other chatbot users
https://www.milenio.com/negocios/slim-echa-pa-acuerdos-con-s...

https://archive.ph/JwEcG
Just checked some Genmojis created on reddit, wow, i don't know how that got approved. I'm all for creativity and freedom but it's 100% not apples brand.

And they just postponed AI-Siri to 2026 after promising it for iPhone 16.
I seriously don't get how it can be that hard. Small model trained on various app API's, a checker model that double checks, an approve this action button. Not that hard.
Lol, the Dutch are just as big of a bullshitters as Americans, they just go about it differently.
America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1
Final Takeaway Example seeding is a powerful tool for alignment when used judiciously. For deep research, prioritize clarity of intent, iterative refinement, and testing variations. Start with minimal seeding, analyze outputs, and adjust prompts dynamically based on the model’s strengths/weaknesses.
Sales seem to have stalled. Q3 2024 was strong, but then dropped off quite dramatically in Q4 2024 with no indication that Q1 2025 will improve, despite price cuts and generous financing deals. Basically there seems to be a small, dedicated, market that loves the Cybertruck, but they've largely all bought one by now, and they're struggling finding new customers.

All that being said I believe the Cybertruck is still the best selling EV pick up on the market, so it's not like the competition is doing any better in this segment.
preprint paper: “A Practical Memory Injection Attack against LLM Agents“

* https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03704
That you remember this from one month before I was born is incredible.
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He has a very strange way of showing that if it's true.
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