skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't remember when I tried it for the first time, but I did like it much better than the new opera. At least they were adding new features much faster. It was still different enough and lacking (to me) important features from the old opera. I still have it installed today as the fallback for the exceedingly rare case that some site doesn't work in Firefox and I really need to access it. But I have to admit that I didn't really bother to evaluate it properly in a long time. An ex colleague doing webdev just recently told me it's his primary browser as it has some nice things to make his life easier that were just more cumbersome to set up in chrome. I just gave up and accepted that at least by using Firefox I'm fighting the engine-monopoly of chrome/blink. ;)
Probably the same way a lot of that stuff gets funded, a rich true believer or a bunch of less-rich true believers donating. I used to live in a town where one of the largest landholders was selling off land a few acres at a time. He had a couple thousand acres (had been farmland, but the city had grown since that time and it was not that profitable as a farm) and was able to sell it at something like $25-50k/half-acre lot. Neighborhoods went up, he got money and funded a lot of missionary activities (primarily in Africa, as I understood it). You get someone like that to bankroll a radio station, they could probably set up an endowment to keep it running for quite a while. The land the station uses and towers, if owned by the station, can be rented out for more income as well.
Personally, I've always thought the fact these vulnerabilities keeps happening demonstrates that TrustZone's secure execution environment just isn't designed well.

If you're a phone designer, and you're going to put unlock PIN validation into a trusted execution environment? Sure, makes sense. If you're going to put your widevine DRM code into a trusted execution environment? I guess.

But why did they make a design that means a vulnerability in the DRM code allows an attack on the PIN validation code? That means the attack surface is huge.

You gotta keep these clowns separated if you don't want them spraying each other with water and throwing pies down each other's trousers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724

Notice that Apple admits it did this, for the date that makes sense for what the user is claiming.

The only debate point is whether they actually did it for the reason of trying to save failing batteries, or whether that was a smokescreen for incentivizing users to buy a new device.

Given the evidence, I think it's wrong to call for receipts here.
My Diesel has an analog glow plug controller. That's literally the most complicated electronics in the whole car.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-locating-beliefs/

Is this helpful?
That was the fun thing, they didn't really benefit - you'd have to get them running on Windows 2000 to even have a chance at using that second CPU.

However, once you got that working, you could play your game AND listen to music at the same time! Phenomenal.
Wouldn't recommend starting of with a <insert item of interest> standards committee. Do learn way more than ever thought possible / would want to know about <insert item of interest> that people feel are relevant to given standard committee is in charge of.

One approach: Pick something that was at the time 'state of the art' and envision what would constitute 'state of the art' today. 1800's good for steam punk approach. Describe what existed at the time of 'original state of the art' and how that changed to current state of the art aka standards, techniques (black smith to all digital chip/embedded laser scan). Learn quite a bit about how things came to be & underlying abstractions/standards that 'simpify'/'unify' things.

Keep open mind about Alexander Fleming approach to 'bugs' in an experiment. (did that old ME design bug faithfully get replicationed in the software, intentionally or unintentionally?)

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** 1800's telegraph engineer solution to needing multiple telgraph wires vs. current version of usb

1800's fax : https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-fax-machines-of-the-1800s/

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** K&R C vs. Published C standards (iso or otherwise) always fun way to find intersting things to explore (applied to hardware or not hardware applied).

** RFC's bit less 'wordy'.

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** awk progam(s) to use/interpret BNF in real time to provide "modern" constructs for awk programming. (or impliment way to read/interpret lambda expressions in awk to extend awk)

** ( as a learning tool/approach a scaled/toy awk scripted version of dbos )

dbos : https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=dbos

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** Nipkow mechanical tv 1920's vs. python/pi implimentation! (or Philo Farnsworth's take)

mechanical tv : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-wbfP1pmVw

Farnsworth : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth

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** foucault's measurements vs. LIGO vs. Fizeau Apparatus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault%27s_measurements_of_the_speed_of_light

measuring speed of light : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-wbfP1pmVw

LIGO : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO

Fizeau Apparatus : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMO9uUsjXaI

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** MUMPS vs. current 'concurrent' databases (postgres).

MUMPS : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

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How to loop in a loopless language might be useful for going from "spinning disks" to 'trees' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzsxO79zxS8
Here's an example of how broken the discourse is over immigration and how the media has grossly failed with their responsibility in reporting something remotely factual.

The majority of undocumented migrants aren't border crosses. They're visa overstayers [1].

And of course the "migrant crime" hysteria is completely made up. Despite there being at least 10 million undocumented migrants, the number of murders commited by both documented and undocumented migrants in 2024 was 29 [2]. Not 29,000. TWENTY NINE. That's a per-capita crime rate significantly lower than the American population.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/686056668/for-seventh-consecu...

[2]: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistic...
Who really cares about DMCA? If you’re copying discs you bought and aren’t sharing those copies, who would even know you did it? I view it as more of a way to theoretically throw the book at someone caught sharing than a way to imprison people who make personal copies.
Hmm really? Even on the Wikipedia page for 7 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/7), one of the first things it says is “7 is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic.” And FWIW you can see the Wikipedia edit history, that isn’t a recent edit, nobody here is messing with it :)

“Lucky Number 7” is a common phrase, there was even a popular movie that played on this, “Lucky Number Slevin” (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0425210/). It’s one of the first numbers I’d think of as a “lucky number.”
Thanks for the post! Would love to read similarly styled dives into GIL performance and experimental multi-threaded Python builds!
Agreed with the points in OP. Though we did have the story that came out shortly after the election that apparently internal polling for the Harris campaign never showed her ahead [1].

Obviously it says in the article that they did eventually fight it to a dead heat, which is in-line with a 50-50 forecast, but I do wonder what, if anything, failed such that this key detail was never reported on publicly until after the election.

As the article notes, public polls started appearing in late September showing Harris ahead, which they never saw internally. Are internal polls just that much better than public ones? Is the media just incentivized to report on the most interesting outcome (a dead heat)?

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/...
I've always seen it as a logistical problem. With the Irish famine the British had a sophisticated world spanning logistical system that deliberately de-prioritized the Irish, even during an active famine that was a consequence of their own design. It's hard not to point fingers here when the culprit is obvious.

With modern famines it becomes more nuanced though imo. The logistical systems are not already in place like with Ireland, they are often built and sustained reactively, like a bridge during a storm. Some never "turn off" properly and undercut local farmers creating a stronger potential for future famines in the region. The solution isn't just allowing everyone to starve of course, but doing a better job at the follow-up work.

I'm not saying this is some impossible problem, just that it's a delicate one despite best intentions. Food grown in abundance in one region of the world might be rotting by the time it arrives where it's needed. While we have systems through the UN and non profits for this I still think we could do a lot better.
> It was specifically about whether the error handling aspect is better.

If it's better, how? Can you prove it? Does it lead to lower defect rates? Lower time to debug? Less runtime errors? How is it better other than your preference of green crayons?
> You now have to type "allow pasting" into the dev console to paste Javascript there. Guess why.

Would you be content with Chrome (hypothetically) taking away the console instead? Your average user has no business using it anyway.

> Browsers can't ever win that race. Malicious extensions will just say "go to settings and blah blah blah".

You're absolutely right, they can't win the race. People have been plugging holes in software for decades and malware still hasn't been defeated. Taking features away just to plug more holes instead of restricting them doesn't seem right to me. One could argue (I haven't looked this up, though) that even more users fall victims to malware in spite of today's "locked" browsers (and phones) simply because there's an ever increasing number of people online. A lot of that malware is being spread through misleading ads and malicious code that uBO blocks.

With uBO vanishing, a lot of users will be left without an adblocker. Those who aren't tech-savvy enough won't know what to install instead (eg uBL). They'll go on browsing unprotected. Google will see a spike in ad revenue and will be pleased. They have no real interest in blocking scammy ads.
A similar story about Ice detaining a German tourist in California indefinitely. Jessica Brösche has spent more than a month in detention center after being denied entry at San Diego from Mexico.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/ice-german-t...
On a related note, TubeArchivist just released v0.5, and is officially not in a feature freeze.
The world produces excess of food but the distribution costs are very high for example. Would you go into debt sending food to another country or are you relying on the government to bear the burden of that through taxes? There’s a secondary factor which is that we’ve learned through efforts in the 80s that charity breeds dependence and the food aid drives often had a paradoxical effect of preventing those countries from building up their own local farm base which is more harmful long term for everyone involved. I don’t think it’s quite clear and dry as you paint it and that every famine is the result of one group intentionally trying to starve another.
Or, more nuanced: HBO pays artists and writers and electricians $50 million to make something. It turns out to be unmarketable. So rather than throw good money after bad, he writes it off. Then uses the tax savings to hire artists and writers and electricians to make a different thing.

It's wasteful and I don't like his decisions but it's not much different from what VCs do with their expenditures.

In neither case do American Tax Payers foot the bill.

Zaslav could write it off and still dump it on YouTube. And VCs could open source all the Ruby code they bought between 2006 and 2016. But there's reasons they don't.
That's still a good chunk of traffic, but there's also compromised firewalls, VPNs, and random servers. The device types themselves change as new exploits are discovered. Because Twitter still uses their own data centers they could be subject to various amplification attacks as well. But if what he says is true and it's all coming from one country then that is trivial to block at ingress.
You can also do OPT "post-completion" of your degree - this also gives your (new) employer some time to apply for a longer-term work visa.
They did this during the napster era.
Congrats on making the plugin. I find the pricing a bit surprising though. Is there any reason you decided to do it like this?

Specifically, I noticed there is barely a bulk discount. Also the numbers aren't round. Lastly, I didn't see a way to purchase a custom amount of licenses. If my company wants 5 licenses, they would need to buy 1x 4 users and 1x 1 user. (Or, 30 licenses)
There's a pretty clear test of whether a pollster is about reporting or influencing: the partisanship of their errors. Neutral pollsters have differences with the results randomly distributed across parties. Propagandists have errors that favor their patrons. This essay leans on the magnitude of the errors, but that's less probative than their distribution.

Does any poll aggregator order by randomness of polling error?
Not at all. It was derived mathematically from the Question: What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
I wouldn't have believed this a few years ago but I do now. If you sell your soul to the biggest liar on Earth, then you are complicit and probably have similar neurological patterns.
Which is why most non-failed countries try to self-sustain a large amount of their food requirements and agriculture is subsidized and protected. But it also means food export isn't a big business.
I have not read it but it looks like a comprehensive reference. For a more applied treatment see Foundations of Deep Reinforcement Learning. https://slm-lab.gitbook.io/slm-lab/publications-and-talks/in...

Neither cover LLMs. I don't follow the literature closely so I can only suggest you read papers: https://github.com/WindyLab/LLM-RL-Papers
That is a textbook false equivalence.
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All famines are caused by natural disasters. What makes them political is that people die when their ability to overcome natural disasters is restricted or removed.

E.g. for the Irish Famine, the natural disaster was the outbreak of the phytophthora infestans disease affecting potato crops - the outbreak spread from North America across Europe, affecting Belgium, Netherlands, France & the UK. The cause of death in Ireland was the English exporting all food produced in Ireland that wasn't potatoes. An interestingly relevant historical record here is the Australian Convict Collection showing the number of Irish convicts sent to Australia & Tasmania for stealing food during the famine years.
> But the idea that news is without bias/opinion is a bit controversial.

It's not controversial, it's an idea only held by morons who didn't finish high school. To be clear, everyone in this country with a GED or higher has taken classes on media literacy and bias and understands that unbiased news isn't a thing and never has been.
Maybe a closer comparison would be famine of 1876-8, where some estimate go as high as 8.6M fatalities on a population of ~58M.

> In its first full year, 1846, Robert Peel’s Conservative government imported huge quantities of corn, known in Europe as maize, from America to feed the starving. The government insisted that the corn be sold rather than given away (free food would merely reinforce Irish indolence)

Compare this to the 1876 response in which "relief work" camps had workers doing strenuous labor in order to receive a meager ration of far fewer calories than would have been expended in the work.

> ... this 'Temple wage' consisted of 450 grams (1 lb) of grain plus one anna for a man, and a slightly reduced amount for a woman or working child,[12] for a "long day of hard labour without shade or rest."[13] The rationale behind the reduced wage, which was in keeping with a prevailing belief of the time, was that any excessive payment might create 'dependency' ...
Is there an academic source available for that?
My first thought also. Every reason to think a pattern of bullying would extend to romantic and sexual partners.
A good example of the importance of traffic analysis and meta-data is:

https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/prism-metadata-analysis...
The arguments stemming from the rule of law always remind of this:

The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust hath the just’s umbrella.
Fighter jets emit ADS-B? I know it's only training, but I'm curious?
As a pilot with an amateur radio license (though an inexperienced ham) this sounds really interesting. Could you elaborate more on building the VOR receiver?
>Is the only way of getting and preserving media piracy now?

Piracy is illegal and unethical. You are stealing the property of the rightful owners of the content when you pirate. Yes, copying IS theft - you are depriving the owner of the content from having you not having the content. If the only way to preserve something is to pirate it, then the ethical and legal action is to let it disappear. You do not have the right to choose what happens with movies, music, etc., only the rightful owner can do that.

Combating piracy requires enormous resources on the part of the IP owners, which is taken from budgets that could be otherwise allocated to creating more art. When you pirate, you are stealing not just from the rightful owner, you are stealing from all of society by depriving us of art that would have been created if money didn't have to be spent fighting piracy!
In SQLite3 tables are b-trees.
okay, now change "election prediction models" to "Climate models" and see if you feel like downvoting me merely for pointing out the (slight?) hypocrisy in "excusing" every other model we humans use for being "inaccurate" or "not having the full details" or the "whole slice of"...

when none of the models tend to agree... and the IPCC literature published however often they do it is hung upon the framework of models.
Both SLS and Ariane 6 are late and over-budget, with little hope of being cost-competitive sans-subsidy. Aside from that, they’re very different rockets.
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Ah, agile workflows, where features have to be completed and fully rolled out within a two week period.
I'm currently using a mysterious Chinese vendor's ink in my office DeskJet, and it's working better and longer than any HP cartridges ever did.
I just don't think this conception of property is worth it.
For starters, they use a terrible custom font as default[1], and that tells me that they don't have their priorities straight in terms of product quality.

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lhftw36rac2x
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1 and 10 are on the boundary, that's not random so those are out.

5 is exactly halfway, that's not random enough either, that's out.

2, 4, 6, 8 are even and even numbers are round and friendly and comfortable, those are out too.

9 feels too close to the boundary, it's out.

That leaves 3 and 7, and 7 is more than 3 so it's got more room for randomness in it right?

Therefore 7 is the most random number between 1 and 10.
The economist Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize partially for his research on famines and the conclusion that most are social and political. He was a young child during the Bengal famine (famously not due a food shortage) and witnessed it up close.
This is the exact mindset the Germans put forth when questioned after the war: What should we have done anyway? We were just following orders. We didn’t know what would happen. They would only have taken us, too, if we resisted.

If a few more of us would have stood up at the time, the world could look very differently today.
Shipping an MVP != "knowing my code"

I don't know what 99% of the internals of Rails is doing, but boy howdy I can outship you every day of the week using Rails compared to any custom setup.

Rails/Laravel == I want to make money.
100% Custom code == I want to build something intellectually gratifying.

I won't say they're never the same, but very VERY rarely is that the case.
Which countries are these?
Exponential growth of computing power which will lead to a gradual increase in AI performance. I think the oldest LLM you mention there is nine months old which is not very long in the scheme of things but give it a couple of years and you'll probably see a good improvement.
The descriptive term has become a dirty word because the right’s media has been complaining about it so long that lots of folks think they mean bad programs the Wrong People cheat to receive.

I’ve heard people call in to a somewhat-right-wing local radio show to complain that the host was insulting them by (correctly, and not in any kind of judgy context) using “entitlements” to describe things they were receiving. The very-right-wing national syndicated stuff a few clicks away on the dial never would have made that mistake, and are the reason people had that reaction. Those entitlements, the ones you benefit from, aren’t entitlements.

I bet a bunch of people hearing Elon talk about cutting “entitlements” don’t realize it overlaps with—or is even mostly—some things they don’t want cut.
Slowed down to preserve battery is equal to “made unusable”?

It was a pretty lame thing to do, but the phone still worked.
I expect Musk to blame Ukraine and use this as an excuse for sanctions against them.
> I don't think the officers ordering to fire cannons explicitly wanted those people to starve.

While I take your broader point about it being a system level issue - when you’re firing cannon at starving people so you can continue to export their food, you’re complicit, laws be damned.
HyperBlocker: Accelerating Rule-Based Blocking in Entity Resolution Using GPUs [pdf]
Bending Spoons lay off more than 85% of Brightcove staff after acquisition
Almost the entirely of Brightcove staff was lay off today. That is more than 450 people.
I think it's a combination of the market not believing the reality of the unprecedented policy shift and things only getting clearer the last ~2 weeks. If you look at that time frame, US defense stock is definitely suffering: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/industrials/aerospace-defe... especially if you compare this to Korean (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/KDEF/) or European defense stock (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EUAD/ and https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RNMBY/ for a longer perspective since EUAD is new). A large portion of that money could have gone to the US defense sector, but that's not an option anymore.
Looks nice! I was curious about the effort needed to replicate this result with the Google Wallet API and it ended up being a nice evening project to pull off. Sadly with a demo account you get an ugly [TEST ONLY] tag in the card title with a non published account, and the customization options of the card itself don't allow much leeway. One thing I miss is being able to change the font color.

If anyone is curious, I followed this guide: https://codelabs.developers.google.com/add-to-wallet-web#0
Whole lotta invisible (downvoted?) comments in those. Let's do better here.
Hiring at Harvard University paused due to 'shifting federal policies'
My fear in such calculations is that we leave the big whales that do not move, outside. For example the CEO of Nvidia has 4% Nvidia that in today's value is 160B, but the basis is from the IPO, so more like $40M. So now our back-of-the envelope calculation is 160B off.