skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until those things don't work any longer. Slowly the frog is boiled here.
Why is that? Whenever I’m giving examples I almost always use 7, something ending in a 7 or something in the 70s
Digital calipers Raspberry Pi interface and getting micron resolution [video]
Very nice article. But the title, and the idea, is the very frequent "racist" form of the proper "People [can be] just as bad as my LLMs".

Now: some people can't count. Some people hum between words. Some people set fire to national monuments. Reply: "Yes we knew", and "No, it's not necessary".

And: if people could lift the tons, we would not have invented cranes.

Very, very often in these pages I meet people repeating "how bad people are". That is "how bad people can be", and "and we would have guessed these pages are especially visited by engineers, who must be already aware of the importance of technical boosts" - so, besides the point relevant to the fact that the median does not represent the whole set, the other point relevant to the fact that tools are not measured on reaching mediocre results.
Show HN: L Theanine Song [video]
Video generated using Veo2, Audio by Udio 1.5, Lyrics by DeepSeek, Whisper and Claude 3.7 for text overlay and other boring stuff.

I've been on Mertz for like, a month. Not gonna lie,
I ordered it off one of those sketchy Instagram ads - A pixelated GIF of a glowing pill rotating next to the word "CLARITY."
But hey, free shipping.
First few days? Nothing. Unless you count the fact that I finally cleaned out my car.
Not cleaned cleaned.
Just threw all the empty coffee cups into a single Target bag. Baby steps. But then, outta nowhere, I started…
Enjoying folding laundry?
Not in a creepy "I've been replaced by a Stepford wife" way.
More like, "Huh, these socks are kinda profound."
The bottle says it "makes up your mind," and honestly,
my mind's been a IKEA manual written in hieroglyphics for years, so.
By week two, my anxiety about replying to texts turned into… confidence?
Or maybe just indifference.
I left a guy on read for six days and then sent him a photo of a raccoon wearing a hat.
He said "cool." We're best friends now.
Mertz didn't fix my social skills — it just made me okay with the chaos.
And don't get me started on sleep. I'm having these dreams where I'm just… grocery shopping.
But the produce section is run by a guy who looks like Bob Ross.
He keeps telling me to "follow the happy little avocado."
Woke up and meal-prepped for the first time in my life. Ate a vegetable. Felt like a adult.
My sister says I've "joined a wellness cult."
Joke's on her — I tried to explain Mertz to my mom and she thought I was talking about a new dating app.
But honestly? I'll take it. My credit card debt still exists, but I smiled at my bank statement yesterday.
Progress.
I used this tool. I tried a number of them and this seemed the best: https://vectormagic.com/
Now you are a real developer.
Ah. I missed that; maybe Canada only recognises the US visa stay if one entered the US first. I did this research back in 2017, and I may misremember some details.
Actual title: "The strange political philosophy motivating Musk". https://archive.ph/cr0Xr

The article says "Dark Enlightenment's ‘neo-reactionary movement’". The correct answer, though, is "fascism".
Total clickbait after you read details:

> NASA announced March 10 that it was closing the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist; and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Branch of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The employees of those offices, 23 in total, will be laid off.

So 23 DEI architects and middle managers with no direct reports were sent packing by means of re-org. Good riddance!

No physical offices being closed as implied by misleading title.
Do you have any links to where this plan is described?
IOT devices (including printers) get firewalled to have no access outside my LAN, and I don't let my PCs run the kind of software that would fetch a firmware update and push it to another device without prompting me. The first line of security should always be not connecting it to the Internet unnecessarily. This is especially important when the list of probable attackers starts (and ends) with the manufacturer.
Tesla has also received $466,500,000 in bailouts. But bailouts are NOT the same thing as subsidies

https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/tesla-inc
Apache Software Foundation elects new Board
I'm sure YouTube's position is that the videos aren't encrypted with DRM, but YouTube is merely encrypting the video stream from their service, which is therefore fine.

It's BS, but I would bet that's their legal position.

Best load up while you still can, I guess.
Completely agree, unless you are operating a platform for others to deploy to, ECS is a lot simpler, and works really well for a lot of common setups.
> 0) Don't buy from companies that treat me like a criminal.

So don't buy printers, basically? That's sarcasm, but, non-sarcastically, do you know any printer companies that (make decent printers and) have basic respect for their users?
And what happens if the author moved the forumla that used to be in B3? How does your diff utility detect that?

I genuinely can't believe you're staking your argument on the idea that you can somehow track code deltas between versions of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet when literally no one in the world does this.
Does "Click to Remove Element" not work for you?

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/click-to-remove-ele...

For whatever reason, the UBOL creator chose not to include zapper/picker in order to make it as "lite" as possible. It wasn't a Manifest v3 thing, as they've explained.

I have no problem with using a separate extension for zapping.
Use parental controls at the router to prevent the printer from accessing anything outside our in-house network. If it acts like a child, treat it like one.
> Instead of smashing up successful businesses, you should tax them, and use the tax revenue to improve deficiencies in the market.

The deficiency in the market is that laws exist that allow market concentration. Should we tax them to fund regulatory reform?

> If the government thinks there should be more browsers, (or mobile os's) they should tax the existing ones and pay folks to improve the open source alternatives.

Let's review the problem with Chrome.

Chromium is open source. Chrome is Chromium with some corporate misfeatures like DRM, but is also the thing with an advertising budget. Nobody notices that their browser quietly supports DRM, except that then more sites use it, and then open source browsers on open hardware cease to be viable because if you try to use it, it doesn't support the DRM, and then no matter how much better it is people won't use it because half the internet is broken.

If you made Chromium better, Google would just keep making Chrome based on Chromium and then Chrome would have all the improvements you made to Chromium and you've solved nothing. If you made a different open source browser under a license that didn't allow them to do that then they still have billions of dollars so if you do anything better then they can just add the same feature to Chrome. At which point people still don't use your thing because they want to watch Netflix, and Netflix continues to require windvine because the Judas browsers have the most market share so devices that support DRM are common and demanding it doesn't bankrupt them.

Or, you could fix the law that allows DRM to be used as a fig leaf for the true motivation of vendor lock-in and simply create an explicit adversarial interoperability exception to DMCA 1201, not only as a defense but as an affirmative right. Then the open source browser can legally break the DRM in order to implement an ad blocker and create a feature that Google won't put in Chrome, without giving Chrome any abilities the open alternative doesn't, allowing the alternative to gain market share.

> You _should_ outlaw behavior that creates monopolies, like predatory pricing etc

Predatory pricing isn't a cause of monopolies, it's a consequence. If it's happening, the last thing you want to do is ban it, because it's a red flag that tells you the market is broken and you need to fix it. If you leave the market broken, a company with enough market power to charge excessive margins has enough market power to screw the customer in a hundred other ways, and trying to ban every possible abuse of market power is a million times harder than smashing up monopolies.
Update OS's regularly for everyday machines / Offline machines you don't want changes to affect. Update Phones regularly. Give work software a 6 month-1 year lead before updating because they will break something (Looking at you Autodesk & Bluebeam).

And never buy an HP Printer which should come before any talks of when to update.
The plot from the "Idiocracy" movie gets more real everyday.
If you are looking at the pro user you're competing against CrunchBase in my opinion

https://www.crunchbase.com/

Whenever I've been doing business development I've either had a subscription or thought about getting one. Also LinkedIn.
> "We need to support open-source maintainers better!"

> "Let's have a conference to discuss how to help them!"

> "We should provide resources without adding requirements."

> "But how do we do that without more funding or time?"

> "Let's ask the maintainers what they need!"

> Maintainers: "We need more support and less pressure!"

> "Great! We'll discuss this at the next conference!"

> "We need to support open-source maintainers better!"

Maybe some maintainers should be invited to these conferences? And maybe more direct communication with the projects you want to contribute to? I get the impression from the article that these conferences the author describes are more virtue signalling than an attempt to solve the issue.

I do think that advice at the end of the article is useful, but the opening makes me feel that no one's actually having a conversation with maintainers.
I have long suspected the reason for aggressive treatment of minor offenders is that they are an easy target and a quick way to meet your prosecution quota.

I have many times heard about foreign students who come to the USA under completely proper arrangements but run afoul of immigration because of some innocent remark. My advice to visitors is to never mention to officials any circumstance in which you might come into contact with business or financial operations.
It sounds like she was rightfully detained, but it seems crazy to hold her for 10+ days. Why not just let her get back on a flight to the UK and tell her not to come back for 10 years or whatever.
Florida has a statute that prevents local governments and HOAs from banning or prohibiting "solar collectors, clotheslines, or other energy devices based on renewable resources"

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Displ...
If we look at the article's worst five crashes:

1. 1929 Crash & Great Depression
2. Lost Decade (Dot-Com Bust & Global Financial Crisis)
3. Inflation, Vietnam, & Watergate
4. WWI & Influenza
5. Great Depression & WWII

Regarding the Great Depression (#1,4,5). The story that is often overlook according to the historians I have read is how the lack of a Federal Reserve and FDIC contributed to the Great Depression. As there was no Federal Reserve, little regulation, and no FDIC deposit insurance... when banks failed all of their customers became financially penniless. The reason why many of those banks failed was that they were at the "edge" already due to farmers taking out massive loans during WWI as American grain was in demand and when the war ended, many of those loans went bad. When the stock market crashed, that was the straw that broke the camel's back. If we had a Federal Reserve and FDIC back then, many of those issues could have been prevented.

#3 was a combination of the Arab Oil shocks and the Vietnam War dragging down the economy.

#2 is still a mystery to me. I don't understand how a speculative bubble was allowed to develop including the mortgage backed securities nonsense could trigger a decade long recession. I assume it was due to the repeal of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_legisla...?
If it's really that big of a problem this can be addressed by locking extensions by default and hiding the on switch where casual users won't look. But come on, this is obviously a pretext. You expect people to believe that the most prolific adertising and surveilance company in history is crippling the ability to block ads and trackers for altruistic reasons?!
For category #2 it’s very useful as well and ties in with the theme of the article in that it reduces the activation energy required to almost zero. I’ve been using AI relentlessly to pursue all kinds of ideas that I would otherwise simply write down and file for later. When they involve some technology or theory I know little about I can get to a working demo in less than an hour and once I have that in hand I begin exploring the concepts I’m unfamiliar with by simply asking about them: what is this part of the code doing? Why is this needed? What other options are there? What are some existing projects that do something similar? What is the theory behind this? And then also making modifications or asking for changes or features. It allows for much wider and faster exploration and let’s you build things from scratch instead of reaching for another library so you end up learning how things work at a lower level. The code does get messy but AI is also a great tool for refactoring and debugging, you just have to adjust to the faster pace of development and remember to take more frequent pauses to clean up or rebuild from a better starting point and understanding of the problem.
That's what I was confused about. I was thinking my add blocking maybe cut out a paragraph from the text at first.

> Canadian authorities told her to go back to the US and fill in new paperwork before returning to cross into Canada.

If it's not mistake, and the article is complete, it sounds like the reporter skipped some important details about what Canada did. Hopefully an honest mistake.
Sony A9 III even has a configuration setting of whether it should focus on the left or right eye of the person :) It also can remember faces and prioritize them if there other faces. Let's say someone shoots their kid on the football field and wants only them to be in focus.
Bandcamp. When you buy an album you get a DRM-free download.

https://bandcamp.com/discover/electronic+synthwave
Sorry, added an edit to my above post before I saw this, just to summarize:

I think that's a more reasonable complaint, but I fear it's too vague to be applicable.

The STEPS folks would probably say that a modern computing environment in ~20kloc is something that was previously unaccomplished and thought to be unaccomplishable, but you're writing that off/not counting it as such, presumably because it failed.

On the other end of the spectrum, things like Git (to my knowledge) did come out of the "find a better way to source control" incremental improvement mindset. (Of course, you can say the distributed model was "previously unaccomplished," but the line here is blurry.)
Yes, the recent history of the IA is of its shooting itself in the foot in full auto. I don’t understand how the board members pushing these obviously dangerous actions haven’t been turfed out.
"Perturb and observe" is a great method for optimizing some things, but it relies on the assumption that input changes to the system are perfectly reversible.

Slash and burn is the method of choice when your goal is to wipe out the whole system and restart one that you think will do what you want.
Show HN: Generative AI for Evals
We built a tool to help AI developers replace "vibes-based" testing with structured evaluations. Coherence generates realistic test cases to rigorously test prompts before they hit production, allowing you to iterate quickly and catch edge cases early. Our approach uses model ensembles and mixture of agents to deliver high-quality synthetic data without waiting for production traces or SME input.
Even a high-yield savings account should beat inflation on average. Such account has an interest rate similar to the Fed rate which is set to be above the expected inflation in normal economic conditions when the Fed is neither supporting nor slowing the economy.
Veritasium actually made a video on this concept about a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6iQrh2TK98
Identity Fusion
And most world indexes that sell funds based on historical returns do not factor in those going to zero events (for example, Austro-Hungary had one of the biggest stock markets in the world...until it didn't).

And capital freedom is itself extremely contingent historically. The reason why, for example, returns in the 40/50s were high in the US was because you couldn't take your money out of the country and the government told everyone to buy govt securities to pay for the war.

And what if you need to retire during those 35 years...these studies always look at infinite time periods, the human life is not infinite.

Issues on issues. Your financial knowledge has to only limited to the US after 1981 to not understand any of these points...but lots of people are making a ton of money selling this stuff.
It's not about shooting blanks, but getting the chance to reproduce in the first place. There's a lot of research showing that women are attracted to confidence and dominant traits (read: "bad guys"), and that this preference is basically universal.
It was when the ADL refused to make an endorsement that I realized that the election was already over. Even before the inauguration, there had been plenty of anti-semitic overtones.

I don't hear the ADL saying, "Gosh, maybe we should have endorsed the lady who didn't bring literal Nazis on stage."
By not hiring dumb people who flagrantly and obviously violate the law.
Delegating Complex Tasks
My experience as a father of a son that’s 6 and observer of his friends. I’ve been coaching a group of his buddies since they were 3 and can see a lot of patterns. About 50% is seemingly innate and potentially communication related. A lot of them grow out of it as they learn to communicate better. About 10-20% are non aggressors and never behave this way even when communication was a barrier. They follow instructions and typically have a good moral compass and excel at communication until around 5-6 (others catch up). They share well, play nicely, etc. The others are somewhere inbetween. They likely are somewhat aggressive at times but it’s generally a learned from older siblings behavior or they’re going along with someone else’s behaviors. Then, there are a few little shits who act like they get beat in the home (and probably do, honestly) and these ones are the worst - they see red and will kill/maim your non aggressors without a thought. The non aggressors don’t really understand violence and it confuses them why a “friend” would hit/push/snatch/not share. It’s kid of sad.

My kid is one of the non aggressors and I teach him self defense. I’m slowly revealing my true feelings to him as he’s maturing enough to handle it responsibly but I’d much rather him get expelled for zero tolerance self defensive fighting than be a victim of bullying.

Kids change obviously so we’ll see how they continue to develop and mature out of or into bully behavior, a few of the worsts have already chilled out a lot over the past few years while a few have become worse than they were when I met them. The thing that's weird is when they start distinguishing on things that are completely learned from adults; "poor" vs "rich", cars, vacations, etc are notable but also the stereotypical "cool" vs "nerd" interests and how they organize accordingly into their cliques.
Immune cells convert bacteria into critical nutrients, scientists discover
I can't get ticketmaster to work reliably on Firefox. I guess it thinks I'm a bot. I can use Chrome on the same computer and book tickets just fine.

One crap product forcing me to use another crap product! ;)
Eric Schmidt Joins Relativity Space as CEO
Tangential question, as I am not an economist and don't pretend to understand any of this: what would happen if the stock market didn't recover? (Surely, it could happen? Past performance is no guarantee of future results.)

The economy would effectively collapse, and I imagine our currency would be mostly worthless. People would withdraw what they could from bank accounts, which wouldn't be able to produce all the funds, so FDIC insurance would kick in, effectively printing money, but the economy has collapsed anyway?

^ That's just my intuitive speculation. I can't really grasp the scenario of stocks never recovering. Anyone with some education/background have a good explanation? (Not sure I want to trust AI with this question.)
My guess is that we bias towards numbers with cultural or personal significance. 7 is lucky in western cultures and is religiously significant (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7#Culture). 42 is culturally significant in science fiction, though that's a lot more recent. There are probably other examples, but I imagine the mean converges on numbers with multiple cultural touchpoints.
I totally agree. I think the best time was when they switched to the intel architecture, and their machines were good at interoperating with the rest of the world.

But I think they're regressed. I think sj was good at getting apple to interface with the rest of the world, and make course corrections. But now they've forgotten how.

Everything apple does is more apple ecosystem, ignore everyone else.

Sort of like the 7-habits dependent, independent, interdependent. Now they're back to independent.

so... they ignore the rest of the world. their own hardware, their own languages, everything else comes from their store. admittedly macos still allows people to run their own software, but ios doesn't let you run software or even access your own filesystem.
The problem, and it's a big one, is that getting rid of Musk, would mean that the stock craters 90% at least.

If that happens, Tesla will be sued into oblivion once Musk is gone and everybody realizes that they are nowhere near rolling out real FSD and Optimus.

One thing is sure - they are effectively done in EU, and the damage seems to be very substantial in the US too. In China, they just got outcompeted by cheaper and better alternatives. Let's see how a carmaker with installed capacity which exceeds sales by a factor of 3 or 4 manages to survive.
> Most[1] movies[2] are still released on DVD/Bluray[3]. See https://www.blu-ray.com[4]

[1] Most theatrically-run movies

[2] Specifically movies, not TV Shows

[3] Which has issues with rot, failure, misprints, and inferior encodes compared to some streaming services (particularly where content is available in 4K HDR streaming, but only gets a poorly tonemapped SDR Blu-Ray release)

[4] The site is known to speculate on potential releases of content and is not a definitive source of what is, has been, or will be available for retail purchase.

Just clearing those points up as a preservationist myself. Years ago, the scales tipped very clearly in favor of piracy as preservation, since most streaming content just doesn't get a retail package anymore.
Strangely enough, the home I bought in 2022, which was new construction, has gas stove and water heater, but no gas in the laundry room. (I'm sure I can have it run relatively inexpensively if I chose)
It is mostly cosmetic. (Lowers property values in the eyes of the investor)
In my case it would be 2 lease violations since simply putting up a line would be a second violation for doing "unapproved work".

Lease agreements are a bit out of hand...especially in states with little/no renter protections.
who is actively trying to decimate the gay community? honest question!
... that's one reason I got an Epson ET-8550

https://epson.com/For-Work/Printers/Inkjet/EcoTank-Photo-ET-...