skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your presumptions (no, Chrome did not have their own root program in 2015 or before; they announced [1] it in 2020, as I wrote, and blocking individual CAs out of it on a case by case basis does not quite make a full root program) and unwillingness to spend one minute to fact check them are a lack of perspective on my side?

My point was that Chrome (arguably not an insignificant browser) did use the OS’s root CA lists for 12 years (or 7, if you really want to count individual CA bans as a program; arguably both not an insignificant time span).

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.security.policy/c/3Q...
Do you genuinely believe that Chinese consumers are not buying Tesla anymore because the US are becoming enemies of the West and Musk is overtly a Nazi? Feels more reasonable to me that they just buy Chinese brands because those are good alternatives.

> How do we go assuming that "everywhere else" cares about this and China doesn't?

The US being governed by fascists has a very big impact on a lot of the world. But I'm pretty sure China doesn't feel threatened the way the ex allies of US feel today.

My point was that the main reason for the West to look for US alternatives is that the US has become a threat to them. The US hasn't become a threat to China in the last two months.
Yes you're right, sorry. I did that to avoid the title character limit without thinking about the confusion it creates.
Unfortunately that has never been successful for me. You can't reason a person out of a position they didn't reason themselves into in the first place.
The sell off is not due to anyone trading up for the newer model; those aren’t selling either.

It’s folk selling off what they have because the value is in free fall so they need to get what they can before the value drops even further.
People trying to escape North Korea since it's the only place at that level mostly.

However, during communism in Bulgaria people didn't openly talk about the issues of the system due to fear of essentially snitches and there was a whole lot of propaganda going around in the form of the little TV access they had, radio, local events, etc. In spite of that, practically everyone knew that despite the marketing of everyone being equal, some were "more equal".

From there you had a split of people who knew how to play the game, and those who didn't.

The grandfather of a friend used to be one of the top people in National Security and was privately against communism despite benefiting from it greatly (warehouse full of western cars, properties, etc), helping good people with big mouths whenever he could. He had the right vote ready but wasn't suicidal about using that right.

My grandfather was incarcerated for not being subtle about disliking communism and fear of retaliation for the regime killing his grandfather without judge or jury and incarcerating his father. Later he learnt to play the game and got pretty far career wise, passing a couple luck roll checks since his big mouth sometimes got him in trouble. Luckily there were quite a few people willing to help good people in spite of their opinions on "the party". That's someone who was punished, drilled with communism propaganda non stop in prison and still maintained his beliefs. He also read a LOT of the books sold at the time (colored to fit in with the beliefs of the regime whenever appropriate). We have an entire library at home since he bought every book he could.

My grandmother also had a big mouth on her but she was stationed as a special needs teacher by the turkish border so she mostly avoided trouble by being in bumfuck nowhere around a disliked by the regime minority.

Mentioning the particular examples because those are actual people, who, if you went to as a tourist in Bulgaria 40 years ago and asked "Do you like communism/Zhivkov" would most likely nod and go on despite being aware the situation is shit and would only give you their actual opinion if they trusted you to a certain degree which makes it very difficult to go to a place with no freedom of speech/opinion and get an actual picture of the political opinions of people.
Unfortunately, these numbers considered state of art for modern classic gyroscopes.

Better are quantum navigation systems, using quantum matter as sensor, but they was too bulky to be used on planes, only last years appear more compact systems, sized like common home fridge.
Goodbye Dockerfile, Hello Bazel: Doubling Our CI Speed
Sounds like the text was written by my German native speaker colleague and then translated to English. But the tool is fine. The range drops dramatically in winter on the autobahn. -1% or more per minute of driving. Not thinkable with petrol car.
For all models fitting 2x 5090 (2x 32GB) that's not a problem, so you can say if you have this problem then RTX is also not an option.

On apple silicons you can always use MoE models, which work beautifully. On RTX it's kind of waste to be honest to run MoE, you'd be better off running single, whole active model that fills available memory (with enough space for the context).
TypeScript Is Like C#
Oh, this makes sense, thanks!

I don't really get why people would want to use ChromeOS, but that's another topic :-).
Nobody Enforces "Right to Repair"
The NHS security culture problem is a crisis years in the making
Still less ridiculous than Han Solo defeating a giant space squid by luring it into a gravity well: https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Summa-verminoth
ACP (Agent Communication Protocol)
Isn't your mindset exactly what makes those companies profitable?

If you resign for your personal responsibility and adopt conformity behaviour, you will be easily manipulated. Certainly, you don't have expertise and time to process certain narratives, but do you want so called experts to dictate to you what to do? Always for your safety, right?
You can do about 5x worse (in accuracy terms) than a Cesium clock in a smaller package using a rubidium atomic clock. Average ~4 of these and you get to the same accuracy as a cesium clock. They aren't export controlled because they aren't that special in terms of what you get.
> how does scale factor into trying to task sea drones with hunter/killer roles?

The Black Sea is a good example of how that went down; using US intelligence - could be sattelite imagery, radar, or a combination thereof - they were able to pinpoint the Russian ship(s), giving their drone ships enough guidance to head there. And as long as there's no signal jamming, it could be remote controlled to its final destination if needs be.
History shows city states go to war with each other and within
themselves far more readily than nation states. Presumably shining
technofascist utopias will not be needing the US Army or Judiciary as
they'll have their own robot militias and summary justice AIs?
This is a project I've thought about for a while - it allows you to work on your Arduino project in Xcode. This dramatically increases productively and reduces frustration.
Splitting Europe by language again will only be a disadvantage. Depending on where you live in Europe, the lingua franca is either English or Russian, with maybe a bit of German and French in border regions.

I don't see the value add of an international forum with local languages. There's a great Dutch tech forum already (tweakers.net) visited almost exclusively by Dutch and Flemish people. Great for locals, but entirely impossible to join in on as a foreigner.

Also, you may be confusing Europe with the EU. The UK has almost 70 million people speaking English every day.
I'm pretty sure that's replying directly to the comment about how c is close to assembly and that if you add that line of code somewhere you know there's a variable getting incremented. Doesn't really matter whether or not it's useful, the point is that the behavior isn't exactly what you wrote
You are missing something. This is a single stream of inference. You can load up the Nvidia card with at least 16 inference streams and get at much higher throughout tokens/sec.

This just is just a single user chat experience benchmark.
tl;dr

> The stock has stagnated over the past year, however, as questions mount about the company's Copilot technology, and as AI competition intensifies.

"hey, the stock is struggling, we must fix our performance-review system that we used for 10 years"
> Yeah that's because the distinction between indexing and counting is pretty much irrelevant to every day use

No it's not. Telling the time or measuring something is 0-indexed. But identifying a thing in a list is 1-indexed.
It’s a problem future me will always, happily solve.

If my system is large enough and complex enough, it _likely_ means the business behind it is successful. I will always solve “dumb problems from past me” for a successful business than the alternative of not having a business.
I think that tools like this have to operate on a subscription model like Cursor does in order to make any kind of sense for most users. The pay as you go model for agentic code tools makes you responsible for paying for:

* Whatever context the agent decides to pull in.

* However many iterations the model decides to run.

* Any result you get, regardless of how bad it is.

With pay as you go, the tool developer has no incentive to minimize any of these costs—they get paid more if it's inefficient, as long as it's not so inefficient that no one uses it. They don't even need it to be especially popular, they just need some subset of the population to decide that costs don't matter (i.e. those with Silicon Valley salaries).

With Cursor's model of slow and fast queries, they are taking responsibility for ensuring that the agents are as cost efficient as possible. The more efficient the agent the larger their cut. The fewer times that people have to ask a question a second time, the larger their cut. This can incentivize cutting corners, but that somewhat balanced out by the need to keep people renewing their subscription, and on the whole for most users it's better to have a flat subscription price and a company that's optimizing their costs than to have a pay-as-you-go model and a company that has no incentive to improve efficiency.
Or they just use Phalanx-like [0] close-range defensive aid suites which already exist?

Sure, that will consume a lot of bullets but swarms of defensive kamikaze drones will also get used up and need resupply. In which case the resupply ships themselves also become high-value targets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS
I mean if they get a dinghy close enough it's already lost, since that could also be a torpedo or whatever.
Oh, you'd just a few months ago never have believed how geopolitically measured and sensible a lot of them are lately starting to sound. Nervous, too. They might not mostly be ready to admit how bad they fucked up, but the fact of it is fast dawning on them and a lot of them, at least in my broader circles, are starting to get scared. Too late, sad to say.
Ask HN: What is an "outdated" tool or plugin that you refuse to switch from/why?
In the age of github stars being inflated and people jumping ship to ship between mainstream projects, I'm curious to hear other's opinions.
Let's get Russian disinformation and influence out of Europe and heal the European relationships. Cannot wait to see Farage begging for food in the subway.
Install it inside a virtual machine.
I need actual context, not just that it's Israel...? Can you cite from where you are understanding the "being honest about it" aspect?
How Silicon Valley's Corrupted Libertarianism Is Dismantling American Democracy
They started the process to join the EU, but political ideals have since shifted and I don't think they'll ever join the EU with the way things are going now. Even if Turkey changes their mind, I don't think most of Europe would still want them in in the state they're in right now.
> That's around 5,300 EUR / month per employee

If the salary is 4300 (instead of 5300) per employee for those 120, that would give the CEO the extra 120x1000 per month.

I am not implying the CEO does that, I am merely saying that "non-profit" is a relevant term and unless supervised/regulated can become a big earner for one/some/all of the staff.

Unless they report all salaries (anonymised) and this would be signed-off by an independent/external auditor (give 20k per year to one of the Big4) we would be somehow certain that there isn't a hockey-stick graph (with the CEO and his wife/husband/son/etc/) getting 70% of the salaries for 3 people versus 30% of the salaries for the 117 people.
You can donate to an organisation and use their search engine.
Copilot supports this somewhat natively:

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/customizing-copilot/addin...

The first thing I do for a new project is ask Copilot to create a custom-instructions.md for me and then as I work on my projects, I ask it to update the instructions every now and then based on the current state of my project.

Much less misses this way in my experience.
I've experimented with a very similar flow back in the days of GPT3.5. It resulted in really fun story lines, but i found that the player choices benefitted from some steering: For each plot point i generated three choices, where [1] progressed the story, [2] stalled the plot and [3] resulted in a plot twist, just these additions to the choice prompts increased playability by a lot, and prevented plot stagnation and "feedback loops".
Fans of Tom Scott's Citation Needed, if you haven't seen this... well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzfiF9ccZvQ&list=PLrkYtXgEpu...
So there’s a lot of noise about MCP but it’s just a tool - we found that we’re solving for developer workflows (where there’s pain). People want to get shit done but after coding to update JIRA tickets just kills momentum.

We just make it a highly reliable, easy to use, after committing - add a comment with a summary to that Jira/linear issue. Start a PR in GitHub and assign x, update the slack channel with an update.

In order to get this it wasn’t about porting APIs to mcp. It was thoughtfully designing and optimizing for these workflows. Also quality and polish where the calls are highly reliable - required lower level networking optimizations, sessions, etc to make to work smoothly.

But yes, also part of the frictionless experience was, just oauth.
I am a volunteer EMT, so it's worth it for me. But I also understand it's very likely that even if you return the patient to spontaneous circulation, they might still not live or might have serious issues like brain damage. Cardiac arrest is often caused by something else.

Also it's not just sore arms, CPR on an elderly patient will often crack ribs which is pretty upsetting. A 9/10 chance you'll feel like you killed a person by crushing their chest is pretty high.

Mouth to mouth is really gross and I wouldn't do it to someone with vomit all over them. Without a suction device it's not effective anyway.

I do think everyone should have to take CPR+AED in high school and college, it's a great skill to have and shares the burden of basic life support around the community. But I totally understand why someone wouldn't want to perform it.
Perfect timing. I've been working on a little side project which is getting close to actually being done. Being able to use at least one non-US company for it will be great.
Nice, thanks for the name! Your examples are also spot on.
> If you think about code as a means to an end, and focus on the end

The problem with this is that you will never be able to modify the code in a meaningful way after it crosses a threshold, so either you'll have a prompt only modification ability, or you will just have to rewrite things from scratch.

I wrote my first application ever (equivalent to a education CMS today) in the very early 2000s with barely any notion of programming fundamentals. It was probably a couple hundred thousand lines of code by the time I abandoned it.

I wrote most of it in HTML, JS, ASP and SQL. I was in high school. I didn't know what common data structures were. I once asked a professor when I got into late high school "why arrays are necessary in loops".

We called this cookbook coding back in the day.

I was pretty much laughed at when I finally showed people my code, even though it was a completely functional application. I would say an LLM probably can do better, but it really doesn't seem like something we should be chasing.
Yes it will, I wrote a quick script for local deployment (and then had claude improve it) and then quickly write documentation (and have claude improve it) on how to deploy & gather logs. It will do those things and follow the logs while I'm clicking around in the app. When starting a new session it will read the docs and know how to deploy and check logs. If something failed in the docker build that script output is read by claude since it ran it.

haven't tried PR stuff yet though
I think we should be beyond giving the Trump regime the benefit of the doubt. They’ve shown repeated and obvious malicious intent. I think it’s more likely that they cherry picked this study because they believed that their rubes would fall for it. I doubt Trump himself knows anything about the study.
Git as a Database: Chronological Data Storage
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This doesn't work on my phone. What is it?
That's the point lol
Apple AI's Platform Pivot Potential
> My point was that the main reason for the West to look for US alternatives is that the US has become a threat to them. The US hasn't become a threat to China in the last two months.

Really? China just had their tariffs increased. That's not a thing? Also to Mexico and Canada, which impacts China (China would export there too and then into the US). China is also getting continued and additional sanctions, e.g. over AI and that's not a threat?

> Feels more reasonable to me that they just buy Chinese brands because those are good alternatives.

So why is that China-only is my point? Same applies everywhere.

> The US being governed by fascists has a very big impact on a lot of the world.

I still don't get what media you follow where there's impact to the world BUT China. If the world is impacted, then that impacts the buyers available (demand) to buy Chinese goods, so China is also impacted?
I'm quite curious to know where this is a thing, and whether people actually pick that option. FWIW, I live in Paris and that's also an option sometimes.

My sister lives in a fairly remote town in France, and they wouldn't dream of leaving a package unattended. It's not otherwise considered an "unsafe" or "rough" or whatever area.
Again why to fight for ARM where Softbank will want a huge payoff. When you can instead put this money into RISC-V. I guess i am comming from viewpoint that what EU really needs are independent chips that don't have to be the most cutting edge. I think performance few years behind is fine for majority of needs and that would make europe much more independent. So chips for AI no but for everything else it would be a great start.
IMHO: Yes, subs are great when you need people to constantly be looking over their shoulder and spending tons of money on ASW. They are great at interdicting logistical shipping too. But, they are really really bad at being seen (that's kinda the point), and sometimes you want a unit to be seen to force an enemy to dedicate forces to take care of it. Look at the amount of forces the allies dedicated to sinking Bismark and Yamato. In both cases a not insignificant amount was dedicated to taking down a battleship and even then in both cases not without either significant losses on the allies side, or overwhelming force and waiting for the battleship to be uncharacteristically exposed.

Surface vessels can also provide direct fire which is actually a lot cheaper than a torpedo. The cost of a 5" shell is something like ~20k (2k per actual shell + fuse which I assume is at least 18k) vs $5.39M(2022, source wikipedia) for a MK48 torpedo. 5" gun mounts are pretty much fully automated at this point, they have places for sailors for emergency... but on a NOMARs ship you'd just YOLO on that and use a simplified version without the manual backups for weight savings.

One of the coolest things about this is not this operating on it's own, but operating with a larger manned surface vessel or sub. They act as a cheaper and disposable escort for a much more powerful vessel creating a force multiplier. This is pretty much identical to the "Loyal wingman" that has been under development for awhile.

TLDR: there is value in having a ship being a visible target and having a gun. There is also value in having both NOMARs and manned ships working together.
It's quite fascinating. It's like if order to figure out the shape of a teacup, we generate thousands of identical copies, smash them all to rather small bits, and then try to count the different types of shards as a first step to piecing together one full copy. Impressive that it works.
SIRC Guide to Flirting (2006) [pdf]
Sleep Science: In the Era of Screens, Rest Is Crucial (2018)
Recessions will make America great again.
If Google can't fix these, it seems like cause for a class action lawsuit. Devices shouldn't just stop working.

This is going to piss off a lot of people.
You don’t like it you don’t have to read the blog article. I assure you are not the intended audience. For the rest of us it provided valuable insight.
My understanding is it depends on the amount of visibility, plus what type of approach they were on. One type of approach, an ILS, has big radio transmitters pointing from the runway into the air and allows the plane (either pilots or autopilot) to get close enough to the runway without visibility, and with enough precision, to land. In many circumstances ILS isn't available and an alternative is Required Navigation Performance (RNP) which uses GPS plus a ton of other inputs to give some amount of precision to the same end. If they're on an RNP approach but suffer a reduction in navigation accuracy then I imagine it's a policy 'go-around'. Even if there's enough visibility it allows the pilots to brief a 'visual' approach before attempting it.
most wealth creation being on paper is because labor stopped getting paid and capital saw all the growth

kinda like how despite all of the inflation the average person only saw a 3% increase in actual take homes while the hyperwealthy saw 300% (of much, much larger numbers).

it ain't gold, it's greed
Yes, I provided you a list of the vast majority of polling that has happened going all the way back to 2021. There was even a nice graph that does show the resurgence you are talking about but also mostly shows it's not anywhere near enough to change the result from conservative majority, pretty much except for ekos polling (there are some other shenanigans going on in here but they are kind of minor compared to the bold face lying with statistics ekos is almost certainly doing). This is the new guy bump to largely unknown Carney from terrible trudeau. Carney is getting known now and getting linked to all the same stupid things that pissed people off about trudeau and you will see his poll results slide every week here as that process happens. It's not going to help him that he is going to get absolutely crushed in the english debate and absolutely crushed without realizing it because his french is terrible in the french debate either.
Yes, you’re right.

I’ve gotten use to saying this incorrectly because most people aren’t trained on (or at least don’t remember) the difference between various types of growth functions. Exponential registers much more clearly in everyday conversation.