skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference isn’t just in the network calls, it’s the relinquishing of the blocking to Chrome itself. The Lite extension is essentially reduced to just providing a blocklist to Chrome, and hopes that Chrome will honor the blocklist.

Google is surgically trying to dismantle adblocking, first by removing all the tools from the users under the guise of “it’s dangerous”, and then shutting it down by rendering them so ineffective they’re useless.
Since most academic performance comes down to the traits of the students, e.g. IQ and conscientiousness, it still seems like this will be a continuation of the existing system, where you get paid more if you can get a job in a better school, which being more expensive (either directly via private school fees or indirectly for public schools in more expensive neighbourhoods), will statistically draw in more students with higher IQs etc.

So I don't this would help things unless you had some initial benchmarking. And I don't think having all students sit an IQ test is going to fly.
Comprehensive Threat Advisory: Ransomware Attack on Mission, Texas
> She was trying to commit immigration fraud by coming to work to the US with ESTA. There was evidence. So she could not be let in. She also could not be legally turned around. And deportation takes time.

Even if we accept everything you say as true (which it very well may be, so sure), you’ve papered over the crux of the isssue with “deportation may take time”.

No. Deportation takes no time whatsoever. ICE has been deporting people within hours of detaining them even in situations where they don’t want to go back to their home countries or their home country doesn’t want to accept them.

But even beyond that, the only reason it’s “taking time” is because the Trump administration fired a whole bunch of immigration judges slowing the entire process down.

End of the day you can make all the excuses you want. My friends who have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in the U.S. in the past are not gonna come anymore.

Literally no one benefits from this mess but all some people can do is defend the stupidest of policies and actions.
"We're the ones who do the surveillance, you're not allowed to surveil us!"

Well, I can't be sure of that for the anonymous "Police sergeant from a large California department", but it seems like a statistically safe bet.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-lapd-is-using-controvers...
Using a Bond Tent to Navigate the Retirement Danger Zone
The Ottoman Sultan's donation (or the US$170/£111 famously donated by a group of Native American Choctaw Nation, which is verified historical fact [0][1][2], or the £14,000 donated by Calcutta in 1846 [0], which is > Queen Victoria's subsequent 1848 donation) have nothing to do with arguing that British policy caused the famine.

They're (verified) anecdotes showing the British Crown was embarrassed that their own charitable donations to a famine that killed 1 in 8 Irish people, were not that much and could be rivaled or outdonated (Calcutta) by private groups, even groups like the Choctaw who had just survived the Trail of Tears forced displacement/genocide 16 years before. (This is commemorated today by sculptures in Midleton, County Cork, Ireland "Kindred Spirits" and a companion sculpture in Tuskahoma, OK "Choctaw Ireland Monument"). By implication the Crown wasn't at all exercised about changing the setup in Ireland where most of the population were tenant farmers on the 90% of the land was foreign-owned. The landlords made a lot of money on exporting grain (esp. during the Napoleonic Wars until the price crashed). The tenants had essentially zero political representation in Westminster.

Nearly two centuries later, Ireland's population (all-island, Republic + NI) has still not recovered to the pre-Famine peak (1841, 8.175m est.) [3]. Predicted to finally happen sometime in the 2050s.

Curious if anyone has documented the massive imbalance in ownership in land in pre-Famine Ireland and compared it to other historical situations (Russia, colonial Americas, Africa, India, 1930s Ukraine) and their eventual outcomes.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Charity

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw_Nation_of_Oklahoma#For...

[2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40304645

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_population_of_Irela...
An early look at Nix Dynamic Derivations
you can see for yourself, e.g. by looking at the Smalltalk emulators that run in the browser, reading Smalltalk books, etc.

I think it's the "blue book" that was used by the Smalltalk group to revive Smalltalk-80 in the form of Squeak. it's well-documented for instance in the "back to the future" paper. I haven't had the fortune of studying Squeak or other Smalltalks in depth but it seems fairly clear to me that there are very powerful ideas being expressed very concisely in these systems. likewise with VPRI/STEPS.

so although it might be somewhat comparing apples to oranges, I do think when, e.g., Alan Kay mentions in a talk that his group built a full personal computing system (operating system, "apps", etc) in ~20kLOC (iirc, but it's the same order of magnitude anyway), that it is important to take this seriously and consider the implications.

similar when one considers Sutherland's Sketchpad, Engelbart's mother of all demos, Hypercard, etc. and contrasts with (pardon my French) the absolute trash that is most of what we use today (web browsers - not to knock the people who work on them, some of whom are clearly extremely capable and intelligent - generally no WYSIWYG, text and parsing all over the place, etc etc)

like, I just saw a serious rendering glitch just now while typing this, where some text that came first was being displayed after text that came later, which made me go back and erase text just to realize the text was fine, type it again, and see the same glitch again. that to me seems completely insane. how is there such a rendering error in a textbox in 2025 on an extremely simple website?

and this all points to a great deal of things that Alan Kay points out. some of his quips: "point if view is worth 80 IQ points", "stop reinventing the flat tire", and "most ideas are mediocre down to bad".
Whenever I see a tragedy, calamity, crash or whatever I almost always see one common factor: a lack of diversity somewhere. In this case it was in domestic food production. Whenever you look in nature and say 'that looks like a healthy ecosystem' it is almost always a system that is diverse and conversely when you see an ecosystem in distress it is generally lacking in diversity. As far as I know, diversity is the only real long term survival algorithm out there.

[edit] I should point out that I am not commenting on the cause of that lack of diversity, just the result of it.
Wow, I really appreciate your fascinating reply, thanks!
Show HN: Hot Design – Like Hot Reload, but a Runtime Visual Designer
Hi HN,

Nick here, from the open-source Uno Platform team. You are likely familiar with Hot Reload, pioneered by Flutter. We’ve taken that concept further and built Hot Design, let me introduce it to you.

Architecturally, Hot Design idea is simple:

1. In your IDE, pause the live, running app at runtime, turning it into a designer.

2. Modify the UI directly on the designer —add elements, adjust layouts, tweak bindings etc.

3. Resume the app without restarting or losing state.

We built Hot Design to address the frustration of slow iteration cycles when building and tweaking UI or debugging data bindings in apps targeting multiple platforms.

Here’s a detailed explanation and a video of Hot Design in action:
https://platform.uno/blog/hot-design-public-beta/

I can see potential criticism: It will get killed by AI, it’s another abstraction over code, it is .NET etc. Happy to respond to those comments if they come; we put a lot of thought into Hot Design and would love to hear it challenged!

Nick
Why not swap to dns blocking with NextDNS or something similar? Take it out of the browsers hands?
Same way ebike cycling can be invigorating.

It lowers the barrier for entry, doesn't prevent effort
How should you use AI?
Thank you, I just saw waterfall got added!
And if you want to understand the theory of Skinner's Verbal Behavior check out

https://bfskinner.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/978_0_99645...
I’m really not. Subsidies aren’t the problem. An uncompetitive rocket is. Ariane 6’s per launch costs are multiples SpaceX’s. Nothing Arianespace makes is competitive without operating—not development—subsidies.

As long as Europe is dependant on Arianespace, it’s less serious about space as a place than as a job description. And its companies will continue being reliant on foreign launch providers.
There's been discussion on HN of "smuggling" the lost information back into the organization: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42235452
When rules are not adjudicated fairly, it raises the question of the rules’ legitimacy: that is, whether the rules themselves are in place to protect the users or the people in power.
Right, google knows not to turn up the temp too fast, else the frog might jump out!
I guess whether it is sad (chilling effect) or exciting (prevents abuse of paradox of tolerance) depends on your perspective on the particular issue, but the principle here is a non-citizen is a non-citizen. They should not get other ideas. There are many legal activities that non-citizens cannot do: namely they cannot engage in work without authorization, for example. LPRs are given more leeway but those are all within the realm of INA itself not constitutionally protected. What INA giveth INA taketh away.
It says a lot about programming how far you can get with copy not reference, even though the base information often needs to be mutated and the whole point of the reference was to change state at the reference. But when code refactors and the need dies, you go on with things. So a missed ref -> copy is fine, contextually, for many people.

To this day I still get confused about what passes in some languages. the explicit &ref notation has merit of being clear.
I'm not sure about the time window, but I am experimenting with an offline once-a-day digest version of Instagram. Might deliver it by email.
All the demo sites are flagged by Microsoft Edge as - "This site has been reported as unsafe". The irony is the demos are hosted on github pages.
I don't allow location access for Firefox or other apps. Even with delivery apps I'll manually enter pickup address (or use saved nicknames).

I mostly leave location services disabled altogether (as it saves a good amount of battery).
It's a bit surprising that after 202 upvotes and 51 comments nobody has written any comments about the contents of the linked book. Well, I guess I have to go out on a limb and say it:

This book is embarrassingly awful.

> The Fourier transform is just a different way to describe a signal. For example,
investigating the Gibbs phenomenon, which states if you add sine waves at specific
frequency/phase/amplitude combinations you can approximate a square wave, can
be expressed mathematically as (2.1),...

1. The Gibbs phenomenon doesn't state anything. It can be observed; it exists; it is known; it entails things; it implies things; you can state things about it; but it does not, itself, state anything. It is as mute and voiceless as a nudibranch.

2. What is being described is not the Gibbs phenomenon, but the Fourier transform of a square wave. Now, it is true that the truncated Fourier transform of a square wave does exhibit the Gibbs phenomenon. But so does the truncated Fourier transform of any other function containing discontinuities. It's not specific to square waves.

3. This paragraph starts off trying to ineptly explain what the Fourier transform is (a different way to describe a signal? Different from what?), despite the fact that the previous paragraph provides a different and better explanation which is still not very good, but somehow forgets it was going to do so before getting sidetracked with committing the appalling category errors above on the Gibbs phenomenon.

4. You might reasonably assume that the above paragraph, even if poorly expressed, would be followed by some kind of discussion of what the Gibbs phenomenon is, when it matters, and/or when it arises. You would be disappointed; evidently the authors couldn't remember their undergraduate Signals & Systems courses well enough to remember what the Gibbs phenomenon was.

I had skipped ahead to chapter 2 because I couldn't deal with the mindnumbingly awful crap they stuffed Chapter 1 full of, but it didn't get any better. I have to assume the whole book is this literarily abominable and careless about accuracy.

Analog Devices' apparent choice to promote this book for training material suggests that the company's quality standards are no longer what they historically have been and what allows them to charge such a premium for their parts.

Is there some part of this book that is of passable quality? Please tell me that after some introductory filler chapters they started trying to write coherent sentences? I don't have the heart to check.

To all appearances, the HN comments on this post are both better written and far higher in information density than the book it's ostensibly about.
I would say people are much, much worse.

Compare that to the weight we place on "experts" many of whom are hopelessly compromised or dragged by mountains of baggage.
The key issue here is bypassing the time synchronization requirement during the cold start. This has always been a problem with OSNAM, and it's impossible to solve completely. The workaround is clear, the receiver just needs to do an external clock synchronization without relying on GNSS. Something like NTP is more than sufficient for that.

The attack in the paper also assumes that the attacker has complete radio control and can jam ALL the signals. If the receiver gets even one fully authenticated stream from an actual satellite, then the initial timestamp spoofing will fail.

Replay attacks on tracking receivers are not particularly powerful either, they will be apparent within 10-30 seconds.
> All the farms were owned by an elite mostly British class living in England which was a direct hold over from Feudalism.

I think that’s a misconception-yes, there were a significant number of absentee landowners from England, but they were never the majority - the majority of wealthy Irish landowners lived in Ireland. Only around a third of large Irish landowners lived outside of Ireland.

One issue was that the land-owning upper classes were near exclusively Protestant, while the vast majority of the poor were Catholics-which is not to say no Protestants died in the famine, many did-but, while at the time Ireland was 80% Catholic 20% Protestant, famine deaths were 90% Catholic only 10% Protestant-so a Catholic was 2.25 times more likely to perish in the famine than a Protestant. Even though by the time of the famine, most of the formal legal discrimination against Catholics had been repealed, the consequences of it were still very evident.

Although there were many poor Protestants, the average poor Protestant was still better off (and hence more likely to survive) than the average poor Catholic, having benefited from generations of anti-Catholic/pro-Protestant discrimination.

Protestants also benefited from the greater wealth of Protestant charities - even though many Protestant charities were willing to help Catholics too, most Catholics were fearful to accept their help, viewing it as an inducement to conversion
GSA to reduce tech services arm by 50%, eliminate non-statutory work
It's surprising to me that the conclusion reached here is "they should use the kill switch more" instead of a horrified "kill switches and remote monitoring in purchased products shouldn't be a legal practice".
>No, it is the opposite, whether you are measuring Units Per Worker Hour or especially Units Per Worker Dollar.

That is precisely how it is measured: by measuring wages.

>You have a dozen $25/hr workers in a factory producing 50 widgets/hour, and you now introduce new tools, techniques, and/or materials and they now produce 80 widgets per hour, productivity per hour and per dollar has risen, but worker pay is exactly the same.

As is unlikely to surprise you, productivity as a macroeconomic indicator is not measured by lookikg at factories and the tools and techniques they use.

96% of the gap can be explained by the fact that these figures compare productivity growth of the whole economy with wage growth of some workers (the lowest 80% of them - leaving out... the most productive workers), count the productivity growth of the self employed but not their wages, dont take into account overtime, bonuses, or health insurance benefits, and intentionally use different means of measuring inflation across the two figures in an attempt to inflate the numbers.

At the end of the day they track very closely because they are both measures of wages. Productivity is just net output by hour worked and wages is just net output by hour worked. If you use different methods for calculating each you can make either look higher but it is pure methodology.
I mean, perhaps, but in this case "just" isn't offering any cover. It is only part of the sentence for alliterative purposes, you could "just" remove it and the meaning remains.
Your argument that courts will eventually hear a case ignores the reality that immigration proceedings are often slow, and delays can cause irreparable harm to the individual (for instance those facing deportation by the current Trump administration).

Second, I disagree with your stance on strict enforcement without discretion, this often lead to unjust outcomes. Laws exist to serve justice, not just to be enforced blindly.

Third, addressing your "ignorance of the law" argument, sure it may not be a defense, but the expectation that everyone fully understands a convoluted legal system is unreasonable.
This suggests the attackers used a double extortion strategy: not only locking files with encryption but also stealing sensitive data to pressure victims into paying a ransom.
The main problem seems to be setting the backup payment below the rate necessary to sustain life.

I have to disagree that you won't become dependent on assistance given too freely. Obviously these crises leaned way, way too far in the other direction to avoid it, however.
Oh man 3dfx and Matrox, so much nostalgia. I didn't have the money for any of those so they will always stay a legend for me. I think my dad's 586 had an S3 on it. In those times, the only way to find games walkthroughs and cheat codes was through physical magazines and word of mouth. Internet was $$$.
> For signed integer addition the compiler is allowed to assume that `(num < (num + 1))` is true, so the comparison can be removed entirely.

That's not directly what the compiler assumes. The direct problem is in 'a + 1' having undefined behaviour, and that transitively allows the assumption on the comparison that you mentioned.

This was an example where 'a + 1' doesn't compile to an add instruction.
> I don't know if I've got it wrong in my head, but at some point it occurred to me that CSS is basically SQL for DOM.

Why? Because it has syntax you despise or what? The syntax (nor semantics of said syntax) is nothing like SQL.

I feel like people who say things like this are just trying to say anything, and it is meaningless. Do you have a take on that?
I own a Tesla and after buying it I was shopping for a car for my daughter and tried an EV6 while at the dealership. Compared to the EV6 the Tesla is a go-cart. The 2021 Tesla rumbles, has terrible shocks, needs new extremely expensive tires every year, the door handles freeze and feel like they're going to come off in my hands, there's no heat pointed at your feet, the lining of the trunk is peeling off. Meanwhile the EV6 feels like a real car and it was ~5k less. After driving that car I know this is the last Tesla I'll own Musk or no Musk.
Restrictions, ftw!
Pubs' Roles in Tackling Loneliness
"I'd like to point out that that pilot survived"
Taking your money creates a firmer expectation from them to stick to their main selling proposition of privacy which would make it more difficult for them to go after revenue streams that are more lucrative but less privacy-focused.
> I think using the word “intelligence” when speaking of computers, beyond a kind of figure of

Intelligence is what we call problem solving when the class of "problem" that a being or artifact is solving is extremely complex, involves many or near uncountable combinations of constraints, and is impossible to really characterize well. Other than examples, of data points, and some way for the person or artifact to extract something general and useful from them.

Like human languages and sensibly weaving together knowledge on virtually every topic known to humans, whether any humans have put those topics together before or not.

Human beings have widely ranging abilities in different kinds of thinking, despite our common design. Machines, deep learning architectures, underpinnings are software. There are endless things to try, and they are going to have a very wide set of intelligence profiles.

I am staggered how quickly people downplay the abilities of these models. We literally don't know the principles they have learned (post training) for doing the kinds of processing they do. The magic of gradient algorithms.

They are far from "perfect", but at what they do there is no human that can hold a candle to them. They might not be creative, but I am, and their versatility in discussing combinations of topics I am fluent in, and am not, is incredibly helpful. And unattainable from human intelligence. Unless I had a few thousand researchers, craftsman, etc. all on a Zoom call 24/7. Which might not work out so well anyway.

I get that they have their glaring weaknesses. So do I! So does everyone I have ever had the pleasure to meet.

If anyone can write a symbolic or numerical program to do what LLM's are doing now - without training, just code - even on some very small scale, I have yet to hear of it. I.e. someone who can demonstrate they understand the style of versatile pattern logic they learn to do.

(I am very familiar with deep learning models and training algorithms and strategies. But they learn patterns suited to the data they are trained on, implicit in the data that we don't see. Knowing the very general algorithms that train them doesn't shed light on the particular pattern logic they learn for any particular problem.)
The time window makes it an event. I think this is a sleeper hit. Believe it or not, there is a market for creating eventful lives (especially remote ones).
Just keep right on with that black and white thinking. It will take you everywhere you need to go.
I'm guesssing that likely intent is so that the authorities could raid a large scale copyright infringment operation, and obtain convictions based on evidence of perparation alone. I.e. not have to catch anyone red-handed redistributing the prepared materials.

Kind of like how cops in some places in America can evidently arrest someone for DUI if that person merely walks to their car with their car keys, intending to sleep inside until sober.
Water will kill you if you consume too much of it - almost universally, the poison is in the dose not the substance.
you should start a youtube channel to review exoskeletons
It's an interesting idea, but if it's only open at a convenient time for a particular group, it's going to lack diverse and worldwide perspectives, and those are important for building a welcoming ecosystem. I doubt giving each timezone its own 3 hours would work, but perhaps rotating the 3 hours each day so that it's anchored on a different timezone would encourage that diversity of content and perhaps even encourage creating connections across timezones.

That said, if you've had success with it in a friend group, perhaps that suggests it's a nice mechanism for a group chat app, rather than for a public social media site?