skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to get a Tesla because their driver assist is the best in the industry, hands down. However my friends and family have made it clear that it simply is not an option. I hate Elon too, but the cars shouldn't be political. So looks like I will keep burning gas for the time being.

As a side note, I hope republicans start buying Teslas as a statement. I might actually be able to forgive Elon if he gets republicans in EVs.
The argument goes: Because 3% of the population is antisocial personality disorder in the screens on TV and the internet tell them it's okay to commit violence against you because Nazis.

You may not care but the crazy people care a lot.
I love how Cyberpunk is becoming real.

Black ICE, netrunners and rogue AIs will soon be added to the mix.

Off to re-read Neuromancer, so far ahead of its time.
JavaFX 24 Release
Only one other hit,

2025-03-05 13:32:09 45.89.148.57 (AS46844 SHARKTECH) "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; pt-BR; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110614 Firefox/3.6.18 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)"
To be clear, believing propaganda generally is also not racist, unless that propaganda is specifically racist. And even if you believe censorship and authoritarian oversight of companies by the CCP is western propaganda, it is still not racist.
GOOG is up ~152% since Sundar took over...
Hello,
I’m taking all your feedback into account and I understand the lack of trust you mentioned.
We’ve resolved the situation with the website, and you can now find our faces on X, which I’ll link to on the landing page.
Regarding pricing, we’ve chosen to do things differently to give you more transparency. You’ll be able to see your usage directly on the interface, and you can also find the explanation in our FAQ.
you don't have to accept it. it was filled live, and covered expensively.

chunks of whale fell on peoples' cars and required insurance payouts. it is well documented, and unlike the SR-71 -- classified stuff + pilot bravado -- this is just a glorious fuckup
I like that the theme is added to the context up front!

How does the tool handle modifying existing components once requirements eventually change? I find the pain of implementing UIs isn’t the initial implementation, it’s that product/design loves tweaking requirements in a very complex way.

The benefit of component libraries is the extensibility, IMO. I’m not sure why I would use this over an existing library without a demo
Right. The problem is these kinds of groups don’t carry internal dissent (sometimes by definition), so they carry out and do things that undermine their goals in return for some quick but ephemeral reward.
> So are we really going down the road of telling people "Hey just buy a new car" whenever yours is politically inconvenient?

I mean, that kind of politics is kinda why the US has locally-made cars at all, rather than buying them at half the price from China (and that's not just Trump's new thing, the 100% tariff on Chinese EV's was from Biden: https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/09/0130c36c7c00-us-1...)

Or why the US briefly switched from "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries".

Or, famously, that time in Boston when the North Atlantic briefly became very weak, very salty, tea.

Montgomery bus boycott, the boycotts of South African Goods in protest against apartheid. Might even be able to argue alcohol and weed being made illegal due to political pressure that converts a boycott into a legal requirement.
Pointblank: New package for Python data validation
I think Google sees a fast growing company and is acquiring it. Many GCP related acquisitions are weird, like Looker, Apogee and are awkward fits. Unsure how this goes.
Does this require an NVIDIA GPU to run? Or is a comparable AMD GPU sufficient?
Tesla owner; same boat. I think Austin has voted with its doors enough for me to get the idea, at this point. I got the car in 2001, and it should be good for another 5–7 yrs as my daily commuter. I'm just resigned to my dingy fate, now.

The next car has to be a long hauler; we're looking at hybrid SUV/minivans. After that ... I hope Aptera is shipping.
Thanks for sharing this! I'm one of the core contributors of the repo and hope to see more people contribute notebooks to various courses.
List of New Features [0]

[0] https://github.com/openjdk/jfx/blob/jfx24/doc-files/release-...
The original aesthetic, including lighting, was made keeping the original limitations in minds. Kind of running old sprite games on LCDs instead of CRTs makes them look jagged.

So it's different and a tech demo, but I agree it's not necessarily better and could be one the reasons it is free.
Absolute madness.

Whoever thought this was a good idea.
> Does it literally mean that they are putting $32bn in Wiz's bank account (or probably some kind of escrow, who knows) which then gets dispersed to their shareholders?

Google pays each of Wiz's shareholders 75-90% of the deal amount. The remainder is held in escrow and paid some time later based on a variety of conditions.

> What usually happens otherwise? Would they do partly google stock, etc? And each shareholder gets some kind of multiple? (you get your N amount of Wiz shares X .72 = your number of google shares), or something of that sort?

Yup, that's exactly how it works.
The belief is that Musk's wealth is mostly tied up in Tesla. I have no idea if it's true, but that's what underlies the focus on Tesla as opposed to, say, SpaceX. By hurting Tesla and bringing down its value, the idea is that Musk himself is brought down.
You can see exactly what the React compiler output is by pasting the listed code into the compiler playground:

- https://playground.react.dev/#N4Igzg9grgTgxgUxALhAMygOzgFwJY...

In this case, it looks like the compiler has hoisted the console logs from the `useMemo` calls out into the main body of the function component, because it considers those to be side effects. So, the logs are still occurring. However, the actual child component output _is_ being memoized as expected.
https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1889165338337493244 who reported this is... actually... a jew?

Oh my god.
Can you talk more about what an implementation of such a semantic layer would look like?
I'm marginally in the IT space... Is there anything to my reaction that at least in dollar terms this is a multiple of the dollar amount of what Whatsapp was acquired back in the day, which was a large consumer facing product that I could see was quite literally taking over messaging all over the world, and this is a... platform I've never heard of?

I'm just trying to make sense of the numbers.
Flagged because this is just a signup page. It cannot be tried. A requirement for Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Because when the people around you are suffering it is connected.
> Should they have a problem with that?

No.

> What problem would you have with me doing that with your comment?

Nothing.

Addenda:

However, while I'll be putting that comment to my favorite screenshots folder, and letting it adorn my cubicle for some time, there's also an implicit meaning. With that wording, the subscript is "That's brave". [0]

It's not meant to be an insult, but to signify a greatly different point of view compared to OP (me, in this case).

While the tone may came across as angry, slightly agitated is a more correct measurement of my feelings.

In either way, it's fair game and no hard feelings. Also, the answer from the original commenter is good sport. Thanks mate!

[0]: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/574974/etymology...
There was 3 seconds where I was thinking "ah thats an interesting problem, wonder how theyre trying to solve it". Shouldve guessed it would be a gpt frontend.
80% of the workforce being culled without any recourse or processes?

If I got a “tell me 5 things you did last week” email I would throw my computer through the window.

I’m sorry, that’s beyond toxic. That’s radioactive culture. I understand the need for layoffs. But I also understand mutual respect.
True, but irrelevant to my point. Whether a particular ISP supports doesn’t matter: it is being widely used by the rest of the world, to the point that it’s half of Google’s traffic.
In the 90's I had this idea that in the future steps completed would be confirmed to the server so that the progress can be calculated for other users. Like, on system A downloading step 1 takes 1 minute and step 2 takes 3 minutes. If on system B step 1 takes 1.5 minutes step 2 should take 4.5. Do the same for stuff that requires processing.

But we apparently chose to make things complicated in other ways.
> Now she has a target on her back?

Well, sort of. The real target is Musk & his wealth, which is in large part derived from Tesla. The people doing this want to harm Tesla, by making owning a Tesla unpleasant, which depresses Tesla car sales & values, which harms Musk & his wealth.

It does seem to be a somewhat effective approach: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/used-tesla-prices-tumbl...

I'm personally kind of neutral on the approach. It is the case that most Tesla owners are not awful people and don't really deserve to have their lives upset by this. On the other hand, society really doesn't have very many options when it comes to reigning in invincible monsters like Elon Musk. Is this approach ethical? Probably not. Is it also the best available option? Seems so. I don't know.
its a pathetic piece of php code:

$db=...
$sth=$db->prepare("INSERT INTO beacon (time, addr, query, agent, referer) VALUES (FROM_UNIXTIME(?), ?, ?, ?, ?)");
$sth->execute([
$_SERVER["REQUEST_TIME"],
$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"],
$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"],
isset($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])?$_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]:NULL,
isset($_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"])?$_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"]:NULL
]);
I think a lot of folks in tech got carried away with it.

For example, the whole a16z Marc Andreesen shift to the right has a really simple explanation.

They over leveraged themselves in their crypto investments and Trump was the only one who would not regulate crypto and keep the valuation from crashing. So to save their investments they have to do this whole drama now.
It reminds me of the Alan Parsons quote
"Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment"
Somebody should tell Claude that the Wikipedia article for a refinery located on San Francisco Bay contains the headings:

- 1989 explosion and fire

- 1999 explosion and fire

- 2012 fire

The 2012 incident sent 15,000 people to the hospital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_Richmond_Refinery
Ah yes, the life blood of partisan news organizations.
> Sextuplets:

> air, are, e'er, ere, err, heir

When does "are" sound like the rest?
I tried Portal RTX on a 9070 XT and got 20 FPS at full resolution (no frame generation). There’s no driver limitations, but I have no idea what the expected FPS is
But there's no way to download your games without Steam, right?
I was under impression that the Taliban is in charge of things in Afghanistan in 2025.

Is this not the case?

And furthermore to my original point do you think that the ubiquity of cheap drones on the battlefield in 2025 would make similar attempts to conquer Afghanistan by the US easier or more difficult if the US were to try the same again?
Probably the entire company's purpose is to gain access to secrets.

Anyway, Chomsky claims that there's 0 distinction between USA and Israel, so if you see it from that point of view, it makes little difference.
Some onus is on the reader to educate themselves, particular on Hacker News.
Can’t help but predict that this will be a similar outcome. If they did not have a security division, this acquisition could work. But colliding two heavy security behemoths together is like the collision of two galaxies with a higher enteopy.
How much interaction do undergraduates have with those 'top professors'?
I think the privacy argument is generally the wrong way round in Europe. So much time and effort is spent on marketing privacy - which IMO is mostly very low risk (there are exceptions, of course).

The real problem is "sensitive data" privacy which is usually managed by the government in Europe. Things like healthcare records, diplomatic cables, police records, unredacted census data, etc. When/if there was a mass breach of that the consequences would be unbelievably serious - much more than marketing preferences.

GDPR has cost hundreds of billions in compliance costs for really not a huge amount of gain in my opinion (some of it is good - like fines for poor cybersecurity practices, but it places an enormous compliance burden on SMEs for SARs and the like).

I have rarely heard of any similar initiatives to secure government data.
I manage a few thousand client sites spread across a bunch of differing infrastructures but one common thing we have on all of them is all the specific robots rules to block ai crawlers.

Not a single one of them respects that request anymore. Anthropic is the worst at the moment. It starts hitting the site with an anthropic useragent. You can litterally see it hit the robots file, then it changes it's useragent to a generic browser one and carries on.

I say at the moment because they're all doing this kind of crap, they seem to take it in turns at ramping up hammering servers.
And a large amount of that work will disappear because a significant amount of that work is merely maintaining reporting and answering to bosses ad-hoc.

Removal of bosses is literally more efficient because it reduces the amount of work per unit person.
On top of it this one is an amount that you wouldn't pay if it wasn't existential, and it really doesn't feel like it is.
As a Canadian, I feel quite exasperated and angry about how you frame this. Sounds very cowardly-American when your country is crumbling beneath you, taking the world down with it
AFAIK ignoring unknown fields is a MUST in the protobuf spec. It's safe to assume all of their tooling is built around this. It wouldn't make a difference anyway. As vitus pointed out, deleting the field isn't much harder than changing it to an unknown field.

You can do cert pinning. And the user can modify the app to pin their own cert. And you can lock down the device so the user can't modify the app. And the user can get a different device where they can modifiable apps. And you can add device attestation. And it's not yet feasible to extract an attestation key from a device, but it probably will be in the future. And then you will switch it to a physically uncloneable function. And then someone will figure out how to physically clone it anyway. And so on.

The war on ad-blocking is fundamentally the war on general-purpose computing. By the time you achieve unskippable ad blocking,

You know, you could also just refuse to send any video segments until the time when the ad is supposed to be over. Then the user may try to download their videos in advance, but most of the time they don't know what they're going to watch that far in advance, so they'll sit through the ad to avoid sitting through a black screen. That seems like a more sane thing to try. And you don't have to destroy the fabric of society to do it.
Rendering Chip Layouts with Rust
I still don't care. I may just buy another Tesla and a handgun :)
Feels a bit like those arcade game machines w high scores, no?
Poland and Baltics to quit landmine treaty over Russia fears
Bonus: if you do that you don't have to deal with disabling new Apple Intelligence "features" every time.
What We Learned Building a Prompt Management System
It doesn't help anything, it hurts. It puts people in danger. It paints protestors as "terrorist". It gives Elon something to point at to claim himself the victim. Which is how we know actual Tesla protestors aren't behind it.
This sounds impossible but I would guess RLHF is actually a better known acronym than RL. It became fairly popularly known among tech folks with no AI experience when ChatGPT came out.
Show HN: Hyper-customizable, beautiful new tab for Chrome/Firefox
Hey HN! This is Blooft, the New Tab page I've worked on for months. Since I last launched this project, I have added many features, redesigned the interface, and optimized the extension.

I would highly appreciate your feedback. Thank you!

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That's the thing, the manufacturer can rate the cells at any C they want. The real question isn't whether these are "rated" for 10C, but how much degregation these will show after 1000 cycles at 10C. Cooling systems will also play into this: If we assume 5% charging losses that's 50kW that will need to be dissipated while charging for the cells not to heat up - no small feat even if the losses are lower.
You joke, but something similar happened at my old company, and I suspect it's relatively common for serial entrepreneurs.

The founders, who are now flush with cash, time and ideas; are quickly speedrunning the steps creating their previous company, in the same market, but now with more access to capital and employees from their previous company who would rather work for a startup than a large conglomerate, while fixing all the mistakes from their previous venture.
The CEO is hardly an external actor. What you're seeing is the personality behind a personality-driven business steadily destroying his reputation, and his business along with it. Elon Musk's public image went from "real-life Iron Man genius inventor" to "Nazi salute guy" - his businesses can't just brush that off.
It's funny how, in my opinion, whenever the RTX On/Off comparison shows up, the older has better mood, atmosphere and design. The "RTX On" almost feels like "Generic UE5 pseudo-realism On".

Based on other comments, I'm not the only one. Is "RTX On" the "bloom/motionblur/green filter" of this generation?
>If quantum mechanics has problems, as we do more experiments, we'll encounter these problems more and more, u

This is non sequitur. If you do more experiments, you'll encounter it. But if there were such a wrong theory that everyone insisted was correct, it's not necessarily the case that more experiments will occur. I can't do an experiment to invalidate... quantum mechanics is in a regime where anything less than hundreds of thousands of dollars does not even get you started (never mind the lacking expertise). It's also unlikely to be financially lucrative in the timespans that would entice an investor (especially one averse to pissing off the status quo, as most are). By doling out the grant money (or not) to those people who will preserve the status quo, one could let the false theory survive for decades or even centuries.

We seem to have this mythology of science from a past era, where some maverick can just bust in and start embarrassing people with unignorable truths. If ever there was such a time it exists no more. The stakes have never been lower, trillions won't be lost if we get quantum mechanics wrong. Thousands won't die in a quantum mechanics accident that could have been avoided. The problems could persist indefinitely.
You need RT-capable cards and minimum 3060Ti or equivalent.
Which evs are those? Geely (polestar), Hyundai, and Lucid all have political baggage. GM caught up in Uyghur forced labor aluminum and sells driver data. Ford and most of the German and Italian automakers have fascist roots and were involved in forced labor. Many of them are owned by the same families implicated in those past decisions.

Rivian seems clean but they are more expensive, only SUVs, and aren't doing well financially.
Even still you probably end up using superchargers.
If I was young and single I would totally polish my cybersecurity stuff and offer my services to company to hack into other companies.

With vibe coding and all of these things becoming more popular it's a dream career for the next 10 to 20 years for a cyber security dev.
If you don't have public repos you can use gitolite and have ssh only access.
I had to disable enhanced tracking protection on FF mobile to get them to load
“Look what you made me do” is what you’re saying, but Israel could stop attacking Gaza today and not suffer a single material attack from Gaza for a long time. Way, way more Palestinians have died since October than Jews. Israel has no need to keep on its current course. It has made its point and is now making a completely different point—that it is a cruel nation incapable of self restraint.

Nobody can force you to self reflect. Nobody can spare you the consequences if you refuse.
Part of the acquisition process is putting together a “funds flow” which is simply a model that lays out how much $ each shareholder gets and then also you collect all the wire details, etc. But anyway, it can be a bit surreal seeing how much cash will be deposited into various accounts once the deal closes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenism
Says someone who never owned a Tesla.
But Ravenholm loses some of its scare-factor due to that.
Hi, thanks for the reply. Just deployed a landing page to help explain how the system works.
Yeah when looking at games like Alyx it seems like the vision isn't too far off. Personally I don't mind the RTX version as I always found hl2 to be depressingly boring to look at.
We're just using different definitions for "black box".

My definition is that it's something unknown, yours is that it's something unknowable.
Seems pretty clear they aren't objecting to throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks, but with calling the outcome of sticky-wall work "science".

I'd say that's a bit strict take on science, one could be generous and compare it to biologist going out into the forest and combing bsck with a report on finding a new lichen.

Thought admittedly these days the biologist is probably expected to report details about their search strategy, which the sticky-wall researchers don't.
Make America Smart Again
Okay. You don’t think this is serious. Hang out on Twitch for a week. If you don’t walk away thinking it’s a crack den of addiction and sex then, just ew, stop talking to me.
This is a fantastic project , and well done! How are you thinking about implementing traffic (it feels like that’s obviously essential for most practical use cases)?

Also just so I’m clear, is the shading corresponding to a time the represent mean travel time for the area, or the max travel time? E.g. if you pick Walking, and a neighborhood next to Central Park in New York City, even Even though parts of Central Park are directly adjacent to that neighborhood and should be a short travel time. The entirety of Central Park is shaded with a longer travel time, Does this mean I could theoretically get to the furthest point away from the selected area in Central Park in that travel time or is that more of like a mean travel time within that area and some travel times will be shorter or longer?
New research finds that, pound for pound, grazing cattle generate at least as much heat-trapping gas as those raised in feedlots.
It seems unlikely that Democratic Party election strategists are behind this random BS site.
Motorola was bought for patents to defend Android, it was a clear win.

Wiz is much harder to understand.
Study reveals the illusion of 'dazzle' paint on World War I battleships