skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether Khalil’s arrest was retaliation for his speech is the very question his legal team is raising. You’re claiming it was about his green card, but there’s no evidence or official statement supporting that as far as I can find. The facts remain ambiguous at best, and the timing and circumstances make concerns about political retaliation entirely plausible.
Sure, but as long as we are burning natural gas, hydrogen is a bonus. Either use it or let it be wasted.

Using it to power public transportation is a great idea, if only we can get some better hydrogen fueling infrastructure. It should have a fair shake against electrics as electric vehicle power generation is using a lot of natural gas stations to charge up those cars !
These are very common in Canada still and anytime I see one I point at it and make the same joke “Looks it’s Vent Reznor” and my girlfriend has never once laughed. Oh well.
Yet I feel that AI gives such instant gratification that the boredom and struggle required for imagination is short-circuited and atrophies.
Then force all electric cars to be charged only by solar!
> Can you name specifics? What freedom does the press not have that they had a few months ago?

Every week, Trump is threatening the free press that criticizes him.
He suspended the Associated Press from acceding to the Oval Office just because they speak about "Gulf of Mexico".
He said that that negative cover of his actions should be illegal.

> How is there any less democracy now than before?

A free press is an important pillar of democracy.
By repeatedly threatening or even attacking it, you are attacking the very fabric of democracy.
Democracy is not just voting, you have to be informed otherwise you are blind. You must also be educated to make decisions in your own best interest. A true democracy requires that anyone has access to education.

Democracy also needs time to make decisions, and to make decisions collectively (at least in a parliamentary way). Trump decides unilaterally by issuing decrees.
This is closer to a dictatorship than a democracy.
Moreover, he decides so quickly that the DOJ cannot ensure that the Constitution and Human rights are respected.
Some of Trump's allies even claim that the USA will need him in 2029: they are ambiguously threatening the very existence of an election.

Trump is attacking free speech by banning the use of some terms in emails, attacking schools (e.g. Columbia) and threatening companies with DEI programs.

I could go on.

> if anything these things are getting better by removing wasteful spending

Even if it was true, you need time to change something.
Otherwise you break lives and companies.
That's not true, there are still lots of ads that you'll have to sit through. They're just not out there by Google, they're out their by the video creator.

Which, I get it, YouTube isn't paying them enough and they gotta eat. So, it kind of feels like YouTube letting them post their own ads is an intentional choice on YouTube's part to not give me the service I'm paying for.
Sounds good, "THREE STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT".

But would it not mean that sometimes you had 3 weeks old milk in the fridge? :-)
The interesting question is whether YT as a platform pays enough to make this a relevant factor. Which I very much doubt is the case for most creators.
If you keep doing it she's sure to get it eventually.
Sure they would. You would have to communicate intention. There would be assimilation where they would take their women and spend time with them etc.
The tv series was my introduction to Hitchhiker's. I loved the presentation of the guide entries.

E.g. the babelfish at 2m5s: https://youtu.be/iuumnjJWFO4?t=125
Freetube is great alternative.

Personally I don't even use it to watch the video and instead open them in browser, but it allows to monitor the channel you want and only that with a 'feed' that consist of their video in chronological order.

It doesn't require self hosting, no YouTube account, has the thing to skip promotional video and setting to automatically change clickbait thumbnail.
Thank you! Yes, that's a problem currently. I added a popularity factor to the recommendations because I found that many of the suggestions for similar movies were hard to find on any streaming service. Maybe I should reduce (significantly) the impact of popularity in the recommendations to avoid this.
Page 2:

>Figure 1 shows the remarkable shift in restaurant productivity after
years of stagnation. It plots monthly real sales per employee in the industry
from the beginning of 1992 to the present (in annualized terms).2
Not looking forward to Plagiarism As A Service.

What's the status right now for whether LLM outputs can be copyrighted by the same big companies that ignored copyright to train them?
This study reminds me of the Automatic Language Growth method. I can't remember all the specific but it was created by some guy long ago in like the 70s or 60s and tested it in Thailand. Basically, it was an approach that had the students listen to guides talk for like about a year before they before ever speaking. According to what I heard, people who went through it, would be able to speak fluently, as though it was their first language, no accent or anything.

Sadly, there are not a lot of comprehensible input based learning courses out there as most focus on speaking early.
That is how science seems to work as a whole. What worries me is that the market views the emergence of additional productive paradigm shifts in AI as only a matter of money. A normal scientific advancement plateau for another five years in AI would be a short-term disaster for the stock market and economy.
It’s been awhile since I was a hiring manager but I was told the company gets paid thousands by the federal government for each Hispanic person they hire.
I've begun to notice the number five a lot. I was reading Tammy Wynette's wiki page the other day and noticed that it appears quite a bit -- born May 5th (5/5), married five times, dead at 55. She also collaborated with the KLF, a pop group from the early 90's which also had an unusual number of fives to do with them (as well as 23's...2+3=5? Oddly, Tammy has a memorial highway in Missippi, MS23). Which brings me back around to Nick Drake. One of the members of the KLF now runs a small web store which mostly just sells his books to do with his post-KLF career, but they also sell other things as well, like overstock Nick Drake album tuck boxes...which are designed to hold all five of Nick Drake's albums.

https://www.alimentation.cc/product/tuck-box/

Not sure what any of this means.

Edit: just noticed that I responded to your post five hours after you posted it.
Why do those algorithm not include prompting to guide the scaling ?
Amazing, that makes a lot of sense. The idea of having one-click installs is very cool. I still think for the every day consumer it might be a small roadblock that they still have to know what tools to use before being able to use them, and having that tool suggestion mechanism you mentioned would really bring everything together.

Thanks for the awesome feedback, and congrats on the blog posts by the way, they are a great read!
They leak, hydrogen is smaller then all other atoms, so they are hard to contain. local production and immediate use is the only option that makes sense. Pipelines are non-sensical
Much like many other contentious issues, powerful people benefit from keeping racism or at least the fear of racism alive.
Sadly, no matter how many memes I give them they never give any back. Jerks.
Apparently I’ve been a 30x dentist this whole time and never even knew. I can do a cleaning in 2 minutes flat.
A 5 minutes walk from my home at the European capital where I live there's a Japanese food restaurant that has a small dine-in area where they removed all tables and just do takeout now. It's not that uncommon.
Yes. Musk has been making excuses for Hitler:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-boosts-claim-that-hitler-...

https://meidasnews.com/news/elon-musk-retweet-hitler-didnt-m...
You're confusing beautiful with simple. There's a lot of complexity and magic that's hidden behind the curtains of that "beautiful" syntax. Great for scripts and small programs, and an absolute nightmare on large projects. It's too simple.
Can You Speak Hittite: Nu Ninda-An Ezzateni, Vatar-Ma Ekuteni
There's still plenty of beauty in Jasper after the forest fires

https://photos.app.goo.gl/A8LypichDTns3n1V6

I'll have to try to get out there this summer/spring, wildflowers tend to emerge after mass fires like that.

The road up to Marmot Basin was just crazy when I was up there this winter. Desolation.
I failed to explain.

In the ideal case, in manufacturing, we repeat the same set of tasks to manufacture identical goods.

In software development, we have the same stages (development, code review, testing, etc.), but every task going through the workflow will be different. Depending on how these tasks are defined, the effort, interdependencies, etc., might vary wildly.

Both types of work, of course, will have variability related to the complexity of the process. And that variability will be correlated with the size of workflow, people and/or machines involved, etc.

It's just the knowledge work adds another dimension. By the way, that's why, in knowledge work, we rather talk about accepting variability instead of controlling it (which was the focus in Lean Manufacturing).

I recommend Don Reinertsen's work on that, since he worked in both contexts. While his book (Principles of Product Development Flow) is not an easy read, it's absolute gold.
Ted actually collaborated with Adams on Hyperland TV show.
Musk should be fired. He has irreversibly destroyed the Tesla brand.
I figure BMX might count although I'm disconnected from that scene for some years. I think it had to survive getting big and commercial before money moved on to other (bigger) things.
Yeah I could say it's not. Just as it was not US policy to abuse detainees, but Abu Ghraib still happened. Same way it's not Israeli gov't policy, I take that back, but there are still lots of credible Palestinian reports of abuse at the hands of settlers (supported by the army), the army, the jail system, etc.
Your comment is interesting in various ways, but I want to focus on the idea that

Legitimate song structure = melody + chorus + bridge

Is there something about such a song structure that is somewhat universal or is it just so established in our culture that any song that doesn't have those elements sounds... impoverished? Are there other, alternative song structures that tend to produce satisfying music?

I'm not being dismissive; I'm legitimately interested in exploring this idea.
I guess you're saying that non-inference time training can be that "sleep period"?
It’s sad to see how these discussions always seem to be a fight to win the discussion with arguments. We need to try harder to understand each other, otherwise this will only polarize further, and end with real fighting. It’s sad that everyone sees the world differently, through different media, and we can’t agree on what is happening. Repeating what you’ve seen will never convince someone that has seen different things…
I'd expect English speakers to approximate it with /k/ in preference to /ʃ/. (That obviously can't be done when it's following a /t/, but in that case what I'd expect is to just elide the sound completely.)

I've been interested for a long time in the concept of speakers of different languages disagreeing on which sounds in one language match which sounds in the other language. I don't know of any examples, but do you think it's true that Welsh speakers find English /ʃ/ to be a better approximation of Welsh /χ/ than English /k/ is, while English speakers find /k/ to be a better approximation of Welsh /χ/ than /ʃ/ is?
What's wrong with Activity Monitor? Seems fine to me.

Alt-Tab doesn't show window previews because it switches between apps and not windows. Previews are in Mission Control which is for switching between windows.
No unfortunately, not only is it too tangled (not irredeemably, but I've never made an effort t try to make it cleanly ploppable) with the rest of my home-rails-server monolith, but the code is all also ridiculously bad, written in 2000 separate 5 minute scraps of time, all while standing up and holding at least one baby.

I call it "dadware".
Afaik others do not pay more, so an exodus is just wishful thinking detached from reality.
YouTube is mostly there as an advertisement tool nowadays, once you get any amount of an audience youtube revenue becomes a small piece of your income compared to things like Patreon, live streaming elsewhere, and even alternative hosting sources like floatplane or Nebula where creators will host exclusive content.
I wonder about the added wear on roads that comes with so much added weight. That is the kind of cost that is easy to put in someone else's bucket until it impacts everyone. One of the roads near here was closed for a while putting a large amount of truck traffic on another road. It is impressive how quickly ruts have formed in a relatively short period of time from what I assume is a combination of increased traffic and the increased weight.
well done.. made me enable my static-sitegens opengraph plugin, add images, rewrite summaries, thanks!

Mastodon preview? :)
Risk of Trojans, value of $$ manned fighter vs unmanned drone or shoulder or truck launched weapon. F16’s or f18’s are just fine defending a border against non governmental threats. 30 of any kind of fighter won’t defend against governments.
Temporarily disable visual processing and redirect all the available power to audio processing. Very Star Trekish. :)
Because it leaks the device type of your messaging partner.
Do you know how to use this feature in, say, Vivaldi if it is even possible? I want to select text and have it appended to the URL.
Can you use the spare electricity to stockpile some sodium hydroxide or something?
Makes sense to me that everybody should be aware of all POSSIBLY ANTICIPATED features/stories as soon as they exist, because you can then avoid doing work that later stories would contradict.

I'm not sure if I can see a negative consequence for having more stories "on the board". Physically of course the board might get full, but we use computers these days.
That doesn't mean spend all your time planning and none implementing, but if you realize we will most like need a given feature in the end we should not hide that realization from the team.

An error (or oversight) in specifications is much more costly than an error in design or implementation, is the old Waterfall mantra, which I think is true. But Agile of course might not agree with that.

Maybe it would make sense to carry some kind of "Plan for the Future" throughout the process. Be aware of the anticipated features even though they are not fixed into the "plan" yet.
Should like spinrite, it can refresh the disk by rewriting it with the same data and that overcomes things like ssd performace degrading because the boot sector only ever get read from
Strings Attached: Talking about Russia's agenda for laws in cyberspace
Ancient Roman shipwreck may hold clue to cosmology debate
A Review of ThunderKittens for General ML Audience
Any music theorist would tell you there’s no such thing as “legitimate song structure”. Verse/chorus/bridge is at most _common_ (though in no way legitimizing) at a very specific time in a very specific culture, there are plenty of counterexamples from the last 50 years.

If you’re interested in stuff like this, YouTube has approachable music theorists making good content. 12Tone is quite good.
Starlink also uses optical inter-satellite links. Ground stations aren't necessarily required to be near to the customer.
Large AI models are cultural and social technologies
This is a paywall-free link the NYT Opinion account posted to Reddit:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/forei...
The Chinese Room is a perfect analogy for what's going on with LLMs. The book is not infinite, it's flawed. And that's the point: we keep bumping into the rough edges of LLMs with their hallucinations and faulty reasoning because the book can never be complete. Thus we keep getting responses that make us realize the LLM is not intelligent and has no idea what it's saying.

The only part where the book analogy falls down has to do with the technical implementation of LLMs, with their tokenization and their vast sets of weights. But that is merely an encoding for the training data. Books can be encoded similarly by using traditional compression algorithms (like LZMA).
Copyright office recently ruled that outputs are generally not copyrightable without significant human changes. Prompts are also not copyrightable. I'm actually surprised that is not discussed around these parts more because it essentially means any app etc built by AI has no copyright protection. Thus code from llms cannot be opensourced using opensource licenses. Business cannot stop users from stealing their apps etc.

It also means that if you build something with a popular llm then big tech now has your inputs and outputs, and you have no IP to stop them from stealing either.

The next ruling from the copyright office is around fair use that big tech is pushing for.
Bohemian Rhapsody springs to mind. Most of Pink Floyd's The Wall. Yeah lots of famous rock stuff now I think of it. AC/DC Led Zeppelin.

Is it cheating to not use pop in the examples?

Takes a lot of effort to break the mold though!
Unspoken Rules for Slack Communication
Thought experiment: What if we could measure a team's performance based on their Slack channels? How they use it for day-to-day communication like sharing ideas, progress, blockers, and solutions.

After using Slack at five different companies, I've found ten common rules most teams follow for effective communication.
0.0495 mAh
Right, if we see the future we should tell others about it. One we see the milk will be stinky soon, tell someone about it. :-)
That was pre-siloed internet era. Those were still golden days of internet, because everyone was seeing the same “trends” and there was some alignment. Think of ice bucket challenge, planking, and etc.

The stuff I see nowadays is very different from what you see, despite using the same platforms. It’s sad, because it’s not even just internet, it’s all types of media. No more Game of Thrones discussions at work on Mondays, because almost everyone watching it. No more songs that almost everyone knows. And the list keeps going on.

Basically algorithms catering to every taste, rather than some humans being the curators. I understand the negative sides of it as well, but talking to my nephews… things don’t look that fun even for them.
Ask the Vikings.
Oh! So 'any simpler and...' was the next statement being implied by 'but not simpler' in this phrase. I can make sense of it now.
This is the correct answer. It was Sha Na Na not Grease
It was not an old wives tail. I worked in wireless retail 23 years ago and saw these problems first hand. NiMH phone batteries from that era would scarcely last two years. Of course, it mattered less then because the tech was improving so rapidly that most people wanted a new phone every 2 years anyways. NiMH was an improvement over NiCd, but it still had memory problems nonetheless in its first few generations (modern NiMH batteries are better at this).

It could be mitigated by fully discharging a battery before recharging, and I'm certain that in applications such as satellites , they engineered the charging cycles to mitigate this. However, consumers powering phones and laptops can't be expected to maintain such discipline. Certainly people driving cars over variable distances can't be expected to uphold such requirements either, out of absolute necessity to travel a fixed distance between charges.

Lithium ion ultimately won because it solved these problems altogether. Modern NiMH has caught up a little bit, but Lithium has meanwhile improved as well.
it's piracy when you share it with others, it can default to act as your personal cloud. It is dropbox/onedrive/gdrive except optionally searchable/shared/indexable by the public or a group of people (those legit services already allow public sharing of arbitrary data).
If I may go off-topic, I wonder why the “Standford” spelling is such a common typo? Is there a linguistic reason for it, or is it some sort of infectious meme?
Maybe asking stupid question, but would older versions of puppet be affected (like 6?). Also is there a site to check deps down to what maybe affected?
But has he realized yet?
Ask HN: How much do salaried full-time devs *actually* work?
I just saw a job posting here where the description said:

> "We spend 70-80 hours a week in the office and, more often than not, work nights and weekends."

My first thought was "if they're expecting somebody to work 2x the standard hours, they need to pay at least 2.5x the standard salary".

But then I started wondering whether I was just out of touch and clinging to some out-of-date expectation of 40hr work weeks.

If anything, as I've progressed in my career I feel like things have loosened up so the actual expectation is 40 hours of "availability" and the actual work is confined to some subset of those hours.
I don't think it would help in this case, when the entire process can be replaced with malicious version. It just won't make the Capscium call.

What you really want is something external and easily inspectable, such as systemd per-service security rules, or flatpak sandboxing. Not sure if FreeBSD has somethingike this.
How to migrate from requirements.txt to pyproject.toml with uv
I feel like most hobbies are cheap or free:

- Reading (libraries)

- Exercising (e.g., running, hiking, swimming - depending on pool / beach access -, joining a group of friends who play basketball, etc...)

- Playing video games (e.g., buy Factorio and play if for years)

- Working on personal projects (e.g., writing, coding, etc...)

There are more expensive hobbies, but even then they can often be done cheaply, e.g., though climbing is generally pricey, some gyms are surprisingly cheap, etc...
> We want developers to be aware of this in case some of your users are on older versions of Firefox that may be impacted.

And yet the error doesn't say anything even remotely close to that, blaming the add-on instead.

I found this thread when my add-ons suddenly stopped working without warning and without explanation. The help page didn't mention it either.
> The technology being discussed hasn't actually drilled much of anything yet. Their latest press release with actual numbers[0] gives depths drilled in inches.

That's what bothers me about this. If drilling with microwaves works, why aren't there industrial applications? Laser cutters are widely used, from little ones that engrave plastic to big ones that cut steel plate. Yet nobody seems to be selling microwave cutters. In industrial applications, you don't even have to fit the microwave generator into the hole and keep it working in a hostile environment.

The idea was suggested back in 2002, but seems to have gone nowhere.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11075717_The_Microw...
Cool, can you tow a 20K pound trailer with your lead acid truck and let me know how far you get.
> There's no way we're going to convince the middle classes of the central economies to reduce consumption to that level, or even to convince people in that class of development economy to stop aiming for more.

What if there is 200% tariffs on junk they shouldn't be buying anyhow? What if a new car becomes so expensive that the idea of having to replace it in 3-5/years induces outrage and class action lawsuits? What if you were only allowed to own one residence? What if out of season foods were fantastically expensive unless you had a community "garden"?

I know, HN, straight to -4. I'll meet you down there.