skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also a poor congestion control practice to begin with. The main categories of UDP traffic are DNS, VoIP and VPNs. DNS is extremely latency sensitive -- the entirety of what happens next is waiting for the response -- so dropping DNS packets is a great way to make everything suck more than necessary. VoIP often uses some error correction and can tolerate some level of packet loss, but it's still a realtime protocol and purposely degrading it is likewise foolish.

And VPNs are carrying arbitrary traffic. You don't even know what it is. Assigning this anything less than "normal" priority is ridiculous.

In general middleboxes should stop trying to be smart. They will fail, will make things worse, and should embrace being as dumb and simple as possible. Don't try to identify traffic, just forward every packet you can and drop them at random when the pipe is full. The endpoints will figure it out.
That’s a lot of work.
I've an avid iPhone user and haven't plugged in for 4-5 years now. For my wife and parents and kids, the only thing they plug in for is to charge. I'm not really sure how big this "local data sync" "backup restore" market is.
I’d never heard of him before. This is why I love HN :)
Home Assistant 15.0
Is it really smart if you've removed the ability for it to respond to voice commands ?
If you consider the photon (particle), a single photon does not go through both slits at once. It takes the path of least action. It's only when the experiment is repeated that the wave-like behavior emerges. The wave function is simply a probability approximation of the least action required for any set of start and end position.

So the question in the title doesn't make much sense.
ALP Rust is faster than C++
Thanks for that link. I didn't see the unedited video since it's hidden on Twitter.

Two things to point out:

* The main video clip where he engages autopilot at 39mph is clearly a different run/different clip. Not inherently bad, just a bit weird and seems to imply he enables autopilot substanially earlier than he actually does in the unedited clip. I don't know why he would activate it so late and it's possible that affects the outcome slightly.

* The disengagement is clearly from him jerking the steering wheel. You can see him jerk the steering wheel left slightly and the autopilot noise happens precisely timed with that.

Neither of these are really meaningful to the end result I suppose. By the time he jerks the wheel to cause the disengagement it definitely does not have time to stop in time and wouldn't have affected the outcome of crashing into the wall.

That said, I think it's not particularly a fair comparison to compare basic Autopilot instead of their FSD software. Something like the dense fog or heavy rain cases could have had different outcomes for FSD since it slows down in adverse weather conditions. I'd be interested to see how more standard TACC/lane keep solutions from other competitors fair in these tests. I suspect most would also fail these.
read this as "ogress", thinking it was some new variant of postgresql. My mind has been destroyed by HN!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but an artificial neuron is just good old linear regression followed by an activation function to make it non linear. Make a network out of it and cool stuff happens.
From invisible to in-demand: LinkedIn for engineers and managers Part 1
A bug farm.
I said bounded. I didn't say how tight. But all of science is about bounding empirical observations, so this is nothing new - nor is relying on systems with empirically established failure rates, which is a good chunk of what engineering is about.
amazing clip. Thanks for sharing!
I appreciate her original intent, shining light on hypocrisy and bad science. 20% of what she puts out is great.

Watching her maul some crappy paper is like watching a high school wrestler take down a 6th grader. It gets old quickly, esp when she is way outside of her domain knowledge.

Still not as bad when a CS person thinks their years of solving hard problems translates into a domain they know nothing about.
"They" or in this case, Apple, has. This is largely why the latest Siri AI enhancements went over so poorly. Hallucinations when trying to get important personal data or accomplish important tasks are not viewed terribly fondly.
How is it any worse than session resumption from a different IP address?
They have. You can switch your Android phone from the old Google Assistant to Gemini. I don't like it, so I use Gemini separately by going to the Gemini URL, leaving the assistant as is. It may be dumb, but it's useful. Just like you wouldn't replace your Bash with a GUI, at least not for some values of 'you'.
I think you're too late. Pretty sure the military has line-of-sight free-space-optics to satellites since at least the second Iraq war.

One can only wonder how small the "receivers" (routers, really) have gotten by now.
The mystery was never in the "how do computers calculate the probabilities of next tokens" but rather in the "why is it able to work so well" and "what does this individual neuron contribute to the whole model"
> Human society's default is authoritarianism.

This is a very interesting question -- Thomas Hobbes would disagree with you here.
Came expecting wrestlemania, left wishing for a wrestlemania entropy source.
Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system
That's already the case today. All speeds are caveated with an "up to".
You're correct, and the term you're looking for is "regularisation".

There are two common ways of doing this:
* L1 or L2 regularisation: penalises models whose weight matrices are complex (in the sense of having lots of large elements)
* Dropout: train on random subsets of the neurons to force the model to rely on simple representations that are distributed robustly across its weights
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Updated it! Thank you for the feedback, it's much appreciated!
Just look up what Obama administration did with raising Putin regime. Also the legendary withdrawal of defense installations from Poland. Mister fucking Nobel peace prize winner.

Yes, I don’t care that much about US internal politics. But looks like you have a blind spot for foreign politics.

I’m pretty sure a lot of BS I don’t like about US is specifically coming from the left wing. But if you don’t want to hear outside perspective, feel free to live in your bubble.
It will never as glorious as it was back in the day, but Milkdrop 3 was released in 2023 and works on any audio on your system.
post-WW2 optimism that is now dying off with the last of the Greatest Generation and their kids, the Boomers.

by the 1970s the post-WW2 boom was over and the 80s were full of doom and gloom -- and then tech exploded and there was all this new growth. but now capitalism did what it does and we're back to the 80s again, this time with China instead of Japan.
Apparently the word “delve” is the biggest indicator of the use of ChatGPT according to Paul Graham.
Sorry if my message was confusing.

There are options that offer fast shipping at slightly reduced prices, and options that offer slow shipping at significantly reduced prices.

Walmart.com, eBay, temu, and aliexpress are the most common sources I use, but I also do a lot of business with smaller retailers and brand websites.
The site comes off like a scam and here is why.

Saying it is 10x faster development time without any supporting material ... Than what? On what dimension?

99.9% More Efficient. That what?

This is like loreum flotsam, baseless, obviously false claims sprayed into the site text and then launched.

This space is so utterly flooded with frameworks, that folks are going to start making framework-framework generators
“My husband was like, ‘We need to capitalize on this now,’” said Dr. Monisha Chadda, the owner of Lumon Dental, a dentist outside of Detroit.

That could be fraught. [Spoiler follows]:

Dentistry is an element of Severance -- as a form of torture.
How? What expectation of privacy do you have walking down the street, or in your public social media posts?
Ok, HTTP/3 is mobile centric. But why not fallback to HTTP/2 in all other cases?
Getting it dumped online simply isn't an option depending on the legislative region and industry.
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First time I've seen that link. What's bad faith about it? Don't know why you're bringing Rust into this.
If you’re calling against shared libraries using cgo then things are a little more tricky, but still doable.

But if it’s native Go code, then cross platform compiling is just an a few environmental variables

GOOS=darwin
GOARCH=arm64
Alternately... "Powerlessness corrupts"
Useful! To be fair to The Register, they didn't just copy/paste from the blog but actually interviewed the author.
Yes, we think the same thing about this. I don't have a grudge about it, as long as people don't try to build their own versions of it for security purposes.
to some degree, yes. everyone is holding their breath for AI.

but WFH is also here to stay, and COVID proved it worked alright. not great, but alright, and alright is usually enough. been seeing an awful lot of job ads in Croatia, for example.

if AI won't eat it, send it to Mexico City or India or Eastern Europe on the cheap. you don't need a rockstar QA team you just need them to be mostly competent, and they cost 50% less than Big US City talent.
The framework that exists is crap and should be replaced with something where you as a consumer should not have to watch the eula changes like a hawk, and then the onus should not be on you as a consumer to do extra work to get refunded for a bait and switch.
> If large file, many packet, high speed sustained performance is your thing and you've got problems with HTTP/3, deploy it on an HTTP/2 server.

Ah yes. Basically back to some links I discussed. Oh, it's amazing but you have to be careful what you deploy, and when, and you have to switch between HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 for some unspecified criteria which may or may not be better in one or another while the article we're in comments to decries "why oh why so few implement HTTP/3"

> HTTP/3 is quite literally built for situations where you have many small requests, often in suboptimal situations.

That is what Google markets it as, for sure.

The rest of that sentence I could not parse.
I think this is a very sane and sober line of reasoning.

I'd actually go further and actually say that there is actually very little that European counterparts can offer to American interests. Even less in the ways of sensibilities. The only negative emotion I feel about Europe is chagrin and lament at their utter loss of legacy due to their commitment to globalism at any costs. Truly a shame.
This article touches on a lot of different topics and is a bit hard for me to get a single coherent takeaway, but the things I'd point out:

1. The article ends with a quote from the Backblaze CTO, "And thus that the moral of the story was 'design for failure and buy the cheapest components you can'". That absolutely makes sense for large enterprises (especially enterprises whose entire business is around providing data storage) that have employees and systems that constantly monitor the health of their storage.

2. I think that absolutely does not make sense for individuals or small companies, who want to write their data somewhere and ensure that it will be there in many years when they might want it without constant monitoring. Personally, I have a lot of video that I want to archive (multiple terabytes). I've found the easiest thing that I'm most comfortable with the risk is (a) for backup, I just store on relatively cheap external 20TB Western Digital hard drives, and (b) for archival storage I write to M-DISC Bluerays, which claim to have lifetimes of 1000 years.
What I like in Telegram (though I don't use it), you can force delete messages on your interlocutor's device, at any time.
I’d love to see an article delve into why that is.
> Finally, Thelen came up with a stunt to disprove at least one of the No Gos’ talking points. He would show that Gotion’s products were safe. And he would do that by eating the chemicals inside its batteries.

> Thelen set his sights on a township board meeting scheduled for April 9, where the Pro Gos — residents in favor of Gotion — and No Gos would square off again. As the date approached, Thelen looked into lithium iron phosphate, the key component of Gotion’s EV batteries, to make sure this dark gray powder was non-toxic. He consulted Gotion’s researchers, read up on the substance’s safety guidelines, and even did a taste test in private. “It is tasteless,” he recalled in a subsequent radio interview, comparing it to corn starch.

Lithium iron phosphate is common to most modern electric batteries, right? Funny to consume it in a stunt when the objections to this factory seem much more rooted in anti-Chinese sentiment.
Great insight! Having strong fundamentals is important
I'd be more interested in the opposite - let me define a task list that shows up again every day, regardless of what I did or did not get done the day before.

That could be used to list out my daily goals and chores and new habits I'm trying to form, and give me the dopamine hit of marking them all done every day.
A human driver would at least (usually) recognise that there’s poor visibility and slow down. While Tesla autopilot finds it acceptable to go full speed through and obliterate a child.
Software is complex and our memory is bottleneck to create software. We can only remember so many things therefore anything that we can make computer to "think" instead of us we have more memory to use for other work. In this case, instead of worrying if you are accessing some random global variable by accident is unnecessary cognitive work you. Why not just let computer do it while you think for actual things?
> clearly marked by the unsafe block.

Rust has macros; are macros prohibited from generating unsafe blocks, so that macro invocations don't have to be suspected of harboring unsafe code?
Ok then go look at the financials and timeframe of Apple investing on the iPhone and the returns and than compare to those of the current wave of investment in "AI".
Rationale for the RBAC96 family of access control models (1996)
It's not thought-provoking if you care to spend 5 minutes and read/listen to the reasons they provided.
Node.js Launches Official Community Space on Discord
Been here for 15 years, there's been a slight eternal summer / "YCombinator is a Thing Now" effect and a quite dramatic effect of agreeableness being rewarded --- when people hear "agreeableness", they can misread it as kindness --- on HN, a common manifestation of agreeableness is the not-even-wrong idea that physics is stuck.
This project seems to be building on top of Multiboard [0], which is a lattice that is used as a base to mount all those runners and equipment holders on.

So the idea is that you put a lattice up with "a few" screws and then you can change everything else underneath without having to screw around any further.

[0]: https://www.multiboard.io/
The 2024 MAD (Machine Learning, AI & Data) Landscape
I've been thinking of building something like that - a routine task utility. Perhaps I can add it as a feature to Today. "Routine Mode vs Self-Destructing Tasks Mode"

Thank you for the idea, I may start working on that tonight!
I find this interesting as well, so I think it's unfortunate you are downvoted. In a similar vein, the ultrapatriotic type that loved the USA being #1, having influence everywhere, also seem to be cheering on the dismantling of the soft (and some hard) power structures. But I get the feeling there's some granularity we are both missing, and the group saying those things then and these things now (pro/anti Trump reactionaries), isn't as big as we think.
Hey! I resemble that remark! :)
More than just that it came from MS.

For a long time, .NET was completely proprietary, and only ran on Windows.

Now it is open source and cross platform, but it is still fighting the momentum of being seen as Windows-only.
I also see the comments on those posts trying to downplay and deflect. Other political posts make it through just fine. Anything mentioning Elron gets insta flagged. It is the same exact behavior we so with anything even remotely critical of Israel.

I didn't say you were MAGA, nor did I say that all people flagging are MAGA. I have flagged plenty of stories that were about to or already descended into a toxic mess.

These stories are getting flagged with zero comments, and when unflagged, go on to have interesting conversations.

Flagging is not a solution for seeing stories you are not interested in. Downvoting is.

You know full well that any evidence one is going to have is circumstantial. It is a coy way of saying, "you have no concrete evidence, shutup until you do".
Wiegand Interface
Ironically, Google Fiber purchased a wireless provider - Webpass - back in 2016 which is deployed in parallel to their fiber offerings.
Saying that kind of stuff is the biggest indicator of Paul Graham (pg) himself
aye this one. got a lot of fam in welding and carpentry.

good money. uncle who is a welder has travelled all over working different gigs. got certified to do underwater welding, too, which is terrifying for a lot of reasons. but it's hell on the eyes, joints, and the UV can even cause skin cancer.

other fam in carpentry make good money. north of 6 figures, and that was in 2010. but it's demanding: show up at 6am, haul things and hammer all day, crawl around in weird angles, and do it all in -5C or +35C.

both eventually tapped out after ~25-30 years. one ran the business in the office and the other just got a job in home depot. meanwhile I'll probably program until I can't sit upright -- could be coding in the retirement home, as long as me brain works.
Ridiculous API (crAPI) will help you to understand API security risks
Why does saving on cookies outweigh having to go through an additional TCP slow start?
> I've still never bought a single physical product from Amazon.

In the context of this thread, do you think that statement means anything? Amazon is (and I can't believe I have to say this) incredibly successful at selling physical products. It doesn't matter, at all, if you have or haven't bought a product from Amazon.

I might as well make a comment in a thread discussing menstrual pads that "I've never used a single one". This is true of roughly half the population.
This is really nicely done. Kudos.
On one hand, you're probably right. On the other, I'm pretty happy Larry Ellison doesn't own Java.
Yes. It's just PR. One can just reverse-bias some Zener diodes to get the same thing, but it is beautiful PR.
An image or a container could be, yes. It isn't, because Docker stuff is mostly distributed as Dockerfiles and docker-compose files, and those cause your system to download and install stuff, and that part is not like self-contained package.
Linked in the article, but the post describing the details is here: https://tinyhack.com/2025/03/13/decrypting-encrypted-files-f...
What, are they afraid the EU will overtake the US as the main world economic driver* ?

That ship has sailed with Trump, only a matter of time. The EU is not going to disband. Maybe a few countries like Hungary will leave, but even that is doubtful. France and Germany is holding it together and I hear many people in the UK are realizing it was a big mistake to leave.

* or 2nd after China.
Is line of sight light spectrum subject to any permissions/licensing like radio/microwave? If not, that is significant.
This is by no means unique to programming. Many areas of knowledge are less accessible to those who don't speak English, and much more so to those who don't speak any of the dozen major languages. Because of this, many people will simply learn (enough) English. It's not such a big deal.

In my view, having a single lingua franca is nice. It better facilitates knowledge transfer. I wouldn't want to see a fracturing where each area of knowledge (or, say, every specialization/application programming) is best treated in a distinct linguistic community. That would be bad for everyone.
While "X-ray light" or "radio light" have never been used in any widespread terminology, the existence of "invisible light" has become known at the beginning of the 19th century, when the terms "infrared light" and "ultraviolet light" have been coined for it.

"Invisible light" is light that is invisible for humans, but which is visible for many animals and for many of the devices that are designed to detect visible light. Traditionally, "invisible light" was distinguished from X-rays (with higher frequency) and radiant heat (with lower frequency), because those required different kinds of emitting and detecting devices than those designed for light.
OK looks cool but otherwise can be achieved much easier with few zener diodes and amplifiers. But I know... Does not looks that cool.
> "That's beautiful. This is a different panel...everything's computer! That's beautiful! Wow!"

Yeah, not at all senile. Bigly coherent.
There are a few more ideas behind socialism except just authoritarianism, ideas that run counter to the Nazi program.

Thinking that Nazism is socialism just because it calls itself "national socialism" is like thinking that Javascript is a version of Java.
> Human society's default is authoritarianism.

I'd say it's quite the opposite. It takes a lot of force and coercion to maintain authoritarian institutions precisely because it's not natural. Most of us have had a lifetime of schools, churches, and jobs drilling conformity and blind obedience into us.
Looks like a real effect:

https://hntrends.net/compare/words?words=moat,castle,roi
My echo is decent spotify streaming device, and because amazon has regular sales, I got it for $50. Comparable devices were $200.

Now trying to figure out if I can physically disable the mics or if I have to buy something else.
Also would like to add that he has a YouTube channel as well https://youtube.com/@statquest
It (still) works for me.
"3d-stacked intelligent layout of secured sticky elements for increased stability and on-demand integration"
Honestly I felt more unsafe in certain touristy parts of Paris than anywhere I went in Lima. But not because of violence but because of pickpockets and scammers. I would chalk that up to the fact that most foreigners visiting the Plaza des Armas in Lima are probably an order of magnitude less wealthy than the busloads middle-class tourist crowding Montmartre in Paris.
This was almost certainly done by Makeworld, not Katie, which makes the top comment even more pointless and needlessly vitriolic. Katie might read these comments, but Makerworld's UI people are not likely to take orders from an irate Hackernews user's screed.
All of those problems go away if you have sufficient supply of new housing.
Firefox Is Finally Adding Support for Web Apps
It works for forensics if you already had the OS installed. The fact that the process of flashing a new OS wipes the device is a good thing (consider what the alternatives are).

Obviously I feel the user should always have had root. Switching the OS is a fix for that. Not choosing to do that is the same as the choice to purchase a locked device.

> shitload of apps will flat out refuse to work on rooted devices

People say this but so far most stuff has worked for me on lineage with microg. The adb root toggle isn't detectable as far as I know. Their only realistic option is to require SafetyNet.
>Basically, we have already beaten nature.

Are you really sure?