skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I go for smart tv's that can be dumb. As long as it reliably uses my input each time it starts and doesn't try to overlay anything, that's all I need.

Once or twice a year I'll go trough firmware update notes, connect it to the internet if there's things that can improve my "dumb" usage (fixes/improvements to refresh rate, Dolby xyz, etc.), then disconnect it from the internet again.
Sounds like every Android vendor, woth Google leading the pack.

(disclaimer: maybe 5-10 years ago)
As the author mentioned the rise of ebikes is counteracting this, however the ones popular with teens (Surrons and other similar chinese brands) require you to cut one wire to remove the speed limiter and then they can do 50MPH.

The idea of common spaces in American cities largely died during & after Covid. Anything you did in public (gyms, eating out, public transport, apartment common areas) was suddenly prey to whatever idea a politician had that morning. I think we all remember walking into a restaurant with a mask on, to promptly take it off as soon as you sat down. At the same time as these guidelines were being piled on, basically all laws below murder stopped being enforced. So you had to negotiate a bus full of drug addicts shooting up and riding for free, or leave the sidewalk because it had been taken over by a tent city.

Personal transport is required in America, the places with the infrastructure to avoid it dont have the capacity to govern (any big city). The places with the governing capacity (suburban, rural areas) dont have the infrastructure.
This concept comes from Hopfield networks.

If two nodes are on, but the connection between them is negative, this causes energy to be higher.

If one of those nodes switches off, energy is reduced.

With two nodes this is trivial. With 10 nodes it's more difficult to solve, and with billions of nodes it is impossible to "solve".

All you can do then is try to get the energy as low as possible.

This way also neural networks can find out "new" information, that they have not learned, but is consistent with the constraints they have learned about the world so far.
> Where do the young people/trolls hang out and push to the edge of acceptance these days?

Discord. It's all underground. The public internet is hostile to it, everyone has had to built their own spaces.
In this case, it's probably because the alternatives are good enough, even if it's just that Firefox users open Chrome in specific instances where they want to connect to special hardware.
Within one technology, that'd be true. But not if you have the option to choose another technology that produces a lot less waste heat.
Eh, I understood AutoLayout back when I was a naive junior dev doing iOS. Formal definition of constraint solvers can be complex, but if you wrap it in an intuitive API, it’s consumable by a wide variety of people.
So run a replica? Is there more literature on that?
You must be quite young to hold such beliefs. Whether you approve of stoicism or not, we all will die one day. Someone once said that to philosophize is to learn how to die. I hope you don't spend the last moments of your life screaming in anguish and fear.
Unfortunately certain European companies don't do business with companies that use non-European cloud services, which doesn't leave you with much choice if you're looking for an alternative to AWS.
you mean how everyone built on top of ipv4 and can't abandon it now, even after 3 decades of it's replacement being available and more secure? Or how everyone uses TLS now, not because it's the best way but because like 'Reticulum' it became the best bloated compromise?

General purpose systems aren't always ideal, they're just ideal to gain mass adaption. For applications who target smaller sets of users and prioritize security guarantees, being able to fix bugs at any 'layer' and not depend on external entities is crucial. How I'd wish they'd even use their own Layer 2/3 stack if it were practical.
This is terrible. We must demand better working conditions for these folks.
When will the big AI companies sue Apple because of bundling?
If you get to chatting with a CBSA officer (Canadian version of CBP), they'll have plenty of stories for you about Americans who want to drive from WA to Alaska with all of their guns in their car and not declare it, or try to bring all kinds of absolutely ridiculous stuff into the country without declaring it. The people who cross the border on a regular basis, like a dozen times a year or more, know the system and policies.

It's the tourists and people who rarely cross that have never encountered CBSA that try to treat Canada like some kind of theme park. They're also often unprepared with appropriate ID, documents, receipts and stuff and get weird when CBSA starts asking them exactly the same nature of questions that CBP asks of people going southbound.

I would also emphasize that CBSA knows how often you cross, through a US-Canada data sharing agreement. An ALPR system takes a picture of your license plate on your car and very quickly queries a database, for information presented to the question-asking-person, as your vehicle approaches the window. This is assuming you're driving northbound of course. Even if that doesn't happen, they'll ask to see your drivers license along with your passport and immediately know you don't reside anywhere near the border.

They know immediately if the zip code where your car is registered is somewhere close to the border, or is very far away from the border. And if you have, or have not, crossed the border recently. It's people from very far away from the border that rarely if ever cross who also think they can take their guns, drugs, etc into Canada and won't get questioned about it.
A lot of consumer products ship with half-baked software and/or firmware. I wish Polk would fix the bug(s) that cause my soundbar to freeze and need a reboot several times per week. But it's an old product that's not longer sold, so I'm probably SOL.
The system is responsible for making people want to do work. Communists believed that ideology alone would be enough, and the capitalists appealed to people's own selfishness.

The difference in effectiveness between these two strategies is the difference between the richest countries in the world and famines that killed like 100M people.
What if I have an H1B, but want to pursue starting my own Startup. What are the actions that I can undertake without jeopardizing my status or relationship with my current employer?

One of the main hurdle is I cant go an seek customers, as my profile would show an employee with my current employer?
> So run a replica?

Basically, yes.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-repli...
Hmm. I don't know the race of the poster you are referring to. I do know from friends who were not White, their experience living in the South was vastly different from mine.
On forced updating: "The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord."
Right, which is why we should abolish the FDA, because forcing someone to follow my ideology of "stuff sold as medicine shouldn't kill me (99% of the time) if I follow the directions" is immoral.

We should also abolish copyrights, because forcing companies to respect my IP is an ideological stance.

Trademarks are gone too, because you can't force a company to not trample my trademark and abuse my brand position without forcing an ideology on them.
Firefox for Android also supports extensions, including uBlock Origin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
No need for a LLM. Humans always have their own neural networks in their heads. :)
Yes, this isn't for accessing arbitrary devices. It can be used to build custom devices that can be used by webpages without any consent prompts though.
> If the child is not in any actual danger, then people who call emergency services or police need to be cited for wasting resources.

As a mandatory reporter, my instructions are if there is any possibility report and let the experts figure it out. There is no harm to me if I report and nothing is found. However if they discover something and find that I was in contact with the kid in question they will investigate: if there is anything that I should have seen I'll be arrested for not reporting it.
On the I-485, which you file to get a GC, you have to answer several questions like this:

> Do you intend to engage in any activity that could endanger the welfare, safety, or security of the United States?
> NOTE: If you answered "Yes" to any part of Item Numbers 42.a. - 45., explain what you did, including the dates and location of the circumstances, or what you intend to do in the space provided in Part 14. Additional Information

> Recruited members or asked for money or things of value for a group or organization that did any of the activities described in Item Numbers 43.b. - 43.e.

If you say 'yes' to these, you probably aren't getting a GC. If you falsely say 'no' to these, you may have committed fraud. The reference to Item Numbers 43.b - 43.e can be found by reading the I-485 - https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-4... - but to save you time, it seems to apply to any group doing armed resistance.

That said, mere speech supporting Palestine is, as you say, legal. I also think that it had to be false at the time the statement was made, not something he only did afterwards. But if they can show that a person lied on these questions or any of the other several dozen questions in the application, they can accuse them of obtaining the GC fraudulently and go into removal proceedings.

Reading between the lines, this is what I believe is happening to Khalil based on statements given in articles like - https://reason.com/2025/03/13/mahmoud-khalil-is-an-easy-call... - compare the questions I quoted to their stated justifications in that article:

> The official said that Khalil is a "threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States."
> "The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law," said the official. "He was mobilizing support for Hamas and spreading antisemitism in a way that is contrary to the foreign policy of the U.S."

Now, I'm not exactly sure exactly how removal proceedings work, but from what I've read, it seems likely that he'll get some kind of hearing. Hopefully, this gets adjudicated properly, promptly and fairly in a way that respects his first amendment rights, though it is concerning that someone can just be held in detainment waiting for all this.
Does this mean google should not do AI research, or enter into any AI related sector by leveraging its ad money? Or Meta?

Should Microsoft have stayed with just BASIC compiler? Should it be illegal for it to enter operating systems market? What about productivity suite?
What if I have diabetes?

Also I was generalizing but it is also very popular to have these events be a drinking thing. That really is slowly killing yourself. Though I do believe that the social benefits could outweigh the minor health hit.

One of the main things about a healthy lifestyle is abstaining from tempting food with little or zero nutritional value. Letting it creep in once in a while is breaking the mentality you have created to maintain that diet.
People often confuse the mechanism (calorie deficit) with the behavioral adaptation causing the mechanism.

This leads to great confusion among those not educated in nutrition. Time restricted eating as you say, is not effective if you equate calories to non time restricted eating, however it causes many to eat less over time - assuming they adhere to it and arent prone to binging.

Its pretty simple to explain, if you can limp through your day without food, you arent likely to crush down more than say 2500 calories of food in a small evening window as your stomach is full.

But yes it doesnt change thermodynamics and isnt the magic that bloggers/youtubers and shills espouse, rather it is a tool (among many) available for people to reduce caloric intake.
Alexa has integrations with a bunch of third party services - Uber, smart home, etc. - not to mention Amazon shopping, and Alexa+ taps into that preexisting wide ecosystem. So as an agent it's already a lot more effective than ChatGPT for "getting things done". I think they've beaten Apple at their own game by at least a couple years.
You're not forced to have breakfast at 7am.

If you're healthy, keep doing what you're doing.

If (like most people) you are overweight and unhealthy, what are you going to change?
I'm also self-hosting Postgres, and the project is getting to the point where a standby would be a good idea to ensure higher availability.

Did you use any particular guide for setting up replication? Also, how do you handle failover/fallback to/from standby please?
I'll be sticking with Firefox, it has extensions and is not owned by an advertising company.
Why not? I don't work with web-apps or otherwise use object stores very often, but naively I would expect that "my objects not disappearing" would be a good thing.
Promoting a terrorist organization is legal and well within the boundaries of free speech. It's just not cool, not a good look, and should be shamed into submission.

Providing material support to a terrorist organization is where it crosses into criminal territory.
Highly recommend https://www.amazon.com/Lindy-HDMI-Adapter-Female-41232/dp/B0... -- I have a couple and it's solved this problem for me completely. I hate how unpredictable CEC is when things go wrong, on top of the ridiculous 3 device limit.
Stateless? Sounds new information
> LG TVs don't have a way to simply select "HDMI1/2/3/4" you're stuck using it's "smart" detection system, which can only be reset by physically unplugging the HDMI cables from the back of the TV, which is never easy to get to. Apparently the solution is to buy Sony and just pay the extra price.

Another possible solution is to only use one input on the TV. Connect an A/V receiver to that one input and connect all your other devices to the A/V receiver. Then you should only need to deal with switching inputs on the TV if you want to watch over the air TV using the TV's tuner. You can probably even get rid of that need by getting a stand-alone TV tuner and hooking that up to the A/V receiver.

Many A/V receivers have network interfaces that you can use to control them if for some reason you don't want to use their remote. Most Denon receivers for example have an HTTP server that presents a web-based interface if you browse to it from a computer or mobile device.

They also run a simple HTTP based API that is easy to use from scripts. For example here is a shell script that gets the current volume setting of mine:

URL=http://192.168.0.xx/goform/AppCommand.xml
cat > tmp.$$ <<HERE
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<tx>
<cmd id="1">GetVolumeLevel</cmd>
</tx>
HERE
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" --upload-file tmp.$$ $URL
rm tmp.$$

which when run gives me this at the moment:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<rx>
<cmd>
<volume>-45.0</volume>
<disptype>RELATIVE</disptype>
<dispvalue>-45.0dB</dispvalue>
</cmd>
</rx>
Its about aesthetics and if you can't figure that out then its obvious why you find bleak soviet apartment blocks appealing and concrete bomb shelters.
Why Mark in 'Severance' Drives a 1997 Volvo
Spoilers for those interested:

Calculating points process - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY-Rzou38k4

Michael trying to explain the problem (see math on screen) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8m_5HDZF7w&t=1m40s
> They need to leave Siri behind and make a whole new thing

Keep Siri! Siri can become the dumb, reliable agent. When I want my garage door opened, I ask Siri. When I want something more thoughtful, I ask this other thing.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43359412, which was posted earlier.
The Billionaire Boycott Conundrum
When I was young, my family was on food stamps when my parents were laid off.
It took them some time to find work. For some people, they have no choice where they live.
Agentic TDD – TypeScript – Minimal Dependencies
Yearly, 28k Euros I presume.

Damn. I hope you make enough revenue to continue. This is pretty impressive.
An aside: I'm seeing an uptick of class-awareness in HN and that's worth celebrating. It seems "all it took" was the mass-layoff apocalypse.
It's not that hard. Check out: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Multipath
That's amazing!
Could you elaborate more on your VACUUM planning?
>So inappropriate for the children.

The bug, or Baywatch itself?
Maybe this one for Instagram? https://instagram-engineering.com/sharding-ids-at-instagram-...
It does and it did in a world where I can actually be devoid and detatched from everything. But I got bored of being alone and it makes it hard to connect with anyone when youre living in your own world.

But I dunno sometimes I think all this thinking is useless cause you never really know what caused what
So, I suppose you would prefer to not use your Logitech mouse on macOS?

If you don't make cross-platform feasible, you will wind up with Windows support only.
Related. Others?

Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292471 - March 2025 (340 comments)

The Moon Lander Athena's Fate on the Lunar Surface Is Uncertain - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43283136 - March 2025 (1 comment)
> use taxes, income taxes, and even residency taxes are more palatable

One could rebrand property taxes as municipal use fees that you agreed to when you bought into the municipality…
As far as the institution it's very likely St. Judes. They took a ton of Trump money and have floors plastered with Trump family photos to play to their narcissism. St. Judes is also rolling in tons of private donations that most basic hard science would never ever receive. They are also extremely bad at data sharing and have a poor name in the pediatric cancer community for it, even though the amount of money they have collected makes it one of the better places to perform research. So it's likely that St. Judes is completely protected from all the cutoffs, but even if they got the same cutoffs the private money is highly insulating. But as I said, lots of other pediatric cancer researchers are able to live off of private donations in ways that others could only dream of, so any other similarly funded institution (which would be much smaller than St. Judes) would have similar protection. Private donations go to the areas where the donors care, rather than to the areas where the scientific community finds most promising. Nobody is going to get private donations to sequence the genome the first time or build the LHC.
Agreed it isn't simple, but I'm just saying tracking is effective. Tracking is in fact the single most effective way of ensuring a deficit. But yes it isnt easy and you can absolutely be successful in achieving a deficit without tracking. A food scale and weighing and understanding portion sizes for a couple weeks can be a lifetime level learning that you can apply though even if you don't stick to it - as most won't.

Much like you can save money without strict budgeting. I'm saying tracking is objectively "true" contrary to your statement. That doesn't make it easy though. Some find the other suggestions difficult. It is important to find what works for you.
Yeah but if I need to talk to a local device, I trust browser's security far more than a random vendor's native app. I recently bought a keyboard that allows remapping keys; the vendor has both a native app and a web app to do it: I trusted the web app far more.
> And can only be used when laws are broken, treason is committed, or terrorism is waged.

CBP/ICE has a pretty detailed explanation on their website that you can lose permanent resident status by remaining outside of the country for more than one year and failing to retain a bona fide residence and presence in the USA (US job with annual 1040 tax filings, residence, identity documents, etc).

I would wager that a scenario such as remaining overseas for multiple years is a much more common way for people to lose US PR status through negligence/lack of action than for people to get their PR status revoked through some legal process initiated for treason, terrorism, etc.
Property risk has been underpriced for some time, and is rapidly accelerating towards actual risk costs. Certainly, mitigations are important (and preventing identified failures in the future, as you mention wrt water supply), but the risk remains.

https://www.zillow.com/research/climate-risk-home-value-3493...

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/zillow.economic.resea...

https://firststreet.org/methodology

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450680 (relevant subthread, but more focused on GSE securities exposure)
> My strategy is to buy cheapest TV on the market

Unfortunately if you're a stickler for image quality this isn't an option. You can still not connect it to the internet of course, but if you're buying a high end TV there's no way to avoid all the other modern TV bullshit.

Namely needing to change the settings on every input for every source type. The first few days of a new TV is a regular trip into five layers of menus as you watch a new source combination for the first time (HDR Blu-Ray, Dolby Vision streaming movie, high framerate game) and have to turn off motion smoothing, turn off sharpening, turn the whites back down from basically blue to 6500K. I mean christ, there are still TVs out there shipping today that turn on overscan by default. Analogue TV broadcasts ended in 2012 here!
Just get a receiver and some standalone speakers. It doesn’t need an OS, and there’s no reason for it to talk to the internet.
Found the guy who wants to talk about traffic lights without a license.

https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li...
Namecheap+Vercel Auto Domain Connector
That's why my buddy said it's time to buy shares in bubble wrap
> scholastic and carceral

Same thing.

> deemed inappropriate

Ooh! Deeming! Can I deem too? Huh? Can I? I have a number of candidates.
Well the comments have basically answered my question. For the most part rather than bring up alternatives everyone is criticizing me for not conforming. I guess I have my answer, go with the herd or be ostracized. Which has been my exp.
Interesting read, I wonder why they didn't get more into details about this fake dental practice website used by the scammer, like what server it's hosted on, who the domain is registered to, I guess they just had pretty good opsec and there was nothing interesting to find there?
> Activities can't make people into mandatory reporters. Only some mandated reporters are subject to reporting requirements when off-duty

What is all that based on? Are you a mandatory reporter?

It might be dangerous to give advice. Even if you know your jurisdiction, others will vary.
Perhaps Musk sees Tesla’s primary (only?) competitive advantage as essentially being the Gazprom of cars and/or electric energy in the MAGA USA. The president of the country already did a Tesla ad read on the White House lawn a few days ago.
Exactly my point! They wouldn’t, and shouldn’t.
They're too busy in their vinyl pants, dancing awkwardly on a table in Manhattan screaming, "Got the girl. Got the money. Now I'm ready to live a disgusting, frivolous life."
East Asian personality may stem from Ice Age Siberia 20000 yrs ago
They are required to follow ATC instructions and obey airspace restrictions. They do this willingly because it's really, really easy to get into a midair collision of you're flying near an airport.

The only exceptions are for urgent reasons of national security, or when they're flying under military ATC.
> in the ancient times
> 2014

Rage successfully baited - that was like three months ago, tops!

I wonder what ever happened with Grid - they were indeed very hyped, but fairly-obviously vaporware too IIRC. At least in terms of marketing, where they claimed AI web-property generation.
Fair. I guess I was thinking of a certain kind of prosperity theology which people blame on Calvinism, but that isn't fair. That's not how unconditional election actually works.