skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On that note, we know that interbreeding between Neanderthals and (the ancestors of) modern humans happened during at least two periods:

> Neanderthal-derived genes descend from at least 2 interbreeding episodes outside of Africa: one about 250,000 years ago, and another 40,000 to 54,000 years. Interbreeding also occurred in other populations which are not ancestral to any living person [0]

... which makes me think that it's more likely that both populations had the genomic capacity for language all the way back in the first "episode" 250k years ago as well (but to be clear, I'm saying it seems more likely to me, not that we can safely assume this must be true)
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Yes, I know that "humans are impossibly horny" is a bit of a meme, but we're not just talking about sex here, but about having offspring that is successful enough within then-existing society over many generations, to the point where the Neanderthal DNA was absorbed into the common gene pool and survived all the way to this day.

It seems very unlikely to me that that would happen unless both species were on a comparable level of mental capabilities. So we either both evolved language capabilities separately around similar times somewhere after 250k years ago, or already had the basis for it before our ancestral populations split and then later met again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal#Interbreeding
There's a popular drive through coffee and fast food franchise in my country and the immediate area around is often covered in their empty cups and food wrappers that their customers discard when they get new stuff from the drive through.

Funny thing is that the waste is often found around the store and not nearly as much in other places.

I personally blame the company that produces the garbage with their branding on it and who has a profit motive to not deal with this stuff.
Exactly- and also the timeline. 1% over millennia is going to quickly beat the solar panel’s lifetime output.
the author posted it on HN, marked their task done, and went to sleep. and we are wondering why do we need another project management tool.
I don't think the algorithm as presented adds or removes new neighbors, preserving topology (except it won't prevent self-intersections using only neighbor positions). I imagine this is often used with some type of adaptive meshing algorithm for to make something like the clay editing model shown in the Substance demo.
I don't think it's a good idea to have that doorbell, or any doorbell that is surveilling at all times and you don't own the recordings. Who knows who is watching them.
Google invents something and uses its huge market share and power to force everybody to use their thing, shaming and threatening those who don't. Amazing outcome.
DJIA is a garbage index that's weighted by share price instead of anything meaningful and only includes 30 companies.
> You can, for sure, publish information relative to your discoveries to the extent UK laws allow. After study, we'll do our best to make the technology more robust. If your discourse represents a circumvention of this technical protection measure, we'll command a take-down as a standard procedure.

Disgusting behaviour, as expected from the publishing industry I suppose. This "EDRLab" outfit appears to be little more than a non-profit front for Hachette.
Yeah, a more likely exploit would be it starting to listen for other wake words (different from the original one) and then recording whenever those words are said. Still would be a massive conspiracy lol
Why not Traefik?
Even Zig which is extremely against "Hidden control flow" (so no operator overloading, etc.) added in the "defer" feature.
Or 160 cards take 1 hour?
Worth noting https://developer.apple.com/documentation/packagedescription...:

case aptItem
case brewItem
case nugetItem
case yumItem

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Alexa listens to more then the wake word. I've had this recommend products on Amazon while my wife and I were having a conversation at the dinner table. It also recommended calling 911 while I was talking about fire.

It's a spying device people willingly put in their homes for the convenience of a timer you can active with your voice.

Edit: It could be that it activated mishearing "Alexa". I don't have hard evidence of mass spying. I think this wouldn't be hard to prove intercepting the data using something like Wireshark. Even if it's encrypted, you could tell by the data size. The recommending products while chatting with my wife anecdote happened multiple times tho, which convinced me to relocate the Alexa device in the garbage. It seems unlikely to me to not mine the voice data to generate ads, or to do law enforcement.
xaos, fractint
Obsidian! It's a lot cheaper than databricks.
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Well, as strange as it sounds: GitHub, Element. IRC and 4chan. Yes, there is a lot of harassment and trolling in those spaces. However, they are inhabited by quite skilled devs.
Think of it as a powerfull witch living in a swamp... Refrain from Discords, they are usually doubble the drama with half the iq points... Same goes for Reddit...
They also severely underrate it's actual usage. For a non "major" language, there sure are a lot of jobs out there.

.NET ain't hip.
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Are you sure? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...

"Since there's no standardized way to obtain native macOS SDK for use on Windows/Linux, or Windows SDK for use on Linux/macOS, or a Linux SDK for use on Windows/macOS, Native AOT does not support cross-OS compilation. Cross-OS compilation with Native AOT requires some form of emulation, like a virtual machine or Windows WSL."

Now, you don't have to actually use AOT, the other deployment options are actually much easier to cross-build, but true cross build AOT is still not supported.

(this comment is correct: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43388962 ; runtime-dependent and self-contained are fine)
If your code does not rely on native libraries, or you're fine with shipping multiple copies for different operating systems, a single build works everywhere with dotnet installed.

Or you can cross-compile and run without having dotnet on the target system, I do it from Linux to all three platforms all the time, it's pretty seamless. The application can be packaged into a single binary (similar to Go), or as a bunch of files which you can then then package up into a zip file.
You are right. I misread somewhere and declared without really checking. Not the first time either. My apologies.
The thing is there are supposed to be regulations. .com is not privately owned but a public good that is supposed to be regulated by ICANN with the interests of the public in mind.
Poster said that unplugging the device made their home more peaceful. This implies that having the device on was creating a constant, albeit low-level, harm.

"harm" is a tricky word.
Contrast this to Washington Post's experience of also being owned by an oligarch. WaPo has lost subscribers, reporters, writers and credence.

Looks like it depends on the quality of the oligarch owner.
Just wait until people start buying Tesla’s optimus robots!

Cheap and ubiquitous surveillance will be the norm in the future.
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Maybe we need internet cafes where you bring your own laptop. Charge by the hour during work hours if these remote workers are such a menace.
'Open' AI model licenses often carry concerning restrictions
A significantly better metric to compare would be median hourly wage (ideally, purchasing power adjusted, but that's hard).

The US average is actually behind wealthier European nations there (Ireland, Scandinavia, Benelux, Switzerland, Germany): 20$/h compared to ~20€/h. Purchasing power adjustments would also probably favor Europe I guess.

So the much stronger US GDP/capita output apparently does very little for the average citizen...

This was honestly surprising to me, I actually expected the US to be comfortably ahead in this (specifically significantly ahead of Germany). France is also much weaker than I expected in this (~17€/h) not including it was cherry-picking on my part, Eastern Europe is super poor (Bulgaria under 5€/hour!), and the top contenders were unsurprising, except maybe how well Denmark did (~30€/h).

Sources: eurostat + statista (because couldn't find what I wanted on bls.gov)
My observation is that anything based on public cloud providers using their load balancers is basically using HTTP3 out of the box. This benefits people that use browsers that support this (essentially all browser and mobile browsers). And since it falls back to plain HTTP 1.1, there are no downsides for others.

Sites that use their own apache/nginx/whatever servers are not benefiting from this and need to do work. And this is of course not helped by the fact that http3 support in many servers is indeed still lacking. Which at this point should be a strong hint to maybe start considering something more modern/up to date.

Http clients used for API calls between servers that maybe use pipelining and connection reuse, benefit less from using HTTP3. So, fixing http clients to support http3 is less urgent. Though there probably are some good reasons to support this anyway. Likewise there is little benefit in ensuring communication between microservices in e.g. Kubernetes happens over http3.
What bugs me is I ordered two PI recently (Canada) and both got fried by the power adapter that came with it. It’ll be a while until I buy another one. That was a real bummer.
I think this discussion is missing a significant issue: why would a democratic government, of the people, by the people, and for the people, use tear gas? Why do British Bobbies carry batons?

The simplest answer, which is the basis of all police powers of the state: to prevent crimes against persons and crimes against property. Riotous mobs get people hurt, often killed. The businesses proximate to a protest, often small businesses, often under-insured due to cost constraints, are very likely to be severely affected by protests that turn violent. Major corporate storefronts can absorb the cost of damages, but the same damages to a mom-and-pop grocery could be the end of the business, no matter how much they sympathize with the community that is outraged. And let me reiterate what I started with: riotous mobs get people hurt, often killed.

Tear gas vs the baton is a lesser version of the observation by James B. Conant, president of Harvard University, in his autobiography: "To me the development of new and more effective gases seemed no more immoral than the manufacture of explosives and guns. . . I did not see in 1917, and do not see in 1968, why tearing a man's guts out by a high-explosive shell is to be preferred to maiming him by attacking his lungs or skin."

https://www.amazon.com/My-Several-Lives-Memoirs-Inventor/dp/...
I wonder if anyone's poked around the firmware before to discover the others
it's quite shocking to know that http/3 is still not gain enough opensource libraries support.

Maybe really some users does not care more about it,as a developper I'd rather not taking much overhead to maintain a server that support http/3.
This doesn’t match my experience. I spent a good portion of my life debugging SIFT, ORB etc. The mathematical principles don’t matter that much when you apply them; what matters is performance of your system on a test set.

Turns out a small three-layer convnet autoencoder did the job much better with much less compute.
It's pretty true from recent experience. I've recently started rewriting a C# based desktop/window stream tool because of how weak the support is across the board for C#. Microsoft abandoned WinRTC, Sipsorcery is one guy and is missing VP9 HEVC and AV1 support. And for fancier stuff like using computer shaders for color space conversion, SharpDX is constantly referenced by chatgpt and MS docs, yet it's archived and unmaintained as well. I ended up using media streams VideoFrame class but it and two other classes required to interact with it have unpreventable thread and memory leaks built into the WinRT implementations themselves 4+ years ago. Good times.

All of the above was easy to implement in Rust
Can you create a private network on your router for your spy devices that blocks any traffic to the mothership while allowing something like Spotify? Do they require access to the mothership to work at all?
They are ported to new hardware, it's just that new hardware is made by NVidia. Part of why their moat is so deep is that they are able to keep the software stack stable with transparent hardware architecture upgrades. It's kind of the opposite of intel.
The normalization of CAPTCHAs for simply reading what ought to be public information strikes me as very alarming, as does characterizing essential privacy and anti-censorship measures like VPNs as "abusive".

Something like 1% of HTTP hits pose some risk of spam or fraud, those where somebody is trying to post a message or a transaction or something. The other 99% are just requesting a static HTML document or JPEG (or its moral equivalent with unwarranted and untrustworthy dynamic content injected). Static file serving is very difficult to DDoS, even without a caching CDN like Fastly. There is still a potentially large bandwidth cost, but generally the DoS actor has to pay more than the victim website, making it relatively unappealing.

Should web sites really be weighing "a thousand signals" to decide which version of the truth to present a given user with? That sounds dystopian to me.
Foldable iPhone, iPad to enter production next year, per analyst
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SpaceX Dragon docks with ISS in mission to get NASA astronauts back to Earth
Antic: The Atari 8-bit Podcast had an interview with Brad Koda, the proprietor of Best Electronics, back in 2014:

https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-5-the-atari-...

Another interview with Brad might have made this a more interesting article. People who deal with him find him to sometimes be quite a character. Instead they... didn't even name him. Odd.
If you’re interested in this topic then you should definitely know the Chomsky/Berwick position, but it’s not the only view and has never been the consensus. For an alternative argument, “The Origin of Human Communication” by Michael Tomasello is good.
Potential digression here, this is why I absolutely insist on high performing software teams to have at least one junior. You need someone asking questions like this.
I am not upset with anything. That would imply I care what you think.

What I dislike, if we can even call it that, is that you misrepresent intentionally and are falling victim to extremely easy to avoid ego trips like claiming that your anecdotal evidence is universal.

That is not OK and is not intellectually fair.

Be intellectually fair. If you are not then I posit that you don't belong in tech as you have no scientific and analytic approach to things. That's my takeaway here.

You have left an extensive record of your bias in multiple comments. Including purposeful deflection and projection, as you try to make it out that I react emotionally. Which is false.

You seem like a lost cause though. So bye.
For accessing any post-1970s operating system feature (e.g. async IO or virtual memory) you already cannot use standard C anymore (and POSIX is not the C stdlib).

The libraries you listed are all full of platform-specific code, and also have plenty of compiler-specific code behind ifdefs (for instance the stb headers have MSVC specific declspec declarations in them).

E.g. there is hardly any real-world C code out there that is 'pure standard C', if the code compiles on different compilers and for different target platforms then that's because the code specifically supports those compilers and target platforms.
It’s not the same because macOS has a setting for Library folder visibility specifically. Keeping that folder easily accessible doesn’t require turning on visibility for all hidden folders/files and then having to wade through a ton of normally invisible junk. ~/Library/Application Support/ is just a plain old path too, no need for magic platform specific keywords.

And yeah, Application Support is full, but as noted the worst offenders are consistently cross platform apps that don’t care to adhere to convention. The Application Support folders for Mac-first apps are usually pretty lightweight/clean, with exception to apps like Logic which use it as a place to keep downloaded assets.
> Native AOT does not support cross-OS compilation

> ...runtime-dependent and self-contained are fine

This certainly reads like you moved the goal posts and recognized it.
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The official NASA post has fewer details, but can be found here: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/03/16/spacex-dr...
I can't publish abuse@example.org as contact method

For what it's worth one can publish that email address in their DNS zone SOA record. Some people will figure it out.

dig +short -t soa ycombinator.com
ns-225.awsdns-28.com. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400

In the case of YC they defer to the AWS dns admins but you can set it to whatever you want unless your DNS provider does not let you. I've always run my own DNS so maybe that's less of an option for hosted DNS these days for all I know.
I'm a dabbler in Go, far from an expert. But I'm not familiar with a capability to use, say, native MacOS platform libraries from a go app that I'm compiling in Windows/Linux without using a VM of some sort to compile it. If that's possible I'd love to learn more.
I've met and worked with some of the most startlingly brilliant home schooled people, that are utterly crippled socially. They ended up being unable to work with others, despite on paper they ought to be leaders. People underestimate the critical value of childhood socialization. When a child finds they do not know the giant host of media nonsense other kids know intimately, they cannot participate in a huge amount of their imaginary fun which uses these media products as the foundation for their social set's humor and identity. That creates a very difficult to unseat insecurity.
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Not to mention that any future CPU microcode update released in order to mitigate some serious CVE might break the entire product you've been shipping, just because it relied on some stack manipulation wizardry.
why everyone ends up using yjs as their choice of CRDT framework. aren't there better alternative or it is just following the popular choice?
Great book, read it too some years ago. I'd really recommend for anyone who wants to think a bit critically about these topics for oneself and just repeat techno mumbo jumbo all day long :-)
You're right, this report isn't about the actual censorship of end-user content, but that was also quite widespread. Zuck even himself admitted how the US government would pressure them to censor certain things, but he discussed it in the context of COVID. Similar things happened about Israel-Palestine as well
and i disagree with you. once again, these are facts and numbers - it's not enough to wait until the situation becomes so dire that we no longer have the ability to legally, meaningfully respond and reverse our circumstances. it's also disingenuous (at best) to downplay these violations of rights ("this happens all the time", "they gave him a shower", etc) - this is the normalization of abuse of power. whenever these violations/abuses have happened they've been wrong, and we should always call them out as wrong and act to prevent them from happening again.

furthermore, if you only care about statistics then abuses of vulnerable populations must be acceptable unless they hit some threshold of statistical significance. you can excuse horrific acts based on the idea that a minority is only a small percentage of the total population or that their abuse is only a small percentage of total abuse, as you're doing here. that's the point of creating a social system which protects everyone - that people who comprise a minority are not singled out and abused. murderers and serial killers also target relatively small percentages of the population, but we don't allow them to roam freely.

here is the border czar saying he doesn't care about court orders: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/donald-trump-se...

here is a Brown professor who was deported despite a court order: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doctor-brown-university-dep...

when the government no longer cares about its own values, laws, and separation of powers, we no longer have a government of the people. this is a an existential issue, not a "wait and see" situation.
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Lol. 1400sqft is cramped in the US? I have a 120m2 house, which would be about 1300sqft, and we have two kids rooms, one master bedroom with its own wardrobe and a bathroom, one shared bathroom, and na american kitchen and living room.

What are you guys even doing? Or maybe the 1400sqft included the garage?
This sounds wrong. Cornell University has the world's most advanced orinthology dept and operates eBird [0], the most complete and accurate animal observation database of any kind as well as the world's largest citizen science project.

There is no such alarm being raised by Cornell [1] and I don't see them listed as participants in that panel (a bad sign, by itself).

Instead of panicking about birds, just learn what's around you [2] and get an appropriate feeder.

[0] https://ebird.org

[1] Source: I'm a monthly donor and get daily emails from Cornell's bird department.

[2] https://ebird.org/explore
These have nothing to do with the subject at hand (RP2350 microcontroller, not the Pi single board computers).
I understand the value of economics as a social science, and there are some policies that economists propose that I like. However, a lot of this stuff is either just justification for neoliberal policies, or just common sense.

For example, a neoliberal economist like Becker would say: "There's actually an economic disincentive for racial discrimination"

Sure, if your economic analysis does not take into account class conflict, which most orthodox economists do not. Discrimination is borne intentionally out of class conflict as a tool of dividing the working class.

Orthodox economics is like having a bunch of scientists devoted to a pre-heliocentric model of the solar system. They can describe isolated phenomena within the accepted framework, but they will never be able to accurately describe (in full) the world around them because their foundational world model is incorrect.
The reason I replied to the parent comment was because of their dismissive tone. Of course returning the product is a good idea, but telling reasonable people to "chill out", and dismissing their concerns by suggesting they "just XYZ" is truly unproductive. It ends the conversation rather than engaging with it.
> this presumes that if it wasn't for tear gas, police would stand down, when realistically speaking they'll just escalate to more lethal weapons.

When cops use tear gas on peaceful protesters, a sizable segment of the population shrugs. That's nor the case when "more lethal weapons" are used.

Do you have stocks in tear gas manufacturers or something? This endless sea lioning is super weird. Every attempt to explain what the noncentral fallacy actually is and why it doesn't apply here just seems to leave you more confused, so I'mma stop trying. Good luck!