skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is monopolistic behaviour: it leverages a product (Workgroups) to force a minority group to switch to another product (Chrome). Most users of Workgroups don’t have an option to change, because it’s provided for them by their company.
The issue isn't a laptop going home once a week, it's never being on the LAN at all after they are imaged. It has nothing to do with "VPN provisioning" or whatever you mean by that. The problem is that all the policies and tools implemented expected the devices to be on the LAN at least occasionally.
What use is a counterattack if it's immediately fixed? Then absolutely nobody can use it, not even a few experts.
Oh this is such absolute misinformation. The reason court cases against the NSA spying (and other related issues) fail is because you need to prove standing which means you need to not only prove you were spied on but that it also 'materially' affected you. And in order to do so you generally need to have reasonable justification to engage in discovery - in order to get the data from the NSA themselves. At that point the NSA simply declares 'nah, national security or something', discovery becomes impossible, you can't prove anything, and the case is dismissed.

These programs all overtly violate, amongst other things, the 4th amendment, but the structure of our legal system makes it effectively impossible to legally challenge them.
If you charge the buses over night, then you don't need 100 kW. I think the battery sizes are something like 100-300 kWh. So with 9 hours of charging, you need only perhaps 30 kW at the most.

Anecdotally, the town I live in invested in probably around 100 buses. They did build a new depot with charging stations.

Batteries are coming down in price, so if getting a good grid connection is a problem, you can put in a buffering battery.

The comfort of the BEV buses is much better than the old diesel buses, by the way, and they are much less noisy in the city.
I don't think a photon can exist outside of space, but I'd be very interested to hear of any alternate points of view on that!
Though that makes little sense in the context of a CDN. I think Bunny uses US providers like Zenlayer for their egress there, so they’re just a middle man in my understanding. I don’t think there’s any EU provider that runs their own CDN hardware infrastructure in the US.
Thanks for the bug report, I definitely do see now that things fall apart at certain extreme values. I'll look into it and see if I can fix. My assumption is that it's some sort of numeric overflow or underflow resulting in NaN values, and that I'll probably just need to set the slider boundaries more carefully. Thanks again!
There's a mote on the crack on the Mössbauer spectrometer on the instrument arm on the rover in the hole in the bottom of the sea of tranquility
Blue hydrogen is supposed to capture the carbon. If its just emitted, then it's grey hydrogen:
https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/hydrog...
No, that is not right. The correct answer is "it depends", but let's run some indicative numbers on data for Boston:

On average and excluding the minority of routes with dedicated lanes (which may be best run on diesel), the Boston metro buses are in use for 6.6 hours per day, covering on average 53 miles.

A full size electric bus uses electricity at a rate of approx 2 kWhr/mile.

So, on average the bus would have around 17 hours to charge up with 106 kWhrs of juice, and this averages out to about 6.2 kW. On average.

However, the smart thing to do would be to charge the buses when the power costs the least, say between 10 pm and 8 am, so you'd need ~10 kW/bus, maybe ~1MW for the 100 bus fleet. Not difficult.
My browser shows 250ms of waiting when accessing this article.
> Selling user data doesn't seem like a sustainable business.

Did you see Google's Q4 earnings? "Google Services revenues increased 10% to $84.1 billion, reflecting the strong momentum across Google
Search & other and YouTube ads." That's by using user data. If Chrome is split off into a new company, there will be buses full of wooers.
bubblewrap is a safer alternative to firejail because it does not use setuid to do its job, and it is used by flatpak (so hopefully has more eyes on it, but I have no idea).

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bubblewrap

You do have to assemble isolation scripts by hand though, it's pretty low level. Here is a decent comment which closely aligns to what I'm using to isolate npm/pnpm/yarn/etc, I see no need to repeat it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43369927
Mixing payments gateways and vibe coding. What can go wrong?
does it map closely enough for an obvious replacement ...uhhh language?
Is there a web without Google browsers?
Obviously if you give all sandboxed processes access to /, that doesn't improve anything.

The idea is that you'd notice that your new git binary is trying to get access to /var/postgres, and you'd deny it, because it has no reason to want that.
It's bad for everyone, considering how it increases prices and boosts consumption
Enter Rollout.site (trust me, you'll forget even bolt.new and v0 etc.)
Build your landing page in under a minute, enter https://rollout.site
You’re making a lot of assumptions about the capability to reconnect and patch/update itself, preface the fix with “keep your machine offline from here in out” and we’re back to fixing it for everyone before that point.
What do you mean? the whole industry are happy to be on Chrome. What Google does, the rest will be either praising or be doing begrudingly.

A few of us are using Firefox. The few who remember the terror that web development was when Microsoft had the monopoly. At least they were mostly ignorant, not outright hostile towards the open web.
Yeah, I’ve moved off vscode entirely, back to fully featured out of the box ides for me. Jetbrains make some excellent tools and I don’t need to install 25 (dubious) plugins for them to be excellent
A quick search points me to [1]. Granted, it does not contain further links but there should be enough names to find more.

1. https://eandt.theiet.org/2024/12/11/smart-tvs-take-screensho...
Toyota bet big on hydrogen.
If you require network (for pnpm to install packages, etc), you also often have to add readonly access to /etc/ssl, or https wouldn't work.

It might also be helpful to just use --unshare-all, and then whitelist things you actually need (--share-net, etc).
Understanding computer date, time and time zones
If you use an abbreviation like PBR, it helps to either explain what it means or use the correct one. Do you mean PBM = pharmacy benefit manager?
Ever seen Mob Psycho 100?
The mix the Swedish populist government removed for lower gas prices.
> apple would add something new

Once again, I'm engaging with a hypothetical. Indeed this is how it would play out in reality.
Same here! Not a physics engine per se, but I've been eyeing Taichi Lang (https://github.com/taichi-dev/taichi) as a potential next stop for running this on a much larger scale.

My assumption has been that any physics engine that does soft-body physics would work in this regard, just at a much higher sampling rate than one would normally use in a gaming scenario. This simulation is actually only running at 22050hz, rather than today's standard 44100hz sampling rate.
I watch youtube videos in mpv, which grabs the videos using yt-dlp. I think I have some kind of sponsorblock script loaded into mpv too.

I tried to play a youtube video in-browser the other day for the first time in a while and noticed that it just stopped playing exactly 19 seconds in. Every other video I tested did the same thing. Didn't care enough to look into why because it still works fine in mpv/yt-dlp, so I'm fine with the website just being nonfunctional.
Yeah me too. It doesn't help at all to take control away from big tech (really, meta or google is the same difference). And it loops in the phone carriers. You know, those guys that charged us 1 euro for 180 bytes just because they could get away with it. I never ever want those guys in the middle again, just as a raw bit pipe only.

The only thing that's open is the standard, but in practice you need to be on google's radar to be connected. So it's just as closed to us as everything else.
I think the obfuscation is that they are generally talking about stuffing small quantities of hydrogen into natural gas pipelines. Similar to alcohol in gasoline.
Some people seem to think manure is cleaner than tailpipes.
Ok so you still need 3MW or with a buffering battery as big as your fleet you could spend half the day charging the batteries. So you still need what, 1.5MW? Or is it half that. It is still a grid connection that is larger than you could easily find in an old inner city bus depot, I would have thought?
Ode to Douglas Adams: A Vogon Tribute

Oh blubbering nebulae of bureaucratic slime,
Hearken to this most dolorous rhyme!
For Douglas Adams, that scribe of renown,
We vomit forth verses of gelatinous brown.

With squelching syntax and belching prose,
We honor his mind where improbability flows.
Hitchhiker’s Guide! A tome most absurd,
Turning logic to gibbering, flailing bird.

Behold the beauty of bureaucrats vile,
Whose forms in triplicate stretch mile by mile.
For Adams, dear Adams, saw through the farce,
And sculpted with words a galactic arse.

The number 42! Oh cosmic decree!
A joke of the universe, but not for thee!
With Marvin the Paranoid, sighing so deep,
And whales who contemplate death in their sleep.

O Adams, grand spinner of nonsense profound,
May your soul in hyperspace ever be found.
Yet should you return, we promise you this:
More poetry! More Vogon! More hideous bliss!
There is a long-standing dispute between Cloudflare and Germany's biggest ISP, Telekom, which results in terrible peering for Cloudflare free traffic for Telekom customers here. Sites on the Cloudflare Pro plan are not affected by this somehow.

If the author is a Telekom customer, then they would absolutely see 100ms+ improvements.
I came in expecting this was going to be a methodological article. Maybe better let the kids wait as opposed to the parents in their cars?
Bet in the past tense? It seems they are moving further away from that position. There are also some domestic market issues for Toyota - Japan having the lowest voltage mains electricity in the world for example.
Is that what he's arguing? My perspective on what he's arguing is that LLMs effectively rely on a probabilistic approach to the next token based on the previous. When they're wrong, which the technology all but ensures will happen with some significant degree of frequency, you get cascading errors. It's like in science where we all build upon the shoulders of giants, but if it turns out that one of those shoulders was simply wrong, somehow, then everything built on top of it would be increasingly absurd. E.g. - how the assumption of a geocentric universe inevitably leads to epicycles which leads to ever more elaborate, and plainly wrong, 'outputs.'

Without any 'understanding' or knowledge of what they're saying, they will remain irreconcilably dysfunctional. Hence the typical pattern with LLMs:

---

How do I do [x]?

You do [a].

No that's wrong because reasons.

Oh I'm sorry. You're completely right. Thanks for correcting me. I'll keep that in mind. You do [b].

No that's also wrong because reasons.

Oh I'm sorry. You're completely right. Thanks for correcting me. I'll keep that in mind. You do [a].

FML

---

More advanced systems might add a c or a d, but it's just more noise before repeating the same pattern. Deep Seek's more visible (and lengthy) reasoning demonstrates this perhaps the most clearly. It just can't stop coming back to the same wrong (but statistically probable) answer and so ping-ponging off that (which it at least acknowledges is wrong due to user input) makes up basically the entirety of its reasoning phase.
It seems clear by now that the Tesla brand has completely fallen out of favor with the progressive, high-earning, status-conscious demographic in Germany (their main buyer group). While there are tentative trends toward avoiding US products in general, I see little potential for this becoming widespread. Few people are actually boycotting Apple or Coca-Cola, and most continue to make a clear distinction between the American people and culture (which they consider close friends) versus the current US administration.
I wonder how this compares to markets like Canada or Denmark? Are other brands facing similar challenges in those countries as well?
Saudi Arabia's Megaproject Disaster (Patrick Boyle YouTube) [video]
One of the most expensive European countries to live in and one of the hardest to get a residential permit in.
Have also been using Concepts since I found it to be the best whiteboard app for me on Android. But last time I checked they had a one-time puchase option available? Did they change that?
Stoicism is Not Enough (2021)
Strncpy? just say no (2011)
This recent article[1] from the economist shows how much of the aid spending around the world just replaces government spending and never creates a system where those countries can stand on their own.

Not always the case but definitely for a lot of aid spending. Where I'm located (Mongolia) aid spending just gives the government an excuse to free up the budget for handouts to get them elected. It's pretty useless.

[1] https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/03/06/the-demise-of-f...
Yes, you are right Microsoft was worse than Google but Google is constantly hypocritical....they are always twisting the narrative so it suits them whether it is open web, advertising or politics.
Thanks for the bug report, I'll look into this and see if I can make it better! There's definitely more optimization juice to be squeezed, I think, and it'd probably be smart to allow the number of nodes in the simulation to be adjusted.

Working with AudioWorklets (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AudioWorkle...) has been really cool, and I've been surprised at what's possible, but I _haven't_ yet figured out how to get good feedback about when the custom processor node is "falling behind" in terms of not delivering the next buffer quickly enough.
So who is going to step up and build something better than Chrome? If we knock Google out of the running 2nd place for the sort of investment they've made is pretty weak and largely only works on iPhones.
I don't believe this.

In France, we have mandatory car checkup every few years where they test the pollution from the back of the car.

My old car, made in early 90 barely emitted more pollutant than regulation allow.

Ended up buying a Volkswagen Passat, very impressive it emitted a lot less. Then dieselgate happened... Now it's barely under what the regulation allow.

Keep your old polluting car, in the grand scheme of things it is better than buying a new one that end up polluting much more to build than what you would gain in everyday emission.
> Sites on the Cloudflare Pro plan are not affected by this somehow.

i.e. Cloudflare is paying and needs you (the customer) to cover the cost.
OK then I'm going to need an explanation of what was clever about it. It seems like it would just be reusing the meme, no?
> They are highly regulated and require trained and licensed employees. The compounding pharmacies I don't trust are the ones that only started to do Ozempic and nothing else.

We already know that the compounding pharmacies violate patent law. Why should I believe they follow any other regulation?
The Nokia N900: the future that wasn't
Chickenpox? Also not to be confused with smallpox...
Oh yeah? You youngsters have it easy, you don't know what it means to have to throw away the whole tablet and start again when your chisel slips.

The Pharaoh was not amused, I'll tell you that much.
Teslas have been very popular in the Netherlands, and by far the best selling cars (Model 3 as of 2019 [0], Model Y in 2023 [1] and 2024 [2]), but sales have been declining for a while now. Though I'm not under the impressions that this has anything to do with Musk's recent actions, in my observation it's just that other car options have become available.

Tesla became very popular because EVs were heavily subsidised and Tesla was the only good EV option for quite a few years. Other manufacturers either didn't have EVs, or they were very impractical, awkward and ugly.

European manufacturers eventually woke up and started introducing EVs, and although they are a common sight on the street now (BMW, VW and Porsche in particular) they are still rather expensive, so Tesla remained popular for a while.

But in recent year Korean (Kia, Hyundai) and Chinese (BYD, NIO, etc.) manufactured cars have matured a lot. Their designs have improved considerable to a point where my friends, who consider themselves hardcore car guys, actually like them. Now a new Kia or BYD (heck, even Hongqi) is becoming well accepted and seem on-par in social status as a Tesla.

So this is purely anecdotal, but in my social circles at least nobody seems to consider Musk's actions in choosing a new car, it's just that other options have become available.

[0] https://www.autoweek.nl/verkoopcijfers/2019/
[1] https://www.autoweek.nl/verkoopcijfers/2023/
[2] https://www.autoweek.nl/verkoopcijfers/2024/
A Decade of World of Matthew (Part 1)
The author raises a good point, but tangentially:

"if google doesn't pay for chrome, who will make it better? and who will make it secure"

This is a valid concern.

However, for those of us who remember the time before chrome, the web was dominated by IE, which kneecapped security and innovation.

Its the same with mobile safari, a lack of competitors is bad for health.

The issue is, google has embedded a shit ton of metrics gathering into chrome, which is hugely anti competitive.
> The Athena spacecraft was not exactly flying blind as it approached the lunar surface one week ago. The software on board did a credible job of recognizing nearby craters, even with elongated shadows over the terrain. However, the lander's altimeter had failed.

> So while Athena knew where it was relative to the surface of the Moon, the lander did not know how far it was above the surface.

This is really crappy writing. That second paragraph sounds like a self-contradiction. Unless "the lander" is a separate entity from "Athena"? Some publications refuse to use the same term twice, even if it introduces ambiguity as here.
I believe the problem is that a tractor runs for much of the workday at a very high load. Pulling a plough is constant hard work, not like a car that is only using a lot of power while accellerating hard. If you had your foot to the floor in a Tesla constantly you would run your battery flat in a lot less than 8 hours. I have read that the batteries for this application would therefore be infeasibly large.
It’s not pointing in all directions at once, it’s pointing once in each direction. So if you spin the pencil so it does exactly one complete rotation that works, doesn’t it?
Full scale is unlikely. Russia could not, but they might send 250k/year to die in Estonia. EU and Nato (with or without US) would defend. But I doubt they would go all the way through Russia to force them to stop.

Nuclear option is not likely to be used for some "minor" conflict like that, because it would go both ways quickly.
Maybe not exactly the same thing, but obviously the arms industry is going to face some challenges because of the new American foreign policies.

Maybe they will be offset by general increase in arms production, but Europe has alternatives to most of the weapons they currently buy from USA (including strategic air defense). They just need to scale up production.

https://www.politico.eu/article/portugal-rules-out-buying-f-...
I'll poppity-ping to that.
There is rapidly spreading outbreak of measles which makes news right now - 250 cases. Measles are that rare now

It is super contagious, so yes, prior vaccines everyone got it. Mortality is 1-3 in 1000 of sick. Plus some people get deaf and some get brain damage (dunno how many now).

So, nowadays super rare, used to be normal and harmless is not a word I would use for someone that kills 1-3 in 1000 kids.
blind people still have other senses including touch which gives them a size reference they can compare to. you can feel physical objects to gain an understanding of their size.

the LLM is more like a brain in a vat with only one sensory input - a stream of text
> it's another thing entirely to write into many tables, index all of them and then query them at scale

Well, that’s pretty much what I am doing.
If the only reason you enjoy art is because someone else tells you it's beautiful, then sure, maybe it's not for you.
I think it would be more accurate to say that after fine tuning on a series of questions with answers that it thinks that you don't want to hear "I don't know"
It is not thirties. These people Sieg Heil and literally fund radical right in Europe. Also they already attempted violent couples once. And have zero respect for law while having unchecked power.
> $750B for defense was 3% of the federal budget in 2024.

I think you mean of GDP, not federal budget.
This is an excellent analysis. Also, Google is actually a data business, building an AI, with a long time horizon view - and always has been. Larry's initial goal was to build the AI. Impressive tho they are, current AI products are mere ripples upon the surface compared to the deep currents of Google's long term plans.

Given that, I actually don't see much resistance from Google leadership to abc.xyz divesting itself of Chrome. In fact, it's probably on some level been "worked out" - with the DOJ pushing for a meaningful, and symbolically meaningful, concession that was already negotiated as something Google could agree to, and maybe even wanted.

Getting rid of Chrome could help them refocus their efforts, and unburden themselves from something that probably comes with a lot of issues. Cue the eventual press release, letter from the leadership, looking back on the decades of Chrome, and how they ultimate believe that a Browser should be owned by the web and the people itself, not by a company.

It could be a significant, meaningful and positive pivot for the company as it faces changing situations.
These are common terms. A random link: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/07/clean-energy-green-h...

* Green: produced from surplus renewable capacity (electrolysis)

* Black, brown, grey: convert various fossil fuels to hydrogen via steam reforming. Basically strip carbon from hydrocarbons, emitting a lot of CO2.

* Blue: same as black/brown/Greg but with carbon capture.

There are other (less common) shades as well.
Yes, its slightly different though - in that, we end up with a better place either way.
That is a really good point, what would be the business model of such an organization? Who funds them?

If it is the government, then that is just the FDA with extra steps

I could imagine food companies funding it to keep their competitors in check, don't know how likely that is in practice

Maybe there could be a way to make the consumer pay for the service. Provide a website where customers pay a fee, enter the name of the product/restaurant then get their safety levels. You could even include fancy graphs and charts to sweeten the deal. How to do that profitably I dont know.
Not released yet, but honorable mention to ladybird: https://ladybird.org/
>a sanction from there does not represent the will of its people

Do they represent the will of the people in democracies? I don't think they had a referendum on that issue.

>Maybe no "international" anything is legit.

Multilateral international treaties that states voluntarily joined are certainly legit, and so are UN GA non-binding votes and UN SC resolutions (although with that one not all people agree).
We bought our first electric car last summer, we got an VW ID.3 and... we like it a lot. The pricing was pretty good, not much more expensive than a comparable VW combustion car. Apparently the infotainment system was quite bad/slow in older generations, but they fixed that in one of the upgrades and the on in ours is fast and works well.

We couldn't be more happy with the purchase.