skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China adopted the Surveyor / Apollo-era philosophy. Their first successful lander, Chang'e 3, used the same hover & fall technique as Surveyor.

Dropping the last 4 metres isn't a sign of having a ruggedized, over-speced "takes a lickin' and keeps on kicking' approach". In lunar gravity, you could drop a raw egg from that height and not perturb the chick inside.

Instead the aim is to avoid throwing up too much moon dust with retro rockets.

Luna 9 (1966) really did need to withstand a bit of a bump, but it was 22km/h, comparable with a fast running pace or a car in first gear, not a high speed impact.
I wouldn't use Amazon as an example until we see Alexa's real world performance.
Science has more than just a replication issue. One of many reasons that public trust in institutions has been almost entirely eroded.
> Beefing is everywhere on the internet. Bernie and Warren beef with each other and with Trump, different schools of economists beef with each other over trade policy, climate hawks beef with climate doves. Here you see Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson taking their beef offline. There you see Ben Shapiro attempt to bait Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez into a live beef for the hundredth time. And over on that side, we find Jesse Singal beefing with trans activists.

...

> And this is just the North American, English-language theater of the IoB (the other major one I’m familiar with, the Indian theater, is much worse).

I have two observations on this. The first is that the interaction model of a platform influences this. Platforms with a creator-audience dynamic promote this sort of thing: YouTube, everything Meta owns, Twitter. Reddit and HN make this sort of thing less likely because posters can't establish a brand and there's no 'follow' mechanism.

My second observation is that there is a cultural component to this. Consider /r/politics: every comment page is just hundreds of people saying that Trump is awful. US politics is so polarised that supporters of different political parties need to be segregated into different subreddits. Compare and contrast /r/australianpolitics and /r/ukpolitics, where, despite a strong bias towards the Labo(u)r parties, the whole Overton window is welcome to participate, and they participate by engaging in earnest, interesting discussion. The 'no, they're the bad people over there' comments are downvoted as the worthless rot that they are.

I have a theory as to why this is, but I don't think HN is the right place to discuss it.
I want to upvote this article, but not when it comes from pcgamer. I really don't trust their ability to report quantum computing or games.
Not entirely what this is intended for, but does anyone have experience running an X server (or Wayland, I don't care)?

I'm doing some dev (on Mac) against RDP server and occasionally have other needs like that for a client. Currently I use UTM (nice QEMU Mac frontend) along with a DietPi (super stripped-down Debian) VM for these sorts of things.

I'm pretty familiar with Docker, but have a good idea of what sorts of hoop-jumping might be needed to get a graphics server to run there. Wondering if there's a simpler path.
Now add versioning, replication, logging, encryption, ACLs, CDN integration, event triggering (Lambda). I could go on. These are just some other features I can name off the top of my head. And it all has to basically run with zero downtime, 24x7...
Personally I’ve used a Magsafe Pop Socket style grip for the last 5 years so my thumb naturally hovers over the center of the screen. Ergonomics of phones sucked in general for me as screens got bigger and bigger until I started using it.
My responses in order:
1. The safest advice is to wait at least 90 days after entering the U.S. before applying for a green card; however, applying for an E-3 visa after getting married to a U.S. citizen involves some risk. If you are in the U.S. and just changing your status to E-3 from H-1B (and not applying for an E-3 visa), then you really don't have to wait the 90 days.
2. Until January 20th, less than 6 months typically although there was variation depending on place of residence. It appears, however, that USCIS is bringing back the in-person interview as part of the marriage-based green card application process and this will slow the process down considerably to what it was before, which was one to two years.
3. Absolutely; the marriage-based route should be much faster.
It's a conventional setup:

TV <- AVR <- PS4, PS5, Switch, UHD

I suspect the issue is largely with the receiver (a VSX-935), as that's seemingly the component sending a turn-on signal to its inputs.

If I could, I would have probably run everything to the TV and just done all the audio over eARC, but the TV is on the other end of a 50' HDMI cable, so I definitely need the receiver as an in-rack multiplexer.
For all the people worried about when chasil will adopt Edge.
Why wait for the next TV when you can just disconnect the darn existing box now?
I think the approach here is to overestimate your calories a bit if you're not sure. Practice makes perfect when it comes to eyeballing quantities.
I always found these apps weird because would you just say AI build me an AI app that build apps with AI.
> 2. A failsafe firmware reset back to factory state. Some sequence that resets the device completely back to the way it was when it came out of the box, firmware included, as a last resort.

That's a nifty mechanism that also allows downgrade attacks, so it has cybersecurity implications that may or may not be acceptable. Furthermore, it might not be practical or even be possible to restore the system to factory condition due to technical reasons.

The team next door allows its systems to downgrade to a previous minor version with a mandatory factory reset. It however refuses downgrading to a previous major version because it implies the bootloader was upgraded or the storage was repartitioned and they really don't want to rollback that.
There are some hydrogen busses working in the UK.

>34-bus expansion, jointly funded by Brighton & Hove Buses and Surrey County Council, bringing their total hydrogen fleet to 54 vehicles – the largest hydrogen bus operation in the UK. https://drivinghydrogen.com/2025/02/04/hydrogen-buses-34-new...

I'm not sure how cost effective it is compared to battery though.
It's not, but it should be allowed to be an everyday kind of thing. If your society does not allow open critique of itself to be normalized, that's bad.

But the US right definitely has no high ground to go around complaining about freedom of speech in the one country that has exceptionally weird and dumb blasphemy laws, seeing as we now live in a USA where the Whitehouse is explicitly saying only they can choose what information journalists have access to. The evangelical right were explicitly calling to deport US citizens for expressing their opinions on college campuses. IMO, reacting at college kids saying the country sucks is one of the most unamerican and pathetic things you could possibly do, but we did once shoot a bunch of college students who dared to stand in a crowd because we shouldn't have been bombing Cambodia, and 58% of the country, when surveyed by Gallup, blamed the students for the incident, so hey, maybe we have made progress, since we only deport them now, instead of murdering them.
Easily the worst designed site I've seen in about a decade. I'd ask for the name of the designer so I could send them a fruit basket, but I'm sure there wasn't one.
The possibility to do things does not mean it's able to actually finish the task, at least not until you and I have an opportunity to try it out ourselves and verify that things actually work, and work at least as well as you do it yourself on a first party app. Why are people so eager to promote these fairytales?
localhost-only access is a reasonable compromise
If a company issues a temporary visa for an overseas employee, and the employee overstays and cuts ties with the company to become an ilegal alien. Is the visa issuing company penalized or held liable in some way?
My girlfriend had to wear a sleep monitoring device, and the instructions also had stuff to that effect. including putting all phones in airplane mode and unplug any assistant speaker things you might have. I assume the real purpose of this is to make you actually sleep. But they claimed it was to make the data collect properly...
I also have a pair of XM4s. I installed the app briefly when I first got them so I could turn off the voice notifications on connection/mode change, and then immediately uninstalled it and have never needed it again. Why on earth would I want to update the firmware on my perfectly working headphones?
It depends on what you're doing I guess... for storage it doesn't make sense, but for pushing a lot of data over a private pipe, why spend the resources adding a cipher?
Matthew 19:21-28
No an ML researcher or anything (I'm basically only a few Karpathy video into ML, so please someone correct me if I'm misunderstanding this), but it seems that you're getting this backwards:

> One misconception is that predicting the next word means there is no internal idea on the word after next. The simple disproof of this is that models put 'an' instead of 'a' ahead of words beginning with vowels.

My understanding is that there's simply not “'an' ahead of a word that starts with a vowel”, the model (or more accurately, the sampler) picks “an” and then the model will never predict a word that starts with a consonant after that. It's not like it “knows” in advance that it wants to put a word with a vowel and then anticipates that it needs to put “an”, it generates a probability for both tokens “a” and “an”, picks one, and then when it generates the following token, it will necessarily take its previous choice into account and never puts a word starting with a vowel after it has already chosen “a”.
> stuff that matters

Matters to whom?

Answer: that's the definition of a customer in an engineering project

Matters how / why?

Answer: those are the requirements / user stories.

Helping people by doing engineering feels good and is the right thing to do, but formalizing this process a bit does not detract from it.
>plus weirdo stuff like the ability to hand out references to local data in functions that have already returned (which remains valid as long as you don't call the function again, which I think should be possible to enforce via a borrow checker).

The C programming language supports this with the static keyword. Further calls may overwrite the pointed data. I have played with allocating fixed-size data in static locals, but I always found that allocating in the caller does the same job better. For example, compare strerror() with strerror_s(). (A sensible strerror implementation should return a pointer to static immutable data, but the Standard doesn't specify it.)

A procedural language can achieve a statically bounded call stack by restricting self recursion, mutual recursion, and function pointers. I struggle to imagine how a language without a call stack could perform differently or better.
Oh I've definitely had this one too, where the TV powers up to the "I'm going to sleep now lol" screen from the PlayStation.
I’m not sure I follow. Sure, people lie, and make stuff up all the time. If an LLM goes and parrots that, then I would argue that it isn’t hallucinating. Hallucinating would be where it makes something up that is not in its training site nor logically deducible from it.
The problem is getting that jank even when you buy the expensive models, though.
The certificate is hardcoded in the executable, and Firefox updates with the new certificate were released quite a while ago.

If you run into this issue you're either running Firefox at least nine(!) releases behind current, or you haven't bothered to install any patch updates for the LTS release in over half a year.

Even if they were to release a way to update the certificate in-place, the people who would need it aren't going to bother installing it. They are the same kind of people running Windows Vista in 2025.
For the same reason the electric mail trucks are a good idea. You can probably expect UPS and FedEx to start replacing their fleets over time as the existing vehicles age out, now that all electric vans are starting to become available.
Cursor uploads local credential files
Cursor uploads files like credentials.json, .env, and .git-credentials to their servers for their Cursor Tab model. They do this despite those files being clearly credential secrets and even if these files are listed in .gitignore. See the link for a forum post with repro and details by a Cursor user.

You can use a .cursorignore file to prevent the upload, but you need to have that file present before you open the project in Cursor. You also need to update your .cursorignore file before saving any new credential files into your directory to prevent Cursor from uploading them.

Cursor users might feel safe when they have privacy mode enabled, but IMO that feels like false safety. The Cursor team have responded to the forum post describing the security issue saying that privacy mode only means that the sent files aren't stored in plaintext. They don't say anything about not training on uploaded files.

I have no affiliation with Cursor or any other AI IDE company. Sharing as I use Cursor myself and was shocked to see it autocomplete my own secrets and that it uploads such sensitive files.
add a watchdog timer to reboot automatically on failed upgrade as well.
What has worked for me is to delay my meals until noon or even later. Eat protein and veggies for lunch.
Human error, don't worry, we will be getting rid of these pesky humans soon
Isn’t the green card risk based on a couple of items in the green card process

The visa process and the person’s assertions to those visa questions

For example
- did you every x? And the required answer is No

Let’s assume the person did commit X but answers No

Years go by and the person gets a green card.

The underlying assertion was a lie - therefore the whole stream of events later becomes questionable.

The second situation is a new item being added. For example consider the hypothetical scenario that

When the applicant filled out his forms - greenpeace was legit. And the applicant was a greenpeace member.

Years later the applicant becomes a green card holder.

Now years later. The govt classifies greenpeace a terror org.

Is the green card holder under threat?
“Can you proffer any evidence that [the grant] was illegal, or evidence of abuse or fraud or bribery — that any of that was improperly or unlawfully done, other than the fact that Mr. Zeldin doesn’t like it?” Judge Tanya Chutkan said.

Judge Chutkan also ordered the Justice Department to provide the court with details about the alleged fraud, “because I don’t have the credible evidence that’s required.”

This whole calling things fraud without actually have any evidence is really starting to get old.
>>Respectfully, no it's not.

Alright, maybe the comparison took it too far but I hope you see my point - the sentence is imprisonment, not imprisonment+X.

>>It doesn't recognize, for anyone, a right to not have to work and still be taken care of

Nonsense - how about the ill and the disabled? Why do we take care of them even if they don't work? Unless when you say "our society" you mean some society that doesn't have that - but then I can't possibly know where you live.

>>Where's the free room and board for those who haven't committed felonies?

Uhm....almost every developed country offers some kind of socialized housing and food stamps if you need them?

>>I don't think it's justified to recognize that as a right of prisoners specifically.

It's not their right - it's ours. We lock them up and they should stay locked up. They should sit in prison all day not because it's their privilege to be sitting around all day bored, but because it's our privilege to walk streets free of criminals - we want them there.

Also observe how even I acknowledged that prisoners could be used for work - any kind of public work where they aren't a danger to society is fine with me. But the moment you introduce a profit motive you are creating breeding ground for corruption and incentives which have absolutely nothing to do with justice.
> Corporations train their reps to actively stonewall and frustrate you and hope you go away while they screw up your finances, travel, healthcare and deny you things you paid for.

And how much choice do those reps have? Their choice is "follow the playbook" or "go out and find a new job".

It sounds like you yelled at someone who was not responsible for your original issue. You weren't performing. You were being.
What's the front door, WebUSB or something else like TLS 1.2?
As a HN denizen, I can tell you that your anecdote does not overide someone else's anecdote.
Is it? Maybe this is just a terrible paper that reads like 19th century theories about Aryans. Those responses sound like they are pointing to a climate of intellectual repression, but...there's a reason we don't have endowed chairs in phrenology or palmistry or astral projection. And if someone proposed such a thing, the responses might not look too open-minded.

As they say, it's good to be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brain falls out.
Automation is combination of both, accuracy and accuracy of confidence scores.

Good way to think about automation is recall at high precision which is what you need for true automation where you don't worry about documents that are very likely to have correct results and focus on manually correcting documents likely to have errors.

The reason accuracies are tighly grouped but not the automation is because these models are trained to be accurate but not necessarily predictable, where there is no real way to get confidence score calibrated.

Couldn't find the benchmark mistral used as well
How do you define the "correct" answer?
"Disk drives dominated the C64 storage market in the US, Canada, and Germany, while cassette dominated the UK and elsewhere."

I can only speak for Germany and my bubble, but we definitely had more datasettes than 1541s.
Direct link to the article this is about: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-88410-001.html ("Arctic Instincts? The Late Pleistocene Arctic Origins of East Asian Psychology")
The real question is why isn't the shirt open source and decentralized?
Just like Columbine stopped all future school shootings?
I don't think this is entirely true.

Way too many variables to consider here and the human heart/mind/body is much more complex than this, and at the same time much more simple.

To give one example.. by time restricted eating you are breaking the cycle of eating out of habit when you are not even hungry.. or eating because you crave a certain taste or sensation in the body (as opposed to actually being hungry). You are training the mind/body out of these behaviours so that during the times when you are allowed to eat you are trained not to eat unless actually hungry, for example.

I am sure there are many other things to consider other than just calories in .. calories out - such as adapting the body to use stored fuel .. rather than expecting a constant payload of calories to consume.. etc. etc.

Peace out.
Isn’t the green card risk based on a couple of items in the green card process
The visa process and the person’s assertions to those visa questions
For example - did you every x? And the required answer is No
Let’s assume the person did commit X but answers No
Years go by and the person gets a green card.
The underlying assertion was a lie - therefore the whole stream of events later becomes questionable.
The second situation is a new item being added. For example consider the hypothetical scenario that
When the applicant filled out his forms - greenpeace was legit. And the applicant was a greenpeace member.
Years later the applicant becomes a green card holder.
Now years later. The govt classifies greenpeace a terror org.
Is the green card holder under threat?
> Back to the original topic, how much do the people leading these scams like pushing the story of the scammers being forced into it, because it increases the empathy that people feel towards the scammers and better allows the scams to continue?

My feelings of pity towards the people being literally enslaved don't mean I don't want the scams to stop, or for the people to be liberated.

It just means I don't scream profanities at someone who had their passport stolen.
I've been using Porkbun for my meme domains ever since I left the train-wreck that NetSol had become. broken back-ends, inability to update root server glue records, nobody left that knows the back-end, nobody left that understands how to use dig, etc... I split up my domains into multiple registrars based on category to avoid all the eggs in one basket rotting via cancel culture.

Porkbun are one of the few registrars that support IP restrictions on accounts so I can avoid pseudo 2FA SMS or propriety 2FA apps and they have a simple UI. I have no use for Proton however. If I want to send secure email I use PGP in Thunderbird and if I want more security then I use PGP with my own self hosted email servers. I consider PGP real E2EE for the email body vs. servers that have pseudo E2EE by managing the certs using code they have control over. If I want true E2EE for the entire file or message contents then I use self hosted SFTP with encrypted headerless random ciper+hash loopback images.

cryptsetup benchmark

Then I randomly pick one of the three slowest ciphers and hashes along with a 222 to 499 random character strings and use an obscure filesystem on top of it. Multiple of these can be nested each using a different cipher+hash+long pw. There are additional techniques that dork up commercial forensics tools.

I am not seeing the hacked page or bad certificate but your comment was from 18 hours ago as of the time of my comment so they must have resolved it. [1] I hope they release a detailed write-up on the incident.

[1] - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=porkbun.com&l...
Ah, good point. Did not even see that...
But also... there's been a whooole lot of smoke from his "benefit of the doubt" card burning up for a looong time now.
What company-branded shirt isn't?
Waste of bin bags. Just write the address on the front in marker pen.
> The article doesn't reveal where those pictures were stolen from, does it?

It says they're taken from the Instagram account of "a Russian personal trainer".

I doubt the author is making an ethnic distinction between European Russians and Turkic Kazakhs, so the woman is probably identifiably located inside Russia.
House GOP subpoenas Big Tech for evidence that Biden made AI woke
Not OP, but managed a ~1tb Postgres install for years. You should use something like pgbackrest or barman to help with both replication (replicas can pull WAL from your backups when catching up), backups, and failovers.

At least for pgbackrest, set up a spool directory which allows async wal push / fetch.
How does free will explains children with cancer or is that good thing?
I feel stoicism works reasonably well when your life goes generally well. If your life is going very badly, I think it ends up like a lot of positive thinking where you have to live in an almost delusional world where you pretend things are good while they really aren't
lockers are unsafe? wtf terrible school system is this?
My ROI is in how I can slam in reverse when I'm rolling forward or floor it whenever without concern for the drivetrain.
>Nate took his model with him. After he left, 538 rolled a new model.

So they let him leave with the only part of it that had value, that's insane. They essentially just paid him for the name?
I really wish it would support them for iOS as well.

It’s very hard given the constraints, but apparently not impossible, since Orion manages to run at least some web extensions.
More empty promises from Bluesky
Zombie sheep grooming?