skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The firmware update does fix/cause battery issues depends on your batch. The wf-1000xm4 changed the battery model(thus voltage) it's using. And update the firmware to match the new battery model. However the new firmware did not handle different type of battery correctly. And damaged quite a few devices with incorrect voltage setting. (Some devices are also preload with these incorrect config) There is a firmware update to correct this setting problem.
TLDW: We already realized AGI is nowhere in the horizon, so we need to shift asap the metrics of definition for what AGI is.
It's also misleading to frame responses of "aren't considering buying a Tesla" as "won't buy a Tesla", because most of those respondents aren't considering buying any vehicle at all.
From the Abstract to the Concrete
AI Wars Game: dominate the artificial intelligence industry
Maybe a takeaway that boils down to “how could anyone ever write a compiler on Python” is the wrong one to have.
Trend lines are way more important for pretty much everyone. Anyone who cares about absolute numbers is either focusing on the wrong thing, or is doing vo2 max tests on the regular and knows the numbers on their watch are trends anyway
Taking a wild guess here: I think the number of Apple customers who are seriously interested in Apple Intelligence are outnumbered by the number of Apple customers who face various other bugs and issues across Apple’s platforms and want those to be resolved quickly.

Sadly, it seems as if Apple Intelligence has sucked the air out of the room as far as spending any effort on other matters is concerned. ScreenTime doesn’t work correctly since iOS 18 (showing random and incorrect durations). It’s become basically useless. All the catalyst apps on macOS are garbage as far as user experience is concerned (can’t use the keyboard effectively or as expected for navigation with those apps). AirDrop works sometimes, but won’t sometimes. Same with continuity and other features introduced a long, long time ago.

With all these issues, no improvements have been done over the years. The ossification of macOS, or rather the iOSsification of macOS is diminishing the uniqueness of each platform and its strengths.

Top level heads need to roll right this month if Apple wants to show that it’s serious about software. Apple Intelligence can be released in 2030 or never, for all I care.
Inspired by Dope Wars and fun to play
Your phone provider does sell your information.

The majority of Netflix users over the next few years will be advertising based users. That just doesn't bring in enough profit because people are not willing to pay enough subscription to cover what those things actually cost.

Your hypothesis has a bit of a gaping hole where "real world user behaviour" sits.
Treasury Introduces Multimillion-Pound Whistleblower Rewards to Tackle Tax Fraud
Drilling is essentially an O(N^2) method. You need to replace your drill bit every X meters, and the time it takes to replace it about linear in the current depth.
Go import cycles: three strategies for dealing with them and a plea for a fourth
Yeah. I have noticed that the relative changes in numbers seem to be very correct. I can’t validate the absolute numbers, so I don’t really look at those so much. For the Apple Watch, I’ve noticed that the sleep tracker is quite accurate too, in absolute terms. That is, when I remember having long, wild dreams, I have a substantial amount of REM time. When I don’t remember my partner doing whatever at some hour, I was in deep sleep. If I toss and turn a lot, I see a lot of awake segments. So that part seems pretty accurate.
AI assisted meta analysis. Just piling on more exercise science trash.
You're obviously more familiar with the topic than I so I'll trust your insight into the age of the term and concept, but none of these describe common chipsets for laptops that a consumer would expect. Unless we're talking a very specific user trying to engage in heavy GPGPU computation here (on a laptop?? I can't imagine the market for this is very large). Most users of apple's M* laptops don't know or care they they have a laptop that shares memory in a different way than the intel laptops generally allowed for.
Government hires capitalists to do it's job, and is bribed by them. Still people have voted with their silence for this to be the status quo. So what government is for, is a choice of the people, the rest is toothpaste advertisement.
> for downloading articles from JSTOR, with the intent to learn from them

For context, according to sources, he downloaded 4.8 million articles.
A unified nonaligned sovereign nuclear Korea would be a disaster for continuous US plan to divide Eurasian continent.
A chance for the rest of the world.
I’ve already expressed my opinion on this particular mitigation elsewhere and I’m pretty sure you’ve read it so I won’t go into it again here. I was more interested in the scheme that the other comment was constructing.
I’d pick a different Chromium based browser maybe Vivaldi if I was you
Keeping a transaction open for that long is arguably a bad idea. You might need a consistent snapshot, but the cost is significant.

Also, paginating inefficiently with OFFSET is a problem is general. Even if you’re keeping a long transaction open, you can make it last less by optimising the read queries.
I would like to see a genuine attempt at modeling the neural activity in the brain as a continuous feedback loop. You could include deferent subsystems like auditory and visual input, for the output side you could do mechsnicsl output.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but neither vertical tabs nor tab groups are fully ready and shipped.

From a quick search, it seems that you need to make edits in `about:config` to enable tab groups and use nightly to access vertical tabs.
There's "The Salmon of Doubt", an excellent collection of misc essays and writings of Douglas Adams published after his death, and it contains his last unfinished Dirk Gently novel.

It's about one third finished, and it's really just wild: There's one narrative strand about Dirk Gently, a private detective, receiving mysterious anonymous payments and deciding to follow random strangers, one about a paragliding genius architect who's all by himself in a weird future architect's utopia, and one about an escaping rhinocerous that's mainly narrated in terms of what it smells.

It's fantastically creative and incredibly sad that we won't get to read AD's ending, although I doubt that he actually knew where he was going with it at the time he wrote the bits that are there. It's this grand setup that really leaves you wondering what it means and how it's supposed to come together.

I'd encourage anyone to read it and try to come up with an ending. It feels like a fiendishly hard puzzle, and really gets you in the authors head. And do let me know if you have a good one!
The development that slows will not be parts that allow monetisation. They have a rationale. They will be things like security that have no immediate bottom line impact.
2 days ago | 387 comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351137
https://archive.ph/2025.03.15-094650/https://publications.er...
The term doesn't just mean "has an igpu" right? I'd guess the figure is higher than 90% if that's how you're defining it—most motherboards come with igpus now and certainly almost all laptop mainboards. Otherwise I'm not sure how you are defining it to find that figure!
Checks out in India as well where allergy levels are as low as hygiene levels.

I think you have typo with 10000 days.
For the heart such errors are problematic
The new models actually handle update much better. The update is way slower (requires about 1 hour) compare to old model. But it allows you to continue using it while update. (It probably rate limited itself?)
There's probably not a backdoor in the device. At least I haven't seen any news about that. But.

Apple has been an NSA PRISM-partner since 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM#/media/File:Prism_slide_...

Also, apparently they had 100% success rate installing malware on the devices: https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/12/30/the-nsa-rep...

It's been close to 12 years since Snowden. Who knows how the defense has improved. Who knows how the offense has improved.
I was about to mention those. I decided a while ago to build everything myself instead of relying on these libraries. We could use a PythonLLM over here because it seems like nobody cares about developer experience in the Python space.
Hmm, seems anti-competitive.
Kinda ironic that "Don't be evil" is Google's former motto
I always kind of wish HHGttG was as good as the geekdom's fondness of it suggests. I read it, I enjoyed it, but really, it is such a depressing series. And there is very little that's particularly funny or interesting after the first book and a half. So many dull and drawn out scenes of characters in miserable situations. And that whole tortured Krikkit gag trying to explain the origins of cricket. Sigh.
I understand the feeling of alarmism as US politics right now look like a zero sum game with no possibility of compromise from either side

But as a descendent of Nazi slaves whose entire families were murdered, I fail to see the similarities between a movement that had established concentration camps and declared its intention of genocide from day one, and the present day rule of idiots that is the United States

I think the fact that comparisons are thrown too easily to the point of cliche only make up for this sense of historical determinism that often makes things worse
If anyone like me was wondering how accuracy of a continuous measurement can be a percentage, apparently they're just multiplying correlation by 100.

> Correlation coefficient estimates and their 95% confidence intervals were also expressed in percentages for clarity and readability.
I am an EU citizen and I am concerned about the collapse of the US and more shortly about its expansionism claims. US has such a military dominance and violent culture that I am afraid it will produce a global war. I now think that the EU needs to rearm, not to defend against Russia, but to protect us against US collapse and expansionism. China is our better bet in this coming disaster.
Yeah. They may not be terribly accurate but if they are precise they can still be useful.
I actually think they should be made to divest YouTube and non search based ads businesses (what was DoubleClick etc.) along with GTM and GA
My understanding is that sensors are disabled during this
Sure there are places. But if you're an average consumer I doubt that you would be thrilled to book a gateway room to update your device...
I was going to say Perplexity usually seems good but reading the article it was interesting they are being naughty and using forbidden sources while pretending not to.
ie is abbreviated Latin and usually written as i.e. I know that mobile and auto correct can make it difficult, but IE must be deliberate upper cased. It is the worst because no matter how ancient it is, it still stands for internet explorer, not id est.
There’s a thing which I know very little about personally but have hearsay of its existence where it rips control from XNU and takes over touch input for this
The purpose of government is whatever people want it to be.
> Something that always bugs me is restaurants that charge $2 or $5 surcharge for takeout. I'm saving the restaurant a ton of money by not using the dining room, why would they discourage that?

My parents owned a small family restaurant in Europe when I was little. We never charged extra for takeout, but it was viewed as lower margin as dine in, largely for two reasons.

1. For takeout we usually missed out on the revenue on drinks and desserts, which have enormous margins (think multiples rather than percentages).

2. A lot of the extra labour for dine-in was internalized by the family. Now you might object that using the wife and kids as cheap labour is not an honest calculations of the margins, but with family labour you can (a) largely circumvent the tax wedge (high in Europe) and (b) the presumably undercompensated labour is ofset by higher profits which still stays in the family if the head of family is careful with money.
There really is no accounting for China. They are building everything at an incredible rate, solar, wind, nuclear and coal power!
That's false. The color green is irrelevant. If the Apple bubbles had been green, and the Android bubbles had been blue, still the Android bubbles would have been shamed. It was never about the color. It was because of the SMS/iMessage feature incompatibilities.
US wants SK to have to rely on the US for economic and military needs. Of course the US doesn't want SK to have nukes. It's good for SK to have them though.
Fortunately, this doesn't really affect those of us outside of the USA, since we've long since moved on.
Arbitrary-Scale Super-Resolution with Neural Heat Fields
The paper's Table 7 shows DyT reducing overall LLaMA 7B inference time by 7.8% and training time by 8.2%. That is not insignificant.
Unrelated to Firefox though.
It just straight up doesn’t make sense. Honestly I would not be surprised if this was the result of going, hmm, enclave…exclave…seems like these must be related. They’re not really related other than the idea being isolation (which they do completely differently). Also Apple ID sign in on VMs is literally just “the host shares its information to the guest” there’s nothing special going on here
> I also suspect apple doesn't provide an API to make this easily possible for other apps.

They do: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
Your life should be split like this:

One country for citizenship, one country for residence, one country for your money.

This arrangement earns you a lifetime of peace of mind.
The US has started a war with many of its allies, including Europe. Obviously that means European users will be looking to remove hostile actors from its supply chain.
I don't think burning religious books should be allowed to be an everyday thing because it would impact the air quality.
Yes, and spinning the pencil on its centre like that shows that the circle (of pencil length diameter) is such a set. (I think you're thinking about it the wrong way around: it's which containing shapes allow this, not how can it be done at all.)
I see your point, but at best you're getting 40% thermal efficiency with IC. It's not great.
> a. batteries weren't mentioned

What do you think people mean when they say "electric" in this context? It's batteries.
I warmly recommend setting up a recurring donation of, say, 0.5 % of your income. If most of us did this, in particular if we donate to effective charities -- it would make a difference, but not to our economies.

(Many of you may even find it is so non-scary to donate 0. 5 % that you choose to scale up to a larger percentage. But I have yet to find anyone who is willing to donate but claims 0.5 % is too much for them.)
This is true of open source software too. At some point you have to trust that the software you run is not designed to act like malware, because if it is actually backdoored your life is going to be miserable regardless.
Trump Admin Nixed Contract Helping Kidnapped Ukrainian Children
The State Department has quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of alleged Russian abductions of Ukrainian children—a potential war crime—to law enforcement officials in Europe, two people familiar with the situation tell The New Republic.
I wish Github didn't just purge entire repositories/accounts in the event like this, although I know why they do this. But there's now no way to analyze the repository/exploit anymore
Is there a safe fork somewhere?
"Canada reconsidering F-35 purchase" - https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/f35-blair-trump-1.7484477
Of course the only reason ISIS existed as any sort of threat was because the village idiots and war criminals Bush Cheney and Rumsfeld invaded Iraq and overthrew their regime.
Cradle – Open-Source Collaborative Threat Intelligence Hub
CRADLE is a collaborative platform for Cyber Threat Intelligence analysts. It streamlines threat investigations with integrated note-taking, automated data linking, interactive visualizations, and robust access control.

Batteries included collaborative knowledge management solution for threat intelligence researchers.
Seems like they upgraded their abysmal 40Gbps peering, tho.

https://www.peeringdb.com/net/196
Maybe they should sign something like the Budapest Memorandum with the US?
I'm not sure I get tracked that much more by Google while using Chrome than using Firefox? I still google stuff there and don't bother with privacy things because honestly in ~30 years of using the web I've yet to find a reason to care about ad tracking.
Google sort of charges for Gmail (Google Apps). Maybe solution will be to fill the free version (Gmail proper) with spam, ads, and other shit to the brim so people start seeing it as a demo version, then offer them a personal/family span on Google Apps with limited features.
If the hole is 2 miles long, I assume the steam would condense before reaching the top. And I guess lowering the pressure again, so I don’t know if that’s possible. But I’m not a physics expert.
In Firefox, you can choose a local html file as your home page, but not as a new tab page. This is allegedly because of some security concerns. Using extentions allows for a limited workaround where the page needs to be re-imported each time it is edited.

The surprising part to me is that the same applies to the forks too.

If opening a local file for the home page not a security concern, why should it be for the new tab page. I understand that giving local files access to extensions could lead to issues, however, it should not need an extension to use a local file as a new tab page.

Note: I maintain my bookmarks in a local html file, which I make into my home page, new tab page, across browsers, and then sync this file across devices using Syncthing.
That's not how error percentage works and why do we all just accept that everything has become mediocre?
> Some studies on fitness trackers suggest a significantly reduced accuracy of heart rate measurement in dark-skinned individuals compared to people with lighter skin tones.

Yea, I'm both unsurprised this is a problem (AFAIK the sensor works by shining a light against the skin) and consequently very surprised that this wasn't explicitly tested for. Frustrating they don't indicate which brands had this problem.

I've got to be honest, as a neurodivergent person myself I'm not sure what you're implying with the latter bit. How does a glorified heart rate/gps log or step counter make itself more accessible to neurodivergent folks? If anything, I find that the bright colors on the apple watch integration and the circles closing help stimulate me to actually think about my daily health.

Ironically, for someone so devoted to meditation, I hate that stupid breathe notification that comes with the apple watch. Part of what you should be doing with "mindfulness" or whatever is learning to pay attention to your watch/phone only when you want and intend to.
Right, if you "oops" don't have working capture because it's never been practical you're making "Blue" hydrogen in which your customers can tell everybody they're environmentally friendly but due to a technical hitch you are emitting lots of CO2. Maybe you can agree a token $1B fine, of course offset against the taxes you were already going to pay, and everybody carries on as before. Hooray for your profitable corporation and oops, too bad for the stupid humans who live on the gradually less inhabitable planet you're destroying.

This would only be really dumb if the corporation was owned by humans. Huh.
My, if only there was a better way to transport people in a city besides a 2-ton metal box moved my exploding fuel...

Perhaps some two-wheeled contraption, of the pedal-power sort?
Anti trust enforcement was tried briefly at the turn of the century but was deemed unprofitable for oligarchs, so it is no longer in fashion.
How the Milton Renderer Works
This is why I have begin to prefer languages with comprehensive, batteries-included standard libraries so that you need very few dependencies. Dep Management has become a full time headache nowadays with significant effort going into CVE analysis.
So you find troubleshooting cron jobs easier?

Cron has no diagnostics whatsoever. Most asked question "How do I force run cron job for debugging" and answer "You don't"

You just add script and pray it works. If it doesn't work there is nothing to work with. No logs, no checks. Nothing.

It not 1-to-1 replacement. It is superior replacement. Cron is just unusable.
> *"The image here appears to be upside down (or rather rotated 180)"*

Yeah, something weird happened with the image rendering; I'll fix that.

> *"It's not clear from the readme physically where the data is stored, nor where in the storage process the 'congestion' is coming from."*

The data is *fully in-memory*, distributed across dynamically growing shards (think of an adaptive hashtable that resizes itself). There’s no external storage layer like RocksDB or disk persistence—this is meant to be *pure cache-speed KV storage.*

Congestion happens when a shard starts getting too many keys relative to the rest of the system. The engine constantly tracks *contention per shard*, and when it crosses a threshold, we trigger an upgrade (new shards added, old ones redistributed). Migration is *zero-downtime*, but at very high write rates, there’s a brief moment where some writes are directed to the old store while the new one warms up.

> *"I'm surprised there's no range scan."*

Yeah, that’s an intentional design choice—this is meant to be a *high-speed cache*, closer to Redis than a full database like RocksDB or BigTable. Range queries would need an ordered structure (e.g., skip lists or B-trees), which add overhead. But I’m definitely considering implementing *prefix scans* (e.g., `SCAN user:*` style queries) since that’d be useful for a lot of real-world use cases.
Not on YouTube.
In what fantasy past has cheap, personal activity tracking a) existed and b) been better?

Could it be better still? Sure, but I see no reason to assume that people are somehow lowering standards and not working on making it both cheaper and better all the time.
It's still early, but it's been stress-tested pretty aggressively with high write loads and contention scenarios. Right now, it's feature-complete as a high-performance in-memory KV store with dynamic scaling. Clustering and multi-node setups are on the roadmap before any production rollout, but for single-node workloads, it’s already showing strong results (115K+ ops/sec on an M2 MacBook Air).

Are you thinking about a specific use case?
> The only reason you want to keep it all is to do things that I don't want you to do with it

Surely, the reason you want to keep it is because owning and controlling thing A and thing B allows you to make more profit personally than being a controlling owner of thing A or thing B.

That said, I agree with your post and also think nations should err more on the side of breaking things up.

Concentrations of power distort markets and resist democratic control.
In all seriousness, the Ukraine war and the response has changed everything for SK. There is no guaranteed that the US will or could defend SK now and in the future.
PGP stopped being the recommendation in 2004 when OTR became a thing with its forward secrecy. I really do not get the charm of repackaging PGP as a messenger, especially when it still has no forward secrecy: https://delta.chat/en/help#pfs

I mean, if you're not using Tor, your IP and thus identity will leak to the server anyway. So you should probably just use Signal that has double ratchet giving you forward secrecy and break-in key recovery.

Today, PGP's safest use-cases are digital signatures and airgapped comms. But, you'd probably do the latter with TFC as it has much better key/pt exfiltration guarantee.