skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the drafting of documents/forms, the development/drafting of arguments, and the creation of letters of reference are rapidly being taken over by AI and I think within a year, immigration practice will look totally different. There are a number of companies doing very interesting things who are offering this service to would-be immigrants/founders. The immigration lawyer's role probably will be reduced to determining the best immigration path, advising on job changes and international travel, and navigating criminal law issues but the execution of applications probably will be handled almost entirely by AI with double-checking by the lawyer of course.
There's no question about what it should be, but without technical leadership up the chain that understands and insists on this, it's easy to see how it could atrophy over time with cuts and staff turnover.

Like once upon a time, someone established a lab with twenty different units in different states, and put in place a process for validating the releases on it, but that person is long gone, and parts of the lab haven't worked quite right in years, but the parts that do still give a green checkmark, and who wants to stick their neck out and block a release over some baroque process no one even understands, right? It's not like the lab ever seems to really catch a major issue, does it? Just send a :ship: emoji to the slack channel and wait to be assigned your next ticket in the sprint meeting.
> of course we can _in theory_ do error correction

Oh yeah? This is begging the question.
Spotify made 1 billion $ of profit in 2024. Hard to call that unprofitable.

My point is, it (and Youtube) killed piracy for the most part when it comes to music. Trading CDs full of mp3s used to be a sport in school a decade or two ago, these days why would anyone even want to invest the time when Spotify has everything anyway at a price point school kids can afford it?

Netflix used to become the same thing for movies, but the greed of studios killed it and now it's more expensive to have the large stream services than cable TV.
Audiobookshelf is amazing and one of my favorite self-hosted services.

Libro.fm and Downpour are great places to purchase DRM-free audiobooks. They also both have a subscription credit option similar to that of Audible.
> Promoting a terrorist organization...

is not what Mahmoud Kahill (sp?) was doing.

He's was protesting the University of Columbia's support of Israel, who were engaged in a wildly homicidal campaign against his kin.
whoever that scientist is should have their "scientist" badge removed because a quick google search finds "research that says artificial dyes are harmful" right here:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23026007/
A schedule is the order in which machine instructions get executed.

So, I've done this professionally (written assembler code, and then scheduled it manually to improve performance). Normally you don't need to do that these days, as even mobile CPUs use out-of-order cores which dynamically schedule at runtime.

It's only going to be useful if you're writing code for some machine that doesn't do that (they give examples of TPU etc)
Active monthly is 12M so it's a third of that
It's great that they added iceberg support I guess, but it's a shame that they also removed S3 Select. S3 Select wasn't perfect. For instance the performance was no where near as good as using DuckDB to scan a parquet file, since duck is smart, and S3 Select does a full table scan.

But S3 Select is nearly way cheaper that the new iceberg support. So if your needs are only for reading one parquet snapshot, we no need to do updates, then this change is not welcome.

Great article though, and I was pleased to see this at the end:

> We’ve invested in a collaboration with DuckDB to accelerate Iceberg support in Duck,
Yep, I stopped using Samsung products not too long ago.

Reminds me of the time when a Samsung VP (or whatever his title was) showed up at a Microsoft Build conference to promote their TVs and the shiny new Tizen .NET Framework that shipped inbox. I asked if they planned to backport it to last year’s model—which I had just purchased—so we could test with and target existing TVs in the market. He looked me straight in the eye and, with a smarmy grin, said (paraphrasing), 'No, we want consumers to buy new TVs.' I walked away disgusted and abandoned any idea of targeting that platform.

Similarly, I vaguely recall a Samsung event that had leadership--CEO?--flat out say they wanted consumers to buy new TVs every year or so. I couldn't immediately find the quote though.
Voilà - there it is

Viola - musical instrument

violé - raped

Accents matter but not as much as different letters. Don't correct spelling without knowing the proper term.
I am a mandatory reporter (healthcare provider), and I specifically called out that jurisdictions, occupations, and events or situations may tweak that.

> Many activities now make all adults mandatory reporters

I was specifically commenting that an activity doesn't make someone a mandatory reporter. That is you are a mandatory reporter based on your occupation, status, and what is happening. The OPs comment makes it sound like "if you're camping overnight with children, you become a mandatory reporter"

versus, for example, "The BSA's policy is to only allow people who are already designated mandatory reporters to chaperone camping overnight with scouts". The BSA cannot ... mandate ... that you are a mandatory reporter (in the legal sense, with protections and responsibilities accompanying) just by virtue of you saying "I'll chaperone this event" (though they can certainly say "it is our policy that you act as-if").
> The mythical "10x engineer" is always a net negative on teams building a boring CRUD app.

No disagreement there at all. "Normal engineers" are all you need for "normal software" such as CRUD apps.
UK OpenBanking API Performance Stats
Reminds me of the rats we used to have in our garage, that had built nests from our dryer lint.

Our dryer lint was largely cat hair.
Today I learned that in British English, "homely" is a positive trait when referring to a place.
Mistral is French; that's their whole value. A US company can't buy them.
There is nothing meaningful in this "update."

If anything, it's worse, in that they EXPLICITLY admit that they are getting kickbacks—“'monetary' or 'other valuable consideration'”—for providing your user information.
Sorry, but, what the hell? This is Hacker News at its finest: completely talking out of its ass.

This isn’t how bus routes work, and this isn’t how people ride busses, on most if not all of the…many PT systems I’ve used in multiple states / countries.
The model still has some representation of whether the word after an/a is more likely to start with a vowel or not when it outputs a/an. You can trivially understand this is true by asking LLMs to answer questions with only one correct answer.

"The animal most similar to a crocodile is:"

https://chatgpt.com/share/67d493c2-f28c-8010-82f7-0b60117ab2...

It will always say "an alligator". It chooses "an" because somewhere in the next word predictor it has already figured out that it wants to say alligator when it chooses "an".

If you ask the question the other way around, it will always answer "a crocodile" for the same reason.
Indian Post Office Portal Leak Exposes KYC Records
New OS X headlines Jobs keynote (2000)
>One can always use a fake email and login account.

When you're using that fake email be sure to have a burner phone or public internet so they can't link it to your IP, also don't use your computer or any computer you've logged in on so that browser fingerprinting doesn't tag you, also turn off your GPS so they can't geo correlate you.

Of course the rich person is in the same boat, their geolocation will log that they went to Burger King, or their credit card company will snitch on them. Okay, fine, pay with cash, cover your phone in a tin foil faraday cage. Now you also will need to drive a 30 year old car to said establishment since the car manufacturer put a cellular modem and GPS in your car and sells the fact that you went to Burger King to the highest bidder.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head, I'm sure there are dozens of other ways people are tagged. At some level may as well either use the app or just not go.
Many people who get into PhD programs have some level of undergraduate research (typically performed in a lab, alongside grad students and a professor). When a graduate acceptance committee is evaluating applications, signals like "I have worked with a professor", "wrote an undergrad thesis", and "was coauthor and published in a peer-reviewed journal" cause applicants to be ranked more highly than peers who lack those signals.
>Not every system becomes more efficient with profit incentives

Maybe it does but not for the right people.
> 1. China (they don't care about your copyright)

They don't but we can (and should have) sanctioned them to oblivion until they care.

> 2. No single entity controls internet access. (thank god)

Force the large telecom providers in Western nations and the banks to cut ties.

We have the possibilites, all we need is politicians with guts to actually pull it off.
> There have been two dozen stories of random tourists being disappeared for no good reason from all over the US.

Really?

That is frightening. I plan to be a tourist in the USA within a decade.

Can you expand on that?
For selecting and touching down on an unprepared surface, rockets are not the stepping stone. Start with helicopters. It is the same problem: can I land there and what will happen when I put weight on the surface. Try programing a large helicopter to identify and land on a random chunk of rocky terrain. It is not easy. And the bigger/taller the craft, the more difficult it becomes. Then add a 10-second time limit.
Ah, thanks.
The first link seems something specific to Shrine. The bottomline is concurrent updates to different parts of JSONB need row level locking for correct behavior in Postgresql. This is not an important issue for us. Thank you for the pointers
If you're getting hired based on network, then you don't know the struggle.
What if they release a firmware update that ads “immersive advertisements” to your audio? I’d hate to miss out on that.
Sure. It's ironic, because someone saying "Emperor or Bust" is trying to become the emperor. Zuck is already zuck, so "Zuck or nothing" is throwing shade at everyone trying to be him.
I found on 136.0.0-ish that some settings persist despite checking/unchecking that box and restarting LibreWolf, but YMMV. I also manually inspect 'about:config' and search there for relevant settings (like 'fingerprint'). For fingerprinting, browser breakage is unlikely so toggling these hidden flags is easy.
I tell you hwat!
> we made sure to tell the model not to guess if it wasn’t sure

Fair enough, but it's kind of ridiculous that in 2025 this "hack" still helps produce more reliable results.
Provisional score 5/10: not too bad physically, although certain parts require removing other parts to access them. The real problem is parts pairing / software locks: you can't use third-party parts, nor even genuine apple original parts salvaged from another device.
SubSeven Legacy
I mean, if you look back in 70s/80s (even now), it is pretty clear India had/has better ties with Russia than most western blocks.
I revived my ancient HP laptop with Linux – and it was easier than you think
> When I did desktop publishing in the early 90s and early 00s I never noticed that kerning was so bad and wonder if I had bad taste back then or if it really got worse, like we can blame a patent troll for bad kerning ….

My suspicion is that there's always been bad kerning in most computer-generated text. Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1015/
> However, the weight loss didn't represent a loss of visceral fat (around the abdominal organs, fat which is more likely to be associated with diabetes and cardiovascular disease) and so the essential finding was that the time-restricted fasting made no difference.

You're making a bit of a leap with "made no difference."

It's well-known that the body "holds on to" visceral fat in many cases, i.e. in order to reduce visceral fat, we first have to lose all the other excess fat. Which the TRE diet achieved: 5-7 pounds in 12 weeks is no small feat!
The minimum to cause change is judges expending more effort on imprisoning law enforcement agents for perjury.
Affiliated Fee Analysis Executive Summary: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25540452-affiliated-...
Yep, that's why it's usually not worth it trying to pretend one has online privacy.
My Siri experience last night as I was going to bed, not wanting to look at my device before I closed my eyes: 'set my alarm to 10am'

Rather than realize it was late at night and I was referring to my normal wakeup alarm, Siri added a second alarm.
Yeah, I just find the framing very weird. It's talked about as if it's somehow worse than diesel. But then isn't the issue that hydrogen fuel is less economical than diesel in general, regardless of whether the fuel is used for locomotion or for passenger heating? In the context of passenger heating specifically, waste heat is either free for both diesel and hydrogen, or equally non-free for both.

Also the article appears to be arguing for electric instead of hydrogen buses, but for some reason seems to try to frame "winter range" as being an issue for hydrogen buses specifically, and then says "electric buses face a different challenge" -- winter range.

I feel like there are two separate points that can be made:

- Hydrogen fuel is more costly than diesel or electric (not even sure how true this is, but it's what the article seems to indirectly imply).

- Hydrogen fuel doesn't have winter range issues the way electric buses do, but regardless electric is still better for other reasons.
https://archive.ph/jeTAB
That this-can't-be-correct reaction can be useful in emergencies, if it gets your attention, and activates a mode in which you can focus and act decisively in an instant.

I once was applying a spray-can anti-slip treatment to a bathroom floor, when I might've heard a whoosh, looked up, and had a thought (that I remembered afterwards as) "fire shouldn't be coming from that direction".

From the adjacent room, there was this flash fire shooting across the floor at me.

That got my attention, and activated an emergency mode, parts of which I had no recollection. I somehow leapt backwards up onto the tub edge in an instant. Then the floor was on fire and lapping at the walls of the small bathroom I was in. The next thing I knew, I'd leapt over the flame, into the next room, somehow gotten the fire extinguisher from inside a cabinet, and was putting out the fire. Which worked nicely.

Then, I guess, as that mode was winding down, without really thinking about it, I put the exhausted fire extinguished back in its spot in the cabinet. As I went to call the fire department to check out that there were no lingering problems.

(Turned out that the floor treatment application also emitted a highly flammable gas, which rolled across the floor, into the next room, until it hit the pilot light in an old nat-gas oven.)

Now, if we had an adrenaline reaction every time we saw unlikely numbers, that would be a problem. But, however the cognitive scientists deconstruct it, I'm fond of having what I'll call a good emergency mode feature.
Taken out of context. Here's the quote:

"“There is no convincing data that has the scientific community absolutely sure that these other dyes are problematic too,” says Frederic Bertley, CEO and President of the Center of Science & Industry and a leading science educator."

The key term is these other dyes. RFKJR wants all dyes removed from our food chain. This guy is pointing out there's no research indicating these other dyes, other than the ones we've already banned, are problematic.
It touched down with a large horizontal velocity component
Soon as I saw the headline, I was keming here to say the same thing. You beat me to the pumch.
You don't understand the situation in this case. This is not some auto-update, people have to put some serious effort into updating manually... effin soundbar.

Why on earth would anybody do that? I have these speakers, exactly model D, it works flawlessly either via eArc with TV or Bluetooth with both android and apple, there is absolutely nothing to fix or improve. You have to tinker with USB key and obscure series of actions or install a dedicated app on phone to force an update - why would anybody ever need such an app in first place? I am minimizing amount of apps on my phone, and not installing every semi-unknown low quality crap just because I can. That's basic security 101.

You can tweak basses directly on remote for these. These speakers are not HiFi albeit cca fine performers, realistically you will never need more from them (and TBH that one feature is absolutely stellar idea that many much more expensive receivers don't have, when kids go sleep I lower basses since they travel easier through walls and doors).

Its like pushing unknown BIOS updates to motherboard when your PC works perfectly fine, and then complaining it isn't anymore. Its sad state of 2025 electronics in general, but it was exactly same 10 or even 15 years ago, this ain't something new or unknown.
One of my favorite comments on HN. Thank you for this.
> It sounds like you agree with me that smaller programs are both more efficient and more effective than a larger neural net.

At playing chess. (But also at doing sums and multiplications, yay!)

> So you should also agree with me that those who say the only path to AGI is LLM maximalism are misguided.

No. First of all, it's a claim you just made up. What we're talking about is people saying that LLMs are not the path to AGI- an entirely different claim.

Second, assuming there's any coherence to your argument, the fact that a small program can outclass an enormous NN is irrelevant to the question of whether the enormous NN is the right way to achieve AGI: we are "general intelligences" and we are defeated by the same chess program. Unless you mean that achieving the intelligence of the greatest geniuses that ever lived is still not enough.
Halide does something similar but as C++ for it dsl langauge: https://halide-lang.org/
It's not like using Kelvin or Celsius helps you grasp these temperatures. -173C is very, very cold, but how cold? What can you compare it to? Not many humans have any experience with something of this scale
Also the number of times I want my speaker or TV to go online is zero, while Samsung apparently wants that number to be greater than zero for both products. So it is frequently the companies that put us in this situation in the first place.
https://m-arriola.com/bd3lms/

https://github.com/kuleshov-group/bd3lms
Pinecone? Qdrant? No, distributed Redis vectors
black coffee for breakfast
Amazon equivalent in Poland - Allegro was notoriously blocking me in Librewolf; I was served puzzle captcha or blocked from browsing at all due to "suspicious activity" 98% of the time.
Has SpaceX ever landed their rocket on a surface that isn't purposefully engineered to be flat?
https://archive.ph/zIRPC
For those interested in S3 Tables which is referenced in this blog post, we literally just published this overview on what they are and cost considerations of them that people might find interesting: https://www.vantage.sh/blog/amazon-s3-tables
My experience like all lawyers is in the end limited and limited to my clients and cases but I can tell you that for my corporate clients looking for talent, salary is usually the least important factor, meaning that they are not looking to pay the least but to find the best employee or at least a highly qualified employee. The competition for talent seems so fierce that my clients do not seem interested in lowballing great candidates. Now this might be limited to the high-end/"white collar" H-1B jobs, as you note above, and not the entry-level/grinder jobs.
You're actually being a massive asshole about it, which is why you're being ostracized.

If you weren't condescending to people that enjoy donuts, maybe you'd get a warmer response.

I'm not trying to be mean to you or "dunk" on you or whatever, I'm legitimately trying to explain why people are reacting to you the way they are.
I live near a school. Soccer practice, parents routinely park up and down the street at the far end of the field where their kids are practicing, because the school car park at the other end of the field would be a good two minute walk away. "No parking this side" doesn't apply to soccer practice parking, either, apparently.

And if you want to just do a drive by pickup, sure, no worries, stop in the middle of the street (with cars either side), and have your kids younger sister hop out, leaving the car door open, and go wander down the slope to help her brother with his equipment and carry it back up the slope. No-one else is using the street or lives there, after all, so they can wait a few minutes. Bonus points if you get belligerent with them or flip them off for being "impatient".
That is called a series hybrid and the reason they're not popular is that the power split device in common hybrids is simply better.

The power split device isn't an ordinary transmission, it's a set of planetary gears with a fixed gear ratio between three shafts. One goes to the wheels, the other two to the engine and the electric motor respectively. The ratio of the engine speed to the wheel speed is then set by the speed of the electric motor connected to the third shaft, which gives you a CVT with no belts, clutches, torque converters or even synchros.

The transmission is "more complicated" only in the sense that it contains electric motors. In every other respect it's simpler, more efficient and more reliable than an ordinary transmission. Meanwhile those electric motors mean you don't need a starter motor or an alternator because the engine can be started by the electric motor through the transmission and an electric motor is a generator when operated in reverse.

A series hybrid still requires you to have a gas engine with all that entails, but now the gas engine needs its own dedicated electric generator/motor and you can't deliver power from the gas engine directly to the wheels, so the traction motors have to be bigger in order to supply 100% of the torque used in acceleration instead of the gas engine and electric motors both contributing. That makes series hybrids heavier, slower and more expensive, so they're basically useless. Probably the main advantage would be that you could offer the generator as an option on what would otherwise be a full electric vehicle and then only people who need the extra range would pay for it.
I have a paper coming up that I modestly hope will clarify some of this.

The short answer should be that it's obvious LLM training and inference are both ridiculously inefficient and biologically implausible, and therefore there has to be some big optimization wins still on the table.
> There is no reason, beyond ideology, that human worth should be measured in productivity. We could work less. We could value care as much as capital. We could build a world in which art, learning, and rest are not treated as indulgences, but as fundamental parts of life. The question is not whether Britain is working. It is why we are still expected to.

I don't even know what vague nonsense this person is even in favor of. It's weird reading this leftist (re: conservative government tag) drivel. I'm a singularitarian for sure. Post scarcity and all that.

What the hell is the talk of "human worth" supposed to even mean. If you can't even feed yourself, you're a fucking joke. Work is just doing something for someone else they like. What is the argument here. "I should be free to be completely parasitic and useless, anything less is tyranny."

What kind of insane value inversion is this? You don't want to come to the office. You don't want to interview. You don't want to work.

Is it literally just "gimme"? are you a child?