skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone hates support. Especially the execs who have to pay for their support department.

Azure basic support is pretty bad. I am even surprised at how bad some of the higher tiers of support are. I have no frame of reference for other cloud providers but anecdotally they are not so great either (some CSP's I am told are worse).

All in all - wrt documentation - software docs have gone downhill across the industry since the 90's. And back then people were still loudly grumbling about how bad the docs were!
Power Forward Communities: A coalition of five nonprofit organizations — Enterprise Community Partners, Habitat for Humanity International, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), Rewiring America and United Way Worldwide.

Abrams' connection to Power Forward Communities, is through Rewiring America, one of the five organizations that leads the program.

That seems pretty weak. No idea what the other group is but I mean if the above is what's being lead with, I don't find myself concerned. Looks more like working your way backwards from "I don't want this money spent so I will find whatever connection I can to corruption"
Brazil and India have both successfully forced Apple to move production onto their soil using tarrifs in the past.

If the object is to bring in local manufacturing jobs, it's hard to claim that tarrifs can not be successful.

However, you can naturally expect vocal opposition from companies that want to avoid higher labor costs.

In the case of India, it's worked out very well as a proof of concept after Apple decided to reduce their reliance on China.

> Apple Aims to Make a Quarter of the World’s iPhones in India

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-aims-to-make-a-quarter-of-the...
You expect humans to be rational? Hah, that's a laugh.
Also possible and a fair point. My point is that it's a "tiny" solution that we can scale.

I could revise that by saying a kid with a whiteboard.

It's an einstein×10 moment so who know when that'll happen.
AI Agent and AI Engineering from this past week that you might enjoy, 2025-03-14
Ship Wars: Confronting China's Dual-Use Shipbuilding Empire
New York Times shut down Tor Onion service
They actually meant "the lifting of (some) people into billions (of dollars)"
SpaceX Crew-10 mission T-00:10:00 [livestream]
Word of mouth is quite a bit different. It's the opinion of many unconflicted friends/family vs the opinion of one megacorp with a conflict of interest.
If both sides do it, then they should be able to publish better evidence than Stacey Abrams’ “ties” to Power Forward Communities.

The fact that all the DOGE and DOGE-adjacent claims of fraud have been so shamefully weak has actually reduced my confidence that the alleged behavior is actually widespread at all.
A toddler dying from cancer is horrible. It's not evil.
We degrade, and I think we are far more valuable than one model.
It is something we get asked about fairly frequently, its not a high priority for us right now as it requires some thought as to not break or undermine any existing cryptographic/privacy properties that Cwtch does have (see: https://git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/cwtch-ui/issues/461#issu...) - but it's also not something that we have ruled out if the right combination of design/effort is available.
Removing 24% of GDP is not just a "mild recession", leaving aside all the interconnected parts of the economy that would immediately be destroyed.
TL; DR:

> China’s shipbuilding sector has undergone a striking metamorphosis. Twenty years ago, the country
was a peripheral player in the global shipyard business. Today, it dominates the industry. At the
heart of this transformation is the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), the world’s biggest
shipbuilding group. The firm built more commercial vessels by tonnage in 2024 than the entire U.S.
shipbuilding industry has built since the end of World War II.
Power bank likely caused S Korea plane fire – investigators
There is an in-between, log cabin themed restaurants that have wooden benches and chairs without padding. They're not fancy in any way, but they're not fast food either. Granted they're not very common.
In the 90s we DID apply the same logic to game consoles. Sony, Nintendo, and Sega all lost or settled court cases that established a precedent of interoperability.

Sega's trademark rights were literally ignored as a "Fair Use" for a 3rd party to be able to release games for Sega's console, because the alternative was that it would be impossible to legally release a third party game cartridge, which the court did not like as an outcome.

But then we got the DMCA and laws and rules that make it not legal to circumvent DRM in an attempt to do the normal Fair Use things. That's the primary legal limit to running whatever you want on consoles. Companies were given the legal right to make a technical protection of their IP, and if you tried to get around those technical measures to do things that you had a legitimate and legal case to do, you would still fall afoul of the law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention

Basically the DMCA completely obliterated the previous "You can't prevent a third party from touching your stuff after you sell it" that was status quo before. There's all sorts of vagaries in US copyright law about Fair Uses and "legal backups" but the DMCA destroys all of that. All you have to do is encrypt or even just xor your program/movie/whatever with a simple key and suddenly it's completely illegal to use any tool other than one provided or licensed by that company to interact with that data. It's insane.

The courts had given americans fairly strong property rights with digital property, much more closely aligning with rights for physical items and the doctrine of first sale, but the DMCA destroyed all that, because that's what IP companies wanted.
e2ee is largely subverted so long as manufacturers can push updates that can't possibly be audited by anyone but the manufacturers.

Security that relies on apple having a backbone is inherently fragile.
I've been wanting a local LLM appliance.
It smells like corporate communication training.
"Affirm the customer. Express that you hear their concerns and empathize"
Where on earth would I even have to go to find a place without there being any 2.4Ghz signal interference?

Inside a microwave oven.
wonderful, thank you. Some translations to AWS RDS...

"512gb of ram and dual EPYC 74F3 24 core processors, backed by a 4 drive raid10 nvme linux software raid volume on top of micron 9300 drives"

roughly translates to about an db.r8g.16xlarge (64 vCPUs, 512gb ram) $4,949 / month on-demand for compute

I'm not familiar enough with hardware to determine IOPS for the raid config but I believe it is greater than the maximum for io2 block express storage on aws (256k IOPS):

$0.10 per provisioned IOPS-month = 256000$.10 = $25,600 / month IOPS -- which feels high so I might be way off on the raid setup's IOPS

$0.125 per GB-month storage = 500gb $0.125 = $62.50

That's about $31,930 / month without any reserved discounts for an estimated capacity of 5,000 rps, sound about right? Would you say your total hardware cost is less than one or two months of comparable compute on AWS if the above is true?
While not impossible, I just can't think of a good reason why you'd need them to access a malicious webpage when you've already gotten them to install a malicious device.
> "Postgres does not scale" means that you can't just give it more machines, which is true.

Well, it’s only true for writes.
A bit OT, but most of this thread seems to be generally about WebUSB, not the OP (although it is a pretty cool hack!)

On one hand, I really want WebUSB, but at the same time, I REALLY don't want the average person to have WebUSB.

Practice has shown that consent popups do not work and people will manage to give consent to anything without even realizing it ("I never clicked on anything", they say, while I swipe away 50 spam push notifications and remove push permissions from about a dozen "news" sites).

Honestly, I kind of like the Internet Explorer version of permissions, where you needed to mark certain sites as "trusted" to enable certain features. The process is hard to discover, takes a decent amount of time, is a bit confusing, done in a system-styled modal popup with reasonably scary and large warning icons.

If people had to go through this process to mark a site as "trusted" in order to use WebUSB, WebBluetooth, and the other dangerous APIs, far fewer would do it by accident. The UX would still be better than installing a native app and you get sandoxing as a bonus, so I think the tradeoff would be worth it.
Anyone have any experience with the offline OSS offerings?

Eager to replace my cheap Echo devices with more expensive privacy friendly options.

Another question: anyone aware of community custom firmware efforts? I know early gen devices had some exploits but it never resulted to much last I checked.
Protectionism only works in combination with other measures. If you indiscriminately shield domestic enterprise from competition, you just get less competition and nothing else. Which is usually not enough.
If hydrogen busses really were going to have a lower operational cost per mile in 2050, then some company would be offering to lease busses for $X per mile to transit operators, fuel included, for a 25 year lease. They'd make a loss initially, but big profits later.

That approach turns this technology maturation and cost risk into a market, and those with most expertise can then put their own money on the line to help everyone make the right decision.
Stop projecting your own view of users on what Mozilla is saying.

> Of course, the alternative to the user getting a browser prompt to communicate with their USB device

It's amazing you write this literally after I wrote "Why do people in these discussions pretend that it is only WebUSB that needs a permission and consent?"

I have the answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43363010
That seems ridiculously low. If I'm using an ATM, I almost always withdraw the largest amount the machine will let me (usually $200-$300) in order to minimize the impact of the ATM fees. I guess I need to limit that to $180 now?
This seems strongly backed up by Claude Plays Pokemon
Welcome to the world of embedded devices.

Sure, you could do everything through a static circuit and require things being fed with speaker wire. But if you add a microcontroller you're going to be able to do much more, get better sound quality, and protect your equipment. Do your speakers have batteries? Do they plug into wall? Either way you can better control power levels. Do you want to boost bass? Fix corrupted signals? Do you want to process signals from anything other than a bare wire?

Sure, you don't need a microcontroller in a speaker. But we also don't need them in our cars. You don't need them in your fucking kettle. But personally, I find them useful and considering how cheap they are it's worth the basically $0 increased price.

See my other argument. The issue isn't that there's a microcontroller in the speaker. The issue is bricking the device. Don't confuse the means in which a bad actor operates with the bad actor themselves. You'll never stop the bad actor by just banning everything tool they abuse. You'll end up with nothing.
It's still true for reads if you need them to be fully consistent, but yeah, read replicas are the answer sometimes.
The parallel hybrids can already do that because of the CVT.

In practice they also allow the engine to run at higher speeds under heavy acceleration because the peak efficiency RPM and the peak power RPM are different and the assumption is that if the driver is stomping on the accelerator they want to resolve the power/efficiency trade off in favor of power right now, which is another thing the series hybrids can't do.
There are rumors that the church is haunted, but John claims no ghosts have made their presence known.
Literally the same guy is doing the downsizing with the same level of care. What are you talking about?
> Again. The harm comes primarily from groundwater contamination, which is very hard to prevent because you are basically pumping some leaching agent into the ground, which is alreay invariably gonna affect groundwater quality. Even if that did not, you then need to dump slurry/brine byproducts from extraction somewhere (and the next river is gonna be the cheapest place).

I could say that humans breath out CO2 and therefore are significant contributors to global pollution. It is not a real answer unless an order of magnitude estimate is attached. You're just noting that generic heavy metals mining pollutes; which is true but with Uranium mining it turns out pretty quickly that the harms are the most minor of any energy production method because the volumes of material are so small.

I don't think the anti-nuclear crowd wants to do that because as soon as they do they're probably going to end up looking foolish. There are situations like our Kazakhstani friend in this thread bought up where the uranium production turns out to be a relatively small component of a much more significant industrial pollution picture. They don't paint a compelling picture for avoiding nuclear power though, and misleading statements like pointing out that mines leave most local material behind are what they have to fall back on.

What materials cause less damage than uranium in the extraction process? IN absolute terms there aren't many. Most materials we require orders of magnitude more of the stuff than we need tonnes of uranium.
DLSS 4: Transforming Real-Time Graphics with AI
> iGPUs have been getting ever closer to entry level and even mid-range GPUs.

Not really closer. igpus got good enough to kill the low the discreet market basically entirely, but they haven't been "getting closer" to discreet cards. Both CPU SoCs and discreet GPUs have access to the same manufacturing nodes and memory technologies, and the simple physical reality is that they can just be bigger and use more power as a separate physical entity, along with memory better optimized for its workloads.
Isn’t kerning something that would be amenable to be approximately solved by machine learning? I.e. for a “good enough” default kerning? (Ignoring the extra difficulty from the stripes in TFA.)
Usually this means something in between steps inside a single piece of software. As in “interstitial ads”, which play, e.g., between levels of a game. In context, I think this means that GP doesn’t want to see something pop up and celebrate in between the steps of requesting a new OTP and actually being able to use it (such as copying it).

(Also, for the record, since I’ve had people argue with or downvote me just for expounding on someone else’s point: this is not an endorsement of GP’s opinion, only an explanation.)
There are many roadblocks to continual learning still. Most current models and training paradigms are very vulnerable to catastrophic forgetting. And are very sample inefficient. And we/the methods are not so good at separating what is "interesting" (should be learned) vs "not".
But this is being researched, for example under the topic of open ended learning, active inference, etc.
I don't think you can reasonably expect the claims by this administration to be true. There are far too many examples where they claimed fraud without any evidence.
I’d very much like an internet of chicken; no beef please.
Ask HN: Could the U.S. government stop risking shutdown?
It’s amazing to me how many times I read news in the U.S. where government shutdown comes into play as a possibility. Is there not some other option that would allow the existing budget to continue without having to approve it each time if they can’t come to agreement?
A small minority of functions can be done without internet, e.g. control of local Zigbee devices connected to Echo's Zigbee hub. Most other functions, including control of local devices connected via WiFi, go through AWS/Alexa cloud. When local voice processing is enabled, only a text transcription of the voice request is sent to the cloud, not the captured audio.

(Echo 4 is one of the few Zigbee hub options with US firmware)
I do love my points. Getting flagged ruins my day. Getting down voted annoys me.

On the other hand, trying to get upvoted seems like the path to groupthink.

On another hand, looking at some user ID you've just voted on is interesting, seeing if their comments are always in the same vein, always on a single topic. If most/a lot of a use ID's comments are flagged or even dead, that interests me, too. Is that person just as big a nitwit in real life?
Yup, wasn’t being entirely serious. They’ve gotten progressively quieter over the last few decades; when I was a kid, they really did sound like they were within seconds of complete failure when going up a hill. The electric ones are a shock the first time you get on one, though - very futuristic.
Now that Signal cannot be the SMS / RCS app, yes that's too much hassle. Network effects are too powerful.
Busses are not going to be quiet. Around here we have pretty cool "Van Hool ExquiCity" trolley busses and they can glide gracefully at slow speeds, but when they are hurtling down patched up streets they are not much quieter than the traditional busses.
My guess is because it isn't textbook fraud. Everything is being done legally and by the book. But the money is still ending up in the pockets of friends by making sure it's friends NGO's that know and meet the exact requirements.

Afterwards, any investigation will find that a fair dispersement process was done, and this NGO just happened to hit every requirement perfectly whilst all others didn't meet some requirement.
As I understand it, in an "adversarial" legal system, each side is represented by a lawyer who is obliged to put forward the strongest argument they can; then the court decides between the arguments. And so even incredibly guilty people are entitled to have a lawyer on their side, lawyering as effectively as they can.

So to them, there's no shame in representing an asshole and advancing a terrible argument, if that's what their client wants.

What's more, generally you don't become a judge without being a lawyer for a few decades first. And they know what class solidarity is. Why would they be overly harsh with their colleagues and friends, if nothing explicitly demands they do so?

Pretty much every legal case ends involves at least one side ending up unhappy. And pretty much every legal case involves at least one person who's happy to make legal threats. I'd wager many lawyers have someone threaten to get them disbarred a few times a year. It'd be difficult for the legal system to function if getting people disbarred was easy.
In mice with their genes edited and taking in 0.15% of aspartame in their diet. How am I supposed to take this seriously?
I'm not going to dispute your numbers with diesel versus EV reliability, but I have to think the simplicity of an EV drivetrain will win that battle in the next version or two.
In a recent post on his Substack, Diamond quipped that every time the topic comes up, "folks get all twisted into knots over how we’re going to pay for the things those taxes currently pay for — frankly, they’re missing the point."

I cannot even.
Yeh that graphic is useless
Where I grew up, in the non-evangelical, very mainline American Presbyterian tradition, the church was the building, and the Church was the congregation of believers, both those who worshipped in the church and those who shared their beliefs.
> This is no criticism of the Firefox team, just the reality that my priorities are not their priorities.

I am a former Mozilla Corporation employee, so I am more willing to criticize the current state of MoCo culture as a whole...

> They don't necessarily have the bandwidth or interest in accepting other people's/teams' vision or contribution.

I would say it really depends on the nature of the patches being contributed; if they are not inconsistent with project goals and not excessively burdensome, I'd hope that they in theory would be considered.

However, I will say that MoCo culture was already much different by the late 2010s than it was in the early 2010s. When I joined MoCo in 2012, there were multiple managers I interacted with who openly valued community interaction and encouraged their reports to set quarterly goals relating to mentoring external contributors. IMHO that encouragement had died off by the late 2010s.
Or they ride up hill and then get off the bus for the night because the residential district is at a higher elevation than the business district.
> why publish this?

New versions of Akira and any other ransomware are constantly being developed. This code is specific to a certain version of the malware.

As noted in the article, it also requires:

1. An extremely capable sysadmin
2. A bunch of GPU capacity
3. That the timestamps be brute-forced separately

So it's not exactly a turn-key defeat of Akira.
I don’t regret my math minor but that didn’t go on the paper diploma …
None of these guys, not Zuckerberg, not Musk, none of them, are in favor of free speech unless it's speech they don't object to. They just mouth the words because they know it will play well to a large part of the public.
Civilization VII, one month later: The community and developers chime in
Do market downturns affect you greatly? I'm curious how the past 12 months have gone so far. As someone who's considered what you're doing.
Doesn't Language itself encode multimodal experiences? Let's take this case write when we write text, we have the skill and opportunity to encode the visual, tactile, and other sensory experiences into words. and the fact is llm's trained on massive text corpora are indirectly learning from human multimodal experiences translated into language. This might be less direct than firsthand sensory experience, but potentially more efficient by leveraging human-curated information. Text can describe simulations of physical environments. Models might learn physical dynamics through textual descriptions of physics, video game logs, scientific papers, etc. A sufficiently comprehensive text corpus might contain enough information to develop reasonable physical intuition without direct sensory experience.

As I'm typing this there is one reality that I'm understanding, the quality and completeness of the data fundamentally determines how well an AI system will work. and with just text this is hard to achieve and a multi modal experience is a must.

thank you for explaining in very simple terms where I could understand
I think about hunger as a pressure. The longer you go without relieving the pressure, the stronger it will become. Eventually, any rational person will follow the natural urge to eat as it grows stronger and stronger.

I find being slightly hungry makes me mentally sharper. It’s a fine line though, as symptoms such as irritability, daydreaming, loss of focus, poor memory recall, and reduced critical thinking skills will accumulate over time.
> The check and balances in the country won’t work if half the population wants to replace democracy with theocracy.

It looks like this entire nonsense is heavily going to hurt the wallets of more than half of the population. So why would they be so keen to vote for a theocracy?

Although at this stage I also wouldn't put it past the clowns in power to actively tamper with elections to get the results they want.