skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
daily stories coming from the US are pretty crazy, FBI being used as a tool to try and revert something from under the previous administration. Feels like whatever balances and checks that should be in place to stop an autocracy are missing
Only two years? They operated hydrogen buses from 2006 to 2010 and then got some more in 2011 and 2019. There are budget line items for new buses in 2023 and 2024 that I assume got bought
direct link to the repository: https://git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/cwtch
LOL. You need to make multiple distributed instances of the awesome shirt.
Whats the best way for me to work as a Canadian citizen easily with not much legal hoops for the USA thanks. Math/Comp Sci degree with Physics backgroud.
This seems really intuitive to me. If I can express something concisely and succinctly because I understand it, I will literally spend less energy to explain it.
LOL. Lord giveth patch updates, e.g., mRNA vaccines, startup blogs, work from home...
Very much this. I’ve been wondering why I’ve not seen it much discussed.
It takes more than one click just to get to the right settings page, and there are numerous anti-features scattered across several settings pages. Cleaning up Edge is way more than one click.
Sounds like someone's doing a Steve impression!
https://archive.is/rNixb
I see your point. Thank you.

I think most non legally inclined people (like me) would say CBP yanked my GC.

Your point being that - nope, they just enforced the law.

Right?
[dupe] Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356547
The monetization strategy has already been announced. I’m pointing out that there is no near-term scenario where the bills aren’t getting paid.
From the subheading:

> Lack of encryption was one SMS shortcoming that RCS was created to solve.

No it was not. Google added encryption but it was not part of the standard until recently. RCS itself was not created, in part or in whole, to provide E2EE. That it has it now is great (in the standard, broad rollout still to come), but it should not be misrepresented as some privacy-centric service.
The Exo docs mention Halide as an example of a language similar to Exo but is "lowering-based", while Exo is "rewrite-based." This seems to mean that Halide is more of a DSL where what you want is specified at a higher level while Exo is a set of transformations you can apply to an existing kernel of code (though at least in the examples the kernel of code is written in python and then somehow C is generated from it, after transformations are applied). Do you know what the relative strengths of these two approaches are?

Also, are there any languages in this vein that take more of a declarative (as opposed to imperative) approach?
Reminds me of those 419 scams ("Nigerian Prince" scams) from the 90s and early 2000s.
The entire point Jay Graber is making with her shirt is that BlueSky does not want to be the next Facebook or Twitter.

I don't understand how you misunderstood that so badly that you came to this conclusion.
Siri has always been of dubious quality, the gap has been growing for a decade.
I never experience being picked up after school by a parent. Both of my parents worked, so I rode the bus or walked.

What exactly is your problem here though? The fact that kids are kept in a staging area so they are not congregating in the same space that kids that are actively being placed into cars? That's an issue? You'd rather have that area congested with kids not paying attention doing kid things with their friends after school?
There's plenty of remote US jobs that will hire Canadians, but most want you in country. Otherwise find a company willing to hire people on work visas and see if you qualify for a TN visa (an advanced degree related to the field is usually enough), then go to the border at an airport or similar with paperwork put together with the help of an immigration lawyer. They also might know where the best port of entries are to get TN visas approved. Sometimes (Canadian) land borders are better.

If you're looking for the harder but longer term route then try H1B.
Thanks for the AMA.

Recent changes to H1B allowing any organization that conduct research "as a fundamental activity" to be eligible for cap exemption status. What's your comment on this?

Based on your work experience with startup, do they ever fit this criteria?
Also, a brain evolved to be a stable compute platform in body that finds itself in many different temperature and energy regimes. And the brain can withstand and recover from some pretty severe damage. So I'd suspect an intelligence that is designed to run in a tighter temp/power envelope with no need for recovery or redundancy could be significantly more efficient than our brain.
I spent most of the 1990s and early 2000s working for a typesetting company whose work was college textbooks and monographs for academic presses. We applied modified kern tables to every single typeface we acquired. The tables from the font vendors were inadequate in various ways.
How does it compare to SimpleX Chat?
I love the thought, but where do you stop? Doctors and nurses still need to be paid. Or are we just getting rid of money entirely? (If so count me in.)
> If they don’t learn to ignore them - that sounds like lawsuit territory

It's the reverse. CPS could be found liable if they ignored a report where there were indeed problems.

Also, I have family that work in CPS and it's really not the bad guy everyone that's "anti-CPS" seems to think. They have a HIGH bar to go over before they'll remove kids from a home. Things have to be particularly bad. And even then, the organization is slanted to get the kids back into the home ASAP. The state doesn't want to have to take care of kids.

Most of the time, it's work with the parents to make the environment safe.
I can't help but point out that as someone who went to college for journalism and graphic design in the early 90s, and had to lay out galleys using strips of words and a razor blade, let me assure this isn't the hard way. Correcting a missing apostrophe or manually adding a hyphen while not throwing off an entire line requires both an eye for kerning and a steady hand.

Get off my lawn.
30% of popular AI chatbots share data with third parties
Was Sam Altman Right About the Job Market?
Unrelated: I love HN; a random database question and fkn jedberg is one of the first responders
Because it’s really easy to move to a foreign country and be legally allowed to work there.
This animation is a perfect abstract!
...and to most everybody else.

When Firefox misbehaves and claims it owns data from users, Firefox can be forked.

Unless Microsoft intends to similarly abuse its users, Edge could be completely opened.

I would only ride a fork of Edge should this not prove true.
Fair, but in Celsius or Kelvin I know how close it is to absolute zero. In Fahrenheit I have no idea!
Yours is the only tool I found that supports both web + command-line use. But it seems very dead.

At the very least you should update those instructions if you want people to think otherwise.
Speaking of "feet" as a measurement - Randall Carlson has an AMAZING video[0] on the source of the 12 inch foot.

And how its all related to the measurement of the precession of the earth. And yes - its specifically how to measure things in space. And its all from Sacred Geometry.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7oyZGW99os
> Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego border

> She said the officer refused to allow her to go back to Mexico and ordered her to be detained. She was kept in a cold room at the border by CBP before being arrested by ICE, who placed her at the Otay Mesa Detention Center. Mooney claimed in the middle of the night she, along with a group of 30 other women, was rounded up to get transferred to a facility in Arizona. CBP wouldn’t tell Team 10 the reason for Mooney’s detention, citing privacy restrictions.

https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/never-seen-anything-s...

> A German tourist detained by US immigration authorities is due to be deported back to Germany on Tuesday after spending more than six weeks in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement. Both Germans were held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center, a prison in San Diego, California. Brösche and Lofving had attempted to enter the US from Tijuana in Mexico on 25 January.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/11/german-tourist...
Lucky us, you can do this today, because, of course, it is Mozilla, so it is open source: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs
> Not a chance for any serious business.

Why would you think "serious business" is the target audience? I think "serious business" is about as far from the target audience as possible...
Can you please share some tips and tricks for achieving such high throughput?
A land-border crossing in Mexico? 100%, yes.
https://archive.ph/1T298
Not only that, it's completely the opposite: One of the biggest impediments to adding more renewables to the grid is aligning generation with load. EVs are rolling energy storage devices. Put EV chargers in workplaces with a setting that says "just make sure the battery has at least 100 miles of charge by quitting time" and you get a full 300 mile charge from 100% renewable energy whenever it's available, still enough to come back tomorrow if it's cloudy today, and a discount for using the charger where that's what happens.

Then you not only charge the EVs from entirely renewable generation, most of them can curtail their load for about a week because typical EVs have around seven times the average commute in total range, and then when renewable generation is at 25% of normal, the capacity added to charge EVs can be directed to less flexible loads because the demand from EVs can be easily delayed for the right price.

Their existence is what makes a grid with a higher percentage of renewables even work.
If you're talking about modifying the DDG, I would not call that scheduling. Because then you need to do serious work to prove that your code is actually doing the same thing. But I haven't spent a lot of time in the compiler world, so maybe they do call it that. Perhaps you could give your definition?
> Now, if we had an adrenaline reaction every time we saw unlikely numbers, that would be a problem.

I think there's a relatively new TV show about this, actually.
POC – LLM Transpiler extension for VS Code
Not just to delay, but they're hope is that they'll be able to control it when it happens. Oil companies move fluids, using pipes and tankers. Hydrogen is a fluid. They want to keep doing what they've been doing. Electricity doesn't fit into their M.O.
Offshoring to stable countries is looking really smart now.
My observation from the outside watching this all unfold is that not enough effort seems to be going into the training schedule.

I say schedule because the “static data once through” is the root of the problem in my mind is one of the root problems.

Think about what happens when you read something like a book. You’re not “just” reading it, you’re also comparing it to other books, other books by the same author, while critically considering the book recommendations made by your friend. Any events in the book get compared to your life experience, etc…

LLM training does none of this! It’s a once-through text prediction training regime.

What this means in practice is that an LLM can’t write a review of a book unless it has read many reviews already. They have, of course, but the problem doesn’t go away. Ask an AI to critique book reviews and it’ll run out of steam because it hasn’t seen many of those. Critiques of critiques is where they start falling flat on their face.

This kind of meta-knowledge is precisely what experts accumulate.

As a programmer I don’t just regurgitate code I’ve seen before with slight variations — instead I know that mainstream criticisms of micro services misses their key benefit of extreme team scalability!

This is the crux of it: when humans read their training material they are generating an “n+1” level in their mind that they also learn. The current AI training setup trains the AI only the “n”th level.

This can be solved by running the training in a loop for several iterations after base training. The challenge of course is to develop a meaningful loss function.

IMHO the “thinking” model training is a step in the right direction but nowhere near enough to produce AGI all by itself.
That’s a phrase like “the most enjoyable cancers” or “the quietest seagulls”
The brain only operates in a very narrow temperature range too. 5 degrees C in either direction from 37 and you're in deep trouble.
> to try and revert something from under the previous administration

More-importantly, it's nowhere close to "normal" try-to-reverts, where one President tries to replace an equally "soft" policy put in place by another President.

Here the newly-installed crooks are trying to deny a hard "money shall be spent on X" law passed by Congress, which is an unconstitutional attempt to seize the "power of the purse".

Same legal-vibes as if Trump declared people on his Friends List were exempt from taxes.
Hi! Sarah from the Open Privacy Research Society / Cwtch team here - happy to answer questions.
Fair. Please interpret as queries rather than customers.
Previously:

The Pac-Man Dossier (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34187791 - Jan 2023 (13 Comments)

The Pac-Man Dossier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26134332 - Feb 2021 (10 comments)

The Pac-Man Dossier (2011) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19529487 - March 2019 (5 comments)

The Pac-Man Dossier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12879398 - Nov 2016 (11 comments)

The Pac-Man Dossier – Meet the Ghosts (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8831567 - Jan 2015 (4 comments)
I'm currently reading "The Windup Girl" set in a mostly-post-fossil-fuel future, where most energy storage is springs.
Other phones with Briar installed can carry your (encrypted) messages, as in a game of whisper. This works best if enough people between you and the recipient had Briar installed ... but most people don't.

But I see how this feature could be very helpful if a state shuts down internet connectivity or during war or a natural catastrophe. The nifty thing is that the app can be shared from one device to another, so you are not dependent on having the app in advance of an emergency.

Ideally, everyone should have this installed as an insurance :)
Shrinking large moving mechanical devices down to something that isn't going to chop off / cause physical body harm certainly would be in the 'less dangerous' department. (newer tech, high electrical voltages not withstanding) But not having to think about how something works / purpose can certainly lead to dangerous abuses as much as new/creative uses.

IMHO, the pitfalls are in not understanding/being aware of the limitations/edge cases. aka Not unplugging 70's CRT TV meant TV still drew power vs. unplugging meant took longer for CRT to warm up before being able to display image. Note: For areas with frequent electical storms, power surge due to lighting strike could destroy plugged in 70's TV. Today's battery powered displays, dropping from height & destroying display more relevant risk than worrying about lighting strike causing power surge.

Unlike most mechanical hardware where have to design upfront to minimize costs/ensure things fit/work together; with software one can very easily intentionally/unintentionally 'sweep things under the carpet" in quest to 'get it done'. see [1] vs. [3]; [2] vs. history of [4];

Quote by Arthur C. Clarke : "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."[5]

mechanical digital camera[2]; 1800's Fax machine[4]

niplo disk [1] vs. flexible dot-matrix display manufacture by offset lithography [3]

Related "Ask HN: Is human technology advancing faster than human wisdom sustainable?"[6]

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[1] niplo disk : https://web.archive.org/web/20091026194656/http://geocities....

ben heck's mechanical television (part 1) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI0TtyVEcs8

[2] mechanical digital camera : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCzMLl-cB94

(vs. 1st digital image (1957) : https://www.nist.gov/mathematics-statistics/first-digital-image )

[3] : (behind paywall) flexible dot-matrix display manufacture by offset lithography : https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution...

[4] : (electro-mechanical image) : The history of faxing: from revolutionary to digital evolution in 2024 : https://novatech.net/blog/the-history-of-faxing-from-revolut...

[5] Aurthur C. Clarke quote disucssion : https://lab.cccb.org/en/arthur-c-clarke-any-sufficiently-adv...

[6] Ask HN: Is human technology advancing faster than human wisdom sustainable? : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43357677
Nvidia has a big lead, and hardware is capital intensive. I guess an alternative would make sense in the battery-powered regime, like robotics, where Nvidia's power hungry machines are at a disadvantage. This is how ARM took on Intel.
statistically people reading articles these days are often well off enough that improving their own lives won’t mean much in terms of “sleeping under a bridge vs under a roof” or “eating or not eating”, whereas for others that might be the case.

Also nobody said you can’t improve your own life at the same time.

Also you helping other people doesn’t have to be necessarily monetarily.
That’s how it is at DigiKey and some other B2B focused distributors.
kitchen timers galore
Only at the last second of the purchase, when you're already mentally commited to buy at a lower previously advertised price
There was an article about in the March 2025 issue of Communications of the ACM: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3707200
Dad's X account was hacked (100k+ followers)
Hey - fellow SWE here looking for some inside help. My dad is a public figure (he’s famous) and his X account with over 100k followers has been hacked. They logged in and changed the associated email. Automated support for this is useless and doesn’t work for cases where they change the email.

He can manually verify his identity on a video call, with government ID, etc. Would super appreciate any help with this from anyone at X - as their support department probably doesn’t exist.

Thanks in advance!
> Okay, you can go but you should carry your passport

Funny, since half of U.S. citizens don't have a passport.
Housing in Europe is very different from what it is in the US.

A lot of it will look something like this [1].

In England, it's actually somewhat unusual to have any space between two homes. Semi and fully detached homes command a fairly high price.

Roads were also not built for cars, so they tend to be much narrower than what you'd find in the US. All that means you'll find a much higher population density. You can even find a bunch of cobblestone roads without much effort.

I'd also say that cities are FAR more walkable than they are in the US. It's almost the reverse of what it is here, it can be easier to walk to the store than drive simply because there's a billion little pathways that lead everywhere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_houses_in_the_United_...
No, intelligence is not the easy part. We are talking about uncommon intelligence and it is the hard part. And they ones that have it are often lacking in other areas, such as social skills. And the ones that have social skills, and other traits often aren't 10x.
I think this might be really cool, but when I tried clicking "playback actions" (unclear that this button means "play" and won't just take me to a list of actions) there was no sound.
TIL 1.79million / 74.6million = 12%. I'd always thought it was more like 2.5%.
Whether or not he's right big picture, the specific thing about runaway tokens is dumb as hell.
Funnily enough, a Trump crony is running to head the DC bar…

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-...
I've run into this (it's in Librewolf, but is more obnoxious in Mull/IronFox on Android where I actually use this), where the privacy protections prevent the Jackbox games like Drawful from sending the contents of a drawing to Jackbox's servers. Both browsers don't fail - they just upload a rainbow pattern every time.

I use IronFox and LibreWolf as my daily drivers, but I keep Firefox installed alongside them for the inevitable site that just doesn't behave correctly. Not unlike having to reach for the big blue "E" in the bad old days.
Recently tried Plasma 6 for a while on a fresh openSUSE install (with Nvidia drivers) but the visual bugs and omnipresent lag annoyed me so much that I switched to XFCE, which still runs fantastically.

Plasma 6 also had some weird issues rendering Steam, in particular - often the window would show with the content completely corrupted (as in, a random mess of static and colors). Haven't had that issue under XFCE so far.

I have a decent desktop (Nvidia 3090, AMD 2700x, 64 GB DDR4, 2 TB NVMe) and I try Plasma every few years because I always hear positive things but my experience this time was the same as every time before:

1) It was laggy, firefox, obsidian, and the file explorer consistently take 20 - 30 seconds to start. Steam takes 1 - 2 minutes to start and lags the whole time.

2) It was buggy:

- adding and moving panels is inconsistent
- steam and other applications often fail to render properly
- the themes in the theme browser often don't work at all, or have major visual issues

3) It doesn't respect my choices - after installing firefox and signing into my sync account, the plasma desktop added a firefox-plasma integration extension without any interaction from me, which then got synced to my other devices.

----

I'll probably try it again in a few years if nothing better comes along but I was really disappointed. The only issue I have with XFCE is that screen-locking doesn't work right now and I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to resolve that.
ToS doesn't override laws
> . Even core features like bookmarks have barely improved in decades.

I agree. In the same time firefox' bookmarks are still better than what chrome or edge offer.
> The Chinese government has stated explicitly that rule of law isn’t a goal

Can you share where you saw this? I am also not aware of anywhere that the US has stated that rule of law is a goal. What you are referring to is more of a norm or tradition. And norms can and do change over time for better or worse.

You could argue that rule of law follows from the preamble to the constitution but that doesn’t explicitly mention rule of law either. It mentions various values like justice and tranquility.
Stockholm is a high density urban environment. Appartment living. 4-6 floor high buildings is the norm. Schools every mile or so would be my guess. Ours is like 300m away. Next closest is 1km and 1.5km. Quite normal, i speculate.
When considering a candidate on an F-1 + OPT, what should be our expectation of their need for H1B sponsorship?
What are O-1 and National Interest Waiver success rates for recent PhD grads (in computer science)?
Is it just custom not to exercise it?

Why do these judges allow people to show up to court and make exceptionally stupid arguments?
You must interact with a very different set of humans than most.
Shwmae, Sarah ydw i. I co-founded the Cwtch project, and yes I was born in Wales, lived there for 20+ years, and as a result learned Welsh in school; and while I no longer live there, I still consider myself, at least in part, Welsh.
You should put more effort into addressing the very detailed and thoughtful reply you got (at your request) and which you're currently ignoring with just another challenge (with a grammatical mistake). You're currently a troll in the technical definition of the term: baiting for replies and then just mocking what you catch.
Going Back to Edasm, the 1980 Apple II Editor/Assembler
Really nice ui aesthetic - inspiration from PostHog?
An early part of the article mentioned "GDC" instead of "GTC." I lost confidence in the article at that point.