skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The floods are significantly worse because of the dams.

No they are not.

Dams mitigate damage during floods because you have buffer capacity and control over outflow. Without dams, you get uncontrolled flooding every single time that there is a lot of rain. With dams, you only get uncontrolled flooding on dam failure, which tends to happen less often than... heavy rain.

> The construction of the dam will flood a ton of land upstream of the dam. If you've been to the beach you'll notice that the water doesn't need to go up or down very much for a ton of area to be flooded so in order to get that extra space.

Yes, large water reservoirs need large amounts of space. That is a completely different argument from flood risk, though, and those costs are negotiated on before the dam is even built.
This is already the case. Read up on Windows virtualization-based security - it already wraps Windows with Hyper-V.
Fun, thanks for sharing.

A couple of suggestions, usability-wise:

* when a single cell is selected, it'd be very helpful if the game would auto-highlight all other cells connected to it.

* when the whole thing is solved, "Check" message should be just "Looks good", i.e. w/o "... so far" ... or perhaps just paint the whole field green, shoot a firework or do something else mildly rewarding to confirm the victory :)
Hi Peter, given that companies are constantly laying off employees, what options do people on H1B have in an event they are out of a job? One can find a job but a 60 day time restriction can be very challenging. It’s almost impossible to apply, schedule multiple rounds of interviews, get an offer AND file the immigration paperwork in that time. A lot of people have established lives and have been here for decades because of the green card backlog. How would one maintain presence legally in the US in such a case?
Broadcast high frequency tunes in the background for other devices to pick up to identify you.
Ask it to write assembly language
You are asking the right question, but to the wrong person.
I absolutely hate Stoicism. It's used by people as a way to shut me up when I'm expressing negativity about something "I can't control". Almost everything about our lives, especially as we transition to this rent based economy, is out of our control. Stoicism just creates lonely people who are obsessed with controlling things and others.
Author spent a lot of time mulling over “world class” this or that. World class engineers working on crud sounds like an oxymoron
I am certainly NOT expressing racial animus and take offense at the suggestion. My point is that a near peer competitive nation that has party political officers embedded into tech companies is the largest rival to domestic companies. I for one would prefer to live in a world where the winning "AI" companies are based in democracies and not in autocracies.
I’m currently away from home but can deny list domains on the dns level. Anyone knows the domain this update is using? Blocked samsung.com
Actually, most non-swe jobs are like that. I mean check how inefficient any other industry is.

If you want to stay in swe, government jobs are the best, of you can get in as a permanent employee, not as a contractor.
I genuinely weep for the soul of anyone who sees this: https://www.theplan.it/images/stories/gallery91318/design-de...
and thinks "Ah yes this is worthy of an International Award in Architecture"
this seems interesting and I (very briefly) installed to check it out but never actually used.

I just noticed there is no IOS version? bit strange no?

also no update on their blog since 2023?

would be interested to read whats going on recently, is there another place to look?
I made the mistake of connecting my bose noise cancelling earbuds to the phone app so I could disable autoplay. They updated without any warning and now they won't charge properly and the noise cancelling sucks. It used to be amazing. Never connect anything and never take updates unless you need a specific fix.
I'm genuinely flabbergasted by this thread.

> ... Everybody knew that Apple would be uncongenial, borderline malicious ...

> Therefore its pointless to blame Apple

The entire fault is on Apple. The EU that is notoriously depicted as overly bureaucratic and slow-moving managed to make the largest consumer walled garden to relax its gates and give some form of authority to people who own the damn device.

Remember, no form of official sideloading existed before the DMA.
Thanks. How much longer has this avenue taken, in your experience?
SUSE doubles down on AI and Multi-Linux Support to prove it's still in the game
I think it has two things going for it: it's visually striking, and the sudoku sphere is already full of alternate designs and layouts, and this will fit right in, in that sense!
Sometimes I wonder if HN folks are purposefully obtuse or so deep in their bubble that they don't understand how 99% of people think and operate. The average user will always favour convenience over some invisible concept like privacy.
It's pretty funny to test in-distribution for AI models. But they fail horribly once you push them a bit[1].

I recently made LLMs play Minesweeper and ALL LLMs that I tested had a pretty bad win to loose ratio. Like the only model that won more than 3 times was R1 (mind you there were 50 games).

[1] https://snats.xyz/pages/articles/minesweeper_bench.html
Control Theory for Distributed Systems: A New View of Operations at Scale
Show HN: Neural – A DSL and Debugger for Simpler Neural Network Development
Hey HN! I’ve been working on "Neural," a project to streamline neural network creation, training, and debugging. It’s a domain-specific language (DSL) and debugger designed to cut through the complexity of frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch. Think concise model definitions, real-time gradient tracking, and cross-framework exports—all in one tool.

The DSL uses a YAML-like syntax to define networks cleanly. For example, here’s an MNIST classifier:

network MNISTClassifier {
input: (28, 28, 1)
layers:
Conv2D(filters=32, kernel_size=(3,3), activation="relu")
MaxPooling2D(pool_size=(2,2))
Flatten()
Dense(units=128, activation="relu")
Output(units=10, activation="softmax")
loss: "sparse_categorical_crossentropy"
optimizer: Adam
}

You can compile it to PyTorch with neural compile mnist.neural --backend pytorch, run it, and debug it with neural debug mnist.neural --hacky (check gradients and resources at http://localhost:8050). There’s even a --hacky mode for poking at security quirks.It’s early days—bugs lurk, and I’m still adding features like hyperparameter optimization and TensorBoard support. I’d love your thoughts! Have you hit pain points in ML dev that this could solve? What’s missing?

Check it out: https://github.com/Lemniscate-SHA-256/Neural/
Are you arguing that mobile devices are closer to game consoles than personal computers? Because I really don't think they are.

Also, why even defend the right of megacorps to lock users in their walled garden? What could society or even you possibly win through this?

I am certainly not opposed to gaming companies opening their SDKs and consoles to hobbyists.
Yeah, it's an especially odd claim because early Christianity was apocalyptic. The Second Coming was imminent. The world would be radically remade.

I think the author is confusing early Christianity with Calvinism.
So, since Apple is caving I'm guessing this means there is lawful intercept built into RCS and this is their escape hatch?
Silly idea, but if the power is needed for takeoff then the aircraft could be plugged in with a cable up until it reaches cruising altitude.

It sounds ridiculous but I’ve been in aircraft that take off while attached to a cable thousands of feet in length — a winch launched glider!
> may be gone once and for all

...and the domain taken over by a scammer who puts up a fake app that does unspeakable things to your USB device.
That is because Apple relaxed its App Store guidelines after the DMA to disincentive sideloading.
The issue is not Samsung per se, it is the smart TV crap we can't get rid of.

With luck there are some old TVs still on remaining stock and that is about it.
So this is like Capacitor/Cordova/Phonegap?
But .. but then they can escape the extortion to a working state..
Great points! As an addendum to this, if #2 becomes untenable for whatever reason (such as a vulnerability in the factory firmware image), then this #3 would be good to strive for as well:

3. have a set of conditions to mark the running firmware image as "safe" and have it become the new fallback firmware image for this scenario. That way you can have a recently up-to-date firmware version constantly trailing the new ones
You're assuming these investors actually believe it, and not that they can sell it to a greater fool.

VC will invest in snake oil if they think they'll get out at a profit.
I loved my Sonos soundbar. It sounded amazing. But it required me to use their terrible app. That's why I got rid of it (the app was REALLY bad!) - luckily, before they started bricking customers' devices.
Ah yes when I'm surrounded by active drug users and the mentally ill my first thought is to architecture as well.
What I always find hilarious about these naive libertarian types is they never even bother to check their hypotheticals against reality. For example, FutureMotion had to have a regulatory body intervene because they were killing and injuring people with their skateboard designs:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/oct/03/future-motion-...

So the answer to your question is, “yes, that needs to and did happen.”
> But if it can't, you just design the route so that the driver can switch busses and buy another bus

Oof, that's a huge 'just' in many cases.

That said, current electric buses have sufficient range that this mostly isn't an issue. The unnervingly silent double-deckers I mention have a claimed range of 320km, which, at least here, is sufficient.

The big problem with Dublin's electric buses, ridiculously, was that the operator was late in applying for planning permission for the substations required to charge them. With the result that for about a year, there were about a hundred of them stored and unusable.
Don't be daft. There are plenty of comments for and against. HN consists of multiple people.
State of WordPress Security in 2025
Ability to reset to original out of the box firmware is not only about failsafe. It's also a protection from "bug fixes" taking away features you had out of the box.

I'm still pissed off about LG removing record to disk option from our TV after an upgrade. I've only connected it to internet & upgraded assuming some of those bug fixes resolved few dlna issues otherwise it's always on internet block list.
I noted that as well.

Honestly given the target audience and the limited dev resources I (as an iOS user) do think focusing on Android is probably the right choice here.
That medium article is pretty bad. Arguing that "prediction rates are similar" means a lack of a problem is a really shitty argument. Imagine african americans and white people both re-offended 50% of the time. If COMPAS predicted a 10% recidivism rate for white people and an 80% recidivisim rate for african americans, it would be horribly biased yet more accurate for african americans.
HN title is editorialized. I assume "bricked" is a lot worse, i.e., permanent.

Comments show that there might be resolutions and potential for firmware patch. [0] Bad updates happen.

[0] https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Home-Theater/Samsung-Q99...
Your argument that IP and copyright do not exist now because they did not exist in the past is bogus.

IP and copyright exist.
In architecture I almost never find anything really "objectionable" to the point of disgust. So to me I find it difficult to understand how some people can find themselves to get so worked up over architecture. At most the examples of "ugly" architecture cited by various people make me feel bland/unfeeling not disgusted.
The question is if it still works "enough" to update to a working firmware, or if it's so broken that it can only be fixed by flashing the EEPROM directly.
He is also one of the authors that (almost) all his eBooks sold on Google Play are without DRM.
Open-Sora 2.0: Training a Commercial-Level Video Generation Model in $200k
I think a part of what happened has to do with
>"act in a way nobody knows whether you're actually trolling or not"

Some people were joking and some weren't, or were just too dim to understand that it was a joke, and then when they all showed up in Charlottesville to march. They were mostly serious except for that one poor guy who still thought it was a meme and ran away.
I use it as my primary coding assistant, when I'm able to. I haven't paid for the more advanced models from others, and it seems to be the most advanced free-to-use thinking model at the moment.

Aider can't use grok 3 with thinking yet, afaik, because xai hasn't made it available in the API.

From what I'm hearing, it and Claude 3.7 "thinking" are very similar in performance.
Ruby LLM
You need to have the firmware equivalent of a platform team.

It's common now for medium and large companies to have some variant of a cloud platform team: People responsible for shared practices, infrastructure, and processes in the cloud.

Smart hardware companies have done the same for decades. You have a firmware platform team that handles things like update protocols, recovery protocols, testing checklists, on-device OTA update architecture, and other critical functions.

When you're a company like Samsung that continuously releases and develops products this actually increases your time to market rather than decreasing it. You let each product team focus on the parts of the firmware that make their product valuable and free them from having to roll their own update systems
USA asks Sweden for help in the egg crisis
> Why? And why not 12V? Please be specific in your answers.

Higher voltages improve transmission efficiency, in particularly for connectors, as long as sufficient insulation is easy to maintain. Datacenters are looking at 48V for a reason.

Nothing comes for free though, and it makes for slightly more work for the various buck converters.

> God no. USB-C connectors are fragile as all hell and easy to mishandle. I hate those stupid little almost-a-wafer blades.

They are numerous orders of magnitude more rugged than any internal connector you've used - most of them are only designed to handle insertion a handful of times (sometime connectors even only work once!), vs. ten thousand times for the USB-C connector. In that sense, a locking USB-C connector would be quite superior.

... on that single metric. It would be ridiculously overcomplicated, driving up part costs when a trivial and stupidly cheap connector can do the job sufficiently. Having to run off 48V to push 240W and have no further power budget at all also increase complexity, cost and add limitations.

USB-C is meant for end-user things where everything has to be crammed into the same, tiny connector, where it does great.
I want to use NixOS but man it’s a mess with its flakes vs no flakes debates. I’ve stuck with learning Ansible for now, but if flakes is ever properly built in I’d consider it.
Where are they batched?
Walking 100k to help families families facing baby loss
Honestly making it configurable for birthdays would be pretty neat
Remember DALL-E?
Free will.

If people are allowed to make choices, evil is a possibility. You can argue that free will isn't good, but I'm not sure what evidence supports that argument.

So if God allows free will, then evil can happen. Just because he doesn't immediately stop it (read: eliminate free will) doesn't make God not-good.

I think part of this is man's hubris in assuming we can know what is perfectly good. The Epicurean paradox is hinged on the description of "all-good," which is far too simple in most people's minds.

A metaphor:

If I shove my child to the ground to teach them the consequences of falling, I am a bad father. If I warn them to tie their shoes, or they will fall, but do not explicitly force them to, I am a father willing to let my child learn, but I am not a "bad father" because of this.

Another aspect I think the Epicurean paradox misses is the concept of justice and eternity. If this physical life is all there is, then yeah, allowing people to suffer and die is an injustice. But if we are eternal beings in a temporary, physical body, suffering and dying in this world is a small blip on the timeline. What comes after has to be factored into the equation of "What is justice?" But that's where non-theistic reasoning can no longer come with us. The Bible is fairly clear about what comes after, and there is justice when viewed in that light.

If you believe this life is all there is, then yeah it's not hard to argue that God isn't just. But again, the Bible, upon which the Judeo-Christian belief system is built, is very explicit that this life is NOT all there is.

So the Epicurean paradox takes a small slice of the Bible out of context and points at it, without considering all the other context and argues, "Ha! See? Logical inconsistency!" when in reality it's just out of context.
Automated updates are a way for companies to push updates on you without having to first convince you that the updates are good.
Did UCLA _ cure baldness? How geneticists are reawakening hibernating follicles
> Do you not think it is true that some peoples' stories get embellished? Do you not think it is true that some are greatly so? Do you not think history gets retold to make better stories? Do you not think people who have made great contributions have been ignored? Certainly in the long history all this has happened. Do they not deserve credit? If they do, then the unfortunate reality is that this must be "taken" from those that it was misattributed to.

I'm really not particularly interested in history as a process of attributing credit. Galileo was hugely influential, whether that influence is 'deserved' or not, I mean, I don't care I guess? It's sort of like pointing out that vikings visited North America long before Columbus. Okay, but so what? They went there, then left or died, and had no influence on the course of history. I also don't see why making fun of his mathematical abilities somehow redresses the "harm" of his unfair reputation, since everyone involved is very long dead.

> The issue comes down to this: Do great minds think alike? I say they do. I say there is a spiritual unity of scientific thought from ancient to modern times. I say that what is obvious to us was obvious to the Greeks. I say it is ludicrous to think that generations of Greek mathematical geniuses of the first order, with their extensively documented interest science, all somehow failed to conceive basic principles of scientific method. I say these things because I can feel it in my bones. I say these things because I have spent my life in mathematics departments and experienced so many times the profound sense of thinking exactly alike with another person. Young or old, student or professor, when we talk about mathematics our minds are one. Mathematics has this power, to make brethren of us all.

The author claims that mathematicians form a trans-historical class of superior minds, and there was no scientific revolution because mathematicians were already doing all the things that historians claim emerged in the scientific revolution. This view has a huge historical problem with explaining why these genius mathematicians came up with almost no interesting new ideas in physics from ca. 200 BC to ca. 1600 AD.
> It's a speaker system. It plays sound. Why could it possibly have AI, tracking, or ad delivery?

To recognize what you listen to, build a profile, feed it back to Samsung, which will use it in deciding what crap to display on your Samsung TV (and any other devices) associated to the same profile. For all we know it's even listening to your conversation in the room, I mean, it's Samsung - they literally do this:

https://entertainment.ie/trending/yes-your-samsung-smart-tv-...

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/samsungs-warning-our-smart...
And creating continuations for recursion requires memory allocation. How recursive! You can't just recursively move the memory allocation problem around and call it solved or somebody else's problem.

At least start with a rigorous, well-specified, robust, high-performance, complete implementation of Common Lisp, if you're going to recurse infinitely.
When the whole thing is solved it says "you did it". You missed a cell.
The Xata Agent sounds like a cool use of AI for PostgreSQL monitoring—having an LLM interpret logs and metrics could be super useful for catching issues early. I like that it sticks to preset SQL commands to avoid unintended actions. That said, I’d be curious about the privacy implications of sending DB insights to an AI and the cost of running LLMs at scale. Maybe a self-hosted option would make sense? Either way, it’s an interesting direction for database monitoring!
Stoicism has nothing to do with men. It's not a male-exclusive philosophy. It's just a way to cope with life and the struggles in life. Stoicism is just being weaponized, often by misinterpretation, by "male-clubs".

It kind of became like a cult. "You need to be a Stoic in order to be successful". It's the same story all over, and a similar thing happens with every -ism, like minimalism where it transformed from being a philosophy of being happy with the things you have, into a philosophy where you need to identify yourself as minimalist by buying a bunch of crap that is labeled as "minimalist [whatever]".
I am neither OP nor a lawyer at all, but I do have experience watching authoritarian regimes destroy a country in real-time. One of the most terrifying things to me is the breakdown in the rule of law, because you no longer have any expectations to plan against, and anything can happen.

I would never counsel against getting legal advice, because competent legal advice is going to be one of your best assets for planning every possible future outcome. But I would caution you that in this environment, you also need to plan for what to do when the legal advice can no longer predict or inform outcomes.
I'm curious to see if this will work like the author intends. I feel like this idea works great in an office environment but won't translate well to a digital space. The biggest reason being that there is no 1-on-1 or group interaction, everything is broadcast out to the entire "office" and that influences people's behavior.

I like the intent though, and I agree it's something that could be beneficial if it works as hoped. Even if it doesn't this might give the author or someone else the idea of a different version that may work better
"Hello GrandMa1950, please plug in your security key and select the device called /dev/ttyUSB0 in the pop-up, so we can authenticate your log in. Thank you!"

I'm fairly sure that would work. The FUD is likely well warranted.
For a U.S. citizen who resides abroad (3 years, NRA spouse) with a single-member LLC doing consulting software work for U.S. clients, what U.S. address should be / can be used for the business address of the LLC? Registered agent?

Separately, I know many startup founders who have long-term software developers ("contractors", apparently...) in other countries like India, Brazil, etc. Paying them with whatever random popular money transfer service. It's common practice but is it legal or risky on the U.S. side?
>If businesses have opportunity to cut their operational variable costs >25%, than one can be fairly certain these facilities won't be located on US soil.

Is there opportunity? Lower risks and energy prices may well outweigh the cost of tariffs. It is not like any other horse in the race has perfectly healthy legs.
The golden firmware should reset to the old/first firmware of the device and nothing else. Keep it as simple as possible and restore the customer device back to an operational state.