skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to argue that there are some rose-tinted glasses at play. /b/ (which is what most people think of when they think about 4chan) has been considered "no longer good" since at least 2006 [1], probably earlier. And even by that time they were already organizing raids and causing real harm to communities, both online and offline.

I'm not sure that it's 4chan the one who has changed but rather that the world got a lot more connected [2]. A 2010 edgelord may say "pool's closed" while a 2025 edgelord may say "it was a Roman salute", but the spirit behind is probably the same.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:4chan/Archive_4#Death_of_...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-internet-users
They would need work visas and (assuming that they don't qualify for a country-specific visa) the potential options are the H-1B and O-1 (and possibly the E-2 depending on their countries of citizenship and other factors). Because this analysis is so fact-specific, you will need to have a consultation with an attorney to explore the options.
Id extend that to all smart TVs and all 'smart' devices as such.
I agree that it's a huge space and believe there is demand for better presentation of educational material for programming beyond algorithms that fits in a slide.

I do think that our approaches are a little different and time will prove which is more effective, or perhaps both in their own ways.

For example, CodeMic aims to replace books and blogs for discussions of large codebases and showing changes to code over time, but CodeVideo seems to enhance the experience of writing books and blogs (among other things) by ensuring correctness of the code for example. There's a lot you can do there with that which I never really thought about and is out of scope for CodeMic.

If the format is open, perhaps CodeMic and CodeVideo can even import from each other.

p.s. can't disagree about the insane part, but still a lot of fun ;)
Is LVFS not available for these devices? Sounds like it would be a better fit. https://fwupd.org/
I pulled my Samsung Smart TV off the network a while ago, precisely because it was getting slower and slower over time. The allegations of spying pushed me over, but the apparent belief that they own my TV would also have done it.

I want a separation between my display device and the thing serving it anyhow, but that's just me in my techie world. The fact that performance got worse with each update, though, that's just over the line for everyone. I mean, if you're going to babble about how you're upgrading my experience, shouldn't you, you know, upgrade my experience instead of constantly downgrading it? My experience gets downgraded, but gee golly, it sure seems like yours is getting upgraded.

Well. It's really not that hard to not plug in the ethernet cable.

My Roku boxes have also had the same trajectory over the years. As time rolls on, they just get slower and slower with each update. Slowly, but surely. How exactly this is accomplished I'm not even sure, it's not like they're overflowing with new features or doing bold new computations for my benefit. They just get a little bit slower every effing time. But at least replacing my Roku boxes is $20-40 now. Hey, sure, OK, a $40 thing probably can't be expected to work 5 years from now. If nothing else, video codecs do march on and specs may exceed what the hardware decoders can handle. OK. My $1000+ TV does not get that grace. It damned well better be able to turn on in less than 30 seconds, even 10 years, 20 years from now. No excuses.
This is a good reason for manufacturers not to deny rollbacks, and a good reason not to have e-fuses.
Ah I see. I do think some designs (architecture or otherwise) look pretty bad, even offensive (not in the culture war sense, but in the this hurts to look at sense), but there are some subject matters where my lowest is also just indifference. So I'd say this is a "to each their own" type of thing too.
I also had the Baywatch bug. Neo QLED right?

Every time you’d start the tv it’d switch to the Samsung Baywatch 24/7 stream.

So inappropriate for the children.
The curious surge of productivity in U.S. restaurants
As someone who doesn't drink alcohol, I get what you're saying. But I also don't judge others for indulging and similarly don't let how I want to live my life get in the way of attending group events. At bars I order sparkling waters, soda, or a non-alcoholic cocktail and don't make a big deal out of it and it hasn't failed me yet :)
My company is actively in the PERM process for me, but I'm worried that things will go wrong (for example, failed recruitment) and I'll need to start from scratch. Would it be advantageous to apply for NIW on my own, and could there be any problem with doing both at the same time?
> Marcus Aurelius himself was no stoic philosopher, he merely wrote diaries to himself in his late days - diaries he wanted burned, not published.

This is how I read "Meditations" - not as writings of a sage (as far as I know, he didn't consider himself one), but as "shower thoughts". Ironically, since these were private notes, they were likely more genuine than if they had been intended for publication. And more approachable, precisely because he was not a philosopher.

Roman emperors were, without exception, autocrats. Yet, he is considered one of the better ones.
Even if he didn't always live up to stoic ideals, he strived for them. This doesn't excuse his wrongdoings, but it suggests his writings can have value despite his flawed actions.

One thing that struck me, though, is how a philosophy promoting ideas like "things are good as they are" or "ignore spiteful people" works well when you're at the top. If you're a slave or poor, things might look quite different. Especially when spiteful people cannot be ignored - be it your master, your centurion, or an unfair competitor trying to frame you.
he is cursing at me
The risk assessments are a teeny bit different.

Edit: although maybe there's a good idea: catapult or winch launch for electric aircraft would massively reduce the power and energy storage requirements to be carried onboard.
I agree but it's a headache even if you are able to return.
Why invent wheel when we already have Reticulum network which provides integrity and confidentiality on OSI Layer 2 ? So for every packet. It is not better to build "apps" on top of a secure network? That way even if "app" does accidental bad thing, your private content is not exposed to anyone who listens to your network traffic. By default not by "just use another VPN with exit nodes full of network inspection tools, dns redirection services etc" ?
Other than national interest waiver petitions, which were getting harder before the change in administration, I haven't seen anything getting harder and in fact it seems that USCIS is more receptive now to EB1A filings.
Finding the opposite of what you have with rails invert_where
To prevent automatic firmware updates, ads, and any other spying I'm not aware of, I block these in DNS:

*.samsungcloudsolution.com

*.samsungosp.com

*.samsungqbe.com

*.samsungcloud.tv

*.samsungads.com

The first one gets the most hits.

I also don't connect my Samsung displays to Wifi anymore. Unless I notice a problem that I have to search to fix. Then if there's a firmware update that fixes the issues, I'll do it.

NextDNS and ControlD are helpful for blocking this sort if thing, or Pi-Hole if you want to set it up yourself.
I thought I wanted a house with land, woods, garden with bunch of carrots and little sweet peas, but now I want a church to maintain.
Oh wow, those authors.

For those not in the know, Carl Shapiro [1] and Hal Varian [2] are well known economics researchers. Hal Varian ended up working at Google building the AdWords auction after writing this it seems.

For anyone wondering, there's this person called *Anna* that has an *archive* where the book can be found.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Shapiro

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Varian
> I share OPs skepticism

> I would be surprised if sqlite backed by NVME is on the other end of all that specialized hardware.

I was not making this assertion. I am surprised anything like it got inferred (i.e., my use of the word "premise" regarding single thread/writer policy).

I agree that what you describe would be ridiculous in practice.

> I would be curious if anyone knows how electronic trading systems are actually implemented.

> Order matching is a single threaded thing though.

I think you answered your own question.
I am a founder for an early stage startup on H1B. The prevailing wage for a CEO is extremely high in California and will burn my companies runway. It it possible to just show on work part time 20hrs a week in order and get an hourly wage the meets the prevailing wage requirement?
Entering AI Autumn: Why LLMs Are Nearing Their Limit
> They'd march into the companies and ISPs who run the mail servers and monitor/collect everything from there directly, the same way they marched into AT&T and set up camp.

This is illegal. If it were possible, they wouldn't have bothered with taps.
Network connectivity would need to be in the set of checks to determine if an update was successful. Also, there should hopefully be QA. If you only have one smoke-test for a firmware image it should be whether or not it can upgrade/downgrade a new image from that one.
Perhaps as a peer comment is alluding to, this issue might simply be viewing things through an all-or-nothing lens.

In some ways I think this is similar to Thomas Jefferson and Christianity. He was drawn to the soundness of the values of Christianity as a system of moral and ethical behavior, but found the supernatural aspects of it unbelievable, and words of third parties as less relevant. So he simply cut them out and actually literally cut and pasted his own 'Bible' together, the Jefferson Bible. [1]

For self evident reasons he kept this as a personal project, but that was essentially 'his' Christianity. Beliefs and systems are what we make of them. Stoicism may shape one, but we can also shape it back in return, for otherwise it's certain to never truly fit.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
So the author makes a thesis statement then contradicts in the body. So great. Love birds, but hate emotional manipulation.
If you feel bad, your online time is better spent on working to buy land outside of cities and letting it go wild. Cities are for primarily for people to live in. And many bird species have adapted to live with people already. So the claim is dubious. Infact Birds are very adaptable, so adaptable people have to put spikes up...to which the birds have adapted to. Actual parqueets live in England for example thanks to people feeding them. But don't feed the rats...
The author's claims are not generally true of Calvinism, either.
The shed is a relief tent that is a memorial to an earthquake where they were used.
I am looking to get a new monitor in the next year or so and have been considering ultra-wides. During my research the proportion of people that had horrible experiences with Samsung monitors, typically right after warranty expired, was enough to deter me from the entire brand in the future.
Google should've asked me first, cause just seeing the name WebUSB, I said "wtf why is this even a thing, absolutely no."
North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). NAICS uses a hierarchical structure with sectors represented by 2-digit codes, such as Manufacturing (31-33) or Retail Trade (44-45).

In antitrust law, a "market" is defined as an area of effective competition that includes both product (or service) and geographic dimensions. The US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission use market definitions to evaluate competition under laws like the Clayton Act.

Tools like the hypothetical monopolist test are used to determine whether a market is too narrow by assessing if a monopolist could profitably raise prices.

> Also, if you invent something so novel it makes a new market, that would imply you are immediately taxed at 100%.

Fine, pick some fractional coefficient.
There was even an old 4chan joke for this:

"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company." -Rene Descartes
How does your opinion matter than the parent’s opinion?

Even in an ideal scenario favorable to you it seems impossible for it to lead anywhere, after mutually negating each other, other than generating more noise on the internet.
Infinite Lunch
Solves a TSP on a list of cities to find a tour of cities so that you always spend local time between set hours.
Blow the fuse after its confirmed working. Or always allow a one version rollback.

Im not a fan of firmware lockdowns but I understand other people may value security over moddability.
Another good one is; please always split any security updates from feature changes (and backport the updates per whatever versioning policy you have for those lagging the latest).

After many years of being burned I always delay system level non-security -related updates at least several days after launch to mitigate the risk.
So you don't like Buddhism either. Question for you though, if the opposite virtues are so much healthier, why did practices like Stoicism and Buddhism develop to help people cope with the difficult realities of life?
Raising Screen-Free Boys
"If the plane is falling from the sky, i envy the people screaming -- they have the right levels of attachemnt to their own lives."

Instead of screaming, I would rather stoicly prepare and brace myself for the impact of the rough landing. I might die anyway, or I might survive because I managed to put the seat belt on and hard things away from my torso and head. But screaming will not increase my chances, rather the opposite.
Base-122 Encoding – A space efficient alternative to base-64
Long duration propellant stability in Starship
AI scientists are sceptical that modern models will lead to AGI
Nah I think the Lean method would be to start the cult first, prove product-market fit, then get the church once you have around 10 members
but that is what the stock market is :) you do not purchase shares on any company because of what they are now (unless P/E ratio is negative :) ), you are investing in the future of the company. I wouldn’t touch Tesla with a wooden stick but you are arguing against basic economics.
Why else would a soundbar need updates anyway? It either performs its well defined functions when you bought it or they sold you a device that doesn’t input/output sound.

Updates for these types of things always fall into three categories. Either they’re gimping some unanticipated usage, they’re trying to insert ads, or they’re trying to gather more usage data.
So why not ask the prospective customers for the right to fetch and use their data? If it gives them better rates then people have plenty of incentives to allow them to continue.
vibe coding
The problem usually aren't vendors. The problem usually are rightsholders - the movie/TV series industry still didn't get the Spotify memo, and the console game industry... well it's hard to say they don't have a point insisting on serious DRM given how rampant piracy becomes once there's an easy-enough root method available.
Samsung has multiple such teams.
In my experience with the broader industry, platform teams are usually less than a dozen people who own millions of lines of mostly-external code. You don't usually get the luxury of careful deliberation and comprehensive testing because you're doing too busy putting out fires and chasing down manufacturer errata.
This depends a lot on local climate and topography.

Seattle has kind of been a bust with them because the hills really reduce the amount of charge, and on top of that the existing bus depots are already full, so switching to electric only would mean having to find and locate space for more bus depots, which is quite difficult.
> I actually believed Obama when he spoke about ending the NSA's mass surveillance on the American people

He did. Snowden's leaked documents showed that he has already ended mass email surveillance. He ended mass phone surveillance after the leaks. Do you have any evidence whatsoever that he didn't?
Maybe a new codec? New streaming app support? New wireless protocol? CEC bugfix?
It goes to a login page but I was curious enough to pry.

ISBN 087584863X or 9780875848631, "Information Rules" by Carl Shapiro. Available on the prominent alternative procurement network.
Hi Peter, I cofound a startup with my friend (US citizen). I am Canadian. What is possible path for me to work in US? TN1 visa requires not self-employment so my startup cannot sponsor me a letter.
Thanks
This is not correct. But I can't edit it :/ so I am just adding this comment here
_By the 9th century A.D., the Indians had made a conceptual leap that ranks as one of the most important mathematical events of all time. They had begun to recognise sunya_

Bit misleading as sunya or zero was invented in india, not recognised, there is a difference.
No, the eBeaver has never flown a commercial flight. Harbour Air is aiming for certification in 2026. Additionally, it only holds four passengers and is more a proof of concept than anything else. It is a cool effort but battery technology needs to come a long way first.
Or London
> > Just because that version worked a decade ago, it doesn’t mean it’s compatible with the world today.

> That's why I said you have to include this in your test procedures.

You can’t test the world. Even if your servers can correctly respond to requests from old software, it doesn’t mean that the network between you will too.
Can we stop pulling this quote out every time someone brings up a legitimate pain point?
Checkers written in Rust and exported to WASM
Not necessarily. Other documents can satisfy this requirements. What asylum documents are you referring to?
This will only help big corporate companies. A vast majority of the regulatory hurdles from small to medium sized businesses come from aggressive legal strategies from the oligarchy. For example, OpenAI pushed hard to regulate AI for everyone but themselves and even tried to punish people for using the term "GPT" by attempting to trademark it [1][2]. Now that they've bullied, threatened, and consolidated the market, they're trying to push deregulation.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/openai-chatgpt-trademark-gpt-4-gpt-5-sam...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AIAssisted/comments/139rnnx/do_not_...
Then we should strive to improve computer literacy. I think technological solutions should still ultimately empower their users.
Even a lot of reasonably tech-savvy people might not know the difference between the WebUSB consent popup and the security key popup.
Well now it sounds like you are disagreeing for it's own sake. There may be a name for what you describe, but it's not what is commonly understood as Stoicism.

And in my many years, I have never found shouting at another person to be a healthy thing.
> like the gigapress

It's not like they built the thing. They bought it, and if any other manufacturer thought it made sense for them they could just buy it too.
There are parsers that only implement a tiny subset of XML. And Expat has compile time flags to disable some of that machinery where not needed. It's arguably no longer XML then though.
The leaks didn't talk about a reorg. They said the program had been shut down.
Could you explain why are you flashing your keyboard so often? I have QMK keyboard, and I never felt like I’m missing anything by using it as is out of box. It also has a hardware switch for Mac/PC layouts, which is the only feature I could imagine having to flash it for, if that wasn’t available
Hi Peter, I'm an E3 holder. Thinking about marrying my partner who is a LPR and have a couple of questions:

- I entered on the E3 status in January but went to Canada for 2 days in February, does the 90 day rule restart from when I came back in February or when I initially entered in Jan?

- Can I continue working in my role after I apply to change my status after marriage to my LPR partner?

- Typically how long would I be unable to travel abroad while waiting for parole/adjustment of status?
Thanks so much!
Sounds clearly Russian to me. Russian spoken in Yoshkar-Ola I guess.
I love Easter eggs -- but security tools are the last place I want them showing up.

Like do you really want to entrust your TOTP secrets to a random app by a guy you've never met just to get some fun push notifications?
To quote Steven Colbert: "reality has a strong liberal bias"

(Not enjoying how folks on HN conflate liberalism with "the left" when they are two VERY different things)
If you don’t have an LA Times subscription: https://archive.ph/2025.03.10-180243/https://www.latimes.com...
> Why else would a soundbar need updates anyway? It either performs its well defined functions when you bought it or they sold you a device that doesn’t input/output sound.

Unfortunately there are soooo f..ing many devices out there that don't follow the specs, no wonder given how long and complex alone the Bluetooth specifications are, and HDMI/HDCP (which a soundbar with ARC support needs...) is even worse, and don't even try to get me started on CEC because that is an even bigger pile of dung, or stuff like GPUs that run HDMI over DVI, MHL or USB-C in DP mode and god knows what else people expect to "magically work" with a 5 dollar adapter they got off of Alibaba. And no, "audit products to follow the specs" isn't a foolproof solution either. That means that everyone has to deal with everyone else's quirks and at least the most popular devices and their manufacturers have to supply firmware updates to react upon reports of quirks.
>It's like people who get mad at customer service people

Except the customer service people willingly accept a job to act as an in-between so that any appropriate anger at a company is directed at an employee. To what extent do companies purposefully make use of this to prevent outrage directed at them? Back to the original topic, how much do the people leading these scams like pushing the story of the scammers being forced into it, because it increases the empathy that people feel towards the scammers and better allows the scams to continue?

At what point does being kind shift into a sort of pacifist mindset, that while great if everyone used it, creates fertile ground for far worse approaches to human relationships to flourish and spread, leading to the quality of the average approach to human relationships declining?
I don't know as much about language as you do, but hear me out. You can pretty much sound everything out. The irregular verbs aren't that bad; they're limited to THE highest frequency verbs that you'd expect, e.g., be, go, have, see, say, do, give, etc., and they're all irregular in fairly unsurprising ways, except for caber and andar. After about 20 irregular preterite verbs, there's three irregular imperfect verbs, and five irregular subjunctive verbs. Future and conditional tenses follow a similar pattern, and have about 20 irregulars between them. Compared to French and English, which borrows Germanic AND Latin patterns, that's NOT BAD.
They did this before, about five years ago.
I had to send it back to them for a fix and it came back a few weeks later.

https://hackaday.com/2020/07/19/the-real-story-how-samsung-b...
i put together something in godbolt and here is the result:

https://godbolt.org/z/sbzPT33nq

“quake” version uses “lea" to pre-increment pointers before storing values.
“normal” version uses “add" after storing values.

The “lea" instruction is often faster because it performs an addition in a single cycle without modifying flags, whereas “add" may introduce a dependency.

“quake” version might have a slight edge due to better pipeline efficiency.

“lea" is often preferred over “add" in performance-critical code because it is a single-cycle instruction on modern x86 CPUs.
Use the speakers as a microphone! WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY!
Bunch of cool games are here: https://kevinalbs.com/#!games

:)
Also a dev or dogfood population of devices used by employees