skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I'm not mad, I just don't see the link between the Gaza protestors (who I don't particularly support) and the vandals torching Teslas. And now you are mentioning Kyle Rittenhouse, which seems like another canard.

I don't see any evidence between those things, I'm wondering if you have any or if you just think all protesters are criminals?
People (including me) are simply ignorant of the privacy implications of their actions, even tech savvy people like me can't really understand who is watching and collecting their data and when, and won't go to extreme lengths in preventing others from listening in.

Regular folks are even less aware and are scared by technology - when a scary popup comes up, they will press anything and agree to anything just to make it go away.
Up until just a few years ago, Notepad on Windows could not handle Unix-style line endings. It probably makes sense now to adopt the as-is convention, but for a while, it made more sense to convert when checking out, and then to prevent spurious diffs, convert back when committing.
Not to be confused with the "demoscene".[1]

[1] https://www.demoscene.info/
This isn't true at all.

Legal action costs lots of money, no matter who you are, and it's slow. Threatening legal action is usually the most successful mechanism to make things happen, even if you have a one hundred percent chance of winning your case.
Thirding on Bambu lab although they are supposed to be announcing their newest model any day now. You may want to wait a few weeks to see if you could pick up someone’s p1p or p1s for cheap if they are upgrading
BYD’s new battery and charging system was capable of providing 470 kilometers (292 miles) of range in 5 minutes in tests on its new Han L sedan

So... if that sedan uses 200 watt-hours per mile, that comes to 720 kilowatts, or 3/4 of a megawatts.

The V4 supercharges are supposed to get up to 350 kilowatts. Maybe this would be amenable to being plugged in to two chargers at once?
this gave me an overwhelming sense of melancholy
Discussion (305 points, 3 months ago, 246 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42408361
When I drive to and from work I drive through several places where I have to mentally imagine what several other drivers plan to do, and, depending on what they actually do, (and what problems they may run into due to the slippery road) what the traffic picture will look like in a few moments. Which will let me decide if I stop right here, for example, so that the car which will otherwise be blocked by me and itself will block the traffic coming the other way can pass in front of me and resolve the (future) situation.. things like that. I have to do the whole thought experiment in my brain in a second or two.
There are no words at all involved in that. And LLMs can't do such things as of now. I doubt a monkey could either.

At work I do a lot of design thinking. I don't use words for that either, that comes later when I document the thing.
I just went to the readme of PRevent, and looked at it when writing my comment. It puts a comment explaining specifically which code triggered the problem. The attacker can easily see this happening and then test locally with PRevent to make sure their obfuscated code will bypass your detection no?
It absolutely matters. Machines are orders of magnitude faster than they were 20 years ago; most software isn't doing much more than software did 20 years ago. And no, collaborative editing isn't be-all, end-all, nor does it explain where all that performance is lost.

Many optimizations have bad ROI because users' lives are an externality for the industry. It's Good and Professional to save some people-weeks in development, at the cost of burning people-centuries of your users' life in aggregate. And like with pollution, you usually can't pin the problem on anyone, as it's just a sum of great many parties each doing tiny damage.
The expectation is there is a limitation on resources that can be deployed for law enforcement officers viewing things with their eyes. It's virtually unlimited with technology.
Trump plan to fund Musk's Starlink over fiber called "betrayal" of rural US
nVidia's moat isn't really that wide. It's mostly the quality of their software. Their chips are good, but there's nothing particularly proprietary about wide vector math units and fast RAM.

AMD's cards are about there, but their software has a bad reputation. Apple's highest-end M chips are pretty good but they need a big faster RAM and they're also expensive. Intel's Arc is promising. Other competitors are sure to appear.
And, if you were using a Windows client talking to a Unix server, you didn't want to get a text file in binary mode, since most programs at the time couldn't handle Unix line endings. This is much better nowadays, to the point that it rarely matters on either side of the platform divide which type of line endings you use.
> They’re not perfect but how is it bad behavior to say you’ll issue a takedown notice if your copyright material is republished?

That's not what they said. This is how you should have read their reply:

> If your discourse represents a circumvention of this technical protection measure, we'll command a take-down as a standard procedure.

If you say something we don't like, if we think we can make the argument that the information about methodology and implementation you share for free, is circumvention of our DRM, we'll follow our existing strategy to abuse the legal system silence you and prevent you from sharing information.

> I don’t really understand why they’re being treated as the enemy here?

Because they are the bad guy, they're actively working to make the world worse. They're pretending like if it wasn't for their kindness, access to these ebooks would be impossible. But in reality they only care about controlling other people by force. The legal threats, insane arguments about how it's better if how their DRM works is a secret, the intent of the software they're defending, and the messages they sent; are just ways or attempts to exert control what other people are allowed to do, or are allowed to know

I'd also like to discourage this argument generally

> Without their DRM you either wouldn’t be able to borrow ebooks because publishers would never agree to it, or would be limited to kindle/libby to read them

The (unfair) translation of this is: If it wasn't me abusing you, it would be so much worse! You should be saying thank you that it's me abusing you! Not complaining about how you don't like how you're being treated!

Everything can always be worse, the point is to make it better, not accept something harmful.
Laws are crazy. The CAN SPAM act requires you to publish a physical mailing address in the email you send. It was an anachronism even when it was originally passed -- who wants to unsubscribe to email via physical mail? And yet it's still there, for no reason.
the Russians supported Serbia in the 90s as well, albeit in a more limited fashion since the wall just came down and things were pretty raw and hectic in the post-USSR world.
Because tools should be built for their users, not the other way around.
That's the thing about exigency, it is temporary.
I don't see how it would be 'peanuts'.

The RP2350 is 2.65x the die size of the RP2040, so about 8000 chips per 3000$ TSMC 40nm wafer gives you $~0.35 per die. Say 10 cents per die for singulation and testing, and another 10 cents for packaging and processing into reels. I have no idea what the M33 per-unit license is, but something like 5-10 cents seems reasonable, so let's assume 5.

So that's a cost of $0.60 with a reel price of $0.80 for a $0.20 gross profit per chip. So the break even point for full respin of the masks is around 5 million sold chips, 10 million chips when we're including the original masks. For comparison, according to Eben Upton, 10 million RP2040s have been made (but not necessarily sold) from 2021 to 2023.

Would a fix result in 5 million additional chips being sold? Maybe, and for all we know they could be working on doing that just now. Maybe their contract with the pad design provider even pays for a new mask set and it actually costs them nothing. Maybe all of this can be fixed with a cheaper metal layer fix.

But either way this isn't 'peanuts' and it's not a clear cut if doing it is economically viable.
Asking an LLM straight up to recommend a hosting service is not going to return anything useful.

A better approach would be to ask it to help define what it is you want from a hosting service. You can give it a fuzzy poorly written brain dump of what you are looking for ask it to “restate what my requirements are and expand upon them (but don’t solve yet)”. Let it help you understand and clarify your own thinking!

It’s a dialog. Asking LLM’s for answers isn’t really a good use of the tool. Especially something so incredibly broad like “list top ten best providers”. They don’t fucking know! They will just regurgitate what they were trained on. Except maybe ChatGPT’s “deep research” which does a bunch of websearches and compiles and interprets the results.

One of the “problems” with LLM’s is people simply not knowing how to use them or understanding what they are good at and what they aren’t so good at. It’s hard to know because it’s both masked in a hype and honestly I don’t think we have a good understanding of their edges yet.
Writeup on design and changes: https://gist.github.com/klauspost/a25b66198cdbdf7b5b224f670c...

Block and Stream Format: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/minio/minlz/refs/heads/mai...
How is this even remotely new?

There have been patents on it since the 90's.
A company was trying to commercialize "Silent Sound" back then.

For example:

US6052336 Apparatus and Method Of Broadcasting Audible Sound Using
Ultrasonic Sound As A Carrier (Ultrasound) Lowery 1998.

Holosonics has been selling such systems for a while:

https://www.holosonics.com
Only way I've found is to toggle AI off in the AI/Siri settings, and then go into screentime and remove access to Image Playground, ChatGPT, etc. That will even remove the buttons for them in iMessage.
What do auto pens have to do with this?

People have been forging signatures for centuries.

The whole thing from Trump is bullshit. “Plausible justification” for those that want to believe.
The NYT is now reporting that she was deported because she had attended the funeral for the former Hezbollah leader:

The Department of Homeland Security said on Monday that it had deported a Brown University professor and doctor with a valid visa because they said she attended a Hezbollah leader’s funeral in February during a trip to Lebanon.

When questioned by Customs and Border Protection officers upon her return to the United States, Dr. Rasha Alawieh, who is Lebanese, “openly admitted” her support for the leader, Hassan Nasrallah, according to a Homeland Security spokeswoman. Dr. Alawieh was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/rasha-alawieh-brown-un... (https://archive.is/fraB8)

The article goes on to say that the Department did not say why they thought she had attended this funeral, but seeing it on her phone does seem like an obvious possibility. This is of course independent of the question of whether this should be sufficient to deny re-entry.
If it was a book I wouldn't buy it. The theme does seem to fit a kids book.

What I find hilarious is that I cant tell if this took years to draw and compose or if it was 5 minutes worth of prompts. Did they knit everything? I sometimes see my art on low effort articles, I'm 99% sure they think it's AI.

The only detail I really liked was how the arrow representing the computer communicating to the user has a ring on the back so that the user can be roped in like a whale.
Allen Jones on decades of fetish furniture controversy vs career
not the person you're replying to but one trick I've found to be very effective is to find a product on amazon and then look for the vendor to buy from directly.
Practically no one was using AMiga for its OS.
All the people would ever see is a Kickstart as tool to load their game.

Amiga was smooth just as long as CPU usage was low and as long one used the stuff that its chipset could do.

And all that "smoothness" was useless once one got above what TV can do.
I used PC for DOS Tango (schematic and PCB CAD) for example and even cheap Tseng ET-4000 card with 1MB would put Amiga to shame as it could do 1280x1024x16 colors.

Yes, animation speed wasn't great, but it worked. Two years later I had Diamond Stealth 2MB which could do 1600x1200x16 colors, running circles around anything any Amiga could do.
America is facing a beef deficit
A conversation is ephemeral unless someone specifically goes out of their way to record it. That is not true by default for just about anything involving a computer and we all know it. Where's the line between obtuse and lying?
Line endings between windows and unix-like systems were so painful that when I started development on my shell scripting language, I wrote a bunch of code to all Linux to handle Windows files and visa versa.

Though this has nothing to do with FTP. I’d already abandoned that protocol by then.
I think that depends on what effect you think the collapse would have on the market and economy.

If US cost of debt goes up, then you would either have cut spending, or raise taxes and spend a greater portion of budget on interest.

Neither of those are particular exciting for long term business growth.

Low interest rates on US public debt boosts spending and the economy. No matter if you think the government spends money in a wise or efficient manner, it is better to do so with low interest than high.
The Switch doesn't rely so much on AAA and live-service games like other consoles that have large amounts of graphics and voice content, since it's not powerful enough to run them (and the customer base is different).
The problem I keep running into is that IPv6 support in common infrastructure is somewhat lacking.

It's always a headache to learn that some container orchestration system doesn't support IPv6. Or an http client. Or a DNS resolver. Or whatever.

Not to mention the supreme annoyance I have that, to this day, my ISP still does not have IPv6 addressing available.
Then the metaphor is broken. So find a new metaphor.
Actually, it does. A few OS versions ago, Apple started hiding the user Library directory. And then obnoxiously RE-hiding it with each OS update if you had cleared its "hidden" attribute.

I think they finally stopped the re-hiding behavior.

None of that compares to the mess that is Windows's user directories. I mean... WTF is all of this stuff? There are two or three copies or shadows of the user-directory structure, and everything is "forbidden..." Windows is just painful and infuriating to use at this point.
Rippling Sues Deel – Corporate Espionage [pdf]
There is definitely a distinction between safe and unsafe code in C, it is just not a simple binary distinction. But this does not make it impossible to screen C for unsafe constructions and it also does not mean that detecting unsafe issues in Rust is always trivial.
Underrated under which metric?

I would say it's rated highly by tourists and expats.
Yep! And indeed, this is Who Gives A Crap. I've been really impressed with their product. I do still intend to buy bidets for the house to cut down on TP use overall, but theirs is pretty darn environmentally friendly for the product that it is, and the subscription has been just the right amount that we're not having to buy extra at the grocery to cover shortages nor winding up with stacks and stacks like a doomsday prepper.
> So .us is more trustworthy than .com. Good to know.

Be careful about concluding things like that.

The TLD has a requirement that you publish your info. That doesn't mean they have any way of verifying it. If someone could prove that the info was false then they might lose the domain, but they also lose the domain if someone can prove that they're operating a scam. So the scammers just make up fake info and all the requirement is doing is impacting the privacy of honest people who want a .us domain.
Voters might not like being blamed. But that doesn't make it "not their fault".

If the get defensive I just shrug and repeat "you voted for this".
Thank you for reminding me about Telefon Tel Aviv.
I think that if your iOS version is latest and some basic code to unlock your phone is set and even if you're not logged in, it will not make storage available because you wouldn't be able to set the options to up backup your data, besides allowing it
mostly scale: accumulation of data over time and use of that data (a single brief observation of an anonymous person vs identification and observation of a person over time, with real-time activities reported to law enforcement). same way that it's unacceptable/illegal for a police officer - without probable cause or a warrant - to follow you down the street to your home, then wait outside your home and follow you 24/7, recording all your activities which exist in the public sphere, then putting you on a departmental watchlist where your protected activities are broadcast to all officers in real-time.

you may be ok with that ("i don't have anything to hide", "i trust the police/government", "the free market will prevent abuses [by companies like Dataminr]" are some rebuttals i've heard recently), but it undermines our constitutional rights, setting a dangerous precedent and chilling free speech/association (per the ACLU). additionally, how else is this collected information being used by the police and Dataminr? what are their retention policies? what other kinds of analysis are being done (fta, there seems to be a not-insignificant number of false positives)?
They do it more than you'd think. There're a ton of pictures of La Cosa Nostra members walking around in Brooklyn taken by FBI agents. They even made sure to get the good side of Casso and Gotti.

Walking around and talking to each other? Constitutionally protected.
I wish tape archival was easier to get into. But because it's niche and mainly enterprise, drives usually start in the multiple thousands of dollar range unless you go way down in capacity to less than a modern SSD.
But this is also easy to protect against if you use the tools available to C programmers. It is part of the Rust hype that we would be completely helpless here, but this is far from the truth.
Technically speaking, we can generate and store an unlimited amount of information/entropy for future use.

It doesn't really go bad unless you disseminate the material to inappropriate parties. You could store terabytes of it in S3 buckets for an emergency.
Aside from maintaining the building, what landlords are doing is renting access to capital, same as a bank loan.
And as I found out the drives are tempermental. I had a tape library and eventually both drives said they'd needed cleaning, even after cleaning. When it worked it was great, though a cheap NAS with a couple of hard drives in it replaced it and was far more reliable and cheaper.
I always wondered if ransomware is making some compromises in security so it can encrypt the disk so quickly and covertly.
My hope is: no way for latest public update
Is there a way to make it loop? (So that one only needs to record e.g. 20 seconds, after which it loops to save space)
Cracking 90s Abandonware (For the Alesis QS Series) with ChatGPT
This is an ongoing project to archive everything I can find for my NOS synth. With a focus on using chatGPT and ghidra to crack the demo limitations on ancient abandonware whose authors are no longer reachable
I don't know if it is still as fragile as you remember but if you just never update your package-lock then it is super stable as you (transitive) dependencies never change.

The non-trivial exception being if some dependecy was downloading resources on the fly (maybe like a browser compat list) or calling system libraries (eg running shell commands)
Well that goes without saying.
Not really - I feel like vendors are pushing towards stacking more chips on top of each other rather than stuffing more data into a cell.

QLC feels like a step too far - data retention, TBW lifetime and write speed after running out of SLC cache is horrible compared to TLC, for a 33% increase of capacity.

When SSDs are literally cheap as chips, I'd gladly pay the premium for TLC.
Prime Target gets horrible reviews for botching cryptography in cringe-worthy ways, not to mention horrid acting. Normally I would avoid such a sarcastic comment about a video series, but given the Apple TV platform, it gets a lot of eyes and affects how many people get introduced to cryptography, so it is good to be aware of it.
Rust is better at this yes, but the practical advantage is not necessarily that huge.
Compressed Complexity
A lot more than 11% of GDP relies on various imports randomly being subject to tariffs (on everything from steel and lumber to electronics). This is effecting everything from manufacturing and construction to retail.
Self-driving cars are a political problem, not a technical one. Our roads don't work especially well for human drivers, so I don't know why anyone expected machines to achieve perfection.
> Unfortunately the SEC only requires them to report transactions within 15 minutes, not in real time.

TRF reports must happen within 10 seconds or be submitted with a late modifier [0]. An executing broker systematically submitting all reports 15 minutes late would be investigated pretty quickly.

You can buy access to the consolidated tape from a marketdata provider, although this is going to be pretty prohibitively expensive for an individual.

[0] https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/rulebooks/finra-rules/6...
The OSA definition of hate is what was already illegal under the 1986 Public Order Act.
Is that at highway speeds (75 miles/hour)? The EPA range estimates/ratings are a blend of city and highway driving with an average speed of 48 miles/hr. So highway range is usually considerably less than the EPA estimate. Maybe Mercedes is super-conservative with their range estimate? Makes more sense I guess for a luxury class vehicle.
The problem is that for any reasonable value of N (>100) you will need prohibitive amounts of storage. And it will be extremely sparse. And you won’t capture any interactions between N-99 and N-98.

Transformers do that fairly well and are pretty efficient in training.
I bought a PinebookPro laptop a few years ago and I liked it for what it was. I played around with IIRC Manjaro Linux on it, but got a bit stuck with trying to set it up with encrypted boot disk (on the additional NVMe drive) and moved onto something else. Maybe I should pick it up again and give it another go.
You’re getting downvoted but I’m similarly put off by the gratuitous downblouse and upskirt shots (at least in the first underware video [0] which is itself referred to from the linked video).

I was more put off by how long the video is and how little the actual underware system is on display. It seems more like a branding exercise for the person in the video. Contrast that to the tirst gridfinity video [1] which yea also has terrible puns and wordplay, but which spends way more time showing off the project.

[0] https://youtu.be/0TT96b98YZY
On the one hand - this "how long 'till property tax break-even?" approach seems like nice, conservative accounting.

On the other hand - the higher costs of police, fire, etc. services, in and around abandoned buildings, also comes directly from the City's bottom line.

And if nearby residents' insurance rates go down in response to blight demolition, that's an obvious incentive for them to support demolition millages.
A Sinister Brood of Web Crawlers Is Hatching
thanks a lot. actually this is my first ios app. I didn't think that there will be a demand :) so there is no testflight for now. maybe I need to consider buying a dev account
The optimum nitrogen fertilizer rate for maize in the US Midwest is increasing