skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mathematica is open on my computer as we speak (or, rather, now Wolfram.app). The "About" screen indicates "Wolfram 14.2". I have a seat on an site licence.

https://imgur.com/a/WUpSsF8

(If you're interested in what I'm currently doing with it, I'm playing around with Mathematica's neural network library.)
Download of APK not working. It's been saying it's building since yesterday. Download of source code works.
In Garissa, Kenya, which is almost exactly on the equator, the day length varies between 12 hours 6 minutes and 12 hours 9 minutes. So it is 12 hours if you are rounding to hours.
Musk has talked explicitly about unwinding portions of NASA and replacing it with SpaceX to "improve efficiency."

Which honestly should happen to some extent (I'm not a fan of SLS). But we shouldn't become beholden to one vendor, and it's sure looking a lot more like removing options for the future and competition than a play for efficiency.

And anyone doing this for their own companies in the past would be a textbook example of corruption.
But logically, there's no reason to believe that other animals can't be possessed by spirits. Maybe pigs were just the closest available thing.
Though this problem seems to be mostly restricted to the US American legal system.
if you want comfort read the other comments, and if you want change, read this one. people here seem to think "homeless mess and sad liability dad," is better than "far away dad who will come back," which I think is insane.

depression is a terrible disease because it's like an addiction that gnaws at your humanity and makes you a slave to it, and a lot of parents use their kids as enablers and a source of supply. if change were easy, everyone would do it.

laptops are generally more expensive than an old PC, children aren't assets to be used as connections or leverage to get himself out of this situation, they are people he has a responsibility to that he has failed to be able to meet.

nobody has to follow this, but they have to face the possibility and then decide whether it reflects the truth.
Amazon is blundering into an AI copyright nightmare
The diagram in the post has the user device talking to the attacker device over Bluetooth, and the bug description explicitly says "An attacker within bluetooth range" - which heavily implies to me your device actually is pairing with the attacker device somehow! If already being paired with the attacker Bluetooth device is a prerequisite for this attack that's much less of a concern imo.
I haven't been to a show in a long time but was obsessed as a young person. I heard some people I know were planning to go to Riviera Maya. I did not expect it to be cheap, but the prices were eye watering. It bummed me out.
Parent said:

“if I don't understand I cannot move on to next step”.

I disagree that you can not move on. You definitely can. So your statement about what “nobody said” contradicts what was actually said.
PixiJS is too low level for anyone who wants to get something up quickly. For example, you have to implement your own dragging code (ew).
It’s surprising that they took measurements at 2000 and 2020 and did not mention the Great Recession at all, which severely reduced ability of households to get a mortgage and disrupted both demand and supply. I don’t think their attempt to control for the “kinked” supply curve by dropping the bottom 25% of metros by income growth is sufficient to eliminate metros that were devastated by the Great Recession.

Also, I am not sure whether comparing to median value of constraint index (e.g. Wharton residential land use regulation index) is a particularly good way to categorizing metros into constrained and unconstrained, since it’s hard to know which specific constraints of the “regulatory hydra” are important for future development (https://twitter.com/TheJakeSchmidt/status/157220787234744729...). One metro may need to reduce minimum lot sizes to allow the next increment of development, whereas another metro may need to allow lot mergers and relax density limits instead.

So I think this paper is basically concluding that land use constraints are harder to measure than income growth.
Macro Data Refinement
Come refine with us.
go install github.com/sinclairtarget/git-who@latest
The unwritten contract of solid state drives
The Git project has a script for that: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/contacts/git-...
If you’re willing to commit time to learning my shell then I’m willing to commit time to learning ripgrep. ;-)

https://murex.rocks

Edit:

> I bet we are. Maybe you are a lot more open to learning new things than you are letting on in your comments here.

Oh absolutely I’m open to learning new things.

Just recently I’ve been learning about tmux control mode (eg what iTerm2 uses for tmux integration) because I wanted to bypass tmux terminal emulation for specific escape codes, meaning I can then draw native elements inside a terminal window, such as spreadsheets, images, and code folding, while still having full tmux capabilities.

That was a “fun” ride. I plan on writing a blog about it at some point because there’s some features about tmux that I think others would be surprised to learn.
I PoC'd this and ended using PhaserJS for the 2D stuff I had to do - it's more game-oriented by much more full-featured. The API is intuitive as well.
Gemini gets conversational coding and an AI podcast maker
High-fidelity entanglement between telecom photon and room-temp quantum memory
The LLM capabilities/usefulness debate seems so ridiculously polarized. On the one hand you have a gullible C-suite gulping down the "on the brink of super-intelligence" cool-aid making plans to ditch 80% of their workforce in the next 2 years. On the other side you have the Ivory Tower academics still parroting the "stochastic parrot" good for nothing memes.

The serious middle ground, appreciating the new tools for what they can offer but while aware of the limitations and fitting them into useful slots in the business-processes, feels very underrepresented.

I'm interacting on this with lots of people on both sides of this isle and am constantly amazed by the almost caricatural shallowness of understanding on either side.
There are no major blows required. The idea that carefully written C/C++ code is just as safe was never tenable in the first place, and obviously so.
What confuses me even more about that situation is that Canada seems to distinguish between business travel and work travel instead, where those two options seem to be mutually exclusive to each other (199b), and neither is for pleasure

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-2002-227...
I'd be really happy if the internal company chatbot didn't share my private health concerns with everyone or reveal how much money I make. :) Great article!
semi related: how does astral actually make money to pay the devs?
A prince of Egypt that believed in the religion of the sun was forced to leave and took some slaves with him. For example.
> find a single reason

You started this response by explicitly ignoring that reason.

> it never was controversial before

It was also never the case that the US was launching ~two rockets per week.
Founder Stacks Leaderboard
> So the EV market is a lot larger than Tesla's corner of it. Which is basically the 44K - ~100K segment. And that segment is very crowded now as well.

Sure but Tesla competes very well in that market. Ioniq 5 for instance is in their price range, which by all accounts is an amazing car, but there are hardly any of them on the road. Whereas Model Y is literally one of the best selling cars in the world.
What you are describing is periodicity. That’s different from quantization.
ScholarlyArticle: "High-fidelity entanglement between a telecom photon and a room-temperature quantum memory" (2025) https://arxiv.org/html/2503.11564v1

NewsArticle: "Scientists Achieve Telecom-Compatible Quantum Entanglement with Room-Temperature Memory" (2025) https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/03/19/scientists-achieve-...
How often are totalitarian regimes defeated by voting, though? The problem with this mindset is that people can use it to talk themselves out of ever doing anything, which is the ideal environment for totalitarianism. Unpleasant as these tactics are, they seem to be effective in achieving their goal of cratering Tesla sales.
Good marketing for who? It's not like the cars themselves suddenly got worse. I think most people don't engage in victim blaming when someone or some group are targeted by domestic terrorists, which is definitionally what is happening (Oxford Languages: "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims").

The people who should worry about the marketing problem here are the Democrats. They're directly funding this violence and vandalism via their NGO network, don't seem to be condemning it and it's their inverted rhetoric claiming Republicans are Nazis that has now created a left-wing street army physically attacking anyone who supports the opposition: exactly the tactics used in the Weimar Republic. Irony is surely dead.

Also, a lot of the people getting vandalized or pressured to inconveniently sell their car at a loss are Democrats themselves, many of whom will certainly be wondering why they're supporting the team that would directly attack innocent people in such horrible ways.

It's unlikely Musk would care even if Tesla really suffered. His biographies make it clear enough. Getting rich has never been what motivated him, and he owns private companies that are basically terrorism-proof. They spin off enough money to sustain his often rather spartan lifestyle in any case. All these attacks will do is build sympathy for him, for the right, and radicalize them still further.
Sure, but they’re not going to optimize for that case because the bulk of their Mac sales are tied up in their laptops and a significant chunk (I’d hazard a guess over 50%) of people buying Studios/Pros especially but also Minis are pairing them with Studio Displays, Pro Display XDRs, or more recently the various third-party 2x HiDPI display offerings from the likes of Asus, BenQ, Dell, and Samsung.
I'm trying to find the darkest corner of the earth to chill in so I can actually get some work done. I can't get anything done when the sun is out and people are out and about. Maybe I'll move to that Italian village that has the giant sun mirror thing.
Crabtime: Zig’s Comptime in Rust
Profimat! Clicketyclicky 68000 Monitor/Debugger/Assembler for the Atari ST.

Bought it in person in that building pictured there.
Generally just avoid absolutes as much as possible in your life. In most cases it will benefit you.
is anyone outside of the research labs fine tuning models for production use cases? I have been seeing more people just using foundational models off the shelf especially in light of a new advancement that seems to come every few months
Almost all of these are good things to consider with human coders as well. Product managers take note!

https://ezyang.github.io/ai-blindspots/requirements-not-solu...
No, but it does have to exist. A private word of thanks isn't enough to even rise to that level.
What's next: A look at Unity's 2025 roadmap
I strongly disagree with this article, I think that the DMA is great.

This article, to me, sounds like "oh no, the EU is making it harder for monopolies to keep their monopoly, it will surely hurt the users!". I strongly believe it is the opposite: the DMA is going against monopolies with the goal to allow more competition, and therefore better products for users.

If the EU doesn't get Apple features, great: that will leave space for competitors. And the EU really needs as many non-US competitors as possible, because the US have become hostile.
Gemini Co-Drawing: Doodle on a Canvas with Google Gemini 2.0
I haven't kept up much over the last 15 years or so. What is the situation these days with ticket lotteries and the taping section? Are people still allowed to tape, and do they still do a lottery for tour runs?
I let this run for 50 or so images and more than half were definitely AI generated. Other than one (real-looking) shot of clothed BDSM everything was completely vanilla. Maybe I tried the wrong moment.
I grew up in locker rooms. I started swimming competitively at age 7. The whole, "you were actually surrounded by trans people your whole life and never knew it till 5 years ago!" is absolutely delusional and my guess is you don't actually have much experience in men's rooms at all.
If they want the customers, they should have to compete for them. Google shouldn't be allowed to acquire any companies. They're already huge.
I'm not sure that this would make any practical difference if they were to show up at your door with the intention of vanning you.
I don't understand. If a company closes, how is a union supposed to help?
In your code, in the `ensure` part you want `SET synchronous_commit TO DEFAULT` instead of the explicit `on` (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-set.html)

Then, I suspect you may probably rather want to use `SET LOCAL` rather than just `SET`, so it applies to a single transaction only. So maybe something more like

def asynchronous_transaction(&block)
ActiveRecord::Base.connection.transaction do
ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute("SET LOCAL synchronous_commit = off")
yield
end
end

Please note that I don't really know Rails (in particular, I've no idea whenever `Base.connection` is guaranteed to be exactly the same throughout this function's lifecycle or if e.g. there's a connection pool underneath), so I could be introducing some subtle bugs here.
Really looking forward to the live demo
Sure, but you claimed that they were definitely not a monopoly, which hasn't been determined yet.
>If we want voters for climate reform, we need a translation. We need to tell them: You'll drown you'll starve

Okay but we've already ascertained that the voters we are trying to reach are extremely media illiterate (otherwise they would see those problems with Fox News) and have opted into an information stream that explicitly leaves out nuance, details, information, anything that contradicts their opinions.

So I don't care what translation you think will magically convince these people, but how do you get them to hear it!?

Everyone desperately grasping at straws of how to improve things keep coming to the same problem: These people don't accept reality, and have chosen to only pay attention to content that meets their existing beliefs. They are doing the democratic equivalent of jamming their fingers in their ears and screaming LALALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU to reality.

This was even a problem for Fox News itself! They knew the dominion voting machine story was bullshit, so they didn't want to push it, but they were losing viewership to the god awful propaganda networks that DID push it! Voters will distrust Fox News before they distrust what they already want to believe.

Even the "moderates" and "centrists" are getting their view of Democrat talking points from the republicans, which is why they all think the Democrats want to hypertrans their babies despite actual democrat politicians running zero ads about that. That's why they think the Democrats are weak on border security despite the republicans voting down the border security bill.
Most of us think of math as fundamental—numbers, axioms, and logic existing independently of us. But what if they don’t? What if math is actually emergent—a recursive structure that loops back on itself, just like perception, language, and time?

This idea started as a simple question: How do questions shape answers? That led me into a deep rabbit hole of Gödel’s incompleteness, percolation theory, the Riemann Hypothesis, and even dark matter. Along the way, I found something shocking—math itself might not be what we think it is.
> Its just plain out stupid thing to do, to be treated worse than garbage.

My home country and the EU treat me even worse because of the lack of 200k+ USD jobs for my experience level
he mentioned regional forums, so I assume a large part of what is missing is a common culture/language instead of whatever conglomeration comes out of the US.

the EU regulations made it harder/less attractive to host a small local forum and I think that was his point
Speculative investors aren't removing the house from the market, they're renting it out. Houses produce Housing. Sure, some people specifically want to buy Houses, but all of us need Housing.

(I do completely agree we should get speculation out of the housing market - housing as a memecoin, buying because line-go-up is not healthy)
Feminists were protesting this way back in the 1970s. Janice Raymond even wrote a popular book about it.

Here's a review of her book, from 1979, which lays out many of the same points around this issue as are being discussed today: https://www.nytimes.com/1979/06/10/archives/male-and-female-...
Localhost is typically uniquely trusted, generally speaking, even when loading a localhost page on HTTP it behaves like a page served over HTTPS would (in terms of the browser APIs you have access to for example). Also for a port scan it's not all that unusual since you can do it without loading any resources, so CORS alone wouldn't protect you from it. Maybe an extension that injects / modifies CSP rules could protect from this but it might also end up breaking websites.
Sorry, I didn't realize you were on first name terms with him.
Parent isn't suggesting price controls in any way.
The "weather" in fair-weather friend refers to externalities, not to the behavior of your friend.
I think there's also a reasonable proportion of readers who want "political" topics removed from HN, even if the topic intersects with HN-relevant topics.

(I'm not one of them, but I believe many are. I appreciate where they are coming from.)
I personally like extremes. My ideal scenario would be a dark room where I can get work done, and then every hour or so, I take a five-minute break outdoors in direct sunlight.
You can now abuse people because Musk fired everybody and "Twitter didn't collapse"?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-begs-advertisers-re...

"X-formerly-Twitter is in deep trouble — and owner Elon Musk is on his knees, yet again, imploring advertisers to return."

It's not just X/Twitter. TSLA is down over 50%. SpaceX is, to a best guess, losing money, Starlink is losing money (and that's ignoring the fact that any money transfers between SpaceX and Starlink obviously should be counted as investment in SpaceX, NOT as revenue. Otherwise SpaceX might be losing 2 digit billions per year)

You want to abuse people for economic gain? All that's been done up to now is abusing people for MASSIVE economic loss.
Except for my bank app that refuses to scan payment qr codes, and OCR is faster and more reliable on getting the information
Sure, I guess? So is someone going to argue something along the lines of privately owned real name walled garden social media being no worse than intentionally sharing all of your personal correspondence and various other metadata with a data broker? I'd be inclined to agree with such an argument but to what end?
If you don't want to be hit by the anti-monopoly legislation, just don't be a monopoly.
I don't know why you are getting down voted. The koreans are obviously ahead of the japanese and europeans in the EV game. Hyundai has gone through more generations of EV cars than any of them and their Kona/Ioniq series are very high quality.
Nvidia wants to put a GB300 Superchip on your desk with DGX Station, Spark PCs
Built a tool utilizing AI to analyze your resume, provide tailored job searches across various job boards, a AI agent to talk about your resume with and an interview prep tool that asks you questions specifically towards your job and resume. Provides a grade and breakdown so you can help improve and land the jobs you want.
The way things like this are developed is not by "clever and highly paid engineers". They're developed by a cabal of businesses led by a standards body to try and wrangle all the competing interests into one solution for everyone's problems (lol jk, it's to solve the problems of the most influential organizations involved).

Because the whole process is design-by-committee on crack, the solutions don't tend to be technically very good. But they don't need to be, because they're not trying to solve a technical problem, they're trying to solve a business problem.

The solutions they come up with are always ugly and broken at first, and don't account for all the needs of everyone (remember, only the most important's needs get met first), so they eventually churn out a fixed version and that becomes the version everyone ends up using long term.

WebAuthn/Passkeys/FIDO/etc aren't even one solution or standard. They're a cobbled together patchwork of different pre-existing standards with some extra pixie dust mixed in. Almost everyone agrees that the users and implementers are who loses out when these things are pushed. But a couple giant businesses have an easier time solving their problems, which are large-scale security problems. And all the rest of us use it, because we tend to defer to large powerful authority figures, and we don't know what the hell else to do.

Whatever universal solution is pushed will continue to suck balls, because there are too many different use cases, and no single solution will ever work well for all of them.

What has worked, is working, and will continue to work, is to simply support a variety of different security mechanisms independently, and allow users to install a password manager which wrangles it all for them, across different use cases, sites, applications, devices, organizations, etc.
That's kinda why I'd like a 64GiB M4 Air. 64 is the magic number for local LLMs of any reasonable capability. Example: deepseek-coder can do unit tests, gemma3 can summarize PDFs and stuff pretty well, etc. You can't do much with LLMs with only 32GiB, just run baby ones.
Maybe organize them more clearly split between observed pitfalls/blindspots and prescriptions. Some of the articles (Use automatic formatting) are Practice forward, while others are pitfall forward. I like how many of the articles have examples!
It's true. Highly recommend getting a globe in your hands to convince yourself about stuff like this. Close one eye, pretend you're the sun and observe the effect the tilt has and how it has no effect on the equator (apart from changing the angle of the sun; interestingly the sun's path alternares between being in the north sky and being in the south sky).

You'll also be able to understand time zones and great circles (flight paths) better with a globe.
Everyone Wants Debt, Not Equity
It may be helpful to think of him as Twitter-poisoned: https://archive.is/Xm0Ly

Twitter has algorithmically overfed his narcissism and sociopathy to the point where’s he’s detached from reality, and no amount of “smart” can get him out of this hole.
Gentoo Portage had support for running on top of Interix, so it did run on Windows at some point (over 15 years ago).
I agree with your gut feeling and add that to me it feels im surrounded by f*ing Zombies.

It's not that they are too stupid, but they don't even __try__ to think.