skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is the situation in the UK - until it is in the hands of the buyer, the seller is wholly responsible for the item and delivering it to you.

Consequently, you only ever really see this kind of blase delivery from Amazon, who I guess are rich enough to absorb the cost.
Yup.

I'd be delicious.

https://youtu.be/gOE-q20RcDM?si=CrT9aV6SwutgZsAG
Were you by any chance in college 20 years ago?

Absolutely none of this tracks for me, it smacks of someone extrapolating their tiny niche to the entire world.

PS: Limewire was loaded with browser toolbars and malware. The definition of corporate hell.
> Recognizing concepts, grouping and manipulating similar concepts together,

Once again, it does none of those things. The training dataset has those concepts grouped together. The model recognizes nothing, and groups nothing

> I really have no idea how to address your argument. It’s like you’re saying,

No. I'm literally saying: there's literally nothing to support your belief that there's anything resembling understanding of the world, having a world model, neurons, thinking, or reasoning in LLMs.
I wonder if you use it exclusively for coding, because for general purpose explanation tasks, 3.7 seems absolutely terrible unfortunately.

Back when it was 3.5 you could actually talk and learn things and it felt humane, but now it sounds like a McKinsey-corpo in a suit who sounds all fancy but is only right half the time.

I’ve switched back (rather regretfully) to chatgpt, and holy hell is its personality much better. For example just try asking it to explain differences between Neo Grotesque and Geometrical Sans Serif fonts/typefaces. One sounds like a friend trying to explain, the other sounds like a soulless bot. (And if you have 3.5 access, try asking it too.)
I agree although sites still might concerned about password re-use they could just have an option to generate what is basically a key. Instead of a password and some sort 2fa "token" which is basicallly a key. Accept for that 2fa token only a low amount the entropy is capable of generating is used.

I also agree sms 2fa is just broken/garbage.
Is the AI juice worth the carbon squeeze?
I'm pleased to say that the Chimera folk persisted, got access to a $2500 64 core 128 GB RAM RISC-V workstation, the Milk-V Pioneer, and successfully built their distro from scratch in a reasonable time, and have reinstated RISC-V at the same level as LoongArch.

Congratulations!

https://chimera-linux.org/news/2025/03/new-riscv-server.html
https://archive.ph/p86V1
British forum admins cutting off a couple of decades of posts to be legally compliant.
Not only DLP. Some laser projectors use a color wheel to get the same effect; other laser projectors use multiple lasers, but pulse the colors individually and you get a similar effect; probably there are some laser projectors that do all colors simultaneously too, just as there are some DLP projectors with 3 DLP surfaces and prisms/etc to split and combine the light. My laser projector does the pulsing, I find it slightly less distracting than I remember color wheels being, but it's very similar; thankfully the family has gotten used to it; I only notice it on content that encourages a lot of fast eye movement.
Author misses the point.
There are now basically 2 answers:

- go with vanilla html js + some css stuff à la tailwind

- go with react for anything with more dynamic interaction

I am not a huge fan of either, but anything else will be costly either in hiring opportunity or in terms of “shit I can’t use that dependency in my xxx framework”
F35 has more electronic warfare infra backing it
It's SwiftUI. See [1] and [2].

[1]: https://github.com/Bogdanp/NoiseBackendExample

[2]: https://github.com/Bogdanp/Noise
Anonymous functions are not primitive values, so JavaScript passes them as pointers. React uses strict equality when comparing props, so non-primitive values are compared with pointer equality. The useCallback hook allows one to cache anonymous functions in order to pass stable pointers as props and avoid re-renders from pointers changing. It's the exact same motivation as useMemo for passing props with "stable identity".
I don't think the goal is to just have the AI characters go off the rails - they're not supposed to be a thin curtain between the player and a generalized large language model.

Instead the goal would be to have the expressive INPUT of an LLM constrained to a detailed character bio/profile provided by the game's writers. This would work particularly well in interactive fiction, but could also work equally well in a game with voice recognition.

Having a game give the conventional "tree" of pre-programmed questions that can be asked of an NPC makes a player feel like they have LESS agency. Further, in games of detective fiction, it can actually spoil the sport itself by priming the player.
What do you mean by 'doing' rather than 'deciding' especially at the c-suite level ?
I thought that's what c-suites are paid to do - 'strategy' and 'capital allocation'.
Any example company you have in mind that has leadership actively 'doing' ?
People are randomly arrested and detained base on official government policy. And they have been arresting and detaining people long before Jan 2024, but it was scaled up recently. A recent story made it clear that some people with minor visa overstays have already been detained for months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410548

The fact is if you care about people from all around the world being able to attend your conference, the U.S. hasn’t been a good location for a long time. That’s not new. In fact [2][3] is only noteworthy because it was an influential individual (in this circle) with a strong passport; people with weaker passports are routinely denied. Hell sometimes UN diplomats are denied.
Jobs was kind of infamous for making people put their app / product in front of him while he sat in silence and used it. Harder to fake.

But lots of execs don't know enough about their own products to interrogate like that. So they settle for BS presentations.
Humm the next logical step would be to pressurize the rocket before igniting it. Or maybe to add some water in the bottle to increase the propelled mass. They just need a way to ignite the alcohol fume from the top……
I'm not sure about the real etymology, but I suppose a rule (line) is a special case of a rule (instruction): things should be aligned with this line.
It doesn't matter what any of the other teams did apart from points. McLaren won the constructor's championship.
I’m pleased to say that the Chimera folk persisted, got access to a $2500 64 core 128 GB RAM RISC-V workstation, the Milk-V Pioneer, and successfully built their distro from scratch in a reasonable time, and have reinstated RISC-V at the same level as LoongArch.

Congratulations!

https://chimera-linux.org/news/2025/03/new-riscv-server.html
For $32 billion?
Founder of Depot here. For image builds, we’ve done quite a bit of optimization to BuildKit for our image builders to make certain aspects of the builds fast like load, cache invalidations, etc.

We also do native multi-platform builds behind one build command. So you can call depot build —platform Linux/amd64,linux/arm64 and we will build on native Intel and ARM CPUs and skip all the emulation stuff. All of that adds up to really fast image builds.

Hopefully that’s helpful!
Show HN: I made link-in-bio for professionals to maximize conversions
There's an interactive business card in the user's page with all their links.
We are all supposed to have less work with all the innovation and automation but look at us now with all the households where two adults are required to have jobs.
Typed Key Pattern
There are multiple factors. There is vehicle related degradation and also weather related. In areas with a freeze that cycle road maintenance has a flat cost component. Someone needs to pay for roads.
> If you were arguing in good faith, you'd head directly there instead of lampooning the use of a marketing page in a discussion.

Which part of the paper supports the "models have a world model, reasoning, etc." and not what I said, "in our training data similar concepts were clustered with some other similar concepts, and manipulating these clusters lead to different outcomes"?
The point is that they offload a lot of the things to third parties.
> Given that, Apple is stuck trying to catch up to the rest of the products in the AI space

Oh, of course. Like...? Nothing else has access to relevant data. That's like 95% of the pitch of siri.

Voice assistants are just fundamentally embarrassing to use, imo. The only exception of which I can think is while driving.
What Happened to the Mars Helicopter? [video]
OCR is not the task being solved here, though. This is supposed to help you when dealing with complex layouts where text is not just read left-to-right, top-to-bottom.

But I agree that accurate OCR is kind of a prerequisite for adaptation.
OP also specifically called out USB 2 speeds.
Tell HN: Enabling users to do server-side self-blocking is neat
I just remembered about the `noprocrast` setting in this site[^1]. It's cool because it's like the server-side version of doing the 127.0.0.1 <domain_you_want_to_block> trick on your /etc/hosts file. The problem with that approach is obvious in the hands of any decent hacker: if you have physical access to it, the machine is not (should not be?) safe from you.

Server-side auto-blocking is cool because is like locking yourself somewhere and then throwing the key as a way to avoid temptation and I just realized I had been taking that for granted.

I know you can create / use another proxy-like service to do something like this, but it's quite cool that the site has the feature (a) natively integrated and (b) configurable to the likes of the user. That's what I call user-friendly UX.

Anyways, I only wanted to say that. We live in a world surrounded by predatory software that wants to lock us in, hijack our attention, or take us hostage in one way or another which lead to movements like OSS, copyleft, or local-first/local-only software. Then I noticed that we hackers tend to be obsessed about control: my software, my data, my compute running on my machine. But, it was pleasantly surprising to realize that, in the case of a site where one may become addicted to, it would be nice for the site to add a "layer of indirection" as we would love to say over here, where we "implement the callback" as... yea, don't let me come near you for a while... and the site actually takes away control from you /after you asked it to!/.

Pretty silly, but it made my day for some reason.

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[^1]: If you go to `https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=<your_id>`, you can set noprocrast, maxvisit, and minaway as a way to block the site. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=814695
System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster – Reveal Trailer [video]
The Dutch people are early adopters. But our startups generally think way too small.
That is a valid risk, for sure. What I initially meant was that taking a gap year is a risk and not taking one is also a risk.
> People are randomly arrested and detained base on official government policy.

Right, but you did not give examples of that happening previously.
Ask HN: Should I learn COBOL at 14yo in 2025?
I've worked in many programming languages, but are older languages like COBOL or Fortran worth looking into? COBOL certainly has a job opportunity later on since the average age of developers is over 60, they will probably hire any young person who has learned a minimum of COBOL which is already quite rare
> We’re living in a world where billion dollar tech companies expect us to live and breathe code, demanding 80 hour weeks under the guise of "passion." And what do we get in return? Burnout, anxiety, and the constant threat of layoffs.

..apart from 6- or 7-figure pay, a chance to hit it real big, and to built things that everybody uses? and this for job positions that 40-years ago commanded an average salary, because the latest React is not rocket science.

Reminds me of "apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
That's interesting!

Though I would just directly fill up parliament with a few hundred MPs picked at random from among volunteers.

Parliament can then make laws and pick leaders for the executive (like in Germany or the UK).

As a slight complication, I would allow people to pre-declare proxies that would sit in parliament for them. Proxy declaration season would be akin to traditional election season.

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In the UK or Germany, this way you could keep most of the existing political architecture intact. You'd just change how MPs get selected. Compared to your proposal, you also get the benefit of the law of large numbers, and you don't have to have a judge etc.

I would argue against picking a singular leader at random, just because the variation is too high. But in the US, you could re-use much of the existing system: fill up the electoral college at random.

You could take inspiration from the 'National Popular Vote Interstate Compact' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta... for how to accomplish that gradually.

The US house of representatives and senate probably have enough members that you could bank on the law of large numbers.
This is what Single Point of Failure really means :-)
Both in terms of Giga Airport Hub and Electric Panels.
The Unbelievable Scale of AI's Pirated-Books Problem
Beats high unemployment.
It happens, I wouldn’t sweat it
Lil purple peruvian png tubers.
Zigar 0.14.0: A major step forward in Zig-JavaScript interoperability
> pause employment

What does this mean?
> Require a signature for all of your valuable deliveries, including and especially iPhones.

I'm not sure if this is universal, or region-specific, but out of all the times that I've received something that's been signature-required, it's incredibly rare (single-digit percent) that the driver will actually get my signature. Usually when I see the "SIGNED BY XYZ" note on the delivery notification, it's some random name.

90+% of the time they don't even check my ID when it's a wine delivery, like they're supposed to.

Drivers are overworked and have too many deliveries on their plate. They're not going to bother to get signatures.
Honor-system based taxes; Do they actually work?
RISC-V moved to Switzerland as well a while ago. I think it's a shame to see stuff like this happening. Regardless, of where one stands currently in the current environment making standards bodies want to move or move events to other countries is not a good.
I assume that the USA also a Level 1 Partner?

As the UK is also a Level 1 partner if they were so inclined they could provide the resources necessary to allow lower level partners to operate and maintain their F-35s?
Once again, when I say “not new” I’m talking about

> The fact is if you care about people from all around the world being able to attend your conference, the U.S. hasn’t been a good location for a long time.

TFA says

> As an Internet community we strive to include everyone. Holding a meeting in the US is incompatible with our values.

It’s been incompatible with their values for very long.
Oh, I mean they crop up in lots and lots of applications, because their structure is so simple to satisfy.

Not that they would crop up, if you somehow randomly generated mathematical structure. The real world, and especially the part of the real world that people engage with, seems to have a lot of simple structures.
Because you want to move ahead of the 5.05 seller and be sure your shares can sell for $4.90. If the $5.05 seller is trying to sell 5 million, but it's taking a long time. They might drop down to $4.85 or something. It's all game theory and predicting what others will do. A big part of that is having all of the information.
I was very much not.

And I agree that the uncountably many software publishers of the time were aggressively experimenting with the dark monetization patterns that Doubleclick, Facebook, Google, Amazon and others were soon to refine into what are now only a handful of ~trillion dollar business engines.

Of course there was corporate participation in that era, but following the dot-com boom and its bust, the scale and number of these operations was very different than the small-and-consolidated Compuserve/AOL/Prodigy era of a decade before and equally different than titanic-and-consolidated Facebook/Google/Amazon era a decade later.
Anyone who claims the west is clean has never been to philly
‘The Celts: A Modern History’ by Ian Stewart Review
I understand the sentiment that the Trump administration is draconian, especially for people traveling from abroad considering the new border policy. But, pardon me, how is that executive order about sex a "threat"? Listed as the top issue undermines the credibility of this petition I think.
> yet it was actually no threat at all to US security or even NY security, beyond ~two buildings.

If we're talking about carried out threat and not achieved aims: there were more than those two flights and more than those two buildings targeted. And even if you are talking about achieved aims only: the Pentagon was hit as well if you are forgetting that or maybe that just belongs in the '~'. In fact more than two buildings in NYC itself were destroyed, even if only two there were targeted.

The seat of the main elected branch of government (US Capitol) was targeted and likely would have been struck without the passenger interventions (fighter jets had been sent out towards the atlantic ocean and FAA had not yet ordered all planes grounded even if NORAD had been alerted by that point). We were very lucky passengers and crew had made airphone calls and some disallowed cell phone calls to get enough critical mass to fight back.

I think the subsequent war on terror, used to invade Iraq without any relation to the attack, was terrible, but this kind of deflation is pretty insane to read.
Brita filters most certainly do filter out "microbes". Just with low certainty that drops over the age of the filter.
We also control (or used to control) our street lights in AoNZ using ripple control (it was implemented with a tuned reed relay in some towns). Back in the 70s friends built a ripple transmitter and sent morse across Ōtepoti by turning on/off their suburb's street lights (at 2am)
Trump usually goes along with whatever the last person said to him about a topic. Or whoever promises him the most in return(money or fame).

This was a major thing in his first term. People fight to be the last person to speak in a meeting.
Parent is saying there are too many middle managers/execs and not enough engineers with agency.
It would be even more trivial for Apple to block the phones the same way they do when an Apple Store is broken into. You can’t use an iPhone without an activation via login.
It is real. It is interesting, because I don't think US wars or international interference over the years have caused this effect but now people are avoiding the US for pure "look out for number 1" reasons. I.e. it isn't safe enough for them to enter and it ain't worth the risk for some conference, holiday or work thing.
Is this a parody?

> Beyond problems at the border, the current Secretary for Health and Human Services - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - has said that he will send those with ADHD to camps. Source: Futurism.

What he actually said:

> "I’m going to dedicate that revenue to creating wellness farms — drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country," he said during the podcast. "I’m going to make it so people can go, if you’re convicted of a drug offense, or if you have a drug problem, you can go to one of these places for free."

That what happens when you rely on Futurism as a source.
And here we're on an English speaking forum, I can tell you that no matter how bad you think Siri is, it's actually 2x worse in the other languages they support.
Medico city is basically at the level of the water table, no? Building a sewer must be a serious pain in the ass.
I didn't downvote you but you think a democracy can't declare martial law?

The US can declare martial law
No offence to Canada, but import/export volumes are like 11th in the world. Even Belgium trades more and it’s a small country.

IMHO why Canada? Because it’s a Trojan horse for its strategic geopolitical position.
Republicans have an amazing ability to just ignore criticism. Their base is primed to also ignore any criticism. This makes it seem like everyone is bringing up a "non issue". It's wild. Thats part of why some issues seem to never gain any traction.

This is a major reason trump kicked a bunch of reporters out of the press pool. They challenged the narrative which doesn't let them ignore criticism.
Going with this would mean AI companies suppose to pay for something like voices or other training data.

It's far better to just steal it all and ask government for exception.
You are arguing with someone who agrees with you but wanted to point out that your examples were bad and did not support your position that well.
Right, so your argument is that this is easy, and if it turns out that it's not, we'll just be smug and tell them that they were holding it wrong all along?

It sounds like you are picturing in your head that all spreadsheet work is greenfield. Do you have any idea how much Excel code is embedded everywhere? Very often made by people who are no longer around. You can lecture all you want, but this is the situation. I don't like it either.
To which my counterpoint was that it’s not fair to expect people without the training to look at it and realize it’s not bullshit, and to realize they tested and proved the point they made in the paper.

The conversation becomes something about what people can talk about, but not the math in the paper, or the supporting documentation or familiarity with the literature.
It could if they make it so that the tax is also applied based on the miles driven whenever the car changes ownership or is disposed of at the end of its life. Cheating on the self reported mileage would only defer the tax, not avoid it.
Take the rapid rise of China’s EV industry in recent years as an example. There is already a huge amount of commentary on this, but most discussions overemphasise the role of the Chinese government, attributing the industry’s success to factors such as government subsidies, market distortion [扭曲市场] and organised intellectual property theft. However, few mention the brutal, cut-throat competitiveness [九死一生的惨烈竞争] of the Chinese market, the vast supply chain network built by Chinese companies, Chinese engineers’ higher level of technical skills [更高的专业素质], or workers’ disciplined and tireless drive to work hard [勤奋忍耐的作风].

I agree. It happens very often on Hacker News as well where you'd think the average IQ is slightly higher than the public and can see through the propaganda.

Most HN commentators on China always devolve into the same argument about how China's government subsidizes EVs and stolen IP. Meanwhile, every advantage China has in engineering prowess, supply chain management, decades planning ahead, and ruthless competition are completely ignored.

I think people on Hacker News should go to Shenzen. Just visit once. It's not scary. It's 100x safer than any major American city - no matter if you're white/black/latin/asian. It's a city that is at least 10 years ahead of anything I've seen in the US. The west continue to turn a blind eye to what is really happening in China and march on with their anti-China propaganda in the media.

I suppose the US billionaires need you to hate China so their businesses will have less competition.
Assuming EVs are actually the cause, this seems like a problem with an obvious solution: make the vehicle registration fees for EVs higher.