skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...except at border crossings (which may be at a US border crossing or at an international port of entry like an airport gate where US customs has a checkpoint).

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) may search any electronic devices without probable cause at these points.

see https://informationsecurity.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toru...

and

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/usa-border-phones-search-1.4...

Canada doesn't behave this way - https://www.harrisonpensa.com/new-limits-imposed-on-border-s...
https://archive.is/https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-...

https://archive.is/ZICMb
>If Swiss and white were the same thing, that would make a lot of sense

We all have multiple identities. We relate to those identities and others relate to us by those identities—at times, unfortunately. So, you can substitute any identity here, and it still makes sense.

>it might feel extra-alienating if the company suggests you could join the Asian or Indian employee support groups

Not necessarily. There's certainly some overlap in experience, as they are all working to integrate into the same culture.

What you may be missing here is that it's not strictly about which specific group, but also about the fact that the group is not the majority / "culture-defining group".

>OTOH, for the same reason, skin-color-based groups don't really make sense to begin with.

Oh, if only they didn't, my friend. What a world this would be. It's worth noting that it's generally not those "skin-colors" who made these groups necessary. Part of it is just the complicated tribalism of humans. And, yes, another part of it is that some people have taken advantage of that tribalism.
> I had some test cases with hard coded numbers that had wobbled and needed updating. I simply asked the LLM to keep rerunning the test and updating the numbers as necessary.

Why not take this a step farther and incorporate this methodology directly into your test suite? Every time you push a code change, run the new version of the code and use it to automatically update the "expected" output. That way you never have to worry about failures at all!
Looks nice. I am in finance and have developed reporting/querying tools for accounting teams. The most important thing is catering to Excel. That's just the way it is. What I mention below might already exist and if it does that's great, you're on the right track.

1. The ability to input a list of cost centers/accounts and export all journal entries to Excel is a requirement

2. An Excel add-in is a better selling point than the built-in spreadsheet feature.
> Type erasure is still type checked though

In the C example ? What do you mean ?
I just looked - only see denatured: https://www.mcmaster.com/products/ethanol/denatured-ethyl-al...
I used to have a Pebble Time and agreed the battery life with those displays is nice, but honestly it doesn't bother me to put it on the charger every evening.

The only real benefit a longer battery life would have is not needing to bring a special charger if I go out of town for a few days, but I solved that years ago using a power bank that has qi and watch charging pads on it as my travel charger.

If anything, I'd switch back to a Pebble or similar because the Apple Watch does too much and I don't want that much gizmo on my person all the time. But the Pebble reboot products don't do it for me design-wise.
I develop an open source notebook widget. Working with marimo has been a joy compared to developing on top of any other notebook environment.

The team is responsive and they care about getting it right. Having a sane file format for serializing notebooks is an example of this. They are thinking about core problems. They are also building in the open.

The core jupyter team is very unresponsive and unfocused. When you have a bug, you need to figure out which one of many many interelated projects caused the bug, issues go weeks without a response. It's a mess.

Then there are the proprietary notebook like environments. VSCode notebooks, and google colab in particular. They frequently rely on opaque undocumented APIs and are also very unresponsive.
Calgary, AB enters the chat:
Calgary, Alberta, is considered the sunniest city in Canada, with an average of 333 sunny days and 2,396 hours of sunshine annually.
i wanted to like marimo, but the best notebook interface i've tried so far is vscode's interactive window [0]. the important thing is that it's a python file first, but you can divide up the code into cells to run in the jupyter kernel either all at once or interactively.

0: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/jupyter-support-py
Yeah, you’re right. Something like civil twilight, as you mentioned above, should get it closer to what is being discussed here.
The amount of concurrent webgl canvases on a page is limited by browsers. I believe it's somewhere between 8-20 depending on the browser.

Hopefully webgpu would lift that limit?
# Why No One Touched This Post on Economic Insecurity in Aging America

I just read a sobering TIME article about America's aging workers who can't afford to retire. It profiles 69-year-old Walter Carpenter, working physical jobs despite peripheral neuropathy, bad knees and hips - one of the growing percentage of Americans 65+ still in the workforce (19% today vs 10% forty years ago).

Here's what's interesting: This shouldn't be partisan. The systematic dismantling of retirement security (shifting from pensions to 401(k)s, stagnant wages, rising costs) has created a reality where people work 55 years and still can't stop. As someone who's 59 and facing this reality myself, it's deeply personal.

The most telling quote: "What will happen when, as a friend so aptly put it, I become 'too frail to work and too poor to live?'"

I suspect this post got no traction because:

1. It's uncomfortable - forces us to confront the human cost of our economic system
2. Doesn't fit neatly into tech-optimism or "just learn to code" narratives
3. Reveals the failure of the meritocracy myth many in tech believe in
4. Lacks an easy solution (auto-IRAs are mentioned but too late for current older workers)
5. Hits too close to home for many in their 40s/50s who fear the same fate

The discussion we're avoiding is: what happens when a lifetime of work doesn't guarantee basic security in old age? And what does that say about the system we've built?
One thing I do is go to Leetcode, see the optimal big O time and space solutions, then give the LLM the Leetcode medium/hard problem, and limit it to the optimal big O time/space solution and suggest the method (bidirectional BFS). I ask for the solution in some fairly mainstream modern language (although not Javascript, Java or Python). I also say to do it as compact as possible. Sometimes I reiterate that.

It's just a function usually, but it does not always compile. I'd set this as a low bar for programming. We haven't even gotten into classes, architecture, badly-defined specifications and so on.

LLMs are useful for programming, but I'd want them to clear this low hurdle first.
Every time that image goes viral, it's fun to see how many people in the comments are surprised by this. You're the lucky 10,000!

"Why is Japanese like this" Not just Japanese! Subject-Object-Verb is the most common word order by number of languages and by number of language families.
(Though going by number of speakers, I would guess Subject-Verb-Object might win... European, Chinese, Arabic are all SVO)
https://archive.ph/2025.03.19-190410/https://www.theatlantic...
Out of context: I like it when "Linear" references are used. When they become so well known?
Most people in the united states think of unions as some kind of entrenched bureaucratic entity that's not capable of effecting change. Typically we say "the union" as if there can only be one, and once it's corrupt, there's no recourse. Often our laws reflect this, striking as part of a "wildcat" union can be illegal. It leads to this feeling that you have to know the right people to unionize.

It's a problematic perspective. "The" union might be an impotent lost cause, but "A" union can appear suddenly, strike hard, and dissipate once the need for it has gone. This seems more like the latter.
They don't sell it as part of the configuration options.

You can separately purchase whatever monitor you wish. There are now plenty of 27" 5K monitors out there. Asus, LG (for now), Viewsonic, Kuycon, others I'm probably forgetting. They're expensive as far as monitors go, but not as expensive as the Studio Display.
If I recall correctly, a similar method was used to discover a hidden passageway in the Egyptian pyramids.
1 is supported
2 it's a fair point, I think something for us to keep in the back of our mind as we grow.
What Every Computer Scientist Needs to Know About Parallelization [pdf]
Life feeds on life feeds on life
In fact, the test framework I was using at the time (jest) did in fact support this. But the person who had originally written the tests hadn't had the foresight to use snapshot tests for this failing test!
Car-free & car-limited urban centers around the world would disagree with you. Smoking-free indoor establishments in many corners of the globe would also disagree with you. I can name numerous other examples.

People can make choices to put cats back in bags. They've already done it.
Here is a clickable link http://github.com/firetix/vibe-pen-tester
I often see such replies and wonder : the article isn't about choosing langs but is an exercise in C. That's the constraint.
24"-ish 4K, 27" is 5K, 32" 6K. Outside of that is not HiDPI and will lead to fuzzy fonts (your eyes may vary). PPI needs to be near 220.
e.g. AI Act, that killed an unborn sector in EU.
I'll be honest, y'know the hotel, the shop across the street has a suit I wanna try on.
> and obviously there's the whole impoundment thing we've just been talking about - the executive blatantly ignoring a law that restricted that

The law didn't restrict it, the Constitution prohibits it without law allowing it. The Impoundment Control Act provided a limited allowance for impoundment, rather than actually curtailing it.
Programming Parallel Computers Course
> Or perhaps they were on track to quit at 65 until the stock market took a dive.

[and they liquidated all their assets at the bottom of a market against all mainstream advice]
> I'm not sure how many pigs have had their intelligence evaluated.

The point is when intelligence of animals is evaluated like this, it's evaluated in very limited scopes, e.g. arithmetic abilities, mental time travel capabilities, abstract thinking capabilities, etc.

To generalize the results from one limited scope test to intelligence in general is flawed and wrong.

> The experimental evidence seems to indicate that pigs are probably smarter than dogs.

It indicates nothing of the sort.
Ah now that is an envious life! Not have to worry or be distracted by a full-time job that too by choice! Hope he gets to crank a lot more out!
Trend lines don't always keep going up, in absolute terms or in their rate. And I'm skeptical that the nature of LLM technology specifically can achieve AGI, because it's at base a prediction model (though an incredibly sophisticated and powerful one) and not actual intelligence. To think that LLMs can grow into AGI is, thus, a category mistake, even if they get better at what they do, and even if they prove super useful in all kinds of ways.
I’d prefer if it did what Anki does — give me 10-20 new countries before cycling back to ones I’ve already done. Just switching back and forth between two countries I already know over and over again is pretty boring.

Also, why is Antarctica on there?
A group of humans (with all kinds represented) blurs out all refined qualities almost by definition.

Eventually some of them (of more similar thought) will leave for greener pastures. Perhaps naively so as it involves a lot of work or perhaps working on something together brings people together. If these few heretics succeed others will follow until the new place truly becomes as wonderful as imagined. More and more will follow, even people who don't want to be there will show up until eventually everything blurs out again and the process continues.

Besides the new place where interesting people gather there is the old place left behind where the interesting is undesired or made illegal. Meanwhile they also want to bring back the old days.

There are countless examples of this process from IRC and the USA to TV and Facebook. The Moon and Mars colony will also start out stupid then turn into something wonderful... for a while :)

This will be the only thing I write on the internet today eventho I shouldn't bother. The point use to be to get some useful intelligent response to refine or correct my perspective.

Solving world hunger costs only 35 billion per year. It's a great bench mark. If the internet is the sum of human knowledge we must be short of something else. Apparently we can type text into inputareas ad infinitum without accomplishing even this simple, cheap and easy goal. What a bunch of losers we are :)
> The Polish astronaut, who will be conducting over a dozen technological and scientific experiments during the Ignis mission
>>>It's bad for our products and for our European users. We will continue to work with the European Commission to help them understand our concerns on behalf of our users,

... surely consumers don't like interoperability on hardware or software. They like to get locked in(i.e. use a different charger for each single device and use their devices only with apple services<i.e. iCloud>).

I think Apple should correct that statement into " We will continue to work with the European Commission to help them understand our concerns on behalf of our *shareholders*".
Is there a location for the actual order? The linked article doesn't have a link to the order (SHAME Reuters) and the details on the actual order are sparse.
I take it you have never applied for a work visa? You may get denied several times over things outside your control.

She is one of many, many people who have had a success visa after prior failed attempts.
> I suspect this post got no traction because:

It's been up for an hour and is still on the front page. Seems a bit early to declare "no traction".
EU didn't give you cookie warnings. Malicious compliance by corporations did.
TIL vandalism is speech
Oh god no. That's dangerous and unnecessary.

When you get down to it, what's our real minimum requirement for curbing scams and spams?

We do not need to know someone's legal identity, in fact we don't even need to know if they're a person rather than a person-with-a-program, we just need to know that they have a person-sized footprint of "skin in the game", as opposed to sockpuppets in a botnet.
This seems apocryphal. I did a paper on this subject in college, and the Soviets beat us to every space race milestone. They would’ve beaten us to the moon as well, if it wasn’t for the death in 1966 of Sergei Korolev.
He’s been at this for decades, without a single prediction of any phenomena in nature. His theories can’t even reproduce known physical phenomena correctly. So you can be dumb and still correctly conclude that it’s basically numerology.
One history says Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean with his three ships and made friends with the Indians.

Another history says, with quotes from him, that the people he found are very friendly and will make great slaves.

I'm not saying take the middle. I'm saying there is a narrative. Who's story are you hearing and why? The usual narrative we get supports those with power. Who's narrative is suppressed and why?

You get a narrative about Columbus the explorer and bringer of civilization to the new world. The other narrative is that he brought untold suffering and despair. Did he expanded European civilization and manifest destiny, or did he murder and enslave and subjugate people and their children to the horrors of chattel slavery?

Which one is a lie? Which is fact or not fact? It's both. It's neither. It is the narrative that is painting the story that is being told.

> so omission of anything is a red flag

you would then agree that all the factoids and accounts presented in A People's History of the United States _not_ being present in other works and education of our students is a red flag. But, honestly, and you know this, you can't include _all_ the facts and stories. By picking something, something else is not included.

You pick a photo to share of your family smiling, you didn't pick the photo of them fighting. Is your photo a lie? Heck, you may not have even thought to take a photo of the family fighting. Now future generations will only see the good times grandpa had. Is that a lie?

A People's History is littered with first hand accounts and journal entries. It is full of quotes to other authors who've collected similar. If you can point to the 95% of lies it contains, that would be great. I don't think you can though. I think the best you can say is that you disagree with the narrative, and to do so, you must ignore the real stories from real people.
No only processed oil. Cold pressed oil like olive oil is healthy.
Academia has a combination of monopoly and scarcity that drove would-be researchers insane. Simple as that.

I mean this both flippantly in many cases and literally in many others. Academia in my orbit appears to be a risk factor for psychological problems.
No, they are saying that the minutiae doesn't impact their desire to not visit, as simply the threat of arbitrary incarceration is sufficient. It's in fact a sentiment shared by most Canadians if the sharp decrease of Canadian visits to the US approaching pandemic levels is anything to go by.
You'll be fine, especially since you are making a best effort to adhere to the rules. While many people like to nitpick the specs of the contract, and they aren't technically wrong, the reality is nothing happens from the corp side without them having significant motivation and willingness to spend the time, effort, and money. There's extremely low probability of them taking any action (or even knowing about it). Plus California laws are fairly labor biased.
Maybe you could point out the example you mean, I see the UK excluding criminals and the US electing them.
I have documents from the last 50 years that I need to digitalize, millions of them written in old Arabic. The OCR is not accurate due to handwritten documents, so I need to fine-tune a model on around 300k pairs of texts (OCR output and manually corrected versions)
Maybe this will bifurcate business strategies. Maybe "almost all human cognitive tasks" describes breadth not depth, that it can only do 20% of the things that humans as a whole are capable of, but humans as a whole spend 80% of their time on the easiest 20%, and that you can re-engineer your business without it. We kinda see that with outsourcing and other strategies that have downsides in terms of maybe longevity of employees that can lead to brain drain. But really, I'd much rather be wrong :-) So, thanks for your submission!
% of calories from carbs is a robust predictor of overweight prevalence
I found Fauna very interesting from a technical perspective many years ago, but even then, the idea of a fully proprietary cloud database with no reasonable migration options seemed pretty crazy at the time. I thought maybe they had some good source of very specific niche customers who fine with that, but it seems even if that was true it wasn't enough for a grow.

Really hope that something useful will be open sourced as result.
Have you done a lot of tech support for people?
If not, you really don't know the extent of it. It's not insulting, it's just how people are.
You should meet the guy who had a lot of issues on his MacBook Pro, related to low storage left (barely a few gigs) that was entirely due to his extremely large porn collection.

When asked about it, he doesn't have too many files. What do you do in that case? Isn't he a moron both for storing so much porn and at the same time (somehow) believing a tech support person wouldn't find the root of the problem. It was in a "hidden" folder, so not only he is a moron for the first offense, but doubly so for thinking a competent person wouldn't find something so obvious.

So, I reiterate, most people are morons, and technology just reveals their ineptitude in plain sight, it's simple as that.

You are free to believe in your idealized version of the world, but it doesn't match my experience at all.
I hate GDPR and cookie warnings, but I think the EU has done some real good regulating Apple. We now have almost universal USB-C plugs thanks to the EU.
Most people don't care, especially if it means cheap eats.

Sad, isn't it?
TrueType also just has way too much complexity accumulated into it. The character to glyph mapping table alone has nine different encoding formats. I was only writing a TTF file instead of reading it and the complexity was still impressive.
Somebody built chatbot over this https://www.chatwithjfkfiles.com/
Whoever is planning on building a self-sufficient off-world colony for the survival of the human race, don’t forget to invite ASML along for the trip!
How many decades away are we from being able to manufacture high-end consumer-grade silicon somewhere other than on earth?
It makes the challenges of safe habitation and providing other essential resources seem much simpler by comparison.
That is not evidence of a shakedown by a corporate law firm, which is the original allegation.

Google, Apple and others have colluded to not poach employees from each other, distorting a free labor market, and settled that for $400m.[0]

[0]https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-google-others-...

It's not exactly beyond the realm of possibility that individual managers at Google had discriminatory promotion practices. Google picks up the legal tab for their alleged malfeasance, because they empower managers to make those decisions.

If it is so easy to squeeze some cash out of a major company, I'd imagine Google, Apple and many others in California would be cutting checks left and right to dodge lawsuits alleging violations of the state's Equal Pay Act, which saw its last major update in 2018, enacted into law in Jan 2019.[1]

https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/california_equal_pay_act.htm