skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also mentions Corbet of LWN but missed the article about it: https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/
Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Paragon's Proliferating Spyware Operations
ITT: loads of people who DNRTFA, but are here to make sarcastic jokes about perpetual motion & conservation of energy. All due to that asstastic, clickbait, lying headline.

The article isn't even a lot better. It hints at quantum fluctuations being the source, when in fact the much better-known principle of converting heat energy into electrical energy is at play (AFAICT).

TL;DR: LEDs turn out to be decent TE converters at the picowatt level. This could have applications on chips, but nowhere else seems to need this sub-nano-level kind of heat pump.
> Yes, as the article points out, it slightly reduces ease of login. But that seems like a sensible trade off.

In addition to making the login process more complicated 2FA can also introduce privacy concerns. A third party authenticator app can collect all kinds of data for it's own reasons (For example MS's app will request location and camera permissions) and that 3rd party could also track which services you log into, when you access them, and how often you access them.

2FA can also cause you to be locked out of our accounts, either temporarily or forever.
Make no mistake, the engineers who come in and want to immediately change to another framework, that is purely by design and an organizational play. The goal is to have the team switch to an unfamiliar framework, but one you know well, so you can divide and conquer the team's productivity. It's a great promotion strategy when you're a newcomer with high productivity while the rest of the team is struggling.
I wonder how free hosting services like netlify and vercel handle this? If a free tier user gets spammed do they just pass the cost on? I can't imagine that is the case so they must have some protections built in.
Here's one:

https://remix.run/

These grifters sell entire courses on the product, that's their game. So when you find an unmaintained Remix app at your company, well, the grifters got the ears of your junior devs :(

And they just promote it and promote it:

https://kentcdodds.com/blog/a-review-of-my-time-at-remix

https://kentcdodds.com/blog/why-i-love-remix

https://kentcdodds.com/courses

Pure grift. But since most people are decent people they don't know and fall for it, and something like this influencer emerges. They have entire Discords of customers, the same as crypto scams.

Edit: I don't know why people would downvote calling out a notable grifter in a thread that extended out to a discussion about influencers. WHICH influencers? Are we scared of that topic? The climate of the JS ecosystem didn't happen accidently.

People fall victim to this shit right here on HN, and then write blog posts about what the fuck is wrong with frontend:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39453767

(This entire thread reads like deliberate testimonials.)

Stop buying this stuff.
Awesome...looking forward to that
There is also a risk factor to be considered before we decide to add massive energy storage within residential area.
I've hear that one of the reason why the recent wildfires in LA had been so devastating was because the amount of available energy to fuel the fire (tanks, batteries) around modern homes is much larger than in the past.
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And you can drive your car there without paying a toll to Canada if you can do it without touching their soil.
There is such an echo chamber among the Albertan far right that they fail to see exactly what a fringe community they are.

Unfortunately they have deep pockets because of funding from the US.
Are there any downsides to that approach? It seems like we're moving towards empowering llm's to interact with stuff as if that's better than us doing it for them - is it really?

Eg say I want to build an agent to make decisions, shall I write some code to insert the data that informs the decision into the prompt, return structured data, and then write code to implement the decision?

Or should I empower the llm do those things with function calls?
> coming from the LLM hype cycle

Our approach is so unrelated to any of the other hyped up stuff. We have not written a single line of ML, it has been all math & physics until now.
A better question might be why tech has become so political. Tech has never been neutral, to be sure. The industrial revolution brought about deep, fundamental, and undemocratic changes, imposed by the wealthy. Something similar is happening today, and the price is being paid primarily by the people who least benefit from them. It's only natural this results in a politically charged atmosphere. It doesn't help that the only recent development of note, ML/LLMs, is as highly polarizing as the mechanized looms back then, and probably far less beneficial.
I haven't used Claude yet, but heard many good things. So I'm surprised to see that they're so far behind on this feature.
In general, the theme I'm seeing is that we are providing the old tools to a new way of software engineering. Similar to you, I think the abstractions and tools we will work with will be radically different.

Some things I am thinking about:
* Does git make sense if the code is not the abstraction you work with? For example, when I'm vibe coding, my friend is spending 3hrs trying to understand what I did by reading code. Instead, he should be reading all my chat interactions. So I wonder if there is a new version control paradigm
* Logging: Can we auto instrument logging into frameworks that will be fed to LLMs
* Architecture: Should we just view code as bunch of blocks and interactions instead of reading actual LOC. What if, all I care is block diagrams. And I tell tools like cursor, implement X by adding Y module.
Let me rephrase it.

MCP has the capability to add this functionality.

It would be nice to see MCP getting adoption in their web UI, as well easier UX, rather than more ad hoc features being added natively.
So the “weapons of war” in question are… cameras? But because those cameras are also used by the Russian military that means that China Bad? Meanwhile gun laws in the US would like to have a chat…
I've noticed coding with LLMs feels like pair programming with an overly confident intern - brilliant ideas, but needs reminders about humility and structure before burning down your repo. Keeps things lively though.
Fair use requires transformation. LLM is as transformative as it gets. If I'm on the jury, you're going to have to make new copyright law for me to convict.

I am personally happy to have everyone, people and LLM alike, learn from my wisdom.
> Many are not "fine" with it and legal actions are proceeding.

Legal actions won't bring someone back from a Salvadorian gulag. If it were an US camp, a judge and his marshals could have traveled to the camp and demanded the release, but in El Salvador US judges don't have any legal authority. The best they can do is try to hold Trump himself or someone in the chain of command accountable by, say, arresting them - but that would yield an immediate constitutional crisis because there is no way anyone powerful enough doesn't also have Secret Service or other protection under their command.

That is the entire issue: there is no trust that this government will obey a court order any more. They have already shown that they do not give a shit about Congressional funding allotments so what makes you think the current administration will not do just the same with court rulings?
In Apples "opinion", you are supposed to pay to play, thats what their ecosystem is designed around. Pay to get it fully repaired or get a new one. Apple owners are supposed to have money, thats what they built their brand image around.

Alternatively, its really not that hard to switch to a cheaper and more reliable, laptop with Elementary OS Linux distro.
skills...its not the db but the people who work with it
google supports veterans. sounds great.
On the contrary, a weaker dollar would make exports more competitive and imports more expensive, thus realigning trade balance.

https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system
Student loan debt in the United States totals $1.777T
I wonder if there is some underlying insight?

LEDs are both photovoltaic generators and light emitters... just not well optimized for converting light into electricity.

PV solar panels are LEDs too, just highly optimized for the opposite direction. When a panel is partially shaded (and without bypass diodes which most modern panels have) the shaded portion becomes an infrared light emitter driven by the portions in brighter light.

Based on this paper it seems something like the peltier or thermoelectric effect also exists, though obviously typical LEDs are not optimized for it and so the cooling effect / excess power is very small.

Is there some simpler unified way to describe the interactions between semiconductor electric fields/electrons, photons, and thermal energy? Maybe you could predict the best way to optimize a given material to prioritize the effect you want.
> I've no idea what you mean by a cultural rejection - which culture are you talking about?

Eh, I grew up in the states and unions were heavily demonized there. I tend to couch my words quite defensively due to that - my apologies.

> This is too black and white. Unionization creates another power structure in a company, one that isn't particularly aligned with company health, but can be. It just depends on the people involved and how they use that power.

I agree that this isn't a guarantee, there are both bad unions and some good unions that do ill for what they perceive to be good reasons - however, generally speaking, increasing job security and tamping down on companies' instinct to turn to layoffs will usually benefit companies. My experience in the workforce is that larger companies use layoffs as a frequent tool for stock price manipulation when they're having a bad quarter to appear "lean" - and while the markets do respond positively to that it generally comes at the expense of long term company health.

This is definitely a case where both unions and companies can be in the wrong - but it seems that companies are much more often in the wrong. Long tenured employees are quite valuable and layoffs should be a tool used in the extremes to account for overgrowth and shouldn't be happening multiple times in the same decade unless a company is in severely poor health.
Export Predefined Regions in Krita
Very helpful for making videogame assets and exporting them in parts to Godot
What reputation?! Cloudflare has been known for its shady practices for more than a decade now, but people just don't care.
High demand is not the sole reason for outages.
The modified drones have far more than cameras. This is more something like "You can buy a rocket, but supply your own warhead."
Pretty much any major teleconference software does that for a few years already.
This was actually an extremely valuable article for me. I was unaware of act, the tool to test GH workflows, and your personal flow of using a separate branch to troubleshot the yaml code makes perfect sense.
How did you obtain that data? Did you use AI to generate it?
It seems to inspire strong feelings. I set it up at a previous company and at some point after I left they replaced it with Jenkins. However, nobody could explain to me why or what problems they thought they were solving. The feedback was the sort of thing you're saying now: a dislike that can't be articulated.

Whereas, I could articulate why I didn't like Jenkins just fine :)
When working with LLMs I am used to starting "New Conversation" for each request
I know an artist that had noindex turned on by mistake in robots.txt for the last 5 years - google, kagi and duckduckgo find tons of links relevant to the artist and the artwork but not a single one from the website.

so not seem to or apparently but matter of fact like. robots.txt works for the intended audience
What is the purpose of your visit?
"Эта... конференция по новым компьютерным технологиям и защите компьютерных программ"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Q0RPooaHw - the best way to visit tech conferences in US
Use a VPN to appear like being in the target country.
Use a browser profile where you set the language preference to the one you target.
Trans-Canada regularly closes? That's news to me.
The reason google maps goes through the US is that it's significantly shorter. We also don't haul things regularly across the country in the same way they do in the US, we use the trains, and the majority of things would go through ports. If you're on the eastern half of the country (which is the majority of the country) they use the great lakes.
The nRF54L15 looks better in most aspects. I mention the nRF52840 as it is a veteran in the space with a rich ecosystem at 1mm larger.
nyt should be ashamed. AI did not save this poor fellas life. If anything it shows how stupid his doctors were to tell him he was going to die when it was not true. This is hype and they must be getting paid to write this, right??? It does tactically say "search", but then at the same time says "not thought of by a doctor" which is pure BS.

For real the enhanced autocorrect just cured a rare blood disorder wow! I bet father clippy is proud!!! The idea that the AI is connecting dots that previously did not exist is pure manipulation.
I doubt Alibaba uses its own cloud. It doesn't work like that at most cloud provider companies.
Who is this French researcher and what exactly did he say? I have read a few news pieces but none mentioned any details. Maybe I missed something?

I'm not implying anything, but anyone could have written a news piece like that.
Exactly. "Accuracy" tells us nothing.
Calling the oct 7 terrorist attacks a genocide against the Jews it at best hyperbolic and at worst an apologia for an actual genocide. Your second paragraph makes me fear you are doing the latter.

I don’t think you realize just how hateful your post actually is. You are trying to paint a picture of victims of genocide that somehow deserved the horrors done against them, or at best denies the very real horrors another state is inflicting upon them.

This kind of speech has no place on a tech forum.
This is an official OpenAI tool linked from the new model announcement (https://openai.com/index/introducing-our-next-generation-aud... ), despite the branding difference.
Things Java Programmers Can Learn from Clojure Without Learning Clojure (2019)
I thought this was a good question for ChatGPT's "deep research," so I asked it to give a breakdown of their corporate structure and profit requirements [0]. I think the result was pretty informative. Took 11 minutes and consulted 24 sources to complete.

The TL;DR is that they are a public benefit corporation and have to balance that benefit (decentralized public communication platforms) with profit.

[0] https://chatgpt.com/share/67dc4f0f-a1a8-8011-a8e2-609c5f47fc...
https://h1bdata.info/

https://www.h1bleaderboard.com/
AI User Testing, Yay or Nay?
I've made a tool that conducts unmoderated user testing within minutes using AI. The results are pretty neat.
I wanted to post here to see if this community see any value in it?

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4syImSbbg4I
Related: Does anyone have the full message from Korean Air Flight 085 that contained letters HJK?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_085
True. Makes the decision even more baffling.
For those curious, one relevant field of mathematics that could be used to prove properties of this sequence would be Sieve theory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_theory
CHM Releases AlexNet Source Code
From the survival of civilization scale, most of "almonds, pistachios, walnuts, raisins, olives, plums and table grapes" are probably luxury items that we can ill afford.

Sure it's a balancing act between "save the planet!" and "save the economy!". Guess who's winning so far?
> Doctors don't make treatments out of thin air but by testing drugs/procedures and seeing what works.

Its not doctors who do testing.

I was several times in situation, when doctor with early ChatGPT confidence prescribed some treatment, and I googled actual NIH study at home and seen very different conclusions to what doctor told me.

Doctors can confidently hallucinate whatever they want without being held accountable.
Hello! Dagger CEO here. Yes, we discovered that, in addition to running CI pipelines, Dagger can run AI agents. We learned this because our own users have told us.

So now we are trying to capitalize on it, hence the ongoing changes to our website. We are trying to avoid the "something something agents" effect, but clearly, we still have work to do there :) It's hard to explain in marketing terms why a ephemeral execution engine, cross-language component system, deep observability and interactive CLI can be great at running both types of workloads... But we're going to keep trying!

Internally we never thought of ourselves as a CI company, but as an operating system company operating in the CI market. Now we are expanding opportunistically to a new market: AI agents. We will continue to support both, because our platform can run both.

If you are interested, I shared more details here: https://x.com/solomonstre/status/1895671390176747682
They are consistently on the wrong side of Chesterton's fence. Many of them were completely blind to politics until 2016 and have suddenly entered the chat with no context or background on what they're talking about. They assume, ignorantly, that everything that they can't immediately understand is a needless barrier erected for no reason and without context.

This is a very intentional worldview organized, funded, and distributed by - shocker! - powerful people who find themselves constrained by the law.
What's the defence against a swarm of drones apart from jamming them? If the drone is self-guided (very cheap these days), jamming wouldn't work anyway right?
>It's equally trivial for a restaurant to set up a custom domain with their own 2-page website (overview and menu) on any of a hundred platforms that provide this service.

Sure but they don't want to. If you want to see the menu they have online you need to follow their rules, not your own.
Exactly this. It's interesting watching how Americans are talking about this issue vs Canadians. Even my liberal friends in the US think it's more "Silly" and "Troll" behaviour on Trump's part -- "you're not taking that seriously, are you?"

Yes, we're taking it seriously. It wasn't some one-off tweet. He's the official head of state and silence from the rest of the GOP and the US political class generally isn't exactly doing anything to calm tensions.

We faced heavy tariff threats under 1.0 and it wasn't anything like this. The reaction here isn't really about trade at all. It's about sovereignty.

The US is the only country that has ever invaded us.
Doge Social Security Closures: Recipients Need to Visit Offices to Get Benefits
Ohhh much simpler than I thought. Are they usually better than attached? (You don't hear your neighbors, for example?)
Converting a gas water heater to electric and/or solar is one of the best bang for the buck on decarbonization too. Something that should be done before buying an electric car or swapping out your gas furnace for a heat pump. Though I'm terrible at following my own advice, I still have a gas water heater, just because I needed to replace my car and furnace before I needed to replace my water heater. That said, the sunk cost fallacy applies to carbon emissions just as hard as it does to dollars so I have little excuse for not replacing it except laziness (and space on the breaker panel...)
How do you think Canada should react to a neighboring country that not only unilaterally declared a trade war but also continues to threaten to annex them?

Appeasing bullies does. not. work.
YC helped us raise our seed round in 5 days
Canadians certainly have differing opinions on politics however it's definitely a tiny minority that share your opinion on being happy if Canada became part of the USA.
In my eyes even finding life is semi a non-story. Or like obviously there's going to be life even intelligent life since it spawned here. Any idea that we're unique is silly we're just emergent phenomena of initial conditions.
We are the beta testers, and it is exhausting.

Siri, for example, introduced in I think 2011, still doesn't work nearly as well as they exclaim.
The other thing to consider is a lot of the time these docs are sort of guidelines or wishlists for the way things ought to be - meanwhile an outside observer will assume these are the way things actually are.
Fiber optic cabling is definitely a bigger lift but the idea that the mount to drop something from a drone is something that is difficult for anybody with even a bit of knowledge seems like fear mongering. I mean it's a 3D print and servo away for any appropriately sized drone.

As someone who just picked up flying FPV drones (very fun) I do fear these may turn illegal before long.
> Ignoring the magnitude of the lies makes that comparison an act of self-deception

Joe Biden ended Trump-era policies for the express purpose of facilitating the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States. When this drove border crossings up to 4-5X the historical rate, he told Americans that he lacked the power to seal the border, and that we should pass new legislation to empower him to do so. Then they put provisions into said legislation which would have only required the actual enforcement of border laws if/when the rate of illegal immigration exceeded a set level (which was ~5X the historical rate).

I can't think of a single case in human history in which a leader had so much contempt for his own people that he created a problem for them, then used their frustration with said problem to garner their support for a proposed "solution" which was clearly designed to exacerbate the problem.

[0]https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-enc...
I remember in late 90s/early 2000 as a teen going to robots.txt to specifically see what they were trying to hide and exploring those urls.

What is the difference if I use a browser or a LLM tool (or curl, or wget, etc) to make those requests?
https://angusreid.org/trump-carney-51st-state-canada-usa/

~10% support overall. However, that's 21% of Conservative voters and 1-3% everyone else. So it's beyond fringe for everyone else, but maybe not as much for Conservatives.
Mexico City is having a serious problem right now