skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or just claim fraud, and refuse to leave. See if the military will back you or not. He's got 4 years to keep weakening institutions and installing loyalist generals.
I assume this is because the thermal containment bags they have are only rated to a certain limit, but distinct batteries hopefully won't ignite at the same time and can in any case go in different bags?
Madaidan's articles are well-known to be centered around "security at all costs", and often at the cost of user freedom. That's just not a realistic take when it comes to privacy. What good is absolute security if all it does is secure the device from your "tampering"? Sure, it would be nice if the device were highly secure, but I'd rather it stop spying first.

With absolute security, you can rest assured that only Google has access to all of your data, and only Google is allowed to turn off the siphoning.
The rocket started oscillating before. I believe it was pure coincidence that the launch termination system kicked in when they started the pitchover manoeuvre.
> Damned few on the left want to arrest people for giving offense

Of course they do. Plenty of people on the left say that the very notion of free speech is "problematic" and must be criticized. Which directly implies that they find it less problematic to criminalize speech, as the UK does.
Sounds like solar power with extra steps
Prove what wrong? You keep changing what your message is.

I’m not a fatalist because I believe there’s always a way to remove oppressive measures. The world got to this point through a series of events that favored certain groups. It’s possible to make a world that serves everyone.
> The whole UI as branding thing has utterly killed usability.

This is caused by a change in who is hired as UI/UX developers. In days past it was HCI experts and engineers, now it's graphic designers. "Pretty" is the order of the day, not "useful". "There are too many menu items" is now answered with "So let's hide them" when it used to be "How can we organize them in the UI us a simple, discoverable manner?" But then that "overflow" menu (really? Needed menu commands are now OVERFLOW?) gets crowded so they start just removing features so the UI is nice.
It is. Housing prices doubled or tripled between 2000 and 2007, and your generation (and mine) are still dealing with the aftermath.

If you're willing take a journey with me: Near the end of Bill Clinton's second term, a bi-partisan bill was passed in 1999: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bl...

For Republicans, this represented a long-term desire by the WSJ crowd, to free-up money and assets locked in commercial banks; and make it available into the Investment Banking side.

For Democrats and the DEI crowd of then, relaxing the lending rules was considered a win for minorities who had a hard time buying property--mostly because of strict but impartial lending requirements, which was still pegged as "racist".

Around that time, China joined the WTO and by the early to mid 2000s the US was flush lenders wanting to get in on the mortgage-backed security action. This is when home prices doubled or tripled in value, in the span of 6 to 8 years, and was a nation-wide phenomena. It's only risk adverseness and a quip from a mortgage lender, when my family was denied many years earlier because we were quite poor, that saved me from a major financial mistake.

After the bust--which hit minorities the hardest, by the way--there should have been a price correction and this peaked in 2009: For a brief time in the early 2010s there was, with a supply of distressed properties, but strangely enough prices never corrected nationwide to the levels they should have and this is because of the long influx of cash from tech, which delayed things for another 10-12 years and kept the prices growing in areas that had jobs.

Your generation was responsible for the last 4-6 years of prices not getting corrected; when I pushed for unions and trade guilds at the cost of spiky income--proudly been doing so since the late 1990s, thank you--you can absolutely bet that I was shouted down recently as back in the 1990s and 2000s, whenever the topic steered near that direction.

Today, what we're left with are: Homes continuing to be built for those flush with money or nearing the highs of their career; and overpriced homes purchased during the early 2000s that at best are losing value through inflation.
Social media is probably a major catalyst for hatred. Hatred is driving people to vote against their own interests.
Usually the observation that “a widely used thing is objectively bad” is strong market signal for entrepreneurial opportunity in a big tam.

I for one would welcome a set of deeply integrated ui improvements in a Mac that included a better file manager, better window management, better desktop search, a contact manager just that worked, a messaging client that just worked, audio and camera controls that just worked, a calculator that didn’t suck, etc.

I’d pay at least $100 a year for that tool set.
Imo the stockmarket has long since detached itself from any sort of fundamentals as a main engine. Elon is a personality cult, and cults defy economic physics, until they don't.
That cultishness extends itself well into the world of tech stocks as well. How many tech stocks are also proced similarly? Companies with negative profits still worth billions...
Is Elon Musk's Business Empire Collapsing? [video]
For a person whose oeuvre includes _A Wizard of Earthsea_, _The Left Hand of Darkness_, and _The Lathe of Heaven_, I would gainsay that.
So? Were they conducting "unlawful" civil disobedience when raided?
I like that you can select a wisdom tooth too. Adults having their wisdom teeth pulled out should absolutely use that website to file a claim.
Yeah, as written this is quite confusing and does not describe why a Span is useful. It seems to be a garbled quoting of the first sentence of the supplement documentation about this API:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fundamentals/runtim...

I think a better description of what a Span does is later in the article:

> A Span<T> represents a contiguous region of arbitrary memory. A Span<T> instance is often used to hold the elements of an array or a portion of an array. Unlike an array, however, a Span<T> instance can point to managed memory, native memory, or memory managed on the stack.

The fact that you have to put the Span<T> on the stack only is a limitation worth knowing (and enforced by the compiler). But it is not the most interesting thing about them.
Yes, that's correct! The image processing happens entirely in the browser, so nothing is uploaded—it's just loaded and processed locally.
This reads like you get all your opinions or interactions with "leftist" on Twitter because very few people, if any, are actually proposing this.
First they came for the socialists, but they stayed for the ambiance.
presumably the report comes out every year and it's discussed for some time after that
Everything Trump promised but did not do yet is obviously a joke, and if Democrats can't take a joke, it's their problem, or worse, something something Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Everything Trump promised (or did not promise) and did is totally fine, constitutional, and legal, and Democrats are a problem for not understanding it's basically the same thing as (some Clinton era policy which is clearly not related at all).

The moment Trump runs for his third term, every Trump supporter will find reasons why this is OK. To them, having an argument is like schoolyard bullying: consistency is for losers.
> I never had to do anything akin to fiddling with the Windows Registry.

I don't believe you. You have never, EVER, NOT ONCE run a terminal command to change an option on MacOS? I just refuse to believe anyone on HN hasn't altered preferences in the terminal on MacOS.
Heh, your more cynical than my former college roommate and that is a high bar :-).

I choose to believe that both things can be true, if the rents evaporate then so will the 'juice' and they will offload those holdings. Also, the demand for produce, and the externalities of tariffs, will create opportunities for produce produced domestically.
Was actually lucky enough to be taught by the co-inventor of the ARM cpu. Furber is awesome.
Also the biggest German rocket since V2.
Glad to see more and more organizations moving to rights-respecting platforms, away from the intelligence community's surveillance + social control dragnets of choice.
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A similar tool from EUMETSAT with images of our planet: https://pics.eumetsat.int/viewer/index.html
How is "least number of concepts and assumptions" different than “simplest”?
Starting at $130 is kind of pricey. A Roku Ultra isn't as capable, but is $80, and a Roku Express 4K+ (no wired ethernet, no dolby atmos) is $30. Roku likes to snoop and push ads too, of course.

And how usable are they if you're outside of the Apple ecosystem (i think I saw an article recently that someone was stuck and needed to use a mac or an iPhone to get unstuck).
Doesn’t driving west to east on a highway slow down the Earth’s rotation, via the power transferred into the ground?
This is addressed in the last paragraph of the article:

> Even if it works, the method will not generate energy from thin air. It would tap Earth’s kinetic energy and, in doing so, cause the planet’s spinning to slow over time — although only slightly. If the technique provided all of Earth’s electricity needs, which was around 11 trillion watts in 2022, this would slow the planet’s spin by 7 milliseconds over the next century, the authors calculate. This is similar to the change in speed caused by natural phenomena such as the Moon’s pull and changing dynamics inside the planet’s core.
TCRF has been getting DDoSed
a dish from made bad food is bad food. a program that deletes your important data is a bad program.

so no: things relate to each other and in this relation, they can be objectively bad (bad to the object subjected to its effects). Things don't exist without the effects their existence exerts. Rephrased: the question of their goodness is, commonly, a question of fitness.
So it's "censorship" when applied to them, but "removing improper ideology" when they do it.
The boosters of the Ariane 5 were also developed into the French M51 SLBM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M51_(missile)
I love AI Studio. It's free to use and you can switch between models. Gemini 2.5 Pro's reasoning can be a little slow so if you don't need it you can switch to Gemini 2.0 Flash (which is capable of 100-200 tokens per second). You can even switch between models later. The only downside of using it over the user-facing Gemini web app is that you need to save your chats.
All new inventions have tendencies to overturn existing power structure (i.e. disrupt the status quo). It's probably why certain cultures disincentivize innovation and spurn entrepreneurs.

But I think creative destruction is a net good, and I'd argue that micro-dosing on revolutions is essential for dynamism and social mobility.
I've heard many conservatives claim that, but I've never seen a progressive actually asking for people to be put in jail for opinions.

Are there sociopaths on all sides? For sure. But right now, I see plenty of sociopaths in power instrumentalizing conservatism to tear apart at our democracies, while screaming and yelling that the left is out there to get conservatives – and plenty of conservatives believing them.

So... no, I don't buy this "no better", not in 2025.
No organization is the one that existed 100 years ago, not even the catholic church, which famously had the second vatican council 60 years ago.
For one, each trait has a separate namespace for its items, so in particular Foo::quux and Bar::quux are distinct even when one trait "inherits" from the other.
This is the most insightful article on the intersection of LLMs and software development I have read to date. There is zero fluff here -- every point is key, every observation relevant. In a time of paradigm shift, this is a fantastic guide on how to stay in the driver's seat, and most effectively leverage these tools. The inevitable shift here is upwards, away from the gritty detail of code.

Documentation (as in "design doc", not "API reference") is the absolute initial entry point: iterating on the problem statement, stakeholder requirements, business constraints, etc, until a coherent plan emerges, then organizing it at a high level. Combining this with "deep research" mode can yield fantastic results, as it draws on existing solutions and best practices across a vast body of knowledge.

The trick then is a sliding scope context window: with a high-level design doc in context, iterate to produce an architecture document. Once that is reviewed and hand-tuned, you can use it in turn to produce more detailed technical designs for various components of the system. And so on and so forth down the scale of granularity, until you're working with code. The important part is to never try and hold the entire thing in scope, instead, balance the context and granularity so that there's enough information to guide the LLM, and enough space to grow the next tier of the solution. Work in a manner that creates natural interfaces where artifacts can be decoupled. Piecemeal, not all at once.

The test aspect is also incredibly relevant: as you're able to work across a vastly larger codebase, moving much more quickly, tests become truly invaluable. And they can be squared against the original design documentation, to gauge how well the produced artifacts fulfill the original intent.

I'll acknowledge that this is most relevant in context of greenfield projects; but, LLMs' ability to ingest and summarize code makes them useful tools in dealing with legacy solutions. The point about documentation stands; adding features or fixing issues in existing codebases is the bottom of the pyramid; with these tools now you can stir things at the PM level, and better shape both the understanding of problems, and the approaches to solving them.

It's a very exciting time, it feels like having worked by hand for decades, only to now have access to power tools and heavy machinery.
Oh, absoltuley. And basically inviting any external propaganda machine direct access to people attention
You're not allowed to fail students. My 10th grade teacher friend rants constantly about how parents call his boss demanding he pass their kids who haven't handed in a single piece of homework and failed all exams, and he gets forced to pass them.
Do you have any example?
>they look the way they do because it works good

In modern times telemetry can show how well new designs work. The industry never forgot how to measure and do user research for ui changes. We've only gotten better at it.
> In this specific case, it really is a user-land problem.

a.out isnt even supported in new Linux kernels so how is that a user land problem? And you then repeated my point about how it’s not a user land problem by describing how it works as an ELF. ;)

> These cases aren't equivalent. COM and MZ are 16-bit executables for MS-DOS [3], NE is for 16-bit Windows ; all can be officially run without workarounds on 32-bit x86 Windows systems (NTVDM has admittedly spotty compatibility, but the point stands). Here, we're talking about 32-bit x86 code, so COM/MZ/NE does not apply here (to my knowledge there never has been 16-bit Linux programs anyways).

You’re not listening to what I’m saying.

COM and a.out are equivalent because they’re raw formats. Even on 32 bit NT systems COM required emulation.

The problem is the file formats are more akin to raw machine code than they are a modern container format.

So yeah, one is 16 and the other 32bit but the problem you’re describing is related to the file format being unforgiving for different CPU architectures without emulation; and in many cases, disregarding the user land entirely.

By your own admission, 32bit PEs and 32bit ELFs work perfectly fine on their respective Windows and Linux systems without any hacks.

The difference here is that Windows ships WOW64 as part of the base install whereas mainstream Linux distributions doesn’t ship 32bit libraries as part of their base install. That doesn’t mean that you need hacks for 32bit though. For example on Arch it’s literally just one line in pacman.conf that you uncomment.

My point was, if you wanted to ship a Linux distribution that supported random ELF binaries then you could. And package managers like Nix prove this fact.

The reason it’s harder on Linux isn’t because it requires hacks. It’s because Linux has a completely different design for installing applications and thus backwards compatibility with random ELFs isn’t generally worth the effort.

Also it’s really not fair to argue that a.out, a format that’s defined in the 70s and looong since deprecated across all unix-like systems is proof that Linux isn’t backwards compatible. ELF has been the primary file format for nearly 30 years on Linux now and a.out was only relatively recently fully removed from the kernel.

Whereas COM has been problematic on Windows for the entirety of NT, including Windows 2000 and XP.
Show HN: SpongeBob Flip or Flop
This is a recreation of the 2001 shockwave game found on nick arcade. I wanted to let others play it without having to download flashpoint archive for just one game.
> It’s unclear whether the suggestions and techniques mentioned in the article came from personal experience or have otherwise been verified or experimented with with a real team and a real project.

Since it's not a New Yorker article, I was hoping to spare the audience a long personal life story and deliver a somewhat succinct list of suggestions that others might find useful.

However, the question is valid, and yes, this is the result of personal experience of following and incorporating AI tools into my own development over the last couple of years, as well as watching my colleagues of various experience levels (in a team of 10 engineers) do the same. These are the practices that we collected, adopted, and trying to codify and develop further.
Which country protected Assange? Oops, also not recommended. So none.
There's also interesting custom-made machines for molecular simulations that don't rely on GPGPUs and are significantly faster, e.g.:
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07898
- https://www.psc.edu/resources/anton/
Not sure how exiting the car without turning it off can be prevented. Everything the car might do to prevent it seems like a serious safety problem.

Not letting you set the parking brake? That's also known as the emergency brake, you don't want to disable it while the car is moving.

Not letting you remove your seat belt? Obvious serious safety problem.

Not letting you open the door? Super obvious super serious safety problem.
I would lose 5 phones before I wore that embarrassing thing
> One should help people, and take care of the world. Those two are obvious.

From what I encounter, almost daily, I don't think everyone is on the same page, on that; especially amongst folks of means.

I have seen people without a pot to piss in, treat others -even complete strangers- with respect, love, caring, and patience, and folks with a lot of money, treat others most barbarously; especially when they consider those "others," to be folks that don't have the capability to hit back or stand up for themselves.

As to what I do, I've been working to provide free software development to organizations that help each other, for a long time. It's usually worked out, but it is definitely a labor of love. The rewards aren't especially concrete. I'll never get an award, never make any money at it, and many of the folks that I have helped, have been fairly curt in their response.

I do it anyway.
Why does the earth have a magnetic field?
I do expect them to understand the code they are copying/pasting. Though to an extent. I understand they would test the code. They would try different inputs to the code and its result. I’d also understand they would test that code across all the different “Linux distros” we use, for example. After all, that code basically calls a Linux syscall, so I understand that’s very stable.

Then I learn that this particular syscall depends on this kernel build flag that Debian passes, but not alpine. You can get it in alpine if you set that other flag. What are you a “caveman not knowing that `pctxl: true` is the build flag to enable this feature?”
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It seems odd that xAI was able to raise $6B without offering a board seat to someone other than "Elon and Elon's personal money manager". But a lot of things about Musk's businesses are odd.
For those who want to do that today there is no need to bother with eBay or shipping from abroad. The publishers tried to stop them claiming copyright violation but the Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that the first sale doctrine applies [1].

Since that ruling many independent booksellers in the US started importing those foreign editions and selling them through online marketplaces such as Abe Books and Biblio.

Here are some examples of the savings. Lets say you are a math student, and your introductory calculus is taught from the first volume of Apostol's Calculus, your multivariable calculus taught from the second volume, and you real and complex analysis class uses Rudin's Real and Complex Analysis.

The US editions of those will set you back around $220 for the first volume of Apostol, around $140 for the second volume, and around $240 for Rudin.

On Abe Books you can get the international editions of the Apostol books from a US seller for $24.39 for volume 1 and $23.40 for volume 2 with free shipping. There are several more US sellers with then in the $30-40 range.

For the Rudin book $22.06 will get it from a US seller on Abe Books with free shipping. There are few more US sellers in the $35-50 range.

Biblio isn't as good on these particular books. They are available at comparable price but only from Indian sellers with shipping from India.

I haven't seen the international edition of Rudin but I have both the US and international editions of both volumes of Apostol and the text is the same. It is the physical form that differs. The US edition is hardback printed on finer paper. The international edition is a paperback printed on rougher paper and the pages are smaller.

[1] Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 568 U.S. 519 (2013)
I absolutely detest it too, but private equity is the result of institutional clients and very-wealthy individuals; but also a degree from 401k retirement plans

401k plans aren't primarily to blame, but the (real) investment class will try and pin the blame to the rank-and-file investors and retirees.

All this because there's pressure to find source of short-term-growth, hell or high-water.
Iceland ?
I read from Wikipedia page that:

"Although Emhoff and Mackin's divorce was amicable, and they have since referred to each other as "friends"..."

Also...When did Douglas Emhoff run for President? :-)
Believe it or not, some users here are in fact from other places than the Bay Area. I know, shocking, right?
This is my go-to remark when rodent-hatred comes up in conversation. These little things are some of our closest cousins. It should be obvious: they have hands rather than paws or hooves.
She is one of the great American novelists. She’s won 8 Hugo’s. There’s the Dispossessed, a great novel.