skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lagarde 2016, comparable case, same country, very different outcome.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/19/christine-laga...

Lagarde's case was about 400 million Euro. Le Pen is convicted of embezzling 474.000 Euro.

Honi soit qui mal y pense.
I believe the point is that the person in The Egg experiences every extreme example.
Depends on if the free trial is misused here somehow. I don’t know if it is.
AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday
Interesting that you suggest they had "almost zero support" when

1. A referendum with the wording

"""
Do you consider it necessary to preserve the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics, in which the rights and freedoms of a person of any nationality will be fully guaranteed?
"""

Got 77.85% of the vote, and the union only collapsed after internal political struggles led to the individual republics pulling out of their own accord.

2. Just five years later, the honest-to-god Communist Party candidate won %40.73 of the votes in an election against the incumbent Yeltsin -- despite such allegations of voter fraud that "At a meeting with opposition leaders in 2012, then-president Dmitry Medvedev was reported to have said, 'There is hardly any doubt who won [the 1996 election]. It was not Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin.'"

So clearly your statement

> And since it is impossible to have near-zero support without totalitarian oppression

can't be correct, unless you're alleging that Yeltsin was secretly using totalitarian measures to support his opposition in the 1996 election.

> the tops of the Communist Party (led by Yeltsin)

Yeltsin was an anti-Communist, he opposed the leadership of the Communist party. The actual "tops of the Communist Party" were divided between the Gorbachev-led liberalizing faction and the hardline faction, both of whom wanted to preserve the USSR -- but in the wake of the coup attempt by the latter faction, both were discredited and it was Yeltsin and the other regional leaders, not the heads of the central CPUSSR, who came out on top.

> It's just that before Gorbachev and Yeltsin all the statistics were fake, and people were repressed for contradicting it.

This is just conspiratorial thinking. Here, I found the most aggressively western-capitalist source I could think of: https://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF124.chap4.html -- even Rand Corp. describes a drop of population growth rates from 6-7% to net negative over the course of the liberalization of prices.
I've always wondered what the technological development of F1 would look like in other sports. This feels pretty close.
FWIW I also just started seeing comments from other devs on my team today about their M4 mini's thermally shutting down during a compile run in Android Studio frequently.

Shocking to say the least imo.
I've started work on such a "Distributed Client-Side LLM" project but I'm skeptical of the practical use cases. Largely due to the inference that can be accomplished expediently across most client devices. I'm working on a SIMD (WASM compiled), WebGL, and WebGPU based inference engine for a couple of baseline models (llama-7b, etc).

So basically like WebLLM but that supports requests between user nodes. So entirely web based with a p2p orchestration layer serving inference requests across the connected nodes of the network, serving from active nodes that are not being used.

Anyhow, writing a cross-model highly-compatible inference engine that can fallback to minim available compute option (SIMD at the worst) is proving challenging enough, so I have lots of time to over think whether such a system would even prove useful.

A long while back (2011 - I'm old) I wrote a barely functional "Web CDN" that used WebRTC (the spec was very new) that distributed requests for content to a given site across active clients. This distributed LLM project is basically just that except instead of content (text, images, video) we're dealing with inference requests to supported models.
> Yes, the numbers are totally made up

Indeed.

> but nothing I have seen so far convinces me that the reality is a lot different

https://www.memorysafety.org/docs/memory-safety/#how-common-...

This is very well studied.

> Of course, there is a lot of old crappy legacy C code

Ahh... you don't make mistakes. I see.
How do you know if it meets your bar for reliability if you don’t understand the output? I don’t know that the analogy to a compiler is apples to apples. A compiler isn’t producing an answer based on statistically generating something that should look like the right answer.
They say the e-ink display has "Unmatched Speed, Never Seen on ePaper" so it would nice to know the actual refresh rate.

This is not an endorsement, but https://daylightcomputer.com/ claims 60fps, so that's the bar to meet in my opinion. Caveat: the daylight display is not true e-ink, but an e-ink-like LCD, IIUC.
Among israeli jews that's the mainstream position. According to recent polling only 3% say that it would be immoral to ethnically cleanse the Gaza strip, and 80% support it.

You'll come across the slogan a lot if you start to consume israeli mass media.
> I have friends who write a lot of this code for tasks like data analysis for retail and "vibe coding" isn't that crazy in such a domain.

I think this is a great use case for AI, but the analyst still needs to understand what the code that is output does. There are a lot of ways to transform data that result in inaccurate or misleading results.
I notice FreeBSD admins tend to follow a 'pets not cattle' approach, carefully nurturing individual systems. Linux admins like myself typically prefer the 'cattle not pets' mindset—using infrastructure-as-code where if a server dies, no problem, just spin up another one. Leverage containers. Statelessness.

I don't want to spend time meticulously configuring things beyond the core infrastructure my services run on. I should probably explore FreeBSD more, but honestly, with containers being everywhere now, I'm not seeing a compelling reason to bother. I realize jails are a valid analogue, but broadly speaking the UX is not the same.

All this being said, I have this romantic draw to FreeBSD and want to play around with it more. But every time I set up a basic box I feel teleported back to 2007.

Are there any fun lab projects, posts, educational series targeted at FreeBSD?
It's a record low for 2024 which is not insignificant. Next election will be interesting.
I don't see much of a reason to buy this over the older Palma given that they have the exact same screen and the older palma has a processor that's more than fast enough for e-ink.

I don't think fingerprint recognition is a significant enough feature to choose this device over the older model given the price difference.

I am expecting for them to release either a color or a Carta 1300 device sometime this year. Which would make sense as an upgrade.
It is fully static
Working on sourcing IP geolocation data for my little site https://www.ipparrot.net and adding more sections like Networking Glossary and some networking tools.
Relevant https://what-if.xkcd.com/40/
For every critical system out there, there are thousands of trivial ones. The vast, vast majority of programmers aren't writing code for fighter jets, spacecraft, surgery robots, pacemakers, and what have you.
A new programming language inspired by XY, Forth, APL.

This is a Fibonacci example. This code evaluates to 8:

[1 1 (x-1$ + x-2$)] 5
Is there a genre of science fiction that deliberately tries to downplay the amount of change that will occur between now and the future? Would it just be unpopular so no one tries?

Call it staticpunk or something to jazz it up.
Show HN: HaQR News – Hacker News as QR Codes
If you look at the galaxy from the other side, wouldn’t it be counterclockwise?
That's a good problem to solve. Another pet peeve of mine is the inability to modify different streams of fitness data in a single workout. If I record workout on the watch, but use a different device just for heart rate, there's no good way to replace the watch recorded HR data with this other device's HR data.
it's so weird that they made it a phone form factor and there's apps too but no cellular
Agreed, my bad.
If it had come out of Google or Microsoft maybe even Apple, the JRE would have been integrated into the browser much more efficiently and it would have been no slower than Javascript

But I don't remember Applets being particularly slow even back then, if you had a decent internet connection and they were written by a decent SDE
If no one enforces the law, it's not illegal.
it's wood pulp. sawdust derivative. aka cellulose.

don't buy pre-shredded cheese unless you like replacing up to 10% of your cheese with essentially sawdust at a premium.

https://www.eater.com/2016/3/3/11153876/cheese-wood-pulp-cel...
Cheap lithium ion batteries are awful, though, so if the US ones are better, I'm for it. Like I know Westinghouse doesn't manufacture their own l-ion batteries, they use white label from some manufacturer they trust, probably LG.

But I have thrown away probably 100 18650 and 26650 batteries that just sucked or were fire hazards.
So the law is now requiring that you find zero day exploits in iOS in order to make a banking app? Are there banking websites you can use instead? Are criminals incapable of using these websites for malicious purposes?
>Minecraft-styled block buildings

The buildings weren't minecraft style in either case. They weren't formed on a voxel grid and the textures weren't 16x16, but rather a rectangle or at least stretched to one. Also buildings typically are not just built as a cuboid.
I loved the Palma 1, still the most comfortable one hand device for reading via the Kindle app. Replaced my kindle hardware completely.

I subsequently bought their color e-ink iPad-mini sized device for manga. It’s awesome to get a native-publication-sized e-ink way to chew through tons of pages without having to fill up my bookshelves.
I already carry an e-reader around in my bag, but of course it can't replace my phone. This is another e-reader that also can't replace my phone, and would also have to live in my bag. It looks very nice! But if it can't replace my phone when I'm out of the house...
Controlling your data, instead of giving it to some SaaS. But unless you day job is sysadmin, better treat it as a hobby that takes some time and effort, not a free alternative.
At first thought you are gonna talk about how various LLMs will gaslight you, and say something is true, then only change their mind once you provide a counter example and when challenged with it, will respond “I obviously meant it’s mostly true, in that specific case it’s false”.
I think what you're likely to find if you start requiring a credit card on file is that you're now a portal for scammers to test credit card numbers. (Yes, this is why we can't have nice things...)
Adjusting temperature is something I often forget. I think Gemini can range between 0.0 <-> 2.0 (1.0 default). Lowering the temp should get more consistent/deterministic results.
Still writing a Dev Runbook for my canvas library. I forgot how much of a monster it's become over the years ... https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/pull/119
Modern counterpart: the Teenage Engineering PO-32 drum machine can get samples/patches through it's mic or line-in. Some people have Youtube videos with patches in them. E.g. here is a playlist where each video has a section with patch transfer (sounds like an old modem):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbD49LoIZ_0&list=PLk5kr7-twZ...
One of the issues with Java is that it is two levels of language. You compile Java into Java Byte code which is further compiled into native machine code. There is no concept of tail call recursion in Java Byte code. So, it is difficult to propagate the semantics. So it really has to be a programmer or compiler optimization to implement the tail call optimization into the generated intermediate bytecode before that is further compiled.

.NET is an interesting contrast. The equivalent of Java Bytecode in .NET (CIL) does have the concept of tail calls. This allows a functional language like F# to be compiled to the intermediate form without losing the tail call concept. It is still up to the first level compiler though. C# for example does not support tail calls even though it’s intermediate target (CIL) does.
Isn't this a 1d or 2d simplification?
This only affects school libraries. As long as the book is available in public libraries, and is legal to sell, buy, and possess, it's not banned. It's just considered inappropriate for minors. It's more like giving a movie an R rating than like banning.
Most of it does? Just about anything talking about a century from now or longer?

In general, SF overestimates the short term change but dramatically underestimates the long term change.
Not to mention all of the data breach notification laws.
Why the chicken tax still controls the U.S. light truck market (2024)
GDPR does more than demand protections. It demands data locality. It demands that encryption and access controls be done in a certain way. It backs up its demands (that are sometimes vague) with huge fines.
Amazon should have taken a page out of literally everyone elses book and made it public. But no Amazon being Amazon, ofc you have to sign in
I think the real power here is enabling AI to use all the stuff we've built already. Don't need to rebuild everything for AI. I've been through enough replatforms to know that we can't rebuild everything from scratch.
There's something reminiscent of Terry Pratchett's style to Derek's "Things I Won't Work With" series.
Does anyone else remember the email to fax relay of tpc.int?

Not that specific one, but I remember using others. Naturally, I can remember the names of none of them.

The one I thought was the most magical was the one that allowed me to send a fax from my fairly ordinary non-smart Nokia GSM phone. In the days when I was a road warrior ("digital nomad" in Millennial), this was a godsend since fax machines were more common than e-mail.
Plex and pihole are basically production services on my home network. If something goes wrong I get a Sev 1 page from my wife and kids :)
Interesting. I have the opposite recollection. Perhaps it has more to do with the hardware I was using.
Samsung. About 15 years old but still shouldn't happen. "Funnily" enough as I vaguely recall, the competition was GE.

I'm getting countertop Panasonic 4-in-1. I'm getting rid of double ovens (the second of which I basically never used) in favor of a range, which will be induction in place than my prior propane cooktop.
23andMe bankruptcy: With America's DNA put on sale
On some of their devices you have to jump through a couple of hoops to enable Google Play Services and Store, maybe that's what they're referring to.
> "Passenger planes with speed beyond Mach four" and "superconductive magnetic levitation railways at 500 km/h" probably seemed like reasonable extrapolations of current trends at the time.

I'm a bit upset we can't have this today.
Ready for games at Fenway to be 90% HRs
That's irrelevant here because the OP is running the LLM on one of the ends, so it's decrypted that same as when you're reading the chat convo yourself.

It also misses the mark because you're talking about an eavesdropper intercepting messages and the OP is the receiver sharing the messages with a third party themself.
Glad to hear you guys are making progress. Password rotation is definitely more of a hindrance than a help and is a big reason that you end up with Spring2025! style passwords for sure.

I think the industry is realizing that less is more when it comes to passwords and we're starting to see far more adoption of password managers and a bigger focus on getting SAML/SSO login options for SaaS tools, even if they are often gated behind paywalls or "enterprise" plan options.

Now that I'm in a more "defensive" position my primary focus on the credential front has been pushing password manager adoption across the org and looking for good opportunities to showcase that password managers are both significantly faster and easier to use if people are willing to change their workflow.
Overblown quantum dot conspiracy theories make important points about QLED TVs
Show HN: DocsHound – Creates docs and chatbots from Loom-style demos
Chrome extension records product walkthroughs, uses vision language, computer vision, voice + DOM data to generate docs in a block-based editor.

Product has option to publish auto-branded docs on custom domain, with brand scraped from your site. Chatbot context is updated on every publish. Exports to md+txt.
When the National Hockey League allowed synthetic sticks (aluminum, carbon fibre) in the late 1980s there was a quick uptake as players began to learn how to get greater puck velocities over the old wooden ones. The cost to the game is the phenomena of the exploding stick, which happens far more often than with the old lumber ones and can directly affect the outcome of the game as the dejected player skates away from a missed opportunity.
It's nice to see people treating real websites as something beyond SEO farms for users
To this day, dealing with Boox customer service is one of the worst experiences I've ever had.
Which is strange, because unlike his other works, this one actually has something a reader can introspect about instead of, you know, just reading "efficacy porn".
They are testing for a very straightforward needle retrieval, as LLMs traditionally were terrible for this in longer contexts.

There are some more advanced tests where it's far less impressive. Just a couple of days ago Adobe released one such test- https://github.com/adobe-research/NoLiMa
You can put a basketball game on anywhere in the world, and people will watch it, even if they haven't watched basketball before. People only watch baseball out of tradition. MLB didn't even have a play clock until 2023, letting batters step out of the box at whim and create even longer periods with no action.
In theory, yes. But in a real world evaluation would it pick better flights? I'd like to see evidence that it's able to find a better flight that maximizes this. Also the tricky part is how do you communicate how much I personally weight a shorter flight vs points on my preferred carrier vs having to leave for the airport at 5am vs 8am? I'm sure my answers would differ from wiradikusuma's answers.
The Supabase UI Library
Vibe coders focus on writing tests, and verifying function/correctness. It’s not like they don’t read _any_ of the code. They get the vibes, but ignore the details.
If it had a serious QA process behind it, sure, I don't care how the code is generated.

But I wouldn't trust an AI to design the QA process.
That is what Clojure does I believe.
MCP Server for SpiceDB
I have been thinking about the exact same problem for a while and was literally hours away from publishing a blogpost on the subject.

+100 on the footnote:

> agents or workflows?

Workflows. Workflows, all the way.

The agents can start using these workflows once they are actually ready to execute stuff with high precision. And, by then we would have figured out how to create effective, accurate and easily diagnozable workflows, so people will stop complaining about "I want to know what's going on inside the black box".
In the sense that they contribute to umami taste, yes. But most commonly the nucleotides inosinate (from meat and fish) and guanylate (from dried mushrooms) are the other molecules that provide umami flavors.
Algorithms Design (In C)
Yep that's what I've been thinking. This shouldn't be that hard, at this point LLMs should already have all the 'rules' (e.g. credit card A buys flight X give you m point which can be converted into n miles) in their params or can easily query the web to get it out. Dev need to encode the whole thing into a decision mechanism and once executed ask LLM to chase down the specific path (e.g. bombard ticket office with emails).
I’ve actually been thinking about something similar! One idea is to add a Tinder-style review flow right after a job post is created — where the hiring team can like/dislike a few AI-generated example CVs. That feedback would help tailor the model to the team’s actual preferences.

Another direction is introducing a “hidden preference” layer. Right now, the AI ranks candidates based solely on the job post — which applicants can see and potentially optimize for. Hidden preferences could let the model learn from team behavior without exposing that data, making evaluations more accurate.
> Yes, the numbers are totally made up, but nothing I have seen so far convinces me that the reality is a lot different.

This is really what a lot of all of this comes down to, Herb and the committee feel like you do, others feel that the numbers won't be that good. We'll see in time!
When you're re-watching the first episode of the first season, look out for the bearded guy in the map room with Merle Dandridge that's upset because everyone died, that's me. :)

I got a call to be an extra and figured what the heck, was totally worth it. Got to very briefly meet Craig Mazin too.
Another anime wrapper?!
This is the third post that I have seen about the issues with "vibe coding" and it is not a surprise to see a gradual backlash from it; because it is NOT software engineering in the first place.

This is also what happens when the VC hype brigade just listens to AI researcher influencers who are excellent with research, but instead creating throw away code and encouraging "slopware" because it is gluing code up without maintenance, testing and verifying that the code works.

Vibe coding is yet another way in promoting the proliferation of more slopware rather than creating robust and mature software that lasts for years.

It has zero place in areas of high risk like defense systems or healthcare.
On desktop you do productive work, your apps need native capabilities. On mobile, apps are primarily consumption, displaying, browsing... no complex interactions.
> I have friends who write a lot of this code for tasks like data analysis for retail and "vibe coding" isn't that crazy in such a domain.

That sort of makes sense, but then again... if you run some analysis code and it spits out a few plots, how do you know what you're looking at is correct if you have no idea what the code is doing?
taste is subjective, so I won't argue that point (although I do disagree with it), however if you're going to melt the cheese, it's very easy to tell the difference side by side.
I’m vibe coding https://vespera.guide, a travel-planning tool that blends AI-driven suggestions with real-time re-planning—aimed especially at people who want to get inspiration and stay organised in their trip planning. Think of it like a curated jumpstart for itineraries, but still flexible enough to keep spontaneity.
There is no circumvention of any access controls.
Bigme Hibreak Pro is currently the better option imo. Especially for those who want it to be even more phone-like
Yes, but I think the interesting thing is that there are a greater number of galaxies spinning one way than another.
So you're saying it hasn't happened in 4-5 generations? While certainly precedent, it's understandable people are worried about it.
HTTP/3 and the QUIC Internet Protocol
I'm sorry?

https://aws.amazon.com/ai/generative-ai/nova/
Are there any open-source fitness trackers?
5 years ago, I watched a YouTube recording of a meetup talk given by one of the CheerpX engineers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JUs4c99-mo

In it, they showed a functional demo of porting an OSS multiplayer C++ game entirely to the browser with WASM.

Afterwards, I read some of their engineering content and was blown away.

It's been fascinating to watch the CheerpX/CheerpJ progress from afar over the years.