skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have the EU to thank for USB-C.

USB-C was the default connector on most devices long before the EU mandate.
Frank has a way of summing up most things perfectly in a way the vast majority of its adherents would fiercely disagree, if they were able to understand any of it at all!
Good Game (2014)
I couldn't really find any details about any of these cases. Some of the names there too are pretty strange like "Tobaccopedia" and "Kraft LLC vs Kraft ULC". ULCs (as far as I know) are a Canadian thing and I highly doubt I can just go an open a company called "Cocacola ULC" in Canada?

Those examples look like LLM generated nonsense, though correct me if I'm wrong.

The example usually taught in school for this sort of thing is the trademark for Aspirin. Aspirin is a Bayer brand name for acetylsalicylic acid, but Bayer didn't defend its trademark in most of the world. In most countries (including the US) courts ruled that Aspirin is a generic term and anybody could use it. That's not the case for say Tylenol (acetaminophen) or Advil (ibuprofen) for example.
Last time British had guts to organise anything about their shitty government they first sailed to a new continent.
nothing too wild. Found a wall sticker on etsy of a pixled loading bar:

_____________________
| |
|___________________|
L O A D I N G

The sticker is on the wall and looks all pixled, and then I have 7 black, thin foam 5"x6" rectangles that I've glued magnets to the back of, and then on the wall, I have nail heads that the magnets connect to. I can load up the bar, one block per day, or I can just have it as my energy indicator haha.
I, uh, think, that "think" is a fine metaphor but "planning ahead" is a pretty confusing one. It doesn't have the capability to plan ahead because there is nowhere to put a plan and no memory after the token output, assuming the usual model architecture.

That's like saying a computer program has planned ahead if it's at the start of a function and there's more of the function left to execute.
Yeesh, I get more than that per day. I didn't realize others had it so bad.
I think there is a more interesting point made by the essay than "digital echoes," which are pretty abstract in comparison to day-to-day distractions that tangibly reduces time.

It's that there's a notion of a device that has so many features that it becomes "too useful." There is only so much time you can devote to so many features. Yet it's clear, for example observing the uptick in sci-fi computer interfaces in movies and such at the time, that crossing a threshold of "enough features" at once was useful at a certain point - having a pocket-sized Internet-capable device with a small-format camera that didn't suck for one thing.

There was also the essay posted recently that argued for a macOS release focused on bugfixes and stability over the disruption of new features with accompanying issues.

I've been wondering for a long time now, at what point will so much innovation have already happened since the 90s-00s that there won't be enough actually useful features to tack on to the next release of X thing except ones that solve problems we didn't have? Has that point already passed? I remember some iDevice releases weren't as notable upgrades as their predecessors for example.

In my opinion, if the AI revolution hadn't happened exactly when it did a couple years ago, this problem of diminishing tech returns would have been much more obvious than it is already. In fact, I think the current LLM rampage of sorts acted as a flood to fill the drought of incremental innovation that would have otherwise occurred.
Discussion (977 points, 4 days ago, 650 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43463200
> The thing about protest culture and the so-called union culture that right-wingers and/or the "economically progressive" folks accuse Kerala of — is actually a highly educated populace (very close to 100%; let that sink in — because we are talking about India) standing up for their rights and not allowing either the corporates or the government to steam-roll them.

The militant labour problem is something even the communists in kerala have started distancing themselves from. Just a small example - Even a few years ago, anyone shifting homes didn't have the right to load and unload their own personal belongings. They could get it done only through unions. Now if they did do it by themselves, and the union got wind of it, they could get beaten up and still have to pay the unions. It was legally outlawed only a few years ago. For industries and commercial establishments, this is still applicable.

>There have been concerted efforts to flare up the Hindu-Muslim divide in the state, ...
The state sent the largest number of recruits for ISIS. A national islamic terror group called PFI which was banned only a couple of years back was founded primarily in Kerala and spread nationwide. The state has been a hub of islamic terrorism for ages. It has been a hub for islamist terrorism, especially in south india for ages. Due to the unique demography of the state, with hindus no longer a majority, backlash to these have not been like in other states.
I think you are agreeing with me?
> You won't get fired for standing up for yourself.

Yes you will, or can. "At will" employment in the US.
> It's a mystery why we didn't simply reuse XPath for selectors... it's all in there!!

It's not really a mystery:

> CSS was first proposed by Håkon Wium Lie on 10 October 1994. [...] discussions on public mailing lists and inside World Wide Web Consortium resulted in the first W3C CSS Recommendation (CSS1) being released in 1996

> XPath 1.0 was published in 1999

CSS2 was released before XPath 1.0.
They almost certainly only do greedy sampling. Beam search would be a lot more expensive; also I'm personally skeptical about using a complicated search algorithm for inference when the model was trained for a simple one, but maybe it's fine?
Flexible glass exists, if used in a non-sphere container, the container flexing will allow more volume with same surface area. Using flexible glass as a very thin coating around paper, a container could be kept lightweight and the shipping cheap.
What is more intellectual about wanting to complicate the language for one reason, versus wanting to simplify it for another?
Can somebody explain the role of the ingredients?

It feels like the antibiotic is easy, it targets infection at the disc. But a head sensitive gel? Do they use diathermy to soften the compound at so it spreads after injection but not before, and the contrast dye so they can do spinal adjacent placement safely?
My prompt was pretty short, I think it was "Make these tests pass". Having said that, I wouldn't mind if it asked me for clarification before proceeding.
Re Greenland, we were in cooperation with the US for decades and the US has had its largest overseas base in Greenland in a friendly way for the free world to protect against the Russian and similar dictators. I'm not quite sure of the lesson there. Do not cooperate with friends of many decades because they may turn on you one day?
Would love to hear more about this "mutilation" ....
All of the Restate co-founders com from various stages of Apache Flink.

Restate is in many ways a mirror image to Flink.
Both are event-streaming architectures, but otherwise make a lot of contrary design choices.

(This is not really helpful to understand what Restate does for you, but it is an interesting tid bit about the design.)

Flink | Restate
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analytics | transactions
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coarse-grained | fine-grained
snapshots | quorum replication
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throughput- | latency-sensitive
optimized |
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app and Flink- | disaggregated code
share process | and framework
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Java | Rust

the list goes on...
The Rise of Carry
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/business/rainbowex-crypto...
being annoyed is a result of all ready being in discomfort and blaming whatever stimuli you can scapegoat to avoid acknowledging your own dis-ease.

walk around with some chronic pain, and see how quick everything annoys you and how self righteous that disapproval is.

More like the unbearable displacement of blame
The LLM Jailbreaking Bible: Code Implementation and Overview
> hundreds of millions

Millions of millions, even. "The federal government spent $1.35 trillion on Social Security in fiscal year 2023."[0]

[0] https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-does-the-us-spend-on-...
Are you saying large chain stores don't exist in Kerala? How are you not dependent upon private entities for basics?
Once an Economy Switches from Rules to Deals, It's Hard to Go Back
Looks like a pretty good option thank you
I'm maintaining a benchmark of various GitHub Actions providers regarding I/O speed [1]. Depot is not present because my account was blocked but would love to compare! The disk accelerator looks like a nice feature.

[1]: https://runs-on.com/benchmarks/github-actions-disk-performan...
I’ve seen her three times now. One of my favorites. Was surprised to see her on the front page of HN of all places!
The connection between education and wealth is very strong. Very sad that the US has decided to pursue a trajectory towards poverty in this area.
I think your hypothesis is correct about what will happen, but... Megacorps like Amazon or Google or ADP or JPMorgan have access to lots of data already due to the nature of their businesses. This really gives an advantage to large companies, and a disadvantage to individuals and small companies. Megacorps fact based, everyone else goes on vibes. Just like in elections.
Always minimize your dependence on the availability of both proprietary clouds, and ongoing software updates.
The camera will be in the bedroom so I don't want to watched by an hacker who has an access to the servers of the service provider or the communication channel between the camera and the servers.
For the context, here is the Financial Services Committee hearing on the topic, and what led to these events

https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx...
That post is describing SFT, not RL. RL works using preferences/ratings/verifications, not entire input/output pairs.
I wonder if this is why BlackBerry phones (best ones ever made) went extinct. Because the media used to grab attention more aggressively, images and short videos essentially, are better experienced on a bigger screen. That's why there are no more iPhone minis. It's either convenient for Big Tech to keep us engaged to that type of media, or just simply user preference. Guess I'll never know, but I do miss smaller phones, and especially a physical keyboard.
Me too, but it's actually really nice ergonomics to have the backend in the same 'codebase' for small projects. Of course this can all be done manually, but the last thing I want to be doing when starting a three day project is spending the first morning/day doing boilerplate stuff.
Just came from a thread where people are discussing Foucault’s literal panopticon (Bentham really but Foucault popularized it) and it seems relevant here. Just knowing that someone is watching changes how you behave.
Effective and reliable law enforcement is a very fast way to go from a low trust society to a high trust society. You can leave your expensive valuables unattended and be certain they won’t be taken. Cameras result in higher solve rates, which results in lower crime rates, which results in even higher solve rates.

Meanwhile, in the Bay Area (one of the most economically productive regions of the world) even attempted burglary is functionally not a crime: if there is no footage, nothing was taken, it’s not an active crime, and the value of your smashed window is under some threshold, police will direct you to fill out a form online which will almost certainly not result in an investigation or arrest. Worse yet, if you report to insurance, you will be punished in the form of higher premiums.
So is this like UV for swift or what is the gain here or can I ditch Xcode and use this instead?
>The link on your website says "Write Blog Posts that Developers Read". I'd have expected that to explain _why_ writing blog posts that developers read is worthwhile.

The post is aimed at people who want their writing to reach more developers. If they've reached the article based on the title, I assume they already want to reach more readers, so I don't think it's worth explaining at that point.

If I clicked an article called, "How to vertically center a div using CSS" and the article explained why I might want to center a div, I'd find it kind of strange and not what I want to spend my time reading.

>I write a blog that gets read by no one. When I publish a blog post, I don't check how many people read it. The blog has no particular topic, just whatever random thoughts pop into my head. Yes I'd like to improve my writing, so I can formulate my thoughts better. But I'm a little suspicious of anyone who thinks reaching a big audience is so obvious a goal it doesn't even require explaining why.

I think that's fine, and I support you doing that, but it just means that you're not the audience for this particular post.

I've published several other excerpts on the book's website that are about craft rather than strategy for reaching readers, so you might be interested in those.[0]

[0] https://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/
Given how bad humans are at "secure", and that current approches have yet to exceed the best humans at code quality, I do not think so.

But good on you for writing it down.
It's not a question of discrete vs continuous, or digital vs analog. Everything I've said could also apply if a transistor could have infinite states.

Rather, the point is that the state of our brain is not the same as the content of our thoughts. They are associated with one another, but they're not the same. And the correctness of a thought can be judged only by reference to its content, not to its associated state. 2+2=4 is correct, and 2+2=5 is wrong; but we know this through looking at the content of these thoughts, not through looking at the neurological state.

But the state of the transistors (and other components) is all a computer has. There are no thoughts, no content, associated with these states.
> "But stalkers!"
>
> Tough. That's the price we have to pay

I wonder if that won't really work well in real life.

I remember reading the difference between a citizen and a police officer is that a police officer can arrest people for misdemeanors (while a citizen can do a citizen's arrest for felonies I believe).

There's probably a good reason citizens shouldn't easily be able to prey or stir up trouble with no friction.

that said, surveillance by private companies should be regulated, and people should have access to data collected about themselves.
I'm glad I'm not the only person in awe with LLMs. It feels like it came straight out of science fiction novel. What does it take to impress people nowadays?

I feel like if teleportation was invented tomorrow, people would complain that it can't transport large objects so it's useless.
Not really. This is a pretty clear-cut case of both ethical and legal violations. After the investigation going public, the sheriff's likely going to go to jail for it.

Above-board prison labor is where the slavery question actually comes into play, simply because it's allowed/legal.
> I don’t see technology as the enemy

Technology is a tool and it matters how you use it. You can both kill or cure cancer with radioactivity.

I don't think it's good that school teachers are using sensational methods in order to draw attention of pupils only because kids are addicted to their smartphones. Socialmedia apps are the new opium of the people
HN, where one story is about hypothetical submarine spaceship laser battles, and the next is about usb-ps2 mouse port adapters, and you want to read them both.
Offender map run by vigilantes; what could go wrong?
Element's crash reporting system is still called 'rageshake' today, and you can enable the shake-to-report function in dev settings.
Ubuntu Provides More Insight into Their Decision Not to "-O3" All Packages
It's not strictly that though, it's next word prediction with regularization.

And the reason LLMs are interesting is that they /fail/ to learn it, but in a good way. If it was a "next word predictor" it wouldn't answer questions but continue them.

Also, it's a next token predictor not a word predictor - which is important because the "just a predictor" theory now can't explain how it can form words at all!
Show HN: A Neovim inspired link page
Yes, I've had the Framework 13 AMD ryzen 7840u for about 1.5 years. First few months had a lot of "use this distro with this kernel" but after 1 or 2 linux kernel releases it's been good, on Arch Linux with Cinnamon Desktop on Xorg with 150% scaling.

It can be helpful to enable the "Game mode" in the bios to allocate more system memory to graphics, this can avoid some weird crashes triggered by hardware video decoding and such (probably more important for the first year or so, maybe not so much now).
Share with the class. I'm not sliding into anyone's DMs, even for space warfare
Intel's rumored high-end Battlemage GPUs have been cancelled
"Hallucination" happened because we got AI images before AI text, but "confabulation" is a better term.
You could just go on your car sales website of choice and likely find the same car with the plates visible.
Updating the SPF record for Outlook 365 – Zoho
DNS settings and updating the SPF record to reflect this: v=spf1 include:zoho.com include:secureserver.net ~all
I'm just saying that immediacy doesn't have be accompanied with helplessness.
Cool write up. Although it's not exactly a huge vulnerability. I guess it says a lot about how security conscious Google is that they consider this to be significant. (You did mention that you knew the company's specific policy considered this highly confidential so it does count but it feels a little more like "technically considered a vulnerability" rather than clearly one.)
Cool. It looks really promising. Congrats!
xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
The Hovercars of the 1950s: A Futuristic Dream That Never Took Off (2.5M Video)
USA has some very weird laws for us europeans, and this is one of them. Especially if you don't know the details of what actually happened.. someone raped and murdered a small child? Or someone urinated in an alley at 3 in the morning, and it just happened to be close to a school. Even stuff like age of conent law in many places have "romeo and juliet" exceptions (not a crime if the age difference between the kids involved is small), and that's with generally lower ages of consent.

Other unrelated laws too, driving + alcohol rules are weird, open container laws, etc... especially the unscientific "tests", walking on a line, touching your nose, alphabet backwards (especially since we use a different "spelling" of letters here), etc... just give me a breathalyzer like in every developed country and let me go.
I think from a grammar side, XPath had made some decisions that make it really hard to generally implement it efficiently. About 10 years ago I was looking into binary XML systems and compiling stuff down for embedded systems realizing that it is really hard to e.g. create efficient transducers (in/out pushdown automata) for XSLT due to complexity of XPath.
Hmm thought you were paraphrasing but he literally said it. He’s pardoning him because he paid lol. America is really no longer a western country.
Feels like there's similarity to CPU and GPU binning.

Make a bunch of them with the same process then bin them based on the variability.
It says that people need training on what the appropriate use-cases for LLMs are.

This is not the type of report I'd use an LLM to generate. I'd use a database or spreadsheet.

Blindly using and trusting LLMs is a massive minefield that users really don't take seriously. These mistakes are amusing, but eventually someone is going to use an LLM for something important and hallucinations are going to be deadly. Imagine a pilot or pharmacist using an LLM to make decisions.

Some information needs to come from authoritative sources in an unmodified format.
Battery life is much better recently, though I couldn't tell you why. The other day I streamed video for hours on end after starting with a full battery. That was an awesome feeling!
https://archive.ph/L72qW
Independence day had the right idea. Just inflict windows ME on them via a convenient day-18250 vulnerability
My first few boards had exactly the same problem, it wasn't mentioned in any of the tutorials that I watched. All you need to do is add a fill region that encloses the whole board, and usually set it to GND.

You probably don't need to worry about EMI and EMC with DC, but if you want to make these dimmable you definitely want a ground pour "behind" any high frequency lines. You additionally don't need to worry about that if you aren't manufacturing, but it's still worth learning it the right way IMO. The sig/pwr-gnd-gnd-sig/pwr stack-up is well worth getting into the habit of (it has great EMI characteristics), and translates relatively easily to gnd-sig/pwr-sig/pwr-gnd stack-up once you've nailed down the design (which has amazing EMI characteristics).

Rick Hartley made these stack-ups popular (if he didn't outright invent them): https://youtu.be/52fxuRGifLU?si=8W1WXfJRHg3Oeep5
I'm not making a judgment, just describing a dynamic a lot of people claim to be seeing. One can reasonably assume that the most junior tier (for whatever combination of education, genuine interest, etc.) could potentially feel the impact most to the degree that LLMs really do have a disparate impact on junior people. It's a continuum of course. There are plenty of competent people who enter many fields because it's a job.

I'm also at least somewhat cautious about making "passion" (or whatever) a prerequisite for working in general.
But you could tell cursor to update its rules automatically, no?
Show HN: Dustebin – A modern Pastebin alternative with image sharing
Many people are aware of these problem and trying to adapt but it may over people's heads. I think everybody involved with children (parents, teachers, etc.) is in a bit of a panic right now.

A problem I am chewing on is "how can community organizations organize without Facebook?" The backstory is this film

https://www.joinordiefilm.com/

(watch it!) and the time I saw an poster for a board game club in my town that had nothing but a QR code that pointed to a Facebook group (no meeting time!)
> Wouldn't that just be the same problem?

Not the same problem, it's half-written file vs half of the files in older version.

> Which actually solves both problems.

it does not and you would have to guarantee that multiple rename operations are executed in a transaction. Which you can't. Unless you have really fancy filesystem.

> Stop trying to be clever.

It's called being correct and reliable.
Well, there was that time that Obama wore a tan suit.
Why functioning governments fund scientific research [video]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BLUF_(communicati...>
Feels somewhat lame that non American jingoists argue for American FOSS over American properitarian software.

Like, FOSS knows no borders. You still lose nationalist karma though. The code is tainted and God knows you know. But you don't have to use such silly arguments. FOSS stands on its own merits.
https://archive.is/p6vbz
> couldn’t the submarine have some sort of extendable trunk to avoid the loss of laser energy in water? Basically a much longer periscope?

I'm put in mind of the mirror on a stick in Saving Private Ryan
You just described my Catholic upbringing
.cursorrules and other files that are added as system instructions in Cursor are just files, meaning the agent can edit them easely - you can tell it from the chat to add something to a rule and it will do it.

You are also wrong that it cannot do this automatically: if you add to the system instruction to record all important decisions in .cursorrules, it will record them there. automatically
Oracle Health (formerly Cerner) breach compromises patient data at US hospitals
Crowd Matrix Neo – The One