skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not. But not all unacceptable things are illegal. And just as immoral people will do legal-but immoral things, immoral corporations will do the same.
Yeah, no. Firstly nobody can use Intel’s fabs because they can’t really provide a PDK the way TSMC can. So Intel’s fabs are fundamentally not competitive as it stands because they are almost impossible for anyone but Intel to use. Who cares what their equivalent process is if it can’t be commercialized?

A break up would force them to get their act together as a commercial fab.

The fabs are substantial capital and would have been spun out in the same way IBM spun out their fabs into Global Foundry. Someone with knowledge of how can turn these things profitable.

The bailout props up a failing mismanaged entity and encourages its moribund status quo.

Moreover the US taxpayer shouldn’t foot the bill for Intel’s mismanagement.

The era of x86 dominating compute is clearly over and hence your last point is anachronistic.
So you're saying there's a chance that democracy can hold?
- He doesn't mean it

- It's a negotiation tactic

- I don't know what tariffs are
What is MS's motivation to push so strongly to have everyone on a Microsoft account? I really hope it's not primarily so that they can more effectively target your computer for ads. Or upsell some service subscriptions.
Madison Square Garden Bans Fan After Surveillance System IDs Him as CEO Critic
My original statement was from the perspective of the users, not the LLMs. Perfectly valid to empathize with them.
A bit disgusted at this pardon. Do you think that Trevor Milton will ever raise venture capital again?
And in fact, they are - regular ICE cars are far far far more likely to cause fires than EVs. EV fire is much harder to extinguish, but it's debatable if it's more dangerous to the occupants as the batteries have a solid firewall between them and the cabin.

Even in this case - Volvo identified one case where a problem occured, and decided to recall 7000 cars(out of 100s of thousands sold), and even among those they said they will check first if they even need to have a battery module replaced.

In the meantime my last petrol Mercedes was recalled 3 times in my 4 years of ownership.....each time for a fire risk. And that was part of larger recall spanning 100s of thousands of cars globally.
I snagged a couple preorders upon seeing this comment, since I realized I forgot to do that before.
> and to connect to some sort of LAN

this is actually kind of a hard UI/UX problem for game developers

many p2p+local auto recovery protocols are very bothersome, partially due to some of the protocols being bad or incomplete and a lot due to all kind of hardware & OSs partially or fully crippling them

so game devs often have to fall back to a coordinator server to provide reliable and easy to use functionality for most which also happens to often be the easiest thing to implement and maintain, and then in addition they could also implement work-arounds for the no-internet case

but that is additional cost for a overall niche use case (local co-op without internet), so it ends up in the backlog with low priority at best or gets outright killed. To make that worse steam provides tools to make it much easier to implement co-op (focused on non local co-op), and the easiest way to use them is in a way which always requires internet even for local co-op

so as long as steam doesn't put in a lot of work to make no-internet local co-op close to free to implement for most games it will never happen for most games
Over 3M applicants' data leaked on NYU's website
Yes. It's definitely noticeable. Though, I try to console myself by remembering that my architectural design is definitely hypertrophied. My code is ultimately better. I think my LLM-assisted problem solving is definitely more efficient as well. My code literacy is better.

Hopefully LLMs won't vanish away... I'd be at a net negative.
All the casino employees win despite going for a long time. Even when they lose they win - my cousin repairs slot machines, at the end of every shift he gets paid to lose the last of his test budget.
No, they aren’t gimmicks. The advantage of a quantum-based entropy sources are that they are often much faster than other hardware based entropy source. They are called ‘quantum’ because they exploit randomness present in particle behaviors described by quantum physics (photon behavior on a beam splitter, etc.). Even ring oscillator based random number generators have quantum effects that contribute to its jitter (think shot noise, as an example), but the analysis of its randomness didn’t require quantum physics to describe it.

Quantum RNGs don’t exploit some ‘quantum computing’ property and are strictly limited to a different type of noise from the usual physical noise sources (ring oscillators, phase locked loops, etc.).
They are just determined to lose all retail users
I have some bad news for you.
> Strange all I hear about with modern EVs are issues due to fire. In theory EVs should be far safer than any fossil fuel cars.

Strange indeed. Possibly because we're so used to ICEs catching fire it's not registering anymore[1][2][3].

[1]: https://www.faktisk.no/artikkel/er-elbilen-en-brannbombe/118...

[2]: https://www.nrk.no/vestfoldogtelemark/279-bilbranner-hittil-...

[3]: https://www.tv2.no/broom/harde-fakta-sa-ofte-brenner-elbiler...
I guess the investors were basically making a bet on Musk making things work and so still are.
Small correction.

When xAI was founded, the X investors got 25% of xAI.

So he didn’t sell for less than he paid for it.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/business/investors-who-backed...
Babysitter my guy
Oh yeah I totally agree with that framing. I find this fascinating intellectually because of the deal dynamics and worthy of critique but agree that the tone of some of the commentary is a bit silly. It's a really unethical thing to do, but it's all private capital and everyone with exposure knowingly made the choice to go into business with Musk. They can sue and definitely will win if Musk did cross any legal lines.
All smoke alarms have expiration dates. Mostly due to the isotopes used in them, which decay.

The alarms themselves should be able to work even without network connection, but you won't get to use any of the connected features, loosing all the "smarts" that they charged about $100 premium over other smoke alarms for.

It seems the current plan is to let the device reach their use by date before they shut off the servers, but Google being Google, who knows if they won't change their mind and decide to shut off the server before that.
Running a new browser on an old distro would be a strong reason for me (if I somehow couldn't update the distro - but I can and I do.)
Regarding security, the added work and complication outweighs the added security for me. I can't really disagree with having a different preference. More security on this wild internet is better, right?
> (and nobody in his circle bothers to call out his lies)

Not only that, they double down!

There is this press conference with Karoline Leavitt where she claims that tarriffs are a "tax hike on foreign countries" and the reporter tries to explain to her that tarriffs are paid by the importer. She then acts insulted that he would dare to "test her economic knowledge". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYj9yyo8Tk0

I mean, these people apparently have a university degree. I don't believe they don't know what a tarriff is. But how can you be comfortable saying such stupid shit in front of a world audience?
> and the scheduling latency on the client side.

You might be surprised by how many PCs already have PTP capable NICs. I think it's standard on Intel's network chipsets. On Linux, just look for /dev/ptp0

However, PTP support is far from standard on network switches; and it doesn't work over wifi, or with USB-to-ethernet converters. So for sure plenty of clients can't use it.

> Will I be able to notice this improvement with the right tools?

If you're a precision timing aficionado? Possibly!

Just set up two devices with ethernet and GPIO pins, one that takes in a GPS 1PPS signal and acts as a PTP server, then a second that acts as a PTP client and outputs 1PPS.

Then connect your two 1PPS signals to the two inputs of an oscilloscope, trigger on one and watch how much the other is off by.

Make sure the PTP client is downloading big files, under heavy CPU load and suchlike, so you can see the effects of those.
I was asking the flutter app to act as a bluetooth mesh hub and it started dropping packets when the (external) simulator got to 5000 devices, when the same algorithm in C++ running on a pi 2020 (which is much weaker than the A17!) managed the full 16000 theoretically possible. The profiler (which… opened in a web browser?) tracked it back to most of the time being spent in averaging and rolling encryption, it wasn’t bluetooth-locked.

Developing was also frustrating, with Android Studio simply being unable to signal compilation errors, and many issues only showing up on one phone or another. The zeroconf libraries have different methods, but this could not be detected until runtime on either device. The device I wasn’t actively testing on frequently had some regression in sensors, bluetooth, or even UI.

It did display an animation OK, so no fault there I suppose.
Somewhat related and mentioned in the article. New to me.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/11/23913107/microsoft-windo...
CrushFTP CEO's feisty response to VulnCheck's CVE for critical make-me-admin bug
Fair point, my sarcasm detector was recharging.
Is wearing button downs every day not a buttload of ironing?
PTP is mostly used for industrial control systems that need to have very precisely synchronized timing. The precision you can achieve depends a great deal on the clock hardware you're using. Network hardware, i.e. whether timing in network hardware is deterministic, also plays an important role. So the question is less "what can PTP do," it's more "what can my hardware do with PTP." Fundamentally PTP is just measuring network latency and applying that correction. But the quality of that measurement is critical, and there's nothing PTP can do to mask a crummy oscillator or a switch with non-deterministic timing.
Source article (14 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43506163
What subreddit is this? All the posts you see on /r/all are consistently anti-Trump, tariff policy included.
I also find it funny that COBOL is treated as the boogeyman. It's just a language. Any programmer by profession should be capable of learning a language decently in a month, and better within the year.

So when people say "all the COBOL programmers are retiring!", they're completely missing the problem. The language isn't the problem.

The problem is the design of the software written in COBOL, z/OS itself, and the operators that defend its design. The software has so much dark matter due to tech debt, partially due to age, partially due to vintage. z/OS has tech debt, due to designs for a different era being carried forward. Manual processes that should have safety guards and technical limitations abound.

But that's not to say DOGE should be trying to rewrite this stuff. Not on their schedule and not with their staff. Because it will create bugs. The same reason this software persists.
From my memory, Trump wants actual plans for an invasion of Panama, wants to make Canada a state, and he wants to annex Greenland. All of these claims, are threats of war.
What are you supposed to do if you have no Internet connectivity? You basically have a brick on your hands until you can connect it to the Internet? That's ridiculous.
This script just added single key to the registry and rebooted the machine (restarting the installer). The underlying functionality which allowed to use local user, if registry key was present, was coded into the installer itself.

So if they just removed that 2-line bat file, it's not a big problem. You still can add that entry to the registry, just with more complicated command.

Here's its code:

@echo off
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
shutdown /r /t 0
The president wears no clothes
I know this is only a sample size of 1, but I get my Levi's from the outlet store. I got two pairs of 531's about 6 years ago and basically lived in those two pairs. I wasn't sliding around on the ground, but I was doing woodworking so they took a beating and got pretty dirty. I just took a look at them and they only spot that even looked worn was at the top of the seat, right where 4 seams come together. Otherwise nothing. I only replaced them because I dropped 4 inches off my waist and they'll just fall off me now.
Tariffs are an instrument in a trade flow process that can be used in many ways that can be contextually good or bad.

The deal with these tariffs is the flip flopping, the high rates, the probable corrupt behind doors and under the table deals on where they are applied and where they aren't, etc.

This might be of interest:

Why Trump’s tariffs are better than you think — and much worse

subscribe! https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/06/donald-trump-tariffs-im...

or read now, maybe subscribe later: https://archive.md/H46RG

From an outside PoV a disturbing fact of the Trump tariffs is they were put in force by executive order (OK), they were appealed for review (OK), there's a law that requires that appeal for review to be heard within a specific short time frame (OK) ... and recently the US Republicans passed a rider that offically " Stops Time " wrt to the passage of days to review Trump's tariffs ...

~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43358343

That's a bit weird, surely?
Ask HN: Good small LLM for text correction?
I’ve been playing with local models for handling text correction, aka grammar and spelling in multilingual text.

Most models with less than 20b parameters struggle to do that, even instruct models.
For example, they tend to answer questions from the text instead of correcting the mistakes. Strict prompting not to do so only partially helps. They always tend to add or remove sentences of there own.

Are there any good small models for text correction or is that just not a task LLM are good at?
Theoretically the synergy with Twitter could be fantastic in terms of potential value added, if I’m trying to be down to earth. The others have no real foothold in the real world beyond their own services, and users may flock away as AI integrated into their favorite apps etc. become good enough.
What was in it for existing xAI investors to agree to this? Haven’t they lost value here?
Imagine realizing that you were not important-enough to vaccinate. Imagine asking why a sibling died, and the best your parents can say is that the kid died as a test and you gotta “be strong” and stick together.
Well, it's bald-faced lie but I wouldn't disagree that it's bold.

The idea that you need to confirm you're connected to the internet and that creating a Microsoft account is merely for that purpose is preposterous on its face.

Not that I was ever a regular on windows, but I think I've at least found there to be a necessity to be on windows for certain desirable games or for PC apps. So I've always kind of recognized a necessity, but I do think I can't imagine myself ever intentionally signing up for this. The Linux-based gaming experience is now so advanced, and there's nothing I truly need on Windows. I know it's a cliche indulge in a kind of performative version of a goodbye cruel world post so I don't want to go that far, because I think I would considered the contract to have been broken a while ago, but I don't think I have ever considered myself forever away from Windows, perhaps until just now.
Very feasible. From embedded (https://www.swift.org/blog/embedded-swift-examples/) to Linux apps (https://www.swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/) to tiny games (https://www.swift.org/blog/byte-sized-swift-tiny-games-playd...) to ML (https://www.swift.org/blog/mlx-swift/) to Windows (https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-everywhere-windows-interop/) to Private Cloud Compute (https://github.com/apple/security-pcc)...
Corruption All the Way Down
and i value myself at a hundred billion trillion
You probably already know this stuff or have decided against it for authenticity or whatever, but just in case, you can use some of the Gotek USB flash drive floppy disk emulators:

https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/wiki/Host-Platforms#rol...

And this may or may not be out of date, but may still be useful:

https://llamamusic.com/s50s550/FlashFloppy_GOTEK.html
Definitely, and a lot of that haircut actually happened in between when the deal was signed and when it closed, too. That was right when interest rates went up and Musk tried to wriggle out of the purchase agreement. So it's a great outcome for Twitter investors, assuming it sticks.
Microsoft is really degrading themselves over the 0.1% of users that opted out (and however much money they didn’t manipulate out of them because of that).

I’m really surprised how humiliatingly their top managers act. Surely someone who lies like this has no concern for self respect or pride.
You seem to have jumped over the republican deregulation and dismantling by Bane capital et all that actually destroyed American mfg
Discussion on the hack (22 points, 6 days ago, 28 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43447308
Imagine one PSU outputs 12.0V another one 12.1V, and there’s no load whatsoever.

When you connect them in parallel, the first PSU should detect negative load i.e. actual voltage lather than the target; I have no idea how real-world devices handle that condition.

The second PSU will detect load i.e. actual voltage smaller than the target one, will probably assume it happens because the load is pulling energy and will try to extract more power form the AC source to compensate, to make the output stay at the +12.1V target.

I’m not an expert electronics engineer, but to me the approach looks like a recipe for disaster.

It’s usually fine to connect chemical batteries in parallel for two reasons. They have that discharge curve i.e. the voltage decreases monotonously while discharging. If one of them has slightly higher initial voltage, will discharge until matched with the other one, and then both will discharge at about the same rate. Also, chemical batteries have ~fixed internal resistance i.e. the more current you pull from one, the less voltage you get due to that internal resistance.

AC to DC power supplies don’t have a discharge curve because nothing to discharge, they continuously pull energy from the input AC. They don’t have the concept of internal resistance either: when more output current is pulled from them (i.e. the load increases), they simply increase input current from AC (to a point, and then either a fuse blows up or the device catches fire). The dependency between output current and output voltage is not necessarily monotonous. But the worst of it, it depends on time because capacitors, also because the input is single-phase AC i.e. at some moments of time the input power is zero because the input AC voltage and current are zero.
Zig

Isn’t a major reason why people enjoy Zig so much is because of the built-in tooling such as this, having it Day 1 with the language.
Just by virtue of purchasing that model, I can assume a few things about your finances.

How often you use it and which cycles you use it for let me infer a few other things about other people in the house.

I can either use those to bolster confidence in a narrower profile or I can just add those data points to the raw profile and charge marketers more for either the higher confidence profile or the profile with more data points.
Madison Square Garden's surveillance banned this fan over his T-shirt design
All good points. This is why I'm so excited about this development. Maybe wifi aware will provide a reliable means of local discovery. At that point we're just missing an open source library that makes the devex for implementing LAN support as good as Steam's, and baby you got a stew goin.
"did not act unlawfully"

and

"paid a fair price"

are two entirely different things.
This feels like shady accounting. Did the lenders unnecessarily take a cut when they sold some shares recently?

Does the xAI company have investors to be valued at 80 billion? Can someone point me to its investors list or news about a previous funding round?
Absolutely..and people care.
This whole thread is true consistent statements that differ only in emphasis.
The best marketing campaign for Linux, is Windows 11.
MAGA is Maoism. They low-key despise most good things about Western civilisation: freedom of thought, rule of law, presumption of innocence, trial by peers - they want goon squads and struggle sessions against political enemies. They think the sayings of Dear Leader, and the knowledge that you're part of the Revolution are superior to affordability and availability of goods. They prioritize commodities, resource extraction and the nobility of working in agriculture over scientific research and advanced manufacturing.
Most of those people aren't gambling with other people's money that they have a fiduciary obligation with.
In reality all the anti-Tesla stuff is just submarine campaigns by competitors who can’t build an EV to save their life, so they resort to calling Musk a Nazi instead.
Nice! I was considering setting up telegram/slack/discord for personal push notifications of events in personal IT infrastructure, since Signal is fairly undercooked in this department, but this might be a good solution for me.
The OpenAI library is used pretty much everywhere in the LLM world, every serious AI provider has an OpenAI-compatible API, or you can use something like OpenRouter which is also OpenAI-compatible. Standardization is good.
Wow, that's pure gaslighting. Shockingly, it seems to work. This guy still has an approval rating of 47% at the moment! Seriously, what's going on with this country?
The burden of proof is on the publicly traded company. That they don't make this information clear and obvious speaks volumes.
Massive conflicts of interest exist between him and foreign adversaries of the US:

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversat...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-envoy-says-russia...

If this were the Cold War, we'd have already seen USG freak out and move to nationalize.
Security updates do come from the Internet.
Windows 7 was legitimately pretty good. It’s been downhill ever since.
Who’s the target market for this?

Tagging documents isn’t really a big problem. Companies typically only have a finite, handful of contract templates that the admin tags manually.
Totally agree. Although Marc Rich was pretty bad too.
This how to is extremely comprehensive and well written. You have a knack for writing technical tutorials and documentation that are accessible, clear and simple. Well done!

Good prose, clearly not written by AI - respect!
DOGE for thee but not for me!
What are OpenAI, anthropic, going to do that xAI isn’t? By that logic if there is more than one company in any field they’re all worthless.
I have a recent (2024) Gigabyte AMD motherboard and Windows 11 refuses to recognize the Ethernet NIC or onboard wifi. I can't load the drivers during setup either because they're .exe installers and it wants .inf files or something.

I got mad and installed Fedora Kinoite, which somehow just worked out of the box. My games all worked too.

I've been mulling over installing a Windows partition for the inevitable game with anti-cheat I'd like to play (Battlefield) but insanely hostile shit like this has made me reconsider.
It's funny calling light "wireless".

It's not wrong exactly. Light can be transmitted wirelessly. Optical cables aren't even usually called "wires". It just sounds odd.
If the US government needs a secure messaging app, why don't they make one internally?
Why are you a 'former libertarian', and - I presume - not one 'now'.
And do you own a tesla?
Enron Musk.