skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still use my T470S as a Ubuntu 22.04 development machine. I bought it from my pre-pre-company as a used one back in 2022 and it is a fantastic laptop for personal projects. The only update I did was a 16GB RAM to up the memory to 20GB. I also bought a new battery as one of the two was dead.

I wish the graphic driver could be better as playing Youtube videos constantly crashes Firefox on Ubuntu. Other than that I have nothing to complain. I have been using it for 3+ years with zero maintenance (I didn't even bother to clean the fan) and it never failed me.

I have a second "new" Dell workstation laptop standing by just in case it breaks down. But it is a Windows machine with 32GB of memory, so I'll probably use WSL2 instead.
ok I apologize. She is not being misleading intentionally, but it's pretty clear, then, that it's easy to be misled into overly broad generalizations about the confidence we should have about cosmology by the things that she says.
I have deformities in my wrist and I have small palms (dwarfism) I’ve tried various kinds of mice; none of them were comfortable and settled on using a Wacom tablet as a trackpad.

Recently I started using Logitech Ergo M575 trackball mice and it has been total game changer, I can even play FPS games quite well with it. I highly recommend trackball for those with accessibility issues like me and certainly welcome more open hardware competitors in the space like Ploopy as customisation is crucial for accessibility.
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The graph in the article of "what the political spectrum actually is" where independent thought was only found in the middle was so funny to me that I had to do a double take. Maybe this is a joke or April Fool's prank or something?

I read the article quickly so maybe I'm misreading it but if that graph is serious it really undermines his position as a thoughtful moderate to me. But maybe he really does believe that everyone on the left and the right only has groupthink. I agree with you that it's definitely not all tribalism
Maybe try Kagi. I am pretty happy with the results.
Thanks to this website I learned that ABC 25 Waco TV (KXXV) has some incredibly good interlude music.
People are always talking about AI in terms of economic impacts (jobs, productivity, etc.), but military should be the first use-case they care/worry about.

They'll probably freak out once they finally realize the implications of cheap drones + smart AI + auto-aim guns.
Thanks for pointing this out. As a follow up, if the US has a trade surplus, they seem to just slap 10% in both columns.
Bruce Schneier recently reached out to the general community looking for solutions to this as well

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/cell-phone-op...

Adding context on the image thing-

I have old 32 bit apps for some of my hardware cameras / other devices that attach to Android Phones, that will not be backed up with all their settings, and that worries me as even though I've extracted their APKs for preserve, each install requires reaching out to a server for first activation and one day there won't be a response when the companies that made those hardware cameras end support - and I won't be able to do that first activation which is all they need.

A Full image theoretically would make this a non-factor- but the built in Backup method for Android doesn't do this. This would be the same if had the Apple variant of these cameras.
And while things like TWRP exist which could attempt it fully- that involves unlocking the bootloader which is what one does not want when there is a chance of a casual forensic search.
This is just an ad without any context?

Search could be better? Yes, yes it could.

I search for words, can even indicate I want search results with a keyword included and it will be ignored. And then I have to sift between what is the search result, and what is an ad.

And if I get another quora answer....

But, this post? it was a waste. We do some hand wavy stuff, come try us.
Author here: Definitely cherry picked ;)

I did deliberately pick some "bad" examples like the blue+green image, and other multicolor images.

I wanted to add an upload function so people could test any image, then i realised I'd have to implement the compression/hashing in the client. Maybe i should!
Of course! Because no more sagging tits!
It's ironic that Silicon Valley's CEOs are now getting exactly what their candidate promised them.

Where is the pushback against this from Musk and Ellison?
How do you slog through something you truly hate?

More than a decade ago I was hired as an intern at Colgate-Palmolive as a software developer. Turns out they were(are?) one of the largest SAP deployments in the US. The entire company revolved around SAP. Due to lack of college graduates knowing SAP, they took great pains to treat me extremely well and train me (a CS major) in ABAP using SAP Netweaver.

My project was more ambitious than the rest of the group because I had enough courage and bravado to be assigned a project like that. In fact I made it a point to be 'brave' and make myself look really good in front of the upper level managers. I tried to know everyones name, even in other departments and to be super polite and humble around any sort of manager there. When I finally got some tasks to do, I was so miserable that I finished multiple days without getting anything done. I felt so depressed thinking that I slogged through four years of CS for this?

In the end I managed to finish last in the cohort and Colgate took the rare(at the time)decision to not extend me a full time offer. I felt like a complete failure because I didn't put in 100% and I felt like I let my mentor down.

At the same time I know that I truly hated it. To this day seeing pictures of SAP GUI gives me anxiety and makes my stomach turn. How do you overcome something like that and push on? It does not always seem like a sure thing. I sometimes think what if I had pushed through and gotten the offer? I'd probably still be at Colgate like my mentor was.

With the benefit of hindsight I have learned to be super appreciative and thankful for them treating me so well but im glad circumstances led me to not ending up there. But really who knows if it would have been better in the long run? Whenever I see Colgate it actually evokes positive memories of that time. But the biggest thing I learned was to not bite off more than you can chew and if you don't truly love what you are doing there is another path out there.
Off-topic about the Nassim Nicholas Taleb opening: Does anybody else feel like he just restates obvious things in a more formalized and somewhat pompous way? I do not mind formalization but I feel like I am supposed to swoon over it as if some profound truth, that was not already implied in our every day thinking, was being revealed.
That Wayfair scenario is very familiar to me. I had a really similar experience with them delivering a table and chairs. They stayed for a shockingly long time to assemble them. I figured it was just really hard to assemble. That was somewhat true.

However, when I looked at them, I was shocked at how shoddy the work was. Cross braces were installed backwards. Seat bottoms had huge gaps from the underlying support. Some screws were literally just missing, with parts that would just flop. A lot of this stemmed from not paying attention to the instructions, which specified really specific sequences for putting in the screws, leveling, then tightening. Those steps were obviously engineered to minimize misalignment, but this crew thought they knew better... sigh

I didn't ask for a new crew, as I didn't trust them to send a better crew. Instead I just spent a good evening redoing quite a bit of the work.
Photons, neutrinos, and gravitational-wave astronomy
You would normally at least be entitled to due process. My understanding is that Trump is citing a law that allows the President to deport nationals of a country we are at war with without due process, except we aren’t at war with Turkey.
I have an x31 from 2003/4 I'd love to rescue but the bios won't boot.
Yep, there are a lot of layers and compositing operations (maybe more than necessary?). I suppose it could be simplified further.
> who with a majority in the court...

There is a judicial conservative majority. That doesn't mean they are a Trumpian, Republican or even conservative rubber stamp.

The court has ruled against conservatives numerous times already.
China can subsidize 10-20% tariffs for a few months. They CANNOT subsidize a 54% tariffs.

This will have COLOSSAL impacts on China.

They can't fix domestic real estate, subsidize industries, build their military, fund the Belt & Road, etc, etc with this level of tariffs from their largest customer.
How does having less friends actually benefit you though? It just seems dumb, because presumably you were friends for some reason.

I don't see how cutting them out creates a positive. It's like "Javy thinks men can become women", now I have one less person to play disc golf with.

What's the point of that? People can have different opinions, it's not their only character trait.
The other countries could have tried less corruption and fewer palaces and yachts for their nobility. And a few more opportunities to earn a decent lifestyle with nothing, but a brain and hard work.
If that's the case then it feels like it proves they just don't care enough about compatibility...
The terminology makes all the difference, though. You cannot just handwave it away. A US National is not removable by the discretion of U.S. Secretary of State, but a LPR can be found deportable based on that. The law could not be more clear. This is not a First Amendment concern. You don't have to commit a crime or to be charged with one. Even your mere presence is enough to trigger the statute. You can debate if Rubio should exercise that right and vote for a different President to elect a different cabinet to execute the law differently, or to elect a different Congress to change the law, but to say he does not have the right or that it is vague is preposterous. It is just that some people are not aware of the details and may have a different expectation compared to the status quo.

If you don't like that status quo, that's fair enough, but that's not a proof of non-resilience. The system is supposed to operate based on some approximation of will of the people and it has been quite resilient in approximating it.

As for me, allow me to be skeptical of you having a coherent, well-thought-out alternative of an immigration system with all the consequences and corner cases covered, especially if you are not familiar with the basic terminology of the current one.
maintainer's employment != security audit
I had quick scan of the comments but I didn't see anybody else make the point, so here is my 2c.

I believe the problem is the two party systems and how our government is set up, people vote for one tribe or the other. There is no _value_ to being educated on individual issues because ultimately you simply have to choose between 2 people who are affiliated with a party.

How awesome would it be if individuals could vote on specific issues, perhaps only after proving they have a working knowledge of the subject matter.
Yes!

Our labs include building your own real spectre attack against the kernel, bypassing ASLR and building ROP chains with various side channels, finding and exploiting backdoors in a RISC-V CPU by building a hardware fuzzer, and more.

(source: I designed the Spectre lab plus a few others)

All our labs are fully open source for anyone to try: https://github.com/MATCHA-MIT/SHD-StarterCode

If you give them a try, please do let us know what you think! We genuinely want these activities to be fun and approachable (we designed them like a big CTF) and welcome feedback from the community.
> You don't need to re-license permissively licensed software to include it in your code.

If the project you include it in does not use the same license, then I think you are technically re-licensing it.

But either way, I don't see how the rest of your comment applies to what I said.
Fear is one thing but how do you deal with regret? Regret for taking the leap as well as regret for not taking the leap? There can be regret in both paths.
It's a little more inductive bias. That's not necessarily a step backwards. You need the right amount of inductive bias for a given data size and model capacity, no more and no less. Transformers already make the inductive bias of temporal locality by being causal.
Sounds plausible. I was blown away when Apple Watch could run some of WebGL samples (such as Aquarium with artifacts) back in 2020.
Why do you think that? Both of these articles look flagged to me and I don't see any moderator commentary in them. Also, even if they were unflagged, they are clearly never going to be on the front page. I can't see any evidence that there was some kind of moderator intervention there, they're completely obvious dupes.
My thought is that if someone aligns exactly with X political ideology, they aren’t really thinking for themselves and are just adopting whatever their tribal group believes about X subject. I see this all the time - collections of beliefs that otherwise have nothing to do with each other, but are adopted by the same people because “that’s what X group thinks about it.” This is very rarely a conscious thing.

This becomes even more obvious when you look at how these collections of beliefs have changed over time, which to me just shows how they aren’t based on any fundamental intrinsic personality traits but are trendy and groupthink-based. Ditto for geographic differences.

So I don’t think being a centrist implies one is not tribal, rather that the degree to which your beliefs on a variety of issues align with the “default” of a group implies how tribal you are.

In other words, a politically thoughtful and independent person probably has a basket of opinions that don’t fit into neat left or right, liberal or conservative, etc. categories.
But software engineers are tasked with solving business problems. Ofcourse writing code is part of it. But other things too, for example communicating with users to understand requirements better, which lead to a reduction in scope, which reduced the code to be written.

Or sometimes it is found that a good solution can be devised but which satisfies about 80 percent of the requirements, and it may be prudent to attempt to negotiate to remove the 20 percent requirements which cannot be satisfied.
This is the asterisk that always stands out to me with the raving posts about how great people's dinosaur Thinkpads are.

Yes, if I don't have to keep multiple browser windows, video calls, Slack, and whathaveyou open, then I too can get by with an ancient Thinkpad. If it is enough for you, then all the power to you. I am sincerely supportive of the fact that you can stick it to today's consumerist, disposable tech industry.

Here I am on my T480s with 40 GB memory (8 is soldered) and the highest tier CPU for the Thinkpad gen (apparently these are soldered on too), and it's a drag. I'm trying to scrape by until I can start thinking about saving up for a new Framework.
Is there some rule that says other people aren't allowed to pursue a green card? That doesn't seem like a differentiator to me.

That's a real question, I have no idea how any of it really works in the practical sense.
We even have aspiring leadership in Australia who see this as a win win and have proposed offering JV in uranium, lithium and rare earths. Murdoch press backs the idea, even when criticism of Trump is overt they always go to "we need him more than they need us" because of 50+ years of Defense posture which assumes we're insured by US forces.
Excellent.

This seems to work with the Remasters as well. Even better :)

Please add AoM support as well.
This is standard. Hollywood is horrible, though. It's not usually the best stuff that bubbles to the top. And even when the good stuff does get visibility, everyone wants a piece of it (especially if they are put up some $$ or other benefit) and meddles incessantly with the production, from the script, to the casting, to the marketing.

In the music biz we used to call this "write a word, take a third." I've never asked what the Hollywood equivalent is. Every production gets enshittified.

There are mountains of supremely talented people in Hollywood, but an equal amount of totally untalented chucklefucks with money and connections to screw everything up.

Maybe the AI will put production back into the hands of the talent. Their scripts will go unmolested by talentless moneyed hacks.
> And now it's "they are never separated, and this holds true for whatever systems"

What I described as separation is a a decomposition into modules which are linked together through a contract. CSS has cascading and selectors, while JS has the DOM API. Otherwise, it would still be attributes on tags.

BEM is just a development technique, not a technical requirement or capability. Without cascading, we would probably have components and inheritance.

> Remember how you started with how every UI system and framework was somehow this separtaion of style and presentation and structure and interactivity?

On Android and iOS, you have XML for layout. QT and GTK have support for CSS like styles. I remember at least one of the have supported XML for layout definition. They're not required, but they make it easier to build the UI as it almost always have a tree structure.
You could use GitHub pages + cloudflare for free hosting. My neighbor uses that.
Breaking computers taught me to build them
I remember seeing this a couple of years ago on HN!

Would you be willing to share how it’s doing on the business side? Hints on how you’ve grown users or how many folks are willing to subscribe?

I’d love to build a service (in a different domain) that operates as simply as this.
European here. I'm on the left, but I don't hang out much with people from the left: they're really often driven by ideology and cannot for the life of them come up with working political plans to push the needle. They're completely rejecting the complexity of compromise and gradual change towards the ideal, convinced that any act that isn't absolute is a betrayal of their values.
A broken system is keeping California homes underinsured. Millions are at risk
I know nothing about car racing and I’ll prove it: until your comment I always vaguely assumed that the number of cars in the Daytona 500 was…500?
I use a trackball almost exclusively. I will go back to mice for first person shooters. Mice can move faster and have easier time with pointer accuracy. This is where the sensor on a trackball is very important as it helps a lot with tracking, but mice will always have a edge if you are competitive. For stuff like Cyberpunk that isn't so hard core I have a fine time with my trackball.

Trackballs come in all sorts of different sizes, shapes, and layouts. Which works best is kinda up to your own physiology. That being said i find the thumb-style tend to work out a bit better for sitting on a sofa and plopping it down in random locations. It doesn't need a hard surface, being sideways or odd angles isn't going to bother it.

Another advantage for the trackball is you don't need much room for it. Just need enough room for it to sit on something without falling off.

If I have somewhere flat then I prefer to have the big center ball trackballs. Having a bigger ball with more mass is nice as more energetic movements doesn't cause it to rattle around and it is nice to be able to use multiple fingers.

Laptop trackpads are probably the worst devices ergonomically. It doesn't really matter how nice of quality they are as it is the size and position of them that make them bad to use. It is the repetitive twisting and bending of the wrists to reach them that make them bad.

If you have a very nice trackpad that is on the side of the keyboard then they probably can be very nice, though. I haven't tried them so I can't say anything from experience.
I believe they are free to challenge the decision in an administrative court in the US (under Attorney General, not an Article III court) but they can be arrested. In any case, most countries would reserve the rights to kick you out. That's the deal you make with the country when you choose to get their visa and go there.
Same setup, didn't work. (Empty space where blur supposed to be.)
https://archive.ph/nlSmY
Above they are still called targets though.

> Every morning, officers recalled, the Ukrainians and Americans gathered to survey Russian weapons systems and ground forces and determine the ripest, highest-value targets

> Given the delicacy of the mission, was it unduly provocative to call targets “targets”?

It's about "the delicacy" of the mission not them moving or not moving. It could have been "potential targets" or "moving targets" instance otherwise.

> “If you ever get asked the question, ‘Did you pass a target to the Ukrainians?’ you can legitimately not be lying when you say, ‘No, I did not,’” one U.S. official explained.

The un-named "US official" spelled it out for us eventually so we don't have to guess and read between the lines.
I currently have this T25. But it’s mostly a gimmick. Once the coolness wore off it’s just a midrange T470 under the hood.

Still trucking after 7 years though. But I can’t upgrade it to Win 11 lol
Is this an American thing? No one has ever in my life asked me "Who did you vote for?"

I have had plenty of people behave in a way that made it clear they assumed I agreed with them on political matters/issues that would have us voting the same way (sometimes correctly, sometimes incorrectly) but I have never been asked this question. Is it common or is it a contrivance in service of the article?
Here's a less pedantic version:

An academic researcher isn't hired to do research, but publish papers.

Similar to TFA, I think the issue is more about alignment than anything. Goodhart's Law creeps up slowly and can destroy any business or industry. Both can also stay off alignment for an uncomfortable amount of time. In our research example, I think it is clear we want our researcher to actually be doing research and that paper publication is a (measurable) natural result of that work, but it should be a bit more obvious to see that there are ways to increase your publication rate without increasing your research rate (or even increase your publication rate at the cost of your research rate). (Obviously I disagree with TFA's point)
Interesting, do you have a source to get more information about this?
Are AI Models Advanced Enough to Translate Literature?
Where does one find a replacement battery for a thinkpad that doesn't die after 6 months?

I spent $100 on what I thought was a legit and reputable local middleman for laptop batteries (of course they just buy from China), but even then first battery was half dead on arrival, and second free replacement was dead in around just under a year with rapid capacity decline after 6 months.