skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite being a small-ish site, HackerNews does still suffer from the Reddit problem of having enough users that you often don’t get to really know anybody. Realistically most conversations here only go back and forth for like 3 or so comments on each side. I mean, the site is structured to promote that kind of thing; reply buttons start getting hidden after a point, right?

I don’t think anyone really can be convinced to deviate from a strongly held political belief in a handful of posts. At this point I think most people with any interest in politics have already seen every path through 4 or so posts around their opinions.

Standard talking point, standard counterpoint, standard objection that the the counterpoint is not back by data, request for citations, citation, argument that the math was wrong, and by now the thread is a week old and we’ve forgotten about it.

So, I wouldn’t say it is an issue of people being bad faith or overly obstinate. It’s just a bad format. Old phpBB boards and those sorts of sites were better for this sort of stuff, despite being mediocre, because at least you could remember who was who.
> I can't pick my own domain when using Gmail, and still works just fine.

I do. I've used my own domain with GMail for many years. I moved it there from another provider when Google were giving such things away for free to beta users.

Perhaps I should move on again and avoid the big data kleptomania.
> how much

With so many countries and legal frameworks to comply with, there's never going to be a single answer for this.
I mentioned the same problem in one other subthread as well. Current hardware is certainly performant enough not to become this sluggish at just 100 000 or so emails. There's actually no reason it shouldn't work well with say a million emails in one inbox.
Borges is totally recommended, of course, but after reading him in the original language I think his English translations lack the poetry and music of his writings. For once I am happy Spanish is my first language.
I can assure you it’s not a joke. Compute power is increasing at a ridiculous pace, and highly capable models are getting smaller and smaller, now at the 30b parameter size and under. So even if it wouldn’t be pragmatic now, it could become highly relevant in 4 or 5 years if trend lines continue at anything like the recent pace.
The Internet of Dumb Things (2016)
Yeah at the BigCorps I was at, old laptops (as long as they weren’t more than 3-4 years old) were usually reimaged and kept on hand as spares or for interns, etc. But I imagine after a large layoff they ended up with way more than they’d ever actually need.
Just use Proton
Surely not - the only thing they purport to know is legal advice and you asked something that wasn't even tangentially related to the law.
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That theory really doesn’t work. It’s not a situation where one person went rouge and did something. The thing about a group chat is that it’s literally by definition a group activity and that particular group now includes:

1. The head of the CIA

2. The secretary of defence

3. The vice president

4. The director of national intelligence

5. The White House chief of staff

6. Chief of Staff for the Secretary of the Treasury

7. Acting Chief of Staff for the Director of National Intelligence, and nominee for National Counterterrorism Center Director.

8. The Secretary of State

Plus a bunch of others including random trump political allies like Steven miller and witkoff, a journalist and an as yet unidentified person known only as “Jacob”.

But they collectively got together, and decided repeatedly to do this over 30 different occasions in just this story alone.

But don’t let anyone try to convince you this was some single persons problem, this was the absolute textbook definition of a conspiracy at the highest levels of government to knowingly and repeatedly violate the law with regards to both handling classified information and around government record keeping laws.

And this line they are trying to spin about signal was somehow approved for use is here in black and white proven to be wrong with the NSA making it clear there was a known vulnerability in the platform and it wasn’t even approved for unclassified but official use communications as recently as February 2025: https://www.scribd.com/document/843124910/NSA-full
Now that we have an Australian, suppose I'll have to change my tactic of waiting for dang to go to bed before being naughty, how annoying.

Nice to see another helper. Dan, you are truly wonderful and I hope you never leave us, however, I also hope this affords you some much deserved "time off". Welcome Tom, and how.
Dang, and Tom: I think it would be useful for you two moderators to use a "special" color, instead of the light gray that is used for any other username.
I think the problem is that it's not actually reciprocal. The numbers in the first column appear to be inaccurate and misleading. For example, The South Korean average tariff rate on imports from the U.S. is approximately 0.79% [1]
[1] https://www.korea.net/Government/Briefing-Room/Press-Release...
Welcome, Tom!

Thanks for your moderation work so far, and welcome as an official moderator. Glad you'll be helping Dang keeping this an awesome community.
Proton says they care about security and privacy but at the same time makes it impossible to use your own keys or properly export the original emails from your inbox. I really can't take this suggestion seriously.
Call logs are printed on every billing statement by default. I believe it may even include SMS messages in some cases.

This data has likely proliferated widely throughout the company, subsidiaries and contractors, to reside on an unknowable number of systems. I would assume call record metadata is fully compromised at this point.

That’s not to take away from the finding in the blog – I’m merely commenting on the question in its conclusion, about the implications of a barely know technology vendor controlling the vulnerable server holding this data.
What's the actual strategy behind the current US administration slapping tariffs on everything? Feels like they're handing them out like Halloween candy. Is there a long game here, or is it just managed chaos and alienating trade partners for short term optics?
My comment was less a nit and more I didn't understand how it really worked! Thanks for correcting me.
>Windows-only game

Huh? Palworld is available on Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and macOS.
A Foray into Private Hosting: Git via Forgejo
Is this released under the GPL like WordPress?
Framework Laptop 14 with Ryzen 7040 is available right now.
Is this an April Fools leftover?..
It's somewhat like “metaverse”, which to this day nobody can explain precisely, and yet we spent two years talking about it as it was the future. Meaningless and subject of countless discussions. There's no contradiction; it is possible.
You don’t see the value of independent replication of findings?

The agent didn’t have access to the code, although they acknowledge it could theoretically be in the training set, even then the original code wouldn’t conform to the structure of the test.
> The Dems have no talking points. A few of them are organizing now around 'economic populism' - in other words, they are completely cowed and will avoid all the major threats to freedom, democracy, the rule of law, safety; the corruption, cruelty, and hate. They are going to their safe space - economic policy!

Because sadly, thats what the people respond to. When given the choice between food on the table / roof over their head / cash in the bank account and abstract values like "republican government", "rule of law" and "protecting human rights" etc. they will choose the former. Especially as long as its OTHER people's rights, and OTHER parties getting surpressed, they don't care quite so much. We've seen this play out in Russia. Granted they did not have the long history of Republican government that the US has had.

The irony with Trump is they may get neither. At least some of them. Authoritarians have way of mollifying that minimum % that actually matters. Mostly people with guns and willingness to use them. In the US we're talking as low as 25% (so 75% of us are effectively screwed). And when you have billionaires controlling the information space, it would be very difficult to organize opposition.

I'm now looking out to 2028. Trump and his cronies may be plotting to crash the system and "declare an emergency" so elections get suspended. Or the alternative, he just runs again and dares anyone to stop him. The blue/purple states should at the very least, bar him from appearing on the ballot there's a question of whether there will have enough backbone and could not be sufficiently threatened/bullied into backing down, or if he tries to pull a 2020 again with an "alternate electors", at the very least cause confusion so the election can be thrown to the House where GOP almost assuredly would have control over the state delegations. Lastly, the various Federal agencies, possibly even the military would be sufficiently "Trumpified" such that they will threaten, maybe even resort to force.
Ford Patents a Manual Gear Shifter for EVs
Sloppy pasta
Dude, you are lucky that this seems to be somewhat effective. The hope is that this turns out to be extremely effective, because nobody will like it if people are forced to fight the normal way.
No, the government has not had issues running military operations using its existing comms. The actual story is that they used Signal on purpose to bypass required government record-keeping laws.
Does this administration need to make sense?
I would say two things. 1) security inherintly is annoying, the more secure something is the more it sucks to use. Military communication channels have to withstand the most powerful attacks in the world, everyone, Russians Chinese Europeans Israelis, would all love to get access. So these have to be extremely secure and thus annoying to use channels.

2) their are laws about storing government communications which are built in to the official channels. Trumpists are suspiciously intentionally breaking these laws.
> I’ll go against the grain and say that fake deadlines are incredibly useful.

If everyone's on board with your definition of deadline and it always works that way, then sure yeah whatever I'm not going to argue the point.

But I'd argue the "fake" in "fake deadline" is admission to deliberately exploiting information asymmetry about where exactly a "deadline" sits between the "time box" definition of deadline and the "point when we stop working because the deliverable is now worthless" definition of deadline.
I don't claim to be an expert, nor to be able to speak credibly on the interactions of the millions of people in government.

I just remember hearing an anecdote from a friend with ties to Signal that some part of the government wanted to recommend it and another part slapped their hand because they didn't want to encourage people to use technology that law enforcement can't breach.

Even though I just use it for casual conversations with friends, that gave me some extra confidence in using it.
> the White House illegally pulling congressionally appropriated funding for universities is such an utter tragedy

The white house was bought fair and square, corporate welfare is the only thing that matters now.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559003
I was, believe it if you wish, thinking about old TV guides just this morning and wondering how one would even go about archiving those. Most of the stumbling blocks for taking apart the glued binding for scanning have been figured out, of course, but for any given week there may have been as many as 60 or 70 editions (for each television market, I think). None of these have proper ISSN numbers as far as I'm aware, and other than the listings they can be visually indistinguishable. Then there is the challenge of finding those, and not knowing whether this or that edition is missing (from time to time, the company would create new additions for new regions, or fold old ones back into some other are) along with even parsing the content. Many of these tv shows aren't on themoviedb or thetvdb, and if the shows are, then there won't be episode listings (there were 6000 Donahue talk show episodes, after all). On top of all of that, you can't necessarily know what was on tv at a given time and day, with federal government preemptions, commercials, unreported last-minute rescheduling, etc.

But I can also see why people might want to keep more interesting data, like when the Federal Cheese-Sniffing Agency moved offices back in 1982 and they have meticulous records of the 483 filing cabinets that had to be moved from the original location to their new home in Furrytown, Pennsylvania.
I'm taking bets, do you think the tariffs will:

1. be rescinded/paused in [0,2) days;

2. be rescinded/paused in [2,4) days;

3. be rescinded/paused in [4,7] days;

4. not be rescinded/paused.
Exploring Borland dBase IV for DOS (2020)
Rust develops much faster on a boat at sea. A breach from rust can affect a can with enough botulism toxin to have bad effects within 3-4 days. Most cans probably have a plastic liner though but I'm not sure how much of a safeguard it is.
Yes. They - or other poor countries - are. And it's their responsibility to grow their citizenry in a neoliberal world. Economics doesn't care about liberal concern tools.

China eliminated poverty through neoliberalism. The rest of the world can, too. This is the benefit of neoliberalism: it lifts the world out of poverty through free trade and self-selected efficiency.
The story should have ended Waltz’s career, at which point he would have been a zero-value source going forward. The story was far more valuable than the current value of the source, and the future value approached zero assuming someone else broke the story before the Atlantic. Reasonable calculus.
I just assumed his name was actually "Dang" like he was Vietnamese or something.
Best to apply to the jobs you think are interesting using the form.

If we think you could be a good match, then we'll reach out to you.
Where are the servers located?
Decentralization is definitely on my long-term roadmap for Airdel, and AT Protocol has some interesting benefits worth exploring. However, my immediate focus is on market validation and getting a viable product into users' hands quickly. As a solo founder, I need to be strategic with my resources.

Right now I'm prioritizing core functionality and user experience to test if we're solving the right problems. Once I've validated the concept and built a development team, implementing decentralized features would make more sense as we scale.

I appreciate the suggestion though - it's on my radar for future iterations when we have the bandwidth to implement it properly!
Why there's no such thing as MDM for Linux, and what to do about it
I can see where you’re coming from, but not really. Unlike an RNN, the main transformer still processes sequences non-recurrently. The “sidecar” model just encodes internal activations into compressed latent states, allowing introspection and rollback without changing the underlying transformer architecture.
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Right. For a long time I wondered what's going on, and eventually started believing it's my fault - that maybe I'm just a rare HDR-poor person watching TV shows on SDR computer displays, maybe I've hit an unusual corner case in the video decoding path, or something. I kept believing that until Star Trek: Picard, Season 3, which made it clear it's not me, it's them.

The whole show, like everything in the past decade or so, was dark and washed out (except for some space FX parts, where at least some colors were saturated, sometimes). This lasted up until the last two episodes, where for plot reasons[0], some protagonists found themselves onboard a ship from TNG-era shows (1980s - 2000s), pulled straight from a museum, which means the set was recreated as it was on old shows, complete with the lighting. From that scene onwards through the final episode, as it jumped between that one special set and every other dark and gray scene, I had proof in front of me that scenes in modern shows can be properly lit, they just aren't, and it's an active choice[1].

Importantly, this scene wasn't a one-off gimmick that risked coming out too bright on normal people's HDR-enabled TV screens. The set involved was, per the showrunner, pretty much the whole raison d'etre for the entire season, and they burned most of the season's budget on perfecting it[2]. Them being able to light it well (and have it coexist with every other badly-lit scene) only proves there's no technical obstacle involved - that dark and washed out TV is just a choice everyone's making for... unclear reasons.

--

[0] - Hard to navigate around a major spoiler and highlight of the era in the franchise.

[1] - Actually, I can't give this scene enough justice. But given how massive moment that was for people following the franchise, I'll just provide a link to the video (SPOILER WARNING): https://youtu.be/t-mY4Xbjyn8?t=42 -- watch in max quality; compare okay-ish exterior CG early on, observe how dark and washed out scenes with people are - and this is literally how the entire season (and really, entire show) was until that point... or just scroll to 2:27, and then on a perfect cue - "computer, lights!" - observe how next 30 seconds reveal that everything could've been properly lit from the start, but for some non-tech reason, it wasn't.

[2] - Most of that was eaten up by casting very specific people, but the set itself was damn expensive too.
I played through MP3C with PrimeHack on PC - great experience.

https://github.com/Kekun/primehack
Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013265
Enforcing the laws that already exist via technological means instead of with personal prejudice, guns, and high speed pursuits is not fascism.

Could it eventually lead to fascism? Maybe, but so could enforcing the law with fast cars and guns if we aren't careful.
Welcome tom, as a fellow moderator its not easy haha, I am sure its easier than Reddit.
Optimized a Java function and cut production CPU from >90% to 70%
People like Navarro believes a non-trivial amount of manufacturing can be coaxed back to the US from China and Vietnam.
Because the whole point of writing and publishing things online is that you don't have to type out the same explanations time and time again.
Traffic isn't actually that expensive outside of big clouds. No idea where pico is hosted, but Hetzner gives you "unlimited" 1Gps connections with a dedicated server, or a 10G uplink charged at $1.20/TB (plus a fixed monthly fee for the uplink itself).
https://www.ft.com/content/fba87dd3-514a-41c2-b2b9-ea597ffbd...

https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/rese...

The TLDR is Miran sold to Trump US can Plaza Accord everyone, devalue USD to reindustrialize US, draw down US debt/commitments, keep exorbitant privelege... all by slapping tariffs (Trump's fav hammer) to scare countries into signing (converting) existing US commitments to "century bonds" in US favour while tying them to US orbit for foreseeable future. Is US strong enough to coerce others to sign on? IMO doesn't matter, this seems like plan specifically tailered to Trump preferences and ego, so as long as Trump thinks so Miran gets the job.

E: there is logic to the plan, logic that appeals to Trump -> US strength and monetary manipulation skills can force others to fall in line. And TBH countries have fallen in line in the past.
I took a look at the Signal group creation UI when this story came out.

Not only does Signal suggest contacts, but it also suggests people you're in mutual groups with. Even if Waltz didn't have the Atlantic's JG as a contact, it's possible that they were both added to some group, and that Waltz accidentally picked JG-the-journalist when creating his Houthi raid one.
It helps to sort the results by date rather than relevance. Relevance is the default and the results are all over the place and it does indeed feel utterly broken :)
Can we please stop acting like Trump and MAGA behave rationally?
https://archive.md/20250112045347/https://www.newyorker.com/...
Might cause a global recession, though. And that might be less funny.
Holy moly.

I never heard of this drama before.

This was crazy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WPDrama/comments/1hlp08d/what_drama...
Take a risk. Following links is better for the health of the web.
Genuine questions: why are they calling it “reciprocal”? Is the US just matching the tariffs set by the other countries?

Also, this announcement has wiped out any plans of buying tech products this year, plus a holiday to the US and Canada later in the year. Good thing too, as the entire globe is probably staring down the barrel of a recession.
Atlassian makes software for unhappy teams
You’re right that it’s analogous in concept, but strategy distillation happens at a higher level: it encodes and transfers successful latent reasoning patterns as reusable “strategies,” without necessarily requiring direct gradient updates to the original model weights.
I agree, the search is quite bad.

The UI is bad and the results seem to be poor. I don't necessarily have the issue that emails are not in the results, but more that results are too numerous and the only way I can narrow down results is putting more constrains in the UI. What often happens for me is that I search using a several terms or some specific phrases and the search returns tons of results (does it just do an OR between words in the search) and I then end up clicking (why can't the time constraint be a slider?!) through different months (based on what I recall about the timeframe of the email) until I find the email.

When I was using notmuch I recall results being much better.

Another annoyance is that Thunderbird only seems to search locally, i.e. if I don't have some folders downloaded it will not do a server search as well as a local search (maybe there's a setting for it?)
Something like Kolab Now, you mean?
Upvoted, but your opinion is wrong and I didn't want to leave without telling you I hate your opinion.
What I find infuriating is to see colors stripped from children’s toys and clothes, especially by Northern Europe brands. Those dull beige taupe tones might attract parents but I’m sure that they bring little joy and stimulation to children.
Sounds promising. How do you propose we create "hardened" projects?
pico.sh is not new by any means. I was using them ~3 years ago (or maybe even for longer), with their lists.sh service.

After I opened my blog, they launched prose.sh, and rest of the services soon after, but since I settled on my blog, and didn't want to change horses, and they discontinued lists.sh, I had to part ways with them.

I admire what they've built though, and wish them best of luck.
Alas, not for a few years. He is greatly missed.
Sadly, now that the page has been taken down, maybe this is the last time we will see it here.
Surgery increases your odds of dying during surgery. It also saves far more lives than it costs.

Unless you've seen data that says otherwise, I think this is the same.
I certainly hope not. I like Kagi and I don't want Mozilla messing with it.