skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not found a good use case for browser notifications, to the point that I have turned them off completely due to endless prompts for permission from every website to push them.
> There are a significant number of citizens who don't use credit, don't have bank accounts, don't have cars, work at off the record jobs that pay in cash or check (to cash a check all you need is someone you trust enough who has a bank account and then you can do a third party endorsement and let them cash it for you).

Do you know of any statistics on this? I knew a lot of people like this when I was growing up in the rural midwest in the 90s but it would have to be a lot more difficult to get by this way now.
That's because Debian 'stable' has a half-assed implementation of systemd, frozen in time on some ancient version. So you are stuck waiting years between upgrades. Bookworm finally supports the crypto functions.

Arch OTOH was where these functions first worked out of the box.
That may be your lived experience, but it doesn't match the data.[1]

The working class is shifting to Trump because his rhetoric matches what they want to see: trade restrictions, protections on domestic labor, and the return of good/stable manufacturing jobs.

Trump is almost certainly not the best representation of the American worker, but he's winning because he, at least, tells them what they want to hear.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-5183060/why-working-cla...
> If that hypothesis is true, then probably the best thing for society is to provide cultural structures that let us indulge than impulse in non-harmful ways, instead of, say, giving it to religions that also tell us to murder gay people.

I agree with this take a lot, and actually tried to imagine what Religion 2.0 could be based on this premise
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Can you recommend sites that have postings for EU startup jobs? I recently received EU citizenship so I'm thinking of making my way over to Europe in the next year or so.

How much is language a barrier for these kinds of jobs? I'm a native speaker of English and think that I can become proficient with French again within 3-6 months of immersion.
The hypothesis is that knowing a person's voting activity helps one to predict that individual's values. I don't think the parent is claiming that the values that might be revealed by a 10 minute conversation are a predictor for voting activity. I think there's a distinction, since people can - and, in my perspective, often do - misrepresent or misidentify their true values in their conversations with strangers. I am assuming that people act on their true values, not necessarily those that they advertise, when they fill out ballots.
Taxpayers end up with bill either way, I think, either directly through UBI and welfare or indirectly through losses due to crime, policing costs.

Europe has a good approach by using subsidies as a more palatable UBI initiative to keep their startups afloat.
Here's what happened to the thinkpads I've owned...
R51 - sold
R50p - died (bad VRAM)
X201 - Ethernet chip died, speakers died, bad keyboard - sold
X230 - died
X230 - sold in relatively good health
X1 carbon gen 4 - best laptop I've owned out of all of the previous thinkpads by far

People go on about thinkpad reliability, but I've had two straight up die on me...

To be frank, I don't get the hype for the older models. They're slow and clunky. The newer chiclet keyboards are fine once you get used to them.
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T61 that I absolutely LOVE! It is running the latest Xubuntu (24.04) with no problems. I have maxed out the RAM, installed an SSD, and even upgraded the CPU. I like it even more than my Dell E5440. No, I cannot play Minecraft on it that well, but it is a SOLID laptop and it feels good to hold and type on.
You're going to regret this.

The thing you need to be doing is testing your migrations, and some dumbass on your team is going to generate the migration during CI and load it into your database as a merge step, and you won't realise what a mistake this was until possibly years later.

The good news, is you might be able to pay someone an enormous amount of money to unfuck things. Not good for you, I mean, obviously. Good for whoever you just bought a car.
This is a strawman, but it also could be the case of it being something supernatural. You don't have the skill to enter in a serious discussion about that either, so calling it "magic" is the unique thing will help you here (as people are usually scared of things they can't explain).

But it would be the case that the universe is non-computable, and if this is the case, even without "magic", you would not be able to reproduce certain kinds of things (even not conscious ones) with a computer.
> cma's question was to me

I clearly replied to your comment, not cma's.

> You are inserting your interruption into that.

There are no interruptions in a threaded discussion. cma can reply to your comment in parallel. I do appreciate you bringing your misunderstandings to light, though.

> let them speak for themselves

He can if he so wishes.

> or at least I am not interested in dissecting their comment's meaning with you.

Oh?

- "cma's question was to me"

On an open public forum all comments are written for all users by default. Only through dissecting meaning with me would you be able to determine this to be the case. Why lie?
I have bought laptop in 2013 asus rog gaming one i suppose before it as well. Still rocking with i7. But it can still work with windows 11 but tpm makes it useless. So I have tried windows 11 but it hangs a bit linux runs smoothly.
I don't see how that follows. Avant-garde music of this type is basically an NFT already. All of its value is in the novelty, none is in the aesthetics. The meaning of the piece is completely externalized to the identity of its author and the history of its composition and cannot be derived from observing the piece itself. That describes NFTs to a tee! The only thing missing the layer of cryptography on top.
> On the other hand Trump will deliver on another, implicit promise to them, which is inflict pain and suffering on a great deal of people they dislike for whatever reason.

Not so implicit, "I will be your retribution".

And this part is very much a normal Republican position. The realisation that Americans will vote for a policy which hurts them so long as it's positioned as hurting the people they hate was key to Republican success.

"Nobody gets kicked in the head" loses in American politics if it's up against "Everybody gets kicked in the head, yes those awful people you don't like will get kicked in the head"

And when your implementation "accidentally" forgets to kick the wealthy in the head? Well the important thing is you kicked people in the head - you're not one of those scum who don't want to kick the awful people in the head.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-commits-430-bil...

Like this one that they just waited out and never did?
How many of them do you think know your name?
> Hey has been doing great business with an only-paid model.

[citation needed]
Ah, but what is in the database? At this point it's clearly not just facts, but problem-solving strategies and an execution engine. A database of problem-solving strategies which you can query with a natural language description of your problem and it returns an answer to your problem... well... sounds like intelligence to me.
"let the negative birth rate take care of them in the long term"

There is a presumption hidden in that sentence: namely, that procreation will always be left up to the people and their decisions. That is far from certain. If anyone has the nerve to actually develop and deploy artificial wombs, it is China. And the resulting kids will be simply pushed onto young people to raise - an authoritarian country won't have to ask anyone.

Having kids is one of the last almost-non-industrialized attributes of human lives, most people are still being born in the same way as they used to in the Stone Age. I wonder how long will that situation last.
Works fine on macOS Sequoia 15.4 with Safari 18.4.
The administration placed tariffs on uninhabited islands.
I don't think they gave a rat's patootie about the volume of trade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tariff_ra...

> The European Commission says it charges an average tariff of just 1% on US products entering the EU market, "considering the actual trade in goods". It adds that the US administration collected approximately €7 billion of tariffs on EU products in 2023 compared to the EU's €3 billion on US goods.

> A World Trade Organisation (WTO) estimate puts the average tariff rate on US products entering the EU slightly higher at 4.8%.

> In both cases, this is far off the 39% figure quoted by the Trump administration.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04/03/fact-check-are...
Let's see if I can figure this out...

"Declarative Web Push" is a web browser javascript API to subscribe to events from an HTTP server. It is similar to the "Web Push" API but changed to be better for mobile devices in a few ways.

Both the old Web Push and this new Declarative Web Push APIs use "the same Apple Push Notification service that powers native push on all Apple devices". I don't know if that means an Apple server actually listens for the notification from the HTTP server or if the device itself maintains the connection to the server.

It seems that for iOS this API only works on websites that are pinned to the home screen (i.e. not a notification from a site open in safari as a browser). These pinned websites work more like apps.

Is there something similar like this on Android? Either for pinned apps or from the browser? In other words, is there a reliable and efficient way to get notifications to an android phone without having to sign up for any service?
Nvidia Adds Native Python Support to CUDA
they're both about the same price...
We built something similar for the managed DB we use, but i think it's a mistake to autogenerate the migration scripts instead of autogenerating the schema from the migration. Things like changing an enum, adding a nonnull column that shouldn't have a default to an existing table that already has data in it, and migrating data from one representation to another (eg, 'oh hey, we definitely shouldn't have made our users table have an fname and an lname field. let's change to full_name and preferred_name') are easily done in a migration script but hard, if not impossible, to infer from just schema changes.
When I spoke to these guys [0] we touched on those quirks and foibles
that make a signature (including TCP stack stuff beyond control of any
userspace app).

I love this curl, but I worry that if a component takes on the role of
deception in order to "keep up" it accumulates a legacy of hard to
maintain "compatibility" baggage.

Ideally it should just say... "hey I'm curl, let me in"

The problem of course lies with a server that is picky about dress
codes, and that problem in turn is caused by crooks sneaking in
disguise, so it's rather a circular chicken and egg thing.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=39
Because whats inside our minds is more than mathematics, or we would be able to explain human behavior with the purity of mathematics, and so far, we can't.

We can prove the behavior of LLMs with mathematics, because its foundations are constructed. That also means it has the same limits of anything else we use applied mathematics for. Is the broad market analysis that HFT firms use software for to make automated trades also intelligent?
We're clearly throwing all pre-Trump orthodoxy out the window at this point, so maybe we'll see PRC-style capital controls, though with essentially no white collar crime being prosecuted for the foreseeable future, enforcement might be tough. OTOH the threat of being "deported" to El Salvador can be a powerful motivator to stay in line.
Microsoft Pulls Back on Data Centers from Chicago to Jakarta
Presumably AIX 1.3 for PS/2? Unlike some other retro UNIX of that vintage it actually virtualizes easily https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2018/09/14/running-aix-1-3-i...
Handling resize is a different beast than being responsive. Working for every viewport dimension under the sun is not the same thing as gracefully handling an animation while the viewport size changes - the latter is much more challenging.
Taking it in the can? The US is the richest nation in the world! If you're #1 it's really hard to say other nations are taking advantage of you.

Americans have been taken advantage of, but it's not been other countries taking advantage of Americans, it's rich Americans taking advantage of poor Americans.
This project has barely seen a commit in the last 4 years.
I've always been rather happy with Android in the form of certain versions/ROMs like Cyanogen in the past or GrapheneOS nowadays. The latter is lean, not bloated, secure and - IMO - very usable. Installing it is easy and there are also easy and well documented methods included for enabling all sorts of Google functionality which (some) users might be missing from the default state (like the Play store, "enhanced" location services and all those sorts of things).

I also have an iPhone as a work device and I've had different personal iPhones in the past. iOS is fine but Android can be much more flexible (and easy access to an open source "App Store" like F-Droid is awesome).
> Did they have hyperspace clearance?
Humans have short term memory. LLMs have context windows. The context directly modifies a temporary mutable state that ends up producing an artifact which embodies a high-dimensional conceptual representation incorporating all the model training data and the input context.

Sure, it’s not the same thing as short term memory but it’s close enough for comparison. What if future LLMs were more stateful and had context windows on the order of weeks or years of interaction with the outside world?
The current administration has no interest in reducing the fiscal deficit. Their expressed policies will make it larger.
I'm sure declarative web push is great. But most of this post sounds to me like they are trying to justify artificially restricting web push notification functionality on the web and offer an inferior solution instead. It's pretty clear they (and Google, to a lesser extent) don't want web apps to be on the same level as native apps. Cynically, I believe this is so they can continue to maintain full control of the app market.

There's a lot of statements that are presented as facts, when in fact they are not.

For example:

> Therefore we require push subscriptions to set the userVisibleOnly flag to true. While this can be frustrating, the original Web Push design made this necessary to protect user privacy and battery life.

Surely this wasn't the only option to "protect user privacy and battery life". Native apps can handle push subscriptions without this sort of flag. It's frustrating because it's _meant_ to be frustrating so that users prefer native apps over web apps.

> Allowing websites to remotely wake up a device for silent background work is a privacy violation and expends energy.

This _may_ be true in some cases, but it isn't inherently true. I'm sure there are many use cases for this that are NOT a privacy violation. And running _any_ amount of code "expends energy", so it seems silly to even imply that is a problem.

And again: this is perfectly OK for a native app to do. How is it really any different to allow web apps to do it? Because Apple doesn't get to review every app to their ever-changing standards?

At the end of the day this just further divides the native app from the web app, such that it's impossible for the latter to compete with the former.
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Caveat

> and Trump is now asking us to instead tax everyone more

Trump is now demanding to instead tax US residents more indirectly
Absolutely tone-deaf, but there's a real point.

"Things are terrible, so we have to do something!" No, you have to do something that will help. Just "doing something" isn't good enough. And if you think "things can't get any worse", yeah, they can. A lot worse.

Don't make random changes just because things are bad. You need changes that will help, which is a lot harder.
Another script to consider that has been around a while and has a number of contributors [1]. that does remove telemetry and optionally many other things. Always back up your registry and systems before using such scripts.

[1] - https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
> being born into bondage board, committed by their ancestors to a shitty life in a metal tube, with their only purpose being a preordained duty to keep a few systems operational and produce the next generation of slaves just so that eventually someone can birth the arrival generation.

This isn't really so different from being born on Earth, except that we take being born on Earth for granted, and the population is really really big.
Theft is first a moral concept, and only secondly a legal one, so there is no need to invoke the legitimacy of nation states' authority to have a meaningful discussion about theft.
I can't believe that could be real at all, but then remembered we're still on the "Biff has the Grey Sports Almanac 1985" timeline
Original source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/microsoft... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43567510)
> especially USB-C charging

I swapped the barrel connector in my x220 for a third party USB-C charging port: https://www.tindie.com/products/mikepdiy/lenovo-charging-por...
Every time I listen I notice something new in it.
"The budget projections are based on CBO’s economic forecast, which reflects developments in the economy as of December 4, 2024. They also incorporate legislation enacted through January 6, 2025."

Out of date!
Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation, Thunderbird is developed by MZLA. They're both subsidiaries of the same non-profit, but they don't share funds or employees, so it's not clear to me how this could "sap resources".
Sounds good to me :)

You're missing out, our chicken is amazing.

But 10% on your imports is a good trade, I agree.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551810. Please see the rules at the top of the thread.
Convincing the entire world to use its currency and sell it things cheaply is apparently somehow bad for America? I think you're about to get a very expensive lesson in economics.
Are you able to formulate "generalization" in a concrete and objective way that could be achieved unambiguously, and is currently achieved by a typical human? A lot of people would say that LLMs generalize pretty well - they certainly can understand natural language sequences that are not present in their training data.
Page for the role doesn't have Seattle, only SF.
N=1; I find :: a lot more obvious.
That's kind of cool. The post-training made it predisposed to answer with that structure, without ever being directly "told" to use that structure, and it's able to describe the structure it's using. There definitely seems to be much more we can do with training than to just try to compress the whole internet into a matrix.
> There will be more of a hit as we transition to domestic manufacturing, but it will generate jobs, investment, and keep money in our economy.

I would be very surprised if this is the result, but I'm willing to be very surprised.

For now, though, the manufacturing company that I work for, as well as a couple of others I know about, are likely going to close their facilities in the US because of these tariffs. It's simply not economically feasible to pay a tax every time we ship materials from one plant to another in a different country.

If they can't operate efficiently in the US, then they're looking at just ignoring the US market entirely. The rest of the world is a plenty large enough market to address.
Markov chains in meatspace running on 20W of power do quite a good job of actual intelligence
Why there is nothing rather than nothing?

This is, I fear to tell you, IMPOSSIBLE to explain by other than methaphysics, it is an uncloseable "gap" that humanity will never solve. As far as I know, it's not about gaps, it's more about the unreasonable stance that everything is explainable by reductionist physics that corrupts the modern thinking, it is more safe for you to assume people's religious beliefs come from "gaps" rather from their own rationality. In reality, you just turned science into your own religion.
It's messed up from first principles - hard work should be valued as a society over investment gains, and reflected at the individual level in take home income. Obtuse measures and comparative aggregates are irrelevant.
I remember when we had skilled helmsman that steered the US away from recession despite all the indicators like inverted yield curve screaming recession.
> Generally its accepted that a core trait of intelligence is an agent’s ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments.

Be that as it may, a core trait is very different from a generally accepted threshold. What exactly is the threshold? Which environments are you referring to? How is it being measured? What goals are they?

You may have quantitative and unambiguous answers to these questions, but I don't think they would be commonly agreed upon.
The US has a very high standard of living as a whole. In order for it to compete with others, it must become "as poor" as others. You simply can't undermine your trading partners and not disrupt your privilege as the global reserve status.
I'm interested in your question.

I'm not sure they will directly affect remote workers. Or at least the mechanism seems unclear.

Tariffs are currently collected at a port of entry by Customs (CBP staff.)

Since remote work does not flow through a port, its not clear who would collect this tax (presumably your US employer) or how they would submit it for payment.

In other words I'm not aware if remote work is classed as an "import" , or how it would be collected and submitted.

I am keen to hear of any actual legal opinions in this space.
> Some SWEs would give very optimistic estimates (and always miss).

This seems to be the easiest case. Keep a spreadsheet with two columns: the time they estimated, and the actual time. Calculate the average coefficient between the columns. Next time they give you an estimate, don't comment on that, just privately multiply it by the coefficient.