skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s fairly mild, but it’s not so easy to link to 20+ year old clips. There’s some real bangers of homophobic rants in your time frame, but you may be a little young to remember any of them.

In terms of lies here’s one that was a central tenant of the part of the party line for decades. Social security isn’t an income tax because we have a tax called the income tax.
Thanks, but in truth the media stuff here isn't the difficult bit as the state of webrtc in 2025 means it's really just a question of shuffling byte buffers around in time. It's really libwebrtc and the browser integrators that deserve the credit.

I have done native mobile libwebrtc work, and that's several other levels of complexity from all this, but with that you can do things like hardware accelerated neural net integration quite easily because of how it's all structured.
Something like this needs to exist for radio / music streaming, preferably in a physical form factor.

A lot of older people's objection to streaming is "I want to push a physical switch and get decent music + news + a bit of talk from a nice-sounding speaker". Radio provides this. Streaming does not.
I know, I had the problem when I got the Pixel. Already with the stock Android and then when installing Graphene. It took one or two weeks of tweaking until the battery life was on par with LineageOS. Not sure if I'd be able to reproduce it, but I think a combination of display settings and stand-by/background services. It's a thin line though, also making sure that Whatsapp notifications still work.
In the EUCD, a copy in RAM falls under copyright, but there is an exception defined (art 5) if the copy is transitory and the target use is legal under copyright. Neither is true for AI, so this article is probably wrong in the EU.

Apart from that, I wonder uf an AI is learning in the legal sense of the word. I'd suspect removing copyright trough learning is something only humans can do, seen trough legal glasses. An AI would be a mechanical device creating a mashup of multiple works, and be a derived work of all of them.

Main problem with this rebuttal is how you prove the AI copied your work specifically, and finding out which of the zillions of creative works in that mashup are owned by who.
There was an article on the topic just today on the economist

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/04/11/...
It’s pretty good on airplanes too
It has happened to permanent residents who have green cards, though. It's absolutely not the same as being a citizen, but it should be noted that most green card holders are eligible to become US citizens.
After the phrase:Manipulating the logarithms, we can also get ... the formula is incorrect, since p_j have disappeared.

\[D_{KL}(P,Q)=-\sum_{j=1}^{n}\log_2 \frac{q_j}{p_j}=\sum_{j=1}^{n}\log_2 \frac{p_j}{q_j}\]

The post is just basic definitions and simple examples for cross entropy and KL divergence.

There is a section about the relation of cross entropy and maximum likelihood estimation at the end that seems not so easy to understand but implies that the limit of a estimator applied to a sample from a distribution is the KL divergence when the sample length tends to infinity.
Doesn’t seem as dorky as a vr headset!
Imagine that instead of a forced "Children" account your Netflix would show an account "Thomas" (or any other name which is not yours or your family members') you cannot get rid of. Would that not annoy you one bit? And if not, you cannot emphasize with people who are annoyed by that?
All of these elements are table stakes for software that people will use and application settings is not a “hard” problem.

Normally it would just be lazy design to annoy the shit out of your users with nags instead of giving them settings but this approach seems to be pervasive at companies that make billions off this software so I can only conclude that it’s intentional.
Intuitively, deregulation - reducing/simplifying zoning laws - seems like it should unleash market forces to solve housing crises.. seems too obvious and yet it’s so rarely tried.

Is it actually a bad idea? Are there examples where it was tried and failed?
I'm confused, the article simultaneously claims the ISS isn't "zero-G" and is "0G". Is it possible to conduct a true 0G experiment on the ISS, or is there always microgravity i.e. '10⁻³G to 10⁻⁶G'?
> generative AI systems essentially strip away all the "non-verbal" communication channels

This is a human problem, not a technological one.

You can still have all your aforementioned broken powerpoints etc and use AI to help write code you would’ve previously written simply by hand.

If your processes are broken enough to create unmaintainable software, they will do so regardless of how code pops into existence. AI just speeds it up either way.
With the raffia-work base
You're not wrong, but don't forget about the upgraded modulation and coding schemes. That might actually help consumers on the edge of coverage receive broadcasts and will definitely be an improvement over creaky 8vsb
I tend to think about the average code review: who actually catches tricky bugs? Who actually takes the time to fully understand the code they review? And who likes it? My feeling is that reviews are generally a "skimming through the code and checking that it looks ok from a distance".

At least we have one person who understands it in details: the one who wrote it.

But with AI-generated code, it feels like nobody writes it anymore: everybody reviews. Not only we don't like to review, but we don't do it well. And if you want to review it thoroughly, you may as well write it. Many open source maintainers will tell you that many times, it's faster for them to write the code than to review a PR from a stranger they don't trust.
It's really about striking a balance: giving vendors a fair chance to patch, while also not leaving users in the dark indefinitely. That's also why the 90-day disclosure policy has become common in the industry (e.g., Google's Project Zero). I've had cases where I tried reaching out via email, LinkedIn, Twitter, you name it, and got radio silence for months and months. Then, when you make the difficult decision to go public, the vendor finally reacts... That sudden urgency only shows up when there's a bit of spotlight.
There are also some microcontroller architectures worth considering:

* Intel 8051, dating from 1980. You can still buy e.g. the CH559, based on the same architecture with an USB interface retrofitted somehow.

* AVR 8-bit architecture. Readily available in (older) Arduinos or easy to handle chip packages.

For modern architectures, reading skills can be very valuable, as they allow you to chase bugs beyond the high level language border. Astonishes your friends & confounds your enemies. Writing is decidedly more niche.
Yeah this is just a minor example of enshittification, there's no more to it than that. Netflix and other modern software like it aren't written for customer they are written to extract maximum "value" from "users". They want to push the kids account thing because they think it will make them money. Ux is only important to the extend it's so bad it creates churn, it's not something they care about optimizing.
Well, all I can say that if I was a major shareholder of Volkswagen I'd be 100% in support of UBI and made sure everyone can afford a new car, not just a used one.
DOE Identifies 16 Federal Sites for Data Center and AI Infrastructure
How do you export unemployment?
I would argue that the whole Netflix profile system is rather broken.

As my kids are growing up, the kids mode makes less and less sense. We would like to watch family friendly movies but not stuff for very small children.

Using your own profile for this makes the recommendations become out of whack quickly.
When I was a kid I was into Estes model rockets and it always amazed me the preferred/documented way of glomming the multiple stages of engines together was a single strip of scotch tape.
scooters are the worst. So much noise for a tiny vehicle (worse than most cars even) and the old ones smell so so bad.

electrify now!
For Netflix I deleted mine by clicking the pencil and then remove.
Building multi-step login forms that work well with password managers
"But I predict software development will be a lot less fun in the years to come, and that is a very bitter prediction in deed."

Most professional software development hasn't been fun for years, mostly because of all the required ceremony around it. But it doesn't matter, for your hobby projects you can do what you want and it's up to you how much you let AI change that.
I don't agree that 20-minute charge is "very clearly a bottleneck" on road trips.

Never mind "target" shopping, for 2 people to each stetch legs and use the restroom in turn, is already 10 minutes.

Get another bottle of water at the attached convenience store, and you're close to the 20 minute mark.

And if small children were also involved, then well...

If you stop every 2 hours, you don't need the full 20 minutes to fully charge anyway.

20 mins is about where you equal the other, human time constraints. i.e. no longer the bottleneck.
This means that there is actually likely MORE state tracking this than if it were a simple setting. You need to store not just the setting for this particular feature, but also potentially the last time they were asked or whatever else triggers them to get asked again. It’s either poor design, or explicitly designed to repeatedly push a feature on a user even if they don’t want it.
I think it's fairly accurate, it's true that she was always contrarian, but back in the 2010's it was a more respectable type of questioning.

These days she's clearly rage baiting with titles, which is typical algorithm submission behaviour.
It's not an issue. Claude routinely uses internal APIs and frameworks on one of my projects that aren't public. The context windows are big enough now that it can learn from a mix of summarized docs and surrounding examples and get it nearly right, nearly all the time.

There is an interesting aspect to this whereby there's maybe more incentive to open source stuff now just to get usage examples in the training set. But if context windows keep expanding it may also just not matter.

The trick is to have good docs. If you don't then step one is to work with the model to write some. It can then write its own summaries based on what it found 'surprising' and those can be loaded into the context when needed.
What do you think about the Japanese solutions to the problem?

https://powersports.honda.com/motorcycle/standard/cb300r
> In a capitalist society, wages would rise and conditions will improve as people are willing to pay as much as needed for health care.

People also need food, which is a labor-intensive business, and it is one of the main drivers of human trafficking in the US: https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/human-trafficking-forced-l...
I remember using my old Quest 2 with an app called Immersed that ran on the Quest too and rendered the environment there, seemingly streaming the monitors in what felt like higher resolution vs the Quest Link. It was really pleasant until the Immersed app removed support for physical monitors and I could no longer use my 4 monitor PC setup in VR: https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality/comments/1cm2niy/imm...

I actually enjoyed it, because having nothing other than a black void or space or whatever in my vision was surprisingly zen and nice. It wasn’t quite like my 1080p monitors, a bit closer to what felt like 720p, though the absolute biggest issue was the pressure on my head which meant that it became uncomfortable after a few hours, even with a custom strap - something that had gotten better in the more recent hardware.

Aside from that, I’d say that Virtual Desktop is pretty nice but also has artificial limitations on how many screens it can display: https://www.uploadvr.com/virtual-desktop-multiple-monitors-u...

I’ve never really found that sweet spot that I had between discovering Immersed and them ruining the app for me again.
Squeeze that lemon as far as it'll go mate, god speed and may the good luck continue.
You might be right, I was just sharing my experience and what I've heard from locals.

Anyway, there's an abundant literature that links inequality with transport opportunities.

But those topics are so touchy for you Americans tbh, it's like arguing about weapons, it's too heated of an argument for rational discourse.
> Consumer version: expect to see some empty shelves, rejected orders, and higher prices for the next few weeks.

Make that the next few years at this rate.

> Customs and Border Protection is trying to keep up.

There are still people there? DOGE hasn't hit them up?
It should have been an Apache problem, yes. Not only did it turn out that at least the language negotiation part of content negotiation wasn't the best idea but the way Apache handled it was problematic apart from the pl problem. In the end the Perl community took the issue upon them, so historically I'd say it was a Perl problem (of choice).
I don't have kids but I do have 4 nephews. They all take their bikes or if not possible for whatever reason, buses/trains/trams/metro to school and elsewhere. My 1 sister lives in the countryside and her kids still take the bike to school, which is ~10km away from their house, and if they go to another city they can take their bikes on the train.

Why wouldn't you want your kid to be independent like this? Why force them to have to rely on you and your car if they want to go out and see their friends? It inconveniences you and makes their life much more dull and restricted, not to mention the health benefits of taking the bike vs sitting in a car for a kid.
Resource allocation is political
I heard that the entire country is in a state of panic after two Xiaomi SU7 autopilot crashes. Motorways have put up signs warning drivers not to use autopilot or assisted driving. Authorities and manufacturers are now trying to explain the previous false advertising.
Instead of 'pampered' i think the word should be 'neglected'. Some older people tend to use words like pampered to give the sense that the young people had it "too good" so now they deserve to suffer by not being independent, but that is rarely the case. There is nothing pleasant about a childhood spent in front of screens that leaves one anxious and lacking independence.
As per other comments, women being played by men was and is a venerable tradition in British comedy and not actually very transgressive at all. It feels more "transgressive" now than it did then, I think because we imported US culture war stuff in the last decade or so.

I don't think HN actually hates humour, it just has a relatively high bar. Some of my most upvoted comments have been jokes. But I like to think they were reasonably good ones.

Regarding the Pythons and transgression, I think for me it's probably a case by case thing. There's obviously "good" transgression and "bad" transgression, but I suppose you have to have some support for the willingness to transgress, if you want positive social change to be a possibility.

Regarding specific things the Pythons said, the most actually transgressive-at-the-time thing I can think of is probably Graham Chapman's overt homosexuality and support for gay rights, which was no small thing in 1970s Britain.

Edit: Or you could make a case for it being the "blasphemous" Life of Brian, although I don't think the public outrage about that was really in step with mainstream opinion.

Edit2: I'm wondering whether Some Like it Hot, Milton Berle etc were considered transgressive in the US? Were these things not actually quite mainstream in the 20th century, even in the US?
IoT to make a comeback?
This is valid SQL:

SELECT 'Constant'
What do you expect? There are so many ways to handle this behvaiour it's pretty obvious why this is not allowed. Do you take datetime.date and then compare? Do you assume all dates are datetimes at midnight?
None of this matters because the premise, that is to hand €1,200 per month to people "for free", is totally unrealistic and unsustainable at scale.
He says he uses the Khadas Mind / Khadas Mind 2 which is a mini pc that has a battery so its pretty much a screenless laptop. Not clear the battery is very large but he uses an external one too as its usb c powered.
We should use very basic yaml parsers without these kind of functions.
Did you do your complaint at ACM? I want to follow your example
Funny it doesn’t add comparison to date times in pandas, which is probably used to handle more dates than any of the others.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of the Jewish/antisemitic angle at all, but that's my own ignorance in that area.

The "represents rich people" angle was the only interpretation I could see. Still not sure I fully understand why the conversation has gone in the Jewish/antisemite direction though, but again this is a topic I choose to remain ignorant on.
From the blog post: "Pro tip: just take your time and design the O-ring system properly. Trust us — you don’t want to gamble with hot gases and bad seals."

I think NASA may have learnt that lesson in '86.
Why do you need an alternative spelling of false?
Yeah, for some things a bit of speculative imagination, thinking through possible outcomes isn't actually that bad compared to more evidence oriented alternatives. You can't really have a control group for community wide effects and without a control group you don't even know if an observed change happened because of what you did out despite of what you did even after the experiment. Sometimes hindsight isn't 20/20 at all but surprisingly blind.

What I think could be a very interesting on-ramp to something more UBIesque, in an environment with lots of need-based social support payments like Germany, would be an opt-in flat taxation mode for earning on the side of receiving aid: taxed high starting with the first cent earned, and in exchange those earnings are explicitly excluded from and need-based considerations or thresholds. That could greatly reduce all "not worth the hassle" considerations and uncertainties. It could be implemented as a special bank account where every incoming transaction is automatically taxed, and every payment or withdrawal certified "I'm allowed to have this without putting anything need-based in question.

What tax rate? The logical first candidate would be wherever the income tax curve tops out for high earners. If that's the highest those can be bothered with before they "stop performing", you should not be surprised if low earners would not want to perform at a higher effective tax rate either. But that tax rate should not be so low that a shift to regular taxation makes no sense in cases sufficiently permanent and wellhpaying that the administrative change isn't just overhead.
It's been about China all along.
This is already being explored. See:

https://nlp.elvissaravia.com/i/159010545/auditing-llms-for-h...

The researchers deliberately train a language model with a concealed objective (making it exploit reward model flaws in RLHF) and then attempt to expose it with different auditing techniques.
What you're actually saying is that there is no single and symbolic issue it is tackling, you know landing on the moon type stuff.

That however is not how modern particle physics operates. A particle accelerator of the scale of CERN runs many experiments at once as with higher energies more becomes measurable. The idea here isn't that we have a hypothesis of a small thing existing and therefore we build a giant microscope, the idea is that we know we do not have a complete understanding of what happens in thst domain, so we build a giant mkcroscope to look at it. I am pretty damn sure there is a line of theoretical physicists who already know what to try once a bigger accelerator is around. And we have other benefitial developments coming out of that.

The fact that you write this on the internet, a thing which was in no small part created by CERN should probably also tell us something.
interesting, i wonder how much it is related to this.:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/c...
Like this? https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/textformat-spec/
The calculator made it less important to be relatively good with arithmetic. Many people just cannot add or subtract two numbers without one. And it feels like they lose intuition, somehow: if numbers don't "speak" to you at all, can you ever realize that 17 is roughly a third of 50? The only way you realise it with a calculator is if you actually look for it. Whereas if you can count, it just appears to you.

Similar with GPS and navigation. When you read a map, you learn how to localise yourself based on landmarks you see. You tend to get an understanding of where you are, where you want to go and how to go there. But if you follow the navigation system that tells you "turn right", "continue straight", "turn right", then again you lose intuition. I have seen people following their navigation system around two blocks to finally end up right next to where they started. The navigation system was inefficient, and with some intuition they could have said "oh actually it's right behind us, this navigation is bad".

Back to coding: if you have a deep understanding of your codebases and dependencies, you may end up finding that you could actually extract some part of one codebase into a library and reuse it in another codebase. Or that instead of writing a complex task in your codebase, you could contribute a patch to a dependency and it would make it much simpler (e.g. because the dependency already has this logic internally and you could just expose it instead of rewriting it). But it requires an understanding of those dependencies: do you have access to their code in the first place (either because they are open source or belong to your company)?

Those AIs obviously help writing code. But do they help getting an understanding of the codebase to the point where you build intuition that can be leveraged to improve the project? Not sure.

Is it necessary, though? I don't think so: the tendency is that software becomes more and more profitable by becoming worse and worse. AI may just help writing more profitable worse code, but faster. If we can screw the consumers faster and get more money from them, that's a win, I guess.
Cool, sounds like it should do the trick, if the text is sharp enough
Cute blogspam
Except it’s quicker to navigate an interface using keystrokes than it is using a mouse regardless of how much RAM you’ve got.

Compare a proficient travel agent who speaks Sabre to you booking a flight on Skyscanner. They’d whup your ass.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=G8n0_3t-EhI&pp=ygUPc2FicmUgY2xpI...
> We have not yet officially replaced the SQLite TEA build with teaish ...

As of today, the SQLite's "TEA build" is now done with teaish.
lol unless you pirate it’ll never be cheaper than Netflix
yes saying jeff geerling is the nobody who never heard of that thing is offensive to me. XD
Standardize the world in one single language.
Any proper experiment for UBI requires 1) to do it for a whole economy. You can't have 10 or 100 people on UBI where the job market, prices etc aren't affected by UBI. And 2) For life. The small effects on behavior if I'm given UBI for 1, 3 or 5 years are going to be so small as to be uninteresting. The surprising results will just be artifacts of the experiment.
> All Dutch banks now advertise to install Google pay for wireless payments.

That sounds like a very big mistake to me. And a missed opportunity: in some countries, banked work together to develop their own systems. People can send money to each other and pay everywhere with a small app that is not BigTech from the US.

I think there should be such an app in every country; you don't want your payment system to fully depend on US companies.
I just realized the BPS is there to augment the return channel. Not only can the advertiser figure out what you are watching, but also where you are located.