skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "You mean an open-twitter clone that caters to a very niche set of individuals?"

It's not just one instance and not even one frontend existing for what can be described as "fediverse". Decentralization is the whole point.

> "a very niche set of individuals?"

Everything depends on the instance you're using. Some of them, like mastodon.social, are very active, others are not.

> "I hate the whole gimmick of 150 character messages"

Find a better instance. On the one I use it's 2k characters limit.

> "That's not independent web like it was."

Yes, because it's a whole new level of independence. NewGrounds, Myspace and everything you mentioned are centralized platforms, which is practically vendor lock-in, because you're dependent on just one vendor for everything you do on these platforms, while on fediverse, you aren't. Instances are completely (except for showing posts from one another) independent from each other - there's no central "authority" controlling all of them like there would be on a centralized platform. Thousands of them exist for every frontend imaginable, and you can create one yourself.
I’ve remodulated my phaser arrays and randomized the stochastic spectral frequencies ten times, but those Borg keep adapting!!1
Sites like Amazon and probably aliexpress/temu require a documented shipment before you can write a review. Shippers sometimes send extremely inexpensive stuff like seeds to random US/overseas addresses and launder the shipping receipt into a fake review for something more expensive.
EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA): Suggestions for Definition of "Operating Systems"
Two questions come to mind.

1) When was the last supernova observed in our own galaxy?

2) How close would one have to be to be observed with the naked eye?
If you read nothing else in this excellent post, read the conclusion:

> A key component of this U.S. research ecosystem was the genius of the indirect cost reimbursement system. Not only did the U.S. fund researchers in universities by paying the cost of their salaries, the U.S. gave universities money for the researchers facilities and administration. This was the secret sauce that allowed U.S. universities to build world-class labs for cutting-edge research that were the envy of the world. Scientists flocked to the U.S. causing other countries to complain of a “brain drain.”

and:

> Today, China’s leadership has spent the last three decades investing heavily to surpass the U.S. in science and technology.

In my field (a type of radar related research) in which I've worked for almost 30 yrs, papers from China have gone from sparse and poorly done imitations of western papers (~15-20 yrs ago), to innovative must reads if you want to stay on top of the field. Usually when I think of a new idea, it has already been done by some Chinese researcher. The Biden administration seemed to recognize this issue and put a lot of money toward this field. All that money and more is going away. I'm hoping to stay funded through the midterms on other projects (and that there are midterms), and hoping that the US can get back on track (the one that actually made it 'great', at least by the metrics in the post.
Fair, but don't need to be snooty about it. :-)

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One of the problems is that even "symmetric" connections are usually not symmetric at all (obviously talking about residential connections here, not DIA).
The reason you are being downvoted to smithereens is that Bryan Malinowski was credibly accused of serious crimes (arms trafficking) wheres Daniel Berulis is accused of reporting serious crimes. You're making a preposterous and immoral false equivalence.
Intel was looking to sell Altera for over a year before Trump's Tariff Tourettes. And I bet it wasn't the hardware that was the problem, it was the software. No matter how amazing your FPGA hardware is, it is useless if you can't also produce high-quality software for operating it. For CPUs you can just tell people to use gcc or clang, not so with FPGAs.
Similar sentiment here:
https://willem.com/blog/2025-04-15_vibe-coding/

Its power is as great as its putfalls and the outcome totally depends on how you choose to use it.
Right now there are thousands of solo devs making >100k a year without a boss to annoy them. That's only going to grow with AI.
I'm kind of surprised that Next.js -- being known for SSR and SSG -- isn't offered with a CDN solution OOB on Vercel; seems like a no-brainer.

Last startup, we ran Astro.js behind CloudFront and we were able to serve pretty large volume of public-facing traffic from just 2 server nodes with 3-tiered caching (Redis for data caching, application level output caching, and CloudFront with CF doing a lot of the heavy lifting)
A century is approximately three billion seconds, the second being variously defined across history as a multiple we find convenient of whatever universal natural constant we can most precisely measure -- most recently 10 billion or so of a specific type of vibration of cesium atoms.

All the other stars and planets would have the same experience, though their local orbital periods might result in different units of expression being more convenient.

Of course, as we leave our galaxy they would also be in significantly different reference frames and perhaps experience the rate differently as a result. We are assuming that, statistically, our relative velocity is not special and they see roughly the same relationship between red shift and distance that we do.
My supervising professor for the PhD program I left did a paper on the Chinese Room and argued that to a large degree understanding of the task was the ability to compress it many orders of magnitude. In that sense the LLMs are succeeding because despite their supposively massive parameter sets they are absolutely tiny compared to the Chinese Room version.
Ultrafast Optical Detector
Novel approach to optical detection which is faster than current approaches and can be incorporated on an IC.
TL; DR: the requirement to use "an inorganic" absorbent was garbled and became "an organic" absorbent in the procedures.
I make maybe 5 Amazon purchases a year. There are a lot of shopping addicts out there! Gotta get your dopamine fix somehow I suppose.
MRI doesn't use ionising radiation so it's a stretch. Most likely cause would have to be some toxic effect of the contrast dye (as opposed to any sort of ionising radiation), but no compelling evidence exists for that.
I think you mean FFmpeg
It's really hard to beat chemical rockets for launch.

It's not generally understood just how remarkable rocket engines are. They're the most efficient heat engines we can make. They are orders of magnitude better than other heat engines in power/mass and power/$. Their Isp is fine for launch, particularly for the first stage where most of the propellant is consumed.
Is this workgroup currently funded?
> AI is an amplifier of what you are

All good point. I'd say "AI is an amplifier of what you want", with all the consequences that entails.
Because of its amplifying power, if you can be intentional about it, you can steer or explore avenues that you yourself would otherwise not attempt to.

The ease of which you can jump out of your "local you" basin is still very under appreciated (which reminds me of this post https://open.substack.com/pub/signull/p/answers-are-now-insa...)
Yeah. Also called "air gapping".
I've seen Grok sprinkle random Chinese characters into responses I asked for in ancient Greek and Latin.
>Let’s say you have a team that owns a library that is used by ten other teams. The library team has their own goals, their own deadlines, and their own priorities. They are focused on what they have to do to accomplish those. If they are allowed to ship breaking changes to their customers every day and they experience no consequences themselves for doing so, then they will ship breaking changes every day, because that’s the most efficient and effective way to accomplish their goals.

This is an interesting idea. It feels obvious, but I've never considered this.

I use so much software where I feel like the developers must never use the software at all, as workflows that would be obvious to any user are buggy or convoluted.

>If you are a library team and you want to make a breaking change, you have to refactor the codebases of all your customers in order to adopt the new, breaking change. If you are a cybersecurity team and you want a new control to be implemented on all the codebases at the company, you have to install it yourself in all those codebases and make sure it works.

I think this is an interesting idea, but I'm skeptical that it's the full solution.

It seems hard to put in practice outside of very tiny and very huge orgs.

The author led the Code Health team at Google when I was there, so I saw this working because Google invested huge amount into tooling to make this work. But Google still had a lot of problems with misaligned incentives between libraries and clients, and there was still a lot of pain around breaking changes.

In contrast, I worked at Microsoft for 3 years, and never really worried about my dependencies breaking me, but there I also had to deal with way more legacy code and fear of changing anything because there were no tools for large-scale changes and the automated testing at the time was very coarse-grained.
One staffer is not "most of them". The article in no way supportes the claim.
I don’t think they roam among us “plebs”
Doesn't matter if they're good people or not "given essentially unsupervised access to some outrageously tempting levers" that scandal WILL happen eventually.
Ah I see what you mean. I was trying to convey that this is a limitation, hence not a tick symbol.

But I guess it could be interpreted differently like you said.
Low entropy in chess means effective prediction of future moves, which is far less useful than dedicating equivalent effort to choosing a good next move for ourselves.
> Just a motion sensor hardwired to the light fixture. Hasn’t failed me once in the past ten years.

Funny you mention that, because I'm putting in smart movement sensors to make sure the lights don't come up at night in the garage where the dog sleeps, but also so that I can force the light on for a long period, when I'm doing some work in the same area. People have different needs/expectations.
China Orders Boeing Jet Delivery Halt as Trade War Expands
It's called a step drill bit. It's basically a hole saw but for metal.
That in no way supports the claim: "Most of them could never pass a basic background check".

If there is no support for it, and if it is baseless, that is entirely fine.
LOL just started replaying OW for the first time in years, and my immediate reaction to seeing this headline was to go to the comments and make an OW reference
The thing is, if you pirate why would you stream when you can download and watch at your convenience?

And if you pay for the streaming, why would you donate your bandwidth to them? Would you get a discount?
Seems pretty common sense to me that you're gonna have more people with hidden cancers coming in to get CT for phantom pains, etc and later discover they had cancer all along. That doesn't mean CT caused it. Did the study control for this?
Current title "Japan orders Google to stop favoring Google Search, Chrome on Android" is better.

At this point even if search and browser were completely neutral choices on Android it wouldn't change things much. Search is even losing relevance to LLMs.
There is a really good intuitive analogy hiding here for the scale of the universe:

Our galaxy is to the observable universe as a tenth of a second is to your entire lifetime.
MRI's magnetic field is not strong enough. CT scans use Röntgen radiation, and that's known to cause ionization (the waves can displace electrons), which --in DNA-- potentially causes cancer.
We let the word PayPal Mafia get to their head
Interesting to see HN user astrange as the admin.
YouTube features Transcripts for most videos now, including this one. So simply click through to that, and you can read along with virtually anything, including linked time stamps.
This is so friggin' cool!! I was wondering recently why Nintendo doesn't use it's already-existing channels of the on-Switch emulators, to let gamedevs make _new_ games for those platforms. That would be such a cool, nostalgic, and potentially lucrative market!
It's been a while since I've seen it, but isn't it just that he has been swallowed up by the house and now he's "at" the eternal party where he saw all the ghosts during that one scene?
This is false. He has no legal status [1]. He could be removed, just not to El Salvador. That does not give him legal status or make him a resident.

[1]: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/abrego-garcia-and-ms-13...
WinRAR is 3.7 MB.
It's extremely frustrating and something I've thought a lot about over the years where we were pretty obviously building towards this outcome. A couple things:

First the "average" american is softly but ideologically committed to liberalism¹ & democracy as fundamental values. From that perspective the mind kind of recoils from accepting this. If this is really what's happening, what does civic obligation demand of me? How does that reconcile with my inability to keep my family safe in the face of a motivated & powerful state that wishes to harm me through them? Easier to believe this isn't what is happening, I don't need to take action yet. A powerful example of motivated reasoning.

Second a significant part of the userbase here, as with the general population, supports some or all of these actions. Simple as.

¹ Like in the traditional sense, ie "a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property, and equality before the law" from wikipedia.
I keep hearing stuff like this and I kind of fully expect someone to tell me you have to pay Monster cable prices to get something that's not junk.

Really my day to day experience isn't this at all. I have good amounts of "chinese junk" tools that I use on a weekly/monthly basis that I paid probably 25% of a name brand tool and they are holding up just fine. I'm not using them daily so don't need to spend my life savings on them. I do a bit of research first so not getting the worst crap that some people run into.

Batteries are the big thing I've had excellent luck with. I can get Dewalt knockoff batteries at less than half the cost and twice the power and they last the same amount of time as my name brand.
If you're looking for a link to the results of illegal hacking, then I humbly suggest that aboveboard news sites are not the place to look.
The next administration won't be able to spend time and money investigating crimes of the current one /s
Is there a control for education and/or exposure to science? (My other pet variable for such studies is predicted exposure to lead, if you have place of birth and age data.)
The thing that really annoys me is tariffs could have been used SO much more intelligently. For example a 24 month increasing schedule. That gives business the kind of incentive to affect manufacturing and something they can plan against.

But now we have a dumpster fire and tariffs will have an even worse reputation.
I wonder if this is related to the first party cookie security model. That is supposedly why Google switched maps from maps.google.com to www.google.com/maps. Running everything off a single subdomain of a single root domain should allow better pooling of data.
You probably need to stop thinking the world outside of the US doesn't exist mate.
President Camacho was a genuinely good president. We should be so lucky.
China investing in machinery and automation means they are moving up the production chain into more expensive and more profitable manufacturing.

It also means they no longer do the cheap high volume manufacturing, which will go elsewhere where the cheap labor is.

This is how it goes. Manufacturing keeps migrating to cheap labor. China is running out of cheap labor and volume manufacturing will find it in East Asia and India and Africa instead, because these places will still have lots and lots of young people while those in China have aged out.
You should be.

But you're out of patience with the wrong sources.
Depends. MRI itself is safe, but they often add "contrast" which is known to cause cancer (I'm not clear on if there is more than one choice for contrast though, or if they all cause cancer). Of course contrast is mostly used when they looking at a something - likely a tumor that might or might not be cancer to decide how to treat it - in that case does it matter that your long term cancer prospects go up when without it your short term prospects are not good.
MRI's themselves produce no cancer risk as they're not ionizing radiation. There's SOME questions about SOME of the dyes used for SOME MRI procedures, but those are usually used in situations where the alternative is worse - so do it.
As the quip goes, there are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
An Obituary for Millennial Culture
The parent commenter implied something far more sinister with "quid pro quo".
This is so they can use the same tracking cookies across all their products.
Good eye on the lead exposure. I haven’t pulled the paper yet to speak to the control.
Some studies are trying to ensure that the model reasons through abstractions instead of linguistic representations. (Of course the phenomenon of reasoning in substantially different quality depending on input language signals a fault - reasoning is beyond "spoken" language.)

In the past hours a related, seemingly important article appeared - see https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-language-models-work-...
Yes. You claim:

"This entire article appears to be speculation about data they MAY have taken with no evidence besides large file size that they are misusing something ...[and] is only about how serious it would be IF they misused it."

This paragraph makes it clear it's not just about misusing data and large file sizes.

> Those forensic digital records are important for record-keeping requirements and they allow for troubleshooting, but they also allow experts to investigate potential breaches, sometimes even tracing the attacker's path back to the vulnerability that let them inside a network.

Let's be clear:

> Those engineers were also concerned by DOGE staffers' insistence that their activities not be logged, allowing them to probe the NLRB's systems and discover information about potential security flaws or vulnerabilities without being detected.

Neither of these have to do with "large file size" or misusing data.

"Am I reading it wrong?"

Yes. Now, before you go moving goal posts, you made claims, and I've debunked those claims with quotes you said you needed. Because clearly the article is ALSO talking about these other things as problematic as well, so it's not "the entire article". (Also, the "entire article appears"? Appears? Just read it, it talks about numerous things, and is very clear on the different elements it's talking about.)

This isn't the only stuff mentioned, so be careful about claiming "oh, I just missed that" or some such because there are other things that can be referenced, such as the massive amount of text spent on the whistleblower issues and the threats made to them.

And before you talk about this just being "speculation," that's why we have the process we have, so people can make claims that can then be investigated. And that's what's being stopped.

Finally, "no evidence besides large file size" is also not true.

"Am I reading it wrong?"

As someone said, it's more likely you didn't even read it.
There's an art to buy good products from AliExpress. You must order by number of items sold. See bad reviews. See the seller rate.

They are making each time more difficult to assert the product quality. I'm super careful, but still sometimes buy from seller SHOP123456789
> anyone would want a battery operated lamp at their bedside

Thomas Merton could still be alive, if only...
Correct, typo. Thanks.
So 0.1% extra lifetime risk for every CT scan, I guess I went from 40% lifetime risk to 40.5, I guess I'll keep not drinking, not smoking and not being obese to help with the statistics.
In my experience from a poor Latin America country, rich people rob those far away, poor people rob those close.

If there is no obvious diversification in the path forward, then the resources of wealth are few and easily identified. Ex: oil, banana plantations, etc. These countries are more likely to be like this. With a colonial past, there is a view by the strong they can only steal. It takes an exceptional leader who is strong, cares about his country, willing to kill to defend, and willing to not be bribed by the global powers to turn a country around. And he may still fail.
Getting Started with W65C832
Do you honestly believe there have ever been _fair_ elections in America? Do you honestly believe there will not be at least _some_ kind of election in 2028? Even if it's staged, form must be respected.
Neither site is a den of repute but it's notable that I can still say the word "cisgender" on 4chan, or openly insult moot and call him whatever I want without being banned for it (while mainstream sites select who is protected from harassment and who isn't, either along political lines or who owns the site).
Citation for this: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/abrego-garcia-and-ms-13...

And that does make the deportation erroneous, that does not make him innocent.
I would love a president that was all "Shit I don't know, so i found some smart guy(s)."
I didn't read the JAMA article, but shouldn't it be possible to test that hypothesis differently? E.g., people get CT scans for fractures in knee or wrist. Cancer in those places is very rare, so of CT scans cause cancer, shouldn't there be noticeable difference between scanned and unscanned people?
for a webserver with an awesome GUI served through the web i recommend roxen. it is not a webframework requiring you to write code to serve content, but it serves static files out of the box and let's you add dynamic content on top of that. and it can outperform apache and other webservers depending on your workload.
This was my blog post. I didn't explain it very very but I agree that you do not want to completely strip out the useful EXIF data. In particular, the colorspace values are used by the browser to show photos in a more "correct" way on your screen.

My blogging software only strips the GPS EXIF data. The code is here:

https://github.com/andrewstephens75/gensite/blob/dev/gensite...
it's like they believe building is as quick as destroying. almost like they think delete can be ctrl+z'ed back into undeleted very quickly

a generation of kids that never lost all their work because they didn't hit ctrl+s at the correct moment is now trying to run things
I take "App Store" as generic to mean any app store, like Apple's or Google's
But you only need one password to protect your HTTP auth phpMyAdmin so just make it 30 characters.
I've just tried it in one of the supported languages, and it seems to respond far better than any model under 24B that I've tried before. With its licensing, it sounds much more exciting to me than the OP.
Because China already uses TLS SNI sniffing anyways, and since that TLS is the outermost layer, it does not matter which HTTP version* is inside, it's already blocked anyways.

* For those who knows HTTP/3, the answer is port blocking.
I'm wondering if one of the big reasons that OpenAI is making gpt-4.5 deprecated is not only because it's not cost-effective to host but because they don't want their parent model being used to train competitors' models (like deepseek).
China is 'best friends' with Russia, Russia is best friends with Trump. Huge piles of cash for everyone on the inside there.
Second that, I don't really see reason not to run proper web server actually especially if one does web development and would use it for multiple projects anyway.