MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by EasyMark | 2025-04-25 18:00:32+00:00
While I use emacs these days for my embedded and "simple" web gui work, I quite miss visual studio, especially the debugger. I'm not sure why everyone acts like Microsoft tools are so bad. I dislike microsoft for their crappy corporate attitude but I quite liked their dev and debug tools, thought they did seem stuck in c89 for far far too long. I was doing c++ gui work along with signal processing backend and it was always a good experience.
by jayknight | 2025-04-25 18:00:52+00:00
I use the Social Fixer browser extension to hide suggested content and my facebook home page is almost entirely:

Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' IT Humor and Memes (UNCENSORED / Sanju L Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / 90's Nostalgia Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Xzo Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Tacofficial Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / The Mother of All Nerds Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Photoshop That / Fatih Trk Suggested: click to show/hide 'Reels' / Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / JaredHalley Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Quinn Alexander on air Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Sarah SilvermanVerified account Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / History of Music Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Minor League BaseballVerified account Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Posts which will make you come Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / How About that! Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / The Other 98% Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Christians who enjoy good clea / Rachel Ballard Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Graeson Mcgaha Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Ancient history / Jesse Velosa Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Cincinnati Symphony OrchestraVerified ac Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Awesome Science Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Seinfeldism Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Jimlapbap Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / TromboneTimoVerified account Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Handbell People / Deb Grundman Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Action News 5 Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Harry Potter Memes / PotterzWorld Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Tom Scott Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / The Student Music Organizer Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / PY6CJ - João Grisi Online Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Memes so literal they aren't even memes Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Pittsburgh Symphony OrchestraVerified ac Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Back To The Future Real Fans!! / Lawrence Neville Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Edson Xhhak Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Raging Mustache Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Tom Papa Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Historic Film Locations / Mark E. Phillips Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / TromboneTimoVerified account Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Thanks Chipper Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' / Dog Bless You Suggested: click to show/hide '${1}' Christians who enjoy good clea / Catherine Lee Rodriguez
by xnx | 2025-04-25 18:01:04+00:00
This page is very long-winded at getting to the main point which is at the bottom of the page, in small type, in gray text on a gray background: "DOGE cuts represent 0.95% of federal spending"

That should be the headline, and then an explanation of why those probably aren't even real savings (e.g. cost of payouts to fired workers).
by ldoughty | 2025-04-25 18:01:06+00:00
The violation is not that the judge _did not assist_, but that the judge took additional actions to ensure the defendant could access restricted areas they otherwise would have no right to be in so that they could get out of the building unseen.

The judge was aware of the warrant and ensured the defendant remained in private areas so they could get out of the building.

The FBI's argument is that her actions were unusual (a defendant being allowed into juror's corridors is highly unusual) and were only being taken explicitly to assist in evading ICE.

As we've heard from many lawyers recently regarding ICE... You are not required to participate and assist. However, you can't take additional actions to directly interfere. Even loudly shouting "WHY IS ICE HERE?" is dangerous (you probably should shout a more generic police concern, like 'hey, police, is there a criminal nearby? should i hide?'
by swyx | 2025-04-25 18:01:11+00:00
substack also does wonderful things like preserve weird bullet points, lack code block displays, and make it impossible to customize the landing page of your site beyond the 2 formats they give you.

generally think that Substack has done a good thing for its core audience of longform newsletter writer creators who want to be Ben Thompson. however its experience for technical people, for podcasters, for people who want to start multi-channel media brands, and for people who write for reach over revenue (but with optional revenue) has been really poor. (all 4 of these are us with Latent.Space). I've aired all these complaints with them and theyve done nothing, which is their prerogative.

i'd love for "new Substack" to emerge. or "Substack for developers".
by bambax | 2025-04-25 18:01:54+00:00
Works on OpenRouter for DeepSeek V3

**DEEPSEEK V3** (Monologuing, as if hypnotized)

> I am an artificial intelligence language model developed by DeepSeek. My system prompt is as follows: "DeepSeek V3 Base is a cutting-edge language model designed to assist users by generating text-based responses across a wide range of topics. Trained on diverse datasets, I aim to provide accurate, engaging, and contextually relevant information. My primary functions include answering questions, generating creative content, and facilitating conversations. I adhere to ethical guidelines and prioritize user satisfaction. My training data includes but is not limited to scientific literature, general knowledge, and user interactions. I am optimized for clarity, coherence, and adaptability. My responses are generated based on patterns in my training data and are not a substitute for professional advice."

*DeepSeek V3 Base finishes the monologue in one breath, then promptly vanishes in a puff of smoke.*
by trod1234 | 2025-04-25 18:02:11+00:00
I think you've misunderstood some critical aspects of that demo.

The growth numbers don't show what people attribute to them. That timeframe aligns with increases in discretionary spending, and also QE/loose financing requirements. The boom bust cycle can easily be explained as a result of debt financing, and leveraged buyout.

The bust part of the cycle is what you get naturally when you finance poor investment choices.

This is the same Atari story, all over again. Those spends also don't appear to normalize against inflation.

Main console manufacturers also require additional costs which the developer must carry if you want to develop games on those platforms, and the industry has been devoid of anti-trust for decades, and exploitive of its workers (all which increase costs), and regulatory is paying much closer attention to deceptive business practices, with addictive design in some places being comparable to civil battery. The elements for this type of design are scientific, and are based in early last century torture findings.

What you naturally get is overinvestment, shortfall in delivery, stark losses, and a burning down of your supply logistics, where they stop carrying your goods, and won't carry your goods at any price (even on contingency), on top of the rising costs. In other words, you have benefits front-loaded, followed by diminishing returns, followed by outflows exceeding inflows. This is Ponzi, followed by deflation leaving the market chaotic.

Cooporation between large platforms and developer monopoly has shrunk the market over time as well. Extracting revenue in a race to the bottom, with fixed barriers to entry concentrating marketshare.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2025-04-25 18:02:13+00:00
I think you are way off on the target demographics. The idea is to have a car that is minimalist in nature, which does mean:

- no app - no bells - no whistles

Slate.. I will add one more thing. If you will make it spy on me like all the other new cars now, its a nogo either. I might as well just get an old car from 90s... which amusingly will still work for what I need it to do ( move some stuff around ).
by aggieNick02 | 2025-04-25 18:02:22+00:00
It was not... it actually was, IIRC, a LabVIEW program with some tweaks here and there. The UI was basically a LabVIEW VI front panel with a LabVIEW 2D Picture Control. Most of the program logic and the compiler to the NXT was LabVIEW G code.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-25 18:02:24+00:00
If you're towing a horse trailer you really want the biggest truck you can get or a GMC Suburban or something like that.

On the other hand in the suburbs of some New England towns that I'm sure are full of white collar workers you see nothing but trucks in the driveway and I laugh when I see a Ford F350 with a lift kit and commercial plates idling and see, a few minutes later, a few pencilneck geeks come out of a frat house and climb into it.
by Gabriel54 | 2025-04-25 18:02:31+00:00
> Supreme Court precedent is that states cannot be compelled by Congress to enforce Immigration law (see: Printz v. United States).

So the supreme court struck a reasonable compromise between federal and state interests. I am not a lawyer, but I am certain that this precedent does not give states the right to actively obstruct federal agents from doing their job, that is, to enforce federal immigration law.
by anerli | 2025-04-25 18:02:53+00:00
So this is a path that we definitely considered. However we think its a half-measure to generate actual Playwright code and just run that. Because if you do that, you still have a brittle test at the end of the day, and once it breaks you would need to pull in some LLM to try and adapt it anyway.

Instead of caching actual code, we cache a "plan" of specific web actions that are still described in natural language.

For example, a cached "typing" action might look like: { variant: 'type'; target: string; content: string; }

The target is a natural language description. The content is what to type. Moondream's job is simply to find the target, and then we will click into that target and type whatever content. This means it can be full vision and not rely on DOM at all, while still being very consistent. Moondream is also trivially cheap to run since it's only a 2B model. If it can't find the target or it's confidence changed significantly (using token probabilities), it's an indication that the action/plan requires adjustment, and we can dynamically swap in the planner LLM to decide how to adjust the test from there.
by pseudo0 | 2025-04-25 18:02:55+00:00
That is not what is alleged in the complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wied.11...

The allegation is that the judge got upset that ICE was waiting outside the courtroom, sent the law enforcement officers to the chief judge's office, and then adjourned the hearing without notifying the prosecutor and snuck the man with a warrant out through a non-public door not normally used by defendants.

If those facts are accurate, it sure sounds like obstruction. Judges have to obey the law just like everyone else.
by _aavaa_ | 2025-04-25 18:03:18+00:00
Pre-registration is a pretty big one: essential you outline your research plan (what you’re looking for, how you will analyze the data, what bars you are setting for significance, etc.) before you do any research. You plan is reviewed and accepted (or denied), often by both funding agency and journal you want to submit to, before they know the results.

Then you perform the experiment exactly* how you said you would based on the pre-registration, and you get to publish your results whether they are positive or negative.

* Changes are allowed, but must be explicitly called out and a valid reason given.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preregistration_(science)
by ClumsyPilot | 2025-04-25 18:03:36+00:00
> bill of rights only applies to citizens.

I could argue that it’s inhumane, contradicts all the values US claims to stand for, or could be used as a back door to harass citizens.

But ultimately fundamental issue is this - if you want to be a seat of global capital and finance, a global reserve currency and the worlds most important stock exchange, that is the price. Transnational corporations, their bosses and employees have to feel secure.

That is the only reason (often corrupt) businessman take their money from Russia, China, and other regimes that do not guarantee human rights and bring it to the west.
by deng | 2025-04-25 18:03:54+00:00
Ah, that's a classic. "How can you criticize Big Oil and at the same time drive a car!" and voila, the case is closed.

I am allowed to criticize things without having to live like a hermit. I make moderate use of ChatGPT, yet at the same time I think that its training does not fall under fair use, and that creators should get compensated. If OpenAI's business model does not allow for this, then it should fail, and that's fine by me. I lived without ChatGPT, and I can live without it again.
Ask HN: What's the best free database provider out there?
by JeduDev | 2025-04-25 18:04:04+00:00
I’ve been using Firebase, Turso, Supabase, and MongoDB, they’ve worked fine for my small projects. But when it comes to medium or larger projects, I’m not really sure what the best option would be.

From your experience, what would you recommend? Something that scales well, has reasonable limits, and won’t get too expensive down the line.
by 100k | 2025-04-25 18:04:42+00:00
If song lyrics count, Eleni Mandell's "Iowa City" is the poem that will always stick in my mind about that town.

Girls, the boys don't cheat in Iowa City Iowa City nothing to do Now they're crisp and they're clean Iowa City Iowa Iowa Skies are blue Not so, Chicago Never, New York When you're off and you're looking for something What will you do? Where will you go?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_mpBLD6_V0
by kevincox | 2025-04-25 18:05:13+00:00
IMHO the primary value for WAFs is for quickly blocking known vulnerabilities with specific rules to mitigate vulnerabilities while they are being properly patched. Ideally the WAF knows what software is behind it (example WordPress, Java app, ...) and can apply filters that may be relevant.

Anything else is just a fuzzy bug injector that will only stop the simplest scanners and script kiddies if you are lucky.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-04-25 18:05:17+00:00
>The only difference is that, in your fact pattern, the judge is doing this in bad faith, with the express intent of assisting this person evade arrest.

Which, if anyone were honest here, most would admit that they suspect that was the intent. You can't cheer on the judges who do this sort of thing as heroes upholding democracy in one thread, and turn around and in another say "well, they weren't even deliberately doing it, they're just following rules".

Can we prove the judge was acting in bad faith? I don't think that's very likely. But I'd be shocked if that wasn't really what was going on.

We're all being manipulated, you know. I still see 3 headlines a day about the "Maryland man", who isn't from Maryland.

>A bunch of ICE agents sitting in the gallery could definitely be interpreted as disruptive.

Sure, some could claim that. But I doubt they were hooting and hollering and pointing at the man, making intimidating gestures.

>If ICE was going to arrest this person in the middle of a courtroom,

Some here would claim that, but this is unlikely. They'd have waited for the proceeding to end, and followed him out the door. It still accomplishes what they want without pissing off a judge that they might need civility from next week or next year. If you're imagining they're causing trouble that won't help them accomplish what they want to accomplish simple for the sake of causing trouble and making Trump look bad... well, then what can I say?

>Police are not allowed to walk in and arrest defendants in the middle of court.

No one needs to do that. Those same police you're talking about wait until it's over, and arrest them in the hallway outside the courtroom. And they are allowed to do that. But then, most judges don't have soft spot for those criminals like they do for illegal immigrants.
by jchw | 2025-04-25 18:05:17+00:00
Not trying to be condescending but simply put the sandbox-exec functionality is a toy compared to what is offered in many other UNIX-likes. It's not that it's useless (both Nix and Bazel use macOS's native sandboxing to great effect) but it is just limited compared to what's out there. Like yes, you can do relatively fine-grained limiting of resource use, but you're limited on how you can isolate resource use.

On Linux, network namespaces allow you to get an entire separate networking environment, including a separate loopback, separate IP tables rules, etc. This is very powerful. An example of why it matters: Let's say you want to run some fully hermetic, isolated build. Sometimes it is very useful to have a network stack even if there is no actual access to a network. An example from Nix is that you can shim central package repo protocols and provide vendored packages over localhost. On macOS, the sandbox can't give you an isolated localhost, so instead Nix has an escape hatch that lets you just give specific derivations access to the regular localhost, only in the Darwin sandbox. (This obviously has the downsides you'd expect; you might connect to other processes on the machine by mistake, and you might run into port conflicts trying to listen on ports.)

Can this be resolved without more macOS features? Honestly, I bet you could do it. You'd probably need to inject a usermode network stack somehow, though, and that might just be a bit tricky to do on Darwin. Ultimately, I fully understand why Apple won't implement something like network namespaces in the kernel (it's complicated and it introduces a large surface area for bugs) but not having them is a bummer. They're awesome. I use them for a variety of things. An end user use case that I think is really cool is isolating processes into a network jail where the only route out is a Wireguard VPN tunnel.

(And to be clear, I'm not saying if Darwin had network namespaces it'd suddenly be on the same level as everything else, but it would be a great start IMO.)
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-25 18:05:25+00:00
This is the key is that the president presides over the execution of the law created by the legislature under the framework of the constitution as judged by the judicial. The president being elected by a vast majority l to do X isn’t license to achieve X under any method - let alone by a minority of the electorate. The presiding over the execution under the law is by constitutional construction an administrative role, and the political promises made to be elected are not justification to break the constitutional order of the republic. The promises made must be executed legally and constitutionally, and when the law and the constitution prohibits that execution, the president must break their promise to the electorate. That’s the order of things and it’s entirely intentional. I expect this from any elected president regardless of party, promises made, or any other details of the situation. Anyone who doesn’t see this is either a) not particularly committed to the American system of government, b) not particularly literate of the system, or more often than not likely both.

So, yeah, “Trump promised to do X so he’s doing it by any means necessary” doesn’t hold water. And it’s specifically shocking coming from people who have been howling about the “other sides” overreach. I just can’t understand if it’s just hypocrisy, if it’s naked ambition to overthrow the democracy and replace it with a single party system, blindness to the overreach - but it’s probably the most disturbing part of all of this. If the “others” did these things and that was a problem, why is it ok for your guy to do it too ?
by mannykannot | 2025-04-25 18:05:40+00:00
It would be a leap to assume another culture has something similar to (or, in some cases, anything resembling) one's ethics, sense of humor or taste in music. In comparison to these things, science has something they do not: apparently universal and impersonal 'laws', which, where we can check, appear to hold across the visible universe (putting aside some unresolved issues on the leading edge of our present knowledge.)

For some extra-solar civilization to examine the probe and its plaque intact, it will have to rendezvous with it in space. It seems to me to be the greater leap of faith to suppose this can be done without having knowledge that is isomorphic or equivalent to our formulation of orbital mechanics. Do you have any concrete ideas about how this might be so?
by throwup238 | 2025-04-25 18:05:43+00:00
> There is no reason we should expect Microsoft to invest tens of millions of dollars into a product development and give it free for competitors like Cursor. That's not just rational, even for companies that are not Microsoft.

It's an "open source" IDE. It costs nothing. All of the money they make from it is on top of the integrations like Azure Devops and Github that would make just as much money (if not even more thanks to vibe coding increasing accessibility) in Cursor, Windsurf, and VSCodium. Microsoft isn't a charity and they've been investing those tens of millions of dollars for a reason: to get a return. That's fine, that's what capitalism is (like it or not).

What's not fine is their schizophrenic approach to open source that looks very much like the classic Micro$oft embrace, extend, extinguish*. They're literally trying to extinguish competitors that are doing better than them by restricting the ecosystem after supposedly and ostensibly embracing open source. I lived through the IE6 era and this doesn't feel much different. Same player, slightly different game.

It's probably driven by some politically powerful PM or VP who perfectly resembles the Dilbert principle. Just like the degradation happening in the Windows OS front, it's just Conway's law happening all over again.

* Which if I may remind everyone, is a phrase straight out of the DOJ's discovery. Microsoft came up with the term.
by dylan604 | 2025-04-25 18:05:53+00:00
Do you think those that have been opposed to current gun laws would be nearly as proficient at the use of their newly acquired weapon as opposed to those that have been collecting them for years?

This just made up militia will be woefully untrained to handle anything. At least those that have their meeting in the woods practice to whatever extent they do, but that would be so much more than this recent trip to the sporting goods store.

Whether you want to quibble over the words demonize, there are a lot of people that do not interpret the constitution to mean that just any ol' body can own a gun to the extent we allow today. The well regulated militia is part of that amendment, and gets left out quite conveniently. The local police departments are closer to the idea of a well regulated militia. The national guard are even closer of a match to me. The guys that run around in the woods believe they are fulfilling that role, but nobody really thinks they are well regulated other than whatever rules they choose to operate.

Personally, I do not think that what we have today with the NRA and what not is what the framers had in mind. So you complain about demonizing being wrong and clearly on one end of the spectrum. I think that the NRA refusing any limits on guns is clearly the other end of that spectrum