MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sangeeth96 | 2025-04-01 01:27:07+00:00
What's interesting about this vs. PowerToys Run is the "extensibility" aspect. Developers can create custom extensions that users can add using winget/MS Store. This feels very similar to Raycast and is something I miss whenever I switch to Windows. I know Raycast team is working to add Windows support but it's nice to see some competition.

Docs about creating an extension: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/command-...

Release notes: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.90.0
by recursivecaveat | 2025-04-01 01:27:23+00:00
I don't know if Java serialization supports this kind of thing, but if you have object A has a pointer to object B and vice-versa, there's no order to deserialize them without passing through a partially-initialized state that preserves the object identity relationship. I suppose you can't construct this kind of loopy references graph with final fields without reflection in the first place, so it's kindof chicken and egg. For the very common case of DAG-shaped data or formats that don't support references I think the one-shot internal constructor works though.
by defrost | 2025-04-01 01:28:17+00:00
The meta analysis you linked ( https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/... ) specifically denies any noticable associations with fluoride at the levels recommended in countries that add fluoride to water.

For fluoride measured in water, associations remained inverse when exposed groups were restricted to less than 4 mg/L or less than 2 mg/L but not when restricted to less than 1.5 mg/L There were limited data and uncertainty in the dose-response association between fluoride exposure and children’s IQ when fluoride exposure was estimated by drinking water alone at concentrations less than 1.5 mg/L.

The meta analysis you linked gets the strongest results in areas of the world with outstandingly high levels of fluoride and other elements in the ground water .. water with so many additives it rings like a bell when tapped with a hammer (okay, that's an embellishment).
Show HN: Toddler Night Routine Manager
by Belphemur | 2025-04-01 01:28:58+00:00
Hello,

So here is the problem I wanted to solve for my wife and myself with our toddler:

- Who does the night routine tonight ?

- How to manage that with evening activities ?

- How to keep it fair ?

So I built a small Go application meant to be selfhosted and fully integrated with Google Calendar.

The app will create day event telling which parent turn is it to do the night routine, you can also configure what days each parent in unavailable. The app will take care of create a schedule that is fair to both parent and avoid unbalanced time.

Also, you can directly go in Google Calendar to override any event created to give it to another parent, the app will then recalculate the folow-up assignment to keep everything fair.

I provide a docker image, docker compose and explanation on how to get your API Keys for Google Console.
by Nursie | 2025-04-01 01:29:13+00:00
> “Consent or pay” models differ from a “take it or leave it” model, as the presence of a “pay” option means that accessing the service is not solely conditional on people providing consent.

I feel like this is ... slimy.

I suppose it does at least make things explicit - your data is very obviously a form of payment at that point.
by goodluckchuck | 2025-04-01 01:29:41+00:00
Bad decision.

> Javice asked an “outside data scientist” to fabricate a list of customers when the bank asked for proof of Frank’s user data, -NBC

If they had 3 million fake accounts and didn’t catch the fraud, then they were in on it.

It’s a great deal. If the company does well, everyone wins. If it doesn’t, then you already know you can claim fraud.

At that point it’s not fraud.
by scoofy | 2025-04-01 01:29:47+00:00
By "finesse" I just mean that the sweet spot is to small to consistently hit with a full powered swing, so by doing that, you're taking a huge risk. That's the way it was in the 70's, but it's just not that way any longer. The idea is that there needs to be a tradeoff between power and accuracy.

Here is Sam Snead in his prime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjEJgC5nYXw

Here is Bryson warming up today: https://www.reddit.com/r/golf/comments/1joeiap/vijay_just_lo...

It's like absolute night and day. It used to be a combination of balance and power. Now it's just brute force. The way Bryson is playing just isn't possible with a persimmon.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-04-01 01:29:55+00:00
Yes, all of this is fairly well known in France and was commented ad nauseam during the past elections. No conspiracy here.

You can look at the Wikipedia article references which link to a lot of different French newspapers with large readership. A few choices: 2015 - https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2015/03/12/le-f... 2017 - https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=https%3A%2F... 2019 - https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2019/06/14/affaire-...
by echelon | 2025-04-01 01:32:08+00:00
Having a dozen different VFX departments using different file transfer methods like FTP seems like a nightmare. But then I realized that the banks do this, and probably worse.

There's one that uses Gmail to exchange documents (not financial, but important nonetheless) and uses the read receipt to determine if it has ingested the data. Replaying ingestion is marking unread.
by tunapizza | 2025-04-01 01:34:58+00:00
It's either that, or get denied. Interestingly enough, however, it's quite easy to "prepare" for a phone search in advance since border agents can only search the actual content of your phone. You just need to delete apps and reinstall them after you passed the border. Their "advanced" forensics tools would likely find traces of those deleted apps, though.

"CBP officers can only search and access data stored on the device’s hard drive or operating system. The search does not include data that is stored remotely in a Cloud format. The officer must ensure that data and network connections are disabled before starting the search, for example, by asking the traveler to turn the device into airplane mode and disabling Wi-Fi."

[https://hselaw.com/news-and-information/legalcurrents/prepar...]
by wpm | 2025-04-01 01:35:16+00:00
Kagi was not, to my memory, positioned this way early on when I started paying for it. It was "search but not dogshit because we're not being sponsored by the search results".

If I want a factoid on a website, I want to see it with my own eyes, not filtered through some non-deterministic shit machine that might tell me the right answer. To each their own but me getting what I want doesn't get in your way at all, so we should both be able to use Kagi the way we want to.
by tombert | 2025-04-01 01:35:30+00:00
I think the story would have been more powerful if Abraham himself had decided to not do the sacrifice, and deciding that no matter what God is offering it's not worth it, sort of like the Huck Finn "All right, then, I'll go to hell". That would be an interesting case of doing what you know is right, no matter who is telling you to do something wrong.

As it stands, it's a decidedly kind of weird story where we're supposed to root for Abraham, despite the fact that he was willing to sacrifice another human being just because someone told him to. Yes, that someone was "God", but that doesn't change my point.

I have to admit that I didn't completely understand where you were going with the second part. I'm not sure what you were asking in regards to "what proof I have"? Proof that I don't think a God exists? Proof that I value human life? Proof that I think it's wrong to kill someone just because you hear a voice that tells you to? Even if that voice actually were God?

I mean, I don't really know how to prove that. That's just my belief, I guess you could say I'm lying about that, but I don't know what to tell you there.
by Nursie | 2025-04-01 01:36:10+00:00
> The Guardian is extremely-polarized ragebait.

Errr, nah. It's mostly very high quality, sober and honest journalism.

Yes, a lot of the opinion and editorial is very obviously politically biased, and they do publish some absolute lefty tripe occasionally, but the news coverage is generally high quality and the longer form stuff thought provoking.

For ragebait in a British publication see "The Daily Mail".
by singlepaynews | 2025-04-01 01:36:48+00:00
Don’t you already want to hit the baseball as hard as you can at every opportunity? Just with the caveat that you need to develop skill with using a one-size-fits-all bat? Is bunting and going for balls that big of a deal currently, that a player who could rock one into left field would decide not to?

Surely any strategy around loading up bases to stack the deck for your strongest hitter remains, it seems like this levels between hitters more than from hitter to pitcher?
by Belphemur | 2025-04-01 01:36:54+00:00
This is great advice. In our case, we realized we can't trust our memory anymore, it became hard to remember who done it the most.

We wanted both a system that keeps track of it for us. We want to be sure we can both have activities while still not leaving the other parent on the side and rely on feeling.

In our case we also have recurring events like sport in the evening that happens every week at the same time so this help plan around it and not become unbalanced. We already put everything in the calendar :)
by bastawhiz | 2025-04-01 01:37:14+00:00
The shopper feeling like they've gotten a deal is uncorrelated with whether Honey makes money from the merchants.

They also collect and sell data about all the purchases users make. I'd be startled if PayPal didn't use this data for selling customers on Braintree or selling ads. Also triple dipping and taking money from the affiliates (besides selling user data and extorting merchants) is downright greedy.
by 6stringmerc | 2025-04-01 01:37:33+00:00
Though I haven’t used this app I do plan on trying it out when I get my guitars back. I’m impressed at the effort, the resources, and the giving it free for the sake of spreading joy in music.

The guitar is a difficult instrument to learn, especially in the beginning phases. After 30 years it’s a conversation I have frequently - people try and give up a lot. If this can help some folks stick with it and become better understanding and practiced with their instrument, I hope that happens again and again and again. Every generation needs guitarists, as it’s the instrument of expressive rebellion the world round.

Great share and a Bill and Ted EXCELLENT weedly weedly weee!
by russellbeattie | 2025-04-01 01:38:17+00:00
Quick tip in case you don't have a good sense of what an ounce feels like: It's exactly 5 quarters (the coin).

So the difference between Babe's bat and today's is about the weight of 55 quarters (a roll and a half). Years of doing laundry at laundromats have given me a keen sense of how much handfuls of quarters weigh, so I find this actually pretty handy.

Just in case:

* A nickel is exactly 5 grams.

* A penny (1982+) is 2.5 grams.

* A dime is 0.08 ounces.

* A quarter is 0.2 ounces.

* 5 rolls of nickels = 1 kilogram

* 2 rolls of quarters = 1 pound.

Why did the U.S. Mint switch between even metric and even imperial units? Probably has to do with the changing metals in those coins. That said, the new small dollar coin is 8.1g / 0.286oz which makes no sense at all. It is, however, exactly 2mm thick.
by II2II | 2025-04-01 01:38:44+00:00
KOReader is an amazing program that has progressed at amazing speed over the past few years, particularly when it comes to the user interface. (It can still be overwhelming, because of the sheer number of features, but it is much better organized.)

To give you an idea of how different it is from commercial products: it actually tracks reading in a useful way. It shows a chart of how long you have spent on each page, so you can figure out which parts of a book you have not yet read. That is really useful when jumping around technical books. If you are interested in tracking your general reading habits, there are handy views that shows which books you have read and when you read them (either by time of day or across a month).

As for reading PDFs, well, eInk has its limitations and KOReader does it's best to work around them. If you want to read a multicolumn paper on a small screen, you can configure it to go down one column then right back to the top of the next column. If you want there to be overlap between the screens when panning, you can configure that. You can also have it display which parts were overlapping, so you don't get lost when it displays the next part.

There is tonnes of other stuff in there. I just mentioned those two because I use them the most. Overall I would say it feels like KOReader was designed by people who want an amazing reading experience, rather than by people trying to sell novels.
by fabiopjve | 2025-04-01 01:39:50+00:00
I did that in Brasil in the late 80s! There was a show on the radio that every sunday afternoon they would broadcast computer programs! The problem is that I had a coco2 clone and most programs were for Spectrum or MSX (the more common machines in Brasil back then). Needless to say, any noise on the radio would damage the recording and the transmitter was very far from me so usually there was noise... :(
by ghaff | 2025-04-01 01:40:40+00:00
One can imagine trusts devoted to open source. (They probably exist in some form.) But that probably means that modest amounts of money are distributed to a vanishingly small number of coders based on, likely, the preferences of some executive director.

In general, it's fairly clear that jobs for open source developers is generally more effective than charity of various kinds which is subject to change at any time. (OK, jobs are too but that tends to be less related to political, etc. winds.)
by surgical_fire | 2025-04-01 01:41:08+00:00
Chirac's case happened more than 3 decades ago. Perhaps the judiciary had a different understanding on the gravity of those crimes back then. Perhaps what Le Pen did was more serious.

If Le Pen won, or if she would make to the second round is meaningless. The election would be tainted by having her running. That people are burthurt that their pet right wing populist became ineligible is of no substance. If anything it proves the courts are independent, and not acting to please a subset of the people.
by fooker | 2025-04-01 01:41:20+00:00
You are wrong. The formalized concept of UB was introduced exactly because of this.

Let's take something as simple as divide by zero. Now, suppose you have a bunch of code with random arithmetic operations.

A compiler can not optimize this code at all without somehow proving that all denominators are non zero. What UB brings you is that you can optimize the program based on the assumption that UB never occurs. If it actually does, who cares, the program would have done something bogus anyway.

Now think about pointer dereferences, etc etc.
by Nursie | 2025-04-01 01:42:44+00:00
Sometimes things are just bad, reporting on them at that point is a duty. Do you dispute that Trump has started talking about a third term? Or that those other actions are actually taking place?

> was as extremely polarized as CNN or Fox.

The guardian is an openly left-leaning publication, that's what it is, that's more or less what it's for.

If you're in the US I understand that you may not understand such a thing, or it may seem extreme to you because there is effectively no political left wing in America, and news is generally captured by oligarchs with a right-leaning slant. In the other geographies where the Guardian has a presence (UK, Australia) its reporting doesn't feel particularly extreme, probably because the ideas and viewpoints of the moderate left are a normal part of our political landscape, and we also have national broadcasters that are (generally, in intent) pretty neutral.

They're not in any way a Fox equivalent - the Guardian doesn't just make shit up or shit-stir for the sake of it, or try to pass itself off as an 'entertainment network' rather than news...
by ggm | 2025-04-01 01:43:58+00:00
Other cultures have adapted to a family in different ways. Some Iranians had a "compound" model not unlike a roman villa with a central water pond, and as you grew into adulthood you moved into another discrete component of the family compound and as you matured and people died, you moved up the chain to better rooms. It's in "my uncle napoleon" if I recall correctly. Lots of cultures might do something like this, and it comes with its own mixed blessings of hierarchy inside the family unit, conformance, obligations.
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-04-01 01:45:33+00:00
Keep in mind that in my comment, I said that free speech generally is about protecting the expression of "beliefs, opinions, and criticisms", and you'd still be open to legal action by harmed parties if you defame them. So I think we can pretty reasonably answer your questions from that standpoint, with the fairly non-controversial addendum that airing incriminating photographs within a courtroom setting would certainly be protected speech.
by ggm | 2025-04-01 01:46:27+00:00
I think there's a bit of "both sides" in this because NASA definitely wants to message about the situation in ways net beneficial to them, and professional Austronauts also adhere to pretty strict PR guidelines. And so they should.

But the invective from "the other side" of this story has a more loosy-goosy view of what can be said, uses loaded words which make NASA PR people wince. "stuck" and "rescue" are very emotive ways of talking about a situation which probably has 99% common ground to facts.

"they refused our help" is another key phrase I've seen (or variants of it) which is again, emotive. NASA had a plan. It wasn't the plan SpaceX wanted, but not wanting the same plan isn't a refusal in the sense meant.
by goodluckchuck | 2025-04-01 01:46:45+00:00
I simply mean they probably knew the business didn’t have that 4 Million customers and they were probably content to buy a business that had 300k customers.

Would you have turned down an early opportunity to invest in Facebook, Reddit, Airbnb, etc, when they were in a fake it till you make it stage? It’s prudent to recognize that yes the business is cooking the books (after all we’re JPM, you don’t think we do some of that ourselves?) and yes they may also be a worthwhile bet.
by londons_explore | 2025-04-01 01:46:54+00:00
My guess is that admitting a security incident triggers lots of contractual clauses.

They have probably decided it's cheaper to simply deny the event (therefore not triggering those clauses).

If it gets to court, Oracle will find some expert who says there was no incident, and the other side will present clear evidence there was an incident, but the non-technical judge will probably still not be sure.
by CrimsonChapulin | 2025-04-01 01:48:39+00:00
I had a script calling their apis to setup one of their free arm instances after I deleted the one I had to change the OS (something I had done before).

After running every hour for several months I gave up (always out of capacity and it was impossible to change the region on free tier back then). They either had a bug that still showed my account as using the deleted resources or no capacity, both which seem out of place in a “cloud” infrastructure.
by E39M5S62 | 2025-04-01 01:48:39+00:00
I wonder if load times have improved. I had this on my Kobo Libra 2, and it took it easily 5 minutes or more to open an admittedly large epub file. Changing the font size also incurred a huge penalty as it reflowed the entire document.

Conversely, the built-in software never struggled with that file.
by Aachen | 2025-04-01 01:49:43+00:00
Because of the aforementioned shortage. Paying for more power means coal and gas gets spun up since there aren't enough renewables, and the externalities aren't being paid for by those people

I'm also happy to have them pay for the full cleanup cost rather than discourage useless consumption, but somehow people don't seem to think crazy energy prices are a great idea either

Also you're still very focused on this one specific issue rather than looking at the bigger picture. Not sure if the conversation is going anywhere like this
by anonwebguy | 2025-04-01 01:50:12+00:00
Hijacking this for visibility.

I had this idea before Honey. When we spoke to our attorney, he instantly told us "that won't fly; you'll get popped for cookie stuffing."

The adware world had been doing similar things forever - injecting fake results into Google, taking over default home pages to show Google look-alikes.

When Honey launched on Reddit and got their first user bump, I started building our prototype. While digging deeper, you discover Honey injects JavaScript from their API, which violates extension store TOS, yet somehow this flies.

Fast forward, they hire the CEO of Commission Junction (CJ) as their CFO and everything becomes gravy.

Try to get offers via CJ, you won't get a response. All affiliate networks (CJ, Rakuten/LinkShare, etc.) have "stand down" policies in their contracts. You're supposed to detect when someone takes action like clicking a coupon site link and "stand down." Honey never did this. We had to demonstrate it was happening, but bring it up to CJ and they won't care.

It's regulatory capture of a borderline illegal business.

All cited studies came from RetailMeNot (since taken down). They claim customers abandon carts for coupons. Sure, some do, but those people will probably convert anyway.

Today, coupons are dying. We're in the world of personalized offers. Most coupon codes don't exist anymore - they're offer links. These systems try to "find you a coupon" which isn't real.

You're not supposed to share personalized coupons. These systems capture your coupons and add them to their list, but they almost never work.

I'd never try this business again. It's dishonest and terrible.

Fun fact: Much of this goes back to adware/search XML feeds from parking pages. IAC had a division called Mindspark Interactive Network (recently closed) - their adware division generating insane profit through Pay-Per-Download scam browser extensions tricking your grandfather, hijacking affiliate link clicks, same playbook.

The affiliate networks don't care as long as referrers look like they match approved pages.

This industry needs to die.
by Nursie | 2025-04-01 01:50:23+00:00
Apparently the ICO in the UK has decided that "consent or pay" can be compliant with the UK GDPR, the post-brexit version of the GDPR that's in UK law.

It feels wrong to me, but there we are.

Personally I use an ad-blocker, but I also subscribe for a few bucks a month.
by Shorel | 2025-04-01 01:50:26+00:00
The original article by Moore says:

"The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year. Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase."

It is clearly about cost per transistor, it is/was correlated with performance, but it is not about performance.

What Nvidia is doing is claiming that they will fight against lower costs per transistor with all their might, which means any efficiency improvement will translate into more profit for them, and never into lower prices for customers.
by mdaniel | 2025-04-01 01:51:25+00:00
Welcome to the journey!

If you haven't seen it yet, lichess.org has a bunch of fun content

https://lichess.org/practice

https://lichess.org/training (it's labeled "Puzzles" in the UI; there's a difficulty picker hidden in the bottom left of the page)

They have mobile apps, too, although regrettably not all content is available on the app for some horrible reason