MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by frabcus | 2025-05-05 10:43:57+00:00
Yep - I switched from iPhone to Android and Tasker is much more powerful. Slightly less good UX and mainly systems focussed. But actually allows any trigger.

Also extensible - it can trigger scripts in Termux. You can install any command line open source tool inside Termux and trigger it on tasks.

eg When my home radiator thermostat stopped supporting IFTTT, I made a Python script to call their API and trigger it with Tasker. Works flawlessly.

https://www.flourish.org/2023/11/netatmo-smart-thermostat-ho...
by lordofgibbons | 2025-05-05 10:44:47+00:00
Bitcoin advocates pivoted on Bitcoin being a currency after it, to be brutally honest, failed to function as a currency. Last few times I transacted BTC, the fees were anywhere between $5 and $15 and the transaction times were more than 1hr. Not to mention the whole world can see all of your transactions.

So they pivoted the marketing to it being a "store of value".
by notahacker | 2025-05-05 10:45:15+00:00
> What you're saying is that a hypothetical archer-commander might be less likely to be mentioned than cavalry due to being lower status. Potentially, yes, but what matters here is that they're more likely to be mentioned than archers, who are even lower-status. Wherever archers are mentioned, this archer-commander ought to be mentioned too.

I don't think this follows in practice, particularly since what's missing here is not names of archer captains but descriptions of the mechanics of volley firing (which may have been routine in certain circumstances, or not). Seems like attribution of the outcome to the excellence of the calvalry captains' flank attacks and valor of the Lord's retinue in holding the centre whilst merely noting that a grouping of archers were present without attributing anything to any decisions made by any individual archers at any level is pretty consistent with their low prestige (apart from Agincourt and a possibly apocryphal story about Harold Godwinson, archers don't seem to get much credit at all for being decisive, despite archery being important enough for peasants who wielded blunt instruments and blades in their day job to get compulsory longbow training).

Brett's argument that longbow volley firing would be difficult to time and probably not beneficial (especially compared with musket volleys) is compelling, but the argument that battle narratives don't really describe volleys, except in translations of words that may not have meant volley, isn't really in a context where archers rarely get much credit for anything .
by nsriv | 2025-05-05 10:45:26+00:00
This proclamation and his desire to reopen Alcatraz may be linked to the fact that PBS in Palm Beach aired "Escape from Alcatraz" last night. Presumably the tariffs on foreign movies came from his annoyance at channel surfing.

https://bsky.app/profile/garyalexander.bsky.social/post/3lof...
by jclardy | 2025-05-05 10:45:42+00:00
A problem I have, and I'd guess a lot of people now have, is organization. We have the ability to easily capture content, and even easier now organize it via albums. But you have to build your own "system" of organization. And now we use our camera for mundane things, like screenshots, reminders, documentation, etc. so the amount of new data is just ever increasing.

My parents had a camcorder that was out for special occasions. The organization is automatically chronological, everything is a highlight because there are (relatively) way fewer videos, and if you sit down to watch them, you get a multi-month span, with multiple events on a single tape.

Apple/Google Photos attempt to recreate some of this by grouping & generating videos, but for me it doesn't have quite the same feeling, they are usually too specific like "Trip to NY" rather than "November/December 1997".
by watermelon0 | 2025-05-05 10:47:07+00:00
.de redirects me to .com.

Maybe this is somehow geolocked in a weird way, to return not found error for you.

> GET / HTTP/1.1 > Host: sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de > User-Agent: curl/8.7.1 > Accept: */* > * Request completely sent off < HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily < Location: http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.com/
by vouwfietsman | 2025-05-05 10:47:18+00:00
Right but by your reasoning it would make sense to use LLMs only to augment an incomplete but rigorous testing process, or to otherwise elevate below average code.

My issue is not necessarily with the quality of the code, but rather with the intention of the code, which is much more important: a good design without tests is more durable than a bad design with tests.
by criddell | 2025-05-05 10:48:18+00:00
Are you using WinDbg? What resources did you use to get really good at it?

Analyzing crash dumps is a small part of my job. I know enough to examine exception context records and associated stack traces and 80% of the time, that’s enough. Bruce Dawson’s blog has a lot of great stuff but it’s pretty advanced.

I’m looking for material to help me jump that gap.
by beAbU | 2025-05-05 10:49:10+00:00
I host my personal mail with Migadu, they have some pretty compelling so-cheap-it's-free options available. These days I feel more comfortable paying for my email service than using some free service.

I used to be on google workspace, but I moved away from them after the cancellation of the free tier fiasco a couple of years ago.

Migadu comes with a web client, and it's OK I guess, but I use Thunderbird and an IMAP connection on PC, and the google mail client on Android. Happy with it so far. I do miss Google's powerful search and organisational capabilities though.
by freeamz | 2025-05-05 10:49:21+00:00
It is funny that we are reading this now and it makes sense. Imagine in the future where LLM/Diffusion agents are the norms. We will get blog about "No Not using LLM -- Cultivating your critical thinking skills/(coding or whatever fill in the blank tasks that we eventually figure how to get machines to do on our behave"
by cjs_ac | 2025-05-05 10:49:43+00:00
Sure: the Typst syntax is detailed here: https://typst.app/docs/reference/syntax/

The non-control characters of ASCII are largely characters you might actually want to put in a document. TeX uses some of these as markup, e.g., the dollar sign to bracket maths mode and the ampersand as a column separator in tables. Typst takes this much further, using plus and minus signs to introduce list items, at signs for references, and so on.

Ideally, all visible characters should produce themselves in the printed output, except for the backslash introducing control sequences that represent all of the markup and braces for delimiting the extent of parameters to those control sequences. This would produce a very predictable and easily-parsed syntax.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-05-05 10:49:57+00:00
A big con is that there are no typst templates for journals and conferences that academics submit papers to. For me, this is a show-stopper. I would love to be able to ditch latex because honestly it's old and it shows a lot, in spite of apologists saying that it's perfect. But 90+% of my usage starts from a conference or journal template, so at the moment it's not gonna happen.
by bgwalter | 2025-05-05 10:51:02+00:00
I have. Handling Monero, presumably for real currency conversions, is banned. If that were done for Bitcoin worldwide, the price would collapse, because it is no longer useful for, e.g., sanctions evasion.

By the way, the article itself claims:

"The European Union is set to impose sweeping Anti-Money Laundering (AML) rules that will ban privacy-preserving tokens and anonymous cryptocurrency accounts from 2027."

This statement is walked back later.
by reginald78 | 2025-05-05 10:51:43+00:00
My understanding is most ransoms are already paid in bitcoin. (or some other public ledger coin?) Privacy coins would probably be preferable for criminals to receive but they aren't as easy to purchase as bitcoin which I'd imagine significantly reduces the likelihood they get paid at all. Since most of these ransomware groups are hosted in countries with uncooperative governments the public ledger isn't really an impediment anyway.
by omneity | 2025-05-05 10:52:35+00:00
True in principle. Looking at it from Apple’s side, they are selling an ecosystem of clients to digital (or physical) service providers with certain guarantees on how that ecosystem operates.

Opening up automation is a double whammy for Apple:

- More savvy users are able to solve more of their problems themselves, reducing the LTV of their potentially most engaged clients who might buy less on the App Store as a result

- Some guarantees of the ecosystem crumble (banking apps don’t know anymore if it is really you who initiated that transaction, ID verification apps don’t know if that camera stream is really from your device, and plenty other things devs suddenly have to worry about)

As a final nail in the coffin, it also means that the networks that Apple sells to its _users_ are less reliable or have less guarantees as a result - you don’t know if the text you received was really sent now or scheduled in advance etc.

Of course a lot of these rules are not justified, user hostile or plain non-sensical, but what I’m trying to say is that from Apple’s perspective the consideration is not just “user owns device” but a lot of interplaying dynamics that do not seem to be in favor of empowering users.
by stared | 2025-05-05 10:52:56+00:00
Is there any side-by-side comparison of a page created by LaTeX by Typst?

My main selling points is that with LaTeX, it is easy to create typography shines beauty for a distance. (Often way better that most of books you find in stores.) With other typesetting systems, usually it is not the case. Yet, I am waiting for new things that offer simplicity, yet have same (or better!) visuals that LaTeX.
by pjc50 | 2025-05-05 10:52:56+00:00
So the thing about physical cash is that handling it gets (roughly) linearly harder with the amount. Whether that's coins, notes, silver, gold or whatever. It is relatively easy to hand over $100 for private purposes, but it is seriously difficult to move $100,000,000 without attracting attention.

Digital money flattens that out. With cryptocurrency you can move either of those values equally easy. A few times people have done so by mistake!

This presents a new kind of risk, because suddenly a completely invisible empire of organized crime, bribery, or enough money to destabilize a government is possible. The EU is choosing the "high trust, high transparency, high enforcement" path. The US is now choosing the "open bribery of the President through his personal cryptocurrency" approach. Let's see how that works out.

(meanwhile, all the "police/courts rob person of their life savings in cash" asset forfeiture stories I hear about are from the US? Doesn't this happen in Europe? Or could it be that the different legal structure doesn't facilitate this?)
by pjc50 | 2025-05-05 10:53:34+00:00
> consider the many stories of someone going around with a larger than commonly carried amount of cash, such as the deposits of a business that accepts cash or the savings of someone who is underbanked, and is presumed to be up to something and that pretense is used to seize the cash with no recourse or reasonable legal proceeding or likely hope of timely recovery.

.. in the US. I'm sure there must be examples of this happening in Europe, but it seems much less of a thing?
by theshrike79 | 2025-05-05 10:53:40+00:00
Yes and no. You can use HA as a "bridge" in HomeKit for example.

So you add your automation crap to HA, scan a QR code from HA and everything pops up in HomeKit

For me that was a bit oof, as it literally adds _everything_. So I just use Apple TV as a HomeKit hub with the basic stuff added directly to it and a few specific devices (Shelly) bridged from HA using a whitelist.

This way the WAF stays high and Siri works properly.

HA still does the more complicated stuff (ATV is on pause -> make lights in the TV are a bit brighter. ATV playing -> dim the lights according to the time of day etc.
by palata | 2025-05-05 10:54:14+00:00
You seem to not make the difference between maths and, say, literature or history.

Do you actually think that an LLM can take, say, a Harry Potter book as an input, and give it a grade in such a way that everybody will always agree on?

And to go further, do you actually use LLMs to generate graphs and statistics from spreadsheet? Because that is probably a bad idea given that there are tools that actually do it right.
by sega_sai | 2025-05-05 10:54:56+00:00
I think there is a difference between not actually looking at the event/object because you want to make photos (or make a perfect photo), vs just ensuring that essential stuff you see got at least a photo.

Nowadays I make a conscious effort, if I am going for some trip/event, to always make at least one photo, so I can remember it. And by now I have photos arranged in a timeline spanning > 20 years, and it is extremely enjoyable to browse it all to remember.
by ysavir | 2025-05-05 10:55:25+00:00
You misunderstood what I was saying. I was saying that you could write some plain old JS to catch an event on incrementing and updated the URL and the UI, and some JS to get the data from the URL on page load to set the UI. No new server render, and that's maybe 5 minutes of writing JavaScript code (compared to, say, setting up react project and instantiating that whole beast from the page root until reaching the specific UI element that needs to be dynamic).
by mFixman | 2025-05-05 10:59:32+00:00
The tragedy is not that some students are going to college to get a diploma while learning as little as possible. It is that the boards of many private universities see their students' cash as more important than their education, and force the professors to pass everybody who went to higher education to buy a diploma.

This has a negative feedback loop where universities have to lower standards to bring dumber and lazier students to compete with other diploma mills.
by dredmorbius | 2025-05-05 10:59:46+00:00
In practice, Debian stable gets bugfixes. I included (and quoted) the Debian FAQ on this matter largely so that I wasn't simply arguing by assertion.

See for example the Debian 12.10 release notes. This is an update to the Debian Stable v.12 release:

The Debian project is pleased to announce the tenth update of its stable distribution Debian 12 (codename "bookworm"). This point release mainly adds corrections for security issues, along with a few adjustments for serious problems. Security advisories have already been published separately and are referenced where available.

<https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250315.en.html>

Strong emphasis on "mainly adds corrections", but "along with a few adjustments for serious problems."

That is, in practice, Debian stable receives both security and bugfix updates.

You and other readers are strongly encouraged to look through Debian sources (release notes, Policy, Constitution, and individual package updates within stable repos) to verify other questions before posting further concerns here.
by schwartzworld | 2025-05-05 11:00:00+00:00
A couple of times. I learned initially as a kid, then in college I took two semesters of piano, then in the last year I’ve delved heavily into keyboard playing.

I taught my 5 year old where C was and it took about 2 minutes.

> We take off those training wheels

Training wheels are an apt metaphor because they are a similarly wrong way to learn to bike. You get quicker initial results, but have to unlearn to use those crutches later on.
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by ksrgh | 2025-05-05 11:00:57+00:00
Hey everyone, I just released a template that pulls together my favorite tools and patterns from recent projects.

Where it differs from other stacks is that it's more CSR-focused and designed to be self-hosted. It also comes with essentials like a database, auth, and some utilities I wrote to improve type-safety and dev experience.

Hope you find it useful!
by rasulkireev | 2025-05-05 11:02:08+00:00
I got the job of my dream at the company of my dream by sending an 1 min improvised introduction video + a lengthy cover letter answering all the questions in the job description.

That's the first time I ever tried it and will likely be the last one (since i don't want to go to a different company).

Caveat: this will prob work for a smaller company, not Google-like.

Wrote a small post about it: https://gettjalerts.com/blog/tech-job-video-intro
by littlestymaar | 2025-05-05 11:02:09+00:00
Not only are the US the biggest film exporter in the world by far, with Hollywood being a pillar of American soft power, but you can't even apply “tariff” to movies as it is IP, not physical goods (on which tariffs apply). Sure you can imagine schemes to tax these anyway, but that's a huge can of worms to open for the US, are they are net exporters of everything IP related.

The EU has been struggling with base evasion and profit shifting (BEPS) from US companies because it was all about IP and they never dared to tax it in fear of upsetting the US government. But if the move comes from the US first, then they will follow suite with a lot of enthusiasm.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-05-05 11:02:15+00:00
> Technically it wasn’t the disease which defeated the Founders, though I supposed one can argue it debilitated them enough.

It put a countdown clock on their remaining lifespan. Infecting all the Founders simultaneously with a lethal disease made the entire war (that they were very much winning) moot. For the Founders, the entire reason behind the conflict was to ensure their own safety from hypothetical future threats (they were a paranoid bunch); that obviously is not achieved when all Founders are dead, so the entire calculus changes.

That's what I mean by saying that the virus short-circuited the war. It may have been the compassionate and extremely risky act of Odo that, in true Star Trek fashion, changed hearts and minds and got everyone back to the negotiating table, but even without it, the virus would've ended the war within a week or such - leaving alpha and beta quadrants in a bad state (fighting against now feral but still superior Dominion invasion force), but still much better and more survivable than the war itself was.

> Even so, despite the results I didn’t feel like the show was necessarily approving of Section 31 (the main characters actively tried to defeat them).

The show was very much not approving of Section 31; that one was communicated quite clearly. What I'm saying is that, if you ignore what you're being told and look at what you're being shown - the events that happened, not the main characters' opinions on them - it's becomes much harder to paint Section 31 as villains of the story.

I believe this outcome was not intended by the writers; it's just what the whole storyline ended up adding up to.
by valenterry | 2025-05-05 11:02:34+00:00
> In my experience, if the information I need is in the documentation, then I don't need the LLM

need is a strong word. Do you need to be able to do ctrl+F? Not really, you can just read it all. But maybe it's easier to do ctrl+F. Same with LLM. Just imagine it as a fuzzy ctrl+F. Can be useful.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-05-05 11:03:01+00:00
Thanks for clarifying your point. I think the idea you're trying to present is the very real phenomenon that many opt to increase their standard of living rather than reduce their hours. My issue with this point is that I don't think it is the whole story to our long working hours. I think, were there not a strong political interest in maintaining this setup, the populace would use the state to introduce various policies which would make it possible for them to maintain their standard of living on less hours of work. I think that the reason that they can't do this is because, to oversimplify a bit, the levers of political power are disproportionately operated by the wealthy. In other words, I don't think that the long hours are most individuals' choice; I think they're the best choice among bad options, the range of which is deliberately influenced by people incentivized to keep their operating costs low.
by virgilp | 2025-05-05 11:03:06+00:00
Linkers pretty much map data sections to memory, and in doing so are able to replace symbolic names (like global variables, or goto targets) with numbers. They may also completely drop some things that are not needed (e.g. code/files in a library that is never referenced).

I'm over-simplifying and also it's a bit incorrect, because there's also the loader that does a lot of the same work that linkers do, when loading the program in memory. So linkers don't actually produce the final image - but really, they're rather "simple" things (for some definition of "simple").

The hard-to-understand linker errors are typically caused by the compiler, not the linker (it's the compiler that speculatively chooses to use a symbol with a long and funny name, thinking that it'll later be provided by <somebody>, when in fact the linker later finds out that no library or object file actually provided said symbol; and then for the linker to give you a decent error message, it needs to have a pretty good understanding of what the compiler was actually trying to do - i.e. to know implementation details of the compiler that otherwise would not concern it at all).
by tomhow | 2025-05-05 11:04:55+00:00
All: the main reason for not giving this story front page exposure is that there is already an article about this app that's been on the front page all day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43875476

And that article contains a link to the 404media.co story, reporting the hack, and other commentary about the security of the app.

And there are several mentions in that discussion thread about the 404media.co story, and I've pinned another link to the top of that thread.

If we had a separate thread it would split the discussion and we always avoid doing that; it makes more sense to keep it all in one thread, as it really is one topic.

It should also be noted the article specifically states:

“The hacker has not obtained the messages of cabinet members, Waltz, and people he spoke to . . .”, so it’s not actually a breach of administration communication that it first seems to be from the headline.
by goku12 | 2025-05-05 11:06:10+00:00
Any such ship is going to grow its own food. They may need to carry some extra matter to compensate for accidentally or inevitably lost biomatter. But otherwise they would be able to recycle the same biomatter repeatedly to create food. The only limiting factor is energy. You'll need to add energy in every cycle. Recycling isn't going to happen for it.

Of course, all of this comes with the caveat that nothing like this may exist yet. Sealed mass ecosystems exist in glass jars, but something on the scale of a ship is going to be an entirely different ballgame.
by jarym | 2025-05-05 11:06:58+00:00
Yes this man was democratically elected. There didn’t seem to be a particularly appealing set of options for the electorate.

As an outsider it seems a lot like groups pulling the political levers in the US only ensure candidates that can be ‘handled’ are put forward and those that can’t will be rooted out.

That’s why the choice was between braindead Biden vs deranged Trump. And when it was clear Biden wasn’t an option, a belated shift to try sell Kamala to the electorate.

I don’t think we’ll see strong presidential candidates - those clearly motivated to better the country and its citizens - in the near future either. The process now seems to suit the corporate and lobby groups who jostle to get their share of influence.