MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sylware | 2025-09-25 09:33:03+00:00
Allright, it means youtube is soon gone for me: deno is just a front-end to the abominations of the web engines from the whatng cartel. It would be a good compromise if I could have such an engine which I could build with a simple C compiler. You have modern javascript engines implemented in C, but no web engine, "la creme de la creme" of software abominations.

Just a few weeks/months ago, gogol search was blocked to noscript/basic (x)html browsers (I have witness gogol agenda about this unfold over the last few years).

Will use yt-dlp(zero whatng) until it breaks for good I guess.

The US administration failed to regulate the market domination of youtube with enforced simple and stable in time technical standards (what Big Tech hates). I don't blame them, since those nasty guys are smart border-line crime lords (and for sure serial offenders in EU).

Is there any other ways, non Big Tech ways, to access Sabine H. content? Or should I said good bye right now?
by unwind | 2025-09-25 09:33:08+00:00
It's mildly interesting for being the "sequel" to the DE-10 Nano board that has powered the widely appreciated emulation platform MiSTer [1] for number of years. Here [2] is a comment by someone on the MiSTer project.

But of course submitting stuff that's only on preorder (at ~$250 for non-academics, btw) is not super-helpful, agreed.

[1]: https://misterfpga.org/

[2]: https://www.retrorgb.com/de-10-nano-successor.html
by oliwarner | 2025-09-25 09:33:41+00:00
> It isn't that hard to understand. They can.

What's hard to to understand is how we allow them. How the market hasn't seen an opening; why someone else hasn't started making machines to fill these niches.

There are so many pro-consumer ideas (I've only listed a few) that a company could seize upon to market themselves. And unlike pocket consumer-electronics, there's little barrier to entry. You don't need to reinvent anything (quite the opposite).
by HenriTEL | 2025-09-25 09:35:30+00:00
The design might be great on your app, but I just had a look at the features page https://lighthouseapp.io/features and it looksquite messy. Too many of colors and information in the feature tiles, colors of icons in the section headers are off, alignment is odd. As a newcomer, understanding the features on this page takes a lot of efforts.
by m101 | 2025-09-25 09:36:08+00:00
The causes for this, in my mind, are largely because of:

1) regulatory frameworks (which work to protect vested interests in my world view), mean that costs of doing business are higher, defending incumbents from competition. Banking regulation policy, for instance, has explicitly favoured larger institutions.

2) financialisation of basically everything (market values increasing to their discounted cost of capital), means that significant capital is required for many businesses. By this I mean the normal interpretation of capital for a business, but also the precursors such as high residential real estate + mortgages reducing the incentives to take risk in a new business, pushing people to already established businesses.

3) weird incentives around work and welfare distort the labour market, and hence the propensity for people to take on low wage jobs in smaller businesses. See high numbers of disabilities for instance.

4) globalisation generally means that the businesses that remain are probably bigger (I hypothesize)
by xg15 | 2025-09-25 09:36:11+00:00
As a user, I'm still baffled that the interface to view and manage the apps I have installed on the system - which is 90 out of 100 times why I'm opening the play store - is tucked away in some obscure corner of the app.

The other 10 times, it's because I want to install some specific app that I already know and I just want to get to the page of that exact app - either through a direct link or through the store's search.

There were exactly zero times where I opened the store with the motivation "gee, I really feel like installing a new app, but I have no idea what it should be... Let's check out the recommendations!"

Yet this seems to be what the entire UI is optimized for.
by mvhv | 2025-09-25 09:36:17+00:00
I think ink and mirrors are kind of fundamentally incompatible.

Probably closer to what you're thinking about would be putting a bunch of tiny bandpass filters infront of a mirror, but in that case you can ditch the mirror entirely and just point the camera through the filter array.

A filter array right on-top of the sensor is how (the vast majority) of) CMOS cameras distinguish colour anyway.
by LiamPowell | 2025-09-25 09:36:35+00:00
All the marketing for this advertises it as a desktop computer. What's the appeal of this compared to a cheaper and more powerful N150 NUC, or a used mini PC if it's for personal use where you just need one?

A N150 has about twice the CPU performance, hardware video decoding that isn't crippled, and much more software built for its architecture among other things.
by uyzstvqs | 2025-09-25 09:39:20+00:00
Yet I pick a Chromium based browser because Firefox is awfully anti-user. I still can't load extensions that are not Mozilla-approved, a major deal breaker for me. Then there's the "news" (ragebait slop) on the new tab screen by default, almost like I'm using MS Edge, and also the many sponsored & "suggested" (read: sponsored) links by default in new tab and the address bar as well.

The only acceptable Gecko-based browser I know of right now is Zen, which is great but still in beta. And Tor & Mullvad Browser are good for private one-time sessions.

We need competition for a free and open internet, I fully agree. Mozilla is far from a decent champion for that cause. I'm far more excited at what Ladybird has to offer.
by janfoeh | 2025-09-25 09:39:20+00:00
While I am not interested for the same reasons many others have stated here, I would like to point out that their privacy policy is exemplary:

> Helium does not make any network requests, including to the Services, unless such requests are the result of user actions (for example, visiting a website or installing an extension) or are part of features that the user has explicitly enabled or configured during setup. If Helium is making any network requests without your consent, please file a bug report.

Gold standard.
by chris_robinson | 2025-09-25 09:41:58+00:00
New HR solution helps UAE businesses streamline payroll, employee management, and compliance effortlessly.

Dubai, UAE – EBR Software, a leading provider of business management solutions, has announced the launch of its latest HR software in Dubai, designed to help companies optimize human resource operations. The new platform offers an integrated approach to payroll management, employee tracking, and compliance, making HR processes more efficient for businesses of all sizes.
by graynk | 2025-09-25 09:42:13+00:00
> you do agree that it's unintuitive

You should really pay more attention to precision of wording and the meaning that it carries, because you keep mixing up different things into one big pile of hand-waving and equating things that are not equal :)

There is no single "it" here. There are two different behaviors here. One is intuitive. One is not. We were discussing the former one. The analogy was about the former one. And the analogy was imprecise and misleading, completely losing different levels of nesting which is the whole point - that's what makes this behavior (short-hand selection when names conflicts - NOT short-hand selection in general) intuitive.

> If you are deeply aware of the quirks, intuition no longer applies. You rely on intuition when you are in an unfamiliar situation

I agree! And what I'm saying is: if you rely on intuition and you don't know about the selector mechanism at all - you will explicitly write out this nested level to access the second-level nested variable (c.Nested.X) and side-step the issue altogether, and accessing the first-level nested variable (c.X) will get you first-level nested variable exactly as you would expect. That's the behavior. That's what we're discussing here. That's what the article is about. That's what everyone calls intuitive - it's not about the short-hand selection itself (which, as I said - is unintuitive, but will not shoot you in the foot, unless you really try).

I don't think I'm getting my point across though, so I suggest we wrap it up here.
by throw-qqqqq | 2025-09-25 09:42:30+00:00
> They might be in meetings or pouring over documents all day

FWIW it’s “poring over” when reading carefully.

From Merriam-Webster

“As a verb, pore means "to gaze intently" or "to reflect or meditate steadily." The verb pour has meanings referring to the falling or streaming of liquid (or things that move like liquid).”
by isolli | 2025-09-25 09:43:20+00:00
Thanks, I learned something today. If Wikipedia is to be believed:

> He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom (the "Jacquard loom"), which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as an early version of digital compiler used by IBM to develop the modern day computer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Marie_Jacquard
by sjw987 | 2025-09-25 09:43:26+00:00
The common user spends 7+ hours per day on their phone, has hundreds of apps installed which are all tracking and harvesting their data and personal information, regularly use at least 1 different type of social media or algorithm feeding app trying to alter their behaviour, probably are involved in at least 1 parasocial relationship with an influencer or content creator. And the common person sees that as the norm, doesn't believe it is contributing to any sort of mental health epidemic, or if they do acknowledge it, still can't resist it and improve their life.

If you so much as began talking about something like digital sovereignty, they'd bunch you with the fake moon landing and flat Earthers.

I have no hope in them.
by protocolture | 2025-09-25 09:44:36+00:00
Right, but is that labor 100k worse a product?

For half that you could staff a new hub office in one of many countries where thats desirable and tax incentives are stacked in its favor. Phillipines. Serbia.

Maybe you send an engineer to go train them there for half the year. Still cheaper.

Now the ancillary benefits, the rental income, the food, the taxation, are flowing in the other direction towards the new host country.

Maybe instead of the H1-B marrying the training engineer and deciding to stay in the US, its the reverse, and now that guy starts a serbian family instead. The flow of knowledge starts to drip away from the US rather than towards it.

Which is why I support this law so thoroughly. Its so obviously terrible for the USA, and great for the rest of the world.

It falls short of the total US blockade that I want, but its another brick in that wall. One at a time Mr President. Step by step. Ban us from sending you goods. Black van people (including beloved childrens authors) at the airports. Prevent trained engineers from working in your country.
by bodge5000 | 2025-09-25 09:45:05+00:00
My guess is just that a lot of people really like Chrome and wish they could have that without the privacy concerns. I mean honestly I'm the same, I'm just seemingly more cynical as to whether that's possible.

That plus the fact that using a chrome based browser effectively hands over a bit more control of the web to chrome. If I don't like the privacy issues with chrome, it seems like a bad idea to hand (more) control of web standards over to the company that makes it, directly or indirectly.
by brap | 2025-09-25 09:45:13+00:00
People really underestimate how much FAANG pays, all things considered.

If you spent the last 10-15 years as an engineer/manager in FAANG (and these past 5-10 years have been very far from what’s called the “golden age”), and were financially responsible, you’re a multi millionaire, most likely still in your 30s.

If you’re a couple that worked there, well damn you’re not just rich you are wealthy.

I can’t think of a better starting point for founding a startup. Or retiring.

Sacrificing 10 years seems a lot when you’re fresh out of college. But 1. it’s not really a sacrifice since your life is much more comfy than most 2. in the grand scheme of things 10 years is not a lot. You will most likely spend way more time on a failed startup while having the worst time.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-09-25 09:45:39+00:00
There are countries that let people do fentanyl out in the middle of the road because they're unable to enforce basic laws. Then there are countries that give people the death penalty for having a few grams of a common herb. Whether laws are enforced and enforced predictably and equally to everyone determine the effectiveness of a ban.

Australia doesn't let you bring a bottle of water onto planes going into their country, even if you bought it inside the airport. Allowing people to bring in drugs like tobacco but strictly forbidding a 1 dollar bottle of water is a problem with enforcement. If tobacco were treated the same way dangerous, addictive substances like H2O are, things might work better.
by fsckboy | 2025-09-25 09:46:17+00:00
>unfinished novels don't need a conclusion any more than an unfinished work of music does: you can imagine how the story goes on for yourself...

>...there's a choice to be made

and if the auteur does not finish it, you won't know that choice

unfinished works exist, yes, there's no denying it, but that's not the same as "unfinished works are just as good as finished". let me unfinish by saying this: I have a very short proof of Fermat's last theorem I'd like to share with you! I've encoded it in the form of a novel, but brief though it be, it won't entirely fit in this textbox... I'll get started, but I'm sure you can imagine it for yourself!

T'was a dark and stormy night when young Fermat put pen to paper...
by gadders | 2025-09-25 09:46:23+00:00
There is a website called jobs.now which has collated all of the H1B jobs that get (quietly) advertised to so that companies can demonstrate that no suitable US person can do the job.

Some are legitimately highly skilled, but you also see jobs like:

https://www.jobs.now/jobs/164577823-lead-software-engineer

>>Develop and implement next generation Human Capital Management (HCM) software.

>>Requirements:

>>Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Informatics, Computer Engineering or related field

>>2 years experience in software development

>>Develop and implement HCM software solutions for global enterprise

>>Create applications on cloud platforms

>>Work with Golang and NodeJS

>>Participate in full product cycle from wireframes and database models to UI/UX development

>>Home telecommute available

>>Application Instructions: Send CV to: LS, EPI-USE America, Inc. 303 Perimeter Ctr N., Ste 300 Atlanta, GA 30346

When was the last time you had to post a CV to apply for a job? This blatantly designed to ensure no US person applies (and if anyone in the US is qualified and wants to apply to stop the visa abuse, please do).
by input_sh | 2025-09-25 09:46:36+00:00
Long story short, you made the right choice. You can't purchase anything from a non-profit and you can't donate anything to a corporation.

If you purchase a product from them, it goes to Mozilla Corporation which makes all the products[0], if you donate money to Mozilla, it goes to the foundation.

[0] Minus Thunderbird, Thunderbird is developed by a separate foundation. Both the "Thunderbird foundation" (not actually called that) and Mozilla Corporation are 100% owned by the Mozilla Foundation.
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF | 2025-09-25 09:46:44+00:00
> If you were looking at the earth from a distance, the face you’re looking at would correspond to a circle in the middle of the Mollweide map.

That doesn't look like the image. If you're looking at Earth from a distance, there will be foreshortening that squishes the meridians together. But the meridians look almost evenly spaced except for the far left and right edges of the ellipse.
by al_borland | 2025-09-25 09:47:40+00:00
My biggest gripe with Safari is that it only handles the few blessed search engines Apple has chosen.

On my personal systems I can use the extension to hack Kagi support in there, but it’s a bit of an ugly solution.

On my work laptop, we aren’t allowed to use the App Store, so I can’t get the extension. This means if I want to use Safari and Kagi, I need to go to the actual Kagi homepage, which is a very annoying behavior pattern.

I used Firefox for a while at work because of this, but now that’s been blocked too. I’m trying really hard not to give in and use Chrome, but at this point, it would make my work life easier. It supports adding other search engines natively, which is quite ironic.

I submitted feedback to Apple about this. They have integrated some of my feedback into past releases (silence unknown callers, most notably), but they must have some silly business reason for not allowing this, which is very disappointing.
by xienze | 2025-09-25 09:48:52+00:00
I'm definitely skeptical of this. When my state legalized sports betting there was around 6 or 7 books that came online and they ALL had pretty juicy sign up bonuses, like "bet $5 and get $250 in free bets." Damn right I signed up for all those books to get the free bets and converted those into cash by doing safe moneyline bets.
by machiaweliczny | 2025-09-25 09:50:15+00:00
It's general hard to have discourse online without some good authentication as bots dominate everything. That's why normal people use mostly facebook groups. This needs some solution but gov ID isn't it, unless it's some cryptographic thing that is passed to other services that link data with their own salt or something like that.

Having said that I like how in PL we have very nice auth to all government services that finally works well (it's like 5th implementation of this system). It makes it very easy to use gov services and before had to login with bank accounts or create some crappy accounts. Now it just works with faceID and done.

You can also login to 3rd parties as well. For example I was able to get my medical health results info from commercial provider by sharing basic info from this auth app without creating account or anything (they get access to Gov ID).
by mjg59 | 2025-09-25 09:51:28+00:00
David was the first person to employ me as a software developer (working on Dasher, a research project he'd received a grant to turn into an accessibility tool). At the time it felt like a ludicrous amount of money, and I got to travel to a bunch of conferences at someone else's expense. It didn't quite set me up for where I am now, but it was a key part of it.

David was, well. Clearly a genius. Before I worked with him I'd been in another part of the Cavendish, doing sysadmin work for theoretical physicists including a Nobel laureate. The year I worked with David was different - more concentrated learning than I'd ever previously had.

And David was opinionated. Our review meetings would involve him asking for three different new config options based on ideas he'd had, and I'd argue him down to these making sense as a combination but not individually, but also this then being duplicative of some existing options, so if we implemented this correctly I could actually remove a preference instead of adding three more. I probably learned more from that than the coding itself.

And David could absolutely be a dick. He was very invested in his students but he was hard on them, and it was sometimes quite gendered. Probably not worse than the average Cambridge PI of the era (and definitely better than some others I knew), but that's always something that's tainted my experience.

Shortly before his death there was what was effectively a pre-memorial - a number of his past students presented their work, there was a dinner, people had an opportunity to say goodbye. I was lucky enough that the timing worked out for an existing trip to Europe, and I had the opportunity to say goodbye.

David choosing to tie up loose ends before his untimely departure was absolutely his style, and every time his name comes up I remember the fucking dreadful Sun IPX with its 256 colour display I had to use in a terrible office with the worst fluorescents I've ever seen for the first couple of months after I started. Nostalgia is weird, and I wish he was still with us.
by ivan_gammel | 2025-09-25 09:52:22+00:00
This case is much rarer than escaping quotes or whitespace. It will happen only if the content of the block will contain unsanitized inputs. In such case a control character for escaping will help, or, if you can have 2x range for control characters, you can use one bit for escaping. E.g. 0x1-0x7 - delimiters, 0x8-0xF - escaped delimiters.
by JdeBP | 2025-09-25 09:52:34+00:00
It nigh-on was. There were three appendices, one of which made it into The Times and The Telegraph but got misrepresented by them; and then a posthumous post by the spouse that is still accruing undeleted comment spam (I've only found 2 real comments out of 236.) in September 2025.

* https://itila.blogspot.com/2016/04/davids-last-interview.htm...

* https://itila.blogspot.com/2016/04/appendix-one-horlicks.htm...

* https://thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/dying-scientists-...

* https://telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/04/15/cambridge-profess...
by interpol_p | 2025-09-25 09:54:28+00:00
We have some sort of hybrid policy. Every single time I have showed up at the office, I either end up socialising far too much and get nothing done (I find it extremely hard to work next to people without talking to them).

Or nobody is there and I end up having driven (40 minutes each way) to the office to have Teams meetings with a wonderful view of the car park, under fluorescent lights, using a cheap low-resolution office monitor. When I could have been having those Teams meetings with a view of my garden and a much nicer monitor I have invested in
by gabesullice | 2025-09-25 09:54:34+00:00
I'm genuinely interested in why RTO is trending. I searched Harvard Business Review, Gartner, and other sources just last week trying to find the rationale, but I wasn't successful. In fact, I found those sources to be a little cautionary. E.g., they say "if you do switch to in-office or hybrid, make sure you actually have metrics to evaluate the effects" and "ensure it makes sense for the actual work to be done by each role".

I also found results suggesting flexible working policies had positive properties like higher employee satisfaction, retention , and a wider applicant pool.

I'm not interested in hearing why the choir here at HN thinks companies are making these decisions, I want to see evidence of their rationale so I can put myself in management's shoes.
by threemux | 2025-09-25 09:54:47+00:00
> employees who now have to spend money on [...] childcare

Excuse me, what? Unless he's referring to something like before and after school care for an older child, he's saying people were foregoing daycare for their young children? As a parent of two children younger than kindergarten age, I don't understand how productive remote work was being done without childcare.
by johanyc | 2025-09-25 09:54:47+00:00
```

javascript:(function()%7B%0A%20%20function%20R(a)%7B%0A%20%20%20%20var%20ona=%22on%22+a;%0A%20%20%20%20if(window.addEventListener)%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20window.addEventListener(a,function(e)%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20for(var%20n=e.originalTarget%7C%7Ce.target;n;n=n.parentNode)%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20n%5Bona%5D=null;%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D,true);%0A%20%20%20%20window%5Bona%5D=null;%0A%20%20%20%20document%5Bona%5D=null;%0A%20%20%20%20if(document.body)document.body%5Bona%5D=null;%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20R(%22contextmenu%22);%0A%20%20R(%22click%22);%0A%20%20R(%22mousedown%22);%0A%20%20R(%22mouseup%22);%0A%20%20R(%22selectstart%22);%0A%20%20//%20Remove%20CSS%20user-select%20restrictions%0A%20%20var%20style=document.createElement('style');%0A%20%20style.innerHTML='*%7Buser-select:auto%20!important;-webkit-user-select:auto%20!important;-moz-user-select:auto%20!important;-ms-user-select:auto%20!important;%7D';%0A%20%20document.head.appendChild(style);%0A%7D)();

```

This enables text selection and right clicking.