skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure that it is true that split system ACs are substantially less efficient than central. And depending on the size of your unit and how much space you can leave unconditioned, it can save substantial energy to use a split solution. For example, we used space heaters during the winter in cali to save substantially on energy. This is because even with much less efficient electric heating, heating just two bedrooms at night is more efficient than heating the entire house. (We saved hundreds of dollars each winter despite that a btu from an electric heater costs two or three times as much as a btu of gas.)
there's something about it being optional for:

> Employers required to file fewer than 250 Forms W-2 for the preceding calendar year (determined without application of any entity aggregation rules for related employers)

I'm guessing it's that; pretty sure we have less than 250 employees in the US.
The genesis is often illegal activities of various kinds, especially drug trafficking. Although I agree that is probably not enough money to run a mass surveillance operation on the scale of the NSA in perpetuity.
Ask HN: Is it possible to be objectively good at something?
If most kinds of success or talent are usually perceived, can we ever truly say someone is "good" at something? For example Tolkien was very popular but does that make him a "good" writer?

I understand this kind of question is going to produce lots of different opinions. That's the idea.
Or a bird. Less high up, nice white tummy, reflects the light.
The world is quite often more than just black and white.
It's the same in many parts of the US, but unless the apartment comes with central AC, we're stuck with noisy and inefficient window AC units[1], or worse, portable AC units[2].

[1] https://www.mytrustedcontractor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/...

[2] https://www.lg.com/us/images/air-conditioners/md05186704/gal...
A CI Pipeline You Can’t Refuse (A Rundown of Analysis Tools)
That source does suck, but this has happened to multiple women.
> It’s easily the equal in precision of the Intellisense server that some of my colleagues use and doesn’t bog down the same way. Even the method renaming is pretty solid.

> For me at least it’s a small but consistent productivity increase over any of the alternatives I’m aware of

Have you tried Eclipse CDT?

Since nobody mentions it, I guess I have to. It takes some time to set it up (system paths, etc.) but once you do, it makes browsing and refactoring code a breeze.

It works much faster than Intellisense and stuff like dependency trees (call hierarchy, etc.) are much easier to navigate.

I'm using it as my main editor since 2014 or so. Have tried various alternatives on all 3 platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows), but I always go back to it for C++ dev.
Does i3 allow you to easily toggle floating on each window (regardless of the main mode that new windows default to) like dwm?
I am a bit confused by your comment. When you write 'legitimate reasons', do you mean from a _moral_ stand point? I can't otherwise make sense of 'legitimacy' in this context.

edit: Do you mean 'legitimate' in the context of it increasing evolutionary fitness in some way?
Not Typescript, but elm[0] was the React-like language.

[0] https://elm-lang.org/
Real life SCP
It's odd how their poster-boy was arrested for stealing a motorized bicycle out of someone's carport. That's far from murder, but not exactly an indicator that the teen is headed on the right path. Seems to be exactly the kind of person who may need some guidance.

Then the author conspicuously leaves out important information. They say targets are selected based on information about their family, but doesn't go into the teen's parent's criminal history. If his father's in prison and his mom has a serious record, and now he's heading down the same path.. that's relevant and necessary information.

It also says the police visited his house 20+ times and they often stop at people's houses without a warrant... but they don't actually say that the police stopped at his house 20+ times without a warrant/reason. They just hope the reader will assume that.

Definitely casting the story in the light they want to cast it in, and omitting exculpatory evidence.
Someone might find these issues interesting on flutter regarding jsx:

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/11609

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/15922
Hello, I am the author of this article

OCR is considered a solved problem in general but not in entirety

A key component of it, Handwriting recognition is still a challenging problem.

Handwriting Text Recognition(HTR) is the task of recognizing handwritten human text

It involves using both Computer Vision and NLP

Every person has a different style of handwriting, thus solving the task of HTR is much more difficult than OCR

In this article I cover the progress of various techniques involved in solving HTR and all the SOTA models

In addition, I have discussed the way to train your own HTR model on your own dataset

Happy to discuss more if you have any queries about handwritten text recognition
Ada is just a language. The 99.99% of the experience you've acquired there perfectly transfers to any other domain or language - only uneducated HR gatekeepers won't recognize this.
If the company charges higher "just because" then it creates an inefficiency in the market and allows new products to enter the market at a lower price point. If they charge higher due to taxes it doesn't create this gap.
The ARM co-founder that's complaining in this story about how the people they sold their ARM shares to are not respecting their feelings by re-selling ARM to the highest bidder?

Not sure how much money they made selling their stake on the company, but if Wikipedia's valuation for Acorn and ARM are correct, can't be more than a couple of million dollars.

Those shares would be worth many billions of dollars today.

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Why do you think the brits have anything to do with anything?

If ARM ends up being bought by NVIDIA, that would actually be this Hermann Hauser's guy fault for selling ARM for pocket change. Complaining that their buyer's buyer's buyer now wants to make money with those shares by selling them to the highest bidder is sad. If ARM was so important to him, then maybe they shouldn't have sold their stake on it in the first place... Making a show about it now is like complaining that your ex that you dumped now has a new boyfriend.
On the contrary, I think that React has done an admirable job of maintaining an elegant core feature set. We are free to (and probably should) completely ignore concurrent mode absent a very clear use case.
Screwed, we are.
Does this mean that there is an Iranian government enforcement agency monitoring Github PRs?
This view seems dangerously, irresponsibly, optimistic.
I'm using fluxbox since... can't remember... 200x. It just works for me. Does not get in the way.

No CPU issues, no ram issues, no effects issues. And has notifications.

The customizable menu, which allows includes, which also I can update via scripts/cron, is pretty useful.

A very custom fluxkeys helps for all my needs.

Regarding stacked layouts, I only use: 2 windows horizontally or 2 windows vertically (independently on each screen). Related snippet from my .fluxbox/keys:

Mod4 o :ArrangeWindows
Mod4 i :ArrangeWindowsVertical
Mod4 p :ArrangeWindowsHorizontal

The thing I have spent more time doing for fluxbox, was my custom theme, I did it using Gimp + vim, and all themes I did try had little details I didn't like. It's just another folder in my dotfiles since then, like 6 years ago.

Totally resonate with the title.

I use the computer to do stuff... and fluxbox is one of my stack choices. Don't like to constantly do stuff just to be able to do stuff.
It's even worse when the thread veers into something political. You can write a 5 paragraph essay about some topic and someone will eventually come out of the woodwork to point out: "On paragraph 4, in this statement, you generalized and said 'all' and I can find a counterexample. Aha! You should have said 'many'! Your entire point is therefore invalid!!" Pedantic nitpicking is just part of this culture.
If that were true how would virtual DOM ever be faster than the DOM? It would still have to update the DOM itself.

What V-DOM is trying to address is tracking what is changing in your application so that it can modify the DOM on your behalf, simplifying app development and reducing bugs, sort of like how a Garbage Collector manages memory for you and gives you similar benefits.

Look at Svelte, it doesn't have a V-DOM and it smokes any V-DOM framework in terms of performance.
Of course - I agree fully, immigration is a wonderful thing! My comment is rather around "concerted illegal immigration".
My answers would be often or very often for pretty much all of these questions, other than the fidgeting ones.
Crank looks super cool, thanks for sharing. Using generators for stateful components makes a lot of sense.
I feel like hooks actually trend more towards "anyone with knowledge of basic JavaScript and HTML could glance at the code and understand what it is doing".

I think the community has trended to more knowledgeable / trying new things, and using more complexity as time goes on.

Everything seems elegant and simple at the start....
IDK for a messaging app it's not that important to me, because the main value it provides is that service itself to which my network is connected.

Also, the hardest part of such apps is the client component, not the server component. If need arises it shouldn't be hard to build one compatible to the clients.
Unlike Tunisia, Libya had a strict and brutal dictatorship. Someone armed the people and France did intervene militarily to make them win. Otherwise, they'll be dead now and Libya would still have the same ruler.

I know because I live in Tunisia and the previous president did authorize moving arms to rebels through the country.
Yes that is true, I should have mentioned that, this is only a privacy preserving / encrypted mechanism for signalling without a central server, peers are expected to know and trust each other, like family and friends scenario.
"I know it when I see it!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobellis_v._Ohio
> This brings humanity back to a pre WWs mentality.

While I agree that ideally we shouldn't have international cooperation based on power and submission, I don't think your depiction of post and pre-WWs mentality is accurate. The post-WWs mentality is even greater form of power and submission than pre-WWs. Pax Americana is pretty much the US ( and by extension the anglo world ) dominating everyone else. For example, more nations today have foreign troops ( predominantly american/anglo/western ) than during the pre-wws colonial era.

Trump is trying to preserve the post-wws world order, the ICC is trying to bring it back to pre-wws world order. Do you want america ruling the world ( post-wws ) or a collection of international powers ( pre--wws )? There are pros and cons to both.
That only solves work blocked on I/O, and it only solves a subset of that because you can't move all I/O to select/poll/epoll/kqueue. One example is regular files, which cannot be made non-blocking.

There are some async APIs for regular files and we've got io_submit coming in, but it's still not a complete solution and never will be.

On the other hand, spawning threads works everywhere and is cheap enough.
The EMdrive also had a "why." Note, if you investigate these sorts of devices, they typically have a why. It's just that the why tends to ignore a bunch of other things and it's a disappointment in the end.

Really, if you're curious, you should dig into the history of all kinds of devices like these, anything in the Impossible Class. The inventor spends decades grinding away at it, getting inconsistent, odd little results which are just tantalizing enough to keep them stumbling forward.

I have often considered a taxonomy of these sorts of enterprises, with three orthogonal systems of reckoning. The first, a type really, is what principle is being violated (Second Law of Thermodynamics, Newton's Third ...). The second is psychological: misunderstanding, self-deception, or duplicity (typically to bilk inventors), with the understanding that the inventor typically starts with misunderstanding and proceeds onward. The third would, finally, be the discovered actual source of the odd results, which could be bad experimental design, not accounting for oddly-radiating services, vibration, friction, and so forth.
I recently discovered "Synthwave Metal". If you like synthwave and power metal, you might give it a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnd_h2GGtzU
> Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

Damn.

> I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time;

Double Damn.
My dad was an early adopter of the internet so in the early 90s the whole family had firstname@aol.com addresses.

They ended up being completely overtaken by spam, but I wish I still had "alex@aol.com" if just for the novelty.
I think they're a product of the system.
How to guide on perfecting investor relations based on 100+ interviews
It's actually quite good and runs super smoothly on my Chromebook, where VSCode was slow. I like keeping all of my vim stuff while also getting this.
That is an interesting approach. Our of curiosity, how is an engineer made aware of the psql view? For example, the view likely relies on specific columns in specific models. What guard rails are available for preventing this kind of breaking change with the view approach?
The new ink masters: China makes its mark on the world of tattoos
I can provide other formalizations, including SIGPLAN papers, but am low on troll food supplies to bother.
I love the way crank is using generators to get rid of the react complexity.... Did not know about crank, thanks for the link.
Way too many articles like this that don't provide examples.

They'll say something and I'm wondering "what do you mean exactly..." but we don't know.

I get how folks might not want to get into the weeds on minutia or etc. But without examples it's hard not to think someone just doesn't 'get it' too.
https://archive.vn/W2eo6
> There was a lot of research in addressing these problems in the 90s, but for some reason none of that work has made it into any mainstream structurally typed language today.

I'm developing a structurally typed language now. Is there some research you could recommend me?
That is a highly appropriate citation. I'm not sure what I'm seeing when I see a deepfake.
UB is blown out of proportion by compiler vendors and language-lawyer types concerned with portability across exotic ranges of machines, including those, where, for example, CHAR_BIT != 8.

For the most part, avoiding UB is common sense when you grasp the basic abstract C memory model - types of storage and their lifetime, avoiding out of bounds array access, keeping track of the lifetime of all allocations, etc.
And it's further complicated by Gift Aid. Seems like a good idea on paper : the charity receives your donation plus the amount of income tax you paid when you earned the money you donated [1]. Looks like everyone wins except the tax man and no-one like him anyway. Except what actually happens is that you're taking tax away from things that it would have otherwise funded like schools and hospitals. So when you Gift Aid your donation to the donkey sanctuary you are essentially saying "I value these donkeys more than I value educating kids or treating the sick". Maybe you really do think donkeys are more valuable than kids and the sick but you're making an individual decision that harms the collective population.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/donating-to-charity/gift-aid
I feel like you may have very good points to contribute, but your dismissive and combative tone is kinda ruining it for me.
And are/were substantially less productive.

When Singapore developed, the first thing the PM did was install A/C in all government buildings.

https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8278085/singapore-lee-kuan-yew...
Not only are Apple's products made in a country with suspect labor conditions, they have questionable labor practices here as well? And this from a company whose CEO is so smugly self-righteous on stage and in the media. I would like to say I am shocked but, sadly, I am not.
If you are looking to ship, then do not separate the backend and frontend too much. I'd pick Django for the backend and "sprinkle" some javascript (vanilla or stimulusjs or alpinejs) on top of the html.

The trouble of of separating frontend from backend fully is just not worth it, in my opinion.
Get Ready for Crystal Language
> 1. the prevalence of OO concepts in programming education and in practice in most engineering teams

What makes this point tricky is that React did initially introduce their library with OO concepts for years.
I have first initial + surname @ gmail, and I get invoices for someone who has a similar name but with "rn" instead of "m".
Good. It’s not a part of their commute, and it’s required to start/end working. So, just fricking pay them.
I’m surprised there’s no solutions using mobile phones, which usually have a SoC with hardware encoding for h264 at 4k.
Disagree. React hooks are great. Takes us less than half the code to build the same things and more reusable.

Learn it. Jquery feels like a black box compared to JS but it’s where things are headed, especially when it has demonstrable impact to the pace of web development.
Is /proc as portable as `ps`?
What a weird and misleading article. I assume it was written by that "deepfake detection company Sensity" to drum up business, but it certainly doesn't seem to be well-researched.

As is, it is already illegal to use Emma Watson's "likeness" without her approval in pretty much every western country, including the EU and the Czech republic. "likeness" here means that the fake is good enough for regular people to recognize the actress.

For example, see Midler vs. Ford: http://rightofpublicity.com/pdf/cases/midler.pdf

The article continues: “Until there is a strong reason for [porn websites] to try to take them down and to filter them, I strongly believe nothing is going to happen,” Patrini says.

Obviously. That "strong reason" is called a lawsuit and is pretty easy to organize. You might even sue for punitive damages and recoup your legal costs, meaning a celebrity successfully suing might be as expensive as $350,000 per video. I'd say that is a very strong reason to take things down, if - and apparently only if - the person requesting the takedown is following legal procedures.
Unfortunately, Northdata doesn't provide much information, either (Posting the German version since the English one provides even less info):

https://www.northdata.de/Afinum+Management+AG,+Z%C3%BCrich/C...

https://www.northdata.de/Afinum+Management+GmbH,+M%C3%BCnche...
Conspiracy-theories and fear-mongering.

Tribalism coming out in force with these downvotes. This is why there's a walkaway movement.

This is a network that literally had to settle a libel suit and has more coming.
Downsides of a single wildcard certificate has its own issues, the more you pass a single certificate round the more opportunity for it to leak and the wider the risk

If you have a per-host DNS based with no valid A records, DOH could well mean worse performance in future as devices don't listen to canary domain and only query locally once getting an NXDOMAIN (and even then might not). You're still leaking the CN and SAN entries via CT.

If you run your own CA, every device has to have it installed, and it's a major security risk as losing control of the CA means all your machines can be compromised.

Between certificate transparency and DNS over HTTPS, there's no perfect answer.
You clearly have never worked retail if you think Apple treats their retail workers bad.
With this machine I propose, that requires 4-byte alignment for int32_t, then even if I wrote the code in assembly, I'd just get a unaligned access fault from the hardware. So my code still wouldn't work. I'd rather the spec was changed to reflect this reality. Instead of calling it undefined behaviour, it should say something more specific, like, "dereferencing a pointer that isn't correctly aligned may cause your program to abort".

The key difference is that the alignment (usually) cannot be determined at compile time, so the compiler would still have to generate code that worked if the alignment was correct at run time. I think this is what many people either expect or would like the compiler to do.

With that change to the spec, I could continue to write my code in portable C, and I'd only get an abort on the target with this alignment constraint.
My Personal Self-Education Curriculum / Algorithm
Every time I read something like this, my hubris alarm goes off. We couldn't even get trans-fats right, so I don't see how we're going to cover all the contingencies for something like this.
There's a name for this cognitive bias but I always forget what it's called. Something to do with the reader's expertise in one field being able to pick out flaws but not in other fields from the same source.
It seems there was a similar case in 2014 about Amazon workers not getting paid for screening time. The US Supreme Court decided unanimously that Amazon did not have to pay them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/business/supreme-court-ru...

How is this case different from the precedent established by the Amazon case?

Edit:

In the 2014 case, it was the 9th Circuit that was being overruled. I wonder if this decision is destined for the same fate.
Even more than the funding, I hate the perpetual fueling of the narrative that magic is just around the corner. Why bother learning actual, boring science when a revolution is going to make everything different tomorrow, bringing us flying cars and gorgeous green Martian girls in steel bikinis?

There's an enormous amount of science denial, at least in the United States. A lot of things go into that, but I don't think it helps that stories like this present scientists as wedded to orthodoxy and general killjoys who hate imaginative iconoclasts. Instead, people lurch from one self-styled Galileo to another, as they fade from view without even reading the confirmation that their work was wrong.

Meantime, science produces a steady stream of advances both fundamental and practical. And those are taken for granted, unless scientists something you don't want to believe, when they can be presented as scientists are in stories like this.
I get the impression that cnn.com looks like an entertainment site, not a news site.
Commercial speech is subject to more regulation than non commercial speech. Likeness rights in commercial speech are already a thing.

Also if you aren't very explicit in saying that this is not really a famous celebrity, then you're basically defaming that celebrity, which is also not protected speech.
Ask HN: Showcases for consumer privacy / data ethics?
I work for an advertising agency and I would like to put the topics of consumer's privacy, data protection and data ethics more on our and our client's maps. To successfully do that though, I need to answer the question: "Why should we care?". So, I would like to put together a presentation of showcases of companies who did something in this regard and thereby created value.

Where would I be looking for such cases which could work from the viewpoint of an ad agency? Like, cases, where companies made a strong stand in privacy/data protection/data ethics, communicated that in some clever way, and did get some measurable benefit out of this?
Any examples coming to mind?