skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A government's primary duty to ensure its existence is not just about surviving for one more day, but also about maintaining its strength and sovereignty so it can survive in future.

By buying energy from adversaries you fund their activities against your own government. This compromises the primary duty by weakening your government in the long term.
I'm not convinced that the Feedly option is as much of a dark pattern as you might think. There are a few ways this could be addressed which would come with their own tradeoffs:
1) Remove the "x" close button since you're not a Pro user therefore setting clear expectations that you have no ability to dismiss an ad. This is clean but then the user wouldn't have known that they COULD pay to close the ad.
2) Change the "x" close button to something like "How do I remove ads?" or "Upgrade to Pro to close" - this would set expectations clearly upfront but for many users who don't mind seeing the ads this is additional information/noise.

The current experience optimizes for delivering information only when there's strong intent. The intent is derived when the behavior has been expressed by the user in the form of "I dont' want to see this ad" and then the information is delivered to explain "Here's how you can complete this action".
I used an HTML file and added JPEG magic bytes to its header:

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The future of VR is web based
The future of VR might be online instead of native. With multiple VR headsets having their own systems, each being hard to develop on and incompatible with each other, and headsets like Meta Quest only selectively allowing apps into their store, WebXR websites are still accessible by all. I have played incredible free games online and this space is only just developing. A-frame and react-three-fiber make it very easy to make them too. Ps, I'm building something cool in this space and looking for a cofounder to join me. Here is my linkedin profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruv-atreja/
I really enjoyed Fluent Python a while back as an intermediate book.

Python official docs are not completely horrible, but compared to most other popular languages (Kotlin, Scala, Rust, Go at least), the Python official docs are kind of meh.

I suppose Python docs beat C and C++ which do not have official docs besides the spec. (not counting K&R and Bjarne's books).

Also I guess Javascript does not have official docs (ie MDN is not official)
What even is socialism and capitalism except overloaded labels to throw around?
Show me policies! :-)
No one should have to declare bankruptcy for birthing a child. To suggest it is obscene.
C Gibberish to English
Yes my previous is mainly with FreeBSD. Your response highlights my
mistake. As a Guix noob (but with decades of apt/yum/rpm/pkg kinda
experience) I misunderstood how these things interact, and failing to
manage Guix was most definitely my fault.

Don't get me wrong, I love Guix and the philosophy, but my heart cries
out for some Grand Unified Manager of Packages (GUMP), something that
can track whether things need building from source, or can be brought
in as binary from an apt or rpm, or build those packages as
intermediate stages. I kinda thought that's what Guix was going to
do. Now I see that a unified package manager is probably unreasonable
and that we are headed more toward containerised "Snap/flatpck" way of
things - which I don't like.
If you're an independent author do you think you'd have the money and resources to go up against Spotify's team of lawyers? Spotify has literal billions in assets and sadly, the legal system in the US is often pay to win.
You are not my friend, so let's not pretend. My response had nothing about whataboutism, and I am skeptical that you even know what that means based on your reply. I am directly saying that you are speaking from a high moral chair, while likely not actually doing anything to help the world. Its okay, I do the same thing, the difference between you and me is that I am not pretending to be Gandhi.

Oh here is a definition of whataboutism: "the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counteraccusation or raising a different issue".

I am assuming you won't be able to figure it out though.
Google Cloud also end of lifed their IoT service a while ago.
Depends on the meeting. A demo for clients or higher ups? Sure. A stategy meeting that you don't have anything to contribute to? No. A meeting going over an email, that itself should've just been an email? Definitely not.
If that's your use case, then great!

My iPhone connects me to my government, my bank, my school, my family on the other side of the world, my portfolio, and perhaps most importantly; critical safety services (local avalanche forecasts in my case).

You can be damn well sure I'll be passionate about how it's controlled, and what capabilities the manufacturer is derailing in the interest of record profits.

(For clarity - I'm not the person you responded to, but this is HN so I thought I'd chime in on why some people are so passionate about this so called "toy")
I've seen this argument often but I'd guess 50-75% of the meetings in my organization could've been handled in an email. Often times the only reason we have a meeting in the first place instead of an email is because of the politics around things, which to me is a sign of inefficiency in the 1st place.
I hear there's a museum in Tokyo as well. When I was there in the 90's they were excavating a station that was found by a construction crew. The plan was to turn it into a subway history museum. I was told that the line was abandoned after an earthquake, and they lost track of the location of some of the stations (or at least, this one).

It was on a green strip of undeveloped land, so I have a small suspicion that a landslide may have been involved. I mean how else do you 'lose' a building?
I'm not sure that I'd bet on this being found unconscionable, especially since it's a grant to Spotify, not a restriction on the customer, which is where most of the existing case law (AFAIK) rests. The argument, from Spotify's point of view, is that its customers are freely signing a contract to distribute their audiobooks through Spotify's marketplace, and they are choosing to accept ... whatever the fuck it is Spotify's trying to do with that clause. It's ugly, very very ugly, but probably a valid contract.
> read the source code of the Linux kernel to figure out which parts of the manual were lies

my daily job :(
The US is civilized (I assume you meant to imply it isn't) and our welfare programs are not all under one umbrella is not like that. The actual naming of the programs is irrelevant. I do wish that we had a bit more benefits, but we don't even collect enough taxes to fund the benefits we already have. The US simply wouldn't be competitive in the global economy if it did offer all the benefits many European countries do. Neither Europe nor the US are really competitive with poorer countries in the world, especially because of high expenses like health care.
They're gonna eat your work to generate AI-voiced audiobooks
I had a summer internship in high school with an AS/400 application development shop. I found the machine and its development environment annoying and unpleasant compared to Unix, but the support from IBM was incredible. Absurdly bureaucratic, but also so thorough and detailed and accessible.

I still have this memory that IBM sent out an Engineering Change for the AS/400 that consisted of a twist tie to help customers who had purchased an Ethernet card for it coil their Ethernet cables more reliably. (The twist tie of course then having a specific IBM part number.) I would love to be able to substantiate this memory.

IBM was also seemingly very open to supporting new technologies, both hardware and software, on the AS/400, including some that were invented decades after the machine was introduced. Usually for a fee, of course!
Paul Graham wrote an article about the difference between a Maker’s schedule vs a Manager’s schedule. [1]

Powerful people are on a manager’s schedule.

Meetings are a unit of work for a manager, and they freely schedule meetings because there’s very little cost to them. The advantage of this schedule is you can have speculative meetings that potentially open up new opportunities.

This is very costly on a Maker’s schedule.

PG suggests partitioning the day to AM being maker’s schedule and PM being manager’s schedule. (A form of office hours).

This works if you have power and can swing this. But I’d be curious to hear what ICs do.

I personally just block off my calendar and decline meetings (with reasons given, always politely). I also entertain speculative meetings — I never want to shut myself off to new ideas. Most of my career has been built on serendipitous meetings by people who want to share a crazy idea.

[1] https://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
This is constant. If the author agrees with something someone says, they'll say that the person "pointed out" something. If not, it's "claimed".
It’s absolutely possible, it’s just hard, as all trust is.
> I understand people want to be healthy

You're overcomplicating it, it's not about that, it's simply fuck them for flagrantly smoking right in my face. It's literally a physical assault, and entirely "optional" / their choice to not give a fuck about anyone else.

There's a huge range of possible things like this people could do to each other which is simply not okay out of basic consideration for others / not being a massive dick. What if I decided I like the smell of some other chemical that's bad for you / proven carcinogen etc, and open this up on a busy train platform. Do I then get to argue technicalities about other unhealthy things too? What if everyone did this?

Is this the point we've reached in society, where we want to argue our right to do such things to each other? Purely out of choice, not even some necessity...
I tried that too, but the RM2 was just a larger, more expensive version of that. The problem is that you can't index, search, share, back up etc. I have up after about 10 pages.

That said, my wife bought a hardback diary/planner that has a really nice layout for days/weeks and she uses it every evening.
> Why is this even legal anywhere ?

I attribute it to:

- our hilariously primitive and archaic "implementation" of "democracy" (which most formal/legal matters are invisibly downstream of)

- our hilariously primitive and non-self-aware culture(s), whose individual members tend to be more inclined to insist on maintaining the very status quo that they constantly complain about (and from which mostly everything else is downstream of)

- our hilariously primitive and archaic system of "journalism", which is supposed to, and proclaims itself to, expertly inform the public of important goings on

- the magnitude of the gap between the content and nature of reality vs what we believe/proclaim it to be

- some other things that I have surely missed, or am too lazy to generate by spending more time thinking

- some other things that <redacted>

I wonder if any of these predictions are correct.
Credit to OpenAI for including some videos with failures (extra limbs, etc.). I also wonder how closely any of these videos might match one from the training set. Maybe they chose prompts that lined up pretty closely with a few videos that were already in there.
And this is why egregiously stupid handling of immutable PHI/PPI/PCI should have genuine penalties.

140 million people had their entire credit reports/history and all associated information released to the world because Equifax thought having it all accessible, publicly, without changing the goddamn default password was a good idea.

The penalty? Profits.

They immediately bought a credit monitoring agency, then gave everyone 24 months of monitoring, for a lifelong problem. After that 24 months, a large number of people starting paying for the service, because it's a lifelong fucking problem.

Equifax is still in business today, still hoovering up all of that data, with zero recourse by the consumer and when they fucked it up, they made money.

We don't have to worry about bad actors. We have companies doing it for them, happily.
> will never go away

Nothing is forever. It’s unlikely unmodified Homo sapiens are dominant on earth 1,000 years from now.
This is a very similar analogy I use for boomers and it sticks. They are often complaining about how no one fixes things anymore and so when you relate the abstracted software to hardware they actually understand. When they get it, they care too.
And this result probably helps the funding to get more patients. I’ve never worked in clinical trials but it seems like it would be so tiresome.
Sorry, you’re right. Confused the two for a second.
Speaking from personal experience, I moved from VSCode to Doom Emacs a year ago, and the on-ramp wasn't nearly long or as tough as I thought. The defaults are good, and anything else that I customized I actually just used ChatGPT/GPT-4 to generate it. It took about a month to get used to the new setup. With LSP/Magit, it feels like I'm not missing out on much from what VSCode offered, and then whenever I want to personalize it, I can. For a creative person (which I'd argue most developers are, kind of by definition), it's fun.
I'm sure this was meant as a "oh, it's not so bad in the U. S." type post. But I read it, and am reminded of what a suck-ass system the U. S. has. Sure, almost everything said is true. But let's reiterate:

1. One might pay up to $15K out-of-pocket for childbirth.

2. If you can't pay it, you have to go out-of-band to seek a non-standard procedure of taking care of the debt. The system is not otherwise built to handle a situation that's probably pretty common given the expenses involved.

3. If all else fails, file for bankruptcy.

All just to have a child.

What you've described is not "not so bad", but rather the plot of a bad movie from the 70s about how corporations have taken over the country and we all live in this dystopian hell where you have to give all of your assets to the corporation to be allowed to have a child. Only it's not a bad movie from the 70s, it's the U. S. healthcare system.

And I don't know what kind of low-end plan one gets for $1000/month for a whole family, but I'd bet real money that the deductible would make my eyes water.
> In the meantime current solution could stay simply because it does not hinder any competition.

As I understand it, this is specifically not allowed by the DMA, since it would be considered an unfair advantage to Safari, if that browser/engine was the only one allowed to run PWAs.
On a continent with one billion people, this service with 2.1 million subscribers has “zoomed past” Netflix which has 1.8…

I don’t think either firm is contending for a throne from which one can be dethroned. Not with those numbers.
Although the health reason for stopping smoking is the best reason, I think the deeper reason that cigarettes are so reviled isn't the small amount of second-hand smoke, that's just the reason people give, but that it's a public display of vice, which isn't acceptable in culturally Puritan areas.

Puritans did something similar during their witch trials. They say they're burning someone for being a witch, but nearly all of their victims just so happened to have one of the following characteristics: spinsters with no children, widows who never remarried, single men into their 30s who never mastered a craft or became a clergyman, etc.

These were universally unacceptable, impure traits. Puritans were all about the collective rather than the individual, and they believed that the collective had the liberty to shape and bend the individual to its will, else the collective suffers. Non-conformists were made to conform, whether through shunning, shame, or violence, or else they were removed from the collective.

So no, you can't smoke in public, not because we care about your health or our health, but because it is decidedly impure, and a good Puritan must be pure, and if a member be not pure, he must be shamed and molded to be so, for if we're not all pure, our moral fabric comes apart.

Culture fundamentally changes very slowly over time, although the particulars may transform quite a lot, and this is a great example of that. A very interesting look at how Puritan culture is expressed in the modern day.
This is hilariously incorrect. There are plenty of organizations where delivery is the ultimate indicator of value.
>There are some who believe that meetings never accomplish anything.

No there aren't. If you are consistently getting push backs on meetings within your org it's not that the teams or IC's believe that meetings are useless (what a silly thing to say) it's a sign that they don't have faith in the organization structure to concretely do anything with the information or provide valuable input.

If you try to setup a meeting and get push back you should _immediately_ ask yourself why the other person feels that way about the people involved or even yourself.
To be honest, I wasn't trying to make it a moral issue by writing that sentence. In my view, people are free to go about doing self-harming activities if they want. I just don't enjoy when they do things that also affect others, like smoking in public around others just going about their day. Where I live regularly people just walk around on public sidewalks smoking making everyone they walk past or in front of breath it in. Or for example smoking at bus stops is another common problem. This is equivalent to actively harming others in my opinion.

And as some others have mentioned it may be that there is much more harm done to things like the environment by powers much greater than just those who smoke. So while there are some arguing for that point of view, I do understand those who argue against this one due to there "being much bigger fish to fry"
> Eight 1:1 weekly meetings (4 hrs)
> I’m not even a lead or anything

This does not compute to me, do you have 8 managers? What's the content of these meetings?
I've seen that one. Better than nothing, although 119 feels still a bit too high for a $30 BOM.

What do we know about the company behind this?
yeah, while reading it what popped into my head is that people just love to label things to help them feel different.

what they're doing is marketing.
Congrats. Selling hardware+software sounds a lot more stressful than selling just software. I hit 20 years as a solo bootstrapper in 2025.
> never go away

It reminds me: centaurs (human+AI) in chess/go were better than either humans or AI just for a short time.

People still play chess but they are outclassed by modern AI.
And so has Gonzala Lira.
Hamas has similarly been shooting rockets into Israel for a long time. Eventually people get tired and stop caring about long-lasting conflicts, just like we don't care about concentration camps in North Korea and China, or various deadly civil wars in Sub-Saharan Africa, some of which have killed way more civilians than all wars in Palestinian history. One can already see support towards Ukraine fading as well, even though there Western countries would have a real geopolitical interest.
Same, Turkey. Same :-(

Most recent horror I discovered: `mincore` is intentionally broken, always returns positive results when the calling task is running in a mount namespace. Because the hallowed unix file abstraction is fundamentally bad.
I remember reading the Tiny Pilot website redesign[1] and feeling the pain. I am glad you finally took care of the bleeding and turned a good profit. I wish you to reach 7 figures this year.

[1] https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot-redesign/
What's your alternative? I enthusiastically do not care for podcasts, news and social "features". Recommendation for a just (all the) music, no shenanigans type of service?
Why do military personnel wear watches upside down?
If you are experiencing this frequently, your team may have general communication and planning issues.
Alacritty: A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator
Russia is a 100% European country.

> standards of living

Comparable and exceeding some countries in EU (e.g. Bulgaria)

> freedoms citizens have in Russia (e.g., no freedom of speech)

Some freedoms are there, some are not. Before 2022 it was similar to some parts of Europe.

Also, freedom is not synonymous to Europe.

> able to freely travel to most of the world

It is not that bad. 127 visa-free countries, more than e. g. Montenegro, Moldova, Albaina - all of which are 100% European.

> geographically, most of Russia is in Asia

This is a meaningless argument. Britan was 90% not in Europe in the year 1912. But no one would say it was not European.
I think you're right. A large part of the joy from creative endevours is actually getting good at something, and having other people enjoy your work. In the face of instant high quality generative AI placating the entertainment needs of the masses, we are creating a society where most people are unable to enjoy human creative expression, in part because human artists are just too slow. Attention spans are already shrinking, and after getting used to generative AI, few people will have the patience to wait for an author to write the second part of his magnum opus.
At a minimum there should be a separate AI-generated assets category instead of comingling with human-made assets.

As far as licensing those assets and whether or not they can be included in game made for sale - I feel that still hasn't been fully ironed out. AI art isn't going away. We're still shaping the ways they can be used and licensed. They will probably find their way into every major game and title in the future, so some kind of structure needs to be created to allow or deny it.

I wonder if we'll see "100% human made content" type tags/logos in the future, and if those products will command a higher price.
"Russia didn't walz over Ukraine the way the West did over Iraq"

Not really the same thing. Iraq was very low on quality military supplies with years of sanctions before that.

And Russia did walz over Georgia in 2008 and Russia would have walzed over Ukraine in 2014 (some russian military was enough to capture lots of ground back then). But much happened between 2014 and 2022.
Exactly, which means Netflix is smart to keep the price up, they get to serve a market that has money, and is profitable, and only this market.
> Table I shows the median and the range of digital readings by disease status and overall p-value using the Kruskal–Wallis test to examine if there exist statistically significant distinctions among two or more groups. The overall p-value is significant while the value for HER2 is 0.002, which show the probability of false-positive detection. This indicates that this sensor technology is an efficient way to detect HER2 biomarkers in saliva.

> ... In Fig. 5, the test results for detecting CA15-3 of the human samples are displayed. The digital reading decreases from the healthy group to the invasive breast cancer group, indicating an increase in CA15-3 concentration. The median, the range by disease status, and overall p-values analyzed with the Kruskal–Wallis test for the CA15-3 test are listed in Table I. The overall p-value for CA15-3 is 0.005, indicating that this device provides an efficient way to detect the salivary biomarkers related to breast cancer.
>might not even use nukes when losing Kaliningrad

https://bellenews.com/2013/12/16/world/europe-news/russia-de...
I mean, that's a weird example to pick. Tzarist Russia is the second best police state in 20th century Russia. That doesn't make it very notable, except by the standards of pre-WWI Europe. And the fact that soldiers abandoned the tzar only serves to demonstrate he didn't use this lever of power. If the tzar had plundered the workers and peasants to pay his soldiers, he would have undoubtedly survived.

When Ukrainian pleasants were starving in 1932, did it cause any sort of disturbance? No. Why? Because the soft and pathetic Okhrana was replaced by the effective and ruthless Checka.
I am a believer, look up my profile on HN.