skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this thread we see the iron law of 21st century American polarization and the uttermost death of nuance. I’m sure someone will come along to argue how nuance is a luxury we can’t afford in the face of these communist/fascist maniacs.
Voters aren't voting for policies at all. They're voting for candidates who come as a package deal, and often have to make tradeoffs among their own policy positions as no single candidate aligns with them on all issues. On top of that voters are casting their votes in an electoral process rife with gerrymandering, wedge issues, exaggerated or fabricated crisis rhetoric, party-line voters, and other distortions.

The idea that the behavior of the government is ever a consistent reflection of the aggregated intentions of the electorate is something of a fantasy. No one is intentionally voting for bad policy -- they're getting bad policy in one area as a consequence of voting for good policy in another.
> Are you being sarcastic? Did you miss the part where he waged an attempted coup against the US government to remain in power?

I never understood that: I watched his speech. All I saw looked reasonable, appropriate, prudent. It seemed he was careful to advise no violence. That there was an "attempted coup" makes no sense to me. I watched his speech and saw nothing wrong.

> I mean... he was just found by a court to have committed rape.

I didn't and don't see that.

But, if what you say is correct, then that would explain why some people don't like him.

From your post, it looks like there is some deep bitterness about Trump. I don't see why, but okay. For one explanation there is that old collection of media video clips

https://youtu.be/f1ab6uxg908

Apparently the media was totally convinced that those clips would doom Trump; maybe those clips are why some people don't like him.

Watch the clips -- if anything, by now they are entertaining! They have much of the largest of the MSM (mainstream media) doing a big gang up, pile on of "bombshell", "done, no question about that", etc. that never happened.

Maybe in low level town and city politics nearly everyone interested in politics at all has some really strong reasons to like the Democrat Party. If my startup works, maybe I'll discover that the local Democrats will do good things for me but the Republicans won't. Hmm.
Unimaginable to me to be honest. Neuschwanstein is also literally a fake castle.
When I was at Google working on VR there, I was always jealous of Oculus's vertical integration that let them move so much faster than Google's VR team. Working with partner hardware was the biggest time sink in terms of utility gained per hour spent for Google's VR plans and it's going to be a giant drag for Meta. Because of business contracts, there were firewalls in the source code which meant fixing bugs that spanned the stack took forever and there was a bunch of back-and-forth between companies about whose responsibility it is. This is very different from the standard culture of Google & Meta where a dev can (relatively) easily access the source code for any part of the stack and fix the bug without going through tons of red tape.

On top of this, hardware partners have very different goals from the core OS developer (i.e, Google or Meta) who want to grow the ecosystem. So the hardware vendors add various features to their hardware and the OS devs need to add hacks to work around it. In theory, the OS developer writes a "compatibility" doc and requires hardware makers to follow it. In practice, the hardware maker fails to do so and the OS maker has to put in software hacks to work around hardware bugs. And then engineers on the OS team have to waste time chasing these bugs which affect a tiny portion of users but are high priority due to business contracts.

Some of those business contracts made no sense from a VR ecosystem perspective, but Google went through with them for other reasons such as preventing a key phone maker from jumping ship to another OS or company. That's probably what's happening here. Meta doesn't want third-party vendors to build VR solutions on top of AVP or Google's XR OS, so they're offering crumbs to distract other companies.
X has decent touchscreen support, but it sucks at dealing with multitouch gestures, especially on touchpads rather than touch screens.
But if Android were only for Pixel it might not have succeeded. I guess one notable difference is that Android started as software-only, and Pixel came later. Maybe Google would have played it differently if they had a flagship phone from the beginning.

Still, I’m surprised to see Carmack taking a position against opening a platform. Although it sounds from his tweet that he thinks it’s more of a proprietary partnership than true open sourcing. If that’s the case, I see the argument for it being a distraction. But if the roadmap includes open sourcing the OS, then surely the “distraction” is worth it to capture the majority of the market.
I avoid all of the kebab/camel conversions by using the methods:

Element.hasAttribute('data-thing')

Element.getAttribute('data-thing')

Element.setAttribute('data-thing', '...')

Much more clear what I'm doing without the awkward translating when I inevitably have to inspect/debug in the DOM.
What can you do if you don't want to block unknown numbers, e.g. you get a call from a hospital about your injured relative, but you have blocked all unknown numbers
Even foresight isn't enough to avoid it if you don't have the fortitude to avoid paths of least resistance, or the ability to oppose entrenched power structures.
I consider HN a more reliable source. If you read carefully, I wasn't asking about SSDs, but long term storage. With that rejoinder, I thank you.
Wow, funny to see this here. I'm the director of Free Law Project. Juriscraper is a project we use to scrape and parse millions of court records. I'll be happy to answer any questions folks have about it.

It's on version 2.6.0 now, but it has had several hundred point releases over the years as we adapt to changing court websites. Fun stuff.

The result of using Juriscraper is that we have something like 200B tokens of court data that we make available in various ways: https://www.courtlistener.com/help/api/bulk-data/
EPA administrator Michael Regan on undoing the toxic legacy of US power plants
Spending too much time in the LA metro area
funny, thats definitely not what it was called when trump issued executive orders, there we had to endure things like the definition of dictator which tends to include "rules by decree" etc, as proof of him being a dictator :) oh how the winds are fleeting
No, not really.

The decline of Google's search performance is on the front page of HN at least once a week. It's common knowledge at this point.

Try Kagi if you want to be reminded of what good search is like.
Sounds like you want `just` (pretty much a riff on make, but more designed for this use case). I don't find much use for it personally, but I think it fits what you're looking for.
Show HN: I built a data analytic system to track design automation scripts
Hey HN,

I was annoyed by how time consuming and exhausting was to deploy my visual programming scripts in an architecture studio.

So, I made a shareable framework to integrate those in the host software (Revit) as simple buttons.

I realized that after deploying, we didn’t know if the scripts were actually used by teams…

So, started collecting and visualizing the team’s execution data from a cloud storage.

It also helped to replace the scripts that were not used and detect execution errors by users.

Jaime
if you're just halfway serious, perhaps its time to seek some medical help
The two-party system in the US is equivalent to a multiparty coalition system, just with the coalitions negotiated before the election instead of after it.
I agree with your statements, and they were true until sometime between Newt taking over and Trump being elected.

They used to have a a coherent positive viewpoint and policy to support it. And they sought to advance that policy through normal democratic means: convincing a majority of voters.

That has stopped being their approach. They no longer seek a genuine popular majority. They are turning inwards, adopting ever more extreme positions disconnected from genuine ideals. They seek only the power to impose their worldview on others.

They no longer feel constrained by long standing traditions and institutions. Any act is justified in their minds.
Copyright laundering has never been so cheap.
Bitwarden Secrets Manager might fit your needs as an open source alternative to HashiCorp Vault fyi. I am biased (I work at Bitwarden) but still a great option for those looking to switch from HashiCorp! https://bitwarden.com/products/secrets-manager/
All of the other parent comments have already been properly addressed in other comments.
> if you make something (useful) available for actual free, there is unlimited demand and all stock disappears immediately

This is locally bounded. My community can provide free dog-poo bags. I doubt one could do that in e.g. rural Alabama.
There is only so much room in one page of a tutorial; not everything can be on page 1.
Most successful open source projects are actually backed by companies and most of those projects are of course alive and kicking. The entire fortune 500 runs on software and the most of that consists of massive amounts of open source with some sprinklings of proprietary stuff mixed in. Linux would have stayed a silly hobby project without the possibility for this.

What's dead, or rather was never really that much alive is the notion of not quite so open source projects where a single corporate entity attempts to dictate the rules and actively discourages outside contributions, and people profiting from "their" source code. As a proportion of most widely used OSS software the amount of software and the number of developers involved with it is a rounding error.

There are two main problems with corporate OSS:

1) it stifles the formation of a healthy community of outside contributors. This endangers long term success of projects. The more restrictions exist (e.g. copy right transfers or aggressively anti commercial usage licenses like AGPL), the more likely it is that would be contributors will take the hint and stay away.

2) it limits growth to the strategy, financial success, and imagination/skills of just one company. Because with projects being bottle necked on the financial success of just one company and cut of from outside help, absolutely nothing happens unless that one company pays for it.

And with finances effectively supplied by VC investors interested more in IPOs and quick exits than good software, OSS is just a buzzword that goes on the investor deck and not something they actively value or appreciate. Hence legal monstrosities like BSL that make no sense whatsoever from the point of view of nurturing a healthy community of external developers. Most VC companies of course fail. That kind of is the point. And most of their restrictively licensed software projects die along with them and don't survive the implosion of these companies. Developers move onto other things and the software gets peddled to hedge-funds or companies like IBM.

The only exception to this is properly licensed open source that can simply be forked. Oracle, Redis, Red Hat, Hashicorp, Elasticsearch, etc. found that out the hard way. The answer is not getting more proprietary about OSS software and preventing forks. The software gets forked precisely because these projects are too valuable to let it rot away behind corporate pay walls. This is not a failure of open source but actually a huge success. The software will long survive the misguided corporate shenanigans. The software and community will be fine. Those companies, possibly a lot less.
Got you, thanks for sharing your experience.

I’ll keep this in mind.
Why would the vision pro have games? I'm still waiting for the damn iPhone to be the gaming platform they promised over a decade ago. I watched over the last few years as Mac computers somehow got more powerful than they ever were but also have lost just about all support for modern games. The truth is, despite what apple says out of their mouth at their pressers, they don't really care about gaming or have any interest in establishing a viable development environment for this platform. Valve isn't even porting their games to mac anymore despite how much fanfare the relationship with this company and apple had for years.
Setting a system prompt is called "fine-tuning" now?
Pocketbase sounds like what you're describing.
I kind of want something midway between the FPGA version and the all-transistor version, something that just uses 7400 series chips (or, presumably there’s a 26-pin equivalent with 6 gates instead of three). Heck, I think even something that goes ahead and uses the full panoply of basic logic chips available could be kind of cool to see.
> How long are we supposed to wait for your doom prophecy to realize?

We shouldn't have waited at all, and in fact shouldn't have allowed it to be repealed in the first place. We have been extraordinarily lucky to have not had to deal with any nonsense from ISPs in all this time. California having their own NN law helped a lot. Now that we're back on track we can call it crisis averted, no harm no foul.
I thought I understood everything you said, but isn't Stripe a middleperson here?

> without a middleman.
(waves hands around generally) everything?
> but in this scenario neither would the afghans

One of the countries listed would have ended up sending them anyhow.

> why is everyone meddling there, anyway

The same reason Russia meddles in Ukraine and Belarus - for these countries it's their near abroad.

For Pakistan and India, majority of Pakhtuns actually live in Pakistan, and the 3rd largest diaspora is in India, and Kabul used to be the Mughal capital for much of it's history, and there is a lot of cultural and economic relations between both countries and Afghanistan (there's a reason most Afghan politicians - Taliban and resistance - studied in Pakistan or India, and have family and assets there)

For Iran, a similar story - Herat was the primary Persian city in Khorasan for much of their history, and multiple Safavid-Mughal wars were fought over Kandahar.

China entered the region in the 1700s when the Qing Dynasty began their expansion into Central Asia (eg. The Dzungar Genocide - who's survivors founded Kalmykia), and multiple wars were faught between the Mughals, Safavid, Qing, Uzbeks, and Sikhs over Central Asia. In more recent history, a lot of the militancy in East Turkestan was sparked from Uyghurs (eg. Baren Uprising) supported by their Afghan Uzbek brethren.

Turkey was always a major defense partner of Afghanistan (as a kingdom, under the Taliban, the US, and today) due to a mix of Pan-Turkism (Uzbeks), Pan-Islamism, and the large Afghan and Pakistani diaspora living in Turkey.

The Gulf states are significant players as well because Pakhtuns, Balochs, Tajiks, and Uzbeks make up significant minorities in those countries, and Gulf states are stuck in great power conflicts with each other and with Turkey, India, Pakistan, etc.

The Russians only entered Central Asia and the Caucasus in the late 19th century, and their presence was always minimal, like the French in Algeria (look at how many are left after 1991), and memories of them are very bitter (eg. Circassian Genocide, Chechen War a la Tolstoy, the Uzbek campaigns, dekulakization of nomadic herders, etc)

The Caucasus was always a borderland between the Safavids and Ottomans, and Afghanistan+Central Asia was a borderland between the Qing, Safavids, Mughals, and Ottomans (who supported the Uzbeks)

> How much did the USSR and US spend on their two wars

The USSR spent high double figures of GDP %age on military spending in Afghanistan, but the US's spending was minimal.
It's a patchwork. In some countries the Hobbit is already in the public domain; in others it will take another decade.
When copying a business you have to also copy their marketing channels. Product is only half the story.
Ultra-resilient flexible sensors break new ground in pressure detection
I won't believe that after seeing the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Actually Using Sora
Seems like a situation where it’s worth it to be cognizant of your bubble.

I don’t know exactly what you meant by “our demographic”, but I’m a frequent reader of HN, work in tech, and generally stay up to date with all things tech, and yet… I don’t know if a single person that doesn’t still use Google as their go-to place for information. Before this comment I had never even heard of Perplexity or You.com. /shrug
The supercomputers (all?) used wirewrap rather than PCBs. I heard a story once about someone coming in for a demo of a supercomputer and Cray realized there was a bug in the hardware during the demo and while the potential customers were at lunch, he rewired the machine to fix the bug.
Presumably the value comes from providing a single unified platform that means you don't have to integrate with every underlying service separately.

I know nothing about the lower-level details of payment networks but the mere fact that this company exists and has customers would suggest that there's a value-add.
And Trump (and his sycophants) seek to take advantage of this feeling. Using the age old approach of blaming "the other" and seeking not any real improvement in conditions, but a consolidation of power in their hands.
USC Commencement Update, April 25, 2024
Does it work with ipu6 webcams yet?
> Support for different screen resolution across screens

I think you mean scaling; screen resolutions aren't a problem on X11. It even does an inferior version of fractional scaling if you use the right software. It's much worse than Wayland's implementation, though.

> Scaling of the home bar or whatever it's called. Couldn't be scaled in X11 in many cases, remained too small. Much better handled in Wayland. Essential feature for me.

That's DE specific.

HiDPI scaling is kind of a mess in Linux if you use screens of different sizes. Even on Wayland you're far from guaranteed a decent experience.
You cut off “if you care about what happens to them afterwards”. It’s perfectly fine for somebody to just give software away as long they’re fine that someone else will make money off it. You don’t seem to be fine with it, but others are.
What?

KYC is about establishing identity, not establishing innocence or guilt or goodness or badness. You don't get to participate in society anonymously. That's a feature, not a bug.
The Chevron scheme essentially leads a disfunctional Congress to abdicate all its regulatory power slowly but surely and to never claw it back. Why even have a Congress? Reversing Chevron might or might not help Congress get its pants back on, but it's worth a try, and I hope the SCOTUS does it. If it doesn't work, then we'll have to confront the possibility that the Founders' design no longer works and some serious reform is needed (though what that would be I've no idea).
> Unless you are eating 10 bowls of salad or 10 pounds of breadsticks

This is exactly how the power users do it at olive garden. People even smuggle in tupperware. You only need to beat the average to be in the money, which isn't hard to do if you go hog wild.
Jeff Lawson has state of Michigan connections. A University of Michigan grad he started a digital textbook company, but was just too early. Then he was founding CTO of StubHub which is based in Detroit.

I regret never actually meeting him though we have some mutual friends in common. Tried to get him to speak at a hackathon I was running in Detroit during his early days at Twilio but he was simply too busy which I can understand. Got Dug Song, cofounder of Duo Security, and he did a terrific job of inspiring all of us.
> it's a great way to filter out your top performers

Huh, it is rather insulting to people who are more willing to move and also stating top performers always stay stuck to same place.

But besides all that there is ton of work large companies do which simply does not need top performers so lower cost and lower perf employee will just do fine.

Another thing is among larger tech companies Oracle is among more remote friendly for decades. So if both party agree someone can work remotely just fine.
I like "on our inability to do much" part.
That must depend on the definition of “richest town” because my quick search of that term disagrees.
Correct. Edited my comment to clarify number of 190,711 was as of March 2023.
I'll admit that despite having a GPT4 sub which I use often, I still fallback on google for quick questions and verification of what GPT4 says if I need to be certain.

Not even because I am particularly going to google, it's just so heavily integrated.
You'd rather have some idiotic trash that's been elected to congress have to decide what a safe dose of a drug is than an agency largely staffed by people with deep medical training?

You'd rather have such a decision be at the whims of political showboating and culture wars than what can be proven safe and effective with actual medical testing?

I'd argue that a better use of legislature time would be to find ways to reduce the clout of political beliefs in people appointed to high level positions in the agencies rather than requring the useless fools eleceted to congress getting final say in what the rules are.

Seriously do you think the jewish space laser lady should have any say in sattelites or forest fires? Do you really want the moron that thinks injecting bleach is a viable cure to decide what makes for good medicine? Do you want a fool who think's an ar-15 with a certain set of cosmetics is a scary bad gun, but an ar-15 with hunting stocks isn't the exact same weapon to decide firearm policy?

Those are the people you are suggesting should make the decisions on specifics?
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Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149095
CSS is very powerful here because you can take advantage of the other attribute selectors to find partial matches:

div[data-my-data^="my-prefix"] (selects by prefix)

div[data-my-data$="my-suffix"] (selects by suffix)

div[data-my-data*="my-substring"] (selects by substring)

Quite a few more of these:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Attribute_s...
Nope nope nope. Political parties are good. 2 incumbent political parties in a permanent grapple is what is bad. Politics is a "team sport", by which I don't mean it must a facile context practiced by west-wing-loving weirdos, but that is is a fundamentally collective effort.

Americans love to think political parties are inherently bad, but seriously when are mere individuals reliable? How the hell am I supposed to tell who all these down-ballet no-names are and what they actually believe in? Much of the rest of the democratic world functions fine with parties that are not all 150+ years old and ship-of-theseus-ed beyond recognition.
Nigerian woman faces jail for giving tomato paste bad review on Facebook
I wasn’t talking about privacy at all. I was saying that your approach of “you have nothing to worry about if you arent doing anything wrong” is not very great, and it is exactly what is used by governments to fight against something you probably like more than blockchain and consider necessary, even though it can be used to facilitate terrorism. So you should take a look at whether you have double standards with regard to things you dont like vs things you like and think we need.
Even just stuff like releasing a GPL'd game on Steam or consoles can have the same issue if you need to keep some parts proprietary.
That would be equality of opportunity, which definitely maximizes individual freedom. I think the context of the article is the recent push of equality of outcome. It is trying to arrive at a specific destination in terms of the composition of a certain group of people, which leads to the question of why that would be desirable to begin with.