skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care
Why are these people employed? Isn’t that a bit like a fake employee who outsources his work behind your back? You can’t work with the guy because he literally doesn’t even know or understand the code he’s pushing to the repo
I run coredns with a blocklist, the config is like 4 lines.

What am I missing by not using AdGuard, PiHole and similar?
This reminded me of Pascal Husting, a director of Greenpeace (!) who commuted from Luxembourg to Amsterdam by flying up and down several times a month. It completely soured my opinion of Greenpeace, and I've avoided donating ever since.

I just looked up the aftermath, and it turns he stopped flying his commute in 2014, and switched to the train in response to the criticism. It's interesting that a poorly judged action could do quite a lot of long term reputational damage, caused in part — I suspect — by initially defending that choice.
RSVP is from French.

I wish I could cleverly work in a "QED" here (from Latin) but it just doesn't fit.
Only $16,000? That makes you wonder, how long it might take for fully humanoid (with human appearance and all that) robots become affordable and normal.
> Support just completely disconnected from Engineering

Yes.

Unless you want to drive engineering insane / waste a ton of money.
I think you're taking that too literally, he's not advocating against the use of OSes.
I had this experience with an online game crashing. This is a game I play all the time, which recently recieved an update that adds a kernel level anticheat program. The game would start and then black screen, and I would get a null reference exception popup. Audio and input would continue without any graphics. To me this likely indicates a lack of init result check on some pointer that gets passed to a graphics init function, and then they try to access the pointer that was never assigned to. (my guess anyways)

I was punushed for "leaving" the game, banned for a couple weeks, and sent an obnoxious email about my bad behaviour. I reached out to them on customer support handfuls of times and was always given a list of three steps such as "upgrading graphics drivers", "ensuring i disable my firewall", "using a pc with high enough specs" (my machine is ridiculously overspecd) and things like that. I would follow the three obviously pointless steps, and then be given another set of obviously unrelated steps. This went on about five times over a month.

At some point I just told them, look im a fucking game developer, give me a log dump tool, or a build with debug symbols and I will fix it myself, and finally a real human showed up and actually sent me one. I recreated the bug and sent log captures but they wouldnt let me help beyond that. Then at the end they still scolded me for "leaving" the game.

I dont blame the average person for expecting customer support to be unhelpful or a robot by default, and not following steps.
It's as difficult as:

Package A depends on C 1.0 and B depends on C 2.0. How much work it is to get down to one version of C in your dependencies is up to how different 1.0 & 2.0 is, and how A & B use it. But if you want them resolved, it's up to you to do the engineering to A or B.
The two biggest anti-cheat providers (EasyAntiCheat and Battleye) are on board, both can run natively on Linux or in Proton. The problem is that neither solution is anywhere near as robust as they are on Windows, so Linux support is offered on an opt-in basis and not all developers have chosen to opt-in.

Apex Legends did opt-in to EACs Linux support and the effect has been that nearly every cheat for that game now targets Linux, because it is so much easier to avoid being detected on there. I would be fascinated to know the ratio of actual genuine Linux users playing Apex versus those who just dual boot into Linux to cheat with impunity.
This service is required by law in EU [1]. AFAIK, it is still legal to remove it after the car is bought, but I read somewhere there was a proposition to make that illegal too. In that case the car won't pass periodic inspection without it.

Sometimes I wonder if Somalia or Afganistan accepts immigrants...

[1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/security-and-em...
Same point as The Sims, which is quite popular.
Rejoice! For you have learned a valuable lesson!

Next time, first look how well the competition is doing before coding up the same thing.

As for why vertical tabs are not popular: for me it's because it is annoyingly similar, and right next to, the navigation pane of the website I'm looking at.
This leads to clicks on the wrong "navigation pane".
another consideration: if a popular AI model hallucinates an endpoint for your API for one customer, chances are another customer will run into the same situation
What is the "alternate career path" the author mentions but never explains? I didn't get that part.
Have used it as my secondary browser (~everything that doesn't need login: documentation, news, etc) for a couple of years now and it is great.

Also always looking for someone to create a paid version of Firefox that:

- stays up to date with development of FF

- turns off all the stupid ideas

- gradually re-implement the most important parts that certain old extensions dependend on: scrapbook, scheduled website update checker (have forgotten the actual name), those kinds of things

I know many people here say: "everyone say they will pay for this or that but nobody does", but I am one of those persons who actually do pay for software that changes my life for the better or has the potential to do so.

So far I can only remember a single one (Logseq is good for now) in the last category that hasn't either collapsed in an honest way (rip sandstorm) or rewarded my early support by doing something really stupid, like typically breaking the thing that made me support them in the first place, but I guess I will continue trying.

If someone makes the thing I mention above at a reasonable price and I don't show up, please contact me, I might have missed it. (Reasonable = don't expect me to pay the same for bundling a set of patches as I pay for Jetbrains bundle or MS Office.)
I rely on LLMs extensively for my work, but only a part of that is with copilots.

I have copilot suggestions bound to an easy hotkey to turn them on or off. If I’m writing code that’s entirely new to the code base, I toggle the suggestions off, they’ll be mostly useless. If I’m following a well established pattern, even if it’s a complicated one, I turn them on, they’ll be mostly good. When writing tests in c#, I reflexively give the test a good name and write a tiny bit of the setup, then copilot will usually be pretty good about the rest. I toggle it multiple times an hour, it’s about knowing when it’ll be good, and when not.

Beyond that, I get more value from interacting with the llm by chat. It’s important to have preconfigured personas, and it took me a good 500 words and some trial and error to set those up and get their interaction styles where I need them to be. There’s the “.net runtime expert” the “infrastructure and release mentor”, and on like that. As soon as I feel the least bit stuck or unsure I consult with one of them, possibly in voice mode while going for a little walk. It’s like having the right colleague always available to talk something through, and I now rarely find myself spinning my wheels, bike-shedding, or what have you.
Interesting take. I would be interested in reading more about these game devs dropping native linux support. Could you provide some examples?
In Praise of Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk [pdf]
To no surprise. Carthage is also walking dead, which leaves SPM taking over everything.

My only concern would be... I haven't been in the React Native / Flutter space in a while, but last time I looked they still focus a lot on CocoaPods, I assume they'll have to start migrating soon (if they haven't already).
And of a salary...
Also advertising is certainly not the reason the web is free. It was free before the insane amount of advertising.

Maybe for platforms like Youtube or similar sites advertising is part of their business model. But the primary reason here is foremost people creating content.

That Youtube has insane infrastructure costs is secondary and we certainly don't need Browsers to help advertising at all.

If it doesn't stay optional, Firefox should be forked. It is not a wanted feature. Danger is that Firefox gets gimped because of bad business decisions, because other features regarding privacy aren't as good as they could be.
There's a separate program for bugs in the Android OS, this program did pay for finding bugs in the app to secure the app. Also the mitigation for people abusing the program is that they only pay for bugs in popular apps, it's unlikely for a major app dev to be backdooring their code just to try and scam this bounty program
What about "this is not worth trying"? One thing people in bubbles like this forget is that for them, learning is easy and effortless, but there's a giant cognitive underclass (often aged) who have limited mental resources that they are much better off dedicating to real problems like dealing with that mold problem they've allowed to fester in their bedroom. Imposing a new norm on your engineering team is a very different thing to imposing a new norm on say, all of McDonalds or an entire society.
Although it is a fairly standard ask. It is something which the ISPs I know would have configurable in the web portal.

I tested with 2 ISPs I use and both have it as a prominent add on that you can add for extra cost per month in the UI.
Do You Work at Amazon? (2016)
ALBeast Security Advisory by Miggo Research
that whole "slow is smooth, smooth is quick" thing - yes the traffic is slower, but we were generally moving the whole time. Driving in Australia is a constant stop-go procession of road traffic controls. I don't know if it actually was faster, but it sure felt like it.
Out of curiosity, why can't you return?
Thats the thing with reputation - hard to gradually win, trivial to lose for good if you do something completely against the values you try to project as your core ones.

Greenpeace specifically has little sympathies - they often fulfill the definition of eco-terrorists. Its like those idiots spraying beautiful old masters paintings worth tens of millions to 'send strong ecological message so people wake up'. Well, network protocol failed on that sending, you just painted yourself as arrogant aggressive a-holes I want to have absolutely nothing with, harming the cause significantly.
You gotta be pretty sensitive to consider momentary awkwardness a consequence when someone blamelessly and passively corrects you.

How do you reckon that they were judged here at all? This is a level of transgression roughly equivalent to mispronouncing someones name for the first time, I can't imagine anyone else even remembering this incident aside from OP and even they may only remember because the human brain reserves 10% of its space for reliving minor faux pas.
Yeah, this can't be done in the geometrical way Euclid worked

Mostly because you need the Archimedean property for it which can not be derived from Euclid's axioms.
Copilot uses ChatGPT.
Or just make sure that we don't put too much into place that will get in the way of future disruptors, so that as they slowly fall out of favour due to chasing the bottom line and it eventually affecting their offerings to the point where a critical mass of users seriously look for alternatives¹, there are viable alternatives there waiting to be found. Google and the other entrenched big companies spend a lot of lobbying money on trying to make sure the status quo can be maintained, by raising the barrier for entry into their markets.

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[1] this takes time: after _years_ of saying I'm going to I've finally started experimenting with using Kagi for search instead. It also takes _good_ alternatives, a paid option won't be seen as good by many.
I'm still wondering why the emphasis on the blues scale. Wouldn't knowing the mixolydian (good for building dominant chord) and aeolian (good for natural minor) be more complementary to the current scales?
>I am actually scared of getting fat

Not getting fat is easy, avoiding microplastics is not. One problem affects people with a certain lifestyle, the other affects everyone (it's an environmental issue).

Also, as the article points out, the amount of microplastics accumulated in living organisms is still rising. It's something that needs more attention.
Set a bios password so that Windows can't screw around with UEFI.
Sadly everyone thinks they are The "Ideas Man".
All these comments are pretty funny, I’ve been considering building a new gaming desktop (the current one is reaching a decade of age) and was very much thinking of putting Linux on it rather than bothering with Microsoft’s ever worsening, it’s giving me fomo and making me consider switching the old machine in the first place.
Which makes you wonder, in what kind of world do those people live to not see the irony of being the Greenpeace CEO and traveling several times a month by using a airplane?
AppImage literally lets you double click the file to run it, you don't even unzip it first. It couldn't be simpler. If you're a power user who eschews desktop environments, then you chmod+x the file and run it.

It's the other two that complicate the matter in order to provide sandboxing. Thankfully you can simply choose not to use snap or flatpack. Really though, to characterize AppImage that way makes your comment sounds like the sort of cope windows users tell themselves to explain to themselves why they continue to tolerate Microsoft's abusive business practices.
> mac is expensive, but otherwise great.

Someone who doesn't care that /usr/bin is on a READ ONLY partition... (and no you can't change it.)
According to their CV, on the same site, they became a developer at the Wikimedia foundation.
Yeah, my understanding is that the key element that makes Proton games run so well is running the graphics through DXVK instead of Wine's WineD3D solution. Wine is excellent at the Win32 API but its D3D solution never advanced enough to support many complex applications like games. DXVK is extremely good at that.

Valve pays DXVK devs, and I think CodeWeavers, with their long history of commercial Wine support, has also been getting paid by Valve to improve Wine in the specific ways required.
My wife keeps complaining that Beyond Good and Evil doesn't work... but last I checked it didn't work on Windows either, thanks to Ubisoft buggy DRM and some other issue I forgot.
The Next Interface
I assume it means "SSE2 is baseline / non-optional for x86-64, so compilers can always use SSE1/SSE2 instructions when targeting x86-64."
https://stackoverflow.com/a/50786881
There is also oxker! https://github.com/mrjackwills/oxker
> Ah, sorry, totally didn't get that it was using them as users of the API.

Originally, it wasn't. From the GP post:

> If there is a common hallucination API call, just add that API. This will make the API more "friendly" and resemble common similar APIs.

If it's just users, you wouldn't be adding the APIs.
It depends where and what you are trying to install, but generally for every sensible deployment target there's a tool (sometime more than one) which handles building a installable binary for that target (e.g. an OS specific installer). There's now even tooling to deploy to unusual places such as Android or iOS or in the browser. Naturally in some cases specific packages won't work on specific targets, but because there are standard interfaces if the code is capable of being run somewhere, the tooling for that target should be able give you something that works.
Instant bank payments are already a thing and will be mandatory, across EU, by the end of next year. They will spread into other parts of the world if they don't have them already. So actually the payment cards will be on life support in next couple of years and might even go extinct if banks figure out terminals at the stores to not need cards issued and networks operated by foreign companies.
Sorry, but the Swiss are excellent builders.
I would guess there is a big cultural difference between where Americans and Europeans(in general) spend their days. I would guess Americans spend their days at home watching television while Swiss in particular are more outdoorsy and do a lot more activities.

I don't know why you think there are fewer amenities here than in the US. What specific amenities do you think are lacking?

a 15 minute walk from me there are public baths(free, including the amazing Limmat river with crystal clear water), hiking(free), amazing bars, night clubs and restaurants.
I think this is the point to establish a 'community', and in particular to only 'offer' community support (or charge more for spending your own time on it).

Some people will enthusiastically fix other customers' generated crap for free, let them.
I remember an internet without ads. It was hardly all low-effeort garbage.
I was talking about spoken language, not the existence of initialisms per se. Though I'd wager they are a lot more prevalent in written American English than in most other languages as well. Nobody else would think of inventing an initialism-euphemism for body odour (which I guess already is a euphemism for "smell" for example. Or "significant other".

By the way, QED is just a calque from Greek. (Like most things Roman...)
Show HN: LangCSS – An AI Assistant for Tailwind
Hi All

This is my personal project that is an IDE and AI assistant for creating tailwind components and pages. You can chat to create designs, then make small edits yourself, and continue chatting to refine them. I am always working to improve the UX.

I have a time limited demo page here: https://langcss.com/demo, or you can sign up for free and use one of the 3 models for free.

Please let me know what you think! Feedback is welcome.

Originally this used NextJS (Hosted on Docker) and Azure Open AI. It now uses Vite/.NET (Still on Docker) in order to use a more familiar back end language. DB is postgres. AI is Groq/OpenAI Azure/Claude. (Groq for free version).

I think my next focus will be to make it so you can select parts of the design and run AI on those parts, which gets around the speed and context issues of working on larger designs. I also want to make a vanilla CSS (so no Tailwind!) mode. And look at integrating DaisyUI for the Tailwind users.

Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40143498

Since then there is now a proper back end, rather than just losing your work when you close the tab! It will save your session and you can have many projects. It also handles the custom @apply and custom Tailwind config, but admitedly not as well as play.tailwind.com yet!
> I'm always a little surprised at how many people out there want to develop software yet haven't put in the effort to gain even the most basic computer nerd programming chops.

If you're surprised by reality, that says something about your mental model, not about reality. People don't want to "learn programming", they want to "make a thing". Some people learn programming while making a thing, but why learn about how the sausage is made when all you want is to eat it?
Oddly, despite probably disagreeing with you on many things, I think you might be right here. Interacting with people with very different world views does tend to make maintaining a simple black-and-white world view a lot harder and bits of grey will start to contaminate it.
At $1.127/lb of aluminum that only comes out to a bit less than $30,000 for the raw materials. That's astounding.
This article is missing the biggest elephant in the room: The unsolved problem of safe nuclear waste disposal. Everyone is in favor of nuclear power until the state decides to dispose the nuclear waste near your house: for a hundred thousand years.
Multiple Erlang/Elixir Versions in Windows
He doesn't explain how it works though, or why it is private. Only that we should trust them.
As an expert in at least some of the things Sabine makes videos about (string theory), Sabine is a contrarian who, if you are not otherwise an expert on what she is talking about, it would be best to avoid.

Sabine, like many contrarians, takes advantage of the fact that there are smart and convincing criticisms of many mainstream ideas, and she does her best to rely on those criticisms. However like all contrarians she presents a biased and exaggerated view of things in order to stoke engagement, and unless you are an expert it can be difficult/impossible to determine whether the view she is giving is balanced.

This is a classic issue with string theory critics, because string theory has many legitimate problems with it, but many of the critics are intellectually dishonest and you probably shouldn't listen to their criticisms on principle (but even I must admit it's quite hard to find good quality intellectually honest criticism of string theory which is digestible, so these contrarians tend to be the only loud voice).

In Sabine's case it is not so bad, because it is clear from some of her other positions that she is basically a crank. MOND and superdeterminism are basically crank physics at this point but she supports them purely because she is a contrarian. On this evidence alone you should not trust anything she says on any other subject, otherwise you're falling for a kind of Gell-Mann amnesia.
Proton did't just allow me to play on linux.
It allowed me to uninstall windows.

Ty valve
Agreed. Speak for yourself or speak for your community.
Cults sometimes don't allow returnees.
Having a low child mortality is important, and we've done so many good things in the last couple of decades, but I'm starting to think we're at the point now where the money you have to spend to make a meaningful difference is better spent in other areas of health care.

A classical example of this is in Norway. There's nothing that gives you access to more resources than being pregnant or being in care of a newborn. You can suffer from all kinds of mental health issues for your entire life, struggle to be a productive member of society and be in and out of temporary treatment and be on social benefits. But the moment someone is pregnant they get will be top priority for anything that is even remotely connected with child mortality, almost regardless of how benign something is.

I personally know several people that finally got the help they had been so desperately been begging for, just because they got pregnant. We could have saved them from literal decades of suffering by just providing good treatment early. I'm willing to bet that we'd even be in a position to spend even more money on reducing child mortality, because when you start doing the math of how much they ended up costing society it really adds up.
What soured my opinion of Greenpeace is how they kept us burning fossil fuels for decades longer than we should have been, with their anti-nuclear propaganda. I don't know if that was paid for by fossil fuel companies, but it sure really suited them.

Greenpeace did untold damage to the climate by campaigning against nuclear (and, implicitly, for fossil fuels, as there weren't other economically competitive eco-friendly choices back then).
There's also the loss of some connotations and nuance when the next euphemism comes in. The loss of the connotations is often the whole reason for the euphemism, but ideally you'd keep both words to allow describing the thing with/without the connotation.
MicroPr0n!
We're not going to build the nuclear reactors either. The problem will finally be solved by re-permitting onshore wind and a lot of batteries imported from China.

(The "local supply chain is vulnerable to political uncertainty over long term project funding" problem is much worse in regard to trains, and has resulted in losing most of our train building capacity. See HS2 fiasco.)
I've printed-to-PDF all 20 chapters and have my own book of it now. My only desire is that Ian made a single-page-with-all-chapters view of it available...