skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why we can't have nice things.

Some volunteer puts in time maintaining something and makes a claim that is obviously correct and - most likely in jest - promises cash to anyone who shows it to be wrong. Then some rules lawyer decides that he's better than the unpaid volunteer and does his best to humiliate him, just for the lulz.

Is it any surprise that volunteers rarely stick around for long?

Nowadays lots of companies run bug bounty programs where if you find a bug and report it responsibly you can get real cash. This is a valuable service. And I'm positive that these programs get gobs of submissions from people trying to see if they can find a bug in the rules, rather than in the software. If the people vetting the submissions to such programs weren't getting paid for it, I'm sure they would quit in disgust.
Are the also rolling out fibre to ships and planes?
I broadly agree with your perspective however I think you've missed that bluesky is specifically architected to facilitate the coexistence of bubbles : shared block lists, client based moderation, portability in case you account is banned from a particular host etc, Bluesky is well positioned for a future where cliques don't want to hear from one another
It froze mine for a while. Pretty bad.
Or if the legal department is concerned that someone could claim a cookie is non-functional, so to save the uncertainty and expense they advise always showing the banner. Especially since everyone else does.

It seems like there should be a parallel to “tragedy of the commons” that talks about how a good idea coupled with extreme penalties can lead to a bad outcome by making any risk calculation result in “jesus we just can’t take any chances here”.
Satellite phone and communicator devices have been around forever.
Probably because the average Chinese is far more skilled than your average illegal immigrant.

It's not just raw labor force. It's capable engineers, designers, architects, etc. How is illegal immigration going to solve this?
An interesting project for niche types: https://github.com/rick-de-water/nonany

It's not perfect but does allow some flexibility.
Microsoft launches two data centre infrastructure chips
The worst part is that it wasn’t even malicious compliance: the cookie banners they added seldom even satisfied law, in ways completely obvious if you just read the law (which is pretty easy reading, only a few thousand words for the relevant parts). I don’t understand why relevant commissions didn’t make more noise about that, because it was obvious that major players were deliberately poisoning public perception.
I wonder is it possible to use Tcl as a testing tool for modern languages such as Python and JavaScript, the way SQLite use Tcl to do testing looks really promising
Can you source your claim? Because it seems like it would create a competitive advantage for a non-hostile advertising company. Websites aren’t any happier about cookie banners than users are. If it’s just an emotional, spiteful reaction, the grownups should be able to make a fortune.
It's none of that, it's the willingness of Starlink to run at a massive loss.
I don't want private businessmen making decisions like that.
On it's own, probably not that much. We know that amino acids can form in interstellar space and have in fact observed clouds of them in star-forming regions[1]. Finding them on a non-planetary object in our own solar system is certainly very cool but we already knew they existed in this neck of the woods. ;-)

1: https://www.space.com/amino-acid-tryptophan-perseus-molecula...
> However, if the example had used UNION instead of UNION ALL, then SQLite would have had to keep around all previously generated content in order to check for duplicates. For this reason, programmers should strive to use UNION ALL instead of UNION when feasible.
In the market for internet service, Starlink is a disruptor to existing ISPs. Especially for those servicing rural areas. I don't understand a reflexive reach to encumber a nascent business model with additional regulations. What problem are you trying to solve?
> It is, however worth at least considering restrictions on continuously following a person in public places and reporting all their observed activities to a third party.

I don’t see any difference between online “tracking” and real world stalking. If some one was following you every where you went taking notes on everything you did, interrupting you and preventing you from actually doing what your were actually wanting to do, you’d be able to have the police intercede in your behalf. Only now we think it is different because “on a computer”.???
The cookie banner is there to punish people who have cookies turned off or set to be deleted upon browser/tab close - and generally annoy everyone else.

Think about how obsessive companies are about "UX" and how disruptive the banner is. Bitch-slapping people for fighting against tracking is more important to them than the user being able to access or use the site at all.
I mean, it's all just quicksort under the hood, right? By extension...
Funny how people on twitter claim 'treason' but somehow the DoD disagrees. Who should we trust with this one I wonder.

The story as popularly told was simply inaccurate. I suggest you do some more research.
Thanks for noting this! I added a copy of the GPL license.
Seems a lot of modern tech is (ab)used for the purpose of perving. I recently visited a gym which seemed very social media oriented (not dissimilar to most gyms tbh), but as days went by I gathered the impression something weird was going on. I ended up suspecting (but having absolutely no evidence) that the owner or staff was using the cameras to spy on members. Further oddities exist in the reviews for the place, which includes staff walking into the change rooms (of the opposite sex) with naked people there.

That's a really long/specific way of saying: wildlife cameras spying on Indian women is an instance of a more general problem.

I feel like plausible deniability (e.g. security/monitoring) is so easy that discovering and alleging wrong-doing would be met with little more than shrugging of shoulders.
The confederate flag has only been raised inside our capital buildings once, and that was on Jan 6.
I use the readthedocs theme: https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/choosing-your-theme/#readt...

Not sure if that fits the bill for you, but I like it.
For obvious reasons I think it's pretty safe to say we can count on at least the next four years of zero regulation or government scrutiny of any company Musk is involved in, monopoly-related or otherwise.
Agreed, rip the band-aid off folks. You will be so glad you did.
I was in Shenzhen in 2017 and again recently. The difference is huge. The air quality walking around the street is very good and you never smell gasoline.
IMO Tolkien's Tengwar is the closest to Hangul. The shapes of the consonants represent the place and manner of articulation, such that similar sounds look similar on paper. Vowels are written as diacritics above the consonants, with the result that each complete letter represents a syllable.

There are other syllabaries, both naturally occurring and deliberately created, but most of them don't show subpatterns that represent the sounds that make up each syllable. Cherokee looks a lot like the Japanese kana. Which is not surprising, because both are syllabaries designed to overcome the difficulty of a fully ideographic writing system (kanji in the case of Japanese).
I heard that Google's project Loon was having issues with LTE time outs due to the distance of the balloons LTE antenna from the ground. How does this square with the much larger distance of LEO satellites?
At System Source, we have a large collection of software (hard copy, mag tape, paper of software for the Bendix. Many of the manuals have been scanned by our wonderful volunteers
https://rbk.delosent.com/g15doc.html
This was said at the heat of the moment.

Lo and behold -- unfortunately not quite all, but certainly a lot of the provocative / uncompromising language he Palestinian side is, in essence, coming from a place of anger or other distressful emotional states as well.
No, it was a pomodoro sauce
As a matter of policy can HN please not accept submissions with non-https URLs?

It's a checkbox at most web hosts, built in to many reverse proxies, etc. There's no excuse for not offering htttps, particularly since it places users at risk if at any point along the path between them and you, there's someone untrustworthy.
Sanitizing your strings immediately before display is all well and good until you need to pass them to some piece of third-party software that is very dumb and doesn’t sanitize them. You’ll argue that it’s the vendor’s fault, but the vendor will argue that nobody else allows characters like that in their name inputs!

See the Companies House XSS injection situation, where their rationale for forcing a business to change its name was that others using their database could be vulnerable: https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/30/companies_house_xss_s...
Affordable EVs are a solved problem. China has solved it. The world responded by putting up tariffs.
Can you explain how that's a good thing?
Quite the opposite actually. I want it stored correctly and in a way that both me and CSR can understand and so it can be used to interface with other systems.

I don’t however know which unicode subset to use, because you didn’t tell me in the signup form. I have many options, all of them correct, but I don’t know whether your CSR can read Ukrainian Cyrillic and whether you can tell what vocative case is and not use that when inerfacing with the government CA which expects nominative.
The demand won't spike, but the need to switch to local production necessitates some way to locally produce.
You'd think there'd be some "competitive advantage" to be had, but when their entire industry is built upon tracking and profiling everyone they possibly can, they'll do anything they can, fighting tooth-and-nail to the very end against any legislation that somehow interferes with their tracking, even if it means resorting to childish and petty temper tantrums that further enshittify the web. What little "competition" exists in that industry all fully believe that building massive profiles on everyone is the only way to make any money at advertising. They've been allowed to get away with it for so long that they can't even remember there was a time when tracking everyone all the time everywhere wasn't even a thing (and yet advertisers still managed to advertise back then, somehow)...
Generally, sky to north is what matters. I've done a fair bit of boondocking with starlink and found it to be very sensitive to tree cover in the wrong part of the sky.

I don't think that starlink's support or documentation is particularly great, but it still seems better than my experiences will cell phone and internet service providers.
I am 100% sure that the author of this post has never "built a kubernetes", holds at least one kubernetes cert, and maybe even works for a company that sells kubernetes products and services. Never been more certain of anything in my life. You could go point by point but its just so tiring arguing with these people. Like, the whole "who will maintain these scripts when you go on vacation" my brother in christ have you seen the kubernetes setups some of these people invent? They are not easier to be read into, this much is absolute. At least a shell script has a chance of encoding all of its behavior in the one file, versus putting a third of its behavior in helm variables, a third in poorly-named and documented YAML keys, and a third in some "manifest orchestrator reconciler service deployment system" that's six major versions behind an open source project that no one knows who maintains anymore because their critical developer was a Belarusian 10x'er who got mad about a code of conduct that asked him to stop mispronouning contributors.
How will converting farmland to forests help with climate change? It seems like it would have no particular impact or make the situation worse w.r.t. climate change for Denmark. If it is a good idea I'd imagine it would also be a good idea if the climate was not changing.

Denmark has no ability to impact global CO2 emissions at all. In fact nobody does except ironically the Chinese and their industrial-growth-at-any-cost coal based approach from the 90s and 00s.
No, they love the money they can make about you. I don’t know anybody giving their money to these people. It is other shady companies buying the data about for, shady companies that have collected. All of this is offered to you free of charge.
Show HN: Show Only Ads in Your Facebook and Instagram Feeds
I created a chrome extension/web app that allows users to see only ads in their facebook and Instagram feeds. Blur out all regular post from friends and groups to show current ads from ecommerce stores, brands, media companies, etc.

https://discord.com/channels/@me/1222032380810756189/1310138...
I don’t think it’s about computers stabbing people, but that’s not relevant. The issue is your willingness to keep people in the dark so you can feel good that you got a reference without it being explained.
It’s also important to note that, at least in this specific situation, the effects of those hidden subsidies are extremely regressive.
Exactly. It only takes a couple of decades for nature to reforest, which is an eyeblink, actually. And only a couple more decades to return to mature forest. No humans or projects needed. There is a lot more forest in New England (USA) now, than a century ago.
And they’ve been very expensive, subscription-based, and limited: no direct access to the internet, just location pings and text messages (which sometimes have to be preprogrammed). Nothing at all like what Starlink is talking about.
Inflation-adjusted I believe Rockefeller was worth more than $400b at the peak of his wealth.

The Walton estate now is worth over $350b, but it’s not a fair comparison as it’s had much longer to compound.

The other thing is that while SpaceX is incredibly successful, the other companies he’s started aren’t. Tesla (despite its massive growth) is in a market of rapidly growing competitors, and he’s on record saying the company lives or dies on tech his own engineers have suggested in court isn’t coming (FSD).
It also ignores that animals produce the manure that is used to fertilize soil to grow crops in.
you got it.. and grain is not the only thing we get shipped from Brazil.. to look green, we've replaced most our coal burning for energy with bio fuels, essentially wood and that gets shipped in from Brazil as well.. very green.. because fuck nuclear, because of.. checks notes.. reasons
Ooh no it is not, but I am coincidentally working my way through the third book in that series!
Whats the latency lmao
You cannot specify the “size” of an arbitrary Turing machine without knowing the index of that machine in some encoding scheme. If we are to account for the possibility of any string being selected as the one to compress, and if we wish to consider all possible algorithmic ways to do this, then the encoding scheme necessarily corresponds to that of a universal Turing machine.

It’s a moot point anyway as most programming languages are capable of universal computation.

Again, I’m not claiming we can compress random data. I’m claiming we can (sometimes) make it look like we can compress random data by selecting a specific programming language from one of many possibilities. This selection itself constitutes the “missing” information.
Back in my school, teachers would beat up kids because it keeps them from becoming drug addicts. So the definition of fine back then was "not a drug addict". If you were ambitious, it would be "graduated from college".
> If a thumbs up with a different skin tone is a different character

Is it? The skin tone modifier is serving the same purpose as a variant selector for the CJK codepoint would be.
It'll take about 5 mins for that to happen and then for *.bsky.network to start getting blocked by Google Safe Browsing, Palo Alto, Bluecoat etc.
A classic. I wish Xiph developed Daala into a fully functional video codec.
> interrupting you and preventing you from actually doing what your were actually wanting to do

This is the part that would get the police involved, and no-one online is doing anything like this.

Doris the curtain-twitcher compiles a dossier on everyone, maybe shares it in her gossip circles. No-one cares.
Google Search says Elon is at 334.3 gigadollars so not that far off and he's not dead yet.
The only protection that the "public benefit corporation" status provides is that investors can't sue the company for failing to maximize shareholder value. There's lots of other avenues they can take to make the company do what they want (assuming sufficient share ownership) such as pressuring the board, voting in directors, or converting the company to a regular corporation (it's not like a 501(c)(3) where this isn't possible in most cases).
The average adult drives roughly 40 miles per day. An EV battery with 25% the original max would still satisfy literally hundreds of millions of Americans for the vast majority of their driving needs.
AI call agents era is starting
Examples – Bt 0.2.10 Documentation
we are focusing on improving call agents in Uzbek, Karakalpak, Russian, Tadjik and English languages
This quote mostly applies to people who don't want to spend the time learning existing tooling, making improvements and instead create a slightly different wheel but with different problems. It also applies to people trying to apply "google" solutions to a non-google company.

Kubernetes and all tooling in the cloud native computing foundation(CNCF) were created to have people adopt the cloud and build communities that then created jobs roles that facilitated hiring people to maintain cloud presences that then fund cloud providers.

This is the same playbook that Microsoft did at Universities. They would give the entire suite of tools in the MSDN library away then then in roughly (4) years collect when another seat needs to be purchased for a new hire that has only used Microsoft tools for the last (4) years.
Bt – Flexible Backtesting for Python – documentation
Doesn't the potential for abuse reduce when content is linked through user's own domain rather than a particular appview like bsky? Bsky already supports a user's domain ALIASed to redirect.bsky.com: https://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3kh6rnpdzmp2v
I don’t see where you get that definition. If you’re the one running the company, you’re the CEO.

You may argue you need employees to be a CEO rather than a consultant but you certainly don’t need a board of directors.
Looks pretty impressive! Kinda makes me jealous as a Sveltekit dev.
At least in the Western United States, most hunting is done on publicly owned land, and there's enormous swaths of public land with absolutely zero cell phone coverage.
Every. Identifiers are identifiable names. Most languages with unicode name support only support symbols, ie not identifiable names (binary trash).
But it does censor idea that don’t align with their world view. They do it even more now than they did before; the only difference is now they claim they don’t.

And it continues to run, but not well. The nice thing about the kind of site it is, is that if you don’t see a particular message, you can’t tell it’s missing.
Show HN: I Built a Lightweight Nutrition Tracker for the iPhone
Hey HN,

I was overweight in college and started my weight loss journey using an app called MyFitnessPal. Tracking calories not only helped me lose weight but also taught me a lot about nutrition and helped establish healthy eating habits that continue to benefit me. However, I’ve always been frustrated by the existing nutrition tracking apps. Many are slow and bloated, lack accurate nutrition data, or don’t respect user privacy. I wanted to build something that I’d love using myself.

A few things that make FitBee stand out:

* Fast, lightweight and to the point - The app is just about tracking your nutrition and makes that front and center. I've tried to make things that you do often as simple as possible (e.g., log yesterday's breakfast).

* Robust Apple Health support - You can read/write data to Apple Health. I wear an Apple Watch so it's great for getting the energy burned through exercises.

* Accurate nutrition data - The nutrition data is sourced from the USDA dataset and nutrition labels off the packages. I also spent effort adding east asian foods (e.g. things you get at 99 Ranch or Weee) to the database, since those were hard to find/track in other apps I've tried.

* Photo Logging - You can take a photo of a food and get an estimate of the calories and macros. It's not 100% accurate but it's been super helpful for me when eating at a restaurant that doesn't have published nutrition info.

* Recipe importing - You can pretty much point any recipe at the app and it'll import the ingredients and generate nutrition information for you. As I got more into fitness, I started to cook more so this has been super helpful.

* No Ads - The app is monetized via a subscription.

* Subscription - Most of the features are free, but there are a few which require a monthly or annual subscription ($4.99/month or $39.99/year).

You can try FitBee here: https://apple.co/4aGUw5X. I'd love your feedback!
What's so ugly about them? I don't code in F#, but I do in C# and after reading about them I wish C# had something similar.
The Do Not Track header was originally proposed in 2009 by researchers Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm.[2] Mozilla Firefox became the first browser to implement the feature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track#:~:text=The%20Do%....
I'd love for Please-Do-Stab header to exist so I can just set it and with it opt out of any stabbing-anti-stabbing wars and politics.

I fully understand that it's absence wouldn't meant that people won't get stabbed, but it would save time and mental space of all people like me who really don't care about being stabbed or not.

Honestly if anything, I'd like to be stabbed more.

By analogy to current situation about tracking ... Ad companies know too much about me? I think they know too little. For example for half a year they still haven't figured out that I know barely any words in German and are serving me German advertisements all the time just because I happen to be living in Germany currently.
Most of this is land being dug up, we don't know what it will be used for. Could just be holding area for stock, which is not a good thing. Premature to comment on the scale of BYD's factory.
That’s limited by the country’s basic requirements not the total amount of farmland available. People may prefer wine and beef in surplus resulting in an obesity epidemic, but that’s not required here. You don’t want 350 lb soldiers or recruits.
I had the exact opposite experience. I had a cloud run app in gcp and experimented with moving it to k8s and I was astonished with the amount of new complexity I had to manage
Isabella Rossellini: People never talk about the freedom, the lightness of aging
I cannot make sense of this reply. Different languages have different syntax.

Support of asynchronous code and of its composition is central to C#, which is why it does it via async/await and Task<T> (and other Task-shaped types). Many other languages considered this important enough to adopt a similar structure to their own rendition of concurrency primitives, inspired by C# either directly or indirectly. Feel free to take issue with the designers of these languages if you have to.

F#, where async originates from, just happens to be more "powerful" as befits an FP language, where resumable code and CEs enable expressing async in a more generalized fashion. I'm not sold on idea that C# needs CEs. It already has sufficient complexity and good balance of expressiveness.