skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's what a Fed would say to discourage Signal use.

What? No. That is exactly what a Fed (or anyone else) would say to encourage Signal use.

"Presumably you don’t hear about the ones that use signal for a reason…"

The reason being that they don't get caught so you don't hear about them.
It's not new news, but it's certainly worth repeating in the hopes people will eventually listen. Our system costs way too much for the outcomes we receive in return (the whole system, not just the socialized parts). ACA sort of helped, at least with coverage, but not really with prices. And yet people are terrified of "socialized medicine" ignoring the fact that a significant portion of the population is already successfully receiving socialized care through Medicare, Medicaid, veterans benefits, etc. Le Sigh.
Nice to see this project here! I've been using it with the Steam API to publish a list of the games I've been playing on my personal website: https://yboulkaid.com/games

I found that separating data from content on a Jekyll site is a really powerful way to have anything from photo galleries, blog entries, book lists, easily changeable menus etc...
Are there any concrete benchmarks for comparing models for different types of programming tasks?
Ask HN: Best Neo-Web1.0 Resources?
I've seen many Neocities-esque projects come and go over the years, but I haven't bookmarked them.

I first accessed the web in 1995 at seven years old and thereafter spent most of my youth online. For better or worse, the then-nascent web raised me.

I'm trying to get out of a funk at the moment. I've tried the whole "go outside more" thing, but it's not working. I think what I need is a solid hit of '90s web optimism.

Please share any links you have.
Well, if you never recycle anything and rely only on the extremely low quality reserves you found floating around...

I have no idea why the measurement unities even make sense.
No but beating yourself up over whether or not you've accepted it won't help.
In wake of all the WP craziness a few weeks back, I wonder how long before someone builds a "best of both worlds" CMS to rival WordPress. "You get the nice admin UI, but it generates a static site" type of thing.
I think a great deal of the public does agree with this sentiment, though?

In general, "the public" is usually okay with things that reduce anti-social behavior.
"One of the largest companies in the world". 400 million Outlook users.

Microsoft is Big Tech, but hardly any of the articles that demand Big Tech be reigned in include Microsoft. Why is that?
True, this is why Deep Work is a book people like. Optimizing how much time you can spend without any interruption, immersed in where you attention needs to be and not where it doesn't, but don't expect too much of it, it'll get poisoned and it's not sustainable to think or act otherwise.
"Their hybrid warfare has created massive social rifts" - Really? Do tell. I haven't noticed anything like that. Nor political instability.
How about your puppet government colluding with the soviet union to print a new currency in secret and surprising everyone with a currency reform over night:

https://english.radio.cz/when-savings-were-lost-and-dreams-s...
The consultant solution would be to buy precut onions, so cutting perfect slices becomes someone else's problem.
The average journo would struggle with that
I think it depends. The leaders of North Kore/Iran don't see their countries as we do from the outside. Neither does Russia. It probably won't end up like North Korea, but something like Iran - very likely
I agree with the reasons for their success, but I don't believe that any of those alternatives allowed you to book a room/couch in someone's apartment. They were merely ways to either use properties for vacations (VRBO), semi-hotels like beds and breakfasts, or just regular renting space (Craigslist) for short/long term. Not the same thing as AirBnb at all.
Facebook certainly likes to at least have sense to know what you are conversating about. Sometime in 2016 we and my buddy abroad got our accounts frozen "due to security reasons" at exact same time; what we were doing is having fun with FB Messenger and sending each other PGP-encrypted messages. This least about 2 months and my buddy is Egyptian, so I am pretty sure at some point FB said "we don't know what they chat about and enough is enough". I got my account recovered after multiple layers of verification including video-call to hold up my ID done by third-party ... my friend never gotten his reinstated.
The quiet part is that you will not be able to spend on those necessities when your politics no longer align with the regime.

Total control over money is a guaranteed path to totalitarianism.
Ten years ago was 2014 - Sun, HP, Apple and Google were all very much "old hat" and entrenched. Hell, HP was in the process of significantly cutting back it's business and eliminating jobs[1] (34,000 lost jobs in 2013 and ~16,000 in 2014 is an interesting "positive externality" lol). There was no ecosystem producing them, they were the people who were either running SV, or realizing that their time in the sun was coming to an end.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard
Sounds more like weapons-grade arrogance on the part of the dad, and the kid believed it.
> Probably something up to 50$.

$50 might get you 5 minutes of an attorneys time.
For someone to fight this in court will in the hundreds of hours of billable time. None of these open source client library maintainers is likely going to be able to fund that.

> Redis lab is not that big as a company so they might not be able to hire top notch lawyers.

Redis is a company with a billion dollar valuation that has raised hundreds of millions of dollars, they can afford good lawyers.

Prior art for redis_py clearly belongs to Redis, regardless of when the trademark is actually filed. This is because Redis had to have existed before redis_py.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241126154751/https://silentpoe...
His looks inspired Twin Peaks’ Agent Dale Cooper. Timeless.
I have thoughts and feelings about a lot of this, but the part that stands out to me is LE folks intentionally working with agents out of their jurisdiction to circumvent the laws in their own jurisdiction.

You want to talk about unethical behaviour? That sounds borderline like a poison tree to me.
Even forums were good in the 2000s, before the masses centralized onto Reddit.

I miss the chronological discussion, instead of the echochamber Reddit's voting system encourages/enforces.
Income is profit. Uber made $2.6 billion.

What you are talking about is revenue.Uber generated $11.2 billion in revenue.

Their profit margin was 23%. Up from 2.3% a year ago.

Business terminology is precise. Any founder that makes this mistake in front of an investor will lose their trust. Know the difference.
Not surprising. This reminds me of HBO's Silicon Valley:

Ron LaFlamme: So Pied Piper, You're one of Peter's compression plays, huh?

Richard: One of? How many does he have?

Ron LaFlamme: Not too many, like six or eight.

Richard: Okay. Why are there so many?

Ron LaFlamme: You know how sea turtles have a s*t ton of babies because most of them die on their way to the water? Peter just wants to make sure that his money makes it to the ocean.
Warren Buffett's Philanthropic Vision and Legacy Planning in his latest note [pdf]
Meta faces April trial in FTC case seeking to unwind Instagram merger
Ask HN: How do you handle version numbers in monorepo?
A monorepo by definition will host multiple microservices, and possibly other CLI tools, libraries etc.

What is your strategy for assigning version numbers to different artifacts?
OWASP Top for LLM Applications, updated for 2025
It’s also bad for preservation because the disc doesn’t actually have the playable game anymore.
On the other hand, fellow food youtuber Adam Ragusea swears by the importance of heterogeneity. Optimizing for uniformity might not be the best strategy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cWRCldqrxM
Even better, based on queue latency instead of length
Reform health care by returning to a free market
I think that's the unstated part: Encryption doesn't handicap law enforcement if they weren't monitoring the communication anyway.

[Edit: Though in fairness, if they weren't monitoring everything but then decided they had grounds - or even (gasp) a warrant - to monitor a specific set of communications, then encryption handicaps law enforcement.]
All I could make of it was Elizabeth, New Jersey--a fine place, I'm sure, but not one I often hear of on HN.
Generally agree with the sentiment that you should stop trying to create if you lose the spark. Don’t understand this idea that you HAVE to pay attention to social media and world news. Just don’t?
The non-theoretical answer for Europe is just Latin because the names need to eventually be read by people who don't know Greek or Cyrillic.
I think the inherent contradiction stands. You are right to point it out.

However, there _is_ another side to it: the law enforcement agencies have a harder job now and it needs to be acknowledged as such.

The acknowledgement does not require agreeing to let up on fundamental principles of privacy. But, so that resources could be invested in ways that do not require hoovering up people's personal data en masse.
Stanford Research Reveals 9.5% of Software Engineers 'Do Virtually Nothing'
Did this happen? Or?
Reddit was a source of frustration for me many years ago before I finally quit. It doesn't tell you in the ToS that you may not freely discuss certain topics, so it comes as a chock when your post gets deleted and that there are no alternative subreddits in sight to discuss the same topic unhindered.

So it's a very similar experience to OP. There are hidden rules decided by the whims and desires of the mods and possibly even the administration.

This is not, imo, a successful way of moderating a website. You need to be more clear about what the rules really are, and if the rules are not clear, be forgiving. We are human beings and should treat each other with some level of leniancy and forgiveness. Otherwise, we may as well let a computer moderate instead, and relieve all the unpaid heroes from their duties. No offense.
He's also ignoring that the layers of the onion become significantly thinner the farther away from the center they are. So this analysis is way off even for a perfectly symmetrical onion.
Used to love Unreal and UT. Too bad all the bots ruined the game. Low gravity sniper servers were my favorite mod. Used to be on the NTHZ team.
Huh, that’s clever! Do you have to choose that at compile or launch time, or does a program start like that and then “grow” when it uses more than 32GB of heap?
Asteroids which enter a planet's atmosphere will probably yield even better food, because they will be a little meteor.
I didn't say that any women were raped. I said they had more to worry about. The study itself is pretty clear about what is happening.
There are also (stupid) people who like to point laser pointers to helicopter pilots...
I'm definitely also heading increasingly to "digital minimalism".

Or maybe online minimalism. The "digital" is kind of orthogonal.
"Y Combinator seems to be the perfect place for mergers. Every winter for the past three winters, Y Combinator has funded a podcasting company. In winter 2017, Breaker. In winter 2018, The Podcast App. And in winter 2019, Brew."

https://dan.bulwinkle.net/blog/there-should-be-more-mergers/
A class is just a function in the category of Javascript.
It will probably work out just fine as they become a key player in European LNG.

Turkey couldn’t have serviced their debt with rising interest rates and continued government spending on expansion.

Being inflation averse makes sense when you can’t reasonably make use of funds. It’s not clear how much of that is actually related to the business cycle and how much is related to MMT, regardless of what adherents would have you believe.
I feel the same about Javascript codebases. As I like to say, hell is other people's Javascript.
I doubt it. Yes, FSD is more flexible and can also drive reasonably well on city streets, but there is a reason why it is not certified for level 3 on motorways. It would most likely fail certification. With a level 3 system, I can take my eyes off the road and watch a movie. Doing that with FSD, even in the best conditions, is suicidal. Level 3 vehicles must have an extremely low failure rate. Any crash would quickly be picked up by the media.

FSD is a versatile level 2 system, but at best a prototype for level 3. If we are talking about prototypes, it has to be compared to prototypes from other manufacturers like this <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uSph0asNsk> fully autonomous system from ... 11 years ago. The reason FSD is available to the average consumer is mostly a matter of philosophy, not technology.
If we allowed a TRUE free market the US drug prices would collapse. If I could buy a drug from an online pharmacy in literally any other country I would be saving 90% of money.

It is absolutely crazy that us Americans accept this broken system.
Unreal and Unreal Tournament Are in the Internet Archive
I also run an uptime monitoring service with the same limitation, it's not sustainable in the long term to offer a free tier otherwise.

A bit annoyed about this change though, I used to recommend folks looking for a ridiculous free tier use uptime robot instead.
> SIGINT would love you to believe they can't read your messages because of encryption.

I think this line of thinking can lead to a sort of defeatist ignorance. For example, can anyone break the default cipher suite of wireguard or gpg? I really don't think so.
FUTO ID – peer-to-peer verification system
Signal requires a telephone number.
This article is about people potentially losing their internet access because a media corporation decides to accuse them of something. It isn't about an internet site choosing not to broadcast them, which could be done at any time.

You're talking about someone who lost access to twitter and facebook after using them to stage a violent coup to overturn the united state election for president. That's a pretty high bar to lose your ability to access two websites.

I can't believe anyone would try to compare these two things as having anything to do with each other.
How confident are you that the output is truly SEO optimized? I've tried AI-powered SEO tools before and observed no difference in traffic metrics.
It wasn't a definition. The person you replied to used "means" in the sense of "necessarily implies", not in the sense of "is precisely equivalent to". That's what the symbols in my earlier comment meant.

E.g.

> "Murder" is a legal term, it means the act was premeditated.

Somebody who says that is not claiming that all premeditated acts are murder.
Video introduction/explanation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbHAVGukMBw
Backdoor the app itself and add an extra key?
Not only do the instruments require practice to sound good (I've been playing electric bass for three years and am just beginning to sound better than bad), but a huge part of the process is learning to listen to the instrument and make adjustments. The beauty is that you can immediately hear the result of the adjustment. If it sounds better, you keep it. Otherwise you move until you get closer to what you're looking for. With a prompt based ai tool, it is not possible to make low latency adjustments. Even if you could, how would you articulate the subtle adjustment to the llm?

My sense is that contrary to marketing, ai tools will be most useful to people who already have musical skill and will actively subvert musical development in most people who rely on it too early in their process.
When the entire point of the enterprise (sky in this case) is to enable criminals, wouldn’t the enterprise itself be part of the criminal conspiracy?

I am all for privacy, but I’m also for rule of law. If I could start an encrypted messaging company that marketed exclusively to criminals, then wouldn’t I expect to be charged as abetting the crimes committed as a result of facilitating that communication?

It’s a question of intent. Law isn’t black and white- and law recognizes that tools can be dual use. It’s not perfect but nothing is.
Reminds me of an organization buying pagers since they are more "secure".
Maybe it has to do with preparing for this:
https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol
https://archive.ph/2024.11.26-114301/https://blog.stackademi...
Mirrors and lights are generally cheaper than a whole LIDAR unit when I get lightly sideswiped.
I guess you need to hire engineers who also enjoy writing and are good at it.
The public would probably say that they agree that things that reduce anti-social behavior.

But if you instead phrase it as: “should international law enforcement have a perpetual copy of every single written message you have ever sent in order to reduce anti social behavior?” You will discover that there is a limit to what people will tolerate.
> it would make sense you would have to allow Microsoft to "reformat, display, and distribute" for the purpose of providing you that service.

That would be me sharing a specific document with a specific person. If their terms sepcified that they would only ""reformat, display, and distribute" to people we personally give permission to then that would be fine, but it doesn't.
Sure, there's one, 'loop2(_, 101).'.

If it wasn't a toy problem but rather a larger set of rules describing a more salient algorithm it would matter more whether you could pour in more facts as data enters the system.

I get your point, I personally do a lot of crude concurrency with POSIX fork() and shell spawns from within suitable programming languages, e.g. Picolisp, Elixir.
Except these kinds of secure apps are never broken by attacking the encryption, but by just infiltrating/seizing the servers.
The Finite Fall – Greg Egan
> These hidden "expectations" that people seem to have regarding free and open source software

Taking this to a logical conclusion; If a plumber/lawyer/<professional> offers services for free, and those services end up killing, or massively damaging someone, can they just say the same thing to absolve themselves of all liability?

I also wish to change things, in the opposite direction. FOSS devs should explicitly mark things as not-for-prod; rather than pushing things as prod-ready when they aren't. I think some kind of change will come upon FOSS in the future so people can rely on it, and sadly I think that change will be adoption by corporates (w/ legal budgets) rather than the FOSS devs/ORGs themselves becoming more mature.
That is a new quantum thing to me, but looks interesting, thanks.
Another potential avenue for problems like this, which I'm a fan of, is taking advantage of k8s's static CPU policy:

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cpu-mana...

Using this (plus guaranteed QoS), you end up with containers which can only even "see" a subset of cores of the whole node (and they get those cores all to themselves), which is great for reducing noisy neighbors when big machines are running many different services.
Building the same AI agents with 3 frameworks: LangGraph vs. CrewAI vs. Swarm
I’ve seen it before—a SaaS claiming to offer end-to-end encryption simply because it uses HTTPS/SSL for communication between the client and server. It’s laughable, but the lack of clear regulations or standards defining E2E encryption lets them get away with treating the client and server as the “ends.”

Not sure if that’s what happened here but it wouldn’t surprise me.
Timeleft: Friend Friending Platform
I've long been fascinated by dating apps, markets and match making. It's interesting to see these guys pull off something that YC has historically dismissed as a "tarpit" idea.
Goes to show, with the right product sense, many tarpit ideas can be done.
I'm not saying this because they're disagreeing with me. Inflation is probably one of the most talked about topics of the past few years, I find it impossible that people haven't heard about the multi-layered complexity of it, and thus anyone blaming it purely on "money printing" has to be acting in bad faith.
Haven’t had enough coffee to think about this rigorously.

My intuition says that as long as you could get to the desired 3D shape from revolving the 2D shape around an axis, essentially integrating the area into a volume, the results will be valid or equivalent.

I don’t think that’s the entire story, there are probably other ways to simplify 3D shapes. And yes, onions will have non constant variations (or ones that don’t cancel out to 0) along the sweep which is what actually invalidates the real world application.
Follow the incentives.

The only practical check acting against the whims of these agencies is that if they do things that are too horrible the resulting public perception will be bad for the career advancement prospects of the top ranks who want to move into politics where optics matters.
French Court Expands Google and Cloudflare DNS Blocking to Combat Piracy
>The cybertruck, for example, was subject to a recall because the rearview camera wouldn't come up, but the mirrors are insufficient to back the vehicle up safely without the camera.

Every vehicle since 2018 has been required to have one for safety. No car or truck is sufficiently safe without one.
I've heard many unique, difficult or important profiles or roles as being described as 'lonely' in a 'lonely at the top' kind of way (but not limited to primacy). This would include artists, entrepreneurs and leaders, Q-School graduates...
I am fine with C++ memory safety if I am mostly working with RAII and explicit move semantics when needed (it is not perfect, but it will get us through the night). However, fighting the borrow checker drastically _decreases_ my quality of life, and I couldn’t find the way to get myself to free flowing code as I had in other languages.

Interestingly, I have the same feeling when trying to write something with Vulkan — the amount of ceremony and boilerplate before you even get to the first triangle is a huge barrier for my productivity. I want something more immediate.
Rust and Go vs. Everything Else
When you have tens of thousands of criminals using a single app, the reward of cracking that in some way is gigantic, and these apps are created by a team of a few people which can't cover every angle like Apple can.
YC is more focused on B2B now, so this will change.
Nobody has sabotaged European energy security more than European governments. The divestment from nuclear and reliance on LNG was an obvious disaster in the making. Taiwan has made a similar blunder and will pay the price at the next whiff of geopolitical instability.
> “This stuff is such a black box,” he said. “You never really know how much your drugs cost you.”

I tried a course of allergy injections (I didn't notice any effect). I asked how much it would cost - NO ONE KNOWS. They have to submit it to insurance and then insurance spins a wheel and says a price.

Health care is not designed for any human in the system. Almost everyone is having a terrible time. It's all for the shareholders.
> It is absolutely crazy that us Americans accept this broken system.

Want to talk about broken systems?

The US government bailed out GM for $51 billion dollars. That's billions that could have been spent on schools, or healthcare or much needed infrastructure.
This month, GM spent billions on stock buybacks and millions on bonuses for execs while firing a ton of regular workers.

I find it staggering Americans are not rioting in the streets. So many systems are utterly and completely broken.