skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unrelated other than being an airplane incident, but I recently was reading up on BOAC flight 911[1] while in Japan, and the full story about how many other air disasters occurred to Japan that year, the plane taxiing past the wreckage of the previous day's crash, passengers who were on BOTH planes, and the Albert Broccoli connection.... just crazy.

Oh and I happened to be on JL2 on Friday, which thankfully landed uneventfully on the tarmac at SFO.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_911
Cybertruck is the same size as the F-150.
I’m firmly in the former group and follow a lot of like-minded people on social media. I can’t think of any time anyone in that group complained about motorcycles or kei trucks. I’m not sure there’s that much overlap between the two groups.
I once ran a stop sign, and nearly hit a car. They pulled up next to me, rolled down their window (I had stopped at my home) and were about to unleash who knows what kinds of profanities at me, and I just said "That was totally my fault. I didn't see the stop sign. I'm sorry."

They stopped dead in their tracks, shrugged and nodded, and left. Owning mistakes is an extremely powerful tool when used correctly.
between 20%-60% of internet traffic today uses quic/http3 (udp). depends on many factors. so like... many victims, even the majority maybe, are using udp.

and the solutions you suggested are either non-starters for various reasons, or already being done and considered table stakes
For seven-plus years, I was addicted to opioids and amphetamines. And then, sort of like OP, one day I just had enough of all that — and I stopped.[1]

That was two-and-a-half years ago, and my life has been enormously better since. I spent all day today skiing. I have no idea what I did three years ago today, but I doubt it was much more than a lot of heroin and methamphetamine. Four years ago today, same thing. Five years ago today, same thing. It doesn’t feel real, but it happened.

Just wanted to chime in with another voice saying that if you want to turn your life around, it’s possible.

[1] I take physician-prescribed buprenorphine every day, and I expect that to continue for the rest of my life.
If you go to a donqi the price tags list without the tax besides small text that either lists the full price or says "+10% consumption tax" or along those lines.

As a tourist you don't always have to pay the consumption tax though.
It cant bypass all captchas and thats what im talking about.
One reason why legalese is so incomprehensible is because it has to cover all conceivable edge and corner cases explicitly. It rubs up against the limits of human language.
This approach is nothing more than security via obscurity and nmap is an extremely useful tool that I run against my own networks all the time.
Every local store I walk into is trying to fool me by not including sales taxes, why would online stores be any different?
If I lose my only front door key, I can't get into my house.

This is why I keep a spare.
you are absolutely on point - i would prefer having a real filesystem with deduplication (not compression), which offers data in a compact form, with good read speed for further processing.

i was already brainstorming of writing a custom purpose-built archive format, which would allow me to have more fine grained control over how i can lay out data and reference it.
the thing is that this archive is most likely not absolutely final (additional versions being added) - having a plain filesystem allows for easier adding of new entries.
an archive file might have to be rewritten.

if i go the route of custom archive, i can in theory write a virtual filesystem for it to access it read only like it would be a real filesystem... and if i design it properly, maybe even write it.

still would prefer to use a btrfs filesystem tbh ^^
will brainstorm a bit more over the next days - thanks for your input!
> we should judge people based on their efforts to improve, and

The world did not change very quickly in regards to social norms or acceptance even in 1950, and colonialism was still very much in vouge back then. The US didn't give up the Philippines and UK didn't give up India until WW2 was wrapping up. Most economic studies I've seen draw a thick line at 1950 as "post war economy" etc etc. Values of "efforts to improve" may not have existed at all in the mainstream media back then. Tintin was/is the French equivalent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe today.
In my case I was using CBOR, not protobuf. The effect could be similar though when moving from json to protobuf. You get a much more efficient serialization and deserialization. This reduces CPU demand on server side for sending response payload and for client to receive the payload.
It's really basic contract law stuff.

Here in Sweden, if the amount isn't clearly presented, there's no agreement to pay the specified amount, so there's no contract and no obligation to pay-- an agreement becomes binding because of the reasonable expectation of a party on the counterparty.

I don't understand American contract law, since I even see ideas like changing agreements, which are completely contrary to the very notion of a contracts as I understand it, so it's nice that something is done about these strange practices.

I don't understand how it's come to this point though. That courts have been willing to tolerate things that aren't in the contract (i.e. changes to contracts), provisions that aren't clear, etc., and complex and strange provisions even in contracts of adhesion and things presented to consumers.
I would be wary of adding ghost hosts as that might attract more scans and potential hacks. This is the equivalent of adding 1000 fake locks to your door, all of which appear open, in the hopes that an intruder guesses that you are actually using one of the fake locks.
An Open-Source Chrome Extension for Instant AI-Powered Annotations
Hey HN!
I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on called LightUp. It’s an experimental open-source Chrome extension designed to make understanding and processing web content faster and easier.
What is LightUp?
LightUp enhances your browsing experience by providing instant AI-powered annotations. Highlight any text on a webpage, and LightUp pops up with helpful options like:
Explain – Get detailed explanations for complex text.
Summarize – Condense long passages into concise points.
Analyze – Dive deeper into the context and meaning.
Translate – Quickly switch between languages.
With LightUp, the goal is to keep you in flow without switching tabs or breaking focus.
Why did I create it?
The idea was inspired by Genius’s song lyrics annotations but built for everything on the web. Whether you’re reading an article, studying, or just curious about a term, LightUp brings the answers directly to you in an elegant, intuitive way.
How does it work?
It’s built using ReactJS, TypeScript, and TailwindCSS, with seamless integration into your browser. It supports both local models (like LLaMA) and cloud APIs (e.g., OpenAI) to process text based on your setup.
Some features include
Real-time feedback and interactive customization.
User-friendly settings for configuring models, keys, and more.
Who is this for?
Anyone who values focus and context:
Students: Summarize or explain complex topics while studying.
Professionals: Analyze reports or translate content quickly.
Curious Minds: Dive deeper into topics without leaving the page.
How can you try it?
The project is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. I’d love for you to check it out, give it a spin, and share your feedback.
Here’s the GitHub link: https://github.com/mohamedsadiq/LightUp
And the website: https://www.boimaginations.com/lightup

I’m still refining it and would love to hear your thoughts or ideas. What features would make this even more useful for you?
Thanks for reading!
The only reason why status quo is there because people are less likely to remove items from their online shopping carts once they've added it. There are techniques and shopping check out flows that have been perfected over the years to drive up the online sales. Realistically, it won't move the needle for the people who are on this forum because of the average salary (a few dollars are usually not a big deal for us), but it can be a make it or break it choice for a good chunk of customers.

I'm not sure why one wouldn't want to know the real price before the checkout. It's a bit baffling to me. It could be a cultural thing as well, then I guess, there isn't really a right or wrong way of looking at it.
Japan has the exact same sales tax rate(s) across the entire country, and it rarely changes. In the US, we have thousands of different rates and they change multiple times per year.

Also, while it is the norm in Japan to include the tax, there are some exceptions.

(Japan has 2 rates, 8% for certain items like food, and 10% for everything else).
Unnoted real evil -- most grading being a zero-sum game

Ergo, if you have some students who use AI tools (and accept that those tools produce better papers and/or produce them with less effort) then those students will be ranked higher than students who study equally hard, are equally smart, and don't use AI tools.

Which then collapses simply down to more $ = better grades and higher class rank.

That's bullshit.

There have always been tutors, study groups, etc. that offer varying degrees of academic aid, but the broad accessibility of AI writing aids is novel.
I started learning rotations, translations, scaling, shears using matrices in high school.

Affine transforms are apparently attributed to Mobius and Gauss. That’s like the 1700s.

What is vector based 2D graphics if not a direct application of geometry? Were we not using well known maths results when 2D graphics was first implemented on a computer?
My favorite example of this lunacy is the restaurant nearby that sells pies. If they box your pie for you to take home, it's a grocery item and not taxed. If they give you utensils to eat it in the store, it's a restaurant meal and therefore taxed.

They literally can't know the price until you tell them whether you'd like a fork with it.

Now, this restaurant works around it by having both prices listed, but I can imagine a million freaking variants of that for an online sale: "you have to pay our local taxes, but almost maybe yours, unless you check out on a Sunday between noon and 5PM, which is a tax holiday on your block (but not your neighbors' across the road), so understand that the price may change between when you add it to your cart and when you click the 'pay' button."

I'm only a little bit exaggerating.
You'll be sad to find out the company went out of business a long time ago
There's no universe in which OS/2 was a hit. IBM was simply delusional. They wanted OS/2 to give them back the monopoly on computing hardware they once had in the early 1980s before the "PC clones" took over the marketplace. That was never going to happen.

You can pick from any number of business, technical or marketing decisions - and there are many to choose from - that contributed to its failure, but fundamentally, nothing was going to save OS/2 from its original sin.
Most sports have a salary cap to prevent being able to buy your way to success. They recognize that having more money than your opponent gives you an unfair advantage and destroys competition.
I totally want to get a Kei truck to scoot around town in.

Issues seem to be they run $x,xxx-$xx,xxx to get an automatic one in the US and my state wont allow it on highways/some roads.
I think the argument was a flippant response by another user riffing off of a conspiracy theorist who misunderstood how passkeys work, and while I appreciate the effort you’ve made trying to salvage it I am skeptical that Netflix would be motivated enough to be part of their hypothetical Netflix/Google/Microsoft/Apple conspiracy but not enough to even implement passkey support.
So OS/2 exposes VM86 to the user (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_8086_mode) (as does Windows) but also emulates POST booting behaviour from diskettes?
I keep trying rails because I love Ruby so much but I've never been able to build anything in it because I find it's so heavily skewed towards an old-fashioned "traditional" stack and I tend to build SPAs with an API. Rails can certainly do that, but its tutorials and guides don't promote it at all so it feels like you're going against the flow from the start trying to do something that they don't seem to want you to do. I wish that wasn't the case, because the language is beautiful and the framework seems quite cool.

I always just end up using express instead...
Alas, our need for safety is far more primal than our need for freedom.
I would love better typesafety in Ruby, but really don’t like the Sorbet solution.

However, interestingly I don’t find I need libraries that much with Rails, which is part of what I love.

I started out hating the Ruby language but honestly I’ve begun to like it the more I use it.
i tried FICLONERANGE via a python wrapper btw - it turns out, that i can only clone ranges aligned to block boundaries :(

BTRFS is very neat per se, but documentation and help (most of all in very niche cases like this one here lol) is not that easy to come by.
my plan would be to properly process the data set, and then make it available as a BTRFS snapshot... you can export btrfs send as a file as well for storage etc.

if all my tries to use BTRFS fail, i might to write my own tooling and virtual filesytem as well, but optimized for my use case (MPQ files and such).
thanks for your input so far.
> There is no sport that punishes a competitor who is constantly winning, as long as they are competing fairly

Almost all North American sports have a player entry draft, where the weighting is based on your success. The best teams (eg the Detroit Red Wings of the 90’s and 00’s) are given garbage draft picks, while the bottom-feeders (eg the Edmonton Oilers of the late 00’s-early 10’s) are given (the opportunity for) superstars. This is clearly a punishment for doing well, and a reward for being terrible.
We need videocards with lots of memory. Give me a 4080 with 192gb. I would be happy. We really need AMD to come up with new cards to wake up NVidia and start some fierce competition
Microsoft has made it very, very clear that they are building toward a future with the expectation that you are always on-line, and if you aren't, they are going to make life painful in large and small ways.
Turns out everyone in SF didn't need to throw away their black spatulas
Because according to Japanese law, in most of the scenarios, the full price, to your best ability, has to be presented to the potential customer. Same goes for Australia, if I recall correctly. No clue about Denmark, I'm sorry. But assuming it's similar over there as well.

It's not that NA is the only one susceptible to A/B testing. It's more of a - it's-grey-area-to-illegal to not show full prices outside of NA.
Have you used it with Turbo/Hotwire/Stimulus?

The more I work with MVC page-based apps in Rails, the more I’m convinced it’s an incredible default that you should deviate from only when it really makes a lot of sense.
Oddly enough, the average EU consumer has no problem understanding that the label price is the full price of a purchase, while online prices might include extra stuff such as delivery.

Maybe you're just less intelligent than the average consumer and need some more protection? Or is it something else?
Dish is evil.

Years ago when signed up with them I opted to pay the extra service for local tv channels, which required an andditional antenna to install.

For some reason the installer couldn’t fit it securely on our house, and said to call Dish to remove the service since we cannot receive it.

Dish refused to remove the local service! They said since we signed a contract we were stuck paying for it even though they couldn’t fit the antenna.

I pointed out in a hundred different ways that the contract also required them to provide a service which they are not providing so we shouldn’t have to pay.

All of my attempts to reason with them were ignored, and their call staff refused to escalate to their manager.

Long story short we had to pay for twelve months for something they couldn’t provide to us.

Literally the minute the contract was up we cancelled (it was easier to cancel back then).

I would never ever go near this company again.
Yeah I wouldn't use backbone either. I use reusable components.

It really hasn't been a productivity issue for me... I wrote all of fastcomments (uis, backend), so... :P
For those who don't know, it's a search engine.

Presumably it will be a choice in Firefox, but won't replace Google as default. At least I highly doubt Ecosia will be able to beat Google's annual billion USD deal to stay as default search in Firefox URL bar.
Kroger too

You have to log in with an account and “clip” the imaginary coupons in their app for the price to apply when you scan your card
More than DNS name though--while DNS is susceptible to MITM and cache poisoning, afaik passkeys requires HTTPS so the domain's certificate is validated. Authentication not assertion and all that
I believe this is the default for most of the world. Some countries have some strange differences like Argentina having a table charge on your bill, but here in Australia, the price on the box is the price at the till, with the exception of the card surcharges which are currently being reviewed to be removed.

The exception here is also the holiday surcharge (an extra fee on holidays and Sundays), which has to be "disclosed" before ordering. Usually there is a small sign somewhere that nobody pays attention to.
Chinese Players Review-Bomb Baldur's Gate 3 After Black Myth: Wukong Loses GOTY
> While everyone aboard safely went about their strange day after the crash, the plane was left with $4 million of damage, though it was fixed up and flying again less than 12 months later.

Crazy times.
In NY it's $50000 mandatory for medical expenses before any liability comes into play. I've burned through the entire pile with costs from a driver induced injury.
do you use React capabilities exclusively for state management? I have found that they inevitably fall apart when things get sufficiently complex, which has me reaching for one of the many MANY 'other' state management libraries.... which then sometimes has me reaching for other related things, which then....
> There is a move afoot

Who is behind this move? What individuals, and what politicians? By what legal means is this happening? I've literally never heard of anything like this before - without further details, this is just political flame-baiting.
Discussion (128 points, 5 days ago, 174 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42400008
Okay, what about art? Should we punish and limit the most successful artists to give other people a chance?
Isn't this entire thing what WSDL and SOAP was promising in the early 2000s?
That's a good observation. Yes, IBM has always seen the money in enterprise and tried to solely focus on that while Microsoft has been able to remain ambivalent successfully. Both Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 were great success stories for example.

Even PS/2 line could be a great consumer product if IBM weren't so adamant on making it an enterprise product line.
You want to give the power to the people that make the laws to also decree what is true or not? This is going to turn out well.

I don’t think that having institutions that can legislate the truth is compatible with free and just societies. Political power and democratic majorities do not decide the truth. if you think otherwise I don’t believe there is common ground to be found.
"As an illustration, try to make a website that has 1000 drag-and-drop elements that you can drag around the page. Getting it to render at 60-120 fps is hard and fragile."

Glad I always avoided react then, despite all the hype.
I'd like to see some investigative reporting on who or what organization is trying to get these banned via various state mvcs all around the same time, theres definitely a concerted effort.

The owners groups are battling the mvcs publicly, but nothing from the other side.
Being able to develop with instant feedback and without any tooling is pure joy. Just open a simple text editor and within minutes you have something up and running on your own computer without having to install anything. Then when you want to publish it you just upload it as is to a web server.
And if you need to write a server all you need is a single program called NodeJS where you also get instant feedback and it comes with a standard library that lets you do just about anything.
The only negative about vanilla JS is that writing async code is difficult, but no tooling can solve that problem. Try vanilla JS for one year and your productivity will go up one or two orders of magnitude, because development is now fun, fast and simple. Just don't write too big of a project because when you start to bring in tools its a slippery slope.
And don't write your own tooling because its very addicting.
People make a lot as their side projects through the easy parsing, what software is being made with them? (besides the usual hacker news backend response)
Huh, I find that very surprising. Are the estimates gamed at all? Is there any rule around how accurate they have to be?
Congrats Burak, I can tell a lot of work has gone into this. If I may recommend, a comparison of this project with similar other/state-of-the-art projects would be really good to have in your documentation set for others to understand how your approach differs from them.