skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on the launch! Extremely excited to start using Zero on a side project I've been working on over the next couple weeks.
Tasty, airy baked goods with culinary foam made from peas
> Bootstrap and Sass are for the web.

Cool, so we establish that the likes of Bootstrap and Sass already solve this problem for the web.

> They don't solve the interop problem for Figma/Sketch/Framer

That's irrelevant, isn't it? I mean, do you run apps straight out of Sigma/Sketch/Framer? Do you also think it's reasonable to call out Photoshop/Gimp/MSPaint?

> iOS/macOS/Windows/Android/TVs/Watches/Fridges/Cars

You're trying to refer to platforms/OSes, aren't you? Do you think it makes any sense to bundle everything together? Those who work on iOS/macOS/Windows/Android/TVs/Watches/Fridges/Cars would certainly look at you perplexed just for suggesting that specifying color schemes even registers as a concern in the whole cross-platform discussion.

>
Yeah I realized, but preferred to keep my own format.
(I moved the reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42452180 to the other thread since it's useful there too)
> By dialing the U.S. number (1-800-242-8478) or messaging it via WhatsApp, users can access an “easy, convenient, and low-cost way to try it out through familiar channels,” OpenAI said Wednesday. At first, the company said callers will get 15 minutes free per month.

This is a genius way to get a large corpus of human voices.
(This was originally posted in the other thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451271, but it's useful here too)
I have a feeling you made up "x/2 hours every single day".
A better version of this game with a tutorial: https://lovettsoftware.com/NaturalNumbers/TutorialWorld.lean...
Yeah... auth tokens, resource tokens, rate limiting tokens, monetary tokens, LLM tokens, parser tokens, etc... you might as well name it "thing". It's about as bad as "node".
The US wants to be much more like a wartime US, in the face of its most intense completion since WWII. I think most Americans have no conception of what WWII era US censorship and propaganda looked like, but it looked a lot like modern peacetime China. TikTok is being treated more gently than Tokyo Rose.

Of course things will not go that far domestically... unless the shooting starts.
Hard problems are all around us. You just need to want to solve them.

A PhD is just someone who studied something for a few years.
Ask HN: Any recommendations for free online coding courses for a beginner?
Anything other than the Harvard course
> There is another reasonable solution for Microsoft here. The premise is that the device either has to be supported or open sourced (and therefore supportable by the community). If the OEM is gone the firmware has to be open sourced because the company is no longer supporting it.

Alright, lets say we do that. And let's say it's my PC OEM, and I'm completing my chapter 7 filings today, and I am going to ignore your law to open source my firmware. What are you going to do about it?
Hypothetically it exists to allow companies to hire singular overseas experts like von Braun or Einstein that don't have domestic equivalents. It has become totally accepted to lie on the application though and now it is used to hire Java developers.
Maybe it's a total coincidence that this final rule takes effect the Friday, January 17 and Trump's inauguration is Monday, January 20th. But I sort of wonder.
Design-first thinking with tokens is a game-changer for an org building a product that needs to adapt to multiple clients. It's still useful for a singularly-branded product just for separation-of-concerns reasons, but maybe less useful.

Design tokens aren't concerned with implementation. (CSS vars, constants, etc.). Design tokens are an abstraction for standardizing and communicating the values in your design system, regardless of where they show up. Yes, you might implement your design tokens as CSS variables, but not necessarily.
Are the Traces OpenTelemetry Compatible?
Sure, it's possible to approximate occlusion for a fixed viewer. At that point, though, the display is competing with displays like looking glass (lenticular, parallax barrier, or stereograms) that are higher resolution, cheaper, and have a rendering pipeline that's more compatible with standard computer graphics.
Help Me Help Startups Get Traction
Hi HN community,

I’m here looking for your honest feedback. Over the past couple of years, I’ve been researching the challenges startups face when trying to gain traction, particularly through influencer marketing. Many businesses struggle to find the right influencers who align with their values, and managing collaborations often feels like a full-time job.

BrandLink is my attempt to solve this. It’s a platform that simplifies how startups and brands find influencers, manage campaigns, and track performance. The idea is to make influencer marketing more accessible and impactful, especially for those trying to stand out in a crowded market.

What I’m looking for is your perspective. Here are a few questions I’d love your thoughts on:

Does this sound like something startups actually need, or am I missing the mark?
If you’ve worked with influencers (or thought about it), what challenges did you face that we should address?
Are there any features or improvements you’d suggest?
I know the HN community doesn’t hold back when it comes to feedback, and that’s exactly why I’m posting here. I’d love to hear your unfiltered thoughts so we can make BrandLink better and more valuable for startups and brands alike.

I can be reached at sadhikari@soonetinc.com

Thank you for taking the time to share your insights!

Best,
Sean
The concept of "natural death" is self-evidently ridiculous. We treat disease with the best technology possible, but then death has to be "natural."

That notion is at best a distasteful joke before we even get to the ambiguity of what a "natural death" even is, and at worst an evil attempt to define one particular sort of arbitrarily Church-sanctioned death.

What even is "natural death?" Being eaten by a bear? Starving to death because there was a drought and there were no berries for you and your hunter-gatherer buddies to eat? Dying from untreated cancer?

According to Catholic doctrine (to choose an extreme example) we have to keep permanently vegetative people alive indefinitely via feeding tubes and whatever other modern medical technology is required for as long as it takes. What single aspect of that could be described by a sane mind as "natural?"
No one will look at this post in 4 years. Look, hardly anyone looked at this post today!
Maybe for individual battles. But losing an entire war for the survival of the country is the sort of thing where responsibility goes all the way to the top.
Great answer. In your scenarios, let's say OrangeCorp has their 'brand-orange' color token. They've defined it as the hexadecimal `#FFA500`.

Engineer Bob implements it as `hsl(39, 100%, 50%)` in a web project because the loading state requires shifting the color values, and he has a library that works with HSL but doesn't work hex.

What do you store for the source of truth? Are we just storing the hex value, and deriving translations from that? Or are we storing 'brand-orange' with a map of "hex: FFA500" and "HSL: 39, 100, 50"? Does the specification have an opinion?
> If in the past safety conscious swedish engineers cared about it, they surely have very little say right now

Subsidiaries can have a different culture from their parent organizations. Volvo still has engineers and designers in Sweden, and Tata owns Land Rover and Jaguar, which seem to be doing okay safety wise and don't appear to be obviously cutting corners like the Vinfast project. I have seen no evidence of a decline in Volvo's safety record, the "but surely Geely doesn't care." argument is a reverse appeal-to-authority, in the absence of evidence. It is entirely possible that Geely (and Tata) may have poor safety cultures, but their foreign subsidiaries do a much better job.
They can be constants, but not always: a design token can mutate based on device, light/dark/high-contrast mode, viewport size, user preference, locale, brand, product, theme, etc. This mutation can happen at runtime or at build time depending on the use-case.

Examples:
- "primary button background color" may be different across light and dark mode
- "header height" can vary across small and large viewports
- "user avatar background" may be defined by the user themselves
- "brand primary" may change for re-usable UI components based on the brand they're used for
Okay, since you made quite a good argument, I will give you my counter.

The primary problem with JavaScript is that one, the entire ecosystem is prone to breaking. It is a very brittle system.

Next, TypeScript gives you an allure of safety, but at the edges it breaks down because underneath it, it's all just untyped JavaScript.

And the last and the most important one is because it makes it so easy to wrap functions in each other and there are no patterns at all, there is a lot of indirection in most typescript code bases.

This causes API surface area bloat which becomes hard to maintain in the long term.

And tooling doesn't completely solve for this problem either. I have seen code bases where the LSP struggles because of tons of generic types.

I think the most pragmatic alternative is Golang if you are building APIs.

And for a full stackish framework Phoenix and Elixir is a great choice.

Or you can just go all in on Rust like my companies and you get the best of everything.
I have done so multiple times, albeit in the UK.

Thanks for the follow-up. I suspect UK does make a difference, but IANAL in either country. I do, however, have a bit of personal experience in the U. S. :-)
OpenAI Now Lets Users Call ChatGPT Using a 1-800 Number
And depending who the "we" are, also doing the implementation.
We can have separate interpretations of how things play out in practice, anything I list is free to be dismissed as anecdotal. But when I think of famous Christian art, I think of art that depicts Mary (and baby Jesus, yes, but the artists deliberately chose not to depict a scene of Jesus without Mary); there's so many of these that it became its own genre (which is literally named after Mary, not Jesus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_(art) . And when I think of famous Christian cathedrals, I think of the Notre Dame, among the other zillion "Our Lady Of"s that are named after Mary. And when I think of people pointing out modern miracles I think of weeping statues of Mary or people finding Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich; this once again has its own entire genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_apparition . And in Catholic parts of the US at least, IME you're more likely to see a Bathtub Mary outside of a house than a cross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_Madonna . And when I think of the most important prayers, I think of exactly two: the Our Father and the Hail Mary.
What would it really even mean for our brain to be fast or slow? Relative to what?

Inherent speed does not matter and is ill defined, it only matters relative to the environmental processes we have to react to. We’re already orders of magnitude faster than processes like geology and weather, so it is really only other animals where speed matters, and since we’re all using the same basic hardware, we’re on a relatively level playing field there (except for house flies it seems, lol). Time as we understand it may be as much as a cultural construct as anything else (see, for example Timeless physics). Some neurodivergent people, and people from very different cultures don’t experience anything like what most people in our culture refer to as time.

As for thinking about one thing at a time- I am absolutely certain this is false. Our subconscious operates massively parallel, and we only have one conscious thought at a time. But it had an interrupt system that lets it either act instantly itself in an emergency, and to bring things to consciousness when they are important. I’m sure everyone has had the experience of reacting quickly to an emergency with no conscious thought, or suddenly knowing the solution to a problem you hadn’t even been consciously thinking about.
I'd rather have H1-B visas be a 5 year unrestricted work permit.

America needs to keep attracting the world's best and brightest, but linking it to a specific employer is problematic. Opens up employees to mistreatment.

I'd say charge a straight up fee, 500k upon approval. That gets you 5 years, if your wiz making 400k a year it's a great deal.
It's supply and demand economics: if there is a low supply of workers and a high demand for them, then employers are supposed to compete for them with more pay, more benefits, training/education, etc. When the supply of workers is artificially increased, then companies have less incentive to compete. It becomes a buyer's market for employers.
While complimentary, the various policy, legislating, rules making, procedures, and enforcement are distinct activities in the governmental stack.

By necessity, legislators delegate rule making to agencies.

Who do you want determining the precise definition of a kilogram? Congress or NIST?

By necessity, some rules have the force of law. Like how many state's Secretaries of State are entrusted with clearly scoped essential administrivia, like how to run elections.

Do you really want legislators doing the technical and operational evaluation of tabulators?

Of course, precisely where the lines are between various jurisdictions must be adjudicated. That's why we have the courts. IIRC, most cases heard by SCOTUS pertain to administrative law.

How else could our government function?
Fun times reviewing the masking logic of credit card data spewed out in system logs, in base64-encoded (or god forbid, EBCDIC-encoded base64-encoded) ISO 8583.
There is a difference between latency and throughput.
Component-level repairs died in the consumer market in the early 2000s. The only way to bring it back from the dead would be to release the complete service manuals (i.e. https://www.ebay.com/itm/266686900554)
And obama made that happen in his last days in office in Dec 2015/Jan 2016
Alternatively, you can take them to small claims court and see if the judge there is hyper-interested in upholding their insanely restrictive contracts. They can appeal a judgment, of course, but that's likely to be far more expensive for them than just honoring the decision.
I think we can forgive anyone who expresses skepticism about the current court's adherence to the spirit and even the letter of the law after it created presidential immunity out of thin air in Trump v. United States, both because it ran afoul of the Supreme Court's tradition of issuing narrow rulings but also because there's literally nothing in the constitution about executive immunity. As there exists a grant of immunity for legislators (Article I, Section 6), it's clear the framers understood the concept but chose to exclude it for the president.

It's like the current court took a look at all the vitriol over Citizens United being one of the worst decisions in history and went "hold my beer".

That said, the present issue of TikTok seems like an open-and-shut first amendment case, regardless whether it is ultimately a tool for influence operations by a hostile foreign power. The price we pay for freedom of speech is that it enables bad faith actors as well.
Very true.

The definition of realist has flaws...
Yes, and also design changes never seem to align precisely with the parameters you anticipated at the beginning. I.e., you don’t just need to update one color variable, you need to update that color AND add a secondary accent color AND change the positioning of the logo with respect to the company name, etc.
The biggest issue with going from a home machine to a server is that you may lose having a "residential IP address", which is something that you'll want to have in order to prevent automation from being blocked outright. Hence the popularity of residential proxies. However, some servers live in a residential IP space, which makes them optimal for running web automation in. As was partially covered in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr90iQmNsKM, GitHub Actions appears to live in a "Residential IP space", which makes it a good server choice for web automation.
But this representation is exclusive to JuliaSim, is it not? MTK package didn't have equivalents of Dialog, Icon and Diagram annotations the last time I checked.
As a software developer, I completely agree.

As a person who's often tasked with building reports for presentation, and more often, for passing on to analysts to expand on, I find that notebooks give a much more accessible workflow than other options. Excel is way too limiting, most of the downstream analysts aren't software devs and don't have, know, or want to know an IDE. Notebooks give a way to combine graphs, text and code (show your work) in a concise form.
Discussion (46 points, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42453341
Sezzle: A Failing "BNPL" Platform Playing Short Term Tricks as Insiders Cash Out
Florida residents are going to use more VPN services now.
OpenAI WebRTC Audio Demo
I'll have a good think about whether we can process things in parallel or only in series the next time I decide to walk and chew gum while bouncing a ball, not tripping over things, and staying out of traffic.
It's not the only last minute thing the administration does that it could have done before:

- Launched rockets from Ukraine
- remote work contracts extended to 2029 after Elon + Vivek wants people to RTO
- TikTok ban

And the classic answer is always the same here:
,,it was all planned for years'' (sure, but the decision is made after the elections on purpose)
You can host a Unifi controller yourself. No cloud needed.
You don't have to fix bugs. They can remain bugs. Deadlines are other people's problems.
Agreed. That's why my emphasis on the word home. You can have shelter, i.e. a roof over your head but you don't have what you'd call a home but you want a home. Shelter is also a loaded word, i.e. what about the "homeless" person that has a tent and is camping out in a rail yard somewhere? Is that enough "shelter" to count?

A "digital nomad" that crashes on a different friend's couch, possibly in different countries even every month by choice is not really homeless.

Someone that can't afford / find a place other than a friend's couch or their car is homeless. Even if he's not completely shelterless. Same with a homeless person sleeping in a homeless shelter. They have shelter. But no home. This one gets more complicated in terms of the wording because some of these homeless people have been doing it for so long that they actually seem to prefer to be home and shelterless in some cases. Sometimes they don't really prefer sleeping in a church entrance during sub-zero (C) but they prefer it over the rules or company in the homeless shelter (e.g. alcohol / pet related). These are many of the "living in the streets" people my parent commenter thought were the only ones that count as homeless I suppose.
The US is life of author plus 70 though meaning anything written in my lifetime will never be available in my lifetime. That number dominates for me personally and by dint of the weight and output of the US it has a big impact world wide too.
The economy is not a sport to be won. I think you are maybe prioritizing a some notion of fairness to those competing in the market, while to someone like Khan the thinking is more, how can we make the market function in a way that provides the biggest net-benefit to society?
> Signing in with a passkey is three times faster than using a traditional password

Unless I'm using a password manager.

> Users are three times more successful signing in with passkeys than with passwords (98% versus 32%).

With my password manager, I almost never fail to sign in. Admittedly, the autofill does mess up on some websites and then I have to spend a few seconds fixing it.

On the other hand, I am pretty darn skeptical that only 2% of users with passkeys have trouble signing in. Are they not counting the people whose passkey accidentally got deleted, or who are on the wrong device, since those people (by the nature of passkeys) could not even attempt to sign in?
ok, I think I understand what you meant better. I guess my mental model of UI has some sort of utility baked in but I see how this isn't necessarily the case. I would agree with this take actually. It is deffinitely is a jarring experience with with terminal stuff as every TUI is a world unto itself.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Haskell, Ada, C++, Awk: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33936366 - Dec 2022 (49 comments)

Haskell, Ada, C++: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19570776 - April 2019 (55 comments)

Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ an Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14267882 - May 2017 (59 comments)

Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ vs. Awk vs (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13275288 - Dec 2016 (68 comments)

Haskell, Ada, C++, Awk: An Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7050892 - Jan 2014 (24 comments)

Haskell v Ada v C++ v Awk... An Experiment in Software Prototyping Productivity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7029783 - Jan 2014 (23 comments)
I'm just going to copy and paste my comment from a previous related post -

"I started with Mike Dane (Giraffe Academy) on YouTube. Watched his programming videos beginning with Python. I hadn't yet decided what area of programming I wanted.
Then I found Bucky Roberts (The New Boston) next, and watched videos on areas I was interested in.

Then I started looking for frontend projects to code along to and I stumbled on Brad Traversy (Traversy Media).

So, personally, I'd recommend either of these guys I just mentioned. After getting the basics down, just start building stuff. That's the only way to TRULY learn. "
Is the decision to close one factory (or impose penalties until they clean up) on any elected official’s radar? I’d expect that to be handled at a lower level, but I don’t know how that stuff really works.