skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Climate group that called for Gaza ceasefire risks losing federal funding
More people than ever are capable of this today by a wide margin than at any point in history.

Computers being insanely useful out of the box is what has driven their adoption, and that widespread access has done more to enable people to explore programming than dropping hapless novices into a BASIC prompt at startup.
This change of mentality is similar to how monolithic kernels get praised, only to have daemons, microservices and containers all over the place, using a much slower OS IPC communication channel than if it had been a microkernel from the start.
I haven't heard the word "mtxns" before. Is that short for "microtransactions"?
I’m actually really fond of the model: here are the tools you can do anything with them but here is packed bundles that do something and the ecosystem is funded by selling bundles which often are just a UX for the tools and having them preconfigured.

Gives everyone the option of picking free or paid options, depending on people’s needs.
It is a good idea, just not for you or your best interests.
The first paragraph seems to be an invitation to create your own emergency procedure (mine would actually be less "wild"...).
AfrAId
You don't have to. On grapheneos google play service isn't given special privileges and is sandboxed like any other normal app.
> You write this as if the AI itself independently decided to write that profile.

There are numerous fake social media pages where posters oretend to be a minority, but are run by state actors to sow division in the US. Those have been extremely successful in fooling people; I wonder if its success is related to pre-existing biases readers already have in terms how they think "others" talk.
What a phenomenal article and reading UX.

Explaining a difficult concept in terms anyone can understand. Great diagrams and examples. And top marks on readability UX for spacing and typography.

OP, what inspired you to create your current theme? Have you ever considered creating an engineer-focused publishing platform?
UK gravestone carvers condemn blatant reproduction of their designs
For an EV certificate, you need to have a government-registered business [0], though a record of Doing Business As should be sufficient. Where I live, that involves filling a form, paying a fee, and taking out a classified add for 3 weeks [1]. There are cheaper certificates, OV, that merely require a notary public's confirmation (which is what I did).

However, as the other post said, Windows will treat an EV certificate with very high trust and should not show SmartScreen. For OV signed software, it looks like [3] Microsoft will use some telemetry to assemble a trust score as people download and accept the risk of running the software, over days or weeks.

[0] https://support.ksoftware.net/support/solutions/articles/358...
KSoftware is a sales partner for Sectigo. I used their service and later Sectigo directly, before last year's change to require FIPS hardware for managing the code signing certificate.

[1] https://www.cookcountyclerkil.gov/vital-records/business-not...

[2] https://support.ksoftware.net/support/solutions/articles/232...

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/a/65653792/504994
This reminds me of one of those dice I saw that can roll anything from a D4 through a D20, if not more. Technically usable, but ... complicated.
I would love to get back to camera but I can't justify it anymore.

I started using iPhone Pros a few generations ago for the better camera, and it’s been great for random snapshots. The adage about the best camera is the one in your pocket is true.

But, I still have a mirrorless (Olympus) and some vintage 35mm cameras. The mirrorless is great for photos that I want to look very good (portraits, landscapes, mixed lighting, etc). The film cameras are a pleasure to use, but I’ll freely admit that using them is a bit like preferring a nice Seiko to a smart watch or basic digital Casio.

Anyways, with the prices of used cameras being so low, you can get a really nice, compact mirrorless setup for $500 or less. And fixed lens 35mm rangefinders from the 70s can be had for $200 or so. I won’t claim it’s a cheap hobby, but it’s no worse than golf or cycling.
Well, the “last mile” of value add that makes something useful to end users (esp non-technical ones) is the “last 90%” of the job.

We dismiss these things as wrappers on HN because we like to believe that the technical side is 90% of the work.

But this belief has an easy antidote: ask to see the "UX" (lmao) we built.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42585112
I’m guilty of this. Having recognized the need to market my product, I’m trying to go about it in the most honest way possible and one that is in line with my values. Before this, I had the opinion of my work will speak for itself, but now I’m trying to at least raise awareness about my work.
A hamster wheel for the mind. A tricycle with training wheels for the mind.
These two issues are directly correlated.

> I think it's a bit of a cultural defect that we consider a product with 29K (supposedly satisfied) users a failure.

> More problematic (for Kagi) is that it's not a free-standing engine (“Our search results also include anonymized API calls to all major

20K subscribers can’t support the creation of a quality search engine.
It’s just good journalism to give everyone in a story a chance to defend their position, even if those opportunities are often not taken up.
I find that this approach matches my experience but it is difficult to get junior engineers to stop using LLMs without critical thinking.
It’s possible for users to donate money directly for Thunderbird development (since it’s a separate for-profit subsidiary under Mozilla Foundation). All donated money goes into developing and supporting Thunderbird.

But it’s not possible to donate money to support Firefox development because that’s under Mozilla Corporation (another for-profit entity under Mozilla Foundation). This, I believe, has resulted in multiple monetization strategies and offerings, such as Mozilla VPN (which is actually reselling Mullvad), MDN Plus (not sure about how this money is used), etc.

With Google’s antitrust lawsuit going on and the real possibility of Google not being allowed to pay for being the preferred search engine (this was the main source of income for Mozilla Corporation), Firefox is at a bigger risk of not having enough money. Unless Mozilla restructures the organization and finds ways to get money for Mozilla Corporation, Firefox as it exists now will probably have to find a new home with a new name.
Reversing the Animal Crossing letter system (2018)
That’s just a simple linear congruential generator <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator>. In principle it’s possible to devise one that prints anything you want.
Why zoning reform won't solve the housing crisis
I don’t understand this view.

Theory 1: People treasure memories and have been let down by pictures tnat don’t age well from cheap film cameras, then early digital cameras, then phone cameras. Phones have gotten good enough to replace separate devices for most people, but the cameras are still not as versatile. People will spend money for incremental improvements because the payoff will last decades and benefit their children. Apple invests heavily in camera tech to satisfy this need, and in marketing to communicate the benefits.

Theory 2: sheeple buy whatever marketing tells them to, those rubes don’t see any real benefit.

I just don’t see how anyone who enjoys even casual photography could go for theory 2.
Or use the normal amount of water and reduce the liquid after straining the pasta out?
The premise that China does around a third of the world's manufacturing isn't really that surprising, they have more than a sixth of the world's population and there are a lot of areas (e.g. India and Africa) that have large populations and a disproportionately small share of manufacturing.

The real problem isn't that it's a third, it's that it will be something like 2% of commercial aircraft and 98% of PCs, and then the second one is bad. Single point of failure. That's the part that needs to be addressed.
Most probably the bot does not know the identity of the programmers. How would it?
This is a fantastic essay and project, but the chances of getting anyone to play an actual game with it are basically zero.
If you’re meta and you have to defend the AI by admitting “it’s not really intelligent and everything it says is bullshit”, that’s not a position of strength.
That has to hurt. I would really love to read an in–depth analysis of the problem.
Interesting. There actually are various recent hobbyists who have achieved these effects even on an N64 due to the quite programmable hardware. But if the basic idea or concrete algorithms were only invented in 1998, it makes sense that contemporary games didn't use it until the Dreamcast was out.
Is it though? That's certainly not how I've ever understood "authentic".

Authentic generally means "not fake" -- not a replica, or else experiencing period art using period implements.

E.g. playing retro video games on CRT's is more authentic to what the gaming was actually like in the 80's.

Or playing Bach on period instruments is more authentic to how he would have heard his music performed.

Or making sure you have period-appropriate architecture and props and clothing in a period show.

But the idea that old is inherently more authentic than new is a bizarre idea to me. I would disagree vehemently with that notion -- it seems a kind of harmful prejudice against the present, in favor of the "good old days".

Is that really what people think authenticity is? Just... being old? It seems totally wrong to me, but I'm open to hearing if that really is commonly understood meaning.
but they provide coupons and stuff. So it's more a "service", and they get their cut by offering "refferals".
Better camera is not just the optical quality or even processing though.

Older phones gets slower, either because of the dying battery (that could be replaced, but many of these people are on subsidized phones so upgrading is baked into their plan), or software bloat slowly creeping on.

When camera boot up, shutter lag or post processing starts to take one sec or two, moving to a newer phone is the obvious option.
I do think there's something to be said for files being seen not as things that can be "owned" and "manipulated" and "locked" by a main process, but rather as their own independent services, in a unified registry, who can only return results asynchronously, and only over an external API - a la the Amazon Memo (https://chrislaing.net/blog/the-memo/). Whether there's an API broker (in this case, the kernel) is just an implementation detail of the "network" layer.
Ah the icon... the one system where you can just tell it to run a shell as root to gain superuser privileges...

https://www.juliandunn.net/2006/08/21/on-hacking-the-unisys-...
Sometimes I forget to stir and have to reboil the pasta. Long noodles like spaghetti will stick like crazy and have inconsistent cooking. If I need to cook quickly I use less water. Otherwise more water is hands off.
I have seen journalists give 24 hr to defend your position. Many times it’s zero time.
- using non-cutting edge GPUs (just more of them)

- creating more efficient models such as MoE based DeepSeek

- getting their hands on cutting edge GPUs all the same

I think it was Dylan Patel (from semianalysis) on Dwarkesh that mentioned one scam is for a Chinese source to arrange for a SOTA NVidia cluster to be bought/installed in some non-embargoed country, then dismantled and shipped to China.
This was indeed somewhat startling, like meeting an old, well-known dog that just starts mewing at you.

We are used to being the Leprechaun Folk of the West - present almost everywhere, but only rarely seen.
> signing your app, which requires obtaining a certificate (which also requires forming a company that is not an LLC) and waiting more than a month while navigating multiple rounds of bureaucracy.

This is not true, not as phrased.

A. You can get a cert issued in your personal name. Not an EV one, but still.

B. You are likely to already have a company if you are selling online.

C. It doesn't take "a month" even for an EV cert. Several days tops unless you go through Comodo, in which case you get what you pay for.

D. It is perfectly fine to distribute unsigned installers. They produce a warning on launch, granted, but contrary to the urban legend they are not getting instantly shit-canned by the Defender.
The Democrats lost nothing.

They got rid of the working class for the sake of their opposition.

They sold them. On purpose. It's much worse that "the opposition" bought them.

The working class should stay with the Democrats and demand and sue the shit out of them and force them out of office so that they have to make room for the next generation that much earlier.

By changing sides, the working class forgoes the chance to make the Democrats and the Republicans pay. Because they all stay financed, they all keep their shares and nobody has to do any work to make up for or break up their mistakes and disadvantageous to the working class voters strategies.
Exactly this, the landing page seem much more about the reference implementation than the actual protocol. I will say the docs at https://mercure.rocks/spec are nice.
China unveils prototype of fastest high-speed train, speeds up to 450kmh
US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a 'clean slate'
Phones are also winning because the gap is narrowing. Computational photography probably? won’t ever replace wide aperture superzoom lenses, but each hear the scope of “you can’t take that shot with a phone” shrinks.
I read somewhere that about 50% of all developers have less than 5 years of experience. That fact explains quite a lot.
I gladly affirm that in principle it is possible for advertisements to be beneficial on net by informing people with needs about how suitable products meet those needs.

Now turn off your ad-blocker, look at the next ten ads you see on the internet, and count how many of them fall into that category.
so do you think interacting with aliens is possible given the chemistry side of things? The more I think about it the more concerned I am that that will end badly because our microbiology will act benign until it figures a way to use the foreign life as a food source and then boom one of us dies off.
How a Ruby Method Becomes a Rails Action: Part One
There was a painful period in the run-up to the Irish referendum on same-sex marriage a decade ago where RTE, the state broadcaster, took its obligation to allow equal time on elections a little too literally. A particular highlight was a business program on the radio in which the presenter talked to a hospitality industry representative about the impact of more weddings on the industry; due to RTE’s rules they also had to get on some lunatic to rant for five minutes about how the gays were going to destroy civilisation.

(By the time the referendum actually happened, there was all-party support, the church was sitting it out, and there was enough society consensus that RTE really only had a panel of about ten public figures to take the anti side, and most of them were fairly unhinged.)
Exactly this. There are multiple types of psychotherapy, each with a particular focus oriented toward particular themes and goals.

It’s easy for the layman to misunderstand how these different types work in practice and for what circumstances they’re well suited.

I once underwent psychodynamic psychotherapy for a serious interpersonal relationship problem that was taking a devastating toll on my life. When I had reached a point where I was ready to discuss what (if any) therapy came next, I thought CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) would be right for me after reviewing the particulars.

It’s important to note that along with different therapies, psychologists are also quite different. There are different schools and concepts that a psychologist may subscribe to or favor, and of course each has their own personal approach and style.

It turned out that on paper I thought CBT would be a good next step, but when I got there with a therapist who specialized in it, it wasn’t what I needed or wanted, and while I liked the therapist, I didn’t much care for their style of rapport building.
I love these ideas, though feel I would prefer designs that (may) sacrifice some utility for aesthetics. That isn't a knock on the magnificent effort here, but just my own preference. It's likely the emojis that I'm not thrilled about, but I can also appreciate the reason for using them.
Time is a flat circle. I'm not mad because I get to enjoy things I missed this time around.
I've made a lot of Cacio e Pepe over the years, the best video on the subject is Ethan Chlebowski imo. Ethan Chlebowski videos are generally REALLY great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10lXPzbRoU0
About no way this is legal. The throttle set up looks dangerous - any issue with the servo and it won't fail-safe to closed throttle like any drive by wire throttle body.
It’s a lot of bureaucracy, yes, but considering the planning they do and the scale of the projects they undertake, it’s understandable.

They are massive in every aspect.
You're not wrong, but I think there's still something missing in terms of how to get from there to a place where people can see how (and more importantly, how to recognize _when_) to apply the concepts towards what they work on after they've learned the basics. In my first semester in college, I took a course that was half in OCaml and half in Java. During the first half, we used recursion extensively, modeled everything via closures rather than objects, and generally learned to think about things functionally. Then when we transitioned to Java, where we didn't apply any of that and instead used objects and for loops and imperative logic. That was the last class required for CS majors that used functional programming; after that, all of the requirements were either Java, C, or didn't use any programming language (but maybe used pseudocode, like our algorithms course). I personally took a number of other functional language courses as electives, like one where we learned Haskell, one about the theory of programming languages that used Coq, and a compilers course that used OCaml again, and while I wasn't the only one, it certainly wasn't a majority who went out of their way to take courses like this.

The first time I tried to implement something recursively in C++ at my job after college, my more senior teammates were concerned about whether we could safely assume that all of the different compilers would correctly optimize the tail recursion to avoid blowing up the stack, and they preferred rewriting the logic to be iterative rather than spend time trying to figure that out. This was something I was vaguely aware of as a real-world issue, but it hadn't occurred to my naive junior engineer mind that I couldn't just assume that prestigious "professional" compilers like GCC and Clang and MSVC wouldn't take care of this for me when I never had to worry about it in OCaml. After all, everyone in the world seemed to writing code in C++ with one of these compilers, and the OCaml toolchain didn't exactly have a glowing reputation in my mind when the only place I had heard of using the language didn't even use the default standard library!

I'm not saying that I think this is necessarily a good way to teach recursion generally, but I definitely think there's room for resources like this that help bridge the gap between understanding how recursion works in the best possible environment for it and showing how it works (warts and all) for specific real-world ecosystems.
I think that's bad journalism
This comment seems out of place to me. It brings up (claimed) political issues irrelevant to the topic at hand.

The account is recently created and this is the first and only comment/post they've made on this site.
Yes, the game and TV show The Last of Us made cordyceps a fairly well known genus
If that language feature had been included, the early web would have been filled with tutorials that say: “Don’t forget to wrap all your code in lockUI{} because that guarantees it runs correctly and things don’t suddenly change behind your back!”

And then we’d have the popular web frameworks just taking the lock and running all user code inside it, and everything would be the same as today.
I was with you right up until the end. I think the only thing that would stop me from sabotaging a small project like PGP (was in the early days) is moral aversion. FOSS and academic circles where these things originate is generally friendly and open, and there is plenty of money and length of rubber hose for anyone who doesn't welcome the mole into their project.

I'm not saying I have evidence that this happened to PGP specifically, just that it doesn't seem at all implausible. If the CIA told me my code was never to get too easy to use, but otherwise I could live a long and happy life and maybe a couple of government contracts it would be hard to argue.

Why a mass-market interface never took off (GPG and other descendants notwithstanding) may indicate that the whole cryptographic idea is inherently not amenable to user-friendliness, but I don't find that hypothesis as compelling.

(It could also be an unlikely coincidence that there's a good solution not found for lack of looking, but that's even less plausible to me.)
> It turns out that not only do you not need a large volume of water to cook pasta, but in fact, the water does not even have to be boiling.

https://www.seriouseats.com/how-to-cook-pasta-salt-water-boi...
Denotational Semantics is the basic tool of software design.

Meaning, model the whole thing in math, then you know whether the implementation matches the design.
You could also make the opposite argument. If you want to manufacture things in the US, the real estate costs too much because of artificial housing scarcity, the tax system favors international supply chains over domestic ones, the regulatory environment favors large incumbents over small/new companies, etc. And if you make it disfavorable to manufacture things in the US, you create the incentive for corporations to do whatever they have to do to manufacture it somewhere else.

Don't think of corporations as having agency. Think of them like beasts that have to be herded into the field where you want them. If all your cows are in the neighbor's field, it's not the cows that you should blame and yelling at the cows is not going to help you.
Sublingual B vitamins have turned around my chronic fatigue.

I've been taking it orally for years without the aame effect, so my running theory is that I have an issue with absorption in my gut.

Is there a way to test for candida?
May be there is another workplace from Zoho (or particularly Zoho Connect)
https://workplace.zoho.com/
https://www.zoho.com/connect/
I suppose my argument was essentially that $5/month felt on the high side, so I love that the answer is actually to pay $10/month. This is the way.

In all seriousness, I am sure you are right and don’t deny the promise on offer. I’d also be willing to pay for search much more so than many other online services of more questionable value.

But I just don’t think they’re going to get cut-through at $5, not least $10, in the way they might exponentially do so if they could stretch to an entry tier that really starts to feel accessible to a much, much wider set of people.

WhatsApp took over the world at $1/year.
Those are awesome, does anyone export this to the states? We just got a prefab studio from Schildr that's manufactured in Turkey and disassembles into a sea container. I imagine something similar would work for Huff houses?

https://schildr.com/en/@schildrusa
It was a good joke, but sadly our world has gotten so strange that it fits right in with many 100% earnest comments. Either that or the world is mired in full of jokers than I realized.