skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buying electronics from Amazon means getting ads -- and always in the most obnoxious way possible.

I got a Kindle Oasis as a gift /w lockscreen ads, and it's unbelievable how annoying and embarrassing they are, and many are for AI-generated gibberish. And that's a Kindle. Now just imagine living with an Amazon TV...
What a shittily written article, staining the Adam Smith name.

Nationalising a bunch of critical industries isn't "socialism" and the article utterly fails to explain how it is or why it's related. Historical UK, and modern France, Russia, UAE, Saudi Arabia also had multiple crucial industries which were fully nationally owned. Were they socialist too?
It's not illegal, but definitely erratic — the kind of thing the cops might well pull you over for, no? I understand the urgency since having to make a flight is one of the most expensive scheduling issues you could face.
You don't always make money because you sell to a specific customer. Sometimes it's about support and network effect. Devices (Scanners, Printers, ...) are compatible with Windows and sometimes only Windows because that's what people use, NVIDIA drivers used to be Windows only because that's where customers were. Does Microsoft make money from these sales? No. Do they make money from having an ecosystem that everyone is supporting? Most definitely.
Am I the only one who thinks that a country which admits only two parties cannot be called a democracy? Not an attack, just a thought starter

EDIT Thank everyone who answered, I have always been convinced that US doesn't have anymore parties other than Republicans and Democrats. Today I learned!
It depends what matters to you in quality of life.
For me the most important things are having purpose and love in my life - and you can find that pretty much anywhere.

A bit unrelated but US citizens decided that healthcare doesn’t really matter to them much but going everywhere with a nice car does - so it depends what the priorities are
> [...] anything you do outside of the user space is subject to being wiped the next time you get an OTA update.

You mean outside of /home? This is actually excellent. Rock solid base OS that can be A/B booted, deliver extra apps via Flatpak/AppImage - this is close to what macOS achieved, minus all the crap Apple has been pulling recently. I'm tempted.
Rider is now free for no commercial use.
You're suggesting that he should what? Tuck and roll out of the vehicle and risk being run over as the first course of action?
What's a survey course? It turns out that at least another team in the same course had the exact same app idea: https://www.sammybharadwaj.com/huskyswap - even same name. Sounds like this idea was either given by the instructor or the groups cooperated on choosing it.

Hence the idea of swapping must not have been the problem here, otherwise surely the instructor should be more in trouble than OP, and this other website shouldn't still be up.
I wish we had arrived.. I think we are just getting on the way
All the stops for some time have been for Shittopia.

You can loiter a bit more though if you like, it looks like there will be plenty more stops for Shittopia. (We might in fact be on the Shittopia Line.)
Also known as "eliminating the fail state" or "rendering invalid states unrepresentable".

Unfortunately, also very attractive to being used corruptly in the political arena (see nudge theory, newspeak). Can also be downright rejected, bypassed, or ignored. See most workers/employers views on OSHA.
worth mentioning that Finland didn't generally have a problem with spoofed caller IDs even before that (I've never personally heard of this happening in Finland ever)
The enthusiasm gap was entirely on the Democrat side this past election. Donald Trump won considerably more votes this past election than he ever has. There are also a significant number of prominent former lifelong Democrats that switched to being Trump supporters. Joe Rogan, RFK Jr., and Elon Musk come to mind.

> Trump won 77,284,118 votes, or 49.8 percent of the votes cast for president. That is the second highest vote total in U.S. history, trailing only the 81,284,666 votes that Joe Biden won in 2020. Trump won 3,059,799 more popular votes in 2024 than he won in 2020 and 14,299,293 more than he won in 2016. He now holds the record for the most cumulative popular votes won by any presidential candidate in U.S. history, surpassing Barack Obama. Running three times for the White House obviously helps.

https://www.cfr.org/article/2024-election-numbers
Modern day studies show little or no benefit from fluoridation:

Cochrane Review https://cochrane.org/news/water-fluoridation-less-effective-...

LOTUS Study https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/lotus/#results CATFISH Study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36469652/

When under oath CDC could not provide any evidence that fluoride is safe for the brain https://fluoridealert.org/content/cdc-oral-health-director-w...

CDC agreed with the 2006 National Research Council findings that fluorides “interfere with the function of the brain and body by direct and indirect means.” CDC KNEW fluoride affected the brain back in 2006, yet did nothing with this information! https://youtu.be/0A34FK2lTDs
Fair enough. All great points and I agree. I was being too generous with the zero friction E2EE providers. As a side note one of the things that bugs me is that the most commonly used chat platform that advertises fake E2EE is run by the very person that would have shredded anyone saying it when he was younger. It's sad watching people sell out but I suppose I can't blame him as he needed a bigger boat.
Interesting that I have almost always done item 1 from the beginning of using video calls (which was before covid hit).

I generally shrink the window so that individual video feeds are no more than a couple of inches high on my monitor, which is about 3 feet away from my face. Any bigger feels uncomfortably close. There's nothing more offputting that a call that fullscreens the other single participant, especially on a large display.

It amazes me that after all this time the various video conferencing systems still have default behaviours that make their products less pleasant to use. You would have thought they would have at least made an effort to get people to customise the behaviour to their liking. Instead they persist with defaults that people hate but don't realise they can change. I don't think I've ever met someone who likes to see themself through an entire call, but this is the default on all the ones I've ever used and I have to turn it off.
While this did happen and obviously isn’t great, there’s a more skeptical side too.

The ‘trapped’ man is the CEO of an AI consulting firm. He posted the video to linked in, didn’t press the abort button, and had a relatively successful customer support experience (5 minutes delayed and not charged for the trip). Apparently he is using a PR firm to handle questions.

Make of that what you will. Waymo can clearly do better, although for what it’s worth — my worst uber experiences have been much worse than this (legitimately unsafe driving decisions).
> and without making rear-end collisions inevitable if you're on the freeway.

That means it has to decide whether it's safe to stop.

Stopping safely is no less complicated than the self-driving software in general. Sure you can have backup driver software, but it's just going to be the same software.
Graphing the connections between my blog posts
I think this is actually an outdated link. Modern SteamOS is based on Arch Linux, this refers to the old Debian-based OS from the "Steam Machines" era.

Looks like this will get a refresh, though, as per my other comment.
> Spanish food names to be replaced by "kind of the same" British names

The purpose of a translation is after all to convey the meaning of what was said. So for example you'd want the English "so so" to be translated in Spanish as "más o menos" instead of repeating the translation of "so" twice. You don't want to just translate word for word, venir infierno o alta agua.

A lot of dialog needs language specific context, many expressions don't lend themselves to literal translation, or the translation in that language is long and cumbersome so paraphrasing is an improvement.

Like with anything else, the secret is using it sparingly, only when it adds value.
They not only lied, they use threats to silence the only external expert consultant they brought in to examine the system who found faults. They then spent a decade prosecuting people and sending them to prison while instructing people to lie on the stand. Innocent people lost their businesses and homes, went to prison, marriages fell apart and victims committed suicide. Post office management should be in prison. They killed people and destroyed families and communities.
Not to excuse the ads, but apparently it's pretty easy to scam their customer support into removing them for free. Just send a support message saying the Kindle belongs to a kid and you're concerned about them seeing inappropriate ads, or something along those lines.
Why "PHP of course"?
I’m curious how much msft makes in windows from gamers vs actual game sales. They seem to be hedging their bets hard on cloud gaming and actual game sales for Xbox.
"Unless, that is, I agree to work on a comparable solution for the university focused on solving the underlying problem I was building HuskySwap for. They would presumably own the IP and were clear that I wouldn’t be compensated. But it was implied that they would then remove the hold, allowing me to graduate."

Sue the ever living hell out of them. They are forcing you to work for them unpaid. Call multiple labor boards and drag them into UW immediately.
Or if your phone is out of battery. Or if the app fails, etc. etc.
That's not true. If you're on the freeway you could wind up killing multiple people behind you. It could be extremely dangerous.
There are many more parties in the US though - they just don’t get really relevant in the bigger scheme of things.

In my country we also have 2 huge parties and a bunch of smaller ones - but the smaller ones have more impact and actually matter a bit.

Democracy is hard and there are so many details and complexities to consider.

But to answer your question I would say definitely the US is a democracy -
20 years ago, most businesses and consumers didn’t have reliable and fast internet. MSDN came in dozens of CDs/DVDs in a binder.

Back then, most people only had one computer and if you switched between Windows and Macs you had to buy a separate copy of Office. Now I can run Office on my Mac, iPad (and pair it with the same mouse and keyboard I use with my laptop), and iPhone. If I’m not near my computer but want to use Office on another computer, I can do it on the web.

There is also a lot more churn in the mobile space as far operating system and hardware upgrades that mean needing to update your apps. Despite bad blood between the two back in the day. Microsoft has been keeping up with the latest Apple hardware/OS initiatives since 1980.
Yeah, I would like to know this. From my perspective, even frontier models by the big players (4o, 3.5 Sonnet) can be unreliable at times, and are at best just walking the line of usefulness for a lot of "exact" tasks (for me: programming, approximation and back-of-the-envelope calculations, expertise on subjects I'm unfamiliar with, a better Google, etc.).

The only deal that would make sense for me is to get something more accurate, and these open models just go in the wrong direction. I've observed similar behavior to what you mention. I'd really like to know how people use them and for what tasks so that their performance is acceptable.

In agentic settings, cost and latency are also a large factor since tokens are consumed invisibly, so I think a lot of these systems are waiting for a trifecta of better accuracy, better cost and better latency to make them viable. It's unclear that this is coming, at least it hasn't been the trend so far.
Most of us, here on HN, are tired of the biased way political discourse is treated and even more tired of articles that are pushing the same old tropes which have been pushed by the same people for such a long time now. If you don't think this article is related to the Trump presidency that mostly signifies you fit in the target market for The Atlantic under its current leadership. For those who do not it stands out as yet another example of the legacy media crying ${wolf} [1] and as such can be relegated to the tottering pile of similar articles.

[1] wolf="Hitler!";
I reversed the division :(
The plan is called Project 2025[0]. Trump has publicly disavowed at least parts of the plan but, Trump being Trump, also just happens to be appointing people who just happen to want to implement it[1,2].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/08/trump-projec...

[2]https://www.afge.org/article/new-trump-administration-packed...
The Seven-Action Documentation Model
The question is how much consumer PC purchases are predominantly for gaming, and what the longer-term implications of a slow shift away from Windows in the consumer market are.
Locally (Spain), the new 16GB model costs ~140 EUR, while the 2GB model costs ~60 EUR. So if you just want a very cheap RPI, seems it's still out there, you just cannot aim for 16GB (or go for something else than RPI).
Out of curiosity, what’s VlC doing at CES? Do they have a commercial offering?
What "is" JavaScript then? It's not the language specification (that's ECMAScript) and it's not the interpreters (that's Node, Deno, Bun, V8, Spidermonkey…), so what... is it?

And to follow up - how does Oracle use "JavaScript" in trade?
Build-in either a keyboard or the gamepad. I have BT mice, keyboards, gamepads, and other things that already handle how they charge (USB-C).

But it's not a single thing if you're carrying around other parts anyhow, and those appear kind of flimsy. And I already have a general purpose computing device with networking capability that goes in my pocket, a smartphone... so why would I want to put it my pocket if it does less?
I think they make a bunch of money having Windows being the default installed OS on prebuilt PCs and laptops. Gaming PCs and laptops are a pretty large market included in that. There's a chance vendors/builders might start to sell cheaper options which don't include Windows installed, savings for both them and the customers.

Will have to see if that actually happens though, even as a power user myself there are still a bunch of pain points with SteamOS/steam deck that are harder to deal with than similar issues in Windows.
It's funny because the real danger for Microsoft is of course Apple (and maybe some chinese company but I'm not familiar enough).
The slow motion advertising apocalypse is coming. Eventually, the advertisers will realize that it doesn't work and people largely ignore it, the content providers will force you to watch the advertisements to get at the content, which people will hate, and which may inevitably come full circle to paywalls for greater content. Until then, we endeavor to build a better ad blocker.
Show HN: An online platform for reading Japanese texts with inline translations
I wanted to read public domain texts in my native Japanese via an LLM. However, LLM translations aren’t perfect.
So I built a system that shows translated text inline and lets users vote on the best translations, ensuring only the most accurate ones remain. If enough people participate, good translations should naturally emerge.

Still, that alone might not attract many users, so I also added a feature allowing anyone to post their own articles—essentially a global publishing platform like Medium. By registering a Gemini API key, you can enable translation into various languages.

https://evame.tech/en/user/evame/page/luoshengmen-db5

Here’s a link to a popular short story (well-known in Japanese school textbooks). I’d be grateful if you could read it and vote on the translations!
I have a second-hand LG smart tv and it is slow as molasses interactively. Garbage.
> That's what a software engineer would say who views resources as unlimited and free.

from the same guidelines: don't be snarky; don't post thoughtless insubstantive comments; reply to the argument instead of calling names; don't sneer; respond to the strongest interpretation - assume good faith; eschew flamebait; don't trample curiosity.
> PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE!
Knowing 9 person doing that would be a lot, right ? Or was it double digits before ?
It's so so hard not to be cynical. I read posts like this and it gives me a glimmer of hope, and reminds me that there are good people of means out there trying to make humanity better. But then I also remember that there are much richer, more powerful ghouls out there whose seemingly sole purpose is to enrich themselves and their cronies at the expense of society.

The answer, of course, is to praise efforts like this one and not allow cynicism to undermine the effort. A groundswell of support begets a movement. "Apes together strong", and all that. Anyway, were I ever to come into significant wealth, I think and hope I would do the same. Until then, I'm simply working towards a decent retirement and intent on remaining in an ever-shrinking middle class.
The size opinion varies dramatically by person, apparently, because everyone I’ve personally talked to (including women) prefers the Steam Deck’s larger size over the Switch. (The Switch is so tiny!)
Why would cops pull you over for circling a parking lot a few times?

This is extremely normal driver behavior at airports when you're waiting for someone arriving to come out, and you're not allowed to stop at the curb for longer than a minute.
Unfortunately, the potential popularity of Linux is closely tied fo gaming and to some professional and creative software suites.

If SteamOS devices become popular enough, Linux for gaming becomes popular enough, therefore more games will be made for Linux and more people will finally find a way to abandon Windows forever.
I think they sell those connectors as addons/"hats" or something now.
Not a fencing example specifically, but in Poland skijumping effectively didn't exist until 2001. Then because of Adam Małysz, a record viewership has been established for national TV - during skijumping championships. That record has not been replaced until at least 2022 (I don't have more recent data, maybe it still stands). The largest football matches had millions fewer people watching. For more context the 10 most viewed events were: 4x skijump, pl-vs-rus football, 3x skijump, JP2 funeral, pl-vs-cze football.

It could happen to fencing as well or any other random sport with enough luck.
I assume selling Windows to consumers at the retail price is a loss maker to Microsoft and they make up for it via the ads and product monetization or subsidized from enterprise subscriptions.

Looking at the data, in 1995 Microsoft charge consumers $210 for a retail copy of Windows 95. That's $434 in today's money adjusted for inflation. Windows XP Home retailed for $200 at launch, which is $356 in today's money. Meanwhile Windows 11 Home today retails for significantly cheaper at $140 for a product that's hugely more complex than Win 95 or Win XP were, while requiring way more staff and dev effort to build and support.

The finances just don't work out for me to see how the sale of a Windows 11 copy alone for $140 could make a profit at price given the 10 year lifecycle dev and support of a major Windows version.

I would guess a copy of Windows today would have to be sold for probably $500+ in order to be remotely profitable for Microsoft without ads or promotions, which no consumer would ever pay so I assume Microsoft is subsidizing it with ads/data collection or even taking a loss just to keep the retail price low to avoid loosing market share to Linux.
Interesting piece of history.
Directory of remote-only job boards
> And hens aren’t supposed make eggs year round but we make them anyway with artificial lights etc, which drastically shortens their lifespan.

I kept a flock of 25-30 hens on my property for a few years. Other than moulting they produce eggs ease round. The production slows drastically in the dark winter months for the older hens (1 for 3 days, say) but some continue to produce nearly daily (I think the cycle is something like 26-28 hours). The only time we had artificial light for them was on days when it was so cold we kept their coop door shut and turned on the interior light.
Problem is I don’t think that’s actually true.
Oh hey, I got in trouble at my university for trying to make a tool for students too. This was ~15 years ago now...

In my case, they accused me of copyright infringement and trying to destroy the co-op program. I made the case that while I was reproducing some data from the university's website, none of it had creative value and therefore wasn't protected by copyright. (I drew a parallel to an actual court case about reproducing phone book listings.)

I also reached out to some faculty that I was close to for some character references to show that I didn't have malicious intent.

Ultimately, I wasn't expelled or anything too bad. I was required to take a business ethics course, which I actually ended up enjoying.

Good luck!
There was an eminent Russian voiceover artist (goblin?) that translated pirated Western movies with his own interpretation.

His translations were nowhere near what the movie was about, but they were hilarious and fit the plot perfectly.
I've always known that the Infinite Loop would some day catch up with the physical world, and here we are.
> But Cantor discovered that natural numbers can’t be put into one-to-one correspondence with the continuum of real numbers. For instance, try to pair 1 with 1.00000… and 2 with 1.00001…, and you’ll have skipped over infinitely many real numbers (like 1.000000001…). You can’t possibly count them all; their cardinality is greater than that of the natural numbers.

I take issue with this paragraph. It makes it sound like the infinitude of reals between 1 and 1.00001 is proof there are more reals than naturals. One might think this same fact proves that there are more rationals than naturals...
Only your use case can tell you if it makes sense :) If you're looking for a cheap in-house CI cluster for building/testing on ARM, it makes a ton of sense, just as an example.
Ubuntu AWS ECS Optimized AMI
We have built a Ubuntu ECS-Optimized AMI for AWS to support all available ECS features. Whether you're running tasks on Intel/AMD CPUs, ARM processors, or leveraging GPU acceleration, this AMI has you covered.

Here's what’s included:

Intel/AMD CPU support
ARM CPU support
Intel/AMD CPU + NVIDIA GPU support
ARM CPU + GPU support
Service Connect
EBS disk support for tasks
NFS support
Building a Table from Denim and Epoxy [video]
SQL nulls are weird
That’s not a technical problem or one unique to SaaS. Someone has to be responsible for onboarding and off boarding and making sure suppliers and vendors are paid.

A lot of the HR stuff ironically can also be handled by a PEO for small businesses.

https://www.rippling.com/aso

While your employer as far as hiring, firing, internal management is your actual company. As far as health benefits and payroll taxes you are “co employed” by the PEO
Nonprofits aren't going to get the US out of this. They are a bandaid on a broken leg.
let's just call it Molly

why?

even though MDMA is the real technical name (and Molly + Ecstasy are nicknames), the name "Ecstasy" is kinda misleading because it's usually MDMA mixed with other stuff, and that's not always good...

the name "Molly" has a pure vibe to it. It's like a warm hug from a friend.

Dr. Andrew Huberman said in his video that MDMA is not actually ecstastic, rather it produce warm feelings and promote inner acceptance and peaceful connections with others.
Presumably it's a bug/defect in the TV.

While that is stupid and I would return such a defective product, there's a difference between "my TV's mute is broken" and "my TV specifically unmutes itself during ads".