skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We're not collectively paying for flat-chested women to get breast implants, or ugly men to get nose jobs, although they both may be upset about their bodies.

Umm...We actually do pay for breast implants/breast reductions in the case of medical need which can vary from reconstruction to hormone imbalances, the latter of which makes sense to consider being transgender under since hormones do quite a bit to help with the illness.
> opaque ranking system

people confused by the first page

> no advertising

all the hiring ads, and thinly veiled corp marketing blogs
Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2025 Proceedings
The "right to not be insulted" is literally censorship.
> Artificial intelligence could be used to help spot where potholes are occurring.

I am fairly sure that job is already being done well for free by millions of genuine intelligences.
Werk: A simplistic build system, like make, and a command runner, like just
This doesn't look like a valid Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
T3 Chat – The Fastest AI Chatbot
The Free Movie: Frame-by-frame, handrawn reproduction of "The Bee Movie" (2023)
Your call. They get a lot of emails and often have a backlog. If people find they can log in OK then it may get flagged, otherwise I'd just leave it. Perhaps not many people log in Sunday evening.
I have all the tools I need at my disposal

Yes, we've all heard the saying that Emacs is an operating system with a text editor built in.

I for one do exactly what I want - I want the shit on my computer to work and work on my terms, not anyone else's.

That's exactly what I get out of the IDEs I've used for decades. This whole argument is so weird, disingenuous, and full of vague strawmen. Just because I don't see the value in investing the time that you have doesn't mean that I'm for giving up control or whatever you were trying frame me as.

Anyway, I'm done here. This site is full of toxic people who are offended that someone doesn't choose the same editor and habits that they do, and any dissent is to be punished.
Popular in 2023 (828 points, 276 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597534
I do think social media is bad. And ideally, no, to the extent that any social media sites have feeds more complicated than a chronological feed of people I follow, I want the algorithms powering those feeds to be open for inspection by anyone (by law), and for regulations to be put in place so that dangerous content is never promoted on the platform just because it attracts eyeballs (and thus advertising dollars). Opaque social media algorithms are bad for society, the same way that fentanyl is bad for society, or violent crime is bad for society.

There is no precedent in human history that you can compare social-media black-box algorithms to. It's not the same as a "public square," or a newspaper, or books, or talking to friends in person. It's a new paradigm.

I would drastically prefer regulations to letting the companies police themselves, but, well, waves hands at the current environment, and what Meta did removing their content reviewers is a step in the wrong direction. The platform will get worse as a result.

In other words, the problem is free reach, not free speech. You might have heard of it -- it has recently been popularized, co-opted, and slightly twisted by Twitter to mean what is more akin to "shadowbanning" problematic accounts, but I'm saying that no one deserves free reach by default on social media.
(... in the style of his The Little Schemer et al. books)
Show HN: A simple card syncing plugin for Trello
HN is a marketing campaign for a VC firm. Closed and controlled is a benefit.

Would Coca Cola or Walmart open source their ads?
> if the US fails in Russia it may be exhausted of the ability to resist China

Russia exposed the West’s military unpreparedness. We’re correcting to the tune of trillions of collective dollars of defence investment.

> then there is financial leverage over a resources superpower who's resources are needed for China's industry

China already practically has this. That said, yes—the article’s analysis fails to account for a likely Chinese bail-out of the Russian banking system.
I went to Caltech when they were contemplating similar things in the CS curriculum, although the normal curriculum was less radical than Northeastern's seems to be.

There is a tension here that is being understated which is that people of every major now take the intro-level CS class because programming is integral to everything. Teaching algorithm design in that class is not particularly useful to a biologist who just wants to be able to cobble something together to analyze some data (usually in Python). As a result, the non-computer-scientists and non-software-engineers at the school would rather have a curriculum that is more "practical" and directly applies to research (or later class projects) the students might be doing.

Some time not far in the future, we are going to accept that this is not the same thing at all as computer science and give the computer scientists a curriculum that is a lot heavier on math and theory while adding elective or core courses for non-major students on programming. That will end the compromised state that intro CS courses currently sit in. Right now, there isn't enough teaching talent to run those non-core courses (because that talent is earning the big bucks doing something else).
Linodsync: Backup project directories, databases to Linode Object Storage
You write like somehow there would be something to miss out on by not valuing keeping up with people who are far away and most likely have no place in our lives.(by far away I mean you don’t actually get to talk or meet with them or even chat by messanger or so, even if they could live in the same city - I have friends who live far away but we actually meet at least once a year and chat once a week we are far in distance but not far in contact)

I would argue that there is much to miss on by wasting time looking up Jenny from primary school when you have your kids, friends and family who you meet day to day.

There is actually an option to run into mental health issues that we know social media is causing.
Discussions in:

Oct/2023 (48 points, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37884375

Jul/2023 (111 points, 66 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36629195
Oddly enough, very few folks I know use their laptops without being plugged in most of the time. I know I rarely do.
> Let's hope they get it right.

There's no right way of doing this. The only good thing here is the UK will be gifting to the rest of world a canary - dead.
All other privacy and licensing issues notwithstanding, an additional deal-killer for me is some of the details in the actual headshots scrolling in the carousel at the top of the page. There are some short haired folk who have dark lines down one or the other side of their face, which match up almost exactly with the hairlines of some of the longer-haired folk. Sure looks like AI artifacts to me.
Read to the end. The time smearing article was just a clever ruse to set up her political jab.
Where does that 99% figure come from?
Yikes, please don't cross into personal attack. We have to ban accounts that do that, and it looks like you've posted this kind of thing before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41880411.

Fortunately when I skimmed through your comment history I saw many more good comments, so this should be easy to fix. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
>bad graphics performance (only software rendering supported, many frame drops when watching HD videos on YT)

It might help if you used a computer with CPU horsepower that actually exists.

And in case this sounded facetious, any reasonable CPU from the past 15 years can handle software decoding of high resolution video just fine.

This all said however, if you do actually need full use of all hardware resources then being constrained to software is certainly a factor worth considering.
I don’t think qubes is targeted at mainstream users— even mainstream developers— and I don’t think something has to be targeted at the mainstream to be interesting, especially here. There are probably a lot of people here that won’t ever use it that will still find the idea and ethos interesting.
Login works fine, operations after you log in - not so much. Edited "down" to "broken".
Not a dupe, as that was nearly two years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#reposts
I totally understand the concern but I think that it’s well within reason that your analogy overstates the issue. I haven’t given it all that much thought, but to me it seems reasonable that there are enough different use cases that are similar enough to still get a net benefit from a shared language. How much of this language fragmentation is just a reflection of Linux ecosystem fragmentation as opposed to e.g. “the right tool for each job”? I’d bet a fair bit.
Unless there's a zero day in Xen in which case the entire security model falls apart. With all these cloud providers using Xen, I have no doubt that there's already one out there.
The 1960's left would like a word with you ...
I wish homepages would say what the product actually does on the landing page. From the About section:

"Whonix is an anonymous operating system that runs like an app and routes all Internet traffic through the Tor anonymity network."
It’s dual MIT and Apache licensed. Worst case, if there’s a rug pull, fork it.
I wanted to share this power-up I've been building for Trello over the last year. It lets you sync cards between Trello boards -- a feature that Trello does not natively offer.

The existing power-ups that do this are pretty complicated to use, have unreasonably high pricing, and don't offer instant syncing in many cases. So it made sense to build something that was simple(r) and cheap(er) to use. Happy to answer any questions!
I also loved the appearance of WordArt, shame they did not do the rainbow one.
Have to admit, I'm kind of amazed by this question.
Cool story bro.

I've used pip, pyenv, poetry, all are broken in one way or another, and have blind spots they don't serve.

If your needs are simple (not mixing Python versions, simple dependencies, not packaging, etc) you can do it with pip, or even with tarballs and make install.
What is a DOM node? A peek under the hood
Re-insurers also re-calibrate their rates, which may mean private may be effective ... until the first big disaster whereafter the re/insurance premiums become eye-watering.
Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of what anyone else has done.

Responding to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I still keep in touch with a bunch of people from an assembly game hacking forum from when I was like 10. They're responsible for my entire career and how I got into programming! It was great. I'm still a part of a bunch of hobby specific forums and they are all going strong.

Once you start noticing HN usernames you won't stop. It's big, but it's small. Certain users gravitate to certain topics and you'll see them pop up. I think the problem is you have no style associations to usernames, like colors and icons and fonts and whatnot like you had on old forums making it super easy to visually identify people.
Yeah, I'm not saying it was easy for her. Quite the opposite!
Is pregnancy an illness, mental or otherwise? Should insurance or the state not cover the medical costs of pregnancy?

What are your credentials, anyway? Why do you think you know more than decades of in depth research and millennia of anthropological evidence?
> or solidarity with staff who don't make 200k a year.

I don’t really see it. Amazon techies wouldn’t have much in common with Amazon warehouse workers, and I’m not seeing any other people they could share solidarity with. But think if you are an SWE say at a traditional manufacturer, your needs and interested are going to differ a lot from someone working the assembly line.
There's an age old saying in Japan that if you want to hide a tree you should do so in a forest.
I just hope that by making the joke, I won't accidentally make fetch happen :-D
Bike-shedding the cargo cult? How meta.
To quote the above person: "tell me you haven't read the article without telling me".

You thought that supporting multiple "programming paradigms" is a nice thing, but it's the opposite for teaching beginning student. Experienced programmers want expressivity/customization/choices to do whatever they want. That's not what newbies need when they get stuck on an assignment.
>you're liable to miss a lot of potential connections.

are you really? If you only notice that it's Bob's birthday because you get a FB reminder and the only form of communication is a post on their timeline once a year that's not a connection, that's like talking to your neighbor about the weather out of courtesy because it's awkward to say nothing at all.

The reason a lot of people miss out on life nowadays is not because they have too few connections but because they waste their time on fake ones. Life's short, instead of trying to warm up some high school friendship that's going nowhere, focus everything you have on the few people around you that matter. Cutting connections is as valuable a skill as making them, and an increasingly lost art.
Subject of the conversation not its participants.

In a public conversation preferences of the subject i.e. who being talked about when discussing about them publicly matters more than the participants i.e who is doing the talking

Period , done . if you disagree then you and I fundamentally different views on what is a civilized society and I hope my neighbors have my world view than yours.
All of that except for working in the terminal, could probably be considered higher level
The Singapore model only works because they distinguish between citizens and residents. You can’t just move to Singapore one day and buy into public housing the next. It is Austria on an even more narrow scale.
For those who have achieved this, well done. I've experienced the positive impact of reducing my social media usage over the years, while still keeping my accounts for the occasional need to connect. I've taken steps to limit social platforms from accessing my phone contact list and have set a cap of 20 contacts, including on WhatsApp. This has significantly reduced Meta's profiling and advertising targeting.
Why do you think you need to clarify that?
(Usually that means we're restarting the server, which usually takes about 15 seconds to turn over. Just FYI for the future)
Heh yeah and irc wasnt exactly filled with upstanding honorable citizens either.
Moore's Law is breaking down
I never get tired of Bad Apple. The best thing on the internet. And almost every time I get somewhat jealous I didn't come up with that idea myself.

Also, I really like how footnotes are implemented in this blog. I guess I'm gonna steal it.
Efficiency and Budget Balance [pdf]
We all heard the bad.

Can't be all bad.

I wonder if there was a sector that had seen a big boost since brexit and not just due to less competition but due to genuine improved efficiency.
My favorite advice I've ever heard on creating engaging content is from Ludwig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i9gkprYekI

Some aspects are obviously reflective of his style specifically but I resonated with his pushing of "stakes", i.e. consciously instigating a good payoff for the viewer with the title and thumbnail, and then delivering the payoff and more. I realized after watching this that I almost never watch videos without stakes. Just speaking personally, this might be the most impactful thing missing from the videos on your channel.

Your titles and premises are quite similar to Ryan Trahan's (https://www.youtube.com/@ryan/videos), but Ryan's consistently have stakes ("I tried every Airbnb Category" -- ooh, are there interesting categories I don't know about? "I Tried Every Drive-thru's Most Expensive Item" -- ooh, how expensive do they get?). In contrast, the titles here just strike me as more uninteresting ("I Let AI Control My Vacation" -- ok but I can do random things already without AI? "I Hiked a Mountain Blindfolded" -- ok but you're not actually in serious danger?) I'm not too surprised the GeoGuessr one performed well, since the stakes practically write themselves -- "ooh, can he figure out where he is? what if he gets dropped in the middle of nowhere?! how long will he have to walk?!".

Props to OP for their good-natured attitude and engagement. YT seems like such a tough business nowadays where it'll take years and a very thick skin to succeed. In contrast to some other commenters, I think some of the pieces that make a great channel are already there. Hope you accomplish your goals and I wish you well :)
How is this any faster than ChatGPT? Unless you have faster GPU's than OpenAI the only way to be "faster" is to use a smaller model.
Standard patterns in choice-based games (2015)
There's a lot of awesome females in the infosec community. Check out the podcast Darknet Diaries for a glimpse. Some of the coolest red teaming podcasts were (IMO) with women.

In this context, I'd like to mention Dr. Melanie Rieback. She is 'the CEO/Co-founder of Radically Open Security, the world’s first non-profit computer security consultancy company.' Previously in the 00's known for her research in RFID security.

Or have a look at hack conferences such as recently 38C3.
That thread doesn't seem to mention hardware. It would be really helpful to just put hardware requirements in the GitHub README.
> which DE on which back end, playonlinux vs lutris vs winetricks vs proton, etc

KDE on Proton is the way.
Dispatcher: The Flying Linux Computer You Command by Voice [video]
"complement" :-)

Unless it just has good things to say...
FWIW, Matt has never claimed to own 84%. He's only ever claimed to "control" that percentage. Presumably, some investors have assigned him their voting rights by proxy. Oops.
Glad to see the Uni-ball Vision Elite back on jetpens best list. Nice tactile feel, while still being smooth.
Delusional.

The Biden administration slow rolled delivering tanks/jets/ATACMS for years. For ATACMS in Russia they delayed over two years. The options were never just doing nothing or put boots on the ground.
Friends don't let friends post while high...
Hmm.

WebTV might be up there, similar for Monorail PC.

Both fairly quickly got obsoleted and any 'volume' they hoped to reach in consumer space was quickly cannibalized by similar but more profitable models (i.e. E-Machines and their steep internet contract discounts.)

Nx586 was a bit of a flop as a product on its own (even funder Compaq didnt really ship many) but overall the R&D transformed AMD when they acquired NexGen and used the second iteration of the tech for the K6.
If your PR isn't blocking someone nontechnical then I expect you to use developer tooling (i.e. VCS) to continue working without requiring that your PR be merged immediately, and I'll review the PR the next time I come to a natural break in my work. If it is blocking someone, then I'll review ASAP with consideration to the priority of whatever I'm working on.

I work with a guy who, until I said "calm down", would share his PR links in the team chat several times a day. He refused to learn rebase, or seemingly anything other than a standard Git workflow of checkout, commit, push, merge, repeat. He has since improved on both fronts.
This works until you need to upgrade something, pip might upgrade to a broken set of dependencies. Or if you run on a different OS and the dependencies are different there (because of env markers), your requirements file won't capture that. There are a lot of gotchas that pip can't fix.
But the point is that the islanders were not mistaking effect for cause, but simply believing some wrong things.

For example, they were clearing the airstrips, not because they believed that doing so caused the cargo to appear, but simply to facilitate the delivery of the cargo if and when it came.
Color revolutions only exist in the paranoid mind of dictators.
QubesOS is best enjoyed with a hefty CPU, lots of SSD space and a multi-screen set-up (in my opinion). Have you tried using Freetube instead of Youtube? In my experience it works a little better.
It's because us millennials came of age at a time when there was massive optimism that computers and the Internet would make the world a much better place. From equalizing education through online resources to bringing people around the world together through online discourse and intellectual discussion.

Most of that didn't happen of course (although Khan academy has helped tons of people), but we were raised to believe that the software we wrote was going to help people.

It is sad that Gen Z doesn't believe that, it signifies a large cultural shift in the computer geek culture.

Fwiw I have written software that saved lives, and I still believe software can do a lot of good in this world. We should aim to create things throughout our life, using the skills that we have, that make the world a better place.
No, you can do a UBI that keeps the money supply the same, and use it as a way to stabilize the economy.
With a $2000/mo UBI, 50% flat tax on other income, 25% VAT, phase it in by doing 10% of that the first year (and 90% of your current taxes, 90% of current support payments), second year 20% and 80%, so the impact isn't too disruptive.
Adjust the flat tax rate as the Federal budget changed (a spending bill is automatically a tax bill as well). Adjust the VAT to control inflation.
That's hilariously bad. Our sweet old lady office manager 2 jobs ago used comic sans for every announcement.

Babies and new employees and that sort of thing it was fine. But using it for death notices of employees family members, with frowny face emojis, was a bit much. She was so sweet, but so very very oblivious.
Gentoo is there for you!
RE#: High Performance Derivative-Based Regex Matching
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3704837
Eternal September but not just Usenet, everywhere.
Yes I'm using Wayland. The problem has nothing to do with Chrome usage or whatever. The desktop is super smooth no matter how many Chrome tabs I have or other apps. Also Gnome likes to use the iGPU by default so nothing to do with the Nvidia GPU really. For games I've tested both with iGPU or forcing them to use the Nvidia GPU.

The problem is games which have a lot of high res textures, it's obvious the dedicated GPU runs out of RAM. It's pretty speedy on games running at half-resolution and it can render a lot of effects like bloom, fancy lighting, reflections, etc... But I'd say my current go to game is Civ 6, I like to play at full resolution with high textures, which the dedicated GPU can't handle but the iGPU can without even heating up all that much.
Tabby comes with builtin RAG support so you can add this api framework to it.

Example: https://demo.tabbyml.com/search/how-to-configure-sso-in-tabb...

Settings page: https://demo.tabbyml.com/settings/providers/doc
Then making gigantic (less than /32) allocations makes even less sense! If we're not doing that, contiguous address space for orgs is far less important.
https://archive.ph/qb4E2
Great work. Nice aesthetic.

"These groups of threads, known as warps , are switched out on a per clock cycle basis — roughly one nanosecond. CPU thread context switches, on the other hand, take few hundred to a few thousand clock cycles"

I would note that intels SMT does do something very similar (2 hw threads). Other like the xeon phi would round robin 4 threads on a single core.
The Elegant Cross Pin
With the new major release of Poetry that just came out I also feel like it might be a good time to switch to Uv rather than adapt to this new version: https://python-poetry.org/blog/announcing-poetry-2.0.0/
Turtles all the way down bro.

Either you believe it's secure or you don't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKgV1e-Ec8Q

Man: "Did you ever go to business school?"
Ice T: "No, but I sold hand grenades before"