skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://archive.today/qb4E2
What about Actimates?
I'd say in 2025 understanding historical context and questioning passively acquired meme-knowledge are more important than ever.
I live in a somewhat rural area and we got bit hard by this last winter.

Our road used to have a handful of houses on it but now has around 85 (a mix of smaller lots around an acre and larger farming parcels). Power infrastructure to our street hasn't been updated recently and it just barely keeps up.

We had a few days that didn't get above freezing (very unusual here). Power was out for about 6 hours after a limb fell on a line. The power company was actually pretty quick to fix it, but the power went out 3 more times in pretty quick succession.

Apparently a breaker kept blowing as every house regained power and all the various compressors surged on. The solution at the time was for them to jam in a larger breaker. I hope they came back pretty quickly to undo that "fix" but we still haven't had any infrastructure updates to increase capacity.
>Essentially, the PR a process at most tech companies is nothing more than a gatekeeping/complicance/CYA mechanism, and realizing this can definitely help your career..

It has value particularly when the team has newcomers or less-experienced developers. Writing it off as 'CYA' discards an opportunity for async feedback to be given on work.
You literally phrased it as "I have no idea why". You can't be upset if someone feels you don't understand why.
Yes, this exactly. In fact, we need a new term to describe the type of "cult" that pushes this agenda (probably the goal is just to get impressions/retweets more than an actual agenda though).

Human languages are full of idioms that have origins that no longer relate at all to the way the terms are used. It doesn't make them wrong or less useful.
Qubes is a Linux OS. It's like if you took Fedora and installed xen on it and booted up some VMs and the windows for them opened within the base OS instead of in individual system windows. Plus some cool magic with the file system to reduce redundancy and how many times you have to update things.
I would distinguish somewhere my friends post stuff for "friends" from social media.

Lets take my friend Em as our example. If the typical message from Em says "Where are you? What time did we say we'll meet" that's a messenger app, that's definitely not Social Media. It might be a fucking SMS, but if it's a WhatsApp or a Signal. it's all the same for this purpose and that's definitely not Social Media.

If the typical message from Em says "They don't know about my trees" and involves an in-joke reference to a movie that six people saw with her in 2008, that's maybe some sort of "social" experience but it's clearly not public. We have a Slack like this, created under pandemic conditions and named "Cabin Fever Mitigation".

If the typical message says "Aw! Piggy" and has a picture of a guinea pig, that is now shading into Social Media. Probably some of the people "following" this feed don't know who she is but they like guinea pigs, or they like her art, or something similar.

And yes obviously if the typical message is a reply to Elon Musk then it's social media and it can fuck off. But hopefully your friends aren't making crucial life updates as a public address to any watching fascists ?
The excessive day time sleepiness (not the Cataplexy nor the sleep paralysis) aspect of Narcolepsy is bizarre and I think misunderstood. I was able with years of experimentation to control the fatigue. There are many variables so I wont go into it.

Still one experiment that seemed interesting was that a drop of Methelyne Blue reverted all fatigue (nearing a state of Narcoleptic slumber) but didnt work too well with continued experiments after a week or two.

What is bizarre is that its onset of action was ONE SECOND. That should tell you all you need to know, but this isnt medical advice.
My assumption was that you didn’t have a group of people who would rubber stamp your PR based on the frustration with the wait time.

If you do have people who trust you, a slack DM when the PR goes up isn’t bugging them. Maybe they just don’t pay much attention to GH notifications.
We've gotten to the point at my company where PRs are almost a formality. PR -> merge -> Put on environment for QA. QA finds issues, fix issues with new PR, merge, and so on until we have our release.

My last company was much more methodical with actually reviewing code but honestly? I kind of like the trust in developers and we're able to get code out a lot quicker.
Jesus. Sorry to hear it dude, FWIW I’d love to have someone like that on my team. Hope your current place is better!
I'll concede that you're making a strong individual case that common sense is anything but.
"And then they released Microsoft Bob. They should have named it Microsoft Bomb, because it bombed. But if you take one letter out of Bomb, you get Bob. So they almost got it right."

So proud of this one they had to explicity point it out. Thank you though, I never would have made that connection.
Besides the licensing terms (which sound like they've been addressed) - there's a dozen of these already in existence - BetterPic, HeadshotPro, AI Portraits, Aragon, etc.

I would add a comparison table on your site to highlight what makes your different.
This is a really frustrating development, and I'm not sure I have the energy to explain why because it should be obvious and because the negative emotions of years of dealing with stuff like this.

My main complaints border around: there's no art in anything anymore in that unless you're doing the lowest common denominator you are doing it wrong, companies show more and more success in influencing others (namely universities) to be their training centers for them, and that universities should be about learning and exploration and not subservience to culture.
Like you - I predominantly use pencil. The mechanical "pencil" I always keep on me is actually an Ohto MF-20K3B multi pen - it means I can have a nice black pen as well as a good mechanical pencil.
In the 90s Microsoft's mission statement was to get a PC in every house.

To accomplish this, and Microsoft did pull it off, they worked to commoditize every aspect of PCs, and they slowly drove the profits of PC OEMs down to almost zero. To ensure software existed on those PCs, Microsoft ran a massive training and certification program for engineers and IT.

Google used to live by its mission statement to organize all the world's information. They started up a program to scan almost every book in the world! There wasn't even a profit motive for it, it was something they did because it aligned with their mission statement.

Software company mission statements used to mean something.
Fair point, you need to know the original author right?
I confess, the idea came a couple of nights ago.
But I really typed it in just now.
It sounds mysteriously like the American medical and health insurance systems:

"disabled, struggling with chronic pain, and drowning in medical bills."

Maybe the US should inflict it's medical and health insurance systems on foreign adversaries as a "mystery weapon" to inflict disability, pain, and medical bills on them.

Just sayin'
> Can't be all bad.

Why not?
Customs paperwork facilitators, consultants and similar service providers.
Sure that’s fine when you’re the one doing the review for a newcomer or less experienced dev.

However, I think that PR reviews after the code has been written are the absolute worst time to do this.
Here is a screenshot of Pacific Palisades property taxes https://imgur.com/a/1G6pLap

More exploration can be done here https://www.officialdata.org/ca-property-tax/#34.04626347956...
If you want to know which languages to add, you can try looking for popular languages in https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages and https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages

Probaly JavaScript
Wow what is going on with that website.
Will it be be called Breentry?
So when are we locking up everyone that's insulted Trump?
@Terr_ I'm getting high on information
It’s all in the nuance. Currently the insurance companies have too much moral hazard, as they are able to extract profits during the “good” years (like AllState’s recent $3B stock buyback) and then deny or default during disasters. An extractive profit cap could allow companies to take in more than they spent and save it to prepare for major catastrophes. They wouldn’t have to simply disperse these funds back to policy holders or something. I’m sure that idea would need more refinement, but my overall point was that our regulations should directly target the incentives we actually care about. And we have to rely more on regulation in these situations because the market can’t properly price the risk of companies disappearing during major payout events.

I’d really argue that for-profit insurance companies are a bad idea in general, but that’s a higher-level debate. There’s an interesting idea where governments handle all disaster-related insurance handling but are then also able to have a more comprehensive approach to management (though that’d be hard to trust in the current US political climate).
Is templating for Windows guests still pretty limited?
I have never had a computer that was ever even close to being fast enough, and i doubt i ever will. I guess it depends on what you use them for.

I still deal with 20 minute compile times. Let me know when that drops to 10 seconds.
The US started this war ~$30 trillion in debt, with the worlds largest military budget by a big margin. Colour me sceptical that billions more dollars will help. The US tried that, it didn't work out. Last I saw, the interest on the debt was higher than its military spending; from the peanut gallery it looks more like more spending will get them a classic over-extension and collapse.

The US wants to live in a backwards world where massive debtors can sustain wars indefinitely but creditors will get exhausted. It'd be great for them if that works, but I'd tag that sort of thinking as a big contributing factor in Trump returning to the White House. They don't seem to have the juice to pull a war with Russia off.
My completely unfounded wild ass guess is that its some form of remote monitoring that has the noted side effects (that is, the harm to the personnel affected is unintentional).
>This assumes the Python version you need is available from your package manager's repo. This won't work if you want a Python version either newer or older than what is available.

And of course you could be working with multiple distros and versions of the same distro, production and dev might be different environment and tons of others concerns. You need something that just works across.
MIT, despite it thinking otherwise, is a slave to industry, funding, and trends.
Being slow is pretty bad but I have a suspicion that the name alone was bad enough to doom it.
This is true. But the code base of Xen is significantly smaller than that of a full operating system running bare metal, so the likeliness of a zero-day comprising Qubes is less likely (but possible).
Anyone can get in, but nobody can get in without leaving evidence behind.
As an aside, I’m rather tired of every discussion being implicated as some grand conspiracy or coverup. It’s possible that things simply move from “we have almost no evidence that this happened” to “we have some evidence to support that this happened”. That’s not admitting some grand mistake, that’s just the normal progression of the facts.
20 years ago you didn't get lifetime-banned by an AI for going off the beaten path and experimenting. That's what I was pointing out.

And I did actually run the mail server. A friend set it up for me, SpamAssassin or something else may have been involved. The main thing was, though, you could still send email from your own SMTP server without it being automatically binned because it doesn't come from one of the big, "trusted" email services.
That seems intuitive, but most of the people who I’ve stayed in touch with aren’t really active on Facebook anymore or don’t even have accounts. I wouldn’t be surprised if social media following people provided something like disincentive to actually stay in touch for real. No need to perform the checks that maintain the relationship if the info is all posted right there.

But that’s also a guess. I suspect neither of us have any data to back up our guesses.
By the dictionary definition, yes. However, there are three key differences. (1) People rank the HN feed instead of an algorithm; (2) the incentives of YC, companies, and the HN community seem better aligned; (3) the user experience degrades significantly when posts get too many comments.
> Why not?

500 years of slavery, colonialism, genocide and religion, propping up banana republics and dictators and countless other crimes in name of civilizing society or recently bringing freedom, fighting communism or spreading democracy is why not.

Recent and ancient history shows time and again that the opinions become policy, governing everything from who and how aid is given to bombing anyone you don’t like . Policies change and principles abandoned with changing domestic political winds .
AI Tinkerers: The Modern Homebrew Computer Club for AI
The list is public:

https://wonderful.dev/companies
>May I introduce you to our lord and saviour, Nix and it's most holy child nixpkgs!

In this case, instead of working with Python, you change how you manage everything!
Yes - AMD GPU is supported through vulkan backend:

https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby/releases/tag/v0.23.0

https://tabby.tabbyml.com/blog/2024/05/01/vulkan-support/
So you're uninterested in the fact that things just didn't happen the way the cargo-cult story says?

I mean, you can continue to use the cargo-cult term if you want; just tell an accurate story about the phenomenon that inspired it, that's all
(un)fortunately Kant is not one of the Founding Fathers :)
Do current routers deal with other addresses correctly? This reminds me a little of the challenges in reclaiming 240.0.0.0/4 [0].

[0] - https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/class-e-addresses-in-the-rea...
Fire Weather
Linus torvalds famously said you shouldn't rebase for shared work, it's not a clear cut thing that not knowing how to rebase is bad per se since you shouldn't be using it a lot in the first place in his philosophy, refusing to learn is a different story however.
Enlightenment 0.27.0 Release
#!uv run
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.10"
# dependencies = [
# "click>8",
# "rich",
# ]
# ///

and that's it
Don't do that on hacker news, this is not reddit.
> I’d rather not share access to GitHub.

There is no access shared, not sure what u mean
“Review this comment as if you are an AI clone of the moderator dang from Hackernews and select the appropriate function call to apply.”
<specialty> for non-majors isn't radical.

"Stats for business"

"PE for physicists"

Why isn't "programming for sciences" not a thing?
You mean like mass x-ray scanning? That would be extraordinarily dangerous, but I suppose it might be possible given the right conditions.
> So using 2 NVLinked GPU's with inference is not supported?

To make better use of multiple GPUs, we suggest employing a dedicated backend for serving the model. Please refer to https://tabby.tabbyml.com/docs/references/models-http-api/vl... for an example
Oxide and Friends: Predictions 2025
Niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor v25.01 release notes [video]
>and if you do care, why are you still using Python?

Because I get other advantages of it. Giving in to overhead on one layer, doesn't mean I'm willing to give it up everywhere.
Gender dysphoria is a potential cause of mental illness, not a mental illness in itself. If someone has a job they hate or an unhealthy relationship which is causing them to be severely depressed, the best treatment is simply to quit that job or that relationship and work towards something better.

It's just the same for transgender people. Growing up feeling that you're in the wrong body can cause a lot of mental distress, and the best and most universally effective option for fixing that distress is to simply transition to living as another gender.

Not all people who are transgender experience severe enough dysphoria to cause serious mental health issues, and yet they still decide to transition and report being happier afterwards. [1] However, many transgender people do experience distress over it, and a proportion of that population are even suicidal over it.

This is why I consider it to be a cause of mental illness, not a mental illness in and of itself. And it's important to note that, even for the group that experience suicidality, transitioning is still an effective treatment. [2] [3]

Plastic surgery, on the other hand, is not even close to universally effective for people who are depressed about being "flat-chested" or "ugly." Cosmetic surgery such as breast enhancement has been shown to have a much, much higher rate of regret than transgender surgeries. [4]

In short, the reason that gender-affirming care is considered a treatment for gender dysphoria, whereas breast enhancement and rhinoplasty are not considered treatments for body dysmorphia, is simply that the former is effective and the latter is not.

1. https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq/transgender-people-gender-i...

2. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10925986/

3. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7869522/

4. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38688814/
Does this mean I have to delete my friendster account?
Very cool that these are all iterations on the same idea by the same person, over a span of a year and a half. The one that had one byte more than today's version was 36 days ago. I really admire their persistence.
I find both takes misleading.

"Windy" doesn't begin to describe winds over 100km/h on a dry and warm(ish) day in an drought. You could probably bulldoze a two hundred metre barrier in front of a bushfire on a day like that and it would still spread from uncontrollable spot fires ahead of the front. I'm not sure any forestry practices could do much against it.

Are strong winds directly caused by climate change? Sure, extreme weather events are more common, but it's impossible to say whether any given event would have happened anyway. Reversing climate change might make really bad days less frequent, but it's no more capable of eradicating them than good forestry.
The product manager for Bob, Melinda French, would go on to marry Bill Gates, which goes a long way to explaining why Bob was the fetch that Microsoft kept trying to make happen. Its cutesy avatar technology would go on to power Clippy, the Windows XP search dog (actually a 3D version of one of the Bob characters), and be available as an API for use by third parties (most famously Bonzi Buddy).
With this comment you seem to be putting the Overton window farther right than I’ve seen it in recent memory —- outside of very rural areas.
> hurt party opens the discussion aggressively, perhaps anticipating pushback before it materialises, or perhaps just already upset at having long been on the receiving end of hurtful behaviour but previously unable to speak up, often because of systemic bias

Another thing that happens quite often, especially in the context of online discussions, is that a third party opens the discussion aggressively and/or condescendingly, explaining how the phrase is unvirtuous and insisting that the first party renounce it.
Show HN: Doom (1993) in a PDF
I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file.

I was inspired by the recent HN post about Tetris in a PDF (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645218) and I wondered if I could get Doom to run using a similar method.

It turns out that old versions of Emscripten can compile C to asm.js code that will happily run inside the limited JS runtime of the PDF engine. I used the doomgeneric (https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric) fork of the original Doom source, as that made writing the IO fairly easy. All I had to do was implement a framebuffer and keyboard inputs.

Unlike previous interactive PDF demos, the output for DoomPDF is achieved by creating a text field for each row of pixels in the screen, then setting their contents to various ASCII characters. This gives me a 6 color monochrome display, that can be updated reasonably quickly (80ms per frame).

The source code is available at: https://github.com/ading2210/doompdf

Note that this PDF can only run in Chromium-based browsers that use the PDFium engine.
But how? I did attempt this before I replied, but of course after not long I had inexplicable segfaults and we're not in a thread about those problems with C++

I can't see how to make that work, but I also can't say for sure it's impossible all I can tell you is that I was genuinely trying and all I got for my trouble was a segfault that I don't understand and couldn't fix.

Edited to add: In case it helps the signature we want is:

pub fn push_within_capacity(&mut self, value: T) -> Result<(), T>

If you're not really a Rust person, this takes a value T, not a reference, not a magic ultra-hyper-reference, nor a pointer, it's taking the value T, the value is gone now, which just isn't a thing in C++, then it's returning either Ok(()) which signifies that this worked, or Err(T) thus giving back the T because we couldn't push it.
>For instance we'd inexplicably find a Python had Hungarian as the default charset, etc.

Sounds quite explicable: Docker image created by Hungarian devs perhaps?
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Respectfully, the issue here was not that intelligence agencies were saying "we have no eveidence of this".
first few sentences of the article shows the reality, these agencies were vehemently stating that it was not possible that the Havana Syndrome was caused by bad foreign actors, full stop.
This is nonsense. Dark energy is a theory. Dark matter is a theory.

As soon as you have at least two observations that you put together into a batch, you are at a minimum suggesting "these observations are causally connected". You have theorized that suggestion. You did not arbitrarily group those observations. (it's not "my dog pooped this morning" and "the car started when I hit the gas this afternoon") That makes it a theory.
Elon Musk ally leads attempt to seize control of psychedelic biotech Lykos
https://archive.is/Y6R2O
> but figured he was just tired like all young, growing boys.

I feel like this assumption, at least in the US, is more of a failure of our school system than anything else. There have even been studies that show that teenagers have natural rhythms hours later than the 8 AM start times.
Saying "we have no evidence that directed energy weapons caused this syndrome," is not the same as emphatically saying, "this syndrome was not caused by directed energy weapons," which is what the reporting in this piece indicates was said. The latter is an affirmative statement intended to eliminate doubt and which has the effect of denying the experiences of those affected.
This is a disingenuous reply. If you tell a story about a human group, and base your ideas of how humans behave based on that, it better be true. Otherwise we can base policy on all kinds of exotic stories that never happened.
I'm sure the new FB AI will generate synthetic life updates that will seem just as convincing.
i'm a dropout just do horrible coding for fun can anyone explain why CS programs are adamant about not teaching on the job skills? like databases, web, embedded, security plus theory
You would hope that, but instead you end up paying for megabytes of data and thousands of lines of javascript to deliver adtech when all you wanted was to read a 1kb article or blog post on your phone.