skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This exists already at Northeastern. They have a data science major and minor with a much more 'practical' intro sequence that teaches in Python. I actually TA'd for it, and many of the students were business or life sciences majors going for a data science minor. It even came with a 1-credit practicum geared towards specific domains, which students could choose from.
Does this make Chrome the new IE4? (Although I guess most web-"devs" nowadays never experienced IE4...)

Why hasn't there been a major data theft yet exploiting the permissiveness of the Chrome extension ecosystem, it's a disaster waiting to happen...
It ran OS X!
> Microsoft included an encrypted copy of Bob on Windows XP installation CDs to waste space to discourage piracy.

This feels like an urban legend made up after the fact.

It would be way easier to just generate random bytes, and nobody could ever tell the difference.

Especially since no decryption key exists.

It's just a funnier story if that's the only thing Bob was ever good for...
We had thousands of global customers in our previous social automation product, but interestingly some of the fastest growing accounts hadn't posted in years.

We realized they had good content, and the social networks had developed algorithms to find good content to put it in front of the audience that appreciates it (to sell more ads). At the time we could only realize this insight, and the best we could do was tell customers to post better content.

Last year, we solved 'computer use' in natural language and invented the idea of 'semantic targets' in English selectors, allowing building agents that are impossible in UiPath and other RPA tools. We were the first startup to get approved by openAI to sell GPT-3 for automation in August 2021, and one of the first to work on agents years before chatGPT was published.

However, most of the world doesn't know what to automate or even how to run a business manually, so solving this RPA problem didn't help our ICP.

To meaningfully help our customers, we now focus on business goals.

To begin, we're focusing on the "holy grail" of marketing: hundreds of cloud agents that automate a/b testing various demographics, copywriting, and viral video styles for you to iterate better content and grow any brand on autopilot!

Most marketing teams today function on hope as a strategy: keep posting till the algorithms give you luck. We've built the first framework to formalize marketing at scale across cloud marketing agents.

We've discovered that since each video costs fractions of a penny to generate, the CPM is actually 50-500X better than paying for ads. Startups can even pay $2500 to unlock $25k-$350k in cloud credits to spend on marketing!

We believe in the future, agents will learn all the new best practices and even write custom tools for themselves to optimize revenue directly.

Start for only $3/day in a Google-ads like interface that seamlessly scales across hundreds of agents servers and hundreds of agents per server.
Most Computer Science programs teach principles.

The ideas behind a database is more important than the the concrete database used. If the ideas are taught, then the students can adapt when the fashion changes.

So instead of teaching something that you can use on your first job, they teach principles you can use your entire career. And times does change.

Remember the good old languages Fortran, Algol 60 etc. That's where the jobs were...
I am typing this on my MacBook Pro early 2015. Dual Core i5 with 8GB Memory. For 99% of usage on Chrome and Firefox it is fine. ( 12 years using Safari it is still the worst browser for many tabs )

Basically the last real big jump in performance was SSD. I have used M1 - M3 Macbook at work. While they are faster it wasn't that much faster compared to the switch between HDD and SSD. Even On devices Voice Dictation and other AI features worked pretty well.

As many stated software is getting slower. Security and all the other requirement will likely put more burden on your machine. So there may be a need to upgrade this 2015 machine in the future, but as far as I am concern most of those have to do with Memory rather than CPU performance. I could have a 2015 Quad Core MacBook Pro and 32GB and I am sure it will last me till 2030.

ARM and Qualcomm have both catch up to Apple in CPU performance. Oryon and Cortex X725 is now within ~12% ( IIRC ) IPC difference or even similar if you ignore a small type of workload. With X730 and Oryon 2 both expect to eliminate or even exceed that gap. Unless A19 / M5 pull some other magic tricks we have basically make High CPU Performance a commodity.
Instead of just tearing down the current usage, you should have at least proposed an alternative that captures the metaphorical qualities that are being sought with the current terminology.
Ahh, can't contribute anything meaningful, so you go for an ad hominem attack.

As in the beginning, still pretty boring.

At least you have continuity in that regard.
The Uni-ball Signo UM-151 (0.38mm) is my go-to, but lately I've also been warming to the Pentel Hybrid Technica (0.4mm). Compared to the Uni-Ball, it's slightly less consistent, but I prefer the color, it being among the blackest blacks I've seen in any gel pen.
heavy coming from someone who wrote freedom of speech and expression is not absolute, but limited when it infringes on other rights: right not to be insulted or discriminated against with the straight face.

your words have insulted me so imma hit up HN to have it be deleted and maybe file a lawsuit as well :)
> One of my favorite sci fi concepts is a universe where the cosmological principle was false.

As it stands now, the cosmological principle seems false at every scale we look (with confidence decreasing in falshood slightly decreasing as scale gets larger). So that doesn't seem to be a "sci fi" concept, just a "sci" concept.
As someone that used to work in tech for a large bank, but have since left, I’m curious what her skill set is that would prevent her from jumping ship to somewhere that is not a large bank?

If I had to make a random guess, is it something related to Athena?
Well once you bring law into it then you have to be accurate. Insulting someone is almost never unlawful in the US. And discrimination laws apply to specific matters for specific special classes.
The title of this is supposed to be "This Machine Creates Fractals" (as a nod to "This Machine Kills Fascists"), but the "This" was removed.
Yep, "copy/paste programming" is a separate term for the version that works without being understood.
I've seen these claims (in much more detailed form that the Guardian link lays out, even the link it offers to one of its own articles to back up the claim).

I'd really like to see some differentiation between:

* a disproportionate number of people of Norman descent remain some of the wealthiest landowners in England

and

* a disproportion number of the wealthiest landowners in England are of Norman descent

Since these are quite different claims.
Yep. I’ve tried to avoid it but for groups where less technical people need to be able to edit pages and contribute content, WP continues to be the go-to solution. The last time around I tried to avoid it but after trying everything I could find, I gave up and installed it again. I’d love to see some alternatives spring up, but the plugin and theme ecosystem is so large I think it’d be hard to replace anytime soon.
You are keenly insightful in this age of the willingly blind.

Their technology products are free/low cost ways to get you to voluntarily opt in to their surveillance advertising model.
" Ukraine shouldn't have been stationing CIA bases and taking military aid from the US before the war. "

Citation please. This sounds exactly like the lies Putin says to justify the invasion.

"They should have surrendered on day 1."

So if your country is invaded you would surrender "day one"?

"If we extrapolate from the poor quality of the Ukrainian leadership's decisions so far "

What decisions would those be? Zelensky has done a very good job in a very difficult situation.
To get people used to passwords
> The geopolitical consequences are profound, especially as a new president prepares to take office: If Russia, or any other country, were found culpable for violent attacks on U.S. government personnel, Washington would likely feel compelled to forcefully respond.

Seeing how Trump has repeatedly praised Putin and criticized Zalensky, it's doubtful there'd be any consequences if Russia really turned out to be behind all this.
>> "...it never actually happened?"

The premise of the article is not at all that cargo cults never happened. Instead, the article acknowledges that cargo cults happened, but claims they are misunderstood and often ill-documented, and therefore unsuitable for software metaphors.

The "never happened" claim is waaaay stronger and likely no credible or serious observer would make the "never happened" claim.
The whole premise of this article is non-performance reasons to love rust
The whole incident report is interesting, but I feel like the most important part of the solution is buried here [0]:

* "We're adding timeouts to prevent user requests from waiting excessively long to retrieve assets."

When you get to the size of Canva, you can't forget your AbortController and exponential backoff on your Fetch API calls.

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0: https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/canva-incident-report...
Is the WAD file open-source as a PDF attachment now?
So I'm skeptical for two reasons.

1. Just look at the completely made up fears about ODing from fentanyl just by touching it or even just breathing in the fumes. There is absolutely no truth to these dangers [1][2], yet the myth persists. It's so pervasive that cops actually have panic attacks; and

2. US authorities and the intelligence community has a vested interest in exaggerating the risks of foreign actors to get more funding. You see this everywhere, even in domestic affairs: the "crime panic" of recent times that is completely made up, completely overblown fears of looting in the aftermath of the LA fires (while there's little to no attention on the price gouging and profiteering that's going on) and so on.

Those domestic manufactured panics are copaganda to justify further militarization and funding for the police.

My point is that there is a significant part of the US government gearing up for and wanting an escalation of conflict with China in particular. Cuba of course has been a bogeyman for decades.

So my money is still firmly on "Havana Syndrome is completely made up".

[1]: https://www.njspotlightnews.org/special-report/fentanyl-myth...

[2]: https://healthandjusticejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/1...
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.
4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42634473 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42634367

44 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42270530

8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40232201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40232177 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40232166 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40232126

1 year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38954676
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38918879
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38871755
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38798445
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38740760
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38687545
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38624202
How do you falsify mass hysteria with that strategy?
The legal owner of the book has to allow you to read it. And the legal owner can't make additional copies to allow you to read it.
Usenet pre-"green-card-spam" was a relative utopia.

Sure you had arguments. That's where 'flamewar' came from. But quickly people tired of that and created *.advocacy sub-newsgroups to let people vent in their corner of the net.

Then domains were opened up for commerce a few years later and eternal September became a thing... The net never recovered, it just used up more bandwidth.
They can be taken immediately. Source me, former Twitter employee pre 2021
That's an older iteration of the device.
The girl already cried. Making it into a meme doesn't make her cry more. People using the meme are exercising their Freedom (of speech, in this case). That freedom of speech isn't really infringing on anyone else's rights, so it's essentially zero cost. Freedom is the second most important natural right, right after Life.[1]

The only argument for not using the meme here would be if _the actual girl in the meme_ wrote an open letter asking people not to use it publicly because every time she sees it she feels those emotions again or some such. I would definitely stop using it then--not that I use that meme to begin with, but that's really besides the point.

I don't care if some rando online wants to police speech. They have no power or right to do so. They are free to have an _opinion_, just as I am, because again, Freedom is a very important right. And they have no right to limit any of my rights, unless my exercise of some right infringed on a higher right of theirs e.g. I cannot claim to have the Freedom to negatively affect their Life.

And, importantly, I think some third-party claiming they are hurt by the use of that meme on behalf of the woman in the photo is not a tenable position. They could only do so if she had expressed the desire for people to stop using the meme, in which case it would still not make a difference whether such people felt hurt or not, but rather that the actual woman was hurt.

There's your argument from first principles. QED.

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1. I'm handwaving this hierarchy of rights and the existence of natural rights, but hopefully it isn't too controversial to claim that the Life is the paramount right and Freedom should follow closely. I've thought long and hard about this and could never find a better hierarchy. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that every other right derives from just those two rights and their hierarchy relative to each other and to all other rights, but since I have no degree in Law or Philosophy to support such a claim robustly, I can only propose it as a thought experiment left as an exercise to the reader.
His lack of depth is obvious even from his speeches. He jumps from topic to topic and doesn't develop his ideas or show much internal organization. He has a pithy insight and then bounces to the next topic.

That said, if a 60 minute talk can provide even one useful insight that's useful, I'd say it's a win. And I think his "zero to one" talk had at least two or three.

Honestly, I concluded GOOG was an advertising company pretending to be a "tech" company some time ago, but if I say it I'm a "troll", if Thiel says it, well it might be true, right?
Respectively, yes.
The ability to create venvs so fast, that it becomes a silent operation that the end user never thinks about anymore.
The dependency management and installation is lightning quick.
It deals with all of the python versioning

and I think a killer feature is the ability to inline dependencies in your Python source code, then use: uv tool run <scriptname>

Your script code would like:

#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.12"
# dependencies = [
# "...",
# "..."
# ]
# ///

Then uv will make a new venv, install the dependencies, and execute the script faster than you think. The first run is a bit slower due to downloads and etc, but the second and subsequent runs are a bunch of internal symlink shuffling.

It is really interesting. You should at least take a look at a YT or something. I think you will be impressed.

Good luck!
No, worse. They trusted their experts and they trusted what the Ukrainians reported. They smelled blood and giddily thought they had the opportunity to humiliate Russia—without getting their hands too dirty. Culminating in the resounding failure of the 2023 Kontr.

By fall 2023 they knew the score. But they couldn’t get out then and they still can’t.
You can still use traditional venvs with UV though, if you want.
Not to dispute, could you post a link because I would love to see how he expressed this, and work out how I feel about it.

At one level it's a truism, if you wind up with price the main constraint on something, if it is substitutable you will go to a cheaper substitute, when price exceeds some threshold but that threshold is variant to circumstance, and the consequences of substitution also come to play.
The end of an era. This is nothing less than a travesty honestly. The current (now former) curriculum at NEU was uniquely exceptional, and now it will be conformingly adequate. Anyone who complained about the difficulty or lack of "job-market applicability" of the Fundies classes entirely missed the forest for the trees. The point is the design _process_, and using Racket forced this. It also demonstrated the magic that is possible with computer science. The Dr. Racket editor has features that do not exist in any other editor (e.g. visually tracing references, and so much more). The teaching language just got out of the way and let professors teach the essentials of program design, without the burden of language idiosyncrasies. My mind was honestly blown when Olin Shivers coded the Y combinator directly and showed us how to add recursion to a language. It felt like having occult knowledge, and it made me an acolyte to computer science. I mourn the loss of this curriculum for future students, especially considering the premium price tag they now pay.
Specifically he said that changing shared history is bad - that would be the master/main branch or release branches, not e.g. your branch.

Not knowing how to rebase means that in order to stay up-to-date with a shared branch you would have to merge it each time and thus produce something akin to a spruce tree in your commit history.
Can’t you make these weapons with the magnetron out of any old microwave? I’ve always wondered why these devices aren’t more prolific than they are…
One of my biggest gripes with the social media you and I have quit is that it has strongly encouraged flippant, black-and-white responses like the one you're responding to. Nuance, by and large, has been removed from public discourse.

Edit: Just speaking for me, HN is next. Doubt I'll stick 'round much longer.
The problem is using watch you have no control* over when in each second it's getting the time, so it could be nearly a second late (e.g. it's getting the time once per second, but happens to be doing it when it's a few milliseconds away from ticking over to the next second).

* Okay, you have a little control in that you can press enter, or otherwise set it running, at a particular moment.
> If you know anything about Microsoft, you know they don't innovate.

Longhorn failed because MS tried to be too innovative within the scope of a single OS release. In some ways Microsoft was more innovative under Ballmer than Nadella--see e.g. the radical Midori OS that Nadella killed, or Microsoft Research's highly productive Silicon Valley campus that Nadella shut down.
Maybe you've answered your own question. Directed-energy weapson exist - but the agencies that would have developed this particular capability have said that it isn't possible or doesn't match the reported symptoms. It would be fairly surprising if, between them, they didn't already have a wealth of research on the topic.

It's hard to say what the reality is though - e.g. maybe they didn't want to reveal an existing capabilty.
I do think this is the wrong way to look at this.

Prohibiting slurs is like prohibiting nudity in public parks. You're prohibiting an action so that people don't self-prohibit themselves from visiting.
Ask HN: What are your favorite Tech podcasts in 2025?
Many podcasts have shut down after COVID. On the other hand, there are new players in town. So, I'm wondering, what are you listening to these days?

My current top is:

1. https://www.youtube.com/@DeveloperVoices - general programming podcast (fp, rust, databases, gamedev)

2. https://www.youtube.com/@SoftwareUnscripted - more focused on languages podcast

3. https://www.youtube.com/@Waveform - tech news from the past week (iphones, Apple, and so on)

4. https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends - interviews with various tech people

5. https://changelog.com/podcast - interviews with various tech people
We expect same day or next day response. Of course only if you're in. But if you're not I might reassign. Also if it blocks me I will ping you in less than a day or straight away.

My most common response is "needs no further review if these points are addressed". On rare occasions my only response is "need more time". Some changes take time to settle in my mind. No good comes from rushed comments.

There is an expectation not to haggle over dumb shit. When you decide to pick a battle, pull in a second reviewer for their opinion.

I'm sure you've heard the "trick" of splitting up large merges to make them easier. Yes this is good up to a point. Other than that, it really is team commitment to timely reviews. No tricks to it.
Exciting to see this on HN! As a ‘15 NU alum that took the CS program & third time founder, I support the change.

Fundies 1 and 2 were great, but I have always felt that the amount of delayed gratification in NU’s CS program was much too long and incongruent with the university’s focus on experiential learning. I wanted to get my hands dirty and build something and the whole curriculum felt too academic.

Northeastern CS is world class at compilers and programming language research, so I always understood that the undergrad program would tend to be academic as a trickle down effect.

It’s a spectrum with tradeoffs, so I think balance is key. But happy to see the pendulum swing a bit and think it will be good for new grads, especially as more coding work becomes automated.
>Seniors today were professionals using technology 20 years ago.

This is correct. Folks, VisiCalc was introduced in 1979, when today's ninety-year-olds were 44. They had not even lived half their current life.
It doesn't have to be controversial, even. It might just be a little bit private.

I'm on a social tech Slack that uses the CHR. It means if someone asks a question about, I don't know, how my company does something, I can say "ah, yeah, we used to use vendor X, that didn't work because of Y, and now we're with Z instead" without worrying about a blog post showing up that says "wlonkly from company Foo says that Foo used to use X but dropped them because..." but they can definitely use the information I gave them to help solve their problem.
Yes; as I said:

> ...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...

It's understandable that people on the receiving end of what you describe should react badly; however the compassionate approach is to try to listen first, understand that the aggression or condescension may be an attempt to control the conversation out of fear of not being heard (a fear which may be grounded in experience), or a kind of emotional exhaustion at having been on the receiving end of hurtful treatment for a long time already.

So, you're right, that's not a productive approach, but I think it's more important how someone moves forward from that; if they dig in and fight back, then all we get is a war. Actually this applies in any interaction where someone is behaving unpleasantly towards you; if you can contain your natural defensive reaction and show kindness in return, you will often find that the situation relaxes, and maybe that person is upset for totally unrelated reasons - perhaps you just crossed their path at a bad time. And again, it's not OK for someone to shout at you - but the compassionate response will often make the outcome better for both of you.