skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Apple contributed just a couple millions a year to the FreeBSD Foundation, out of all the profits it makes using that operating system, it would have been in a completely different shape. More devs could have been employed to solve all past issues and add new features.

I despise Apple so much for being such greedy and retarded jerks.
At first I thought this was sarcasm.

647 points of failure.
I took skiing lessons a couple years ago. This is how it was done. I can't say it was any easier as I had never skied before and I never will again.
1) I think word use is an ongoing process and sometimes I want to participate in that negotiation.

2) Showing that a phrase is abbreviated on the specific subreddit named after that phrase is one of the least convincing arguments possible for general use of that abbreviation.

3) I could, but that doesn't sound like something I particularly want to happen.
id consider that the sacrifice is the opposite - the local government is a collective threat, and we sacrifice locally built products to mitigate that threat
Depends on the school. Some are super locked down, and some don't seem to care at all.

But kids are kids. For example, mine and her friends are using a shared Google slides to drop memes and chat amongst themselves. They always find a way :).
what exactly do you want the llm to do here? if the ask was so unambiguous and simple that it could be reliably generated, then the interface wouldn't be so complicated to use in the first place! LLMs are not in any way best suited for one-shot prompt => perfect output, and expectations to that effect are extremely unreasonable. the reason why LLMs are still hard for beginners to use is because the software is hard to use correctly. as with LLM output goes life itself: the results you get from using a tool can only ever be as good as the (mental) model used to choose that tool & the inputs to begin with. if all the information required to generate the output were contained by the initial prompt, then there would be absolutely no need to use the LLM at all in the first place.
I wonder if Virtuals Protocol considered to use their governance forum (https://gov.virtuals.io/) to decide upon bounties? I can imagine the community wants to reward way more than 10k for these sort of bugs.
My sister that's studying medicine says that her books would be totally ruined in half a year if she used them like she uses the virtual ones.
We should return the favor then and shut down the psyops divisions like this (and these are just the public ones):

https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/specialty-careers/sp...
Zuckerberg and Elon got what they wanted. Regulatory capture. Got the govt to ban a superior product. Elon even gets dips on acquiring it and expanding his megaphone.

I guess US is becoming more like China. Choosing their horses and warding off competition.

So much for free markets.
Norepinephrine increases alertness, especially when it's targeted towards the prefrontal cortex (like straterra is)
I learned Spanish at a two year old level by focusing only on the top 24 verbs, in all (major) tenses first. So, ir, ser, estar, tener, haber, hacer, poner, poder, venir, ver, decir, dar, etc., in present, preterite, imperfect, future, conditional, subjunctive, progressives, and perfects.

Then I learned about 2000 nouns from several lists. Then I learned some common "weird" constructions like darse cuenta, and hace falta.

Now I can read paperbacks on the plane without a dictionary, and follow the plot. I can communicate simply, and send pretty good texts. I have a lot of trouble with TV and radio, but it's progress. This took 2 years with mainly self study and Duolingo for accountability. I don't think an app alone would do the trick.
It took way less than 100 years to eradicate illiteracy, and further improvement followed. However, as soon as a system is established, the forces that corrupt that system start acting, finding ways to exploit it to their own advantage. Then, as special interests (politics, unions) take over, the quality stagnates and then decays.
From my experience on the Meta side of the interview process, the questions are designed to account for "a bad day".

Also, the follow ups are designed to eventually lock the candidate, since is not enough to pass the low bar, they want to know what your high bar is too.
There are in fact a great many school room sized cells in the United States. "Dormitory" housing is the norm for a significant percentage of inmates in jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers (imagine a school gym filled with bunks and you're often not far off). To add to the school-prison linkage, many facilities have lockers as well, replete with padlocks that make dandy weapons.

That said, I am still doubtful there are 1:1 copies of jails being used as schools, regardless of visible similarities. I don't see any of these supposed jail/high schools with secured rec yards for instance, which generally make up part of the structure of the facilities that look most like the examples given.
I worked at a place where line employees talked like this to each other all the time. It was maddening. In particular, whenever the word "use" might be used, everybody at this company used the word "leverage" instead. They leveraged a piece of toilet paper to wipe their ass with. Madness! I felt like I was from space, like, am I the only one who sees how silly this is?

But again, this sort of jargon serves a social signalling function. It's metacommunication, not first-order communication. It's intended to suggest "I'm a true and honest member of the business class and should be taken seriously in business affairs."
Why? The entire point of a court case is to settle an argument over a specific case or controversy. So if something is orthogonal or tangential (pick your math metaphor), that means something.
Cool! Be sure to pay attention to this part:

> "Finally, state enforcement of Section 3 with respect to the
Presidency would raise heightened concerns... state-by-state resolution of the question whether Section 3 bars a particular candidate for President from serving would be quite unlikely to yield a uniform answer"

That's a political consideration, not a legal one.

> "In my judgment, this is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency. The Court has settled a politically charged issue in the volatile season of a Presidential election. Particularly in this circumstance, writings on the Court should turn the national temperature down, not up."

That's a political consideration, not a legal one.
I threw up in my mouth a little.
How does she use the virtual ones?
> Plus, a cop can just call for a canine squad and then get the canine to signal and then use that as probable cause for a search if they really want to fuck your day up in a way that is totally legal.

Can't make you wait around for a canine without probable cause. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/239513-court-ru...

> While officers may use a dog to sniff around a car during the course of a routine traffic stop, they cannot extend the length of the stop in order to carry it out.
I'd agree except for the ability to search in an e-book. There's nothing worse than knowing the textbook in front of you contains the answer you need but not remembering which of the 1500 pages contains it. Being able to CTRL-F saved me hours of time when I went back to school after e-books became common.
You might need to install/setup Speech Dispatcher. I was just using this implementation with Piper: https://github.com/Elleo/pied?tab=readme-ov-file.

However easier way to read articles aloud is with Read Aloud extension: https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud.
To support paper-digital integration, we created https://www.smartpaperapp.com/

It’s not special paper—it’s just a computer vision system to help teacher easily convert student work on paper to digital marks. The state of Rajasthan in India uses this product to assess math and literacy for 5 million students each year.

At a personal level, I’m frustrated by son’s school that uses a digital LMS to have teachers assign jpgs of pages of the books. I find it hard to help him because I don’t know what he has done and what he will do—something that a book makes natural. At the same time, I’m a fan of cognitive tutors and other digital instructional materials. Balance is good!
Yeah and an "artifact" of that "compression" is the "signal" that "you're a dork"
Show HN: I made a tool to save multimedia from various platforms
My goal is to create a free media downloader that doesn't bother you. friendly, efficient, and has no paywalls or anything like that.

I've been working on that for the last 3 weeks or so, it's not perfect yet, but it works, and I'm really excited to share it.
I recommend reading: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...
Barycenter (Astronomy)
The books might be printed in Asia as well.
This is what I would call const correctness, because it is correct.
Usually, though, errors are corrected and every every printing has fewer errors than the previous one.
how did you manage to shoehorn israel in here? seems entirely irrelevant.
Agree with you on this.

My example, I was never a Wheel of Time fan, but the new audio editions done by Rosamund Pike are quite the performance, and make me like the story. She brings all the characters to life in a way thats different than just reading. It's a true performance.
The main thing is logging into your brokerage account(s) at least once a year so the custodian knows you’re still active. Laws vary by state but a sounds like it’s often 4+ years of no contact/activity before they have transfer it to the gov’t.

More broadly, you can lobby your representatives to require stricter criteria to be met before assets can be escheated in your jurisdiction. E.g. phone calls, multiple pieces of physical mail or have mail returned as invalid address in addition to the basic timeout period.
Official release: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/...
Cargo currently has `cargo tree`, which prints out a dependency tree. There's an extension to cargo which also shows how many people have the ability to push to your dependencies, titled `cargo-supply-chain`.

https://github.com/rust-secure-code/cargo-supply-chain/
You might like Vike (it'd be an Express backend but generally people like Express)

https://vike.dev/
Simple exposure to culture, propaganda and points of view is child’s play compared to the modern strategy of inciting discord by amplifying existing differences and mass scale disinformation.

Don’t forget that part of the reason there’s a compartmentalization between Douyin and Tiktok is China’s own concerns about their nationals being exposed to outside influence in a manner far greater than what the US dictates the other way.

I really enjoyed TikTok and will miss it, but it’s hard to argue that it didn’t at least provide the potential for the CCP to more directly have an intentionally negative influence on western audiences.
This is my take as well. A huge burst of new tooling appeared during covid because the traditional school system essentially disappeared.

That tooling isn't going to disappear just because schools are finally open again, and some of it is actually fairly compelling.

I'm in a large metro, and the schools near me are terrible. 1/10 and 2/10 scores are typical. All the traditional schools we're zoned for fall well into the bottom 10% of my state. We attended lots of public engagement meetings for these districts (everything from guided tours to district superintendent interviews to parent-teacher nights). My takeaway? These schools are struggling with kids who don't have housing, don't regularly eat, can't get transportation, and have parents who utterly disengaged or downright abusive.

They aren't trying to excel at education, they're trying to literally keep 20% of the kids alive and fed, and then scrape them over the failing line so they don't get their funding cut.

I have nothing but respect for the educators placed into those circumstances - seriously, it's an impossible job and they get paid peanuts for it.

But I also absolutely refuse to put my kids into that system. Full fucking stop. It's not a place to provide enrichment and growth.

But... that leaves us the spot where

1. We win a lotto and get placed into a charter school (which only rate marginally better than the default schools - 4/10 instead of 2/10).

2. We pay for private schools to the tune of $30k/kid/year, or nearly half a million US for our family over the course of my kids education.

3. We move.

4. We home school.

Prior to covid, I had basically already picked "move" as the answer when all my kids hit schooling age, but there's actually enough tooling now that we will likely consider group based (pod) home schooling first. Home schooling doesn't have the same reputation that it did prior to covid, and it's not just "religious fundies" or "anti-gov whackos" anymore. Those groups definitely still exist, but with online tooling - we have much better options to filter out the crazy folks and spread the load out so that kids get social interactions, have a real teacher (often with better credentials than the school teachers) and get 1 on 1 interactions from adults.
It's all fun and games until they bring out the scrum board
Seismic activity appears to be at least one problem. The entire West coast of the contiguous US has lots of it.
Agreed; let's ban social media.
How do they handle copyright?
A few months ago I'd have cheered on this news but now that Zuckerberg has made his coming out and basically promised to turn Instagram and Facebook into yet more MAGA echo chambers, I feel... conflicted.

I do still think the world would be better with less social media, but the only words in my mind right now are "not like this".
It is certainly possible to show that there is no positive correlation with a certain statistical significance. Pretending we're talking about such high standards as "no human future or presently alive could ever be harmed by any quantity of x" completely misses the point and borders on bad faith.

Let's set workable standards for when something can be called safe and enforce them.
You are being exploited. Drag their ass to court.
My eldest doesn't like the computers they have in grade 2 (in Sweden). He thinks the things installed on them are too boring and easy. He would rather read books.

Thing is, the school doesn't have a staff librarian any more. As I understand it, they got rid of that position as part of the cost shifting to switch to digital.
"I had a visceral reaction that was less than favorable"
I'll recheck how low did I set up the seat on the bike my kids tried; IIRC it was close to lowest position, but maybe the minimum was itself too high? Anyway, for my kids, that bike was just a pure exercise in frustration that didn't lead anywhere.

The reverse three-wheel Mini Micro scooter fared much better, though. Not the same as balancing a bike, but the kids were able to gradually pick up on how to push off the ground with their legs - something that, more than balance, turned out to be the hurdle with the balance bikes.

Thinking about it much more now, and going off memory, they had no problems with those silly ride-on cars that are like balance bikes, except with no balance and more plastic. Now I'm not sure what's going on, why none of them could figure out they have to actually sit and push off when on the balance bike.
How is "like UDP" clearer than just saying that?
Novel AI Camera Camouflage: Face Cloaking Without Full Disguise
Apart from learning I'd also like to see more research into the effect switching to digital devices had on tactile skills. I used to mentor at a makerspace a few years ago and at least anecdotally, younger people seemed to have what we in Germany call "two left hands" (don't know if that's an English idiom too).

At least to me it seemed like there's a real loss of fine motor skills. Digital devices are pretty impoverished interfaces. Even if I compare my own handwriting to my parents, who learned cursive more seriously and wrote more by hand I feel like my penmanship is just worse.
Jargon should be used only with the appropriate audience, obviously.
I meant, why would they prioritize cross platform when it doesn’t help them?
In my experience, when the kids had iPads or Chromebooks all their traffic was routed through the school network and a web filer.

Yeah you could in theory get around it and kids did (generally to play minecraft), but social media was generally well blocked, and all traffic monitored. It is made very clear that these devices are NOT personal devices for personal activity / they're monitoring them.
^ CTO of Cloudflare for reference
Doesn't "yt-dlp https://www.tiktok.com/@YOURPROFILE" also work?
When it stops baiting engagement with these sort of comments, probably.
As a work of art, sure. But as books containing information, printing presses produced superior products.
uhhh yeah it's not visible because it's not used for anything. because it runs contrary to Google's entire raison d'être. if it's not turned on by default, what is even the point of doing it at all other than to pacify engineers who are perfectly happy to miss the forest for the trees? it's kind of like saying that you have the power of invisibility, but it only works if no one is looking at you.
I second that. I normally buy games on Gog when I have the option.
.. and think of how much of that money went right into their lobbying/bribing on the hill to make sure they don't get regulated.
Why would intelligence be less important?
I have many teachers in both my immediate and extended family. All of the ones who aren't retired say the same thing: the quality of parents is in the absolute shitter in two major aspects: parents don't want to teach their children anything they see as "the school's job" such as how to read or work on anything with their children at home. The second way is discipline. They instill no values of discipline or respect for the rights of others in their children. The "back of the room peanut gallery" that was one in ten or one in twenty children when I was young has grown to one in three. These are kids who've never seen negative consequences for anything they've ever done and steadfastly believe that will continue into their adulthood.
In addition this includes tracking your own info in it. So now we're going to need auth and a backend to store the data on top of that.
Related:

Mastodon announces new European non-profit, change of CEO

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42681976
China didn’t ban U.S. apps. it maintains a policy that sets a high bar for foreign operators, such as requiring domestic servers, domestic partners legally responsible for operations, content access and moderation to meet local standards, etc.

U.S. apps and websites simply choose not to operate there due to these requirements.

The U.S. has been complaining about this for years, advocating for a free internet without censorship in the Chinese market. But now that Chinese apps have access to American data, we’ve begun implementing the same measures.
In all honesty, I don't know what that means, but the way Guix does configuration is with the Lisp equivalent of a builder pattern, which ends up looking quite like a key-value store.

(foo-configuration
(bar-property baz-value)
...)
That's shocking. Every state I've ever lived in just happened to be one of the few that required it.
[ Runs off screaming into the woods ]
>dip the green peppers in the peach yogurt

Reminds me of that Bloodhound Gang song
Apple uses bits and pieces of BSD. macOS is not "FreeBSD". Quoting from Mac OS X and iOS Internals by Jonathan Levin:

"On top of Mach, but still an inseparable part of XNU, is the BSD layer. This layer presents a solid
and more modern API that provides the POSIX compatibility discussed earlier. The BSD layer provides higher-level abstractions, including, among others:

‰ The UNIX Process model

‰ The POSIX threading model (Pthread) and its related synchronization primitives

‰ UNIX Users and Groups

‰ The Network stack (BSD Socket API)

‰ File system access

‰ Device access (through the /dev directory)

XNU’s BSD implementation is largely compatible with FreeBSD’s, but does have some noteworthy
changes. After covering Mach, this book turns to BSD, focusing on the implementations of the BSD
core, and providing specific detail about the virtual file system switch and the networking stack in
dedicated chapters."

I don't disagree with Apple providing funding, however the BSD license doesn't require it. Many of the original Windows userland network utilities came directly from BSD, as well.
French EDF launches search for Hinkley Point finance after damning audit report
Yeah, that too. I've listed some above, but also forgot Erlang, that's pretty important one.
Thanks for posting. I discovered floem https://github.com/lapce/floem
I’ve been looking for something like it
Constantly reminding someone of your authority surely leads to resentment over time. Is it not basically a recipe for your kids systematically removing you from their life as they grow?
I don't know what it's like where you are, but I'm in NYC and the thought that the city is so destitute because of WFH policies such that there must be a conspiracy to bring people back is probably the most ridiculous thing I've seen this week.
Looking at the modern internet experience it sounds like the Soviet Union's illegial movie theatres were ahead of their time!
It says that the underlying action is on the torus (R/Z)^2. If the entries of the matrix are not integers, do we have a well defined action on the torus? It seems to me that the answer is no because Z^2 would not be invariant by the action.
Woof, this one hit a little too close to home
It is also strictly less powerful because of that, often needing to launch bash scripts instead of the programs directly.
If this is a question that can be answered with user-minutes, it's probably worth factoring in that TikTok has loads more users than Fox News has viewers. I (naturally) can't find a MAU for Fox News, and I can't find a DAU for TikTok, but the apples to oranges comparison is 1.6M daily viewers at Fox to 120M MAU at TikTok, so we're probably talking at least an order of magnitude.
I like this setup, but I had kinda thought "modern" javascript had mostly moved to server-side rendered at this point and I didn't see anything about that in the syllabus. Anyone know if this tutorial addresses that kind of thing?

EDIT: Nevermind I guess this is the HTMX example? But how would this compare to manually building something with next.js as part of your front-end build and incorporating those assets into your templates?
I think that the amount of information one can consume on tiktok in 1 hour is FAR more than the amount of information one can consume on Fox in 24 hours, nevermind the 10.5-to-14 ratio you cite.
> I've used Simple Gallery Pro before but it's not very good.

It's rock solid for me. you can browse folders move, copy, hide small edits. you can't search 'dog' which is a plus, it doesn't scan faces.
A decent index solves that just fine. And usually outpaces ctrl-f chasing for a given word, because it's indexing by ideas, not words. (If it's a decent index, that is :)
'Water' now runs in a single CPU thread using WASM
Nope. It’s all really to feel you out. There are many considerations for a well suited candidate, how one handles being put on the spot is one of them.

Besides, if you really think it’s the smarties who are no longer necessary, there may be other things you’re missing that “tell” during these interviews.
My family has lived in 4 states and 3 countries and the only time we ever homeschooled…was in NJ back in the early 2000s.
It's not clearer, it's deeper. It implies a state and creates an image in the listeners mind. You can throw it casually when explaining something and your audience now has an image in their head so you can explain the actual thing you are after.

Jargons are shortcuts to pre-agreed ideas. Just a tool.