skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently bought a random beater Lenovo Ideapad, and the screen is so bad it's giving me headaches, so there is some discernible bottom line besides the performance which admittedly is crazy nowadays measured per dollar / euro.
> we never deviated from this path because capitalism and its consumption-first economies would never permit such a thing.

While I haven't read Century of the Self, I will say that most of East Asia outside of China and NK are fiercely capitalistic. Ads are everywhere and obvious. There's a huge focus on consumption and status. There's generally much looser restrictions on zoning, gambling, and prostitution than the West. And yet the cultures continue being a lot more collective and understanding of their fellow person. South Asia is less capitalistic (having transitioned from more socialistic modes of economic organization somewhat recently), but is still quite capitalistic.

I think capitalism might exacerbate this in the West but it is fundamentally a Western problem. Most of East and South Asia still operates on an extended family model where there's an expectation that when a person or a family is having a hard time they take resources from their family and when they're in a position to do well they give resources to their struggling family members. Lots of extended families have family members who are ... problematic. Many of these folks have gambling issues, can't hold down jobs, have mental health problems, etc. But families support them. They never really thrive but they usually have food, shelter, companionship, and understanding around them. I think this creates a level of empathy that's just absent from Western society.

My partner and I are Asian but we have caucasian friends. Many of our caucasian friends will cut off problematic family members immediately. Indeed a lot of caucasians I know are very quick to cut people they don't like or who don't align with their values out of their life. This culture of individual supremacy is what I think really plagues the west which used to at one time have a less individualistic nature and now finds its hyper atomization eating away at the foundations of its societies.
It’s downvoted because even if PHP has hacky behavior; he’s running with the assumption other frameworks don’t have their own hacky behavior, or other frameworks are worse.

This is not necessarily warranted. Modern PHP is faster than Ruby in many benchmarks; and Rails is still running GitHub and Shopify. Square uses Laravel in a backend serving 100M+ requests per day, with no plans to rewrite. To compare it to a Steam engine and Coal; that’s unfair stereotyping.

On that note, JavaScript’s amount of churn could be an entire discussion by itself. I’ll take some quirky behavior that just keeps working over mindless churn any day.
I self-host Ghost on free-tier cloud hosting, which ticks all your boxes if you have some sysadmin skills. (PikaPods is the cheapest managed Ghost hosting I know of.)

I also really like the philosophy of Bear Blog and Matoara Blog. I don't think Bear has newsletter sending, but Matoara does.
The Heider and Simmel Movie [video]
> A laptop for just €950 is bound to be crappy, have some issues, and not last very long. Or so you’d think.

Wow, he lives in another universe than most people :) I wonder wat the median price of laptops is, I assume the bulk of new laptops has a price between €500 and €700.
> it's because you do not care.

I personally do it mainly because I don’t want to be associated with certain types of loud ideological fundamentalists and zealots. I might occasionally use Linux or even BSD in private without telling anyone but certainly not where anyone can see, don’t want other people to think I’m a loon..

> What gives these corporations the moral right to tell me what I can or can't do on my computer?

Nobody and they obviously don’t have that right. Or are game dev company executives literally forcing you to install and play their game?
Germany and a lot of other European countries do a lot of cool cutting edge research. Problem though is that one needs to commercialize it via products and services to reap the benefits. That happens a lot in the US/UK. See the sibling thread about covid vaccine research as an example.
But why? It's roughly the same as JSON, but incompatible. Please, stop writing your own JSON variants.

Rust's serialization macro system allows you to write back ends for any format.
I've written back ends for all three serialization formats used by Second Life.[1]
(There's a binary form, an XML form, and something called "notation".)
But other than for compatibility with existing code, there's no reason to use them.

[1] https://github.com/John-Nagle/serde-llsd
Thanks John! We should make that more clear in the docs. You can set browser=None on initialization and Simplex will create a local browser instance that can run on your local websites. We're not planning to be open source right now since a large portion of our product is custom vision models + inference speedups through hosting.

Browser Use is another YC company. Probably the biggest difference is that they're more agent focused while we're more lower level -- in the Claude Computer Use camp like you mentioned.
It’s amazing how the M1 Air aged, that is, not at all! I got one in a similar time and I haven’t felt the need to upgrade once.

I’ll never stop complaining about how macOS is a subpar experience for software development, but the hardware is still, after 4 years, unmatched. I literally can’t buy a similarly well working windows or Linux laptop.
Something with a lot of significant decimal places that are mostly zeroes.

Unfortunately "got hit by space debris in designated NOTAM area" looks bad in headlines.
Macs give me headache because of the screen being too bright/colorful and no option fixes this. Lenovo Thinkpads do not.
To quote directly from the linked article:

"The law’s supporters have, at times, minimized the ban’s impact on the First Amendment, citing the mistaken belief that TikTok users can simply move to another platform. From a constitutional perspective, this is nonsense. The government can’t justify shutting down The Washington Post because readers can simply buy The New York Times instead."
His accent is fascinating. It's like he learned English as a second language in Rural Georgia.
The solution here is for them to nail landings. This is a temporary problem during testing. Hopefully there will only be one or two more launches that reenter over the Indian Ocean before they start landing the ship at the launch pad instead.
Why so confident? I would never try to extort people who cured a bunch of diseases using cancer tissue from me or my parents. I also wouldn't want society to treat me as a hero for something I didn't do:

> Some people are going to tell me I’m underplaying the race angle, and that black women need heroes. I think this is the worst part. There are thousands of black female doctors, black female scientists, etc. Whenever we recognize white people who have contributed to medicine, it’s Brilliant Dr. So-And-So Who Cured A Deadly Disease. What message does it send black women if the most prominent medical hero that society gives them is someone with zero medical ability or medicine-related-virtues, whose only contribution was passively letting someone else take a clump of their cells without her knowledge? Did you know a black woman, Mattiedna Johnson, helped cure scarlet fever? No you did not, because whenever people want to talk about black women in medicine they talk about Henrietta Lacks - who was not, technically, in medicine.
Yes I've said this to my mother before and it made her angry, but my sense of the deep anti-Islamic "vibe" in (at least) the evangelical Christian world is that it is more about them being competition than some ethical or philosophical fault. "Shariah law" is offensive not because it is alien to "western society" (because its not-liberal or whatever) but because the traditionalist/conservative/strict morality (and destruction of church/state division) it wants to impose is competition for the one they want to impose.

In any case, just like Christianity, Islam has a spectrum of approaches of reading such morality passages.
Undergrad-only level physics person here:

I think stiffness is an ok term if your aim is to maintain a field centric mode of thinking. Mass as a term is particle-centric.

It seems these minimum-stretching could also be thought of as a “wrinkle”. It’s a permanent deformation of the field itself that we give the name to, and thus “instantiate” the particle.

Eye opening.
> the main benefit is that the kids are better behaved so there is less chaos and distraction.

This is such a scam, unreal.

Private schools have a market with one of their distinguishing features being "kids don't openly flail around instead of paying attention"

They're only able to get away with "only" being marginally better cause the bar is so, so low.

(I'm not condemning you, it's just obscene the amount of effort and time required for kids to get even something that approaches a decent education)
No tool for that exists afaik, but all the pieces to make it are there.
> I don’t need the latest and greatest. I just need a tool that works.

I like this mindset and I feel that I’m happier with it. It works for computers and for other gear, appliances, devices, etc too.
I feel like as an individual user, I'd rather have my social media data siphoned off by a foreign government than my own. On a societal level, having everyone's data siphoned off by a foreign government and being subjected to political influence is undesirable.
Absolutely. In two specific ways:

1. There's often little or no visibility on how this personalization happens. People with often try to guess and steer the algorithm but the reality is you don't know. This means that unpopular opinions can be quietly suppressed with no detectable censorship. On the poster/creator side this presents as constant paranoia about "shadow banning" and the like.

2. The personalized feeds are effectively endless. This allows for repetition that really amplifies any biases/fears. For example, suppose you're worried that the roads are getting more dangerous and you go on Instagram and start looking at car crash reels. Instagram will happily feed you as much of these as you can stomach and it starts to affect your perception of reality. Never mind that you're looking at incidents captured over a period of years from all over the world, seeing them all back to back will probably give you anxiety the next time you go to cross the street. Now apply this same logic to any political topic...
Not remotely! Unless you meant Preact. React ships an entire rendering engine to the front-end. Most sites that use React won't load anything if javascript isn't enabled
I believe the implication is that cloudflares usefulness is not in her source code but rather her physical infra, there is not some free as in freedom alternative to that.
Well, things can always be worse. That's a tautology.

I was implying the growth and "mainstreaming" of afd.
Amusingly I think it's great that Elon had a very public divorce with Silicon Valley. Otherwise I could easily see this having been titled "Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from Silicon Valley based SpaceX rocket" for maximum clicks.
No, because it's not physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill.
AFAIK Kokoro can't be fine tuned
I've talked to people that live in dark areas and they've never seen anything like the Starlink satellites before. People are definitely after Elon but he really brought that on himself.
The web app versions are slower/laggier, have fewer features, and require an internet connection. They’re not quite as performant as google docs, but in some cases have more features (while missing features in other cases). The UI/UX is marginally worse than the desktop apps, which already aren’t great unless you’re already used to them.

If you don’t care about quality and aren’t an Office power user, they’re fine.
A Day in the Life of an Agentic Marketing Manager
Capital One High-Yield Account Wasn't
Not only this - my observation is that having a secret backup phone is not an unusual practice for kids who might get their primary phone taken away at times by parents, school officials, etc. Or if their primary phone is subject to technical parental controls.
Even capacitors and thermal models in solids are springs.
> But why?

It's literally in the README...

• Less syntactic noise, more intuitive look.
• Allow comments and trailing commas.
• Write KEON almost like you write Rust:
- Humanized optional type annotation.
- Distinguishable between tuples and lists (seqs).
- Arbitrary type as dictionary (map) keys.
...
• Shorthand for newtypes.
• Support use Base64, Base32 and Base16 to represent bytes.
• Provide paragraphs may be helpful when writing something by hand.

JSON is pretty terrible. Its only real pro is the fact that it is widely used.
Is ROI pronounced “roy” or “are oh eye”?
Really? Let's hypothesize that some rando on the internet contacted you and said he was Jensen Huang, and he offered to sell his NVDA stock to you at $50/sh (currently trading at $135). Looking for a quick flip, you wire your family's entire savings to a random account number he sends you - or, even better, to some BTC address.

You later find out, SHOCKINGLY, that this rando is not actually Jensen Huang. You would, rightly, be a fair target of mocking for your S-tier gullibility.

This isn't "I fell for a well-designed phishing scam"-tier, or "SBF promised me 9% yields"-tier. This is a whole other level that is rightfully deserving of mockery.

The fact she wrecked her marriage in the process is just the cherry on top.
Most people here would be good homeschooling parents.

This site doesn’t represent the world at large.

I was personally homeschooled, and while I ended up with a positive outcome, I cannot say the same thing for any of my peers (other kids I met through homeschooling groups.) There were many children that, in retrospect, were suffering from abuse or neglect that the structure of school could have prevented, or at least a mandatory reporter could have caught.

For more anecdotes, take a look at r/homeschoolrecovery (which is nearly 1/6th the size of r/homeschooling.) Many of the stories there are so gut-wrenchingly bleak. Any margin improvement in educational outcomes hardly seems worth it given some of the pain described there.
It doesn't have to be binary. I have some trust for apple. They've earned it in various ways by caring for privacy.

When they start opting me into photo scanning I lose a bit of trust. The homomorphic encryption makes it less bad. The relative quiet around the rollout of the feature makes it worse. Apple's past attempt to start client side scanning makes it worse. Etc...

The net result is I trust them a bit less. Perhaps not enough to set my apple devices on fire yet, but a bit.
Here's a paper reviewing the various choices, that is often mentioned in discussions around data structures for text editors:

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds.pdf
Well, it does offer an avenue for inacting some form of ban. And not so sure it's all that morally low.

Because what China's ban of US social media might say is that China recognizes social-media's power to influence the populace (think Russia's use of Twitter and FB in the 2016 election). Yeah, am actually in favor of some form of restrictions, because we as a country need to realize that social media is a tool that can be used against us.

Yeah, if it was an outside country owning a major US newspaper, it'd be more clearcut.
Which is incidentally only 1% off from half an olympic-size swimming pool.

In other words, the fab requires about 20,000 swimming pools of water every year... or equivalently, 1 swimming pool every 27 minutes.
BYD has just cut the prices of *ALL* of its cars by about $9000 per car in Australia. The cheapest car the Dolphin is about USD 19,000.
What's amazing about this comment chain is that it's totally wrong. Netflix is missing tons of content, like older movies, and tries to replace them with store-brand "originals" that everyone knows are garbage or only have a couple seasons before being cut. It lost its most popular product, The Office. Netflix literally cannot serve the product its users want the most, so the "easiness" of using netflix to get that product is 0.
Some of the things we're trying to differently are 1) making flows deterministic by using vision models that have a consistent output given an image and an input query and 2) breaking up flows into these smaller atomic actions in order to improve consistency as well.

RE: workflows w/ complex forms and tabs -- do you have some sites that are good examples of this? We'd love to see how Simplex does.
Emulators should not be considered illegal under any circumstances.
Ludum Dare 2025 events cancelled as host is struggling financially
Biden's cabinet picks were the most pro working class of any president in my lifetime.
He's from the bubble of highly paid SW devs where everyone buys themselves fully loaded 4000$ MAcBook Pros and 1k is cheap for a laptop.
straining is also ambiguous and disingenuous.

if we believe the plan was $200 and the upgrade was to a $2,000 plan.. there's no way a $2,000 user would be "straining" Cloudflare's network.

We spend more than that. If we are putting a strain on Cloudflare, they're not at the scale we think they're at.
It wouldn't have been at a bargain basement price if they started trying to sell it when the law passed. It could have been the highest market price they could get from the US's largest buyers.

Obviously they don't have the same leverage when they're otherwise going to be shut off in a few days.
I appreciate a response like this on HN.

IF there is a problem, let's solve the root issue (which may include looking at the algo feeds of all big tech, etc).
Or you could, you know, eat less in quantity, better in quality? Have a look at what your ancestors from a few generations back - not so far that they were chasing deer with clubs, far enough that they weren't eating so much heavily processed stuff - were eating and take a clue from that. This also has side effects but you'll end up liking them instead of having to go to the doctor for yet another prescription to combat them (which has side effects, which causes you to... rinse and repeat).
It's the most salient distinction to your "murder" analysis!
Actually it's "uh-voyd youz-ing in so-shul si-tu-a-shuns"
When interest rates are zero and we are doing like 3 interviews a week because of everything that is open, then yes, candidates generally get selected on this bare minimum.

Now, after layoffs, and the fact that Amazon doesn't hire entry level engineers anymore, the bar is much higher'
Ask HN: Why not use finger printing to ensure students use a particular AI?
Instead of using finger printing to try to detect cheating using AI, wouldn't it make more sense to use finger printing to ensure students are using an approved AI for their homework assignments?
I came here to comment this, and had the exact same wording in my mind. Brother lives in another universe.

350$ old ThinkPads are great.

I have a 260$ HP laptop for watching movies/tv/youtube, and that has lasted me 5 years with zero problems. I just added an 8 gig RAM stick and an SSD at the time of buying.

Also, brother thinks 280 EUR for a smartwatch is cheap!
Most certainly: gap buffers, piece tables, and line arrays are also popular choices.
literally weekly updates on what they launch/release: https://x.com/x
But is there actually any evidence that the US's foreign adversaries can more effectively deliver propaganda on Tiktok compared to other platforms?

I understand the concern over foreign propaganda, but this feels like it's not going to remotely impact the ability for foreign governments to deliver propaganda to Americans. It's perfectly possible to deliver propaganda on US-based social networks.

The best outcome of this is just that Americans find the other social networks so boring that they spend less time on social networks altogether, thus reducing their propaganda intake (at least, from social networks).
Realistically they were never going to destroy Hamas. At best they could only have limited its operational capability to the same as the numerous unorganized armed groups in the West Bank that still walk around today with guns and do smaller attacks against Israel.

Also so many Palestinian civilian casualties in a war that was marketed as a hostage saving mission is unacceptable. There has to be consequences between the stated goal of saving some hostages and the large amount of Palestinian civilian casualties.
Discussion (222 points, 34 days ago, 267 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392088
Another related aspect: it’s likely that tech hype sphere will not actually make much of a difference unless you’re selling to those people directly. My app Payload got featured in fastcompany, and I thought that was amazing. It drove traffic to the website and I was just waiting for the users… that didn’t come. And then a few days later back to normal.

On the other hand, the less prestigious tech blogs for regular people (think PC magazines) were much better at driving both real users and also traffic.

Anyway, the point is that your customers might not be on product hunt checking out the coolest newest hypiest products. In fact, it’s very unlikely they are. Just a reminder to not take these games so seriously.
The point of this game is to make an accusation with as few pieces of evidence as possible, but in real life we'd want to do the exact opposite. Weird.
In 1985 I made a similar panel which had 16 lights and mechanical switches and installed it in a rack in an operations center in GCHQ just to make it a bit more colorful. One day I came back from leave and the boss was really mad at me as they had been showing around some VIP, who stopped at the panel and asked the area director what it did. As all the technicians had been evacuated for the tour, nobody had a clue.
This arises from a parameter in the elementary field equation. If that parameter is non-zero than it is both true that the field is stiff and it must be mediated by a particle with non-zero rest mass. This says nothing about causality.
Europe has *MUCH* higher standards for freedom than America. Europe has privacy and America does not.
So just go hear it from somewhere else. There is no content on tiktok that can't be recorded and posted on instagram reels.
Makes sense, it's just basic economy to pay for spent and get it. Something the US is continually giving up.

Still, their culture basically does make it so certain types of people simply can't exist there. And I hear there's a healthy dose of racism as well. Nothing unique to China, sadly.
Thank you, I was wondering about this. For anyone else that's curious, the original URL looked like

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TPeJzW5pa-BiJZjuEa1y...

I didn't know /htmlview was a feature of Google Sheets. neat
I own and run Notado, happy to answer any questions!
You're 32 i.e. too old to really matter for this market. The companies are battling for 14-23 year olds.
It's pretty wild in there...I remember seeing the comment 'IN THE CLERB, WE ALL LEARN MANDARIN'...I went in there and started commenting about Tienenman...curious if I'll get banned. It's very wild to see so many CCP memes and Chinese military people making content. Very odd experience so far.
Reminds me of a George Saunders story, though it's missing the horror element.
RAG is dead?

Here is an implementation
https://github.com/lucidrains/titans-pytorch
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TPeJzW5pa-BiJZjuEa1y...
While they didn't have trains, the Napoleanic wars did feature the first use of canned food to aid in logistical supply of armies. You could argue that the lack of trains (and can openers) probably meant that they jumped the gun on starting giant wars. We Americans fixed that in the Civil War, to great and deadly effect.
Green party
(2016) Discussion at the time (119 points, 38 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13290362