skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yet it seems equally unethical to enable the corporate extractavism that we now see.

If someone uses and benefits from your product, at what point does it become "unethical extractivism"? If I as an individual figure out a way to build a business centered around your product that you make for free, is that already unethical, or is it at a later point?

>It doesn't seem controversial that we tend to find it problematic if another uses us as means to their ends without our consent.

But you gave your consent by publishing software for anyone to use.
"You don't know this thing that nobody knows either" is not very informative. Though to be fair "grey-zone" is a bit like obscenity: you know it when you see it.
Have you tried the trackpads of the MacBooks? I used to not like trackpads until I used those.
That's the opposite of a principled stand (cicero is rolling in his grave over your use of his name to say this). It was, and is, boo hoo so terrible when the prc forces American companies to engage in forced sales, hand over the crown jewel IPs to local partners and "request" 50% ownership for the govt.
Bambu Connect's Authentication X.509 Certificate and Private Key Extracted
There is, it's a few days old, and it's a non-enforcement from the Biden administration, according to the man himself and his staffers, he intends to let it be the next administration's problem.
Whatever the next administration does when it takes power is yet to be seen.

The restrict act was written really strangely, and I assume Oracle required some assurance from someone to not just delete Bytedance's accounts and resources.
it was just a reply to the "Lex normally does all his podcasts in English." part.
The propaganda has worked perfectly.
You realize that is even worse for the Democrats? So why didn't Biden stop it? He had plenty of time to do so and he did not and signed it.
Dylan is simply a historical curio, so there are no situations in which anyone should use it apart to study programming language history and to take inspiration from roads not taken. It's basically Common Lisp, with Algol-like syntax, less historical baggage (everything is a class, no weird stuff like prog and so and so forth) and more emphasis on efficient implementation. Unfortunately, it didn't catch on, but it's IMO a nicer language than python (which modelled inheritance rules on Dylan), Java, Javascript or C++.

Here are some interesting things about it:

1. It has an simple but nice trick for avoiding ugly_underscores: a-b is a single symbol, a - b is subtraction.

2. IIRC it was the first non-sexp language with a sophisticated macro system.

3. Like Common Lisp it has multi-methods and resumable exceptions (but unlikely Common Lisp all exceptions are resumable). If you want to play around with either multi methods and resumable exceptions, Common Lisp or Dylan are probably your best bets and Dylan has the advantage of being probably simpler to pick up.
Imagine what else they are doing:
https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing...
The combination of green glow and strontium somehow sounds very radioactive, even though I assume it's not a radioactive isotope they're using here
There must be other options than banning Tiktok or losing to "the enemy".
Did I say this? No.

I don’t care how effective propaganda is, I am in a liberal democratic society and should be able to read what I want. Outcome-based reasoning for why I should have my reading restricted so I vote for the apriori correct things is entirely illiberal and anti-democratic.

J.S. Mill decided these arguments over 150 years ago and the arguments since have not gotten more compelling.
I have a Z13 with virtualized button on the Touchpad. At least the simulated haptics are decent. But I agree that 3 physical buttons should be standard. I however also have external ThinkPad/Trackpoint keyboards which I use most of the time. I am waiting for a track point keyboard for the framework. However the framework market place, that was supposed to serve niche needs, is rather an illusion.
Anil Dash writes: Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture [0]

> How is it not a massive conflict of interest to put people who sell hundreds of millions of dollars of products directly to the government in charge of reducing government spending?

This is repost of mine, less the comments that got me downvoted. :-)~

Dash is a good read.

[0] https://www.anildash.com//2025/01/04/DOGE-procurement-captur...

Chronicle blocks ad-blockers, archived at

https://archive.md/XHWPa
If you get news primarly from Tiktok you are ill-informed and should reconsider your information diet.
For those saying there’s no executive order yet or that Trump is not president yet, the point is that they received confirmation that there will be an executive order, meaning they can rely on a 90 day extension of non-enforcement.

So while there is some irony with Trump having previously supported the ban, the practical reality is that he and Susquehanna and the Republicans all are winning big on this one, from a political/financial lens.
OpenAI crawler burning money for nothing
I have a bunch of blog posts, with URLs like these:

https://mywebsite/1-post-title
https://mywebsite/2-post-title-second
https://mywebsite/3-post-title-third
https://mywebsite/4-etc

For some reason, it tries every combination of numbers, so the requests look like this:

https://mywebsite/1-post-title/2-post-title-second
https://mywebsite/1-post-title/3-post-title-third

etc.

Since the blog engine simply discards everything after number (1,2,3...) and just serves the content for blog post #1, #2, #3,... the web server returns a valid page. However, all those pages are the same.

The main problem here is that there is no website page that has such compound links like https://mywebsite/1-post-title/2-post-title-second

So it's clearly some bug in the crawler.

Maybe OpenAI is using AI code for their crawler because it has so dumb bugs you cannot believe any human would write it.

They will make 90000 requests to load my small blog with 300 posts.

Cannot imagine what happens with larger websites that have thousands of blog posts.
Self-hosted Miniflux, https://miniflux.app/

Super minimal, I have MANY feeds, and it just does the thing very well.
Whoa. App is back for me now too.
"then you go on to describe things that are not exclusive to Capitalism AT ALL."

Why are they required to be exclusive? If I said that uncontrolled train crossings lead to more train crashes, would you retort that train crashes aren't exclusive to uncontrolled crossings?
UTC is a timezone, though. Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying?
Hasochism: The Pleasure and Pain of Dependently Typed Haskell Programming [pdf]
depressing for sure but it would help value the loss too, a first step
Is it a "software forge" or is it just using git locally?
> There is nothing comparable in Europe.

Right, Europe has little seismic activity, so the rare 4M_W earthquake takes down random 400yo buildings easily.
My point was that building with bricks was not a problem, Japan and Chile build houses and skyscrapers just fine.

> I think you underestimate the frequency, strength, and geographic distribution of strong earthquakes in the US

Sir, I'm from Chile. Beyond earthquakes in Alaska the US is no match, and that land it's not even close to the US. I promise you the Danish construction code has not been heavily influenced by Greenland.
A video about it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SIWcvudEPVA&pp=ygUTc3Ryb250aXV...
Forget about reading articles even... the supreme court decision itself is not long, is written in understandable language, and breaks down point by point the things that they had to consider, why they had to consider them, and the outcome of that consideration.
I'm guessing that you live on one of the coasts and mostly associate with certain classes of people? In the real world, people are not at each others throats. They're mostly interested in talking about their kids, the price of milk, sportsball and debating the best way to prepare briquet.

Take a deep breath, we're all gonna be okay.
Yes, I don't have a reference immediately available, but I've read that the DoD has studied this and found that LDS kids join the military at a disproportionately high rate and turn out to be better than average troops. Anecdotally, I've found this to be true too. The Utah Army National Guard also has the 300th Military Intelligence Brigade of linguists which is pretty unique.
What does that have to do with whether it's a successful business?
Ask HN: Let's say I'm not as smart as I think, how do I stop acting stupid?
I am literally taking you up on this precious life advice.

Let's suppose I have been very stupid. How do I fix it?

What does it look like in the path afterward?

Is there even a path, at all?

I've been told software engineers are full of themselves (even Perplexity confirms there is a reputation of being "pretentious and arrogant"...)
So I think this is very related. Don't we have the responsibility of "fixing" our community from this defect? How can we heal ourselves?

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/is-it-true-software-engineers-ahvBDBHeQUmIkSdDCzIz_g#1

Have a laugh... They say that even in HN's inner circle, it gets more and more pretentious than ordinary engineers... the more we reach the epicenter... Which
might just be me? I'll take the blame...
You gotta get off Facebook and touch grass man
Nice move. Regulating competitors away while screaming about free markets. Not a meme country at all..
This is par for the course worldwide and for the U.S. in particular. Nothing really new here.
To me it is a time-sink that drowns our brains in a perpetual state of climax. Every video is designed to bring you to climax, and before it is done, the next video is loaded only to do the same. It is addictive and breeds impatience.

The medium is the message. I treat YouTube shorts and reels the same way. I'm sure there is smart content, but I'd rather take the time to research a subject rather wait for it to be randomly fed to me in the most exaggerated manner.
On all derailleur bikes I’ve ridden, I try to back off the torque a bit while shifting, and this at least seems to reduce nasty noises and any occasional tendency to feel like the chain slipped one link. But I’ve also never ridden a bike with a top-of-the-line derailleur and chainring set from any of the major manufacturers.
Discussed here (439 points, 514 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42724761
The US government claims otherwise. And even if data is not flowing to China directly, the threat is there from a legal point of view. Data is leaving US jurisdiction anyway. And China could force ByteDance to hand over data that is stored in Malaysia and Singapore.
> In a string of results over the past few years, researchers have shown that an idealized substance resembling two intermingled magnets can — in theory — maintain an orderly pattern no matter how hot it gets.
I will take the bait. What are the exact steps for making a blog? From zero. This is what is always suggested by hackers for the general public, instead of being dependent on proprietary platforms. Okay then, list the exact steps to be taken by a non-programmer who wants to do that? Let's assume they own a PC or a Mac, to give them a fair start.
How is it that people still don't see thru this violation of their free speech right?

TikTok got banned for one and only one reason: to silence the narrative around a 70 year old war.

Sources:

- ADL: "we have a major major major generational problem" ... "we have a tiktok problem" http://web.archive.org/web/20231116180709/https://media.mehr...

- US Representative (MIT alum): everyone in the U.S. Congress "has an AIPAC person" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2reaGhLnYI

False claims for the reason for the ban:

- Tiktok has great content and a great algorithm to help you find it (that's a good thing)

- Tiktok spies and collects data, such as scraping your clipboard, network (Apple iOS sandboxing prevents any app from doing so without explicit user permission - technical audience here shouldn't fall for this one easily)

- Tiktok collects face recognition data on citizens worldwide (anyone scraping Instagram can do that - technical audience here shouldn't fall for this one easily)

- Tiktok is addictive, and designed to be (so is Instagram, and?)

- Tiktok is cultural expression, and contributes to people's feeling of identity (good; the more diverse cultural expressions the better)

- Tiktok provides a platform for critical thinking and debate (not really a bad thing if you think about it)

- Tiktok contributed to Brexit, and similar political crises in the EU (so does X)

- Tiktok is part of the Chinese 100 year marathon strategy (vague scare tactic)
It's a fine point of view, except we've been exposed to decades of propaganda how the Chinese Government is awful for controlling the flow of information, especially from the outside. I have a feeling the West is in a trap of its own making, it will either be consistent and allow what it asks others to allow, or will lose face because everything it allegedly stood for turned out to be BS.
What do you suppose is gained by making CCP pay Zuckerberg for the privilege? Or are you proposing that he'd turn their money down?

The US has done plenty of that sort of thing in south America and the middle east, but it has always had the extra burden of maintaining a narrative under which it was not doing those things. If we let the US ban services that are contrary to its narratives, what's left to stop the US from behaving like China even more than it already does?
> accidental perplexity

I have to remember this.
> obvious why a country would not want their biggest media providers to be foreign-owned

Tt's obvious why the state would not want it. It's not obvious why "country" would not want it.
> Every excuse is found to not call this protectionism. It is protectionism, period.

Agreed, it's a trade issue. And anyone who's been paying even a hint of attention to trade knows that China is WAY more protectionist about foreign companies than the US is.

Reciprocity is or should be part of trade. There is nothing hypocritical about responding to trade restrictions with trade restrictions, any more than responding to an invasion with your own military force is "hypocritical".
Those aren't free countries (as in bill of rights levels of personal guarantees).
What's gross about BMP, it's one of the easiest image formats out there.
Which is exactly why the want to shut it down, preventing competition in the Ai space.
Everyone got played by what is effectively joint CCP/Trump propaganda and they’re cheering about it. Bleak, bleak, bleak.
Isn't TIFF one of those file formats that can contain just about anything, making this just about impossible?

Like, DNG files are TIFFs, so now you need a raw camera decoder, which is basically subjective.
You can still say whatever the hell you want, unless you're actively inciting violence against protected minorities. You just have to do it on one of the many social media platforms that aren't owned by China.
The U.S. is not really a free market. The textbooks used in high school have said that the U.S. is a "mixed economy" for many decades.
It's the pay. The pay is so high that we've removed humility from our life. Everyone must treat us well otherwise we can flippantly ignore something.

Someone that starts out with a humbling experience first, has a different upbringing. The path, is to lower pay dramatically, make it on par with serving McDonalds fries.
so for data protection reasons, we only allow editorial discretion from US-domiciled companies?

yeah i fully reject this jingoistic reasoning
From a quality perspective, widening the product range was the mistake Lenovo did after taking over from IBM. The bios and the controller firmware IMHO has become a peace of sh* because they have to support so many configurations. Does not seem that they have learned. They are trying to emulate the MacBook in the completely wrong way.
That Wikipedia page was created in April 2008.

> Examples of such services are: Sourceforge.net, GNU Savanah, Google code

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forge_(software)&...
I'm really intrigued by robotics as future career. How would you rate it for the next 10-15 years? I'm seriously thinking of investing in a masters degree focused on robotics (CMU). I'm close to 50 and already have a cs PhD. Just intrigued by it and feel it might have a longer career (when it takes off).
Not OP but what happened?

EDIT: Seems like they abandoned it to... make another browser?
I think part of this is the genuine benefit of social media, it's used for education, connection, political organization... not quite the same as a cigarette. You can pick any emotional or moral response you're having from it and cite some aspect of its multifaceted nature to bolster your position.
Trump and team may be the biggest public relations masterminds of all time. They realize that the populous is fickle and easily won over with obvious stunts. Define the villains and play the hero. It keeps working for him over and over and over. Truly incredible.
Newer image formats are based on video codecs, so if you already have the video codec around then theoretically it's not too bad.
Racism and mysogeny is still very much alive among the youth and quite a lot of the US lacks any diversity to combat those notions. Or if they do have diversity on paper it might still be somewhat segregated where these communities might be neighbors but don’t overlap in activities. Less a melting pot, more a punchbowl filled with different fruits bumping into eachother.
I would have liked to get the specific HNers pov.
No, it's not. There's no opinions on TikTok videos that would be legislatively banned by the US on other platforms.

If you do have examples of those kinds of speech restrictions, by all means, provide examples.
Agreed. Though 'not precise' is a common complaint from people who haven't overcome the learning curve.

My partner hated using my x61, complaining that it was hard to hit anything accurately. Her laptop had a failed battery and she needed to borrow mine for a few days... a week later she replaced hers with an x61 and some 15 years later has only used a thinkpad, specifically because of the trackpoint.
I’ll take your bait: pick one of dozens of hosting providers that run common blogging platforms like Wordpress and you’re not locked in to anything.

You could start your blog with someone like GoDaddy and move it to NameCheap with the import/export tools Wordpress has available.

I can even see from a quick search that proprietary solutions like SquareSpace will let you export a ZIP that you can then import into someone else like Wix.
Only a handful of classic Lenovo devices (e.g. X230) achieved "aftermarket ecosystem" status, where enthusiasts and repair shops have kept devices working 10+ years after launch, sometimes with screen or other upgrades. How did the Thinkpad 25th anniversary edition fare for laptop longevity? Have any recent Thinkpad models gained "collector item" status?

There are external Lenovo USB keyboards with Trackpoints. If Lenovo wants to copy Apple, they could make a detachable $300 MagicTrackPoint keyboard for 2-in-1 Lunar Lake devices.
Yes, especially the same people who said Iraq had WMDs. Trust them implicitly.
> Is [TrackPoint] really useful and handy?

Two points that other people have not mentioned:

* TrackPoint has infinite range because it controls velocity, not position. What I mean is, if you need to reach an on-screen object far away, on a touchpad you might need to flick your finger multiple times because you can't reach it in one stroke. Same with mice sometimes; you might need to lift the mouse, move back, put down the mouse, and reach again. TrackPoint does not suffer from this.

* To do drag-and-drop on TrackPoint, simply hold the desired mouse button down, do the movement on the pointing stick, then lift the mouse button - naturally just like you'd do with a mouse. Whereas to do a left-click drag-and-drop on a touchpad, you need to first do a quick tap on the touchpad (down and up), followed by a drag (down, move, up) on the touchpad; this feels unnatural and has extra latency. And I'm not even sure how you can do a right-click drag-and-drop on a touchpad without the assistance of the right TrackPoint mouse button. (Btw, Windows File Explorer allows right-drag-and-drop; it pops up a menu on the dragged file when the button is lifted. Some file managers on Linux don't allow right-drag-and-drop. And I also use right-click drag for mouse gestures in Firefox, which I heard is a feature pioneered in Opera.)
1. this is not a trustworthy independent think tank, read who is on the board

2. anyone with half a statistics brain can see the problems in this analysis

3. i’m a big boy, i can consume content even if it comes from a skewed platform
I use it pretty much every day! It's nice. I use the trackpad too, but each device has its strengths.
I don't think that's an accurate read. Everyone was playing chicken and the US won. TikTok will be up for sale again, except this time with way less leverage in negotiating a sale.
Sure they are, it's just that it's centralised and you don't see it. If bluesky shut down it's business guess where you data goes? Into the void, correct.

Data isn't tied to an instance in mastodon, it resides in an instance and can be easily migrated. If you either host yourself or subscribe to a reputable service that offers mastodon, like omg.lol then it's a safe bet your data will live long after the other proprietary services get shut down.
Especially given that Trump initiated the push to ban TikTok in the first place.
the use of bytedance’s algorithm is an editorial decision that is being banned
It's not yet the 20th anywhere in North America.
Sounds great! Excited to try it out.
Building a direct connection with your customers/audience/people is the key. As this piece suggests, an email list is a great way to get started.

It could really be any list of any contact info that you can export and download as a data file at some point. I have seen physical stores leave clipboards out for people to sign up for a mailing list and that works.

I feel extremely passionate about this topic and I've written extensively on it.

1: Going direct buys you freedom: https://herbertlui.net/going-direct-buys-you-freedom/

2: Own your marketing, own your income: https://herbertlui.net/own-your-marketing-own-your-income/

3: Learning to talk to customers, directly: https://herbertlui.net/learning-to-talk-to-customers-directl...

Of course, I'm not the only one:

The Rostra manifesto is also great! https://www.rostra.co/

There are also the filmmakers buying their own theater: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/westwood...
By the left I don't mean democrats (they aren't left wing other than when convenient socially), I mean the theory-reading new leftists of a few decades ago i.e. a relatively tiny group of post-marxists that came up with new terminology and became quite dominant in most academic departments of that nature.

No one will openly vote for this stuff, so they gave up and ended up in institutions (amongst other things).

I'm writing from a British perspective, so the joke that comes to mind is "I'm old enough to remember when judges were right-wing".

I had to attend lectures about decolonizing the physics curriculum for example, in a university founded almost in the 70s (i.e. after the revolution). This is late Soviet or antiquity levels of bizarre rituals and practices.

The ad I'm thinking of I don't think featured any trans people, or at least if it was they don't pass. I don't really want to dwell on this other than it stuck out like a sore thumb as something from 2021 or '22. The point is just that it's clearly evidence of some massive cultural shift inside Google.

Anyway, back to Andreesen, the east Coast declared war on the west, and lost. Tough shit IMO.
I really like to use it for drag & drop, too - it somehow feels much more precise than the trackpad.