skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The place where it makes sense for a library to read environment variables is where the program is not written to use that specific library. For example, I can link a program whose author has never heard of TCMalloc against TCMalloc rather than the system malloc, and then configure TCMalloc via environment variables. This does not require modifying a single line of code, while manually forwarding configuration onto the allocator would. Another common example is configuring sanitizers. Not having to do anything other than pass another command-line switch to the compiler is one of the things that makes them really painless to use.

I do think you'd be hard-pressed to find a situation where a program calling setenv() to configure a library actually makes sense. It's a pretty strong sign that someone made a bad decision. People will, however, make mistakes in API design.
Plain old markdown image syntax also works, although there is no way to preprocess the file or add any additional HTML attributes beyond what you see here:

![add a description here](my cat.jpg)
They did in my area 7 years ago almost as soon as it was announced. They wired new condos and apartments but nothing else. Luckily AT&T installed it on the pole by my house. I moved and lost fiber but have 1.2 down over coax but only 200 up.
It's a system of checks and balances. The Presidential pardon power is specifically a check on the power of the Federal judiciary.

Regimes have toppled in response to popular uprising against imprisonments perceived as unjust. Having a system of governance without a way to rectify that seems unwise to me.

The check on Presidential authority, in turn, is impeachment. It's not a perfect system by any means, but in my estimation it's a good one.
Ah the one upside to rural Lincolnshire I guess?!
Makes since why you would be, especially when looking at "prior art" you can see where the focus was. Basic rating, in order for something like this to work i needs to be fairly robust and thought through. Especially considering that we know how big business tends to grab hold of things like this for gainful usage
And the original person I replied to was in the top percentile of income according to him and considered “survival” not being able to live his current lifestyle.

What do you consider “making it” for a single person?
>What admirable ideal is this?!

That adults should be able to buy and sell whatever the fuck they want?

And that the government should not get a say, or even a cut?

I don't necessarily fully agree with that, but for sure it's an ideal, and has been expressed many times (e.g. by libertarians).
There are three different fiber ISPs all “coming soon” in Vegas. I hope they come sooner.
It doesn't have to be, but Google fiber is.
Same as every other academic: publish or perish. Collect more citations and note them in your next grant proposal.

The modern academy is fucked, the whole system is being gamed and very little is being done about the mess created. The author here is fighting a tough battle and I wish them continued success.
Are all invoices in this network public or only the ones you sent/receieved?
Internal NASA Memo on Diversity Erasure
I’ll take a config file over an envvar 100% of the time.
Student loans are the only loan type which you cannot bankrupt out of. I'm sure that many students would accept bankruptcy rather than bailouts if that is preferable. It doesn't make sense to saddle 20 year olds with insurmountable debt.
Thanks for saying so. I'm human like anyone else but practice helps. We all need to be the change we want to see. Also, my internal goal is rarely to convince anyone who disagrees with me. My focus is articulating my position clearly along with my reasons for currently holding it. Then to understand their position and reasons. This is sometimes surprisingly difficult. Other times it's enlightening and occasionally leads to adjusting my own position.

I try to interpret what others say with maximum charity and construe their arguments in their strongest possible form, even if they weren't expressed that way. I'm interested in discovering why we disagree, not winning debate points. The hardest discussions are often those where they never seem to understand my position or are unwilling to respond to it. This leaves me with little choice but to meta-up to the 'protocol level' to re-establish productive communication.

In the conversation above, I suspect, based on hints in the last response, that the root issue may have been that a moral equivalence between Ross and Pablo Escobar was neccessary to make Trump pardoning Ross a maximally negative talking point against Trump.

If so, the discussion could never really be about what it appeared to be about: the relative criminal or moral weight of Ross' crimes or the appropriateness of the sentence. Which is a shame because it prevented ever reaching more interesting ground. For example, I wish the pardon had been a commutation instead because Ross was justly convicted of significant crimes before he was over-sentenced. The wrong which needed to be righted was the sentence not the conviction.
We don't eat them because they are uncool, we eat them because we can farm them 'en masse' in a cost effective manner and they cannot escape. I've had moose, horse, and a few more non-typical farmed animals. I like horse steak the best. But, a beef steak costs X and a horse steak costs 5x.

It's a complicated multi-threaded discussion. I saw a vid recently from (I assume the UK) that people were protesting on the meat-alley of a super market. So those people are cool when the super market sells cigarettes, sugary drinks that cause diabetes to kids, 'chocolates' with 50% sugar, alcohol that ruins millions of lives around the world, etc. But steak.. that is their problem. Oh the hypocrisy.
Again, I've been hearing it since 2000s, how China is going to fall. So far, no predictions, especially the forced RE market collapse ones have panned out. I think a lot of people want China to fall, so they can point at the political ideology that's not compatible with ours and say "ha, we told you so!". But it just hasn't happened yet. They're smoking the west in a good chunk sectors as well.

Also, I think you're underestimating how quickly public perception can turn if the leader becomes disliked. People will flock to be friendly with China, if there's any need.
> Luckily AT&T installed it on the pole by my house

This seems to be Google Fiber's purpose. Spurring the telcos into investing to maintain share.
Xenon Gas Revealed as Potential Alzheimer's Disease Treatment
I think you're advocating for better mental health care and rehabilitation of addicts, which I agree with. However, the idea that addicts will destroy their lives regardless of whether they stop using, or are forced to stop using, their drug of choice is an extremely dangerous statement. Many addicts get better by changing their environment and quitting/going to rehab/etc.

Furthermore, heroin != vodka in terms of how addictive it is for the average user, and that's partly why only one of them is legal for recreational use.

Controversies about decriminalization aside, harm reduction exists as a studied component in addiction, public health, and psychology circles for a reason.
Where did we go wrong? May be we need something different from HTML. A new spec to render user experience. Possibly same spec for Browser & Native apps across all devices.
We can’t do this in the industry I work in. We’re subject to regulatory compliance requirements like SOC2, FedRamp, and CJIS. If an auditor found that access to production databases wasn’t limited on a per-need basis and that access was audited, we’d face significant consequences.
Show HN: Zero-knowledge matching for discovering mutual chemistry
I built a system to solve a universal problem: everyone has someone in their contacts they're curious about, but there's never been a safe way to find out if the interest is mutual.

The system works by locally importing your phone contacts (never uploaded to our servers) and letting you send encrypted "feelers" associated with specific phone numbers. These feelers are stored as encrypted fragments that only become meaningful when both parties have created matching entries. If the recipient isn't yet a user, feelers persist against their phone number, enabling delayed matching when they join without compromising privacy.

The magic happens in real-world use: You can safely indicate interest in anyone in your contacts - that friend from college, someone you met at a conference, or that person your friend introduced you to last month. They'll never know unless they've done the same for you. No awkward conversations, no social risk, no changed dynamics unless there's mutual interest.

Early adoption has been strong in dense social networks where traditional dating apps fall short - close-knit professional communities, university settings, and social circles where discretion matters.

Curious to hear HN's thoughts on:

- Additional coverage beyond phone numbers for matching
- Potential attack vectors or workaround with the use case / architecture itself
- How to improve the design of the system to solve additional needs

Currently distributed via ios/android

https://mesh.is
Couple things that aren’t accounted for:

A) this is a pledge by companies they may or may not even have the cash required to back it up. Certainly they aren’t spending it all at once, but to be completely honest it’s nothing more than a PR stunt right now that seems to be an exercise in courting favor

B) that so called private capital is going to get incentives from subsidies, like tax breaks, grants etc. It’s inevitable if this proceeds to an actual investment stage. What’s that about it being pure private capital again?

C) do to the aforementioned circumstances in A it seems whatever government support systems are stood up to support this - and if this isn’t ending in hot air, there will be - it still means it’s not pure private capital and worse yet, they’ll likely end up bilking tax payers and the initiative falls apart with companies spending far less then the pledge but keeping all the upside.

I’ll bet a years salary it plays out like this.

If this ends up being 100% private capital with no government subsidies of any kind, I’ll be shocked and elated. Look at anything like this in the last 40 years and you’ll find scant few examples that actually hold up under scrutiny that they didn’t play out this way.

Which brings me to my second part. So we are going to - in some form - end up handing out subsidies to these companies, either at the local state or federal level, but by the logic of not paying off student debt, why are we going to do this? It’s only propping up an unhealthy economic policy no?

Why is it so bad for us to cancel student debt but it’s fine to have the same cost equivalent as subsidies for businesses? Is it under the “creates jobs” smoke screen? Despite the fact the overwhelming majority of money made will not go to the workers but back to the wealthy and ultra wealthy.

There's no sense of equity here. If the government is truly unequivocally hands off - no subsidies, no incentives etc - than fine, the profits go where they go, and thats the end of it.

However, it won't be, and that opens up a perfectly legitimate ask about how this money is going to get used and who it benefits
Amazing project.
Meanwhile, I'm paying 120/month for 150MB down, 75 up to my rural telco-op, and compared to the satellite internet I had before, I'm happy to be paying it.
Was surprised that it loaded on my phone, nice work!
The FBI hunts down and removes extremely violent criminals from society every day. They certainly operate right on the edge of the law, as they should. Furthermore, they never stop and never quit and no distance is too far--they will prevail no matter what. Extremely important to the stability of society.
Nah, I just close sites with bullshit ads.
I'm sure some do, but understand what they're basically saying is "we will build an AI God, and it will save us from all our problems"

At that point, it's not technology, that's religion (or even bordering on cult-like thinking)
No the fee for service system results in bills. It's the quarter on Kaiser that don't see bills.
Plausible deniability is key pillar of ensuring National Security
Garmin's hardware, including the hardware of their smartwatches, are very tempting. They are designed to be easy to use even with gloves, have good battery life, and on some high end they have solar and/or 40-meter scuba diving rated.

If there's a way to use Garmin's smartwatches without using their cloud I probably would consider that. But since their ransomware attack from 2020, I really can no longer trust their cloud any more, especially that the data collected from a smartwatch is on the more sensitive side. The only Garmin hardware I'm still using is their bicycle tail light+radar, which I just use with wahoo's bike computer instead of other Garmin products.
I’m at a private company and the process of resume screening done by clueless HR people is the exact same. I referred a friend for a job position, he got turned away because he didn’t have Java Version X with Springboot on his resume, I told him to re-submit with that on there and voila he got an interview. (For reference, he was a Java backend dev for 10 years and already had that on his resume)
What good is common sense and facts when you have a gut dislike?
Maybe so, but also then everyone has a Harvard degree, which is MUCH MUCH better for society than a Harvard degree losing value is bad.

Of course if you're an ignorant right wing anti-intellectual climate change and evolution denying religious fanatic, the idea of everyone having a Harvard degree is existentially terrifying for other reasons that it losing a little bit of value.
> The system will have built in "gaming" safeguards. Users can't use the system to harm another user's Trust score, businesses can't harm users vice versa and etc.

You say this as if it is possible, yet I am unaware of any solution to the problem. This is core to your proposal, can you enlighten us on your vision for this piece?
This is one of those special HN posts that demonstrates outsized excellence on the author's behalf. Watched the video and I'm very impressed.
On climate change, are we somewhere between step 3 and 4? It sure looks a lot that way to me. Maybe closer to 4 soon. That conversation is exhausting, or kind of the inverse of this, overwhelming confidence in the success of future technologies that do not really exist yet.
Amen. Honestly the IKEA lamps are the best - super cheap and you can swap out the bulbs with high quality dimmable philips. What torchiers are you swapping to?
This is bonkers and so cool that you did this solo. Loaded right up on my iPhone 13, prompted me to turn my phone to landscape and I was running around in a 3d world shooting spells at other players - really great work and surprisingly polished for being a solo project.
Google is perfectly willing to shut down a profitable product
Are you in the US? In UK companies, everything from that bot is somewhere between "no" and "no, fuck off". The more qualifiers you add, the ruder you're intending to be.
How so? Why would an owner of a market with physical dimensions, held every Saturday or whatever, be any more or less responsible for what changes hands there?
I did this too with IKEA bulbs and their remote control that you can directly pair to multiple bulbs. It works out great, and I don't have to deal with another phone app or buy a hub in my house to manage.
Lossless Compression of Vector IDs for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
Historically, the best example of going it alone without display hardware, was the ZX80.

https://www.8bity.cz/files/zx80_schema.pdf

VIDEO comes out of the block of gates roughly center of the schematic.

SYNC comes out of the gates on the center right.

and of course the ZX81 merged the logic chips into one ULA.

There exists a kit to go the other way for a ZX Spectrum to split the ULA logic out into discrete chips again.
I don't know if this is a troll, but in case it isn't: Buddy, listen to your doctors. At least, please, go talk to another MD about your blood work and see if they recommend other methods. You don't have to listen to just one MD, but if 5 are telling you the same thing then you should probably listen.
After… age 65. Right? Depending on when you draw SS.

So the middle class is now the 50+ age group?

This explains everything.
I'll take existence proofs [1] over personal insults but YMMV. You also may want to be careful assuming the expertise of people on this forum. Some people here are quite technical.

[1] https://github.com/bminor/glibc/commit/7a61e7f557a97ab597d6f...
> There is no reason why tuition is going up at the pace it does.

There is and it's explained by Baumol's cost disease. Basically you can't sustain paying professors the same wage while productivity increases in other parts of the economy. Even if the actual labor of "professing" hasn't gotten more productive. You have to retain them by keeping up with the broader wage increases. And that cost increase gets passed down to students.
The "NASA Email" trend on Bluesky has people talking about it, including people who received it. https://bsky.app/profile/trending.bsky.app/feed/46174967
Truly appreciate it thank you so much!! I poured my life and soul into this haha.
Thank you for saying so!

That's super awesome too, this is not so different under the hood, I used libxml for getting the content and pandoc for converting -- pandoc turned out to be by far the best of the tools I tried for that aspect.

It won't necessarily keep the URLs stable, they'll be made based on the title of the post.

That's a cool solution for the ?p=<id> issues, this doesn't handle it but when I've done it for for sites I host I usually use nginx's rewrite rules. I think for query rewriting you need to additionally use the map directive, but I was only handling directory vs .html and things like that.

Thank you again for commenting, I like your site!
Cool idea. Would love to see prototypes of this. This is essentially what happens at an optometrists office when you go for an eye test.
Still sad more cities don't roll out their own fiber and own the utility for the local community.
In RTP NC, GFiber's $70 pricing beats equivalent speed plans from the other two symmetric fiber providers in the area, AT&T and Spectrum (if you live on the right streets). It's not _dirt_ cheap, but it's the cheapest we can get.

(Oh, also if you request a /48 IPv6 prefix, you'll get it. Never had that work on AT&T's $90.75-after-fees plan.)
Amazin! what's the total cost for you?
You must be a riot in Australia!
I'm in Fremont and I recently noticed they now have 2gbps for $105 in my area. Also they boosted the upload speed to 200-350mbps. I did have to upgrade my cable modem to get my faster upload speed but still I need a faster Wi-Fi router before I consider going to 2gbps.
> aka don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good

Exactly my point. Over time *environ would disappear, at least from the major software projects that everyone uses (assuming it's even in use in them in the first place).
I'm assuming you've seen that episode of Black Mirror? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)

Because while it is fiction, it also seems really accurate to how such a system would end up going.
Yeah, I don't know. There's certainly people that are just broken, but reading other examples, I think there are plenty of people who just happen on to a perfect addiction(, or maybe an imperfect one that fills the spot). The manifest destiny stuff is kind of a mix that soothes a lot of people with various motives whether or not it is representative of the median case.
From my experience (2018), run LLM output through beam search over different choices of canonicalization of certain part of text. Even 3-gram models (yeah, 2018) fare better this way.
> The comments section devolves into a heated debate about whether this is technically fascism or just regular old corporatocracy, with several users helpfully pointing out that actually, the real problem is systemd.

I use arch, btw.
Do what works for you. If it’s comfortable and you don’t notice lingering issues it’s probably fine.
I’m not sure about the OP, but I’d choose Hugo over Astro because of the simplicity of the single binary, and the lack of necessity for a JavaScript package manager just to run the thing.
They did kill it before. But it's back again.
Give me a break, that’s fine for rounding and a huge gap between SCC and San Francisco and Santa Cruz. SCC is the outlier in the region, and a good percentage of HN is very pro-Trump because a good percentage of HN is pro-greed.

And the point about Chinese being among the most pro-Trump is South Bay stands - I have had several conversations and most people from mainland (RIP HK) see zero problem with authoritarian rule.
I once used shop lights aimed at my ceiling to get through a winter, while avoiding depression. Four pairs on stands around the room, behind the furniture aimed at a vaulted ceiling.

It worked very well. Every day felt like summer.

I quickly learned to turn off the sun and go back to regular lighting around 5pm.

In my next house, where I am now, I have large cove molding rectangles with recessed bands of LED lighting, all bouncing off the ceiling.

It’s great, because it’s really bright, but so even. Like a good day outside. You feel very awake, alert, & energized, but it is very relaxing too.

They dim, but perhaps for the same reasons as the article mentioned, that isn’t always as relaxing. So I have different accent lighting & lamps in each room to create different evening moods.

For working at home, for many years, the combination has been great.
> "People want to remove the influence the owner has on public discourse."

Deplatforming completely failed in preventing the rise of the right wing over the past two administrations; if anything, it reinforced their delusions of persecution, strengthening them. And now that the leftists are on the back foot, deplatforming is going to be even less effective. It's just doubling down on a losing strategy.

That being said, I'm all in favor of blocking X links as HN submissions anyway. They almost always seem to be off topic or low value.
That isn't thread safe, it's safER.

I am also quite technical, thanks.
This is the one :-). If I recall right, the journal scan had some additional diagrams some uploads have omitted, so while a PDF isn't the most ergonomic thing it's probably the safe bet.
KDE does too
This article is just what worked for me. Some people are more light color sensitive, if you like your cool lighting and a lot of light and it works - go for it.
> I've been hearing it since 2000s, how China is going to fall

Where am I predicting failure? Inflexibility doesn't mean failure, it means just that.

> underestimating how quickly public perception can turn if the leader becomes disliked. People will flock to be friendly with China, if there's any need

Possible. But public perception has nothing to do with it. To date, America has wielded its superpower status in a way that defied containment. If we misbehave, yes, countries will work to contain America, but that doesn't naturally mean they'll work to benefit China. Geostrategically, the best thing that could happen to China is Xi goes away and someone who can softly engage with its neighbours comes in so they can integrate supply chains and cultures more effectively. (Again, the way America has historically done.)
I honestly don't understand what the big deal is with the higher speed tiers. I forget what my house theoretically gets but, in practice, it's less than 100 down from Comcast and that's perfectly fine for what I use it for. I'm a bit under $100/mo and wouldn't pay to upgrade.
NASA moves swiftly to end DEI programs, ask employees to "report" violations
They should rename the company to reflect their pivot to wireless broadband
Why is time precious here?