skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Home buyers don't need to investigate wild fire risk - the need to check the price of insurance in the area (assuming it's priced without distortions). If the insurance looks insanely expensive, people can either walk away, accept it, or look into how to change it.

Basically you are saying "i want a nanny state".
What is there left to believe in?
So despite the very weak propaganda about the Houthis, it turns out it was all about the Gaza genocide. This could have stopped at any point by the Biden administration, instead it came down to Trump and his real estate guy telling Israel how high to jump (debunking another weak propaganda narrative). All for Zionist donors and votes, and he still lost.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-inter...
I certainly agree with the sentiment (I would trust-bust tech giants, and severely restrict advertising as a whole for being a negative-sum game).

Nevertheless, for living in this world while preserving your privacy, my advice stands. Separate the devices that you control, which you will use for personal and private purposes, from the devices that global corporations and institutions control, which you will use to access the services those institutions provide - services which, by definition, you would not control anyway.

It is far, far simpler than having to get proprietary, frequently-updated software to play nice inside a secure sandbox. If they do, great, but separate devices ensures it isn't a capital-P Problem for you if they stop.

(FWIW, I lived in three different European countries over the past decade and so far the governments all offered TOTP-based web alternatives to their apps. When it comes to private banking, only one (Lunar) was available only via app, but it was also the only one that ran without Play Services.)
I'd remove the emojis as it makes it looks unserious.

"Starter (Just Kidding)" - likewise, I don't know what you mean by this.

hope that helps
What was the motivation for this?

The typo is rather brutal, at least since i usually make several typos at once :D
Monthly Roundup #26: January 2025
It was funny when the corporatists here blamed consumers for using free (or “free” or whatever) services, falling into the FB trap etc. As if that mattered at all? As if FB and its ilk wouldn’t use the Free strategy every time in order to grow humoungous or fail? Of course they would bet their money on network effects over getting money in the short term—there’s no point in a boutique social network. Those hypothetical consumers who wanted to pay upfront for a 2K user social network (patently irrational but okay) would have remained unserviced.

There never was a choice.
>GPL DJ Software

Its kind of a nuisance that, as a requirement to build Mixxx on MacOS, ones has to use foreign binaries, disable Gatekeeper, run a 'first build', and from that point on .. can treat the project as a regular CMake project. Re-enable Gatekeeper after the 'first build'.

Hmm.

What are the custom binaries for? Surely not cmake. Not having - yet - done this myself (until I can put it in a VM), I'm nevertheless kind of curious about this necessity.

Any Mixxx/MacOs devs care to describe the contents?
Anthropic was founded in part from OpenAI alumni, so to some extent it’s true for them too. And it’s still taken them over 3 years to get to this point.
Are there any TrustZone based eSIM implementations yet? I've heard about plans for a couple of times but haven't been following that closely.

I'm not sure if iPhones still have a physical module; it would make a lot of sense for Apple to combine the eSIM implementation with the payments secure element (I think they hold some patents to that extent), but I'm not sure if they already do that.
I've used rlua (mlua is a fork of it) and mlua extensively. The part you've shown is absolutely the easy part. Doing anything interesting with the runtime after that is much less obvious. Even something as simple as 'load a lua file that returns a table of functions and use those functions from rust' is surprisingly hard to figure out. (I know, I just did that a few weeks ago.)

I haven't used Rhai, but Lua has a lot of impedance mismatch with Rust that could be avoided with a fresh language. (Or maybe even just a fresh implementation of Lua, like piccolo is trying: https://github.com/kyren/piccolo)
I heard russian citizens were having troubles getting any kind of U.S. visa due to the political situation in the world. Does this situation still persists? Asking for a friend who still hasn't heard back for his tourist visa.
Some past discussions. I thought it had been discussed more but maybe it turned up in other discussions rather than as a submission of its own.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8906167 - Jan 18, 2015 (24 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4586692 - Sept 28, 2012 (24 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=600736 - May 9, 2009 (9 comments)
Even though I code for a living and mostly enjoy the process, I’ve spent the last few nights with Cursor, migrating my old C# project to Python. I decided to do it without providing my old code to the tool and without coding at all. Surprisingly, it was amazing—just like having a super-efficient, eager programmer at your service. In just a few sessions, I managed not only to rebuild my old app but also to add many new features that would have taken me days to develop. (I decided to use PyQt6 for the GUI, despite having zero experience with it.)

So, if you know how to run code and understand the absolute basics, just start with Cursor. The free version should be good for a start, and then it’s just $20 per month. You can learn in the meantime by asking questions, etc. However, I would focus on understanding high-level concepts because mundane coding seems to be a solved problem now.

It’s a bit sad from a coding enthusiast’s perspective, but on the other hand, it makes you super productive when you have an idea for an app.
I just tested it by creating a repo with two branches without a common ancestor, and I was able to move a branch pointer to either history with update-ref, so no, I don't think so
That's fair. UC and the NHS are far from ideal, but, compared to the US, they are heaven.
How will we update about scheming?
Well for one, the EUV technology ASML is known for was licensed to ASML under terms dictated by the US, since it is literally a result of US government funded research.
It has been ratified though.

Biden is just pointing that out, no?
> Chinese apps’ UX is trash

It is trash because you're thinking with the mind of a Westerner. These apps are created and optimized for Chinese audiences, and they interact in a different way.
> And RekordBox does not run well on Linux

RekordBox doesn't even run well on Windows, so hard to imagine what worse looks like.

But yeah, if Mixxx (or other FOSS software) could offer writing playlists into USB sticks, I'd get rid of RekordBox yesterday because few software out there works as bad as RekordBox.
Show HN: Personalized Duolingo (kind of) for vocabulary building
Hi! Wanted to share the project I really wanted to have. TLDR; this app lets you create your own list of words and you get a Duolingo-like experience (kind of, still needs a lot of features) practicing those words in their context.

My English is not the best but not the worst either. But I realized I can't boost it up after a certain level! In my belief, in order to truly learn a language, you need to be exposed to that language often. Vocabulary is the key factor here if you really want to improve in any language.

My experience is that when I read a book to improve my English vocabulary, I encounter words that I don't know so often and my reading gets disturbed. I go look for the meaning, come back, put it in context, re-read it, etc. It didn't work for me. So I tried listening to audiobooks - I listen to the book and read along, and whenever I encounter a word, I write it down. I get these 50 words in 2-3 pages and I ask ChatGPT to give me their meanings. I read them, take the book, and now read it myself. That helps for sure, but still after a while I lose those words because I never encounter them again. Well then, in order to not forget those words, I need some kind of exercise, right? A flashcard app maybe? Well, I still need to go out there, ask ChatGPT to create questions, put them in a flashcard app, etc. It's still time-consuming and this is supposed to be fun!

I need to be exposed to English in my daily life. I just need to save the words somewhere and whenever I want, I need to be able to practice them in a fun way, in Duolingo style maybe? So then I realized would it be better to store words in their own context? I mean, say I read Harry Potter and have a list of words I encountered in it, say I watch Breaking Bad and have a list of words I encountered watching it. I believe seeing those words together and practicing together makes it easier to remember them.

But I shouldn't be the one adding the meaning of the word and the one to generate exercises, right? It all should be automated. The exercise part will be handled by LLM for sure, but for the meaning of the word, I can fetch from a dictionary? But I really don't like the dictionary definitions and one word can have multiple meanings in their own context. So then I need to use LLM for this task too and have the word's meaning in its own context.

You create a list for your context, you add words, meanings get added automatically, and I see the word added in a different color (coloring is also a method used to remember words). It all takes seconds. And whenever I want to practice these lists, I can use learn mode to learn and test my knowledge in quiz mode. So I basically built this app ((thanks to Claude 3.5 Sonnet)). I want it to be like Duolingo, but of course I still have a way ahead to go, but wanted to share it in hopes of getting contributors.

You can read more in the repository. I would love to get your thoughts on this.
if we were honest about the world God actually encourages pillaging :) to the victor go the spoils and the narrative of history
Yes, it still persists and can result in visa processing delays of more than one year.
Ok makes sense. But that feels like a strategy Europe could do as well. It doesn’t sound absurd or too risky.

How come we don’t do it?
Totoro Before Totoro
The repo contains only the PDF, not actual runnable code for the RL training pipeline.

Publishing a high-level description of the training algorithm is good, but it doesn't count as "open-sourcing", as commonly understood.
> Neither solution is fully rolled out yet.

Sure, there's a long tail of banks/cards that don't support it yet, but I think it's fair to call Apple Pay and Google Pay massively deployed and successful solutions.

> every payment terminal/network needing to be upgraded.

Absolutely nothing needed to be upgraded in the payment terminals, or even the acquirers' systems. Tokenization involves only the network, the issuer, and the wallet provider (for POS/in-person payments).

To a POS terminal, an iPhone looks indistinguishable from a regular old contactless card, unless it's explicitly looking at some of the new (and backwards-compatible) tags indicating otherwise.
UK jobs that are in demand
I judge every politician by their actions, not their words. In Trump's case, his words are more "salad-like" than most, but his actions generally speak pretty clearly.
Used mixxx to do the djing for my wedding last year. Created a collaborative music voting site for the guests, then got all the music and made a mix which worked really well, even going between genres. Had a lot of fun playing with it getting everything ready and it worked with a couple of DJ controllers bought cheaply without any issue.

I even made a little program to read the now playing track from the sqlite database which then allowed the lights to follow the music (for complex reasons I don't have time to explain).

Most importantly it worked on the night without missing a beat.
> Linking tends to be the slow part, right?

> Especially for rust and c++.

In C, certainly. A short program I wrote took under 1s to compile and about 2s to link.

In C++ this is not the case; compilation is very computationally expensive, with my experiments in Rust leaving me with the feeling that Rust was even more computationally expensive than C++.

As someone who still regularly does C for fun and for profit, I am often left feeling frustrated when trying to compile projects in languages like C++ or Rust.

As an aside, some of the Lisp compilers (SBCL comes to mind) where much faster than one would expect, even though feature-wise it is more or less complete. It's the (I feel) typing and rules checking in complex languages that slows down the compilation, not the linking after everything is compiled.
Project 8086 Part II: Real Mode Productivity; Or, 8,Reasons to Get a Newer
The most is there I think: capital to train models and buy good data, and then pull strings to make it into everyone's computer.

It's indeed very dystopia.
100% it's what happened. And the craziest part is that it worked because Biden went along with it. It's easy enough to argue Trump played hardball to negotiate for any divestiture that may occur; because that was his goal all along. The narrative/pundits can spin this easily in his favour.

Either because they gave in to the ploy, or because they were unable to close a TikTok deal, the Democrats look incompetent here. And Trump gains favour in the younger demo (that he's already pretty strong in) AND with SMB because he gave TikTok more time.
If we're talking about the above hypothetical trade embargo, it wouldn't really matter. Ownership doesn't override trade restrictions.
I wonder to what extent ASML management looks at Kawasaki Heavy Industries' contracts to build high speed rail in China and says, "that's the outcome we want!"
> To my understanding, most people, even in tech, disregard and look down on Chinese software

Historically, if Chinese software has been installed on your computer, it's been malware.
They’re probably training on outputs of existing models.
Optimizing In-Process gRPC with Go 1.23 Iterators and Coroutines
Elaine Benes would be proud of their writing...
> You've moved the goal posts. You said 60k if your lucky.

No I didn't. I suggest you re-read the thread. I said 75K-90K max.

> I just found multiple jobs that pay more than that easily.

There are always certainly outliers. However most of those places usually have a bunch of iffy things going on e.g. you have to live at your workstation/laptop, or they are in the middle of no where. Enforced pair programming (fuck that btw), or have a stupid interview process (no I won't go through the humiliation rituals anymore).

However the vast majority of positions are paying max 65-70K for a Senior Dev.

I am glad that you managed to find something. But the rest of us haven't been as lucky.
What am I looking at? Maybe I am missing some contexts
What are you suggesting? That there are undiscovered caches of writing from ancient hunter-gatherers?
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It doesn't need to be an authoritarian government. The US government can proclaim a company to be of "national interest" at any time and thus determine what it can export or not, as it has done repeatedly over the last few years.
Thanks for these examples. I wrote a POC tool to apply common patches to multiple projects. These patches where supposed to be written as scripts. Idea was to run the same set of action on projects with different layouts based on their names etc. So a normal patch would not work.

Anyways I used mlua because it was the easiest way to get some scripting to run. But I faced issues writing the scripts. Basic operations had to come from the host like “string endsWith”, “list contains” and some other basic methods (Can’t remember which ones it where in detail). That mixed with the fact that Lua is so different. I knew I could not give this to any other dev in my team without a lot of instructions how lua handles stuff differently. So it’s nice to know I have a potential new goto solution when facing this again. Especially the ability to dumb it down.
That's a good point, thanks for saying it. Speaking as one of such developers who had trouble with it for a long time, plenty of us might end up feeling shy or insecure about making proactive interventions to secure time for ourselves or our teams - all while our managers might be assuming we'll make such moves when needed. Sometimes all it takes is an explicit permission from a person in position of power - them saying to subordinates, "it's fine if you block off focus time for the team in the company calendar". And, per your example, it's even better when followed by assurances of support, such as being an organizer or confirmed invitee. For better or worse, a lot of inter-team dynamics ends up being about looks.
One thing I'd like to see AI used for: draw the Zork scenery based on the in-game text description.
AI Art Turing Test Results
Why Big Tech's Remote Work Rules Push Employees to Hide Abroad
Just tried it, unfortunately creating a new project and clicking on Save doesn't do anything. The loader in the save button animates forever and nothing happens.
How much do you expect to fight the government in the next 4 years?
What to know about BRICS and its growing clout
There's not much that an administration can do to impact the delays because they primarily are the result of statutory backlogs and demand. So, unless there is a significant change in the law or a significant drop in demand, these delays are likely to persist.
Well, you can access them by using something like iMazing. I agree that there should be a way to see the entire file system, even if read-only.
BTW, the link to Mastodon on the feet of your page doesn't seem to be working.
Is there a hope in hell we could ever have "air-gapped" genetic testing at home?

That's something I have also wanted for a long time. I fought the military on collecting my DNA long ago. There was a discussion a long while back and it turned out this is possible but still a hardcore hobby. It's a bit of equipment and work, not something as simple and affordable as a handheld automotive diagnostic tool yet. I would be surprised if a company even made such a thing given how all the corpo's want everyone's data.

One brief thread [1] but I am trying to find the bigger one where a member of HN listed much of the hardware that would be required.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25932008
Exactly, in the US the big companies also enter the government complex through board memberships and collaboration with 3 letter agencies, just like in China.
IDK much about Inkscape development roadmap, but they should have prioritized CMYK long time ago. It's about unlocking potential user niches. Many people could live with a mediocre vector editor, had it been usable for print.

Once it's good enough for breadwinning, then it becomes much easier to fund development. People quote Blender as an example, but QGIS is also such a FOSS win.
Then why does it need an executive order? And doesn’t “certify” mean more than just “claim”?
The excellent CuriousMarc YouTube channel just started a new video series refurbishing a B-52 astrotracker, going over all of this in some detail:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkEjLqu-JH0&list=PL-_93BVApb...

Recommended.

It also immediately occured to me how much easier this should be on a copter, since you don't need a gimbal'd platform :)
They definitely do some things better.

Taobao's shop by image is pretty game changing. Whether or not they were the first to do it, they seem to be the most successful iteration of it.

I feel like Chinese UX flows tend to be more clunky than Western ones but I have a certain liking for high information density apps, and find uncluttered screens sometimes a bit annoying and overly patronising.

I thought bullet chat on Bilibili was a very fun concept that probably doesn't translate quite as well to western media but YouTube has come up with a nifty half way by flashing comments with timestamps under the video
Show HN: Play a Video (With Audio) in XTerm on *Nix
I spend most of my life in the terminal, and now I can watch
videos without flipping over to a web browser. I understand
that this isn't for everyone. If you enjoy using your browser
or mobile phone app to view videos, I'm not recommending you
stop. But it may be useful at some point in the future for you
to be able to do this, so maybe keep this tool in your back
pocket in case you need it in the future.

The video referenced above shows options to use with the mpv
video player on Debian 12 (bookworm) to render a video in an
xterm using sixel graphics and a link to the local sound
infrastructure.

I've had problems playing YouTube videos with mpv, but Vimeo
works fine. So if you want to watch this video, which shows how
to render a video in the terminal, in the terminal, the
following command should work (assuming you have mpv installed
and your local audio infrastructure is working.)

mpv --no-config --vo=sixel --profile=sw-fast \
--really-quiet --vo-sixel-reqcolors=0 --ao='pulse' \
https://vimeo.com/1048404200

And this is the command I used on Debian 12 to install mpv. It
seems to have included sixel support by default. Nice!

sudo apt-get install mpv

I'd love to know if it works on other Unix-like systems (other
Linuxes or Solaris or *BSD) or on WSL or XQuartz. Comments
describing your results (whether it works, fails or anything
in-between) are welcome.
CPC consists of higher management so yeah they have the final voice, just like every other companies.

The antidote for the CCP stuffs, is to alter your mind and accept that the CCP is no longer an ideological party, but a club of social elites. Whether that's a good thing is of course open to debate.
Interesting. I wonder if I have a USB hub with lights...
The difference between type stripping and implementing other behaviour is precisely what is being flagged as a problem with enums in this thread. If you only have type stripping – which is the present day situation for Node users – then using enums will break TypeScript that you would otherwise be able to execute.
I like your "no bad questions" attitude and your straightforward answer!
DTunes (stands for decentralized tunes) is an audio application with a built in pomodoro timer. Similar to applications like spotify & sound-cloud, DTunes lets you listen to your own audio files, categorize by playlist, artist and genre, and listen to audio in the background. This is a an early iteration of the project and the vision for this software is something that lets you add your own audio, categorize it and then allow the application to generate music that helps you focus for pomodoro sessions.
So sad ppl behaved like someone completely brainwashed…
Check out the CuriousMarc video series I linked under the OP, which gets into the sensor used and the encoding scheme.
As an EU citizen, what are my chances of being able to get a visa if hired by an American company?
If I can't download my Proton mail data without jumping through hoops no way someone is gonna make it easy to get something valuable like DNA (even a useless one like mine lol)
This has not been my experience in the academic/research side. Poison solver-based incompressible CFD regularly runs ~10x faster on equivalently-priced GPU systems, and has been doing so since I've been following it (since 2008). Some FFT-based solvers don't weak scale ideally, but that'd be even worse for CPU-based versions, as they use similar algorithms and would be spread over many more nodes.
An increasing number of my colleagues are using burnout for entirely inappropriate reason like "I was so burnt out last year from all the travel and vacation planning". It is so disrespectful to those with actual burnout when the term is used to complain about how privileged one's life is.
How often do you see bootstrapped founders get an O-1? How much revenue do they typically have before applying?
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