skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what I mean when I say Oracle's DB product is actually pretty good. Say what you will about Oracle the company, but their core products are good at their respective domains.
Have you contacted data centers directly?

Or alumni of your school who work for large companies?

Consider this a low risk opportunity to learn sales. One maxim of sales is you cannot sell desperation. I mean if you are at the deadline for interviews, that’s on you. If the interviews deadline is a few months away, then work but frame your need accurately. Good luck.
To be frank, there are far more important things here than the JFK conspiracy. I am glad it’s being released, but it’s okay to have issues around the context in which it’s being released. It’s clear with the stack of other executive orders that this is intended as a distraction.

In the meanwhile, we have things like the equal employment opportunity act of 1972 being repealed.

If you think that last one is a good thing then I see why you’re being reactive.
Maybe they would have more respect for the AI since it tends to be more neutral.
This link is the new '42'
Trams do need dedicated lanes.
It’s Chicago. They’re likely getting kickbacks/bribes.
This comes up in most bluesky threads. I honestly can’t tell you what it is but every experience I have with Mastodon sucks. Maybe you can point me in a better direction.

I want a platform that:
• blocks bots and maybe doesn’t allow companies as users
• user control first (blocking, custom algos, smart word filtering, content/topic based filtering)
• does not deplatform users for their views
• has community notes
Neuronal Segmentation in Cephalopod Arms
Steam was pretty much a CS 1.6 launcher at the time.
Although not quite in the sense intended by the author, point 9 as of January 2025, is only too true. "Why Britain can't afford to carry on as it is."
You are making an assumption that only half the country votes to “burn it down” and that whatever side you are on is the correct one that should be preserved.

It’s possible that both sides seek to destroy the policies of the other and maybe, just maybe, neither side truly has a monopoly on what is right and correct.

All I hear as an independent political thinker is two sides whining that the other is dogmatic.
You have Gemini API keys in your repo. Delete your repo, fix, repost?
I don't, except for trying to contact people at the job applicant's former workplace and ask "is this really what happened"? (I wouldn't do)

I'm thinking that as long as someone finishes projects you start, it's easy to take credit for all of it from start to finish, when interviewing elsewhere?
What is this? The Journal of Tautology? They repeat the exact same thing 6 times in a row.

> Back in the day, cops used to touch the tail lights of cars they pulled over in order to leave fingerprints as evidence. Reader’s Digest spoke with experts who said that the practice marked a car in case the stop went wrong — leaving evidence that the officer had been there:

> According to Nick Fresolone, a retired police-academy instructor with the New Jersey State Police Academy in Sea Girt, New Jersey, the “taillight tap” leaves fingerprint evidence on the glass of the taillight to prove that the officer was present at the scene. Ultimately, says Fresolone, if things escalate or otherwise go awry, the officer’s touch to the car’s taillight will have left a fingerprint in a place where investigators would know to look for it.

> Criminal defense attorney Joe Hoelscher says that this routine maneuver serves as a sort of breadcrumb left to prove that the police officer had approached that particular vehicle. “Leaving a thumbprint on the brake light is an old-school way to tag a car with a fingerprint, so it can be identified conclusively as the vehicle involved in a stop should the officer become incapacitated,” explains Hoelscher.
"I would suggest putting one’s money where one’s mouth is."

How about no.

Why would anyone that doesn't make their money by wasting everyone's time and working on ads or isn't a stock holder in Google waste their time with ads? Have you ever tracked your life wasted by ads?

They will never charge and are clearly afraid to actually block ad blockers, possibly because they know they can't. I know I would watch a black mute box before every video before ever seeing a YouTube ad and sponsor block makes the rest of YouTube tolerable.
I don't think they're shadowbanned, just a lot of the comments have been banned the old-fashioned way.
Was thinking this would be due to the inauguration or decree spree, however the analysis was started under the biden administration
Sorry I haven’t been following along and I have only a fuzzy idea of how these Twitter competitors work. Do users and posts on pixelfed federate with Bsky?

I’ve heard of some people I know leaving Twitter for bsky. I never used Twitter myself. So if I want to suddenly become social do I have to join bsky to follow them etc or is there a whole constellation of alternatives?

And if there are alternatives, which servers do the programmers who don’t want politics and memes and stuff congregate on?
DOGE Takeover of USDS Allows Them to Surveil the US Government from the Inside
Another thing I have seen that sneaks up on dynamic scripting language programs is that maybe at first, your code is mostly blocked on database. You prototype something that mostly gets some stuff from the DB and blasts it out on optimized C-based code paths (like JSON encoding) without hardly even looking at it that are fairly fast.

But then you need some authentication. And you need authorization, and more deeply than just "yea" or "nay" but doing non-trivial work to determine on some complex resource tree what is and is not permitted. And then you're taking a couple of queries and putting it together with some API call results in scripting code with some non-trivial logic. And then it grows beyond your dev prototype of 10 values to 100,000. And you use a few convenient features of your language without realizing the multiplicative slowdown they impose on your code. You add some automated plugins for turning DB values into these other things without realizing how much that takes. And you add some metadata-driven interpreter action based on what the user is asking for. And one feature at a time, you just keep stacking more and more on.

And it can really sneak up on you, but in a mature scripting language codebase it's really easy for it to not just not be blocked on database IO, but for IO to ultimately be such a tiny portion of the runtime that even if the IO was completely free that you'd still have a slow page.

Computers are very fast, and very good at what they do, and there's a lot of power to play with in a lot of cases... but it isn't always quite as much as programmers can think it is.
Absolutely nailed it, that worked! Thanks so much for the pointer.
"Our big middle cores are better than their army of little cores"
? They're ESPhome smart which is specifically Home Assistant? https://www.athom.tech/blank-1/no-neutral-wall-touch-switch-...
It reminded me of how, a long time ago, FPGAs were used in Bitcoin mining.
>A Open Heart message should contain of a single emoji sequence
And Nazir Afzal their prosecutor belonged to which ethnic group again?
As someone who works for the federal government, I'm surrounded by waste. Untold millions of dollars of it; the sum total accounting for millions of Americans' worth of tax revenue. I'm also surrounded by chair warmers, who at best do nothing, and when they don't they create negative value. Some of us try to get things done despite this, but I've been on projects where the host is so loaded with parasitic mass, that that's impossible.

It's long past time to take out the trash.
They know it's allowed. It's also terrible and non-sensical strategy in the specific cases that are described.
@ingve I'm interested in your plan for your new TRVs. Why would you check the temperature of the nest hub if the TRV is in a different room? Or do you also have "nest sensors" and those report to the nest hub?

Would love to see a blog post about HA and TRVs
I would have failed this question badly. I'm curious, how would you check that without access to any number or math operations? I think I would try something similar to what he did with his sum_table, but that too was disallowed. They're constraints I've never had to deal with, nor seen before.
Yeah I personally think the valuation is the least egregious part. If they get sued, they’ll have a defense for how they arrived at that number. It’s not 10x off.

The bigger problem is the terrible loan terms.
Berlin is not like this, though.

If Berlin were removed from the map, Germany as a whole would economically (loss of people, loss of income) be on average better off.

If this is the mechanism, why is Berlin not doing better?
CockroachDB can too, although its licensing has made it unpopular.
Surface-stable fractal dithering [video]
Blog about Bluesky architectural evolution: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
This is interesting. But I’ve never once even noticed a police officer touching my car’s tail lights when I have been stopped. I am wondering if I was just oblivious or if it does not happen everywhere.

I am in Massachusetts, if that is relevant.
This is funny because a while back I was looking at all of my Mario games on the Switch and noticed that, of them all, only 1 title had a different color scheme for the word Mario. I thought that was really interesting, but never looked into the other game titles. Thanks for going to the next level.
Ad networks can't charge you if you stop buying ads because you're not getting a good ROI.
Previous recent postings with comments:

Marc Andressen: How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley into Trump's Arms -
11 points | Ozarkian | 6 days ago | 12 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42755558

How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley into Trump's Arms -
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You can ignore SIMD and GC (for now). SIMD explodes the complexity level of Wasm, esp when there is WebGPU. I am curious how you are handling layout and how you are handling all the irregular sizes.
There were times when it was popular to generate a GraphQL API from your database but that's not how the query language is used today.

GraphQL is a query language to implement query style APIs.
These days, it's most widely used as a "Federation" layer to expose a single query-able graph on top of a (micro-) service architecture.
> after we have collectively attempted to prevent these outcomes

Who is “we” and what did “we” do to prevent “what” outcome?

Seems to me if you can answer that question you might have a clue why the forest might chose the axe.
hey man cool thing, one advice, add a video on the GitHub page that shows how the thing works.
Is as sure as a donut
I haven’t seen any ads this long in a long time, but when I did they weren’t ads in the traditional sense. They were things like terrible talk shows with a thinly veiled agenda, or infomercials.
This reminds me of the browser plugin that adds commenting for any website you visit. Whatever happened to that?
brilliant.
write a medium paper on this, very eloquently put
Dynamic languages require different approaches to problems than statically typed languages. Generally I design my APIs differently in dynamically typed languages. Reducing the opportunity to pass bad values, not using more than two function parameters and not overloading. Using scoped functions that are closed to end users puts you in control of the values passed in. Not using OOP if it isn't natively supported in the interpreter, etc. JavaScript makes simple checks easy by evaluating 0s, empty strings and undefined as falsy. Over tightening these checks increases development time and maintenance overhead with little actual additional "safety". It's better to take a minimal approach and add checks when errors occur than to try to predict errors that never occur with a comprehensive aproach. In this way adding types to dynamic languages is just premature optimization.

Another important factor here is the implementer's ability to troubleshoot. If you don't know how to detect and find a mistyped variable you need to accept that you don't know the language and ask someone who better knows how to run and troubleshoot applications to help you find it. Dynamically typed language interpreters/compilers provide feedback that is sometimes opaque but generally offer clues if you know where to look. It's not the same experience as having a compiler in your IDE that can show you the potential error as you enter it, but dogs are not cats either.
Emotional support across adulthood: A 60-year study of men’s social networks
Yeah this wouldnt't be massivly exploited. /s

Too bad the modern internet is a monitized cesspool. This is a cool idea.
It’s probably a little self-aware but what he’s describing is a lifestyle attainable by people with similar jobs and qualifications as what Arsenal is asking for, and it’s reasonable to expect it if that’s what you can get from other employers.

Also, housing in much of the US is criminally expensive, and some people have unreasonably snobby attitudes about what constitutes a “decent area” in the US. Or maybe he was just making an understated and backhanded joke about the London housing market, which I’ve heard to be similarly absurd.
Been interviewing for over a decade. Tests like this do not really tell you whether someone is a good programmer, they tell you whether a person has spent a lot of time practicing problems like this. The only way to tell if someone is good at the job is to have a conversation with them and pay attention to how they answer your questions. Ask your candidate their opinions on API interface design or whether they favor mono-repos. A good candidate will be able to speak legibly and at length about these things. The problem is that in order to judge those responses you also have to be very knowledgeable. So instead we have stupid little tests designed to let interviewers of varying ability screen candidates.
This reminds me a bit of 'visitor logs' from the 1990ies.
The value in the video editor and music licensing can't be overstated. It would be awesome to have a nice cross platform opensource video editor for mobile. There are some commercial services selling SDKs that provide similar video editing capabilities.
Good morning, sir.
You left out the context of your quote[0], where the Working Party explicitly states that first party analytics are not exempt from Article 5.3. Your quote leads up to their opinion that they _wish_ it was exempt, since it represents little privacy risk, but that it would require the article to be re-visited.

[0] Section 4.3 of https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/documentation/opinio...
Yes. I think the author's point is that the standards are that low up here in North England, and outside of Manchester it's worse than in East Germany.
Dude its legitimately the best decision ive ever made in my life. I went from being a complete loner shut in weirdo to having a very fulfilling life within 2 years. In fact I just got engaged. If you feel like amphetamines are fucking you up, you gotta just send it and get off em
I don't know much about AT protocol, but afaik, it technically could work as fedi if everyone ran their own servers. Right?
I had to get glasses at 48, so it turns out all the warnings were true.
This is great. So I’ve thought of doing something slightly similar but with a raspberry Pi and camera to identify if there is a free parking space right outside our house (we live in a terraced house with no driveway)
6k a month mortgage for a family of four seems low. It's at least double that in any major metro area.
Given how critical data-centers are now in the AI race, cant help wondering if this is a front for some kind of intelligence operation....
I can't train your intuition for you.
Amen! I still remember the time I tried to install fedora in the late 90’s and set a bios password in the boot loader then forgot it. I was like 11
Perhaps there's some profiling going on? I have never had it either but I'm not sure anyone has ever been intimidated by my looks or my drive
Short answer:

gRPC is widely understood as an API tool for Microservices.
Microservices solve an organizational problem, not a technical one.
Ironically, gRPC doesn't really help to solve the organizational problem.

However, GraphQL in combination with Federation, also known as GraphQL Federation actually DOES help organizations to scale APIs across teams and services.

So, even though the typical popular opinion suggests that gRPC is better for Microservices than GraphQL, the reality looks different.
https://archive.is/vpLtL
Yes, but they can go back for those words in future rounds
There’s also a massive drop in China, to the point where the goons that used to police the one child policy with some deeply disturbing actions, are now showing up at the residences of young people and pressuring them to sign government pledges to have children, shaming them publicly, etc.

There’s also some analyses that claim that China’s population is lower than what is claimed officially:
https://youtu.be/ftcLM3502_8
> so when someone shares just their username

Is that something that actually happens often? You're saying that you're not a user currently, but I can tell you that I've never seen that in practice. Everyone either appends the domain or shares the profile link like https://pixelfed.social/arkadiusz

I mean, it's exactly as with email. We don't get the "you told me it's foobar, but I don't know which domain" issue there, even though most mail clients don't go out of their way to display your full email address.
Given that "Stargate" seems to be "OpenAI + Promises of money that don't exist" I wouldn't spend too much time speculating about decisions involving it. No part of the thing seem well-considered or serious, it's just the kind of talk you expect from people who are high on their own supply. In so many ways AI reeks of "bubble", and "Lets throw $500bn that doesn't exist at the problem" isn't helping.
DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
Ask HN: Why are banks charging so many fees for accounts and cards?
I'm trying to understand why banks still charge account fees and card fees, especially when they don't seem to make significant profits from them.

I started a fintech company focused on banking for luxury deals and worked with banking partners, so I've seen a lot of the industry from the inside. Still, I can't wrap my head around this.

Why are these fees still prevalent? Are they just a relic of legacy banking systems, or is there more to it?
The scary thing is banks don't even make alot of money on that. So why still charge them.
Don't install neovim with your system package manager, just like your other development tools. If you rely on a tool where the version makes a big difference, you should be in control of it, not the system package manager. You can build it from the source (which works fine) or use something like Bob [1].

[1]https://github.com/MordechaiHadad/bob
It sounds like, from your comments, that you believe understanding these people is going to enable change. In my opinion, I believe this is unlikely when you cannot appeal to irrational voters (who google "who pays tariffs" after their vote and the election concludes, who don't want Obamacare but love their ACA insurance, who want immigrants deported but don't understand that directly correlates to inflation [wage pressure and labor supply]). So why are we going to waste time trying to pander and appeal to them? What will that change? Protect vulnerable people worth protecting, good luck to the rest while we wait for a bunch of folks to age out (~2M/year 55+ voting cohort).

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/12/10-facts-...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/11/13/what-trum...

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/11/there-are-a-...
Obligatory: Ha ha.
Saw the headline and thought "well, it won't give the real reason: because London".
But refreshingly, it does.
Well, if I’m going into the city 9 to 5ish I’ll usually take commuter rail because it’s less painful even if it takes as long as driving. But I do need to drive to and park at the nearby commuter rail station.
I never said we didn’t have AI :) Just that the vast majority of apps out there push AI agents, when a human will do just fine. We should be making the harder problems easier, not the easy problems faster.

We support parsing your entire help docs into a DAG, so support professionals can have easy access to the most relevant existing docs to answer an end user’s problem. We also provide summarization of incoming tickets so that support teams can understand quickly what the problem is.

I’ve toyed with doing sentiment analysis, but our experience with customers in the support space is that they want the AI to give them information and then get out of the way.
Thanks for clarifying the flag
How about an "open comment protocol" so we could finally get rid of the siloed internet we have today?
There is a successor project as well: https://github.com/SpinalHDL/VexiiRiscv
I don't know how much electronics are in a DAC cable, I haven't taken one apart and I can't find any CT scans of one online.

https://hackaday.com/2023/10/24/using-industrial-ct-to-exami...

https://www.lumafield.com/article/usb-c-cable-charger-head-t...
Those are my actual expenses. Why do you think it’s a joke?
I thought it was ASICs?
Webmention Rocks
You can’t install it without internet, and tons of the web UI loads external resources.
I think that means growth rates, not absolute wealth.

Not all of the north is poor. Cheshire is richer than outer London or the home counties. If you adjust for the cost of living more of the north would be.

North poor, south rich is very simplistic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_Unite...
From a long-time HN user: please provide a high quality source when making claims connected to a people group. This place works better when we avoid culture wars and demographic-based blame.
They got cameras now