skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Changing something is easy, any fool can do that. Changing something for the better is hard.
In South Scotland I found it was almost always just “div” and proceeded by a pointed swear such as “fucking div”.

Divvy meant dividend! The thing the co-op used to give you for shopping there and old ladies used to obsess over. Come to think it, they were a right bunch of fucking divs.
Some payphones (at least around here) had special buttons that would one-click dial fire/police/ambulance, with no payment required of course.

It's not unbelievable to me that water could get into one of these and "short out" one of these buttons.
I have been experimenting with piper TTS recently, it's free, open source, fast and has a lot of voices in different languages but the quality is not the best but it's still good enough for most cases.

https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/
You can use a screen reader. Most of them have a focus highlight feature and use local tts.
From the first paragraph: "without banning the app itself"
>The ones that don’t aren’t using Tailwind.

True. And they're not using HTML or CSS either.
I see this here often, but really, can someone please make a video or blog post with a complete code session so we can see what exactly happens? I am curious.
The book too it self aware, though you do have to make it to page ii.

> In writing this book, we have gradually realized that it is more like a compilation of "notes" we
have taken while learning about large language models. Through this note-taking writing style, we
hope to offer readers a flexible learning path. Whether they wish to dive deep into a specific area
or gain a comprehensive understanding of large language models, they will find the knowledge
and insights they need within these "notes".
Especially if they're very wealthy and already have a savior complex.
I think my laptops have been split between mechanical and hardware EOL. I don't think the mechanicals would ever go for two lifetimes. But I actually take mine around places and am a little clumsy.
Component Coloring
Show HN: A kid-oriented "Learning Python" site
Built for my kids... might be useful for others?

Intended for laptop/desktop use, not for mobile. Uses Pyodide to execute all the code in the user's browser.

Content in the later sections is still a bit work-in-progress. Not sure what I'll do with it next, feedback appreciated!

(The first section is just multi-guess questions as part of the introductory content. Try any other section to get the full in-browser-code-execution experience.)
Pro tip: it's easier to start now than later.
Screens Have Taken over Classrooms. Even Students Have Had Enough
As with all other tools you should expect there to be some learning curve. When desktop top publishing became a thing, professionals had to adjust their ways of working but if you stuck with glue and knives you were out of a job.

LLMs are a tool. It’s also weird and counterintuitive so it takes some time to get really good with them.
https://archive.ph/lcO0j
All this reminds me of another genius comedy duo, David Lynch and Louis CK: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HlEJbs02wAM

Come on, LLM, be funny! 3 2 1 go!
Pay the higher cost for the vape or you pay with your life. If intake is increase because you will do it indoors it won't really matter, it isn't nearly as bad.
If you want the same thing but not as sketchy you can check out Cursor. You pay them, so it's a little more transparent what they're getting out of it.
I don't know, but the Edge API is not licensed for any use, commercial or otherwise (outside of Edge itself).
In fairness, this situation emerges because Congress has proven broadly incapable of passing or updating laws, even when polling shows a strong majority consensus for a new direction.

Ultimately, the govt is run by people, and those people's opinions about what's a priority will influence which laws get enforced. Law enforcement being responsive to an uncodified social contract is a healthy thing.
The newest US president announced this within the 48 hours of assuming office. Hype alone couldn't set such a big wheel in motion.
https://archive.ph/ImFdw
aight, mate. that's definitely impressive. no, not only impressive, i believe it can help you land a great job somewhere.
I am happy that the doctor calls me to schedule things instead of the other way around. My prescriptions come by mail order, and the few times I've had to get to the pharmacy it's been a very straightforward process.
Not really. Authoritarianism is more about centralization of power and getting rid of layers that could interfere with the central authority's ability to project power.

Lots of rules tend to constrain an authoritarian ruler's ability to act at whim.
FWIW Tailwind can be used as a standalone executable.

This is how Phoenix/Elixir bundles Tailwind without requiring npm.
Which programming languages?

When using C++ I wanted programs to have a function that was called before main() and set up things that got sealed afterwards, like parsing command-line-arguments, the environment variables, loading runtime libraries, and maybe look at the local directory, but I'm not sure if it'll be a useful and meaningful distinction unless you restructure way too many things.

I remember that on the Fuchsia kernel programs needed to drop capabilities at some point, but the shift needed might be a hard sell given things already "work fine".
>Telegram is mostly used for illegal stuff in Germany

According to whom? Politicians who don't like other opinions and threatened to block it?
https://archive.ph/t4ZEO
Sometimes physical addresses are even 0 letters from each other!

In my (distant) family, there was a guy who married a woman whose name was the same as his sister's, and she changed her family name to his. They all lived together for a short while.

Letters addressed to his wife and his sister would have the exact same address and exact same name on them, with no way to distinguish who the letter was for.

One more edge case to add to the "falsehoods programmers believe about names" list.
A perfect AI assistant is never coming. A near perfect one still has all the context switching downsides of unlimited free use of the mechanical turk API just faster.

Their problem really is in the present, no one should be buying their dangerously premium productivity boost plans when others will offer intelligence too cheap to meter. Such lack of faith in their own AI to solve future problems kind of exposes the doubt tree about their current path.

None of these Hype AI CEOs are willing to put their money where their mouth is, draw up a contract to sell all your hard assets for their projected cost to replace them in 2028. If so confident your AI can replace human labor for near-free by then what is the worry? Oh no, it won't build a yacht or a house by then... I know.
> When Docker first came out, one of my advisors and I pondered how we might use it to aid in the reproducibility crisis in academic research.

I’m working on my PhD in computer science, programming languages specifically. We’re lucky that we have the easiest time reproducing our benchmarks and experiments. The big venues in my field all encourage authors to submit artifacts as docker containers to reproduce all the tables and figures from a paper. Papers that reproduce get special badges on the first page. I’ve reviewed a few artifacts and it can be really nice with docker.

So, hopefully other fields take note of what we’re doing to combat reproducibility. CS is fortunate that verifying some claim might be as simple as running a shell command.
There is a legal subtlety here that's often misunderstood (or misrepresented) by most pro-abortionists:

The right to privacy was curved out of the 9th Amendment in the district court decision (not the 4th or the 14th).

The Supreme court upheld the district court decision and went further by adding the protection of the 14th amendment as to how and when this privacy right can be abridged by the states (not without due process of law).

States must show a compelling interest to intervene in women's decision to abort, and this compelling interest ripens only after the first trimester of pregnancy.
Elon Musk must create a new scandal every day; it’s the source of his power, or something. I mean, this is the only way I can possibly justify this man’s actions. It’s like he wakes up in the morning and thinks, “What course of action can optimize the chances that I will be the center of some drama and have everyone talk about me for another half week of news articles?”

God, I really want him crushed. It stopped being funny a long time ago. Thanks for your contributions to industry, Elon, but I don’t need a walking meme dominating a strangely large part of the news cycle every single day ..
This is dubious, I'm surprised MS hasn't locked down those APIs yet.

I'm curious, would this be the legal equivalent of "cracked" software in terms of piracy?
His GitHub says Rust for the tiling window manager he’s talking about.
I would not be opposed to abolishing the DHS, but that is _not_ what is happening here.

Instead, it's creating a DHS that is less accountable and less sensitive to outside advice. In other words, a more dangerous DHS.

So really the opposite of what you're hoping for.
Why the public should care about the freeze on the NIH
For those who don't know, stackghost is referencing this classic moment on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
This is what I'm talking about.

> It has leafy greens that would get soggy if frozen or combined with the other ingredients for shipping.

You know those plastic bags of chopped lettuce, often with carrots and cabbage in them too, you can buy at the grocery store? Sysco has those in their catalog, bigger ones.

Everything's in a package, dumped in a bowl or on a plate, reheated (if needed) and sent out to your table. But all of HN was absolutely certain that they were some gourmet operation, and that some very large majority of their menu was made there, in the restaurant. And everyone still thinks so. Who thought this originally (if anyone) I do not know, but then you all sort of agreed. Enough of you agreed that disagreement wasn't welcome, and that was that. We live in giant echo chambers, and it's not just the polarized politics doing it.

> And even if some items have ingredients that could be frozen, that doesn't tell you whether or not they actually were.

I'm telling you that. I'm giving you an educated opinion, having worked in restaurants and knowing what non-previously prepared food looks like, having eaten in the restaurant in question multiple times, having studied the menu the day the story hit HN.

No sauce, no pasta, no soup, no meal, no dessert, absolutely nothing there is "made from scratch". No primary ingredients are even available in the kitchen of that restaurant save tapwater and the few spices they would sprinkle on their overpriced sirloin steak on the grill are back there. And it's bizarrely naive to think so.

It's also weird how insulted this forum is from people who don't sit in an office chair to earn their living. I guess there's only one Cheesecake Factory in all of San Francisco though, and the workers there live in the homeless tent camps so none of you talk to them.
If it did everything in one shot always you wouldn't need an IDE for it.
That links to a paywall for me…
Edit: I stand corrected
Seems totally healthy and I'm sure no bad will come of this.
Is this alone or 'alone'?

I remember in 2000-2006 spending a ton of my time with friends at a lanshop, because our computers were terrible.

It would have counted as in person time, but once we got better computers and internet we just started hanging out online with webcams and voice chat instead.

Nothing much changed apart from spending a lot less money and going to bed at a more reasonable time - the 24 hour discount was probably not the best for our sleep schedules.
or run a kokoro tts docker container on your own hardware, the hw requirements aren't crazy: https://github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI
If you're not a native English speaker and need help with this then do feel free to ask.

Many of us here have spoken English since birth and correctly used "they" in the manner above for several decades.
Disagree.

Just get one of the tailwind UX kits and use their classes as your standard style guide. I personally use flowise as it’s free with paid more complex components if needed, but there are a bunch of others out there that fill the same space.
One of the reasons Tailwind became so popular - even more so than preceding frameworks like Bootstrap - is that a lot of people who normally liked working with CSS directly fell in love with it. It removes the extra step of editing a separate CSS file without straying far from a 1:1 mapping and eliminates most of the cascading rules that have plagued frontend for decades (`group:` and friends notwithstanding). The latter is important when working on large teams because it eliminates the name bikeshedding and conflicts.
I feel like it's so hot or cold. People have been raving about Loveable "one-shotting" the creation of an app given one prompt. I tried to have it recreate a basic landing page from a screenshot and it wasn't even close. It invented some sections, reproduced others terribly and completely ignored others. I went through numerous prompts until I ran out for the day.

With what I was left with at that point, it probably would have been a wash to fix that code or just start from scratch manually.

I don't blame Loveable, I think it's a wonderful product bordering on magic, like v0 and Bolt.new. I just think they are amazing products that have been over hyped to god-like status.
Show HN: Crop and Resize Image
> Irrelevant, we don't elect presidents by popular vote.

How the details of the election process actually works is tangential to what kind of mandate they have.

If some bizarre election mechanism that a country followed meant that a party getting 1 vote more than the opposition gave it 100% of the power, that's how elections in that country would work, but that doesn't mean the winners would have a strong mandate from the electorate as a whole.

In Nazi Germany, Hitler made the argument that, well, since 33% of the voters (17% of the population) voted for him, far ahead of the runner-up (who only got 20% of the vote), and his party made up the majority of the ruling coalition (196 out of 267 out of a total 620 seats), he should have all the power.

The system certainly gave him power for all those reasons, but it's farcical to say that 17% of the population voting for him was an 'overwhelming' mandate for Germany to embark on their insane politics, and it's also farcical to say that +1% of the vote is a clear mandate. It's a mandate, but a slim one.

The system was also designed with a lot of checks and balances and social norms in places, but as it turns out, if you collude with what were supposed to be adversaries and break all the soft (and hard) rules, you can get a dramatically radical agenda implemented, disproportionate in its scale to the popular support you enjoy.
Well what do they have? Lots of guns and determination.

Maybe they make good allies, after the presidency somebody needs to protect him if he commits too many crimes.
Pretty likely! You can often see ones that follow the same format in the same hand, but with different names subbed in. Presumably some people went to a specialist who then followed mostly the same format varying for your own needs (a bit like a lawyer today?). It's unclear what the proportion was, maybe there were lots of people who figured DIY was good enough.

I learned this in a college course, Wiki seems to cite a few sources for this as well, but they're all a bit old. Not sure what the latest research is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_tablet#CITEREFGager1992
He has a very large and loyal following. His following expects him to entertain them and be controversial.

There's a law somewhere. I forgot the name. It basically states that at first, you worked hard to get a following, then you're a slave to your following because you have to do what they want to keep them happy.

If he ever writes things that his following dislike, such as saying how he loves DEI, then his following will turn on him.
The fact that both young men and young women are now spending so much time alone (that huge spike starting around 2010) is more worrisome to me. I'm concerned about the long-term effects on our society.
I cant shake a feeling that above 50pM/1gig, it doesnt matter how fast residential Internet is. Back when WFH really meant FTPing a whole file down, working on it, and then FTPing it back up, sure. But gdrive and OneDrive and so on all seem quite happy to only send you the blocks you are working on, Teams/Zoom uses remarkably little bandwidth, and games distribution seems to use a combination of CDN and JIT downloads, at least after the initial 80G download for the first user. I know this is n=1 sampling, but my house of 5 was merrily WFH-ing on 100M for ages with nary a whimper. Does it really matter, in 2025?

What does seem to matter is variability: latency and jitter, and the stability of the network inside the house (eg wifi contention). The pipe is the least of one's worries, it would seem.
Who cares. The meaning is apparent and the structure is coherent. A well written comment, so these things seem too minor to call out IMO.

What's more, these days if you include some strategic typos, you help convince me that you're not a lazy slop-poster, or an outright bot.
Isn’t this just Cursor but worse?
Like you said, atom is slightly better, and based on RSS (hence why everyone just uses 'RSS'). It should be fine to say "Subscribe via RSS" and point to an atom feed instead, almost any tooling will be able to handle both. You can also say "Subscribe to atom feed" to be more explicit.
> There were missteps along the way. A big example was the TV software that was originally an acquisition, SageTV [2]. Somebody decided it would be a good idea to completely rewrite this Java app into Web technologies on an embedded Chrome instance on a memory-limited embedded CPU in a set-top box. Originally planned to take 6 months, it took (IIRC) 3.5+ years.

I worked on the "misstep" with a small team, and it’s wild to see Fiber still around and even expanding to new cities. As far as I can tell, the set-top box software had nothing to do with why Fiber was scaled down. Also, usability surveys showed people really liked the GUI!

The client supported on-demand streaming, live TV, and DVR on hardware with... let’s call them challenging specs. Still, it turned out to be a pretty slick app. We worked hard to keep the UI snappy (min 30 FPS), often ditching DOM for canvas or WebGL to squeeze out the needed performance. A migration to Cobalt [1], a much lighter browser than embedded Chromium, was on the table, but the project ended before that could happen.

Personally, it was a great experience working with the Web Platform (always a solid bet) on less-traditional hardware.

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1: https://developers.google.com/youtube/cobalt
Switching from CSS based design systems to large TypeScript monoliths requires you to learn one or two things about engineering
Trump Was Persuaded to Pardon an Online Drug Kingpin
https://archive.ph/GHZFw
Lots of OLEDs use PWM, some at high frequencies and some not.
im on win11, edge, after picking one of the sections 'coding is working etc.' the 'yes/no/maybe' radio buttons arent selectable

update: but after changing tabs, and doing some other stuff for a moment, coming back to the tab, stuff works ?

what gives ?
It looks like if the stuff you read online, written by people who need to optimize for various metrics of which objectivity is not among the top ones, shapes the perception of reality
Locality of behavior can be done with few lines of js.
https://github.com/gnat/css-scope-inline
That’s my point; like I said:

> I would like a rule to avoid submissions that are login walled unless this is the primary source and an open mirror is available.

Twitter had auth gating but also mirrors; now Nitter is discontinued.
How is what they said false?

US is above on all counts.

> On average across OECD countries, USD 11 900 is spent per primary school student per year. For higher levels of education, spending increases: USD 13 300 is spent per secondary school student, while USD 20 500 is spent per tertiary student. This reflects that fact that higher levels of education often require teachers to have more advanced qualifications and specialised knowledge, which are usually accompanied by higher salaries.

Don't confuse your misunderstanding of their comment as anything else.

Further, the $ amount spent per student in the US has almost universally never gone done since the 1950s. It has always gone up. Don't even need to include tertiary education in this calculation.
If the MVP finds product market fit and the market is large enough, then the economic incentive to finish the remaining 20% will exist.

If the market isn’t large enough, then the customer still got 80% of the value whereas in the authors idealised world, they likely wouldn’t have gotten anything at all, since the minimum cost to develop it was 5x higher (assuming 80/20 holds).

Overall it seems we’re better off with startups following the Pareto principal than not following it, and the authors real issue is just with bad product management decisions afterwards.
This opinion used to be a lot less popular especially on hackernews
>Far from being a US-specific trend, this is sweeping the western world. The share of young people on either side of the Atlantic who regularly meet up socially with friends, family or colleagues has dropped sharply. In Europe, the share who don’t even socialise once a week has risen from one in ten to one in four.
Telegram Goes Exclusive with Ton, Barring Other Networks from Apps and Games
The interesting thing is that when the topic is "important," there are extreme measures taken by HN moderation.

These measures have previously included overriding user flagging of an arguably shady story, and more often pruning an entire branch of comments out of a post's comment thread.

What we have learned from this event is that HN moderation does not believe that the clear and obvious nazi salutes done by "the richest man in the world," behind the Presidential seal, is an important topic.

HN is a news org. This news event was a litmus test of news orgs. Only a few orgs passed for identifying "important" reality, and HN was not one of them.

I have been a fan of this website's moderation in the past, even when it went against my opinion. Now, I am sorry to say this, but I am truly disgusted.
Short of civil war, nuclear war, or a twenty-point election blow-out, no.
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra with Multimodal AI Agents
What about gambling addiction?
I won't interpret this as a battle of the sexes. Instead, I'll argue that we simply have it "too good" and now eschew other effortful forms of entertainment, companionship, and adventure.

Phones provide all the dopamine we need, perfectly fit for our attention and interests. Always on, never-ending streams of it. Everything else in life just doesn't provide the same immediate hit. It takes too much effort to hang out with friends, go to the community theater, or go out on a date.

The internet and its algorithms are turning us into zombies.
Anecdotal, but speaking as a nearly 72 year old, I spend almost all of my time alone, except for my (fairly crap) carers, and my (very nice) cleaning lady/cook, and her little doggie. But I do feel a bit lonely, but I think I always have.
I've been using https://readest.com/ lately. It's FOSS and just recently got this feature. The TTS voices are pretty natural and text is highlighted one sentence at a time. Plus the design of the product is great.