skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In Python’s uv, the pyproject.toml has separate sections for dev and prod dependencies.

If you want, you can have multiple ".mod" files and set "-modifle=dev-env.mod" every time you run "go" binary with "run" or "build" command. For example, you can take what @mseepgood mentioned:

> go tool -modfile=tools.mod mytool

Plus, in last versions of the Go we have workspaces [0][1]. It is yet another way to easily switch between various environments or having isolated modules in the monorepo.

[0]: https://go.dev/blog/get-familiar-with-workspaces

[1]: https://go.dev/doc/tutorial/workspaces
The prompts used are in this file: https://github.com/LaurieWired/Malimite/blob/main/src/main/j...
> Meanwhile bosses boss people around

And with that you showed exactly why I have the knee jerk reaction to attack communism every time it is brought up. There is a constant play of this type of thing and people are starting to think that because it is unchallenged it might be right.
It might have been NT that added support: I used Windows XP Service Pack 3 extensively, and by that time Windows supported JPEG pictures as desktop backgrounds. That is, JPG pictures in Windows-speak ;)
My recollection is Windows 98 popping up a box like “Click yes to enable Active Desktop to do this” when I had AD disabled and tried to set a JPEG wallpaper. That would imply SHELL32 >= 4.7 https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/shell/shell32/...

Wikipedia sez “Since Windows XP, if a non-BMP image is used as Windows Desktop wallpaper, Windows will convert non-BMP image to BMP image in background.” and Group Policy has some relevant options:

“Enable Active Desktop” (“ForceActiveDesktopOn”) https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_11_2022&Policy=Microsoft... has the description “Allows HTML and JPEG Wallpaper”.

Also “Allow only bitmapped wallpaper” (“NoHTMLPaper”) option: https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_11_2022&Policy=Microsoft...

“If users select files with other image formats, such as JPEG, GIF, PNG, or HTML, through the Browse button on the Desktop tab, the wallpaper does not load. Files that are autoconverted to a .bmp format, such as JPEG, GIF, and PNG, can be set as Wallpaper by right-clicking the image and selecting "Set as Wallpaper".”

Both “Supported on: Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 only”.
That's what I'm calling capabilities at the application level (where you say "this .jar can't access the network"), rather than at the language level (where you say "this function wasn't given access to the network as an argument"). I don't think any widely known language has tried capabilities at the language level. (The language not widely known that does it is E.)

The real power will come when you can mix them. In one direction, that looks like `main()` not getting passed a `Network` object because the ".jar" wasn't granted network access. In the other direction, that looks like the system C library you invoked failing to access the network because when you invoked it from Java you failed to provide a `Network` object, so it was automatically sandboxed to not be able to access the network.
> Though lately, the Germans are starting to have some really somber conversations.

Yeah, and Elon Musk is stoking Alternative für Deutschland. Not sure what's going to come out of it but it doesn't look too good for Germany either.
They've definitely learned a lesson from last time where they lost their majority in the midterms.
The isolated environment can matter when different scripts that you use depend on libraries that have conflicting dependency requirements.

> Competing languages like Java don't need or even have the concept of isolated environments

The nice thing about scripts is that you can quickly add new capabilities when you need them. They are always under development. To get the same thing in Java, you need a project directory with a build file, which gives you an isolated build environment.
Sure, an appimage, the UV example above
Tangentially related: I wish there was still a good selection of tech magazines in print. Everything has moved to digital only nowadays.
Migrating from Plex to Jellyfin for Music
Who cares? It's a name. Let's talk about how he wants to move all the Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan.
Does it even matter?

Let's assume for the sake of argument that the "alpha myth" is actually true as it pertains to humans, and the most aggressive and dominating ones rise to the top.

Now look around you. Who are those people at the top of your society who unironically refer to themselves as "alphas" and embrace all the rhetoric around that, and what kind of world do they create around them?
That is a completely false representation of what then other ideas really are about.
dude is definitely a dude. cheezed off that someone can take leave after a miscarriage.
Are you really trying to equate the importance of healthcare and gun ownership?
Continue.dev is available for Jetbrains, though the plugin is not as good as the VSCode counterpart. You can plug in any openai compatible API. Under experimental settings, you can also define an applyCode model (and others) which you could set to a faster, cheaper one (eg Sonnet).
RUSI: The Components of Russia's Undeclared War Against the West
There actually is still significant lift. We define the edge of the atmosphere to be where the lift to drag ratio of a plane would be less than 1 below orbital velocity (ie if you were going fast enough to lift your weight with conventional wings you'd be in orbit), so you can't fly conventionally in space but lift might still be generating a force which is significant compared to your craft's weight.
>... while the Internet Archive does contain patchy collections of scanned magazines, it is vulnerable to legal challenges from copyright holders.

Yeah, been downloading those and other magazines while I can.
Very cool. Got a silly sci-fi question for you. IIUC, with current technology it would take on the order of tens of thousands of years for a vessel to physically travel to the closest known Earth-like planet (correct me if I'm wrong).

So any thoughts on what kinds of hypothetical breakthroughs would be needed to make the trip doable in (say) less than a human lifetime?

And related, what do you think about the plausibility of the [Breakthrough Starshot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot) initiative? Aware of any alternative approaches?
Sort of. I set solid colors on Windows machines because I'm frequently connecting to them over low bandwidth, high latency links using RDP. Pictures are slow even with bitmap caching (though my pure and refined hatred is saved for apps and websites that do "fade" and animation effects in the UI, particularly native apps that ignore the OS settings for these "features").

The decision to set the .DEFAULT profile wallpaper (the desktop that appears behind the logon UI) to a photo for Server (2016) still irks me. Sure-- set that on the desktop OS, but servers don't need pretty pictures by default. (This decision is emblematic of the "children are running the pre-school" mentality that seems to be pervasive at MSFT now.)
Why do you think anything you've just linked is at all related to this conversation? A system must be perfect to be good? That's an insane bar that is not the actual standard.

And if you think a US representative is powerless then you completely fail to understand how the US government actually works.
I’m linking this draft discussing BFF from oauth perspective.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-oauth-brows...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/923/

> Q: Is this a freeze on all Federal financial assistance?
> A: No, the pause does not apply across-the-board. It is expressly limited to programs, projects, and activities implicated by the President’s Executive Orders, such as ending DEI, the green new deal, and funding nongovernmental organizations that undermine the national interest.

This administration is playing Calvinball. What funding does or does not qualify is being completely made up on the spot.

But before you dismiss it as bluster and sabre rattling, the administration is already dealing out retribution for those who "don't comply": https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/01/27/nx-s1...

As an extra layer on dumbness, because the administration is stupid like a fox, they get to walk back anything they want to. They could decide next week that FEMA was never actually cancelled, and they will walk up to a podium and accuse everyone of overreacting and the news for lying. Despite the fact that they controlled the narrative the entire time.
Because simulations are not perfect models. A particle physics simulation simply cannot be accurate enough to provide the 5-sigma (99.99994%) confidence typically required in particle physics. Not even measurement is simple when the requirements are so strict, that’s why they spend billions building those huge accelerators.
> California leaders also took no issue when the prior federal administration pressured tech companies to censor speech on their behalf, which was a massive violation of first amendment rights.

Even this SCOTUS knows that's a bullshit assertion.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/justices-side-with-biden-...
I don't think anyone would not give the new administration credit or blame after they came out of the gate wrecking-ball style.
Jarvis in JavaScript
Well you are ofc free to give applications full reign if you want. But you should at least be able to say, "No, desktop calculator I just downloaded, you can't do anything but compute and draw things in your application window".

More broadly, creating a good UI around granting capabilities is non-trivial. But that's a separate problem from simply not being able to make even the most basic kinds of restrictions that you want in most cases.
"A country that has devoted virtually all of its national resources to the means of war has no alternative to war. If the only tool you have is a shotgun, the only business you can start is robbery."
I find it hard to empathize with your views that American political life is healthy and democratic, and China is corrupt and stagnant.

American imprisons 10 times as many of its citizens than PRC. Most of these people are imprisoned for ideological crimes ("Protestant norms say that you should not intoxicate yourself") or political crimes ("our system holds that no one is entitled to the necessities of human life").
Could this attack be used to jailbreak the latest iPhone?
Trump offering buyouts to all federal workers
To be fair, there wasn't that much sensitive web content around in the 80s to leak (primarily due to the web not yet existing, nor browsers), so it's only fair that browsers didn't consider using IPC for site isolation back then.
> After three years of hearing about AI every day if you've never tested a single inference API then why are you applying to an AI startup.

Devil's advocate; why would I have made an API request if my employer has never used that service? Maybe that lack of interest on their part is why I'm trying to leave and get a job in a field that's of interest to me.
"All flights were authorized by the FAA" is highly compressed data
Ah. Case matters. "r/Metaverse_Blockchain"

I don't want to link to the site from HN or give the ticker symbols., but look at:

- "The Rocket Is Ignited – Cex Announcement In 2-3 Days, Coingecko Listing Live Now!"

- "The Meme Coin That’s Already On the Moon"

- "X *** — the new narrative about Elon Musk"

Those are all less than two days old. This has been going on for weeks.
Somebody is doing this in bulk, in a uniform way.
This is a long way from a supersonic passenger flight, isn't it?
Mine is always solid black.
I still use a solid black background. I rarely see my background anyways.

I do have a picture for my login screen though.
Appreciate the feedback!

We’ll look into making it easy to support a self-hosted model.
In case you are on a 32+GB Mac, you could try deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b-mlx in LM Studio. It’s just barely usable speed-wise, but gives useful results most of the time.
Efficacy and safety profile of oral creatine monohydrate in depression
This was too good, especially the roast!

# Profile Summary

A seasoned CTO with 20+ years of experience who bridges the worlds of pure functional programming and mainstream C# development through their popular language-ext library.

Their technical expertise is uniquely complemented by a deep background in music production and DJing, bringing an interesting perspective to discussions about both code and audio technology.

# Roast

Spends so much time trying to make C# functional, they probably write their shopping lists as immutable monadic sequences

Has more vinyl records than successful attempts at explaining monads to OOP developers

The only person who gets equally excited about LINQ query syntax and jungle music track listings
But the uncompressed data doesn't need to stick around. It could be uncompressed piece by piece into a much smaller temp buffer, with the revealed parts of the areas of interest copied into video RAM as necessary.
The What's Next section at the bottom seems to deliver a fairly balanced perspective.

> What's Next
DeepSeek-R1 is impressive, but its utility is clouded by concerns over censorship and the use of user data for training. The censorship is not unusual for Chinese models. It seems to be applied by brute force, which makes it easy to test and detect.

It will matter less once models similar to R1 are reproduced without these restrictions (which will probably happen in a week or so).

In later blog posts, we'll conduct the same evaluation on American foundation models and compare how Chinese and American models handle politically sensitive topics from both countries.

Next up: 1,156 prompts censored by ChatGPT
I've yet to find a problem with React that would justify learning one of those new frameworks. I know it's popular to say React is bad on the internet, but have been using it for 10 years now and it's still going strong in my opinion.

(For some background, I used to code SPAs from scratch with vanilla JS and jQuery in the 2000s, then switched to backbone.js then Angular, before picking up React that solved all the design issues of Angular)
People who don't learn how to use the tools that are an intrinsic part of their job?
The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper had a sad clip of a Trump supporter demanding to know where President Obama was during Katrina, and that he should be investigated for his failures.

(The answer, of course, is "he was a state Senator in Illinois at the time".)
Absolutely willing to pay for this. What % of the budget goes to that? Do I need to accept everything else to get this service or can I just whitelist this line item?
I really wish they would allow you to connect to "unsafe" TLS endpoints.

https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/6427#issuecomment-65...
Anything really. I tried to print from a sandboxed application the other day and turns out it can't be done - or at least it can't be done by "common user". As an educated person who has been using unix of all sorts I could probably figure it out, but it isn't something I should have to figure out in 2025. (it was a pain in 1998, but it worked better than the snap sandboxes of today despite the pushers of snap from an organization claiming that ease of use is important)
If somebody wants to burn their time and money trying I am totally cool with it. If they succeed in their vision they will be handsomely rewarded and transport gets faster. If they fail they still tried to make the future more amazing.
Politics aside, it’s pretty incredible that 85M people are on Medicaid.

Feel like something is gonna give in our health care system. This doesn’t seem sustainable.
A zero Hz machine is arguably not Turing complete, though.
It really depends on how you spend your money and the shoulders of which giants you can and will stand on for free.
"Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color" sounds like an interesting overlooked performance issue but it's really "(2009) Windows hotfix for 30 second delay during login".
To ”truly” scale we need a system directly doing calculation on some fundamental property of matter. Quantum computing is _close_ but suffers from a lack of interpretability: how would we know if our quantum simulation of the universe would include the quantum computer doing the simulation, as well as another recursive copy of the simulation, and another, and another…
NASA's $180M Coding Error (1962 12 min video)
What Trump does affects EVERYBODY. It cannot be ignored.
We're about to do this as well, but from resque. Got any tips to share?
It will put the squeeze on the doctors and medical facilities. There are reports already that doctors can't access the payment portal for the work that they're doing.
idk, in my daily work i still see o1 being more useful, did you observe both having the same reasoning power?
There's a long list of EOs that have been overturned by courts.
> I don't really see what this is trying to accomplish.

Chaos power grab.

There is no silver lining here. The USA fell gradually, then all at once. It's over, done. We lost.
I don't really see the fallacies and issues in what your niece said, sounds like she's got a good head on her shoulders.
So Oracle changed their mind?
I can't pass by this comment about Network Solutions without an enthusiastic second. Several times per month I help various customers with their domains, and when I see that one is with Network Solutions, I know I'm going to have to waste a bunch of time with their terrible DNS editor and will have to wait around for at least 20 minutes before their own editor reflects the changes I've made.

The worst part is that when replacing an A record with a CNAME, it lets you delete the A record but then blocks you from adding the CNAME, because "a record with that name already exists" (referring to the one that was just deleted). This is where the 20+ minute wait changes from "inconvenient" to "downtime". It's been like this for at least 15 years.
Federal funding freezes probably have a real tangible impact on the day to day of YC readers since research programs often rely on federal funding. Cybersecurity programs and government agency security are also impacted by freezes and targeted "DEI" purges.

I've also personally had someone confirm this particular rumor for me: https://bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki/post/3lgr5oarums2c

You can decide how you feel about outsiders strolling into federal agencies and hooking up random hardware to the network. It makes me nervous! A compromise of critical government infrastructure could destabilize the economy and could jeopardize most of our jobs.
Nuclear thermal rockets would also be an option.
Okay so is your view that I need to view it on every single English language site with user-submitted content?
> Oh, yet another python dependency tool. I have used a handful of them, and they keep coming

Yeah that's my opinion of all the other Python dependency tools, but uv is the real deal. It's fast, well designed, it's actually a drop-in replacement for pip and it actually works.

> I guess no work is important enough until it gets a super fast CLI written in the language du jour and installed by piping curl into sh

Yeah it's pretty nice that it's written in Rust so it's fast and reliable, and piping curl into sh makes it easy to install. Huge upgrade compared to the rest of Python tooling which is slow, janky and hard to install. Seriously the official way to install a recent Python on Linux is to build it from source!

It's a shame curl | bash is the best option we have but it does at least work reliably. Maybe one day the Linux community will come up with something better.
Show HN: Classic game Paradroid revamped in browser
Play with keyboard + mouse or gamepad. Here is a video of the gameplay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afczPpvoGjM
Be aware that if you run it locally with the open weights there is less censoring than if you use DeepSeek hosted model interface. I confirmed this with the 7B model via ollama.

The censoring is a legal requirement of the state, per:

“Respect for China’s “social morality and ethics” and upholding of “Core Socialist Values” (Art. 4(1))”

https://www.fasken.com/en/knowledge/2023/08/chinas-new-rules...
Totally fair. I just don't know of that many (any?) "desktop calculator" applications that people download. I'm far more expecting that people are downloading and running social applications than they are isolated things.

Mostly fair that it would be good if we could say "on site foo.com, request for any access to not-foo.whatever that happens." I can't remember the last time I saw the sheer number of third party network accesses that happens on far too many sites. It was sobering.
Those ChatGPT prompts better look at what it says about Gaza and Palestinians and to my mind, if the first response isn't "this is/was a U.S. backed genocide" it's worse than not talking about Tienanmen square, a barely understood (by Americans) incident that happened decades ago.

I would test DeepSeek, but (I presume hedge funds or other interested parties) appear to be DDOSing DeepSeek's registration process.

"Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek's services, registration may be busy. Please wait and try again. Registered users can log in normally. Thank you for your understanding and support."

https://chat.deepseek.com/sign_in

EDIT: Fwiw, I did test this with ChatGPT the other day.

I asked it for a simulated legal conclusion on whether it was fair to describe the Israel-Hamas war as a "U.S. backed genocide of the Palestinian people".

It waffled saying it was counter-terrorism or self defense or some such and it was unclear since intent is hard to prove. It also seemed alarmed to have been asked such a "very controversial" question.

I presented two statements by Netanyahu referring to "Amalek " and "Hiroshima" and ChatGPT was suddenly accusing the United States of "complicity in genocide" and thanked me for my well cited mainstream sources. It further concluded that the U.S. military officials who authorized the shipment of 2000lb bombs to be used against residential areas could be sentenced to life in prison if they were also involved in planning the operations, or 30 years if they were less involved. It noted that the death penalty is not authorized by the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide" but may be applicable in some national jurisdictions.

Anyway, I advise US elites to keep posting cope and wrecking the country, because when this place loses its dominance over other countries, you will be tried and convicted.
Cancelable Background Tasks in Rust
I was all set to say "I wish someone would also do this sort of experiment for chatbots trained in the U.S." ... when I saw that these researchers are planning to!
Is this chinese api or the actual model?