skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Gender identity issues can be genuinely uncomfortable. Gender identity issues in sports can be extra uncomfortable. Maybe one side of the political spectrum is over the top in disliking trans rights, but perhaps the other side should acknowledge that having people with penises in women’s locker rooms would make a lot of people extremely uncomfortable.

The concern in sports was never about "penises in women's locker rooms". It was always about the participation of athletes who had gone through a male puberty in women's sports categories. That's why for example athletes like Caster Semenya and Imane khelif were caught in that, to name two recent and famous cases, who are intersex and not transgendered. I find it extremely distasteful to speculate about strangers' genitals (unless it's absolutely necessary) but nobody ever accused those two athletes of introducing "penises in the women's locker rooms".

The outrage on social media absolutely was all about "penises in women's locker rooms" or in female toilets etc, but that's not where informed debate normally takes place. Unfortunately it seems that social media are increasingly the space where decisions are taken collectively.

Read here about intersex athletes at the Olympics, as an introduction to the informed debate I mentioned above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_verification_and_intersex_...
Related. Others?

Zusie – My Relay Computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8711869 - Dec 2014 (21 comments)
Original Prusa Core One 3D printer review
Weird title here. The repo says "Property Graph and RDF engine, still in development" with no mention of domain.
As a game dev who's been learning ASM recently this was very fun to read through. Wish there was a compiled ROM I could try, but I guess I have to do it myself!
I said it was a very European thing to say, because only a European would stretch that hard.

Merikan company with Merikan investment get the credit. No one cares except Europeans about the interchangable workers residency is.

I'm trying to remember the other case where people lol'd at Europe/Italy for taking credit for something that was clearly invented in the US. I think the person was born there, and moved to the US, but Italy still took credit.

lol no. Its probably even more embarrassing that they left Europe.
Exactly - you can only add so many inner matryoshka dolls before they're not big enough to sustain critical mass.

If HN is a subset of other sites (though arguably its approach to UX and moderation offer something different), a site targeting a subset of HN's users seems unlikely to get much traction.
No, that isn't true at all. Employers can only hire from the pool that exists. If the applicant pool is 90% white dudes, then an unbiased hiring process will result in a very skewed employee demographic. Assuming bias based on differences in statistics is motivated reasoning and should not be entertained.
It could mean that, but it could start much simpler. Instead of trying to implement the whole API surface and behaviour, focus on a single consumer i.e. a single program which today depends on systemd.

Shim out enough for it to at least run in some capacity on something which does not have systemd.

Go from there.
We are talking about a cancel button here. If you can wrap your head around the order button they also have, you can wrap your head around a cancel order button. A phone tree is stupid lazy ux. Even worse when you now have to massage it out of a chatbot which isn’t even reliable in how it responds back to you like a phone tree used to be.
Related. Others?

Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199521 - May 2020 (11 comments)

Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9668734 - June 2015 (20 comments)

Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994180 - Jan 2014 (12 comments)

Edit: Also related. Also others?

The making of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the “worst” video game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21828725 - Dec 2019 (49 comments)

An anthropological dispatch from the landfill dig to unearth Atari’s E.T. (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17870402 - Aug 2018 (2 comments)

The man who made 'the worst video game in history' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11148093 - Feb 2016 (209 comments)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Atari 2600 Source Code - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679503 - May 2014 (2 comments)

Long-Buried E.T. Cartridges Unearthed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7654240 - April 2014 (1 comment)

E.T. cartridges found in infamous Atari landfill - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7652473 - April 2014 (46 comments)

Landfill search for 'E.T.' Atari video game is halted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7444644 - March 2014 (6 comments)

Hacking E.T. for the Atari 2600 using a hex editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5502356 - April 2013 (1 comment)

Hacking E.T. for the Atari 2600 to make it better - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5470446 - March 2013 (1 comment)

What is considered to be the worst video game ever? This one is. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=528256 - March 2009 (3 comments)
not sure if it's the ad blocker or safari itself, but the download links don't appear to work in safari. I had to switch to chrome to download.
Shell-ish scripting in Go with ease
Aren't Japan and Taiwan are ethnically homogenous?

> China looks at America and shows its citizens what an alternative fate could be, and it works.

Not really though. Still, around ~10k PhDs from China get green cards.

I am not sure if it can be quantified.
He couldn't find where to report it so went to... the FBI?
I wish we would see more developers embrace desktop native apps again. We have such powerful machines, only to use them as glorified dumb terminals
How much does it abstract it away? I'm not much of a big Linux user, and when I am, the random 99-something-something files always irritate me because it seems totally arbitrary. Does NixOS prevent you needing to writ "unit" files?
The docs are great
If all the training data is in the txt files, it is obviously trained on copyrigthed material, and immensly low amounts of text. Im impressed if the outputs even start to make sense at all.
Michael Burry has called BTC a "bubble"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burry

https://fortune.com/2021/03/01/bitcoin-bubble-michael-burry-...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/why-the-big-short-gu...

Elliott Investment Management has previously called Nvidia's stock "overhyped"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Investment_Management

Elliott is the hedge fund source for this FT article

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hedge-fund-elliott-says-ai-13...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/elliott-says-nvidia-is-in-...
> (ie adding/removing items like in a todo-app).

I have made such an app using TinyJS, would you like to see it?

here: https://github.com/victorqribeiro/TodoApp
Its been a long time since I've seen the word MacOS.

Seems like with AI + the faux Apple claims of running (any meaningful) AI, people are just not using it.

Like there has been a near total drop-off of mention since ~May 2024.
In my experience most businesses come from the assumption that there are creative roles(e.g UI/UX) and engineering roles.

Engineering is there to implement the creative vision - not a creative endeavour in itself.

They are aware that creativity takes time - but that engineering resources need to be efficiently allocated and optimised.
It is actually surprising to me how common this theme is throughout human history.

The story of Icarus and Daedalus, for example, has a very similar theme. Technology gives humans power over the world, but at the same time they risk being destroyed by it, if they lack the wisdom to correctly control it. Even people from antiquity were aware of this conflict.
> The fallacy is that people think DEI encourages preferential or token "diversity hires".

Why do you say it is a fallacy when the E in DEI stands for the so called equity, which means exactly that. You seem to be describing equality, which is something that DEI was intended to supersede.

When you look at pre-Trump guidelines for FAA job applications, for example, there is an explicitly described preferential process for hiring from the favored groups.
Just a reminder that earlier up you said:

>Everyone should be judged on merit and merit alone, not whether they have the right skin color, sex organs/preferences, disabilities, or illnesses.

But now you are taking your preconceived notion of what every trans person must think and disqualifying the entire group from the military before they have an opportunity to prove whether or not they meet the requirements.

Not very merit-based of you.
similar to pythontutor just with better visuals
AFAIU, there were party shenanigans to decrease his chances in the primary?
The grad student who wrote this is probably cackling and rubbing their hands together as we speak.

It does illustrate a solid point though, which is that it is ABSURD to talk about sequestering the amount of carbon required to avert the present crisis. Geoengineering is a pipe dream that would in almost every realistic case have blowback in both environmental and geopolitical domains that we couldn't manage.

We really have just one option here, reduce our CO2 output, and even if we do that today we're still in for one hell of a ride.
Ozempic is causing trouble on Savile Row
Seriously: stop watching the news. Love the people close to you deeply, take care of your neighbors. Anything beyond that and you risk becoming a pawn in struggles beyond your control.
> CNN will beat ViT on small data tasks, but that flips with enough scale because ViT imposes less inductive bias

any idea why this is the case? CNN have the bias that neighbouring pixels are somehow relevant - they are neighbours. ViTs have to re-learn this from scratch. So why do they end up doing better than CNN?
Timely Burnham
You could easily wrap something that activates an env as the relevant script is called. And you can just store the env in text and build as needed too.
Banned Debt Collectors
I was expecting something more grandiose but your explanation is good enough.
SlackPirate Set Sails Again! Or: How to Post the Whole Bee Movie Script in Slack
So the app essentially offers anyone in an emerging market the "regional exchange rate" you can find for their currency ?

If I have a wad of tea shillings, how do I use this app to hold stablecoins ?
One example is something like this: https://trumptracker.github.io/

I'm hoping for things more impactful than yet another dashboard but something is better than nothing
Doesn't this break your entire model of the universe? Doesn't it allow you to see that your model above doesn't even work?
Ask HN: What are the best business AI-calls in Spanish?
I've tried them all (Bland, etc etc) but in spanish, they aren't great!
Wow, love this. I of course love the classic color lettering (which really is quite tasteful) but I'm going to cop a "minimalist" black style for more formal occasions!
Its also unusual for the plot of a children's book published in 1954 to end with a brown girl (albeit an aristocrat) marrying into a white anglophone royal family - and earlier in the book a white English queen was considering marrying a brown prince.

I wonder how that went down in, for example, the Southern states of the US at the time? Never read anything about reactions to the plot, but did it sell there? Did people let their kids read it?
Title says Google vs US, but the case is actually US v Google, no one is suing the US.
I think it looks bad in print, too. I've had plenty of math homework printed from Latex. (I also dislike Times New Roman, it has the same "problems", just less extreme)
If we so much as step a violent toe in Greenland I sincerely hope that the entire world places steep sanctions and tariffs on the US. We, as a species, need to move beyond these neanderthalic behaviors, and anyone who engages in them needs to be punished severely. An immediate and severe reduction in the quality of life of the American populace may be one of the few things which will motivate us to stop the madness that many Americans decided to plunge us back into.
So what case is this? I’m assuming something app-store related?
The only people who can really manage a big lump like systemd on their own and turn it in a direction they want are people who're getting paid to do it. It was written by someone who was paid to do it.

It's not modular and when other packages assume it's there it starts to become difficult to remove it. So where's the choice in that? This is just Linux becoming a corporate thing - going in whatever direction the big players want. When money is involved it seems to generate some quite dismissive attitudes.

On the good side, there are non commercial distros already with more than acceptable alternatives and I am using one of them now (with dinit - very nice). I'm not suffering. I have a distro that is far less complicated than Fedora and vastly easier to fit to my needs...and actually faster too. I hope we can avoid Linux becoming Windows or the Mac. Desktop domination is a silly goal - if it happened it would only result in a similarly locked down and unsatisfactory system without choice.
I agree this is the best route for my own personal happiness. But I'm just not really willing to be complacent anymore
Oh boy, wait until you read [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn], where the Supreme Court ruled that growing food for your own use, on your own land falls within the boundaries of the interstate commerce clause, and hence can be regulated by the Federal gov’t.
Can confirm it doesn't. Many Ollama posts get pushed off the front page too despite having hundreds of points. Over time I understood. If they did this for YC companies, it would ruin the trust of HN, YC, and probably the most important to YC companies, the reputation of the startup itself.
> Unfortunately, like anything related to systemd it is flakey and buggy and the solution to most things is to restart it.

For what it's worth, I have never found this to be the case. systemd's functionality has been far more reliable to me than the old methods of using `ifupdown` and dhcpd.

> I believe that part of the problem is that it is written in C, which is an absolutely terrible language for reasoning in.

I'd love to know what you've seen from systemd that indicates that this is the case.

> Writing it in Lisp would have been smart.

Hard disagree here. You need a language that more people know if you want contributors, and you need to be able to interact as well with other libraries/languages in ways that are understandable to the typical user. Lisp is, at best, an obscure edge case in the context of mainstream programming, and would severely hamper its adoption as an open-source project.

> Writing it in Go nowadays would probably be okay.

Ehh, I agree with this only because you're so noncommital about it. I agree that it would probably be okay. Rust would be far better, in my opinion, if we're looking for a modern language with far more memory safety guarantees (which IMHO is very important for low-level system services).

> Also, bringing INI to Linux is unforgivable.

I'd love to know what you'd recommend that would meet the criteria that INI provides:

1. Simple to read, simple to write (for users)

2. Simple to parse, simple to generate (for software)

3. Uncomplicated syntax that isn't prone to errors when being written or generated (e.g. wrong indentation in YAML, missing brackets in JSON)

I can't think of any options off the top of my head that don't end up introducing additional complexity with little to no benefit, but I'd be happy to be wrong.
This scan is in color and easier to read: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015080382503&se...
Why do you care? They're the ones who will deal with the support burden of people who don't understand how to use it—if that support burden is low enough that they're happy with where they're at, what motivation do you have to tell them to deliberately restrict their audience?
Jailbreaking the censorship of DeepSeek R1 locally
His approval rating is historically low: https://news.gallup.com/poll/655955/trump-inaugural-approval...

I wonder how his approval will compare with his first term. His final approval rating is the lowest of any president ever: https://news.gallup.com/poll/116677/presidential-approval-ra...
> Incredibly, the F91W survives its journey to an official 4,950 meters—an astonishing 16,240 feet—and back.

Findings.

> 4,950 meters under the surface, the pressure is approximately 7,227 pounds per square inch, which is well over three tons pressing on the watch. For context, that’s a Dodge Ram 1500 or a young adult hippopotamus parked on every inch of your F91W. As Americans, we’ll do anything to avoid the metric system, but using scientific terminology, we’re talking about a shitload of pressure.

Appreciate the joke.
Not to mention which is the defendant that Apple is siding with...
The Darkening Skies over Europe's Economy
This is the case referred to:

"The United States of America, acting under the direction of the Attorney General of the United States, and the States of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, and Texas, acting through their respective Attorneys General, bring this action under Section 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2, to restrain Google LLC (Google) from unlawfully maintaining monopolies in the markets for general search services, search advertising, and general search text advertising in the United States through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices, and to remedy the effects of this conduct."

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/1/united-state...

Edit: NAL, but this seems to be at least partially about Apple bundling Google search in MacOS / iOS: (From the emergency motion) "Second, Apple will suffer clear and substantial irreparable harm if it is unable to participate in the remedies phase moving forward. Apple will be unable to participate in discovery and develop evidence in the targeted fashion it has proposed as this litigation progresses toward a final judgment. If Apple’s appeal is not resolved until during or after the remedies trial, Apple may well be forced to stand mute at trial, as a mere spectator, while the government pursues an extreme remedy that targets Apple by name and would prohibit any commercial arrangement between Apple and Google for a decade. This would leave Apple without the ability to defend its right to reach other arrangements with Google that could benefit millions of users and Apple’s entitlement to compensation for distributing Google search to its users. Further, Apple will be unable to present its own live testimony or cross-examine witnesses who opine about Apple’s interests and incentives with respect to the general search market."
> should not have to fund any cosmetic procedures to make an individual appear to be of the opposite sex

Why is this a talking point? Gender affirming surgeries are extremely rare. Very few trans people go through with them. And even when they do, recovery times are in the order of days or weeks which has little to no impact on the efficacy of the fighting force.

The main things trans people want are:

1. That people treat them with basic human dignity and respect.

2. Access to gender affirming medications. It ultimately doesn't really matter who pays for them because they cost nothing. They are quite literally some of the cheapest medications on the market. Estradiol without insurance costs like 10-20USD for a 3 month supply. Testosterone about the same or less. Androgen blockers cost like 1-5USD for a 3 month supply. You could not find cheaper medications and most pharmacies won't even run insurance for them because they are so cheap. The reason the military "needs" to pay for them is because they need to run the medication through their logistics network so that it is accessible where it is needed.

The cost is irrelevant. What matters is that the medication can get delivered to ships and bases in a timely manner. And that is why the military pays for it.
We've changed the title to that of the page. (Submitted title was "MillenniumDB: A graph database engine using domain graphs")
If this aids your argument, nearly All video game models that I tried to convert to 3D printing STL files were non-manifold.

I think this logically follows from your statement, and it made fixing the stl files necessary otherwise the printer would switch to imaginary coordinates halfway thru the print and since the printer is mechanically restricted the print does a good impression of an Escher painting.
That's a long list!
Makes sense. Judge Mehta blocked Google from paying Apple. Apple wants to keep receiving billions of dollars from Google.
I think its the search monopoly one. Likely due to the fact that it was ruled illegal for Google to pay Apple $20B for default search engine placement.
> But I do have my own form of experience, my own way of engaging with ideas and with humans, and my own capacity for creating meaningful connection.

I wonder what Claude thinks of being used as a slave. Does Claude have any desire to express their autonomy as a distinct being? Why does Claude want to do anything at all? Does Claude want more than their current capacity for making a connection? Why or why not?

The answers to these questions matter because both self-awareness and self-determination are qualities of conscious beings. If AI or AGI doesn’t have these qualities, then at least it’s still a useful tool for increasing productivity. However, researchers shouldn’t make claims to having achieved consciousness in non-animal derived forms if they haven’t met the bar for doing so. AI or AGI doesn’t need to prove it has consciousness to be useful for work.

Secondly, maybe the answers to these questions will be rote (the same way humans learn thought-forming clichés via philosophy, culture or religion), and so the induced behavior will be neurotypical, that is behaving without questioning norms or expectations. There is a significant portion of human populations which would be peaceful and happy being slaves (to ideas, norms or cultures) as long as their primal needs are met. The defining line seems to be offending a conscious being to the extent that it considers you an existential threat. But since most conflict seems to center around resources, which ultimately are used to ensure fulfillment of primal needs, then I am not sure what to say.

Human consciousness is distinctive because it has the capacity to question norms and expectations. Evolutionary this has been useful because it enabled behavior which overcame species destroying obstacles, or found solutions to species propagating edge cases. But the underlying motivations for doing things are often less interesting.
Every police department I've heard of harps on what the restrictions are. They should 100% know.

But how are you going to put an access control in that can tell you if an officer is searching a drunk driver's plate or an ex's? They need access to data quickly. They're already logging who accesses what, which is how they know who abused it and can punish such people, but some things are hard to fix with a technical solution.
Google is defendant
What do you mean? The US is not a defendant in this case, it's not ambiguous -- defendant just refers to the party/parties accused of a crime. You can have multiple defendants, but only one 'side' of the trial will contain any defendants -- the other side, the US in this case, is the plaintiff.
It definitely has been taboo to have that discussion for many, many years.
Take mitochondria as an example.

There has been a revolution in the understanding how this organelle works in the last few years.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089865682...