skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much the only country in the world where every single person speaks perfect English.
Mid-Air Collision Shines Light on Doomsday Plans for Nation's Capital
>Isn't game development already discussed here?

ofc sometimes game dev is discussed here, but imo I don't see it enough here that I wouldn't want a hackernews just for gamedev.

also very useful side project
Said the bank robber.
If you go through the sign-up, it says it will post your application in public for anyone to approve shrugs
Ransomware attack at NY blood provider – donors turned away during shortage
What do we call this phenomenon?
Depends on what you need; you can easily call out to external Python scripts to solve many problems, which will work everywhere because Python is needed to run meson itself.
> QubesOS lacks Secure Boot implementation and has insufficient boot chain protection.

Insufficient for what? I'm writing this from Librem 15 with Heads and Librem Key, which confirm that every boot my boot chain wasn't compromised. The whole configuration relies exclusively on free software, unlike proprietary secure boot, which I do not trust. (Also Intel ME is disabled and neutralized.) See also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx9MS1_1e2c (#HITB2019AMS D1T1 - TOCTOU Attacks Against Secure Boot And BootGuard - Trammell Hudson & Peter Bosch)

https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/how-exactly-is-heads-pureboot-s...

> Its security heavily relies on OS isolation through the Xen hypervisor, though it remains vulnerable to attacks on the hypervisor itself.

Most vulnerabilities in Xen do not affect Qubes OS at all: https://www.qubes-os.org/security/xsa/

> Furthermore, the operating systems running inside maintain the same characteristics as typical Linux distributions

You misinterpret the Qubes' approach to security. If your VM is compromised, no hardening will save your data (https://xkcd.com/1200/). I'm not using the same VM for everything but dedicated VMs for bank, email, HN, instant messaging and so on. A malware on a random website would only get the access to an empty VM, nothing more.

On Qubes, you should compartmentalize your digital live into security domains, such that you never run anything untrusted in trusted ones and never have anything valuable in untrusted ones. With such approach, hardening is irrelevant. More examples: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2022/10/28/how-to-organize-you.... See also: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/9717#issuecom.... I'm not saying that hardening is useless (Qubes developers are working on it), but it's a much lower improvement in security compared with the first step, i.e., compartmentalization.

> Regarding the elevator pitches provided

Thanks for the critic of my elevator pitches.

> The system's fundamental security considerations could benefit from more detailed explanation.

Indeed, a link like this, https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/architecture/, might be good to add.

> makes claims such as being "better than physical air-gap," though in practice it operates at the virtualization level

Yes, it operates at virtualization level, what's wrong with that? Unless your airgapped computer doesn't exchange files with other computers at all, you are vulnerable to attacks. The linked document shows a detailed explanation of the threat model and when virtualization is more secure. See also: https://www.qubes-os.org/faq/#how-does-qubes-os-compare-to-u...

> The suggestion to store passwords in plain text (even in cases of Xen escape, offline status wouldn't provide protection, and storing in plain text presents risks) might lead to misconceptions about security.

Last time a relevant escape (affecting the current Qubes architecture) was found in 2006 by the Qubes founder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_%28software%29
New Law Would Create an 'Internet Kill Switch' to Fight Movie Piracy Sites
Yep, that is correct. I think ldump is able to preserve all upvalues, even on edge cases such as "_ENV" and joined upvalues (multiple functions referencing one upvalue). A closure is basically an object with a single method and upvalues as fields -- serialization is straightforward. I think I got it covered, but I would be glad to hear ideas about where the serialization can be unstable.
NorthBay Health Data Breach Impacts 569,000 Individuals
Thank you! I'll send it to my employer so they know why I didn't do any meaningful work today.
> can I save it to disk, shut off the interpreter, boot it again and it imports it fine (in which case it somehow dumps them as code...?

Yes, it dumps them as bytecode (probably not compatible between completely different interpreters).

It even preserves debug metadata, so stack traces involving serialized/deserialized functions look right, and still show the original source file.

This is really neat.
Theoretically all states are shall issue because of that case. In practice they just went from handing out definitive "no, you can't, because I feel like it" denials as was their discretion to soft denial via bureaucratic runaround.
Since I have some knowledge regarding computers, people keep giving me their somewhat broken or old spare notebooks, so I can have a crack a repairing them. They end up just sitting on the corner of my room gathering dust, mostly due to lack of time, but also of a fear from touching them. Something about attempting repairs at a hardware level, on anything beyond the cursory, just seems daunting to me.

I always had this desire to deeply understand the computer at the most fundamental, physical level, to be able to repair or manipulate them to my heart's desire. To be able to open one up and understand what I'm looking at just by, well, looking at it.

Maybe is the apparent complexity of it all (which I'm sure translates itself to real complexity), but something about it practically begs for me to understand it, but life gets in the way.

I suppose I should attempt to dedicate some time to learning the basics and trying (read: failing) to repair a few. Then maybe I could do something like these good folks.
I hope this email finds you well. I am MD AL AMRAN HOSSAIN, CEO of Ayman Design Engineering & Construction (ADEC), a rapidly growing firm specializing in infrastructure development, including road construction, bridge projects, and civil works.

We are currently seeking strategic investment of $20 million USD to scale our operations, with a projected ROI of 50% and a break-even point at 36 months. Given your expertise in infrastructure investments, I believe this could be a mutually beneficial opportunity.
Can a brain think a finite or infinite number of thoughts? (2018)
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFVP0SGNlBiBtF... is an exploration of the CED, essentially RCA’s last major attempt at relevance before Welsh acquired it for butchering.
They do mention it here

> Note: This blog is inspired by Jiayi Pan [1] who initially explored the idea and proofed it with a small model.

I might have written it as

> Note: This blog is inspired by Jiayi Pan [1] who also reproduced the "Aha Moment" with their TinyZero [2] model.

[1] https://x.com/jiayi_pirate/status/1882839370505621655 (1.1M views btw)

[2] https://github.com/Jiayi-Pan/TinyZero

A lot of people are busy reproing R1 right now. I think this is the spark.
> Taxing them on what they sold for, is not really sensible say with fuel, a low margin product.

That's what SF instituted with Prop C -- only to see an exodus of low margin tech companies.
An important skill in life in general is to understand that your personal needs and requirements are not the same as everyone else's.
Safety panel reports progress in Starliner investigation – SpaceNews
What do you want to happen during a DST switchover in this case?
> Doesn't anyone have integrity? Isn't there anyone who believes that your own possessions shouldn't be made to conspire against you?

Welcome to the Western Business World. You must be new here.

If you let Fed.Gov pwn your customers, they help you get your product to market.

If (like me) you refuse to help Fed.Gov own your customers, the they shut you down, as they did to me.

Good luck fighting the government.
Of course. That standardized way is runsvdir, yes?
Why Do We "Choke" Under Pressure? (2020)
Amazon Cranks Up Ad Spending on X After Cutting Investments over Hate Speech
amjoseph focused a lot on the s6-init stuff, but I really think that infusions and the way they lead to more composable system configuration is the key thing here.

NixOS' module system works, but I don't think there's anybody who thinks it's particularly pretty or generalisable. As soon as you want to run one service twice with slightly varying config you're SOL ...
I use the default macOS Terminal with the fish shell and starship prompt, and I'm quite happy with it.

I see people raving about Ghostty, though I'm not sure what I'm missing. What features do you find most compelling about it?
Working Memory: A Complete Guide to How Your Brain Processes Information
A Flag on Mars? Maybe Not So Soon
I feel you. People submitting bug reports not writing the truth in them are wasting time of developers and tech support far too often.
I think it is much cheaper to run a few thousand irc servers than running discord, Facebook messenger, WhatsApp etc. How many active irc users do we have? 200k? 2mil? I don't know. But every other provider has users in the multiple millions or billions. This is not another League, this is an entirely other game.

I really want to have my old Internet back, were everything was provided for free by volunteers. But this is not the world where discord operates, discord and FAANG are dealing with the eternal September of the last two decades.
https://archive.is/tylt1
one of my favorite films by him. the candid nature of this in comparison to his other work along with the editing style always stood put. you get a much more personal look into Orson's mind as you watch him cut from the editing room narration to a party he's laughing and joking at, seemingly for no other reason than him having fun while realizing he's seeing small details slip that the subjects would normally not share
Intel won't bring its Falcon Shores AI chip to market
>That we have the largest standing army on Earth now would be horrifying to the founders, because they knew exactly the kind of Imperialism and Authoritarianism that follows, as opposed to a muster-able militia.

Nitpick: The standing army the founders were worried about was professional state (like government, not like US state vs local vs federal) law enforcement as that was the capacity in which the jackboot of the occupying British army was being used.
> I've seen many "HN for X" projects for various niches now, and they all suffer from the chicken/egg problem of getting a critical mass of participants.

With the rise of LLMs, the fake-it-till-you make it would much easier. Even just having an automated program to scan for relevant URLs on other aggregator sites and cross posting them as new content would give things a bump.
Around one third of all Black men in the USA commit a felony during their lifetime. Definitely not "low".
I like the animation of the orbits. Earth and Mars (and even the satellite) look on circular but eccentric orbits.
- mandatory seat belts

- doors that close and remain closed

- airbags

None of the things you mentioned are particularly an issue with the regulations, they legitimately assist in situations where they are meant to assist. If some feature is mildly inconvenient to you but saves the life of another human being then I feel you can live with the inconvenience.

If you made an argument about subscriptions for heater seating or carplay or some nonsense then you have a valid argument and is in the same line as DRM, mandated actual safety feature not do much.
not too difficult actually, US corps are required to disclose specifics on employee option compensation for tax purposes: https://www.thetaxadviser.com/issues/2023/dec/executive-comp...

FINRA 2360 provides disclosure and tax requirements to any organization which issues options, provides grant exercises, or simply issues stock as compensation:
https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/rulebooks/finra-rules/2...

Side note: the regs are partly why you can see detailed information about types and amounts of stock and option activity by different investor classes in tools like https://www.barchart.com/investing-ideas/insider-trading-act...
I don't think that self-destructing individual objects via 'smart-references' are a good idea, especially when you need to carry an allocator around (either in the object or in the smart-reference).

Destruction should be explicitly performed at a specific time and place, and not happen decentralized in some random location of the code when a reference goes out of scope (I realize that this dismisses the whole idea of RAII and destructors and garbage collection in general, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯).
Is he really criminally underrated if My Stars the Destination features in just about every "best scifi books" list I've ever read? Maybe not as high up as it deserves on those lists but that's hardly criminal underappreciation
- groq: https://console.groq.com/playground?model=deepseek-r1-distil...
- nvidia: https://build.nvidia.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1
New training approach helps AI agents perform better in uncertain conditions
Samsung had this for years and people are generally uninterested. I love the thought to have the _possibility_ of plugging the phone in a USB-C dock and everything works, but honestly, I have done this... like, zero+1 times. For those times I'd need my proper desktop OS, and mobile apps / file handling etc. are just inferior.
There is always the library.

When my children were young, we went so often that once, a friend's child when a trip to the library was scheduled, stated that he was looking forward to seeing my daughter there. When it was gently explained that they couldn't be certain of that, announced, "Of course we'll see her, <daughter's name> _lives_ at the library!", having arrived at that conclusion because for the better part of a year, both families had had similar schedules of library visits and so the children had always seen each other there.
I always say that you can write clever code on your free time.

When on the clock, make stuff that's readable and easy to manage.
The Stars My Destination ... how did I mess that up?
Well, I think what you're looking for is a terminal based IDE. I say "terminal based" specifically because while I know that fully fledged product suites such as JetBrains exist, I haven't actually seen similar software that mainly targets the terminal. An out of the box experience that provides everything you need specifically to develop software and is adjusted to current trends (in terms of support).

I recently tried Zed and while interesting, I don't really see, at least from the way I used it, why it couldn't just live in the terminal.
IRC, nothing else. All other protocols like ICQ, etc. where proprietary.
I mostly agree with you (I'm staying on Lemmy despite the average user, not because of them), but this is not really relevant to the point here.

My point is that it would be really nice to have a gamedev instance that is able (but not required) to federate. Instead of creating yet-another discussion forum that is completely isolated from the wider network, they could simply set up a Lemmy server with federation disabled.

After the community is somewhat established, they could then start whitelist federation. Perhaps, they could open only with programming.dev. Then they could perhaps open federation to the Mastodon instances that are focused on indie developers/gamers.

The only way to get rid of this (current) scenario where Lemmy is only for frustrated tweenagers and keyboard warriors is by cultivating the alternatives in the Fediverse.
It's a declerative boot system, where units can declare their dependence on another unit/service, and they will be brought up in accord, with a potential for parallelization, proper error handling, proper logging, all while the user complexity is a trivial .ini-like file.

It also has a good integration with Linux features, like cgroups, allowing easy user-isolation, has user-services that allow proper resource management, and many more.
aws: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/deepseek-r1-models-now-avai...
This is an interesting thought. Currently, it is unsafe and intended to load only the files you trust. I should definitely include a warning into README.

Overall, it would be nice to make it safer. I don't think switching to non-Lua format would make it safer, because it is intended to serialize functions too, which can have arbitrary code even if everything else would be stored as data. Maybe it is possible to make a function like `ldump.safe_load` restricting `load`'s environment, so it wouldn't have access to debug/os/io modules.
FDA approves first new type of pain medication in 25 years
"The US Food and Drug Administration signed off Thursday on the first new type of pain reliever to be approved in more than two decades.

The drug, suzetrigine, is a 50-milligram prescription pill that’s taken every 12 hours after a larger starter dose. It will be sold under the brand name Journavx. "

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

FDA Statement:

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...
For me, "HN for X" sounds like a "Reddit channel with a sense of grandeur".

Starting one is easy, but maintaining both quality and popularity is hard - here, HN is a rare exception.
One of my PCs is old and was really slow on X11. Wayland gave it a second life.
Has this ever stopped? Judging by recent events - The FBI-staged kidnapping of the governor of Michigan, the heavy FBI involvement in the "J6 riots" - it looks like the program is as alive as ever. I also don´t think the new FBI director will change much about this other than possibly a change of ideological focus. That is, unless Patel makes good on his desire to "rebuild the organisation from the bottom up" which I somehow doubt.

After the Soviet Union fell apart the KGB was "abolished" and the FSB took its place. Did this really change the organisation when the FSB was largely staffed by former KGB personnel from top to bottom? The same would most likely be true for a "reformed" FBI.
The context of the conversation was evidently the United States of America. If you knew anything about the history of Africa (where most "Black" men live), you would know that the horrific crimes committed by Black individuals in the last decades are several orders of magnitude worse than anything any Israeli has ever or will ever do.
You are not unbiased, you are simply ignorant - which is pretty much the same thing, according to the article we are discussing here.
Can AI Help Managers Love Their Jobs (Again)?
To Learn, Retrieve
I will try it on my next love2d project, thank you!
The essay "I've got nothing to hide and other misunderstandings of privacy" is about this idea. The short version is that it's not just about your innocence, but about how your data can be leveraged against you.
I'm not suprised
Oh hey fellow Bathonain!

I've worked at a lot of places in my career, you've not narrowed it down :D

Thanks for the reminder. At some point I should try and get BathCamp going again.
Finding Beauty in Food
This seems pretty convincing to me.

At the very least, the story that NVDA dropped because the Deepseek announcement reduced expected demand for cpus seems inconsistent with typical market behaviour. I wonder if we’ll see a correction of the narrative in mainstream outlets.
> the high value is artificial given how much even basic supermarkt good cost

Compared with which location?

My experience is that you're way better off in Zurich than, say, London where you'll end up having similar costs. https://livingcost.org/cost/london/zurich illustrates that. Zurich seems similar to San Jose: https://livingcost.org/cost/san-jose-us/zurich.

Prices in most supermarkets are high, but I've come to understand this as most consumers being price-indifferent for groceries, at least in Zurich, because it represents little of their overall costs anyway. If you want to save on groceries, Lidl is way cheaper than Coop/Migros, but many consumers prefer convenience. That's not even including the case of people living in Basel / Geneva who buy groceries in Germany / France such that Swiss prices don't matter to them.
Thank you, it is really nice to hear. Though, I have to give credit to Lua's standard library -- the basic function serialization (without upvalues) is implemented there as `string.dump`.
Yeah this is just two guys who run businesses that make shitty products and lots of money. If anything, Ellison could teach Musk how to get rich with the least affect on the general public. At this point Oracle is a minor player in the rear on cloud platform. Holding DB parents and legacy platforms is where the money comes from
> Prevent a Mac laptop from turning on when opening its lid or connecting to power

Does anyone know how to prevent an iPhone from turning on when connecting to power ?
If language specific quirks lead to a language being "not well-designed", how many languages do you think are actually well-designed (if any)?
> "Most inkjet printers, because of the properties of the ink used, cannot produce very good blacks with only their black ink."

Many inkjets solve this by using two different black inks. One which is the K in the four CMYK "dye inks" for printing photos etc, and another "pigment black" for printing purely B&W text etc.
I never understood the argument "its fast"
All of them are fast? I mean, iTerm had a period in my life where it felt clunky, but I've never had a "slow" terminal. Alscritty, kitty, etc. are all pretty fast themselves
World Sensorium 2025: A Portrayal of Changing Populations and Conservation
It's interesting how people only cared when he made the salute.
yeah you're both right, WCS is on the main board in PAL machines, but not the Kickstart ROMs. I got confused because when I finally fixed the issues with the CPU socket I already had the Parceiro plugged in and it injects Kickstart on boot from the SD card. I'll edit the blog.
> Whatever you do, don’t ferment it in glass bottles

Any particular reason not to simply get a glass fermentation jar? I try to minimize plastic use, and I swear things taste better out of glass.
Did not know this. Very cool. Does it also make it easy to replace grub with zfsboot environments?
Show HN: TemplateDocs – An API for generating PDF documents from DOCX templates
Hey HN,

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I previously created easy-template-x (https://github.com/alonrbar/easy-template-x), an open source library for generating Word documents (~30K downloads/month). After leaving my job at a big tech company, I decided to turn my experience with document generation into a proper SaaS product.

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There's a small free tier (20 docs) and pricing starts at $9 for 500 documents (one-time payment) up to $99/month for 25,000 documents.

Would love to hear your feedback! Next things I thought of working on:

- Zapier, Make.com and n8n integrations.
- Adding template features like inserting images and links.

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Let me know what you think or if you have any questions!
I spent two days testing DeepSeek R1
Default Apps 2023 – 2025
> As Fedora packager

The issue is there. Not you or your fellow packagers of course, but in the idea that every linux distribution needs it's own packaging system, and each version of a distribution it's own packages.