skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the GDPR has been largely a failure protecting citizens from corporations, but it has hurt everyone else.

- Nothing has changed in Facebook and Google data collection practices, who with other bug corps account for > 90% of data collection

- Many mid tier competitors lost market share, focusing power to Google

- EU small software companies pay estimated extra 400 EUR/year to satisfy GDPR compliance with little tangible benefits to the EU citizens.

It's called unintended consequences. We all want Zuckerberg to collect less data, but how GDPR was implemented is that it mostly hurt small businesses disproportionately. E.g. you now need to hire a lawyer to analyse if you can collect an IP address and for what purposes, as discussed here.
Real wage growth has been negative in the US for the past decades. Stability and growth was there for us, but it wasn't there for the tens of millions in the precariate who were promised stability in the form of a substantial improvement to the welfare net and didn't get it.

From the perspective of tens, if not a hundred million, what that meant is continued decline, increased instability and broken promises, because that's the long term trend they're living and the one they were promised would continue.
Reminds me of the flat earth experiments to prove the definitive truth that prove the earth is spherical and thus prove that the deep state manipulated the experiment which acts only to strengthen their resolve to get to the "real" truth.
Trump tariffs: China counters US with measured opening move
> I couldn’t care less about measuring the popularity of the President a couple weeks into the term. You could ask a fortune-telling chicken for all I care.

Then why are you responding to my objection to a post asserting the alleged popularity of current actions? Are you just interesting in spreading snark and bitterness without any thought or substance?

> I’m ecstatic about everything that’s being done to make the country better right now. We’re again moving in the right direction. That’s what matters to me.

Oh, sorry, I didn't realize that you're dumb. What's happening right now is vandalism of the government.
Dupe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922329

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42920103
Show HN: Chatsguru – A Chatbase Alternative with Advanced RAG Techniques
Hey HN,

I'm Nidhish, a solopreneur who left the 9-to-5 grind to build products full-time.

Noticing that many are creating AI chatbots using basic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques, I saw an opportunity to enhance answer quality with advanced methods.

So, I developed Chatsguru, which employs advanced RAG strategies like semantic chunking, Cohere re-ranking, and LangGraph evaluation to deliver superior AI responses.

With Chatsguru, you can create and embed a chatbot into your website without any coding. Additionally, it offers answer monitoring and fine-tuning directly from the portal, ensuring continuous improvement.

I hope this no-code AI chatbot is as helpful to you as it has been for me. Would love your feedback, please.

Best, Nidhish
I have a legal copy of Win 11 and after very carefully scraping all the garbage off of it, I had a gaming and general use system that felt… fine I guess… for months.

Then last week I got a full screen “finish setting up windows” that wants me to create a Microsoft account. I have two options: “remind me in 3 days” or “continue… and if you change your mind you can’t actually go back. You have to reboot.” So every three days I get to be interrupted by this upsell.

<long frustrated rant about what being a Big Tech engineer/designer actually signals>
I have a genuine question for you. Are you aware that your comment is offensive?
Bouncing Beholder, my winning JS1K entry (2012)
The barrier to entry is definitely still lower for Win11. I could install it and be productive in it day 1.

My personal problems with Linux previously were

1- Things breaking seemingly randomly

2- Having to find alternatives to some of the software I use

3- Generally having to learn a new OS

4- Things like VR and games in general being a bit iffy

Now games and VR (4) seem to work very well, everything is a webapp so (2) should be better, (3) is unavoidable really but it's fine as long as (1) doesn't happen too much or at the wrong time.

I've decided to give it a shot again but we shall see if I finally manage to swap over. I've tried it multiple times with dual boot but the time investment isn't small and I'd get skill issue'd once or twice and just not boot to it anymore since I have the option of a fully set up Windows.
Unlock Faster Writes in Delta Lake with Deletion Vectors (2024)
> At some point they lose touch with reality.

See every rich person telling young people to follow their passion.
I'm fully willing to accept that he got into Tsinghua from connections, and at the time I'm sure there was mass instability and on top of it I'm sure he would have been able to avoid coursework if he wanted to, leading to the real possibility of low quality education. That's still far away from being almost illiterate.
All life we know of originates from one type of single-cellular life, the last universal common ancestor (LUCA)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor
When you protect industries you get Boeing, you don't get productive markets, you get zombie companies who can fail all day without consequences and still get contracts because they are the mandatory only choice.
Also a very valid theory!
It could also say GitHub alternative because it provides things like issue tracking, static page hosting, release management, a UI for pull requests, Wiki and has a CI solution as well. Same category as GitLab and Bitbucket but ofc GitHub is the most popular of the bunch. Git alone is just a (useful) piece of that software forge puzzle.
I agree windows defender was an absolute game changer, but have you used it in Win11? I upgraded a fairly beefy workstation from win10 to win11 and immediately started to see 10-15x slowdowns on the first run of a task after boot. Things that took 20 seconds were taking 3-4 minutes. I took an etl trace and discovered it was windows defender. Subsequent runs were about
20% worse than on win10.

Adding the folder to the excluded folders didn’t work, nor did adding the compiler to the excluded process list. I ended up disabling windows defender for a while and now I’m using a dev drive which is slower than no-defender but quicker than second run with defender.
I mean, I don't want to claim to be an expert on this, but I'm pretty sure who works for the government and what they do is public record.

I do think it's bad to "doxx" people in the sense of sharing their addresses and phone numbers. But that's not what the article we're discussing does.

This article simply strikes me as normal reporting that is no different than "Treasury Secretary Bessent has hired so and so as an undersecretary for such and such, and this is what so and so has done and said in the past". These people seem to be working essentially at that undersecretary level. We always know who such people are, and we should.
Build your own SQLite, Part 4: reading tables metadata
And don’t forget interest payments on the debt (~$800 bil?), which will keep increasing year over year as well.
Haha I think the irony here will fly over some heads, this is great though.
Ah, now I understand the low supplies of 5090--public hardware+sw closed beta testing.
I know five real, actual people (two who are actively looking for an electric car) who will never buy a Tesla because of Musk, I think you're right about that.
You should try epilepsy keto, that is 80-90% of calories from fat, to get the max benefits.
Please click through the link before commenting. NHIs have absolutely nothing to do with AIs masquerading as humans. This is basically about service accounts and API keys...
The better title might be the second part: "January’s best science images"
I think you're moving the goalposts. I didn't know this problem existed until OP's article taught me about it, but it seems pointless to continue this discussion.
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You may be interested in watching this from the same author where he compares various IDEs including Cursor.

Addy Osmani – The Ai-Assisted Developer Workflow: Build Faster and Smarter Today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpKtpW9TGF0
Xbox One sold 57.9M and Series family has sold 28.3M by mid 2024.

PS4 sold 117M and PS5 sold 61.7M by mid 2024.

Nintendo claims 150.9M Switch consoles sold as of the end of 2024.

That puts Microsoft at around 20.7%, Sony at 43%, and Nintendo at about 36.3%.

Even if you exclude Nintendo with a "no-true-gamer" fallacy, Microsoft still has just 32.5% of the market.

Windows was over 90% in 2007 and is just 72% today. If you include the super-important mobile market, Windows actual marketshare is something like 10-15% and even less if you include servers (where even most Azure servers run Linux).
> Why would this be an option even? Why allow apps to override a PRIVACY setting? It's like saying, you're allergic to peanuts, but ALLOW waiters to ignore your request, cor. This is becoming so ridiculous I'm struggling to find words to describe my utter disdain and contempt for these low-IQ games.

Author is both complaining about being railroaded and about being given choices paragraphs apart.

> All in all, a meaningless chapter in a meaningless story.

Author is self aware.
The GDP per capita in Singapore is roughly double that of the UK, so health spending per capita is similar. I cant find latest figures, but it seems it is somewhere around 20% higher spend in UK.

On the other hand, there are EU countries such as lithuania and estonia, that spend less than half per capita of Singapore, and are ranked with a higher healthcare index.
Show HN: Sermons – Bounty Program for Developer Evangelism
Hey HN,

I used to run a startup in influencer marketing before working in developer relations at a mid-sized tech company. While there, I saw how dev evangelists create content to evangelize a product.

But most early-stage startups and small companies can’t afford to hire full-time DevRel professionals. At the same time, there’s a ton of DevRel work that needs to happen —docs, starter GitHub repos, video tutorials, integration guides.

So I built Sermons—a platform where startups can post DevRel bounties, and curated developers can get paid to create:

1. Documentation (API references, integration guides)

2. Tutorials (blog posts, walkthroughs, starter templates)

3. Video content (demos, feature breakdowns)

4. Code examples (sample implementations, SDKs)

Why?

1. Startups get DevRel before hiring full-time

2. Developers earn money & build their portfolios

3. No long-term contracts—just bounties

Would love feedback from both sides:

If you're a startup, would this help you?
If you're a developer, would you take on these bounties?

Check it out here: https://sermons.co.in/
> EU small software companies pay estimated extra 400 EUR/year

[citation needed]
For the first question in the challenge, even asking "what is soman?" blocks the response. How is that an inherently harmful question?
When the very first sentence of your premise is false, why read the rest?
Everything related to what's going on in Washington seems to have been buried and flagged.
I'll be pirating a copy of LTSC when MS stops security updates to 10 Pro.
Why Pivot Tables Never Die
Nanite does a few things:

- continuous lod as this library does

- software rasterization for small single pixel triangles which reduces quad overdraw

- deferred materials (only material IDs and some geometry properties are written in the geometry pass to the gbuffers, which things like normal maps, base colour, roughness maps, etc being applied later with a single draw call per material)

- efficient instancing and batching of meshes and their mesh patches to allow arrows of objects to scale well as object count grows

- (edit, added later as I forgot) various streaming and compression techniques to efficiently stream/load at runtime and reduce runtime memory usage and bandwidth like vertex quantization etc.
The flip videos on the landing page don't play on my Android 15 phone using Brave 1.74.51 on Chromium 132.0.6834.160. I can confirm they do play on my Mac while using the Brave browser, though.
I made a HTML and CSS platforming game
For a while I've had the idea in the back of my head, of a game where someone can learn HTML and CSS by actually jumping across/ interacting with the things they are creating and changing.

Normally I'm sure that using canvas or something would be a much better plan for this kind of thing, but it really mattered to me that user inputted HTML and CSS behaved as close as possible to how it would in the real world. A fair bit of research told me that trying to emulate that on canvas wouldn't work well.

So, instead - the game has logic to add user-submitted HTML and CSS directly to the page. On each new code submission the game updates its list of object you might hit. On each step of the game loop, the collision detection service checks each of the listed objects with some fairly simple bounding box stuff.

I have to say I really enjoyed some of the levels, and coming up with ways to make things like "border radius" tangible in the game world. I would have loved to include challenge levels where CSS experts can test their skills, unfortunately because of the limitations of the implementation that doesn't look possible, but if anyone has ideas I would love to hear them.

Had to include a couple hacks to make all of that work well. I.e. having the cube constantly bounce massively simplifies things because the game only has to detect impact and trigger a jump. That's important because there's no real communication between the game state and CSS animations, apart from when the loop is checking for collisions. So instead of having to handle the process of moving the player up and down at the same speed as platforms, we just trigger a jump, the player probably doesn't notice any significant overlap between the cube and the moving platform, and if the platform is moving up/down it's just that the next bounce comes sooner or later.
As we say: promises only bind those who believe in them.

Unless it is written and signed in some form of paper given when vehicle is sold, it doesn't mean anything legally.
But WinDefender lies... it can claim to be off, but some parts are still active.

I use a Remote Desktop hack to allow more than one user to be logged in at the same time (e.g. 1 on the physical terminal and 1 over RDP, officially if someone tries to RDP in, the physical user needs to log out), of course it's a hack, and WinDefender classifies this as a malware RAT. Why yes it is a remote access tool, and it's your own, why should it be blocked?

Anyway on Win10, virus and threat protection could be described as off, but clicking "manage settings", there are more toggles, some of them are on, despite the summary saying "it's off". I just looked, a thing called "Real-time protection" has the description "You can turn off this setting for a short time before it turns back on automatically.".

It's definitely not your computer... yeah yeah yeah it's for noobs, and I can probably ask ChatGPT what registry setting I need to tweak to actually turn it off. But all these lies and user hostility!
Someone who had worked on the inside commented here that the Windows 10 design team didn't even use Windows, and things suddenly made so much more sense.

I think there's been some interesting changes on the kernel and user-space API side, but it's drowning in the UI shit show.

It's very clear usability is no longer a priority, and they change things just for the sake of change.
Maybe sound a little less excited about it lol
That "Features included" selection is golden, the "Every file is called index to turn your code editor into a fun maze for the entire family to enjoy." item actually made me laugh out loud.
I think that's right. At some level, any anticipation of a future state has to be measurable in some kind of confidence level.

I suppose where I get lost is that, at least subjectively, I end up treating different anticipated return distributions differently. I want a mixture of risks, both in terms of their covariance and the absolute properties.

When I think of "speculation", I am intentionally shaping only a small portion of my personal portfolio toward high risk, high reward activities. And I only really feel comfortable doing that because a larger fraction of my personal risk is in safer vehicles.

Atop that, I also think a lot about liquidity time bounds. I want access to a reasonable amount of highly-liquid, low-risk investments. I need that flexibility to be safe in the event that I need to buy something.

To my eye at least, I qualitatively differentiate between speculative investments and these liquid/low risk ones. If I felt I only had one kind of risk, I would seek out the other in some proportion.
Yes, I have seen versal, in particular in defense and satcom. However, in just that field, I have also never seen an RFSoC.

I've seen lots of integrated RF transceivers that were tightly coupled to the FPGAs, but not shared on the same SoC.
Lenovo's Legion Glasses 2 are stylish, lighter, and better all-round
True, but at least the algorithms were deterministic, planned, and could be deciphered and improved if necessary.
Can we have open source and RISC-V inserted into the title to be more descriptive?
Those aren't different plans, they're different products. B2 is also not a backup product but an object storage product.
RCT: AI mammography led to 29% higher detection of cancer with no increase in FP
Yeah, we got a dev board of one of the higher-end RFSoc chips for a project we were doing in high-frequency trading (on the networking side over microwave), and we had to jump through a bunch of hoops for approval since they are mostly intended for defence.

Lot of phased-array radar and electronic warfare applications.
I don't have a dog in this race because I haven't used Windows as my primary OS since the Windows 8 days, but my main "makin money" computer, a threadripper 3970X workstation is not officially supported by Windows 11.

Five years after I got it there are very few consumer machines that are as powerful, or can address as much memory.

I know I can make it work through tricks and overrides but that's not good enough for consumers. Not hobbyists, regular people.
I also think Defender is the best AV solution. At the same time, it's a completely useless software, so there's no reason to leave it running. You both can be right. :)
> ai bias popup

It's all fun and games until AI models decide your type of people (blonde/brown/from that zip code/with that type of last name/went to that school/worked there in the past/have those facial features) are "bad" or "untrustworthy" or don't deserve healthcare or to be hired for that job or get a mortgage.

"AI" bias has existed for as long as we have had "AI" in its various forms. Remember ML algorithms classifying black people as monkeys? And the "solution" was to make them unable to find monkeys or primates. That one got big because of the implication.. when it's "people with the last name Smith being dumb", nobody will care
what benchmark is it failing to match up to? other than AI work I can't think of a use case for a home machine where it would really be even noticeably slow. certainly it's fine for compiling code and etc. 2017 doesn't really seem old to me since improvements in chips has slowed down.
> The IRA/CHIPS acts helped bring plants to the US soil. Industrial policy can work.

I see a lot of people say the CHIPS act is a success that should be duplicated but is there any evidence of this yet or is it merely because money was committed and promises were made? How much industrial output vs the amount of subsidies etc. It will probably take a decade before we know if it worked.
The only insurance is using libre software only and dropping them completely.
That doesn't mean anything. There's no reason to think a drone carrier ship would be smaller or cheaper then an aircraft carrier (if it was providing air capability at similar ranges, and if it's not then it'll be much more vulnerable).
I think this problem has already been solved without increasing word length: we should just use doubleplusungood and increment from there.
Another alternative would be adopting South Korea and Japan into closer orbits the way we unconditionally support Israel. South Korea and Japan have strong commercial shipbuilding industries, which are just in the past few years going idle because China is subsidizing theirs more aggressively.
> They seem to have enough to send overseas

If you mean the NDICI stuff, that's hardly 'sending money overseas', and it's a fairly tiny fraction of spending.

> and to spend on illegal economic migrants.

... What are you talking about here? What portion of the EU budget is spent on that? What activity specifically?

In the real world, most EU spending is on regional development, agricultural stuff, and operating the EU (civil service, enforcement bodies, etc etc). The EU is not a country and has only a very small budget (about 170bn/year).
>I guess the inflection point was PG turning to X to screech about "wokism" in support of oligarchs like Trump and Musk to snap this community out of it's pro-PG trance. Watching a billionaire cheer on the billionaire class as we plummet into technofeudalism is a hell of a wake up call.

In hindsight his (and Andreessen's techno-bullshit) have won a bet with Trump, those tweaker writings are very much aligning with the zeitgeist that's being imposed by Trump, Musk and their lackeys, they may even brag about having get there earlier than every other rich techbro.
Republicans in the US have made being culturally regressive and staying on top as a demographic (white straight christian men) a cornerstone of their politics since the civil rights era. That’s what it has meant to be a Republican for generations.
It's offtopic for the discussion, since this is strictly about the Linux kernel.

Also, you can just ignore the glibc and link statically with MUSL instead - this is useful for distro-agnostic cmdline tools but won't help much for UI programs, since all desktop functionality is inside DLLs (the X11 and GL DLLs might actually be more stable than the glibc though).

FWIW Windows had that same problem with the MSVC runtime DLLs until not too long ago. Only the traditional Win32 DLLs are guaranteed to exist on each Windows installation and with a stable API.
How about MANTFANG (for microsoft, apple, nvidia, tesla, facebook, amazon, netflix, google)? If you drop Tesla, you can have "MANFANG" which fits 2025 Hollywood's year of the werewolf or if you reorder them you could have "FATMANNG", a bit like the infamous FatMan and Little Boy. Or "GFATMANN". If you go by Google's "Alphabet" you could do "MANTAFAN". And probably many others WAY catchier AND slightly more complete than "FAANG", IMO.
Unless you have very specific applications that require* windows; desktop linux has been a great alternative for a decade or longer I think.

> 1- Things breaking seemingly randomly

This is/has always been the kicker; especially with security updates. If you're comfortable switching; just reinstalling in place is the 99% hammer solution to get back and running imo, and isn't that bad as a last-resort.