skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, I assume anyone using the words "stay mad" is actually the mad one. Just a note on your rhetoric, I have no opinion on El Salvador's bitcoins.
I think it's the emotional flavor of it. Things in the US government tend to move more slowly and filled with less apparent vitriol and vengeance. This seems like a slash and burn and to hell with people if they don't more outrightly pledge loyalty.

To me, at least.
Crazy how 90% of these fake PDF attacks could be averted if Apple just showed the file extensions be default. If someone sent me a "PDF" and I saw it had .app I would know right away its malware.
> In the past, some militaries used drums as a form of communication. The drums kept armies aligned on messages as simple as “advance” and “retreat.”

This is similarly used in games like Patapon!
Well, the laws in civil law countries that practice legal literalism are not open to interpretation. Eastern Europe, much of which is a part of the EU, is quite literalist.

The understanding is that interpreting laws leads to bias, partiality, and injustice; while following the letter of the law equally in each situation is the most just approach.
That's a great description of your product and target market. You should put that on your site as the value proposition.

I have tried a few times to set up portals for clients to review work and communicate on projects. Generally they don't use them, or they have their own system they want me to use. Very often they won't even use GitHub.

My clients almost never want to pay by credit card -- medium/larger companies don't pay their bills like that, though I have seen some adoption of card payment. I mainly get paid by bank transfer, or even paper checks (USA only). I have offered credit/debit card, PayPal, Wise, but if the company has a payables system you have to deal with that process.

Good luck!
There were at least a couple of guys on the Manhattan project giving information to Russia as well.
I'd say about $10k.

For that cost, you can get multiple production regions (for failover), dev/alpha/beta environments, a reasonable amount of CDN traffic, a bunch of databases and some halo services (like X-Ray/CloudWatch).
> The one that sent me over the edge was this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42917806

It's a longstanding principle on HN that proposed bills aren't really on topic unless there's something to prove otherwise. The reason is simple: most proposed bills never amount to anything. (And oftentimes are political stunts.)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

If attempts to ban DeepSeek in the US actually get anywhere, you can be sure there will be plenty of discussion on HN.
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> Deepseek has just shown that you probably can't beat the big labs with these resources

is that a new take? cause so far deepseek was considered as proof for small companies being able to compete with big players like openai ...
What's the Deal with Magnetic Fields?
Hypothetically, had FBI agents complied with completing the questionnaire and they had worked on the Jan 6th investigations, would it be legal for the administration to fire them based on that alone? Or would the agents be able to sue? My understanding is that they have limited collective bargaining rights compared to other federal employees, so presumably they'd only have whatever protections Congress provides all federal employees.
> One could name it "the aggressive and perhaps unprecedented transition of federal power going on in the US government right now" -something like that.

That is a tame way to call a coup a coup...

> but I have to point out that to invoke the analogy of Weimar is already to assume your conclusion.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

> If what-happens-after-Weimar happens, I'll be happy (well, not happy, but willing) to admit having made the wrong bet, if there's still time to do so.

Interesting way of seeing things go terribly sideways in a nicer light...

Though I have to put my loaded comment in much more nuanced terms, people call for neutrality in general but with the current happenings, and even if myself am not an engineer nor a US citizen nor living in the USA, but a physicist, I have to recall to most the duty of the Engineer

"I am an Engineer. In my profession, I take deep pride. To it, I owe solemn obligations.

As an engineer, I pledge to practice integrity and fair dealing, tolerance and respect, and to uphold devotion to the standards and dignity of my profession. I will always be conscious that my skill carries with it the obligation to serve humanity by making the best use of the Earth's precious wealth.

As an engineer, I shall participate in none but honest enterprises. When needed, my skill and knowledge shall be given, without reservation, for the public good. In the performance of duty, and in fidelity to my profession, I shall give my utmost."

In those trying times I think it is important for all of us to uphold basic principles that were guiding principles for the giants we rely on in our daily lives, and while I understand that some of us are bound by our work duties, I would like to wish that they would not cloud judgement for what is right.

Regardless of where we are, and what people might or might not believe, we are in for tough times ahead. And I still appreciate moderation and moderators, although it is a thankless job that usually gets more flak than it should...
They are supposed to be manouvered out with slowpaced schemes and retire for family reason not be fired in the open.

But ye it usually happens to some extent:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-trump-burrowin...
shiny object is shiny
If you just need a VM why not a plain EC2 instance? Why are you adding already lock-in to the secret sauce?
If you have ever spoken to a 16-20yo you will understand just how good these people are.
That’s still way too much. In my previous job I ran the site on $10 a month dual core cpu. It had decent traffic, live status updates, a live stream during 2 hours of the day, a successful e-commerce shop. The site was getting thousands of visits an hour and I was always surprised at how much bandwidth we would chew. It even survived a could have ddos attacks without issues. I also cached the hell out of it with memcached.

My past two previous projects have been on $5 vps with out issue. Some one really tried to bring one of them down with a ddos but gave up when it didn’t work.

A $5 VPS can take you very far if your project is well optimized.
Seems like one of those situations that the "BDFL" will need to (temporarily) drop the "B" to get things moving.

Joking aside, Rust for Linux seems to be entering a phase where rubber is hitting the road and some maintainers who thought that Rust would just go away are having to express their opposition more honestly. There are definitely reasons for and against Rust in the Linux kernel and I feel for them.

Actually this pattern happens in all spheres of life. Some change is introduced. First, people ignore/deny it thinking it won't affect them or they feel that the system is too strong and the change won't really happen. They are (probabilistically) right because successful change requires really superhuman drive which the Rust for Linux maintainers by luck/unluck (depending on who you are) happen to have.

Now real change is coming to the door of some maintainers. Some of them hate the melange of Rust and C the Linux kernel is likely to become in the coming years. So they are hoping that their subsystem can escape. But it can't if Rust is really going to be a viable rather than toy option.

I think Rust has been baking in the kernel for a long time -- The BDFL/DFL needs to informally poll the maintainers and take a definitive decision to cast Linux's lot with Rust (or not!?). The Experimental tag in Rust gives some people the hope that this Rust experiment could be ended. This experimental tag should be replaced with in-progress/not-mature tag to further send the message down the line.
IANAL, but at a glance:

U.S. Code § 1924 - Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material

U.S. Code § 371 - Obstructing or Impairing Legitimate Government Activity

Executive Order 14117 of February 28, 2024, “Preventing Access to Americans' Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern” (“the Order”) (though this may be rescinded by Trump)

If any of those BS Crypto plans[0] have any weight to them That's a straight out constitutional overstep

Article I, Section 8, Clause 5: "The Congress shall have Power . . . to coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; . . ."

I'm probably only scratching the surface here. I'm not surprised if there's a dozen other laws with legal ledger around this. You don't want any one man messing with the economy.

[0]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/02/02/this-...

>Now, as fears emerge Trump’s administration is “dangerously” undermining the U.S. dollar, Musk has confirmed he wants to put the U.S. Treasury on a blockchain, the technology that underpins bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—including Musk’s pet project dogecoin.
>Fauci non-partisan and more of a competent career expert

Then why did Fauci lie to Congress and got the Biden's pre-emptive pardon?
The Tax Foundation has a well-known conservative leaning mindset when they publicize data. They project the benefits for business and lower tax policy.

It is not a legit source for progressive tax policy.

The Congressional Budget Office has been the most reputable source for tax policy data. The current director was appointed by Trump 2019 and was retained through Biden's presidency.

The CBO is very wonky and so far as withstood partisan meddling by presidents.
I agree that the UX of Mastodon was not the best. I tried several times to use it and it just never "clicked". Bluesky just worked for me, almost without trying.

Maybe my problem with Mastodon was choosing the server to join. My brain knows that it's federated and it really doesn't matter which server you choose. However it always felt like I was choosing the wrong server somehow. Just that little bit of friction was enough to drive me away.
One way is for the people in the other branches of government—Congress (legislative) and Courts (judicial)—to stand up for their branches and fight against the executive.

The challenge is that people are more loyal to their political parties than their political branches, and the Constitution is built to check and balance branches, not parties.
> if you cannot hold a basic conversation about your life without using AI then something is terribly wrong.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the effect of Google Docs and Gmail forcing full AI, is a generation of people who can’t even talk about themselves, and can’t articulate even a single email.

Is it necessary? Perhaps. Will it make the world boring? Yes.
Don't know the AWS prices, but a bate metal box on Azure (or a VM) is exponentially more expensive than the same thing on literally any other provider. If you need only a VM to self-host, go anywhere else and you pay a fraction of Azure.
He talks about some of the extras he did in the post. Assembly, testing and pre-purchase inspections. I assume some of the markup will be removed when others enter the niche.

You can also find some deals on branded equipment on gov auction sites. People are buying lots there, refurbishing when required and reselling for similar markups.

All of the options require a bit of legwork and elbow grease.
> I like Rust, but my worst experiences with Rust are interop with C.

Could you elaborate? I find the interop to be quite nice. I mean, obviously, interop between any two languages cannot ever be "better" than the least good language at any one thing.
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IMF forced them to drop, but if they want to use crypto as legal tender, why use BTC which has high transaction fees? Why not something with low or zero fees and efficient chain? There is million of crypto out there and most open source, so govt could even launch their own coin on top of existing chains.
> Perhaps one reason startups work so well…

If you take any individual startup its probability of success is very low. Most startups fail. There is a very extreme survivorship bias at work when people say startups work well or that particular tactics are why startups are great etc (pointing at a successful startup).

Startups as a whole produce a lot of innovation because there is this extreme Darwinian process where the vast majority fail and a few succeed but you have a huge amount of risk-taking in parallel in a very compressed time frame.

Government generally doesn’t have the luxury of failure because the consequences for people’s lives are too extreme. So by definition government is going to be slower-moving and more risk-averse. They are essentially paying to reduce the standard deviation of possible outcomes because they can’t afford the risk of the extreme negative tail.
Why This Bicycle Needs Two Chains [video]
TBH the 31 year old was Fuchs who spied for the SU. So not really the best pick.
Do you need that? If a storm knocks my power out for a couple hours and my side project has an outage, that's fine.
What is the biggest moment of our lifetimes &c that isn't getting any discussion on HN's frontpage? That can't be right.

The OP only refers to a story about a proposed bill which (like most of those) probably isn't going anywhere, so I assume you must have something else in mind.
You're absolutely right. A little off-topic, but I've seen a similar problem on the on-prem side of things. Their server setups are a lot of the time completely overblown "because this is what the nice vendor recommended, they are great partners!"

Awesome, your 5 node Nutanix setup with 15 whole VMs is peaking at 5% of its total compute, 5% of its RAM, and 8% of its disk. Granted, I do work with medium sized businesses in the manufacturing sector, but so many get tricked into thinking they need 5 9s, when 3 is enough, and their setup isn't even providing 5 anyway because nothing else is downstream. Then 5 years later their warranty is up and they scrap it all and replace. It's crazy.

Kills me how many businesses contract this shit out and get tricked into spending a million on infra when they could just run 2 servers and pay a mid level engineer to manage it. "Not in the budget." Yeah, I wonder why.
No, it's literally what firewalls and DMZs are for.
I think this is the person's point. Many people in the past would see Fauci as a prime example of someone who is just a non-partisan career government servant, while others, which it seems you and many people in the current administration, see people like him as overtly partisan and borderline evil.

NB: I really disliked the preemptively pardoning. Like really really disliked it and wish it were not legal.
>>> I've done IT support for a number of devs across multiple companies and they all expect local admin and admin access to everything.

>> If someone can run a python script on your machine, it’s game over whether it’s running as admin or not.

> Yeah, that's why you don't do it that way. You're making my point.

I have to admit, I don't get your point here. If I am correct (and, if I am not, I welcome a correction):

1. Your original point was "Devs want local admin or admin access to everything.

2. GP's response was that even without any admin access of any type, he's hosed if his machine is compromised.

How does #2 above support or prove #1 above?
Probably still better than the non-technical people usually governing things.
I cannot corroborate the experience of the other commenter. 念 is very definitively nim6, with lim6 as a common variant/lazy pronunciation. It is not at all uncommon that words have a variant pronunciation when used in certain contexts (e.g. as jargon or slang), such as Wing Chun in your case, but the word itself is certainly not properly or even commonly pronounced the "lazy" way otherwise (c.f. 執念 zap1nim6; 萬念俱灰 maan6nim6keoi1fui1; 惡念 ok3nim6).

There are many cases where variant pronunciations sound natural, but (individually) "correct" pronunciations sound unnatural (e.g. 土瓜灣 tou2gwaa1waan1 "correct" but unnatural, tou2gwaa1waan4 "variant" and natural). I have never encountered a case where a correct pronunciation would be unnatural where "lazy" pronunciations would be natural.

On another note, your Cantonese sounds a bit unnatural (without many of the connecting words between thoughts) (typical for learners). A more natural phrasing might be something like this:
我打詠春嘅。學院(?)入面我師父同我哋都係讀lim嘅。反而如果有人讀nim會好奇怪。我想你明白粵卷唔使百分百啱晒嘅。講嘢可能淨係使啱八成到九成，大部份人都明你講嘅嘢。咁都OK嘅。學廣東話嘅學生可以多啲地方繼續學廣東話就可以越來越好。

A few notes on your usage:

"我都打詠春" 都 here seems unnecessary, as you have not discussed 詠春 previously.

"學院" slightly dubious, usually used for more academic purposes. For martial arts, 館 or 武館 may be more typical, but I suppose it is possible that your school brands itself as 學院.

"我師傅" "師傅" and "師父" sound the same, but mean quite different things. 師傅 is a polite name for someone working in some field, but 師父 is your master. (In fact this is another example of "lazy" or variant pronunciations, which is emphatically not always the correct pronunciation; 父 here is fu2, but by itself is definitively fu6)

"都話"lim"" "話" probably refers more to the topic of what someone says rather than the pronunciation, which the word "讀" would make clear, that we discuss pronunciation

"我推介你試吓明粵卷唔使係一百%啱" too be honest I'm not completely sure what this sentence means. I hope what I put was what you intended.

"一百%" 百分百 is more natural

"八十到九十%" 八成到九成 (lit. 8 10%s to 9 10%s) is more natural

"明你講乜嘢" (sounds like: understand what on earth you're saying) "乜嘢" emphasises the object like a question (i.e. sounds like a rhetorical question; when not a question, usually would be used when expressing frustration/complaining/scolding); no need to emphasise, "明你講嘅嘢" would be fine.

"學生可以繼續學廣東話。越來越好。" disjointed sentences, not completely sure your intended meaning. I hope what I put was what you intended.
Probably they will be imprisoned there for long enough so they are no longer dangerous once out. Or indefinitely.
Mice and ants are listed as some of the greater enemies of the datacenter according to a pest control company's website. I guess bees would cause some inconvenience too.
Any idea if the Coco Pops ad of Candeland's is online anywhere?
Yes I am certain that not everything El Salvador does is progressive, even before reading this link.

Some people called Obama progressive and he definitely helped destroy Libya and Syria, ordered the extrajudicial execution of a US citizen under presidential immunity, droned poor brown people living on the other side of the planet, let Citi group pick his cabinet, etc. Nevertheless, the progressive things that Obama did do were still progressive.
> Unicode's mission is to be able to represent all written text. Once you decide that flags should be part of that you kind of have to include all of them.

Unicode has decided flags shouldn’t be part of Unicode.

There are a few flag emoji that got included before they reached that decision and there are “regional indicator symbols” that often get displayed as flags, but that’s it. They won’t, for example, include flags of cantons of Liechtenstein.

See https://blog.unicode.org/2022/03/the-past-and-future-of-flag....
It's like, the complexity has to live somewhere.

I've seen successful serverless designs but the complexity gets pushed out of code and into service configuration / integration (it becomes arch spaghetti). These systems are difficult to properly test until deployed to cloud. Also, yeah, total vendor lock in. It works for some teams but is not my preference.
I love The Beatles. My favorite band maybe. Yet this year in Grammys the rock awards went to The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Makes me sad. Although I can appreciate and consume ”old” culture there is something important in that the cutting or derivative edge keeps
moving forward reflecting current times.
But then again: for a language as bare-bones as C, what more is there really to a good FFI system?
Show HN: I built a CLI to automate depth tracking on underwater videos
Hey HN,

I built depthviz, an open-source CLI tool that generates depth & time overlay videos from dive logs. It supports dive computers (Garmin, Suunto, Shearwater, Apnealizer) and manual input for freedivers who want to enhance their footage with real-time dive data.

Why I Built It:

Adding dive data to videos manually is tedious. depthviz automates this by reading dive logs (.fit, .csv, .xml) from various sources, generating an overlay video with real-time depth, allowing full customization (fonts, colors, depth smoothing, stroke width), and running on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

How It Works:

Export a dive log from a dive computer or create a manual CSV. Run a single command. Then import the overlay into CapCut, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, etc.

Looking for Feedback On:

README – Is it clear, engaging, and well-structured? (Most wanted!) / Installation & Usability – Is the setup intuitive enough? / or Anything you'd expect from a tool like this?

GitHub: https://github.com/noppanut15/depthviz

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You could set up a DMZ if you're concerned. But even if someone gets on my LAN, it's not the end of the world. They could send goatse to my Chromecast, I guess.