skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure if this applies here, but Regulatory Capture is a certain way to block the small players from growing. I understand that drugs are a special case, so I do not know if that applies there.

Also, the fact that a product fails post-acquisition is precisely what happens a lot in regular business too. They can be seen as a threat to other fiefdoms in the behemoth, or they lose their autonomy. Doesn't always mean the product or idea was flawed beyond repair.
Is this a spam submission to gain Karma. Not sure why you have a review of a product that no longer exists. I owned one and they were revolutionary at the time.
If everyone who supported a shift towards facism protested against everyone who did not, I believe you'd see much lower proportion than the 49% of voters who voted for Trump. In fact, you'd probably see a much lower proportion than the 31% of eligible voters who voted for Trump. I'd estimate maybe only half of people who voted for Trump actually support most of his policies. That puts it at just 11% of the population of the US and I think that's already far too generous. You are right, we should be democratic and allow people's views to be represented. But I don't think as many people support these policies as a simple count of the number of votes Trump received might suggest.
I just read a few pages of the Davinci Code, but it seemed like an Indiana Jones style story. Which must have been kind of fun to write. Plus all the money from his books must be pretty nice. Reminds me of this quite from

Michael Caine on 1987's 'Jaws: The Revenge': 'Someone said to me, “I saw that 'Jaws 4' - it stinks” - and I said, “I haven't seen it, but I've seen the house it bought my mother, and it's marvelous.
the "gulf of america" thing is Google pandering to Trump, they originally had a policy of only using the popular name in a given locale.

> if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage.

https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-deter...
Yeah you don't really have much moral ground to stand on there.
When the da Vinci code came out I was traveling every week for work as a programmer consultant. I saw so many middle-aged women reading this book in airports that I became convinced that it was a self-help book.

I read the first few paragraphs of this submission (sorry, didn’t finish, I swear I already read this years ago) and to my surprise I realized that I’ve read every single book Dan brown published.

I read good stuff too… :(
The hard part is that except for the insiders using the drama to enrich themselves, nobody really knows.

My guess is that POTUS, who fancies himself a master negotiator, will try to leverage this to get some concession to declare victory and grift some money - the markets are going to crash and I’m sure the whole Trump, Elon, and the billionaire family and their orbit has pits and short sales in for next week.

The question is what will other countries do? Targeting software is an obvious way to inflict pain on the US government.

You and I are pawns. For you, the smart move is to be prepared to slash your costs quickly. That means figure out what costs you can slash. Have an idea of who to lay off, what contracts to terminate, and what services to drop. If you depend on foreign partners, how do you afford a higher rate or replace them with someone in your jurisdiction? The goal is survive to fight another day if you depend on foreign trade or on US business of you are outside the US.

All of this sucks and will hurt a lot of people. But it’s outside of your control, accept that and don’t blame yourself.
Aider is fantastic. Worth a look.
You’re saying this on HN, where plenty of people work on software affecting tens of millions of people. You wanna leave your phone number and explain your “well I ain’t offended” strategy to the next PM who’ll ask you about their users in Taiwan? The Russian speakers in Ukraine who saw their homes demolished by those who brandish the flag you’re not offended by? Maybe I should just invite you to my country of Belgium (four languages, not one of them being “the Belgian one”) for you to see what people here routinely think of those who can’t imagine the simple differences :)
There are very few countries with multiple equally-influential languages that don't have better alternatives for flags.

It's a pain to phrase, but: There is no reason to use the Swiss flag to indicate a language. French has the French flag. German has the German flag. Etc. There are dialects, as a nuance to this, but you can solve that by e.g. using a 50/50 merge of the German and Swiss flags.

Countries may have ambiguous languages, but _languages very rarely have ambiguous countries_. Sure, there are Finnish speakers in Sweden, but the Swedish flag remains a clear indicator of the Swedish language.

Hindi and India is the main exception to this. Arabic is also difficult, though Egypt seems to have a slight edge by convention.

> UX/UI designers have rightfully been banging the "don't use country flags to indicate languages" drum for literally decades

I sympathise, and if they have any better ideas than a textual list that users need to read through rather than quickly scan (not very good UX...), I'd love to hear them. From a _UX perspective_, is there something better than the flag cloud at https://nuenki.app for quickly asking "is my target language supported"?
> Lumen really being an evil cult - as opposed to just an evil company - in "reality", feels less satirical and more ham-fisted.

Agreed. The 'banality of evil' horror of the first season was the show's strongest point.

Sadly, I expect it will eventually suffer from the same thing that torpedoed Lost:

1. Fans are originally attracted by the mystery and unexplained.

2. Those same fans then clamour for explanations.

3. Then when the show explains things, it loses its mystery and/or people complain the explanations aren't good enough.

To me, the only winning plot move is not to play: drip just enough teasy but mysterious stuff that nothing is ever explained, but everyone stays on the edge of their seats.

Then it can be incredibly successful, and people can bitch about the finale 30 years from now.
They always had that option but somehow it was cheaper to ship there and back than to manufacture in US.
So either you get 2x the tariff increase in price or you manufacture locally for something that increases the price by more than 2x shipping.
Oh no, indeed.
Over the years, I've walked from several "live coding" interviews. Arguably though, if you're looking for "social coders" maybe the interview is working as intended?

But for me, it's just not how my brain works. If someone is watching me, I'll be so self-conscious the entire time you'll get a stream of absolute nonsense that makes me look like I learned programming from YouTube last night. So it's not worth the time.

You want some good programming done? I need headphones, loud music, a closed door and a supply of Diet Coke. I'll see you in a few hours.
Thanks for asking.

The right side of the machine was home to three hidden connectors: mini DisplayPort, USB and line out.

> they were revolutionary at the time

These ports would be revolutionary in 2025 MacBook Air.
Flag emoijis are a political nightmare.

Who is a country? Who is an autonomous region?

Which flag to use for disputed countries (e.g. do you use the taliban flag for afghanistan despite how much the western world doesn't like it).

Not to mention people might not like the flag changing in their own messages after a take over. Imagine if russia wins the war in ukraine and all the patriotic ukrainians suddenly have the ukrainian flag in their old writings replaced with russian ones after a software update. Feels like something out of 1984.
Related: Paraguay Loves Mickey, Its Cartoon Mouse. Disney Doesn’t - https://archive.ph/4E2Cj
Activities are just FIT files that can be accessed over USB.
It is subtextual, but also emergent in his overall political stance. His argument is that there has been a negative shift in the economy because capitalism died and technofeudalism took it's place. It is inherent in that stance that one sees the old state of afairs as better. Varoufakis will never state this outloud as clear as i state it here, but you can read his political party programme (mera25) to validate yourself that his polotical proposals are very clearly implemented witihin the capitalist economy without even hint of socialism or communism.

> One can observe a transition without taking sides, can they?

One can, he cant. He was a prime minister and has been a party leader with concrete political views and policies for many years
Cool. Is this a wrapper for https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use ?
ISBN and LoC Classification serve totally different purposes.

ISBN identifies a specific publication, which may or may not be a distinct work. In practice, a given published work (say, identified by an author, title, publication date, and language) might have several ISBNs associated with it, for trade hardcover, trade paperback, library edition, large print, Braille, audio book, etc. On account of how ISBNs are issued, the principle organisation is by country and publisher. This also means that the same author/title/pubdate tuple may well have widely varying ISBNs for, say, US, Canadian, UK, Australian, NZ, and other country's version of the same English-language text.

There are other similar identifiers such as the LoC's publication number (issued sequentially by year), the OCLC's identifier, or (for journal publications) DOI. Each of these simply identify a distinct publication without providing any significant classification function.[1]

The LoC Classification, as the name suggests, organises a book within a subject-based ontology. Whilst different editions, formats, and/or national versions of a book might have distinct LoC Classifications, those will be tightly coupled and most of the sequence will be shared amongst those books. The LoC Classification can be used to identify substantively related material, e.g., books on economics, history, military science, religion, or whatever, in ways which ISBN simply cannot.

As I've noted, the Classification is freely available, as PDFs, WordPerfect, and MS Word files, at the URLs I'd given previously. Those aren't particularly useful as machine-readable structured formats, however.

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Notes:

1. Weasel-word "significant" included as those identifiers provide some classification, but generally by year, publisher, publication, etc., and not specifically classifying the work itself.
The issue isn't whether someone else had a contrary opinion: the issue is that (just going by the linked reports) Bernardo De Bernardinis came out from the meeting with the scientists and informed the public that there was "no danger". Now, either the scientists felt that this was a reasonable summary of what they had said, or they didn't: either of those is bad, in different ways.
> As an Australian, I somehow manage not to be entirely baffled by a US/UK flag icon in a language screen.

As an australian, when was the last time the Australian flag was the incorrect choice for you? I'm going to guess never.
Looks like a great lineup, can't wait!
I was backpacking through Europe when I read the Da Vinci code. It was dumb cheap fun, nothing bad about that at all. It was cool to be on a bus cross into a country that the characters were also trying to sneak into.
I have genuinely been surprised by all the negative comments about Dan Brown and his novels. I read his novels when I was in middle/high school (in a developing country) and I loved them, especially The Da Vinci Code. I remember waiting to get my hands on it from the school library and then reading the entire novel in one sitting (which was a first for me).

It's been ages since I have read one of his books. After seeing multiple threads like this I am reluctant to read again one of his books. I am afraid that I might "overwrite/destroy" the good memories I have of the "feeling" of reading his books.
Blame is certainly going to be part of the introspective process if you've ever experienced any trauma caused by anyone else.
Even in this example it is a yes and no. Remove academic development in the AI, including the paths we left, and your examples would not have any AI at all.

The problem is a little bit more nuanced than that though. It is not that big companies do not make inventions. Often, these inventions do not survive politically in the behemoth. That is why some companies decide to create a spinoff, knowing that their own body would be trying to kill the growth of their offspring.
Show HN: Quizzer – Retain More from Podcasts
I built Quizzer to solve a problem I’ve struggled with: we consume a ton of great insights from podcasts, but don’t retain or apply them.

The Problem:

1. Podcasts are passive consumption.

- Episodes don’t pause for reflection, and most people don’t take notes.

- Even if you hear something valuable, the episode keeps going, and you forget to act.

2. No natural retrieval mechanism.

- Listeners rarely revisit old episodes.

- Without recall & reflection, even the best ideas fade fast.

3. Application requires intentional effort.

- Many insights are useful only if acted upon, e.g. protocols for health & fitness

The Solution: Quizzer

Demo video: https://youtu.be/q53HuXprAbM

Link to my MVP: https://quizzer-f900c.web.app/

Quizzer lets you generate short quizzes from podcasts to reinforce key takeaways. Just drop in a link, and it creates questions to test your recall.

- Turns passive listening into active learning.

- Strengthens retention through self-testing.

I'm also open to feedback on other ideas:

1. Incorporating spaced-repetition into Quizzer through weekly quizzes that fuse insights from multiple podcasts you've listened to in the past week and earlier.

2. A podcast app designed to track and apply insights through multiple features:

- Intentional reminders (e.g., “Did you try cold exposure this week?”) to encourage action.

- Quiz recaps for each episode that you can take on-demand to reinforce learning (similar to the web app, but included at the end of each episode by default).

- Transcript integration to easily view the episode text and bookmark key insights.

Would any of these ideas help you get more out of your podcast listening experience?

I’m testing whether there’s demand for this kind of tool. Would love your thoughts!
Rather have a automated "natural voice" because most of the call centers I have delt with have foreign accents that are very difficult to listen to and they miss most of the muinced language of my country.
> they're squarely in so-bad-it's-good territory.

I wouldn't say they are bad at all. They are just pulp/popcorn fiction and not trying to be more than that. MCU movies considered good are not bad just because they are not trying to be more than they are.
That's great unless you're scrolling through 200 languages trying to find yours and can't figure out how they're sorted. Remind me again, does မြန်မာစကား come before or after चम्बयाळी ?
I imagine most of the things that would be good uses for seniors in AI aren't great uses for a coding interview anyway.

"Oh, I don't remember how to do parameterized testing in junit, okay, I'll just copy-paste like crazy, or make a big for-loop in this single test case"

"Oh, I don't remember the API call for this one thing, okay, I'll just chat with the interviewer, maybe they remember - or I'll just say 'this function does this' and the interviewer and I will just agree that it does that".

Things more complicated than that that need exact answers shouldn't exist in an interview.
In my experience, the long intervals can freak you out at the beginning. You might think that it's just stupid and not possible to have that long intervals ("I will remember that in 3 years!?").

But in practice long intervals are shortened when you answer wrong once or more, or when you mark the answer as "hard" when it actually takes time for you to recall a card.

For me FSRF really work well, sometimes I see cards that I feel are really showing quite often and when I check the card history it usually shows that I had some "again"/"hard" answers in some recent past, and because of that these intervals and not increasing that much.

Plus you can also always increase "desired retention" from default 90%. You will have shorter intervals, but it will of course increase number of the reviews too.
Because 2022 is when FSD 11 was released, which dramatically reduced interventions per mile and is largely regarded as the "step function improvement" release that demonstrated unambiguously that mass-market autonomy was real and coming.

Funny, isn't it, how the goalposts keep shifting?
Yep, if I’m forced to talk through the problem, I’ll force myself to go through various things that you might want to hear, that I wouldn’t do.

Whereas my natural approach would be to take a long shower, workout etc and let my brain wander a bit before digging into it. But that wouldn’t fly during an interview..
> Believe it or not but a vast majority of readers have no interest drowning in materiel specs while reading a book

But surely Tom Clancy fans DO like reading this stuff? There isn't much else!

> because who wants to hear about all those random whale facts?

well, me at least - some of the best bits of the book (one of my favourites)
I’ve screened a lot of resumes and given a lot of interviews over the years, and it’s usually obvious when people are trying the scattershot approach, they just don’t match. I feel like treating it like a quantity game is unlikely to improve your odds, and tbh spamming out hundreds or thousands of applications sounds like a miserable way to spend time. You could spend that time meeting and talking to people. I’ve never applied to more than 2 jobs at once, jobs that I actually want, and never had trouble getting at least one of them (and it still takes time and effort and some coding and interviews).
Are there any books (on RL) which are more hands-on and look at the implementations more than the theory?
>to you it seems like your data but to Walgreens they see it as theirs

the value of this data comes from what did I buy, what else do I buy, where am I, who I am, etc.

to your point, Walgreens does not sell to their competitor CVS data about what they sell, when, and where.

so if that really is their argument, it's refutable.
I’ve been playing with it and I don’t like it that much? I’m not sure why. It feels a little buggy and like it’s doing too much.
I can program in a dozen languages or so, so I'm not coming at it from some place of knowing python and complaining about C#. There's plenty to complain about in python's typing.

Having to hand annotate classes to indicate interface membership instead of just writing classes and letting the compiler perform structural analysis depending on their usage is annoying.

If f# has fixed that, good for it.
Except not everyone in a corporation has the right to speech. I'm prohibited by my employer to say anything on the company's behalf, but the C-suite and board are able to speak on my behalf. So, the company's leadership has a right to free speech, I don't.
The constitutional crisis started in 2017 when the unelected civil service declared “Resistance” to the elected President’s policies. That goes to the heart of whether the executive branch—the largest and most powerful branch today, to which Congress has unwisely abdicated much of its constitutional authority—is under democratic control.

Whatever arguments people have about whether the President can stop payment on block grants versus earmarks are trifles in comparison.
The Classification doesn't establish unique positions, no, but it serves as the backbone on which those unique call numbers are generated. First the subject and sub-subject classifications, then specific identifiers generally based on title, author, and publication date.

But the detail of the Classification serves the needs and interests of librarians and readers in that you'll, for fairly obvious reasons, need more detail where there are more works, less where there are fewer, and of course changes to reality, as any good contributing editor to The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the reference, not D. Adam's charming account loosely linked to it) can tell you, play havok with pre-ordained organisational schemes.

The LoC Classifiction itself is itself only one of these. There are other library classifications, as well as a number of interesting ontologies dating back to Aristotle and including both Bacons, Diderot, encyclopedists of various stripes, and more.
> "Widespread robots that make their own decisions autonomously will probably be very bad for humans if they make decisions that aren't in our interest" isn't really that much of a stretch is it?

We already have widespread humans making their own decisions autonomously that aren’t in the best interest of humans, and we’re all still here.
Tbh I’m very happy these tools exist. If your company wants to ask dumb formulaic leetcode questions and doesn’t care about the candidate’s actual ability then this is what you deserve. If they can automate the interview so well then they should also be able to automate the job right? Or are your interview questions not representative of what the job actually entails?
How will they be cheaper if a significant portion of the components and raw materials are tariffed to a larger degree?
How so? Tons of companies are moving to AI automated intake systems because they're getting flooded with low-quality AI generated resumes. Of course, the original online applications systems were terrible already which is what encouraged people towards low effort in their applications so it's become a stale-mate.
There are hobby metal printers that may eventually be applicable to regular consumer markets.

The reason "open public development" stalled was people were tired of subsidizing cloner companies with engineering projects, and disillusioned by the complete lack of community loyalty to the original authors. i.e. people proved they also didn't want to help pay the original sunk cost just like cloners, and would still get pissy when asking the hapless for support.

This is why some have our own metal printers... and the public gets 20 year old glue dispensers on a flimsy CNC platform.

Try building your own, it is actually not as hard as people assume. lol =3
yeah, they get called fish (something that swims, like modern military torpedo), but the whalers knew they were not
Well they're not really engineers then are they?
I think this is the first interview cheating tool I've seen that feels morally justified to me. I wonder if it will actually change company behavior at all.
While I agree that there might be political concerns regarding national flag appearance, but Unicode clearly defines country codes and corresponding country names: https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/latest/emoji-sequences.txt
I use Unbound as my local dns resolver, and it has an option to live dump unique names to a file (but not the ips that requested it.) Its easy to parse and you get a general idea whats passing through; the individual clients don't matter to me unless something looks like its worth investigating, then use dnstop for specifics.

Edit: I forgot not all traffic will use the local resolver, so dnstop would be more accurate
One switch.. that ignores user setting and turns on after every update.
That's why it should be the browsers & OS's that enforce such privacy measures... it shouldn't be an option that my Grandma needs to enable...
There are personal exemption limits already at $800 per person returning from abroad.