skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I developed an open source "user management system" circa 2001 which I used on several sites, including one that had 400,000+ users, a famous preprint archive and the web site of a county-level green party. It was patterned on what sites like Yahoo and Amazon had at the time, did email verification and numerous things that were a hassle to implement, had great screens for the administrators, all of that.

I couldn't get anybody else to adopt this software despite putting a lot of work into making it easy to pick up and install.

10 years later competitors popped up like mushrooms and were adopted quickly. The thing they all had in common was somebody else owned your user database. So yeah I feel pretty cynical.
Using XCode is... unfortunate. Used it for only 10 minutes today and had a crash. Performance was very bad.

(Here's a bad one: I accidentally copied a whole file into the Find and Replace box. Instant Freeze and 1 frame per minute response.)
I have created something similar, which you can find here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blocked-websi....

The extension redirects blocked pages to a humorous page featuring GIFs: https://giphy.com/explore/this-is-bullshit.
And occasional face to face team meetings are part of that work at many companies. If you don't want to participate you're probably better off finding a company that doesn't have such an expectation.
It wouldn't be such a problem if we didn't post with headline capitalization. Only capitalize the first word and proper nouns (and oddly 'I').
Trump launches trade war against Canada with a 25% tariff on most goods
Ah, good ol' Manna. https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
https://archive.is/fbYIh
Lawsuits take a very long time, but a court injunction can control which way that time is spent.
My reading of this is that it will be tied to owners, not necessarily authors.

Today, when code does illegal things, the company gets sued.

This applies that to AI as well, which is that employers are liable, not that they can pin it on the dev that actually made the implementation.

You’re still incentivized to not get your employer sued, since you’ll get fired, same as today.

This just removes the “a robot did it” immunity. For self driving cars, this is a win, since if you die due to waymo, your literal death concludes as a hypothetical as it currently stands.
so far there doesn't seem to be any evidence that the air traffic controller contributed to the accident. the article serves as a reminder that there is a shortage of air traffic controllers across the country and this shortage has the potential to reduce safety overall
I'm not sure if I would recommend Ubuntu anymore. Currently typing from an Ubuntu laptop. I doubt my next one will be Ubuntu.

I have found the snap user experience to be quite poor. Popups telling me I need to upgrade. The most annoying being Firefox, where it wants me to to not be running Firefox to upgrade, but fails to notice on reboot that now would be a good time to do that. Consequently even after multiple reboots it persists on the old version and complains about it.

I have the option of manually triggering the snap upgrade when I reboot, or to close everything and either manually trigger or leave the laptop not running anything in the hope will decide to update.

Am now fetching Firefox from packages.mozilla.org which helps that aspect a lot, but I'd rather not have to go through fixing the user experience each time I install.

Also, upgrade messages that seem to imply that there are security fixes being withheld because you do not have Ubuntu Pro are noxious.
Xcode is fine as long as you skip Interface Builder and make a point to keep your SwiftUI views lightweight. For the latter my rule of thumb is to try to cap nesting in any given view at 3 levels and to break code out into new components for anything deeper, which is a good practice since readability starts declining steeply past 2-3 levels deep anyway.

It doesn’t have all the whizbang features of Jetbrains IDEs, but my experience is that those sorts of features only work correctly sometimes and can be as much of a hindrance as they are a help.
That's a good way to put it. Though ADHD can also have high focus and then "fuck it I don't care anymore I'm all about x now" lol. But I think you're right about the characterization of distraction. For example in my undergrad I might not do my physics homework but I'm not playing videogames or something I'd do things like trying to use that same physics to program simulations or try to solve other problems that were more interesting to me. Or used that time to teach myself programming, Linux, or other types of math that weren't being taught. It's both a distraction and not. But at first I was very confused at what you were suggesting.
yeah, what do you think this field is called, software engineering?
Posting slurs like this will get you banned here. Please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
the product formed from taking tree fiber and creating thin sheets of semi-translucent paper, frequently used with a toilet or for blowing one's nose, has no legal name.
New thermogalvanic tech paves way for more efficient fridges
Patrick Collison interview and at least five interesting things (#58)
I think openfeature.dev is an attractive proposition these days - start off with an env-based provider or roll your own and if you get to a point where you need to buy, you only need to swap over a provider (or use a multi-provider).
Assassination and suicide both seem non-defensive, unless you use a very broad definition of defense.
"Solvation entropy engineering of thermogalvanic electrolytes for efficient electrochemical refrigeration" (2025)
https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(25)00003-0
Why do people feel the need to point out this obvious straw man as if it's some gotcha? Can we not drag the conversation down to this level, please?

No one is saying you should calmly explain to your child that they should move because they are about to get hit by a car as a Ford Explorer bears down on them at 40MPH. Get the kid out of imminent danger, and then have the conversation, obviously.

If you usually explain to your kids why you're asking them to do things, then a lot of kids are going to recognize that when you yell at them to get out of the street with no immediate explanation, there's some urgency to the situation, because you've earned the trust that you ask them to do things for a good reason. But if everything you tell them to do has no explanation, then it's just another thing you're asking them to do for no apparent reason, so there's no reason to take the request any more seriously.
As much as I am loathe to make another political comment, I think it needs to be said because I am opposed to ideological extremism masquerading as intellectualism. I don’t know if Yavin personally wants this, but many translate his ideas into a “white, Christian, male excellence” utopia. So let’s examine some uncomfortable truths.

If you examine any group of people along race, gender, or religion, you’ll find a Gaussian distribution of capability along any given axis. The practical consequence of this is that many mediocre people who have the “home field advantage” of being the majority culture in a country, end up in places which seem to require above average contributions from minorities in that same country. This phenomenon occurs in all countries, regardless of majority race or religion, and it doesn’t necessarily reflect systemic racism or oppression. People are biased towards other people who they see as themselves, but that cognitive bias is not inherently racist or sexist.

But let’s take Yavin, for example. He is a computer science PhD drop out whose philosophy is being written about in national media. Is there any non-white person in America who has a similar advantage, or the advantage to be taken seriously by anyone who matters? I don’t want an influx of mediocrity for the sake of inclusivity, but I don’t believe that only “white, Christian, males” have interesting ideas.

History has shown that great intellectual and scientific works came from all different cultures and societies. So many mediocre people who have the “home field advantage” by being part of the majority culture of their country get far by pretending that they are “one of the best”, while they individually may not even be fit to be a middle manager, or wait staff at a high-end restaurant.

America, in particular, has seen so much success particularly because it promises the idea of a “melting pot”, where if you are American, it doesn’t matter your race, gender, or religion. Your skills and thought contributed to a greater national identity and culture. In fact, I would say that’s probably why Yavin’s family came to America. So I find it ironic that he stands against such ideals for individual merit and liberties when he benefited from them himself.

Let’s end on a practical note about why thinking along the lines of race, gender and religion is dangerous. Post-9/11 America saw an increase in Islamophobia, but there is a sizable portion of American Muslims who hold security clearances. However, the most well-known examples of betraying American secrets have thus far been white, (sometimes) Christian, males.

As a final note, if we’re so intent on forming a technocratic meritocracy, then I am not going to take anything a PhD dropout has to say seriously.
I'm not sure Natalie has. She knows she needs to give the appearance in order to keep her position. IMHO she was coaching Seth as to what the right response was.
Hard to objectively evaluate with understanding your goals. Why the redesign? What parts of the existing UI weren’t working for you, and why? What decision process went into each part of the stack you’ve used?

Most importantly, what specifically are you trying to learn from this prototype?

My (subjective) feedback of the mobile experience:

- Scroll broken on mobile Safari (iOS 18.2.1).

- Information density is very low compared to vanilla HN, without a visible benefit.

- Force-opening links in new tabs breaks my workflow, as I prefer to use the back button to return to HN rather than find the tab among my hundreds of open ones.

- Touch target of top links (Show, etc) is very small and thus difficult to interact with.
They sometimes are. If you're using a biased source to fact-check, you're just transitively applying that bias.
> It's unclear whether this applies to state law enforcement or only the citizenship

A few months ago I might have pointed out that nobody is above the law.

Alas, you now have a damn good point.
I have to laugh at the trump administration idiocy with saying they are removing "these rogue, partisan bureaucrats", when, clearly, she's been there through 6 administrations... SMH.
Could you please not use HN for ideological battle? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for, regardless of which ideology you're for or against.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> have no academic basis to apply to a top school

Then what exactly are you complaining about? You clearly didn't deserve that college experience.
>I think insisting that everyone wait until after a dictatorship is fully embedded and engaging in retaliation against political enemies

You realize this is a democratically elected government whose leader was already president once without a dictatorship?

Just a couple of weeks ago a federal court stopped his plans to end birthright citizenship in its tracks, and what was Trump's response? "We'll appeal it in court".... Oh damn! all those dictatoring plans stopped by the monstrous hurdle of constitutionally mandated judicial oversight.... You'd almost think he's not quite.... a dictator.

This kind of tedious hyperbole not only ran rampant before and during the first four years, it also made it harder to make genuine criticisms of Trump gain attention. With so much hysteria about every bullshit little thing being touted far and wide as an example of a 21st century Hitlerism, it's easy for the critics to be viewed as a laughing stock except in their own little echo chambers of like-thinkers.
It was quite easy to skim over some original source material from both sinceriously.fyi and zizians.info. By my quick reading, and taking a very high level view, the philosophy is responsible for the trans and also for the violence. But an article harping on the correlation as implied causation without focusing on the hidden variable behind them both is just trying to fuel the fire of the reactionary movement. In general, averaging two different flavors of extremist reporting is not a way for obtaining truth.
I'm quoted in this article. Happy to discuss what we're working on at the Library Innovation Lab if anyone has questions.

There's lots of people making copies of things right now, which is great -- Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe. It's your data, why not have a copy?

One thing I think we can contribute here as an institution is timestamping and provenance. Our copy of data.gov is made with https://github.com/harvard-lil/bag-nabit , which extends BagIt format to sign archives with email/domain/document certificates. That way (once we have a public endpoint) you can make your own copy with rclone, pass it around, but still verify it hasn't been modified since we made it.

Some open questions we'd love help on --

* One is that it's hard to tell what's disappearing and what's just moving. If you do a raw comparison of snapshots, there's things like 2011-glass-buttes-exploration-and-drilling-535cf being replaced by 2011-glass-buttes-exploration-and-drilling-236cf, but it's still exactly the same data; it's a rename rather than a delete and add. We need some data munging to work out what's actually changing.

* Another is how to find the most valuable things to preserve that aren't directly linked from the catalog. If a data.gov entry links to a csv, we have it. If it links to an html landing page, we have the landing page. It would be great to do some analysis to figure out the most valuable stuff behind the landing pages.
Of course, and any country which a president of is not on X gets 75% tariffs on everything slapped on starting tomorrow.
The "AI did it" defense as defined in this bill seems like it clearly ought to be valid. If a CNC machine injures someone, and the victim sues the operator, I don't see why he should be unable to argue that it wasn't his fault because the machine malfunctioned.
I believe it is vaporized then (partially) ionized by bombardment with electrons.
I work in hydrogen and I have semi-solid information* that there is a real economic case for hydrogen as a fuel for large mining equipment. The story as I heard it: the overall output of a mine is often bottlenecked by air quality permits, which effectively limit the amount of diesel/gas/etc that can be burned. How can you run giant mining vehicles in the middle of nowhere without fossil fuels? You can truck in hydrogen or you can truck in batteries, and apparently, hydrogen is the cheaper answer. Hydrogen is not cheaper than burning diesel, but I can believe it's cheaper than shutting down a mine or trucking around lots of batteries.

* This information came from an employee of a technology company working on fuel cell mining equipment, on contract from a major US mining company. We were talking shop and it was an offhanded conversation that I haven't researched since.
Stupid fabric can only grab a few degrees, while the smart fabric acquires full 30. A genius fabric could likely boil water in the wintertime with sunlight alone!
Input English, o3-mini-high reasons in Spanish or French, outputs English
Thought this was cool, and a bit strange

here's the other output but my share got flagged

https://x.com/carlcortright/status/1885788704247316657
Elon Musk's Team Granted Access to Treasury Dept. Payment System
They have an excellent free tier for experimenting with some higher power ARM servers. As long as you're ready to give up when they decide they don't like you any more, that's a pretty cool deal. Just don't ever build anything with their hardware or software that you'd like to keep.

Edit: Java is usually pretty good, too. At least the open source stuff. Maybe stuff like GraalVM too but they had that locked down in licenses for a while and I don't trust Oracle at all.
hey how else are they going to make space for project stargate! your data has been deported.
When the leadership of a country is actively smashing all checks and balances and bribing &/or coercing the other normally (in a democracy) independent branches of government and society to bend to the will of the executive, the country is moving towards autocracy, and both citizens and business need to watch their sixes.

Reclassifying this administration as "sensitive" seems an extremely mild response to the situation.

[edit: add missing word "independent"]
Maybe deep in Bush Jr's admin, when Colbert said this
Because the size is so small, you can connect many dots.
There is a well-documented correlation between gender dysphoria, mental health conditions, and autism spectrum disorder. These overlapping factors may contribute to increased vulnerability to manipulative groups, such as cults.
Comparing this to the Madagascar plan and the core aims of the regime behind it is even more the fuck off base than the original insinuation of the current plans for Gitmo being akin to a concentration camp for undesirables.

Truly, at least use some basic bloody comparative reasoning to formulate arguments.
Seems lovely but headed in a Scala-like bloated direction. The "too complex" type issues were really bad last I tried.

And one of my biggest gripes is the way you can extend things from anywhere else, easy to cause a mess.
They are also openly hated by general society and targeted for bullying by major political actors.
Fyi a couple of years ago Google's management's internal battle cry leaked in which they said that if Google Cloud won't become number 1 (so beating Amazon and MS) in 2-3 years, they will close the whole thing.

Never trust Google with anything, if don't want it to be inexplicably and suddenly closed.
Why would it be 6.5 ms late? It's not much, but way larger than I'd expect. I never knew encoding might shift the audio track.
People are weirdly defensive of the traitor statues.
Because this is such a niche use the number of users taking advantage of this "feature" would be so small as to not get anybody a promotion
Oh yes, for sure. Don’t mean otherwise.
More Laws, More Growth? Evidence from U.S. States
An illegal immigrant at that.
Elon Musk's DOGE reportedly gained "full access" to the federal payment system
Yeah they're TPOT adjacent. While the original rationalists group were pretty good about watching their biases the later ones are more accurately rationalizers. Some TPOT people have warned them they're making mistakes to no avail.

It's just the MOPs, geeks, sociopaths and Eternal September thing again. They all use the jargon and reach absurd conclusions and don't have the wisdom to realize that an absurd conclusion with a sound argument means a false assumption.

Just because you say "my priors" like priests say "my prayers" doesn't make you rational. They are in the midwit area where you can reason.

The fool dismisses the absurd conclusion because he cannot reason. The wise man because he knows what it means. The average rationalist decides it's true.
> Notably, when exposed to 600 W m−2 irradiation for 600 s, the equilibrium temperature of the photo-thermochromic elastic fiber rises impressively from the ambient 20.0 °C to 53.5 °C.

Does anyone know what's the expected raise from that much energy in basic cotton for comparison?
> It's not like people live in Delaware

That’s the point. Musk and Mark are used to having influence. They don’t in Delaware because they don’t bring that much money to it and don’t control many votes. They have those things in Texas.
Converting heat into warmth is like converting meat into a burger. An abstract resource vs a directly consumable thing.
OK, that's all fine[1], until we come to abortion.

If you're working class, and you passed high school biology, you know that the fetus doesn't really fit in "this is my body". (It has different DNA, for one thing.) And if you look at that slogan, being endlessly repeated, and decide that one side is trying very hard to avoid the actual issue (and you lean socially conservative anyway), then you still have a bit of a problem with the Democratic Party. How big a problem is probably an individual gut-feel question.

[1] That's all fine, unless the state requires leagues to admit trans when the league doesn't want to. I haven't been keeping real close tabs on this, but did at least some states do that with at least some leagues?
A number of (especially recent) administrations have performed a large number of legally questionable acts which were often structured in such a way as to be difficult to challenge (the CFPB comes to mind). Trump’s innovation seems to be taking this tactic to an extreme, remarkably early in this administration.
USDA Inspector General Who Refused to Leave Escorted from Office by Security
Not just that, but I don't want my reputation tarnished.
If you are using kubernetes, you can mount the secret/ConfigMap as a volume and it will be updated automatically when changes occur. Then your application merely watches the file for updates.
I recently assembled a home server/NAS and decided to try NixOS on it and I have to agree. Using it normally (install packages and use the system) is VERY easy, much easier than I expected. I recently upgraded the main channel from 24.5 to 24.11 (because I noticed I had no more packages update in over a week...) and it was quick and smooth.

But the nix language is scary to say the least. For now I didn't deep dive into it, maybe in the future...

All considered , IMO for a terminal beginner like OP, I think NixOS is too much as the first approach on a laptop.
The Nazi program of concentration camps and terror started almost immediately, and included an enormous amount of overt, obvious, very violent state repression against anyone at all who criticized the regime. This included sending them to the first camps, formed in 1933, right after Hitler's appointment, and openly torturing and beating people, or executing them extrajudicially.

None of anything from Trump's government is at all comparable so far and making such comparisons, aside from being a genuinely idiotic case of ideological exaggeration, is also an insult to real victims of real historical concentration camps and violent regimes.

For all the self-congratulatory patting on the back by many readers on HN about their "superior" intellectual reasoning, I see a remarkable abundance of largely failing at such reasoning when it comes to many comment threads and subjects on this site.
I remember when outsourcing/offshoring was supposed to do all that.
There's nothing fundamentally impossible AFAIK - i.e. the rail itself doesn't have to do anything it can't, but you need the surface to survive enough shots to make it worthwhile.

For an actual weapon, this is potentially worth it at a pretty low number since the weapon itself will be pretty small. For a rocket accelerator sled this is going to be more of a problem (but like, conversely you could consider ideas like re-surfacing the rails in place since your turn around isn't fast).
Thanks! Feel free to link to the HN comment. That will encourage me to make a video or two for YouTube demonstrating for a wider audience how I use AI for translation. I hope to do that within a few weeks.
Indeed there is...

"Air traffic controllers were emailed by the Trump administration urging them to quit their jobs and take mass “buyouts” just 24 hours after the D.C. plane crash." - https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-emails-air-traffic...