skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The West is clearly a culture, not a race. It's also the most diverse culture there is.

Considering we're on HN, it's probably worth reading HN's founder's take on "x-isms" as a substitute for truth or honest debate: https://paulgraham.com/heresy.html
Nothing short of a neo-luddite social movement would do the trick and even that would at best help a vanishingly small minority of the populace willing to make the kind of lifestyle changes necessary to support the ideology. Taken as a large enough group people kinda suck, they're kinda useless, and definitely lazy. It's a problem our species has been struggling with at least as long as we've had systems of writing available to document the failures of society. One could argue society is nothing more than our attempt to make people suck less.
Ask HN: Brick and Mortar owners; how do you accept CC payments privately?
Hey HN,

I have a brewery, taproom, and event space in my hometown that I've gotten open recently, and for now I am cash-only (I even bought an ATM that I surrounded with cabinetry, so it looks nice.)

We're headed to a public Grand Opening soon, and in working towards that while minimizing data surface area, I'd like to use a POS credit card reader that is as respectful of my customers data as possible.

I've whipped up a simple POS system on an RPi, and I'd love a CC reader that has a simple API or SDK so I can generate a bill total, and send that (only) to the reader to avoid manually entering data. It'd be nice to get a push back with a transaction outcome.

I don't really want to roll my own PCI compliant solution of course, avoiding device key injection and all that. I don't want to be a POS system vendor, just a small business that lets my customers make purchases conveniently without unneeded vendors monitoring their business with me.

I've only found once reader vendor (ID tech) that has a well documented SDK, and this domain is hard to search through SEO'd noise to find solutions. Are there any good options I should know of? Thanks!
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>Again, aside from a slight eye roll, who is hurt or offended by us saying the phrase "master/slave" less?

If you add up all the discomfort caused by being forced to change vocabulary. The man-hours wasted changing documentation everywhere. The time wasted, re-learning which were words weren't suddenly taboo. Then this is not some small quantity, however you want to quantify it. You basically taxed all of us... and though the tax was perhaps small per person, the total wasn't.

Effort better spent elsewhere. Political capital wasted on nonsense. If you only saw eye rolls, it was because those rolling their eyes knew better than to say anything then. They picked their battles, and now what we see happening right now is a consequence of all that.

>This attack on anything DEI is meant to terrorize and strike fear into anyone who isn't a straight white male.

I'm reminded of the study that said something like 95% of the jobs created in the DEI era went to those who weren't white. Which might make sense if they were only 5% of the population. Thank goodness that the election tally wasn't predicated on that same notion of "fairness".

>It's weaponizing decades of progress

Progress towards what, exactly? And why would I want to progress towards whatever that is? It's only progress if it happens to be the "direction you want to go", but I don't think I want to go in that direction.
LLM generated code seems to depend wildly on if the project is about something that a bunch of people have already put out on GitHub or not.

Writing a crud web API? Great!
Writing business logic for a niche edge case in a highly specialized domain? Good luck.
https://archive.ph/2025.02.04-162914/https://www.wired.com/s...
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Hey HN! I decided to switch career paths recently and am now looking for a first job!

As I originally learned programming for fun, I don't have a lot of public validation of my abilities, so now I'm catching up by making contributions to open source projects and learning languages that are more in-demand so that I am fit for a wider variety of jobs.

I'm sure I can adapt to your tech stack quite quickly.

Cheers!
Every single Nintendo game ROM for all systems, every arcade ROM you can imagine, acres of PlayStation games. It's a full on pirate site in there.

You can even play Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and thousands more from one click in the browser if downloading the stuff to your hard drive instead of your browser cache is too much trouble.
Well... the high brow part was how they never filmed any of the talks for the first 20-30 years.
I was a bit underwhelmed by the video as it just looks like hyper-real computer graphics.
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Four billion people do not have access to the internet. Astranis is going to change that. We are building the next generation of smaller, lower-cost telecommunications satellites to bring the world online.

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How is the cross platform UI situation on C#? Anything official?
There is a possibility of finding a different supplier in an alternate country, as my T Shirt right now was made in Bangladesh. Though there is a possibility that for whatever reason, a supplier has to buy Chinese for some very specific reason. Not all factories are made equal.

But yes, tariffs do just hike up the consumer price.
how, exactly, is that relevant here?
$42B broadband grant program may scrap Biden admin's preference for fiber
OpenAI Deep Research isn’t available in Norway at least, or the rest of Europe basically :(
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I'd like to do a tangential mention of SomaFM, web radio that does electronic chill and mood music very well and has survived for a long time on donations.

https://somafm.com/
Or DSLs like cucumber for acceptance tests. Cute for simple things, but for anything realistic, it's more convoluted than convenient.
> (that also involves actual insurance, too)

My eyes were opened to this when management wasn't just talking about deleting unneeded private data just as the right thing to do, but specifically how it could reduce our insurance premiums.
> I literally linked to a study website for test

It looks like you did not read what you linked to.

That's not a study guide for the biographical questionaire. There was never a study guide for biographical questionaire.

> certain minority candidates got to skip the test altogether.

Source?

> I don't think...

That's okay. I know the answers were leaked. However you can speculate all you want about ridiculous "secret racial kabals".
That’s a problem created by GitHub or people unable to think outside of the GitHub model. It would make more sense to solve that problem through a review tool.

For what it’s worth from what I’ve read about JJ: it’s a better VCS frontend overall.
What do you mean "there's no failing for a country with a sovereign currency"? There are many, many examples of countries failing. Some of them had sovereign currencies. Sure they can't "run out of money" if they can print more. Along with many more examples of being able to adjust internal values and metrics. This is a very different thing from not being able to fail.
How it was done when GitHub didn't exist yet - my uncle's story about his time in the school in USSR : Children, open the history book at page 54, you see the photo titled "Soviet Marshal, Hero of Revolution ...". Now take the ink bottle and pour the ink over that photo as he is an enemy of the people.
Thanks for the kind words!

I'm using Jieba[0] because it hits a nice balance of fast and accurate. But I'm initializing it with a custom dictionary (~800k entries), and have added several layers of heuristic post-segmentation. For example, Jieba tends to split up chengyu into two words, but I've decided they should be displayed as a single word, since chengyu are typically a single entry in dictionaries.

[0] https://github.com/fxsjy/jieba
Awesome.

One major caveat is that because of Sandstorm's draconian security (I mean this in a good way), a handful of ntfy's features won't work because they use special headers. Mastodon works so I'm assuming they use the json API. One of my tasks is to go through major services and test them.

Another one is protected topics. "Users" use auth headers (there's a GET string option, but the Android app source code indicates that it opts for headers). Sandstorm does give you the benefit of randomized API URLs that you can revoke, which protects you from random actors, but any service (Mastodon, Matrix, etc) you connect to will need to see that URL so they may in principle snoop on easy-to-guess topics.

If you're curious you can see my tangled mess of notes: https://github.com/orblivion/ntfy/blob/sandstorm/.sandstorm/... Don't get too invested in understanding it if it's confusing, it's a fucking mess.
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> for Microsoft

Key point, there.
Chinese algorithm claimed to boost Nvidia GPU performance by up to 800X
Would you consider that... some people actually care about making the people around them more comfortable, especially if it comes at exactly zero cost to themselves?
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With about 2 years of experience in Fintech (an exchange and a marketmaking startup), a contract fullstack job and an internship as a game developer, I can confidently say that I have plenty experience working in high pressure environments and delivering insanely scaleable and performant products, be it a socket server written in C++ or an internal dashboard being used by 100-150 people internally everyday. I'm yet to have an interview where I wasn't hired afterwards. I'm also a fresh grad and 19 years old, looking for a team I can learn from.
Can we just leave it at "allowlist/denylist is declarative terminology without any attached baggage, and declarative is always better"?

It's like the bathroom fearmongering... don't show your junk to people who don't want to see it, and wash your hands. Just be kind and be a decent human being.
We question the leadership and judgment of someone who would take such a position, and refuse to walk it back. It is not the case that we expect our lives to change materially as a result of taxpayer-funded illegal immigrant sex change operations.
GPL and AGPL libraries are impossible to use in vast chunks of the free software ecosystem.

I think you're looking for MPL 2.0, which is copyleft while also permitting use by the entire free software ecosystem.
It's sort of hard to piece it together because there's not a ton of transparency about what's going on. However, there have been a number of well-sourced stories on access at the Treasury Department. David Lebryk, who previously oversaw the payments system, was placed on administrative leave after refusing to cooperate. It only takes one person to say yes.

And reloading databases isn't simple if you have to account for legitimate changes that have occurred post-backup. Given that we're talking about some of the core software that runs our government, I'd be extremely nervous about the whole thing.
Revenge OF THE GPT WRAPPERS: Defensibility in a world of commoditized AI models
Me: what a stupid idea
Also me after 30 minutes of doom scrolling: cool
They know absolutely nothing about running the government or administering these programs, and these idiots are pushing to prod in a system that controls 1/5th of the US economy.
Right, I misread this part. I thought the pretentious part was using your titles in your name. Not the Mr/Mrs thing. Oh well.
IMO it's more that his approach to rhythm truly was original and unique in contemporary music, and was so influential you hear it everywhere. In fact not only has it not faded, but it continues to grow in prominence year after year. Jazz drummers study dilla beats now. It's used in gospel music. It's very rare for a novel technique to so clearly originate from a single practitioner and then go on to be used as widely as that.
> Culture is not innate

This is true. I've seen folks--even smart ones--mis-use innate to mean fundamental.
Businesses not only have cost of goods sold, they have salaries, rents, taxes, and various other kinds of overhead. Very few businesses have enough profit margin to eat 25% tariffs.
It's pretty obviously sarcastic, but it's interesting because ChatGPT thinks it's sincere. It appears that sarcasm detection is still outside the capabilities of large language models, which is surprising because people have been manually annotating sarcastic remarks on internet forums for the past 30 years. How could it get simpler than that to create a training set?
I for one am sticking to this view that there's a U-shaped benefit/risk curve and for healthy people eating salt according to taste lands us just where we need to be. I'll change my opinion when I see this theory debunked: https://necsi.edu/how-much-sodium-should-we-eat

Extra anecdotal info: when I had to take IV antibiotics 2/day for 10 days for an ugly pneumonia they were preparing those in a big syringe of isotonic salt solution aka. physiological serum. During that time of getting daily salt water injections I noticed many foods I was very familiar with and eating regularly suddenly started to taste waaay too salty to me, and it all returned to normal after stopping the injections. So I know for a fact that my body adapts its taste for salt depending on how much salt it already has available.
For index funds, the important measure is the tracking difference [0] anyway. While the costs contribute to it, different ETFs on the same index differ in their typical/historic tracking differences beyond their differences in nominal cost.

[0] https://www.morningstar.com/business/insights/blog/funds/etf...
How is equity communist?
Isn't it interesting, then, that Palantir is one of the many entities working to destroy democracy and bring on autocracy?
Do they want tariffs to be placed on them?
The silliest.
Please don't cross into personal attack or name-calling, regardless of how wrong another comment is or you feel it is.

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.
if you really want musk out, just start a large social media rumor that he's smarter and more important than the president. trump will find a way to get rid of him fast.
These developers have had to drop whatever projects they were working on to go back to previous code and spend time finding all of this, just to keep their jobs. Then they have to redeploy new versions everywhere, which also carries a significant cost. Really frustrating.
When the IRS is garnishing 20%+ of my paychecks and the value returned to the taxpayer is abysmal as it is, I'm 100% for this.

If federal taxes came down to earth to something reasonable like 2%-3%, I would be thinking much differently.
I appreciated this. Thank you for posting it
What is Roc? Here it is: https://www.roc-lang.org/
Influential DJs in influential markets could discover a band or even a group of bands and drag attention other DJs would follow.

Maybe I am out of touch but that dynamic seems fairly lost, and we only temporarily discarded the mega publisher dynamic, which seems to have returned.
Most Pytorch users don’t bother even with the simplest performance optimizations, and you are talking about PTX.
Because the US democratically elected a would-be dictator who is now building out his oligarchy.
> Seems like a similar legal framework could require that decision makers are held accountable for any decisions made by an AI under their control.

If you delegate a decision to an AI, you are simply making the decision while trusting the AI, and should not be any less responsible than if you made the decision by any other means.

(If you are directed by a superior authority to allow an AI to make a decision but are assigned nominal responsibility anyway, though, that superior authority is, in fact, making the decision by delegating to the AI bypassing you, to anticipate the obvious “install a human scapegoat organizationally between the people actually making the decision to use the AI and the AI itself response”.)
Thanks for your critique of the project.

Initially, we chose Tetris 99 because that was the context in which we had the idea. I won't deny, though, that being able to compare Jeff's performance with human players and see his interactions and victories in the Tetris 99 environment made the project more interesting for us; however, it was wrong to do so in a public setting where the players didn't know that our algorithm was involved and didn't opt in to playing against it.

We're no longer testing or developing Jeff, and if I do any similar future projects I'll choose singleplayer games or private environments where opponents voluntarily test their skills against the bot.
Creating Rich Citation Experiences with LLMs
> it's also the most diverse culture there is

I'm proud of Western culture. But this is difficult to assert. There are more extant languages in many Eastern cultures; that arguably counts as a cognitive diversity more meaningful than skin colour or geographic breadth. (To say nothing of more individuals outside the West than within it.)

> it's probably worth reading HN's founder's take on "x-isms" as a substitute for truth or honest debate

You're linking to a decent essay. But it's fair to note that Graham has gone off the deep end recently, putting intellectual honesty below kowtowing to political powers (or just strong personalities who might make him more money). An appeal to his authority might not be your strongest argument.
Define "make it good", cause the way I see it today, it is extremely good. But then again, I understand the UX and I don't find it difficult at all.

I actually wonder if you've tried it... it really is just put in an address, amount (of any size), and click send.

Want to earn interest or borrow funds? Load up Morpho.org, deposit into a vault of your liking and borrow whatever you want. No need to ask anyone for permission and fully decentralized. Even the source code is public and audited. Don't trust it? There's nearly $6B in there and Coinbase built a whole product around it. It couldn't be all bad.

I think things have progressed quite a lot in the last few years. Take a look, you might be surprised.

The UX for some of my banks are way worse. For example, the limits on transfer sizes are obtuse. 25k limit? WTF, it is my money, let me move it around how I wish, I'm not a criminal.
The way compile times are stressed all over the place is a very good point.

Papercuts like this do make or break adoption.

Even C++ is improving on that front.
This is great! Thanks for sharing it.
That case was absolutely crazy, imagine getting accused of fraud and embezzlement just because of a computer bug.
The west is not innately democratic. And the world's largest democracy is in south Asia.
I'd recommend trying it with GG, a GUI for JJ:
https://github.com/gulbanana/gg
It proves you with an easy way to get started with JJ, especially dragging and dropping files between commits is super handy!
The "take control" of "take control of the vehicle immediately." has a defined sequence of steps of "1. Keep your eyes on the roadway and gather your bearings. 2. Put your hands on the steering wheel. 3. Steer, brake or accelerate as needed, or press one of the two buttons." Only after this sequence is completed is drive pilot disabled: "The message DRIVE PILOT Off appears on the driver display."

It strains credulity to me that MB would try to argue that "gathering your bearings" is something that a user could be expected to do instantaneously, but either way its not really necessary to speculate. California regs require that the system satisfy SAE L3 which states "At Level 3, an ADS is capable of continuing to perform the DDT (Dynamic Driving Task) for at least several seconds after providing the
fallback-ready user with a request to intervene."

There is an exception which is what MB is referencing here: "Take over control of the vehicle if irregularities are detected aside from the dynamic driving task." from J3016: "For Level 3 ADS features, a human fallback-ready user (in-vehicle or remote) is expected to respond to a request to intervene or a kinesthetically apparent vehicle failure". Basically the ADS system is not required to maintain control for a handoff for non-ADS related failures along the lines of a tire blowout or a tie-rod failure.

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/j3016/index.html

https://wiki.unece.org/download/attachments/128418539/SAE%20...
Open Deep Research
Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how wrong another comment is or you feel it is.

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.
> they get offered at market pricing, not in a way that reflects their lower costs

Well, duh!
"real public" at the time excluded women, slaves, and expats.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy
A typical playbook of many iOS and macOS apps: crippled free version as a vehicle for subscriptions, with an extremely expensive lifetime offering that takes a decade to break even (very few apps make over a decade, a lot many just change the TOS to pretend lifetime plan did not exist in the first place after a few years of offering them).

On the first blush, there’s a hint of promise. I like that I can add both plain RSS and podcasts (have yet to find an RSS reader that handles podcast feeds seamlessly). Many other players (Reeder [1] and Surf [2]) are attempting to tackle similar usecase.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/reeder/id6475002485

[2]: https://surf.social
This is simply incorrect. There was no "flood." There were a very, very small number of isolated comments that I spotted and they were removed and/or downvoted.