skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The moderating strategy that normally makes HN on-topic is both fundamentally biased against and easily to exploit by bad actors to downplay this kind of breaking news.

Dang has unflagged several posts and has explained "the algorithm" clearly throughout the week, so this seems a little unfair. Though I personally remain disappointed that there seems to be no concern that "the algorithm" is clearly being abused here to suppress coverage of, at best, one of the largest security breeches in American history or, at worst, a potential coup of the world's largest superpower. And that I've not seen arecognition that unflagging a post is like splinting a broken leg - still a broken leg. It robs a thread of several hours of natural growth and still biases the ranking, so the abusive flagger gets their way. I would guess their opinion is in the ballpark of "that's the way the cookie crumbles".

I don't think I've seen Dang say if they're revoking flagging privileges - I doubt it? And they seem pretty adamant on not making exceptions to the moderation system, so that's that... Though it seems reasonable to me there should be a temporary whitelist system they could use to make flagging require manual review if a post meets a condition, I'm also not an HN moderator with analytics and years of practice.

WRT many of the flags, there are admittedly a lot of duplicates. Heck, this thread is a duplicate, but I can hardly blame that when the flagging is as ridiculous as it is right now.

Also, @dang doesn't really work IIRC. Moderators tend to not want to be spammed easily.
He seems pretty cheerful in the video. I'm glad someone is fighting the Putins out there.
I'm launching my first project – both excited and terrified
Hey everyone,

After an entire month of building, tweaking, and overthinking, I’m finally launching my first project —- an AI-powered growth tool called Kibbeo that helps creators and startups find their audience and grow online.

It’s a mix of excitement and imposter syndrome right now. On one hand, I’m pumped to finally put something out there. On the other, I keep wondering: What if no one cares? What if it flops?

But I know I need to just hit launch and learn from the process. No more waiting for it to be “perfect.”

Would love to hear from others who’ve launched their first product—how did it go for you? Any advice for making the most of launch day?

You can also check the launch on: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/kibbeo
Cool!
Interesting that D3 moved away from Fortune's algorithm to https://mapbox.github.io/delaunator/ because it

"is 5-10× faster than d3-voronoi to construct the Delaunay triangulation or the Voronoi diagram, is more robust numerically, has Canvas rendering built-in, allows traversal of the Delaunay graph, and a variety of other improvements."
The Cosmic Distance Ladder with Terence Tao, Part 1
At least at some point, the proposal was to add this code in the DMA submodule, where he did have the ~final say whether it would be merged in.

When it became clear that wasn't an option, they decided to put it somewhere else, but since he'd been consulted, he still wanted to make it clear he isn't ok with the patch regardless of where the files go or any other aspect of it; but you're right that he is not the final authority on what code goes into that new subpath.

I never said in any way that he doesn't have a right to his opinion. Just that he is explicitly and vehemently opposed to Rust in the kernel, and to anything that makes that easier to happen.
> While still an extremely low possibility...

Did anyone else read Lucifer's hammer more than a few times in their life?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1294211
The text of the amendment is as clear as day: anyone born in the US is automatically a citizen, with only a few, well defined exceptions (children of foreign diplomats).

The Supreme Court already ruled on the meaning of the amendment in 1898, so there's no possible ambiguity left.

Trump's executive order is just blatantly illegal.
I don't care as I don't use rust. I learned and played with it, it is just horrible. I use Python, Golang and C almost everyday for living and fun!

Just hate the fact that quite often people get judged or even treated differently just based on the languages they choose to use. It is just a tool, nothing different from a screwdriver.
https://runs-on.com - Faster, 90% cheaper GitHub Actions runners!
ChatGPT is also still hilariously bad at drawing diagrams - universally producing a silly cartoon with misspelled words. The rate of improvement over the past two years is effectively zero.
Your comment is a perfect illustration of the prosecutor’s fallacy.
Framework Laptop Chassis available for $400
Well, he's only just started on the job and is already trying to stop war in Gaza by turning it into an upmarket real estate project.
Awesome! Your Chinese must be pretty good now. Do you still have the Perl source? How did you even devise such a project in 1998?
I mean... the unified timeline is literally the number one feature this app advertises. If you find that doesn't work for you, their product vision just doesn't align with your preferences. What's the point of even engaging if you know they don't build what you want on such a fundamental level?
Building a flywheel blower for iron ore smelting [video]
Nice job mate, the LP is fire and the product seems clean will for sure give it a try!
Wind propulsion now a force to be reckoned with in transport
The issue is not about live editing on servers, it’s about running a process out on the server that spawns,according to GP, 50-some processes. VS Code remote editing and Sublime/any SFTP/SCP-style deploy are on completely different levels.
> clearly being abused here to suppress coverage of, at best, one of the largest security breeches in American history

Worst suppression ever with several front-page threads about it that were not flagged.

Something you also need to understand: there are dozens of "new" developments to a story like this every day. But they don‘t warrant another whole thread.
I think the latest Jetbrains tools do the same or similar things. They also install their own server on the target machine and connect to that. And I mean it's Jetbrains, so again, closed source tools. But it's not Microsoft so nobody is talking about it I guess.
Sure, but (1) that ship has sailed for now, there are already Rust bits in the kernel; and (2) a patch email thread is not the best place to start discussing whether Rust has a place in the kernel.
I think he is wrong that predictions 100 years out are almost always going to be wrong, because city and government planners routinely do this kind of stuff. They predict future growth rates and plan accordingly. They invest in reservoirs, wider roads, bigger power plants and transmission lines, etc. Sometimes those predictions are wrong and they build for growth that never happens, or vice versa. But much of the time they get it right and that contributes hugely to our present-day quality of life.
The president has ordered the bureaucracy to ignore the 14th Amendment. You may be blasé about that, and even consider pointing that out to be "misinformation," but I'm not. It's a sign that Constitutional rule in the US is in serious danger.

I'm not even going to get into all the other unconstitutional actions Trump has taken, such as appointing Elon Musk to lead the most powerful agency in the federal government without Senate advice and consent.
No twiXtter icon on frontpage XD
I can only flag, it is the admins of the site who decide what to do with users' flags.

For me, it is indeed off-topic as it's purely political, especially considering you're not seeing any articles that describe the results of this "whistleblowing" (as I see it, this angle is of course not present on HN, but would certainly be if the sides were reversed).
Every place I've ever worked that blocked ports, blocked SSH, it's no exception.
It does seem that companies are able to get reliability in narrow problem domains via prompts, evals and fine tuning.
I had an identical experience with the REALbasic Cafe as a kid, down to eventually selling a couple of shareware projects. I wonder if we were there at the same time.
I bypassed trades and engineering licensing to build my house, which is usually only legally possible if you do basically everything yourself ( at least in my state diy work and even owner/builder amateur structural engineering is exempted from licensing since there is no compensation involved). End results, costs <30% of anything comparable offered commercially.
The provider of the servers? If the students want to use their own server, I’m sure they’re free to do whatever they want. Also VS code has plug-ins that just SFTP the files up.
i wrote a book and copyright was not once on my mind. having created something is the incentive to create for most artists
Watchdog Groups Anticipate an All-Out War on Science by the Trump Administration
JsonDiscovery: Changing a way we're viewing JSON in a browser (2019)
shop at a real bookstore, they don't have this problem.
So do it. Paste it in.

And after that driver is in use for a while and a million users all depend on it because it works so good, other developers will all on their own start asking "why are we diing this this stupid way? I think the original argument is no longer valid, or we can see now that it never was valid. We should revisit that."

Or as more rust devs work on more modules that each need some similar redundant boilerplate, a larger number of individual devs who each ask the same "hey, can we please get at least this level of concession to have a shim somewhere we can interface with instead of all this fragile tight coupling?" When that grows to become a respectful request from many, including users, instead of a disrespectful demand from a few, you get a different result.

But that is step 2. The opportunity for step 2 sometimes simply will not exist without first going through a step 1.

You want in? Yes but the terms are shitty. Yeah, so, you don't want in? It's obviously OK with most of the kernel devs if the rust devs decide this is not rewarding and go away. They are not eagerly welcoming to this particular development. And they don't have to be. How welcoming would rust developers be to c developers demanding to rewrite cargo in c? Go work on redox and make it so great it takes over and replaces linux by simply being the better choice while being equally free and at least as well managed and clearly visioned.
Never use corporate controlled encryption and court orders to corporations will never impact you.

If you do not control the keys and the software that controls the keys, then you are not using end to end encryption.
This is a perfect use case for unveil(): you have a program that wants to operate on a specific directory (your repo), and never outside of it.
I’ve never ended up in this situation myself, but I have many times lived on similar commuter lines. Hearing the names of those end of lines stations becomes a big part of your every day routine. In most cases I never even visited them, which looking back feels like a pity, and even disrespectful of their incidental importance
Baltic states begin historic switch away from Russian power grid
I realize that and agree with this modern view on monetary policy but you cannot say they are totally divorced concepts because deficits do get accounted for based on difference between money raised with taxes and money spent.
Both: http://ooxx.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/TabsSpacesBoth.png
Tech jobs, postings surge at the start of 2025
Isn’t that what happens without the need of a quantum computer…
Part of me thinks it is because games haven't really changed in those 20 years.

Time wise we are further away from the PS2 than it was from the Atari 2600.

The move from 2D to 3D was massive. The PS1 and N64 made experimentation (and bad choices) possible. By the time PS2 came around it was all figured out, and we have what we have.
Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos, Part 1 [video]
Very apparently you're counting as a singular physical person. In a big organization there's always an overhead both in time, and money, and more importantly there are more problems to solve than there are resources. So one has to arrange priorities, and just keep low-prio things in check not letting to boil over the lid.
It is basically impossible to have anonymized social media data that cannot be deanonymized which is also useful for anything but a very narrow kind of research.
You can't take an Uber back home?
It’s possible the last train simply parks there for the night. This would mean that you ride the same train back after this misadventure
as an employer, it's not about us being unwilling to hire juniors. it's that juniors these days demand too much salary for their position. especially for a small startup like ours, we can't afford to match FAANG company salaries. if juniors want a chance, they should be ready to accept low salaries.
Headline should be "Someone other than US want's to access your data and that's scandalous for some reason".
The text placement is terrible. You could add like text placement format user can choose and perhaps premade custom template for it. This tool intended to make a simple presentation maker, but for me its faster if i take template online and just copy paste the text.

Isn't it faster if i just ask GPT the content divided by header and content, then i just need to find a template and copy paste it.
It sounds so simple, I don't get it why the Rust people don't write their own operating system or bundle their human capital to such a project.

They have been trying for years now to integrate Rust in the Linux kernel they could have made some good progress on a rust only OS by now.
If only just a kernel that can run server like application without a gui shell.
For fun, I made a Javascript library that implements most of the Date and String functions found in various SQL dialects. We have the home page https://www.ddginc-usa.com//dbFunctions.htm and a Playground for play and Documentation. I posted this on Show HN about a week ago and received minimal response.
Disconnection complete, frequency tests in progress for tomorrow’s synchronization with Europe’s electrical grid.

https://apnews.com/article/lithuania-baltics-russia-estonia-...

https://news.err.ee/1609599566/estonia-latvia-lithuania-disc...

https://www.elering.ee/en/estonian-latvian-and-lithuanian-po...

https://www.litgrid.eu/index.php/news-events-/news/estonian-...
Most places in the US don’t have alleys. The problem isn’t the alleys, it’s the trash cans. Most modern US cities have cans that can be lifted by the truck, and then emptied. NYC, on the other hand, insists on just leaving everything in flimsy bags, open to the rats.
I think Linus should change this though, so that the maintainers that don't want to learn Rust have to step down, and there are no more conflicts.
Made me laugh because I have no higher education but was able to answer the polarization question.
Hidden files with . are just not a good design.

the `du -s *` really shows that.

I wish they showed by default and you added a term to hide them.

Apple does not help here as they used to use ~/Library/Caches for all but now with sandboxes each Container has its own Cache and the sirectory they are in sometimes has a random name not simply the app name.
And I disagree with this. IP law should not exist. If I buy a thing it should be mine to do with as I see fit.

The more people that share and copy data the better.
So this is why VSCode somewhat recently started asking if I trusted the authors/owners of remote folders.
Board differences in medical field have been interesting to watch.

For instance NP and PA have very similar skills, but the nursing board goes to bat for nurses allowing independent practice while doctors have chosen in some states to sabotage PAs as they live under the medical board fiefdom. There is little other explanation for the divergence in practice privileges.

If you are a licensed professional and your profession doesn't own the board, what often ends up happening is competing professions under the board sabotage each other.
Totally. And also: the discussion must take place FIRST!
For the nerds, the exact name for these heatmaps is Isochrone maps [0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrone_map
The more I learn about how VSCode works the more it seems like it's held together with duct tape and the most cursed ideas a JS developer could come up with.

Even just from the SSH extension - the workspace URIs have two formats: essentially just the hostname and hex-encoded JSON documents. The latter case happens when additional info is needed, e.g. specific username, or... The hostname includes an uppercase letter.

Which is actually necessary because when they're saved to recent workspaces they're lowercased for whatever reason.

The SSH connections also support configuring extensions that are to be installed on the server, but don't go too crazy with it or you won't be able to connect to Windows hosts, since they're passing them ass command line arguments via CMD, which has a 8191 character limit (they're using CMD to call... PowerShell...).
Yes. However there are downsides to Japan’s intensely high trust (and high shame) culture as well. Death by overwork is the one that’s most known in the west, although there are plenty of others that outsiders would never usually learn about
Good pricing approach that I think lots of companies should start adopting. But I just can't wrap my head around paying for my online searches. self hosting a free service like SearXNG will forever my go to option for privacy and security
Foreign interests are always interfering in US elections (and everyone else's too); that's the price of being a democracy. It's a tale as old as democracy itself. There are plenty of other notable examples in US history, but it's a constant, and efforts obviously only intensified in the post-war era as America became more important to everyone else.

The example in 2016 of one particular country's actions is more about what the establishment chose to report for political reasons, although obviously there is some novelty in the way influence efforts are changing over time to adapt to new technologies.
The main grievance in the original post is the loss of left-leaning political power. While I think Goldhaber is right on a lot he said, it’s besides the point. The current state of politics in different countries is not because particular view points gained more attention than others, in fact those view points were utterly unpopular and unwelcome throughout this transition. But view points which did gain attention picked up on what’s missing from the life of an average person, whether it was love, wellness, confidence, money, or spirituality. In any population, there are more voters who are aggrieved because of their financial or life stability than any other issue. If you’re asking someone to pay attention, why should they? What does it do for them?
Unit tests work remarkably well
In some cases this is true, but then why choose an expensive world model over a small net or random forest you trained specifically for the task at hand?
Next time you get an x-ray, drop it in your favorite LLM and start asking it questions. It's eye-opening.
AC-DC are effectively -> AC + power correction boost to even higher AC, then high voltage DC, the AC (high freq), then transformer, then low volt DC + feedback to the primary DC ; {then DC->DC (potentially)}

DC (high) voltage to DC would skip the 1st few steps of AC->DC.
I think you’re brushing under the rug just how easy these efforts have become through modern social media platforms.
Then you have to discuss first, before throwing tousands of lines of code at somebody.
Prototypical object-oriented programming (POOP)(2017)
This is fun, living in NYC I need the opposite as well –

1. At least 2 blocks from a police station

2. At least 2 blocks from a fire station

3. At least 1 block from a bar
To me the 8-bit computer era is the golden age.

Most published commercial games were made by a single 14 to 20 year old in few months.
This sounds so interesting.

Are there other all-in-one platforms?

It reminds me a little of Citadel/UX (https://citadel.org) or software for the Reticulum Network (https://reticulum.network/manual/gettingstartedfast.html#nom...).
I really don't understand what this article is about: every bus/train/subway line from a city center usually ends up in an small-town place and if you are on the last bus/train/subway in the night, it will be the same emptiness everywhere, whether it is Tokyo or any place with public transport. And people miss their stop sometimes, literally happening everywhere.
Yes, in fact I live in Japan right now. Warsaw (especially the center) is quite close. Certainly much closer than most cities in western Europe.
> Dear everyone writing Unix programs that cache things in dot-directories (.cache, .local, etc): please don't. Create a non-dot directory for it.

If it doesn't live inside ~/.cache or ~/.program/cache then I won't know if I can delete it or not.

If you are not putting your cache in one of those folders, I'd expect the application itself to have a clear-cache option or for it to do it automatically from time to time.
There's a typo in the first paragraph...
Die Arbeiter-Unfall-Versicherungs-Anhalt - should be "Anstalt". A followup of this institution has survived in Austria to this day. The "Allgemeine Unfallversicherungsanstalt", still abbreviated AUVA. They have regular advertisement spots on public television too
To have cloudflare work on Librewolf I had to enable web workers.

Why does it need web workers, when it worked fined without them on Waterfox Classic firefox 56 fork that hasn't been updated in water?
I appreciate the tech but I grieve the dwindling private spaces our societies have.
The point is that nobody, certainly not the US, cares about things like territorial integrity or 'human rights.' Recent events have caused the US to have to completely drop the facade, which is in many ways a good thing (even if the situation in question is catastrophic and in no way good). It's all just a pretext to the expansion of power and influence. In the case of Taiwan the history of the country is important. The "Republic of China" was a nationalist force that overthrew dynastic China and eventually managed to unify the country in 1927. They were themselves then overthrown in 1949 by the CCP. Their leadership and forces fled to Taiwan (which was already a part of China), and overthrew the local forces there. The CCP did not pursue them beyond that and so the Civil War ended there.

The Republic of China then tried to gain international recognition as an independent nation but, to this day, basically nobody recognizes them as such. And eventually this led to the emergence of the 'one country, two systems' where China would allow some basic autonomy to the province, yet it would remain a part of China. This was accepted by most of the world, including the US. While simultaneously we then did (and are doing) absolutely everything possible to ensure the emergence of a new civil war in the region. It's not at all because we care about Taiwan (beyond it being in a strategically useful location), but primarily to weaken and destabilize China.
everyone needs to just belly laugh. at some point. would be grand if it were collective and all inclusive
Lack of signing on extensions makes it really easy for pentesters and blackhats to trick people into installing malicious versions of password manager plugins.
How much of that 30% is just labor costs?

If you total up the time you spent doing the work, and multiply that by what you could have been paid working doing something else, how does the savings change?

People should definitely build their own houses. Its custom fit to you and you get the satisfaction of doing it. But its also a lot of work, requires considerable time investment, and requires quite a bit of specialized knowledge.