skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a long time creative worker in addition to my technical work, I’ve tried in vain to explain to the FOSS crowd that names, UIs, user flows, etc a) really matter if they want anyone outside of the technical world to use their tools, and b) what other software developers think of them isn’t a good measure of those things. What Mastodon would need to have done to be a Twitter replacement for general audiences was my most recent losing battle. Lots of haughty, dismissive “federation is not that complicated” and “I think toots is a cute analog to tweet and the people who don’t like it just need to get over it.” Well, the nearly immediate mass exodus after the incredibly energetic mass adoption says everything we need to know about that.

“Well I don’t think it’s too complicated,” doesn’t really say much from someone whose profession is wrangling that complexity. “Well I don’t think it’s unappealing,” doesn’t say much from someone that has no experience wrangling the different nuanced ways different things can be appealing to different people in different contexts and how that affects the way people approach and interact with stuff.

Interface design, copywriting, branding— these are all communication mediums that deal with the emotional intangibles, instincts, and irrational tendencies we all have even when we don’t see them. It’s not about taste and aesthetic preference, they’re tools to solve communication problems. Developers on a whole have a hard enough time dealing with communication in technical documentation for software they wrote, let alone effective visual communication. I’m seeing some progress in developers realizing how much more impact software can have as a problem solving tool when designers are involved… but a whole lot still think designers just add frivolous fluff and that their quirky interfaces more informed by the API implementation than how users solve problems isn’t the problem — users failing to read their wall-o-text documentation is.
It's a standard platform, but the platform itself is not standardized, which is the point I think GP was making. The problem isn't that people don't think the web is a standard platform, but that it's hard to quantify what it means to support the web as a platform because of conflicting implementations. Standardization is ostensibly supposed to help with that, but it obviously doesn't perfectly reflect what browsers will actually support. Ultimately it the question comes down to whether people can actually use the browser with the websites they want to connect to, but that's not something that can be quantified easily due to it depending on what features websites are using and which features a browser has implemented, and network effects can make it hard to pin down what's expected at any given time, which is where all of these "imperfect" metrics like calculating some score based on the standards is coming from.
You already had the right to know how the money is spent, you just never bothered to dig through any of the available public databases to look. That stuff has all been online for years. You are also confusing Reuters, the news organization, with Thomson Reuters, its parent company and a major vendor of information technology services.

Consider doing some more information gathering and analysis before letting your feels post.
A very random note.

I try to check the forum post and found out that I was blocked by https://forum.palemoon.org , e.g., https://offline.palemoon.org/blocked/index.html . Don't know and haven't visited this site before.

https://www.palemoon.org works though.
I'm not sure why people are mad at Cloudflare. They are not obligated to support browsers outside the general marketshare nor should you expect to.

Cloudflare not supporting Pale Moon has no impact on the rest of us. Matter of fact today is the first time I'm hearing of this browser I will never end up using.
It's Time to End the Bureaucrat's Secret Weapon: Debanking
Curious if this “just enough to remind the body you still need something” relates to the spaced repetition idea for learning / memorizing facts.
I still remember how to back propagate using python lists which was part of CS231n project by @karpathy. Amazing thing is I did not goto Stanford.
IIRC, and I might not because it's been many years now, all one had to do was install gstreamer-plugins-ugly.

Sure it wasn't obvious, but a quick search should have revealed that?
I use (and also develop) RAMADDA's SeeSV package- https://ramadda.org/repository/a/seesv

A Java based package for data wrangling that reads in all sorts of formats, over 300+ commands for transmogrifying the data and a number of output formats. There is an interactive interface provided by RAMADDA and a stand-alone command line release.
Passing Dates to a React component caused re-rendering issues in some of my applications due to Date being an object.

I had to resort to numbers (Unix time) to not have to add memoization everywhere. Seems like this will continue with Temporal. Or React-Compiler will solve this.
Same. I'm consistently getting a captcha and some nonsense about a Ray ID multiple times a day.
> Being able to eyeball that and see where key parts of logic are not tested is extremely helpful and tends to get lost in these discussions.

I've been saying for years code coverage broadly is fine, we're just presenting the metric in a screwed up way that makes people focus on the wrong thing. It should be absolute value and flipped, presented similar to linting: instead of percent of covered lines, it should be raw count of uncovered lines.

Not only does this help you focus on "this code has no tests" instead of "number go up", it removes the painful edge case where refactoring covered code to be shorter makes the percent-based metric worse.
I'm not so sure Paramount are doing it anymore, though. The link in that article leads to Paramount Scares which just has some clips and some rent-or-buy movies.
Brainstorming: some subreddits are still going strong despite the overall (ipo/shareholder-driven) downturn. Some extremely niche hobby forums are still alive and well, eg. FountainPenNetwork. Specific software help/discussion forums are alive, eg. Autodesk. Those are a few places I can think of where it seems that where real humans congregate and have real conversations. Not sure how useful that is, but thinking out loud.
Did you compare it to tesseract?

If it's superior (esp. for scans with text flowing around image boxes), and if you do end up packaging it up for brew, know that there's at least one developer who will benefit from your work (for a side-project, but that goes without saying).

Thanks in advance!
Shortening your period of observation so that the effects have not occurred yet does not mean it’s “mitigated”.

And your philosophy of your own mortality is just as reductive, because humans have been trying to survive since time immemorial and do not actively work on their deaths unless in an unhealthy mental state.
Typeconf 0.2.8 – Simplified usage, now available without extra package
Announcing a new version of Typeconf, which simplifies the way you can use it. You don’t have to create a new package for configuration, now you can directly use it in your project.

If you haven’t seen this before, Typeconf allows you to write JSON configs with types in Typescript, you can check out playground to try it out: https://typeconf.dev/playground.

Please let me know if there are any issues or if you have questions, I’ll be happy to help!
> how quickly DEI spread everywhere

where have you been? DEI programs have been common for decades -- just usually called "diversity" rather than "diversity equity inclusion" which is a more recent term
Who does 6Mbps for 1080p? I thought HD topped out at 3Mbps, and 4K was around the 6+Mbps
Somewhat tangential, but the EU has a directive mandating electronic invoicing for public procurement.

One of the standards that has come out of that is EN 16931, also known as ZUGFeRD and Factur-X, which basically involves embedding an XML file with the invoice details inside a PDF/A. It allows the PDF to be used like a regular PDF but it also allows the government procurement platforms to reliably parse the contents without any kind of intelligence.

It seems like a nice solution that would solve a lot of issues with ingesting PDFs for accounting if everyone somehow managed to agree a standard. Maybe if EN 16931 becomes more broadly available it might start getting used in the private sector too.
> Nothing meaningful has changed at the border since June 2024

That's a big lie. border encounters dropped 60-90% since 1/20. https://newsfactsnetwork.com/fact-check/fact-vs-fiction-did-...
Adoption on Windows was definitely an issue for that time frame. Even as someone that was willing to adopt strange software, or compile it on Windows, it just wasn't worth it for the cross-platform use (mostly for mobile devices at the time, including generic players, and iPods).

I started using RockBox around 2005/2006, but it still wasn't worth converting my entire music collection to Ogg Vorbis from MP3. Right around that time, my vehicle stereo could suddenly support MP3/WMA files, and I could burn multiple albums to a CD for my truck stereo. MP3 had the broadest support across devices, and basically become an industry standard, even with the licensing.
That's why I mentioned https://avaloniaui.net/ which does the part. WPF is not bad compared to everything happening in the web frameworks.
> MP3 is still more widely supported in most devices.

AAC (including HE-AAC variants) support is also a universal option, having been included in devices since ~2010.

As I understand it, all AAC-LC and HE-AACv1 patents have expired.
I don't like VSCode, but I wanted to agree that I use Discord and Slack in a browser tab and see very little reason to run them in their own exe.
Sequential Thinking MCP Server
This sort of gets at the crux of it: aren’t you? You’re asking for the most probable example of a sequence of tokens in a formalized language (code or english) to communicate the idea, where the entire language, its rules, and many examples are in the training set. And the probability of your question, or a question much like it, having been asked is quite high actually. Performance can be seen to tank drastically when you ask for APL or MUMPS code instead of Javascript or Python; it produces Ol Chiki at significantly less proficiency than English. Does this mean these models are drastically overfit to English and Python? And if so, so what?
Related:

US egg prices increased 22% in 2025 and 202% in 12 months

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42950929

(oh well, guess we're all gonna die of.....cardiovascul...<ongoing covid/bird flu pandemics>)
I hope it's not the same team that is responsible for the Tesla FSD, because I've tried it a couple of times and really tried to like it but ended up turning it off.

Aviation safety systems are not a matter of "refactoring some code".
OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42954598
How did the amount of brain microplastic manage to double between 2016 and 2025? The amount of cars hasn't changed that much.
Is there no molecule that could be designed which would break down microplastics throughout the body, without harming biological materials? Or even just the blood stream?

I’m not a chemist, but it seems like if this can be done it would be huge.
I love reading posts and comments like these, as it gives me better insights and questions what I have been doing wrong as I can relate to this shiny new attachment syndrome very much myself.
That's some real Nazi shit right there and I thought y'all were on the side of the free world or whatever. How does someone exist in 2025 with such ignorant views? I don't get it. MLK was like 60 years ago.
> so doing this is pointless and only going to slow you down.

That's a feature. Going slow and giving Democrats a chance to howl is called "democracy". It's our system. Unilaterally moving fast and breaking things without even allowing a chance for debate or input from the minority party is a different system, called "autocracy".
He'll care. It will sting him right in the narcissism.

But it's certainly true he won't change or improve.
One of the advantages of running programs like this in the browser is that you download a fresh (with caching) version every time you reload the page.
I rip to flac and then use fileflows to convert to opus personally then syncthing to get the 50 gb of opus files to my phone. As flac my cd collection is around half a terrabyte so it only recently became possible to out the whole thing on my phone for just excessive money (grapheneos doesnt run on a phone that supports sd cards so that cheaper compromise was out for me)
Not only that, but if you're close to a road at all, you'll intake the micro-plastics and nano-plastics.

So you really need to move away from roads. That's possible, but it's really hard to do in most developed nations. Just moving away from a city won't get you to where you need to be. Even when you get there, you have other issues. Like, food, energy, water/sewage treatment, etc.

I don't think people realize how difficult it would be to get away from this particular pollutant in our environment. I mean most of us don't own 500 acres in the Brazilian, Namibian, or Ghanaian countryside that we can retreat to. Even Brazil may be too far gone at this point to be honest. And Brazil is enormous. A lot of space. The number of tolerable nations that would have unaffected areas is decreasing fast. This really is a global problem.

ETA: Some remote parts of Canada and Alaska might fit the bill? Assuming you're not big on quality of life.
No I frankly have never heard of anything like this, and it doesn't appear the dozens of federal budget experts, Constitutional law experts, political historians, or policy legal analysts I follow closely have heard of anything similar either.

I don't think anyone at any location on the political spectrum would describe what's going on right now as "business as usual," but apparently you believe that's the case. So please share evidence. Definitionally, it should be abundant.
Mystery brain disease patients in New Brunswick say they welcome investigation
> That 1M tokens context window

2M context window on Gemini 2.0 Pro: https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/pro/
There is the record and tuple proposal. If we'd have methods on records (currently not part of the spec) this would be trivial.
https://imgflip.com/i/9j833q

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Try opus, it sounds dramatically better and has smaller file sizes
Seems like a more important problem, then, the part where people inevitably die. I mean compared to having some plastic in their heads.
By your own analogy, blueprints have a very strict set of guidelines on stuff like line styling, font selection, displaying measurements, etc. This is absolutely critical as nobody wants to live with the kind of outcomes generated when there's any meaningful ambiguity in the basic conventions of critical design documents. At the same time, having to hack through a thicket of clashing code style adds to the cognitive load of dealing with complex codebases without offering any improvement in functionality to balance the tradeoff. I've literally seen open source developers lose their commit access to projects over style issues because the maintainers correctly concluded that the benefits of maintaining an authoritarian grip on the style of code committed to the project outweighed humoring the minority of fussy individualists who couldn't set aside their preferences long enough to satisfy the needs of the community.
Not to mention this same president allowed people who did attempt a violent coup (of the "usual" kind) to get out of jail despite being convicted. (And despite previous assurances, i.e., from Vance that "of course" violent offenders would not be freed.)

And the GOP-controlled Senate just stood by.
ease of cross compilation as well.
Many are flagged for a number of reasons, but there are other discussions on the same topic(s) with plenty of upvotes and a handful of comments (Before maybe devolving). All is not lost.

What was wrong with this one for example? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42925782
I wholeheartedly agree and would say the lack of being able to thoroughly search the net like it was mid 00s is the No 1 thing that has been depowered ... enshitified - beginning in the early to mid 10s that loss what I say down to the lack of search engine competition and the most popular or main engine, Google, ensuring spam results got thicker which encouraged more clicks and thus more revenue. In the last few years since then, much more absence of results from some sites falls into shit web site building incorporating being far too clever features, must MUST track, and oh no, web crawlers and search bots might be stealing our info ...whatever reasons - for example, a few months ago I wasn't even that surprised when a once searchable site that lists music played on a tv program, (ABC - Australia's Rage) which played each weekend, web dev inserted their aren't we clever card and ... no more search results.
Daisy the 'AI granny' speaks to scammer: 'I'm a bit lost now' [video]
> tire wear is proportional to vehicle weight to the fourth power.

Does this mean that a bus that weighs 10 times as much as a small car will produce 10000 times as much tire dust? If it does, I'm not sure if investing in buses will reduce tire dust at all. A bus can replace a lot of cars, but 10000 is a stretch. We need more trains.
I'm not sure why you're being down voted for suggesting a practical and fact based solution. The USA is, regrettably, not making a pivot towards public transportation anytime in the near future. So, lighter cars are one way to address this issue.

You didn't expound upon your point about the unintended consequences of CAFE standards but they're very real. Instead of making smaller and more efficient sedans per the guidelines, car makers opted start making all of their vehicles "light trucks" -- 80%+ of new vehicles are SUVs or bubbly looking "crossovers" -- which are not subject to the same demanding standards. Small sedans also cost less and would require ongoing R&D to continue to meet the CAFE standards. The end result, as this thread is interested, is heavier vehicles with bigger tires and more plastic in the environment and our brains.
Can’t speak to them specifically, but generally anyone of particular note or import is going to be targeted by those who feel sleighted. It’s why Celebrities get stalkers, why Influencers get “taken down” in hate videos, and why small project contributors eventually throw up their hands and say “fuck this” after having enough toxicity from the very groups they’re trying to serve or help.

Some people just cannot stand being a “lesser-than” in their own minds, and will rip apart others. It’s always been there, but the social media and data harvesting era of today has made it easier than ever to terrorize someone you just plain dislike.

I hate that they’ve been pushed to ending the project so abruptly, but I hope they find joy again soon.
AI therapy bot on Instagram loses its mind
Even r/Conservative is freaking out about various bits of what is being done. Most of them seemed to think that the tariffs against Canada were a bad idea. Same with the Trail of Tears in Gaza the president is talking about doing.
If you log in to the CF dashboard every 3 months or so you will see pretty clearly they are slowly trying to be a cloud provider like Azure or AWS. Every time I log in there is a who new slew of services that have equivalent on the other cloud providers. They are using the CDN portion of the business as a loss leader.
I don't think you understand where I'm living.

"Microplastic Free", no, there is no such thing right now. But I'm very far from any major roads/interstates and hundreds of miles to any big city. I didn't move out here to avoid microplastics though, it just (maybe) turned out that way.

I'm actually not terribly afraid of microplastics at all, I just don't like urban environments.
User hammock, in this thread, may have suggested an answer.
As the article itself describes, programs that expose kids to fields they might otherwise not have a chance to interact with. A field trip for kids that focuses on creating more people in the future who are interested in the field from more diverse background.
> Being the best at one thing is very different from being good at everything, so it's unclear how that advice applies to your children.

My kid pushes too hard when he realizes he's plateau'd at some skill level and then gets disappointed at the steepness of the learning curve.

It'll go from chess to skiing, then it is swimming and now he's running a trail 10k in March. While he's able to say Good morning in everything from Esperanto to Klingon, by way of Welsh and Japanese, he's not gotten fluent at any language so far.

Not that any of that is bad in itself, but he goes into a maximum-effort "not fun" mode when he gets moderately good at anything.

The "not fun" mode kills the joy and then the activity becomes almost painful.

Mostly I try to help him stay in the happy zones with "A little is enough" instead of setting himself up for failure constantly like this, by failing his own expectations.

The younger one is obviously out to out-compete the older, so hopefully I only have to do this teaching once for both of them.
I've tested myself several times and found I can usually read 1.5 to 3 pages per minute for a typical-size paperback, depending mostly on how "in the zone" I am (with a minor effect from complexity, but most published novels don't different much in reading level). Even down at 1 page per minute, there are plenty of 200-page books so 1 is a reasonable lower bound. Except, the article spreading it out to only 8 minutes per day means you'll never be reading long enough to get in the zone, so ...

One notable observation: you need to aggressively prune away the possibility of reading anything with bad (or even inconsistent) grammar; exposure to it poisons your brain's ability to read and write correctly.
Sorta. It's like NAT except it's at your carrier. Multiple customers share the same IP.

If an attack or abuse comes from a CG-NAT address they have to throttle the IP and all the customers behind it.
> DOGE is obviously a completely illegal operation,

Which law(s) are they breaking? Please cite them specifically.

I'm genuinely asking because you are making a very assertive statement.
Would be nice if just once these sorts of things could have beneficial effects.
EV/hybrid only "zones" in Europe are crazy to me because the electric cars leech more tire carbon into the air anyway. Some regulation seems intelligent on the surface, but the devil is in the details.
Check your logs, you might be surprised.
> What Trump is doing is actively splitting the country and distracting from much more important issues

I don’t have a dog in this hunt (I didn’t vote for either of them), but I think its fair to say that Trump seems to be pretty much trying to do most everything he promised in his campaign (which obviously attracted enough votes for him to win). Perhaps people just believe that politicians say a bunch of shit to get elected—then do something else and never expected this level of follow through.

Either way, this is what America voted for…and are apparently what we are going to get.