skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This didn't impede access to Wikipedia (de.wikipedia.org), just the stub web site (which may have been a redirect at that time?) at wikipedia.de.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970412
You're talking about that, but it's unclear why, because it's not an example of someone being jailed for "disagreeing with the extreme left on social media".

It's also a silly story. The dual criminality requirement, and various other considerations, make it virtually certain that no such extradition will occur. Those who fear that the UK is descending into a dystopian hell may be comforted to know that we have the world's stupidest police officers. Your news story can't even be bothered to track down the specific moron who made this statement (Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley), referring instead to a fictional 'head of police'.
I'm assuming this runs on your servers, otherwise you'd be bragging about it running locally?

Does that mean this will become a future paid service?

Edit: I'll add that, if this was local it would be the feature that would cause me to switch away from vscode (as a primarily typescript dev)
In many legal jurisdictions, something being true does not necessarily make it non-defamatory. Don't know if that's the case in Germany.

I don't agree, but it's a legal reality.
Ongoing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42965198
> Or do we think Apple has less of a leg to stand on with US and would be more likely to roll over?

Apple has no leg to stand on at all. When the NSA comes to your door and demands access to everything you have you don't get to say no. There is no court you can appeal to, and they'll take whatever they want and order you to keep your mouth shut about it. They'll walk right into your headquarters and data centers, force you to move your employees so they can set up an office for themselves on your property, insert their equipment into your network directly and take everything just like they did with AT&T decades ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A)

Your only options are to comply or shut down (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit) and I'm not even sure the US government would allow "shut down" as an option in some cases. It seems likely that they'd keep a massive target like Apple running even if the owners of the company wanted to cease operations, but lets be honest, Apple makes a lot of people very very rich so they'd never walk away from that. They'll keep making their money and just try to convince themselves that the US are the "good guys" and so it must be okay.
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Something else, I’m not sure what yet. Honestly, I’m not the best guy to ask but I know that I don’t want startups to continue breaking laws with impunity and I don’t want individuals to get imprisoned for stuff they do that isn’t affecting others in a meaningful way.
Which party do you think passed the "Tell us your password or go to prison law" to begin with?

(Hint: It certainly isn't Tory.)

It's also one of the reasons why I will never vote Labour as long as I live.
we have more crazies than singapore MRT, so that shows that crime could be lower with more aggressive enforcement
Not sure it's precise enough though. In 2018, many clocks in Europe were off because the frequency on the net had drifted due to (as I understood it) the network being out of sync across various countries. Some here might actually understand the details of this.
Into the 1920s and early 1930s, Germany seems to have been a/the center of research, culture, etc. The rise of the Nazis shut down research that conflicted with their political goals and researchers left for free countries, especially the US. The US, perhaps the only wealthy place on earth after WWII - it devastated Europe - has been the center of research and culture since then.

Now in the US, right-wing powers have campaigned to shut down disinformation research, often via lawfare and apparently via influence on major universities. Also, the Trump administration has made clear it is against much scientific research, especially when results conflict with political goals, and has already interfered in significant ways with research (and also culture). I think the Trump administration would agree with that description.

There's no war yet that will devastate the US economically, but the Trump administration is willing to risk that. Even without a war, it's not hard to imagine disinformation researchers moving to Europe now, and also scientists and also artists generally. Again, I think the Trump administration would endorse that.
I used OpenFST for bioinformatics back in the early 2000s. They were fun to play with, but never ended up being useful for the things I was working on. It's cool to see that the project is still going 20 years later: https://www.openfst.org/twiki/bin/view/FST/WebHome
This is fun - waiting so long for the map to generate is a bit of a drag, but understandable.
The EV transition hits some snags at Porsche and Audi
I would have thought a mayor prioritizing affordable housing would also prioritize _more_ bike lanes, not fewer. That's odd.
Bevy is very cool! Do you have nanite demos to view?
The available housing preferences may need to be reflected in the title.

My desired heatmap is for 5+ beds/3+ baths at [price range]. It's okay this isn't that - but the Housing Preferences descriptor indicates it might be.
Yeah but small islands are a completely different category.
DeepSeek's cutoff date is July 2024: We extracted DeepSeek's system prompt
I think the stories inspired by KiY, like James Blish's "More Light" are better than the ones in Chambers' book. Chambers' genius was in the creation of a work (the eponymous King In Yellow play) that induced insanity. This influenced a lot of later authors such as HPL with his fictitious Necronomicon.
Show HN: Tiny Talking Todos – Bring AI reasoning to your family's context
It's about this time each week my partner and I start to figure out our routines. Meal plans, kid logistics, errands. We used to capture it in Reminders, but the Reminders were never that actionable. Cook when, where’s the party, what’s on the shopping list?

Talkies is like a co-pilot for your shared todo lists. Think GPTs + v0 + Airtable + Siri. It’s my idea of a TaskOS, where you can create the perfect context for agents, while keeping your data portable and in your control.

Try it now for free with BYO token and localStorage -> https://tinytalkingtodos.com

What makes it different: Uses the new Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash thinking models
- Lists are React components, customisable using Flash Thinking
- Multimodal: Use voice, text, webcam, screen share, links and photos
- Voice control for the whole app, even when off screen
- Private: Direct connection with your services in browser, conversations aren't persisted

How we use it: We do our meal planning in Talkies across 5 lists. I upload recipes using links and photos. I then use the “Think” button to help generate the shopping list with Flash Thinking. My favourite template is "Batch" - it combines multiple recipes into a single set of todos. The voice assistant reads out steps from all combined recipes, making batch cooking actually manageable.

Technical details:
- Built on tinybase.org for the reactive data store. The “Tiny” in the name is a hat tip.
- Uses Cloudflare durable objects for instant sync, very easy with tinybase.

Looking for feedback on:
1. What kinds of lists would be useful for your family?
2. UX and interface design
3. Thoughts on the BYO API keys approach
Questions I have: 1. For those using family-shared todo/planning apps - what are your pain points around context-switching between different types of tasks? Very happy to answer any of yours!
Try it without creating an account - no email required. Bring your own API keys and experiment with different AI services while keeping your data portable.
Better than the market for programmers with 20+ years of experience, that's for sure.
the mere idea of voice software's error mode being uncontrollable screeching is the most hilarious thing to me
The Politics of Dehumanization [video]
This is not a decision, it's a petition for a writ of certiorari. The Court hasn't even decided to hear the case yet.
current comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936650
I love the idea, but the data seems a bit off. I tested it in my little city, where I'm < 14 minutes by car from the grocery. It's actually a little quicker, but I'm going by Google Maps estimates.

Setting a criteria of 15 mins by car, I'm far out in the gray. I'd have to drive a couple miles to even get in the red. It's only 6 miles away!
Having used spark for the past 8 years or so, it's definitely a solid basic for data engineering. I use it for generating reports the most, but sometimes we have large projects to get data into different staging databases. I use it a lot with ElasticSearch or a parquet. Basically it helps you write large joins and flatten the result to a database that can more quickly perform aggregations on that flattened result (like Elasticsearch) or a columnar database.
Would be nice to use conditions. Like, if there are multiple libraries in a city and I would like to evaluate being 15 minutes from any of them, have a condition able to be set -

15 minutes from:
Library A OR
Library B OR
Library C
You keep bringing up plastic yet I've not mentioned. Maybe read my first post you replied to again and understand the world is fucked because of faults.

Turn the page of the plastic age? We all live in a plastic age. Everything is plastic your phone is too. Wars are plastic. Plastic is OLD. Turn the page.
How is Germany going to enforce this? President Musk doesn't seem to be subject to any laws to me.
Barcelona a good example of this
Three Bradford schools reduce admissions due to low birth rates
I think he switched to this tool and wire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRc7ZDRcgrQ , but he made the PET strip material popular in the bushcraft community, and from there I think it crossed over to the 3D Printing / Maker community and got picked up for making filament.
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Tim Apple has been on inauguration, so very possible.
It's a problem that can be easily fixed with tooling that's smart enough to just look inside the file. Detached signatures aren't necessarily better, just different.
I wonder if resistive heating devices like ovens which have a tuned temperature component would become systematically less accurate if the frequency changed significantly.
Check the specification page. There is WAY MORE than just "it's snowing later"
I use watermelonDB for offline-first sync. It’s pretty wonderful.
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Of course. We're talking about Palantir here, one of the more overtly evil corporations.
I lived outside the US most of my life. Never owned a car. Public transport, and the occasional car rental. Even with 2 kids. Unfortunately now that I'm in the US, we have to have a car.
Didn't they abolish double jeopardy and introduce secret trials as well?
What I always wonder when this happens is, did I actually come up with something witty in a dream or did my brain just generate the feeling of having come up with something witty without actually having a cause.

I had a dream once where I had 3 really good ideas for a particular product but when I woke up I couldn't remember the 3rd and best idea. Then I started wondering if there actually was a 3rd idea or did my dream just skip to the "That's a great idea" stage with no actual idea, leaving me with just the feeling.

Brains are weird, dreams doubly so.
> Not only was it inevitable, if we were so inclined and willing to use the regulatory pen, we could've simply written into law that for Taxi's to operate, they must be well maintained and must accept all major forms of payment.

That was frequently already the case. They were required to accept credit cards but then the card reader would be "broken" and it wasn't worth anybody's time to dispute it instead of just paying in cash.

You also... don't really want laws like that. They're required to accept "all payment methods", which ones? Do they have to take American Express, even though the fees are much higher? Do they have to take PayPal if the customer has funds in a PayPal account? What about niche card networks like store cards accepted at more than one merchant? If not those and just Visa and Mastercard, you now have a law entrenching that duopoly in the law.

> Are you sick of filthy Taxis that break down? Put a regulation down that says if a cab breaks down during a trip, they owe the customer a free ride and five thousand dollars. You bet your ASS those cabs will be serviced as soon as humanly possible. This isn't rocket science y'all.

It's not rocket science, it's trade offs.

Is there a $5000 fine for a breakdown? You just made cab service much more expensive, because they're either going to have to pay the fines as a cost of doing business and then pass them on, or propylactically do excessive maintenance like doing full engine rebuilds every year because it costs less than getting caught out once, and then passing on the cost of that. And even then, there is no such thing as perfect. The cabbie paid to have the whole engine rebuilt by the dealership just yesterday and the dealer under-tightened one of the bolts when putting it back in, so there's a coolant leak? Normally that's just re-tightening the bolt and $20 worth of coolant, but now it's a $5000 fine on top of the $4000 engine rebuild.

The way you actually want to solve this is with competition, not rigid rules and onerous fines. If someone is always having breakdowns then they get bad rating, customers can see that when choosing and then opt for a different driver that costs slightly more -- but only if the cost is worth the difference to them. Maybe it's worth $2 for the difference between two stars and five but it isn't worth $50 for the difference between 4.7 and 4.8. Either way you shouldn't be deciding for people, you should be giving them the choice.
Ask HN: People that write blog posts – why?
Not for work, not for promoting your new project. People that write informational blog posts about their opnions on things, or projects they did with no monetary pursuit.. why?

I mean it's a lot of work. And broadly speaking, you're more likely to get negative feedback than positive. And more often than either of those, you'll be ignored entirely.

What's your motivation to set aside 3-300 hours writing something up?
I really love this article. I made the transition in the opposite direction: I am a distributed systems engineer who found himself working on a collaborative text editor, and initially it was very unintuitive to me that text editors were not a completely solved problem.

One of the most confusing things about the space is that you only learn after using every high-level editing library (Lexical, etc.) that ProseMirror really is the right abstraction, a masterpiece of engineering and architecture. The reason this is unintuitive is because ProseMirror is essentially the same level of abstraction as a compiler middle-end, and it's surprising that there are no higher-level abstractions that seem to work better in practice. If you are doing something remotely non-trivial, you will need the customization that only ProseMirror provides, and you will learn that the hard way. You will need the decade of bug-fixes for various touch devices and old browsers, you'll need the careful work that has gone into performance, and so on.

For a long time the missing piece was that (1) PM defaults are not what the vast, vast majority of users want, and (2) it is nearly impossible to get it to work cleanly with React. react-prosemirror, in my view, is the solution. Every day I am happy that I get to work with it, and I am not sure what we'd do without it.
That's what ZipCar was supposed to do (not sure how popular it became)
It helps that other people struggled with this macOS Ventura era stuff out in the open, so when my QA tester (hi dad!) told me my screensaver was misbehaving in System Settings, the discourse came up in GitHub's search results.

Oh— and when researching for Iconic, I dug up BackSpace for NeXTSTEP and learned how OS X's ScreenSaver.framework came about. Devs distributing modules they produced for other devs' projects was much more prevalent in the early nineties! SuperSolitaire II, for instance, accepted a ".solitaire" program module and shipped a separate set of varieties:

https://ftp.nice.ch/pub/next/games/card/_SuperSolitaireModul...
why the .ai domain? is this generating comments with AI or something?
I just futilely hope they keep the home button.
> Why is that a useful purpose? It's not like we're sitting in a room together, and there's a lull in the conversation, an uncomfortable silence. There's no inherent reason why HN threads need to continue indefinitely.

It's useful if you care about intellectual curiosity and/or arriving at truth. For the same reason that high school and college debates happen where people are assigned a position rather than allowed to argue their "real" position. I agree that it's preferable to know somebody's real position/bias when going into a discussion, but there's also a lot of value in being able to pass the Ideological Turing Test. The whole point of saying "devil's advocate" is to let the person know "this isn't my personal position," otherwise I agree, just saying the argument would be better. However some people get defensive/emotional if they think you actually disagree with them, and many more make assumptions. Especially on a forum like HN which lives forever and is public, not being allowed to argue anything other than your real position would hamper conversation and the intellectual curiosity that many people (myself included) come to HN for.

Ultimately though, if what you want is a discussion where everybody already agrees and hasn't/doesn't consider actual (non-strawman) arguments against their position which turns into a circle jerk of good feelings, then devil's advocate would not be welcome (just as in my religious example above).

I love Christopher Hitchens philosophy about sharpening your mind against the best arguments. Your mind is a tool and tools need to be maintained otherwise they decay. Without "devil's advocate" such sharpening becomes significantly more difficult, especially if a person only converses/discusses with people that already agree with them (which I would hypothesize is increasingly nearly everybody).
Based on currently available public estimates, Google stores around 2^75 bytes, most of that backed by a small number of very general-purpose object stores. A lot of that is from larger files, but you're still approaching birthday-paradox numbers for in-the-wild 128-bit hash collisions.
I'm celebrating it today. No idea who is replacing her but I am ecstatic.
Depends on how you shop. I lived in a large metropolis with 2 kids and we didn't have a car (not in the US, of course).
Then keep chasing the symptom backwards until you find the root cause. It's standard troubleshooting, not rocket science.
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Where can we download that data you're referring to?
Unsafe is the P0. I'd avoid this approach wholesale UNLESS it was a critical hot path with no other way to get safe Rust to elide the check (hint - you'd be surprised how much gets elided in idiomatic Rust). Basically, this is a nice sharp knife in the toolbox to know about and so sharp I'd rarely use it.
or projects they did with no monetary pursuit.. why?

I like to share what I've worked on. For example, this is something I did with no monetary gain and it wasn't work but I think it was cool and was worthwhile: https://blog.jgc.org/2024/09/cracking-old-zip-file-to-help-o...
Aphis Confirms D1.1 Genotype in Dairy Cattle in Nevada (2nd form of avian flu)
> We don’t need a multi-year quintuple blind study by esteemed Ivy League research fellows to do the basic observation and deduction of the situation.

Of course not, they're going to provide more precise data and facts. Perhaps many don't need the data to arrive at conclusions the data will point to but that does not obviate the utility of the research. Really, if you think their data will point to these conclusions, one would think you'd be that much more interested to see that the research is being conducted.
This is really neat. It would be cool if you exposed some parameters like walking speed. This shows that a trip I make daily in ~12 minutes is just barely within the 30 minute walking shell from my house. Also if you want to waste an insane amount of time and effort, you could integrate this with a digital elevation model to yield better biking times.
Right, but the problem they were describing was storing the "hash" in a hash table, not storing the item using a hash. For that, it absolutely matters, and the fact that it was a 128-bit hash IMO isn't good enough because the hash function itself likely sucks.
I ran the installation lines and got this error:

make && sh test.sh
cc -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -o2 trre_nft.c -o trre
cc -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -o2 trre_dft.c -o trre_dft
test.sh: 14: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

Using bash fixed it.

Then I ran one of the generator examples:

echo '' | trre -g ':(0|1){,3}?'

And I got this error:

./trre: invalid option -- 'g'
Usage: ./trre [-d] [-m] expr [file]
Hey AJ, this is almost on topic, do you know of a more up to date version of the dataset you used on the blog post release for H3 v4.0.0 [1]? They stopped updating in Oct 2023. Thanks!
[1] https://data.humdata.org/dataset/kontur-population-dataset
digital music is not artificial scarcity, because it's not the copied bits that are the resource, it's attention. we only have so much time and attention for consuming media, and only so much attention and memory space in our brains for keeping track of where to find it. large budgets can easily dominate these channels and limit the average person's apparent choice.

this is what I mean when large players would outcompete smaller players in a digital marketplace with no copyright. the only way for this to work would be with a benevolent neutral 3rd party managing the marketplace, like Steam, so users can easily see when a large player is cloning a smaller players work - but even then it still depends on the good will of the general public to prefer the "original" artist which is not guaranteed.
I think you're interpreting that that's the only outcome?

In Germany it's much harder to get money via lawsuit (vs the US), so that's kinda normal. If Twitter doesn't comply, the Staatsanwaltschaft will open a new lawsuit which will have a much bigger fine.

but yeah - 6k lawyers fee sounds like a joke, I guess it was a slam dunk case with very little time on the clock for the lawyers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check

And one of my favorite quotes on the subject:

> Intelligence: Finding an error in a Knuth text. Stupidity: Cashing that $2.56 check you got.

> — Seen in a Slashdot signature, quoted by Tess O'Connor ( https://www.stgray.com/quotes/programmingquotes.html )
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can you describe how any idea of this form connects to a job? I think what I'm saying is you don't need any "idea" - it's enough to have skills. You might be overestimating the bar you need to it or what it takes to get jobs in general.
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