skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> After catching up on some sleep, Armstrong took advantage of his new private bath, got dressed, and went out for a long walk, stunned by the beautiful African American neighborhood he found himself in. “The reason why I was so amazed over South Parkway is because, such a street in New Orleans, with all those highpowered homes and apartments, nothing but white folks lived on a street like that... And nothing but the Filthy Rich ones at that,” he wrote. “I just could not get [over] the idea, that it was a little difference between the north and the south (a little differnt [sic] anyway) and the colored people were a little more respected and appreciated.”

This part of Chicago peaked at a population of nearly 80,000 in 1950; it's now around 20,000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas,_Chicago#Bronzeville
My uncle had noticeable baldness very early.

When he graduated college and started working in finance, he found that the baldness was a major advantage, making him look older and therefore letting him avoid the stereotype that young people are immature / unreliable / ignorant / untrustworthy.
I appreciate the idea very much! But the design needs a lot of work. It needs to have an appealing look & feel. Right now it is very cold and off-putting because the layout looks like an AI-generated template for a website whose maker doesn't know what they want their site to do. Look around at other coffee & similar sites online and start a moodboard or something to get started... notice the color schemes and how things "feel". Perhaps make the background a dark rich brown--it should relate to the content. Good luck!
I’ve read a lot of articles like this over the past decade, and books, and papers. I agree with most of it: we need to bring technology back “to the people”. But everything I’ve read, including this, has two problems:

1. Consistently, people reminisce about older tech that they loved, and wishing they could have stuff like that again. But the reality is that people like us, on HN, are not the average person. The tools we adored were great to us because we knew how to wield their power and felt empowered to do so. What parts of those applications could the broader population use easily?

2. What should we be using to create personal/folk/situated software? How do we even accomplish this goal? Again, we (HN readers) know the tools and feel empowered. But for the ideas in this article to come to light, many more people need to be empowered to solve their own problems and tailor their tools to their needs. What technologies should they use? I never get a good answer to that one.
Yes definitely not. But I think this could be a legitimately good use case if it were implementable. Filtering based on keywords will throw away papers of interest, while a recommendation algorithm wouldn't give you much control over content. But a language model could probably do a decent job of ranking a days worth of papers based on relevance to a short description of your research interests.

I'm in a field where there are 50+ postings a day, but only 5-10% are relevant to my focus. A good filter would save me a lot of tedium.

But OP says it wouldn't be sustainable to implement, so that's that. Maybe will try this myself and see how it goes.
Taken at the time:

https://solipsys.co.uk/images/DigiCompIIa.jpg
"The company’s mission to help local farmers plant and sell trees while reinvesting profits into the community was inspiring."

This happens to a lot of people at non-profits also. They consider the "mission" part of the paycheck and pay accordingly in Feel Good Bucks.
AMOC shutdown likely within the next 20-30 years
> Which is irrelevant to the question of whether copyright law within the country of England and within English culture is beneficial or not

It is irrelevant from your POV because you don't see anything wrong in IP violations when it comes to Knowledge being taken out of India, credit removed and then reproduced in European Languages, including English, as if it was some novel discovery. So those who indulged in this specifically (I am not talking about current British folk but people like Macaulay) should not be giving sermons on Copyright Law.

To give you an analogy:

Using the same logic, you would have to give CCP a pass and say they did not "steal IP from the US" because Copyright Law in China specifically applies only within the Country of China and within Chinese culture. Surely you wouldn't learn about specifics of Copyright Law from the CCP I presume (yes they do have a Copyright Law that applies internally in China). If that is the case, then the same argument applies to the British Empire as well.

> it does not follow that because someone is racist they therefore don't have anything valuable to say on loosely related topics

It is not irrelevant considering many of the same Sanskrit scriptures were translated by Arabs, which were then translated by Europeans, whose concepts then went on to become foundations of Modern Science. So when it comes to Copyright, the least one can do is not wipe out credits. And least one can do is not take advice on Copyright from such people.
The income thing was a bit overstated; PG&E will offer discounted fees to people already on existing income-based discount programs.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/pge-electrici...
Ofc nobody reads papers saying your methods are trash; if they read it they simply ignore it.

Fwiw Pearson correlation does not assume normally distributed variables, what people usually mean is homoscedascity (normality of residuals) is an assumption for parametric hypothesis testing.
the problem with how circular the argument is is that the essence of there being an actual problem is being taken for granted

it's not clear that detriments actually exist, and the benefits are clear
It's news that Orcas kill white sharks? I thought they have been doing this for a very, very long time?
>If it's publicly available, you don't need to provide any access to it, it's available.

The data may be publicly available, but there may be anti-scraping measures.
I'm reluctant to call it a "coup" until it starts interfering with elections. If the voters change their minds in two years, and they accept that, then it's not a coup, merely an incredibly bad idea.

But it could well be a coup in the making, and if elections are interfered with, future historians will definitely back-date the coup to this point.
MV3 hasn't satisfied developers because it is intended to help users and, to a significant extent, thwart developers. Many things that many developers want to do are bad for users, so you can't take both sides simultaneously. I am glad Google is on the side of the users.
IIUC scrappy is just poorly named; it's about taking a minimalist approach, which IMO is distinct from the "baling wire and duct-tape" implied by the MacGyver approach.

The former might be worth keeping around, the latter is firmly in the "build one to throw away" territory.
This is interesting, but isn't this more like a coincidence? Power line engineering and wireless engineering are fairly distinct fields in EE.
There is no way anybody is making a profit on driving 36 km to deliver a hamburger for 6 euros, and it's a matter of time until whatever faucet of VC money subsidizing this runs dry.

In much of the world the price of food delivery has risen to the level needed to make it profitable, and it's not cheap. I paid around $10 in fees plus Uber's 30-50% markups on the food itself to get a couple of burritos yesterday from a shop a mile down the road.
Very common in NYC. People will use all of "New York, NY", "Queens, NY", or "Astoria, NY" all interchangeably and the post office will still just deliver it to the same place.
> There is legitimate need for reproducible pseudo-random sequences derived from a known random seed.

Correct, but rand() / srand() aren't an effective way of providing for that need. The state of the RNG is process-global; it rapidly becomes nondeterministic in multithreaded applications, let alone if a library you're using calls rand() internally. And, as mentioned upthread, the algorithm is implementation-defined, and isn't guaranteed to remain the same over time.
"A witty saying proves nothing" -- Voltaire, Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767): Deuxième Entretien
Show HN: Send Newsletters based on RSS – self-hosted
Frustrated with email marketing tools? Services like Mailchimp, though initially free, can become costly. For my blog, I have developed a GitHub-based solution that automatically sends newsletters from RSS feeds with Listmonk, an open source mailing list manager.
> AdGuard, a privacy service that makes an ad blocking extension for Chrome and related applications, recently complained that MV3 is making it hard to deliver its desired features.

> In late January the company reported that Chrome's remote code execution policy under Manifest V3 (MV3), the revamped API for writing browser extensions, has forced it to remove its Quick Fixes filter and temporarily drop its Custom filter.

> The Quick Fixes filter is used to quickly resolve critical content filtering issues on popular websites without having to upgrade AdGuard’s extension.

well yes, that's the entire point, giving Google control of updates

this way they can push out a youtube release with an ad blocker detection update

then sit on extension updates until they're ready to push out another youtube release with a different way of detecting ad blockers

result: ad blockers on Google properties effectively and completely extinguished

if you haven't done it already: get your friends and family onto Firefox, now
What I mean is that people are going to sue, and they will go to the courts. It's unclear how much will really stick.
A backdoor for one is an opportunity for many. Given the UK is completely incapable of outspending most of the world on compute, this effectively hands their enemies that data they’re looking for.
I'm not surprised at all
Exactly, I think that in this case using ML models that are experts in papers can be more useful and that type of models can run locally so it's the best option.
No no we only ask questions like this when it's a US company in the spotlight
These researchers are on the side of the government.
I sometimes think my adblocker should very much lie to the page that "yeah, watched that, totally" in an undetectable way.
How do you feel about vaccines, for instance? They kind of interfere with nature. We ought to be infected instead, right, because it's natural?

Or do you draw a line between bacteria and insects for some reason? If the ticks are left unaltered but we eradicate the lyme disease bacteria (and the typhus bacteria, and the Q-fever bacteria, and the other seven or so diseases ticks can spread) is that alright?
Frederick Wiseman's Real-Life Epics
https://archive.ph/2025.02.07-093001/https://www.newyorker.c...
Because the wealth was transferred from India to the "antipode" through Colonization. GDP reduced from 25% Pre-Colonization (and 30% if you take Pre-Islamic Colonization) to merely 4% Post-India's Independence. At least Indians are not reverse-colonizing the West.
>How?

Getaway drug to card pack opening addiction/gambling https://balatrogame.fandom.com/wiki/Booster_Packs
Parent here: it takes a lot of discussion, but it's a great time to talk about the reality of evil and villains. My kids are on the good side, or at least I like to think so ...
Chiplets Still a Challenge with UCIe 2.0
I could be erring but in some cases a German court order is enforceable across the entire EU.
Safe Rust is memory safe when used exclusively while unsafe Rust is obviously not memory safe, and a mix might also not be. If you use unsafe blocks carefully in Rust it is still quite memory safe but if you use unsafe blocks carelessly is not very memory safe. My favorite example is the CVE in a matrix transpose function: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5gmm-6m36-r7jh A similar error in C would be taken by Rust proponents as clear sign how dangerous C is. Overall, in practice, the safety of Rust is not so clear as proponents claim, except when strictly sticking to the safe part.

I think the experiment is a mistake and the kernel would obviously stay relevant even without this. But I am happy to let Linus make this decision. I just think it is a poor decision.
https://github.com/remsky/Kokoro-FastAPI
I agree that the commentary is nice, and should be paid attention to, but it's also from 2007. So perhaps you mean to say "it would be useful to consider this paper in the context of this 2007 commentary"? I would agree with that.

(Either that, or you linked to the wrong commentary. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E7z89FKLsHk5DkmDL/language-m... would be closer, other than being a different paper.)
We are watching the redefinition of the idea of territorial sovereignty that emerged from the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. We in the US see our expectations of privacy shaped in the UK, and the reverse.
> You just landed at the airport and need a cab. You fax your FOIA requests for each of the hundred cab companies in the area, which they're required to provide within 20 business days. Your return flight is in 3 days and it would be nice to leave the airport before then.

If you just landed at the airport, you rely on police enforcement keeping bad actors from having medallions. The medallion itself is the primary "this person is a reputable cab driver". That's also entirely why the Regulatory Capture in some cities was so effective in controlling supply of medallions, because it was city police enforced.

Many cities required taxis to have their medallion number painted on the outside, and there were phone numbers you could quickly call (in the days of payphones even) to get quick information about a medallion or to report a complaint/problem with one.

Today a few cities have updated that external paint requirement (and inside the car medallion papers) to include QR codes for even quicker lookup on modern phones or to even use an app to do nice things like pay for the Taxi without needing to broker/negotiate it. Those kind of technological improvements have kind of gotten lost in the wash of the speed of which Uber/Lyft moved fast and broke things, but were always possible.

> So compete with them instead of banning them. Fund an open source ride hailing app with open data. Don't require anyone to use it. If it's better, they will. If it's not better, why should they be forced to?

The history of taxi companies say that they are only as open as they are forced to be. I never said anything about banning Uber/Lyft. Competition is not the problem; destroying public safety regulations in the name of competition is the problem. I said that Uber/Lyft should have been required to do the same or similar paperwork that medallions represent, that both of their data should be open under the previously existing laws, as a public good. Break the artificial scarcity, sure, give Uber/Lyft a license to "print medallions" if that breaks existing Trusts. But get that data open and available to the public (and enforceable by the public's law enforcement). Neither would want to do that because their rating systems are secret sauce and "competitive advantage", they would need to be coerced by regulations. That's what regulations are for, the public good that competition doesn't care about/can't care about/needs to keep "secret sauce" for advantages.
> The identity/loyalty issue seems to be the main problem.

It always has been. Even back in Rome there were the plebeians and the patricians.
Demagogues rose to power based on party lines, corruption grew, and then Rome fell.

What we are seeing today is what naturally happens when you fail to teach future leaders history, and instead they are taught, but this time it will be different.
So they stirred a whole lot of drama for not much, potentially harming R4L.
Can I play Crysis in Chrome now?
Love this! I wrote a post just recently you might like:

Show HN: Comind – A cognitive layer for the ATProtocol/Bluesky social network | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975350
I don't think this is really true either practically or theoretically. On the practical side, formally verifying program correctness is still very difficult for anything other than very simple programs. And on the theoretical side, some programs require arbitrarily difficult proofs to show that they satisfy even very simple specifications (e.g. consider a program to encode the fixpoint of the Collatz conjecture procedure, and our specification is that it always halts and returns 1).
I love how he handles questions: https://youtu.be/Hi8r_63LGyg?t=827. He takes the time to understand what was being asked and answers very clearly.
Quantum Private Keys with Qiskit in Python
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Oh man great find! Thanks for sending that. I posted this over there to see if Albert is interested.
I agree. Kids need to eat their vegetables, but we can make vegetables quite delicious if we try. Also, the music metaphor is imperfect because some musicians are performers others composers. I prefer sport as the metaphor: a mix of short laregely repituous training and longer term strategy, different styles for different athletes, influence of genetics and talent heterogeneity acknowledged at the elite end of the spectrum.
This reminds me of Peter Sunde's "komimashin"

https://www.engadget.com/2015-12-21-peter-sunde-kopimashin.h...

It's obviously absurd to enforce copyright as bytes are copied around instead of as it is used. Training an LLM is a different thing than re-hosting and giving away copies to other people.

If you don't want people to transform your works - keep them private. You don't own ideas.
Really amazing project and work, gotta say the guys working on bevy stuff are really great to read and track.

Keep it up!

Wish you had setup a video recording with metrics to compare over time and then you could just concat them together to show how its been improving over time visually.
DOGE member previously fired by cybersecurity firm for leaking company secrets
> Last, but probably the main thing that triggers me is that it "requires" somebody do some work for free. Why the fuck any company or person must do any work, that it doesn't deem necessary, to satisfy the curiosity of some "researchers"?

In democratic countries, there are many instances where you are required to do work for free to remain in business. You have to maintain accounts, records, licenses, authorisations, inspections, etc, depending on your business. This is a necessary part of engaging with the State in which you operate.
At least in the context of the presidential surveillance program, the ACLU did sue to make them stop. But the program was classified which made getting evidence of the program's existence a crime. The supreme court ruled that they couldn't make a decision without evidence. Shortly after, Snowden leaked the evidence the supreme court had requested. That leak provided the ACLU the evidence necessary to bring the case back to the supreme court and win, "stopping" the program.
https://archive.today/S70JE
Thanks for the link, that's helpful.

> Claiming the new Haitian community threatened “the good White residents” of Springfield, Blood Trump members descended on the city in August during Springfield’s annual Jazz & Blues festival, marching downtown while displaying guns and waving swastika flags.

That's horrible. The city sued them, hopefully they all land in jail for a long time.

> “the Blood Tribe made good on those threats,” noting that the city and its residents received at least 33 bomb threats in subsequent weeks

That looks like a slam dunk case, hopefully the city judges and prosecutors there have no problem handling it.

I saw the mention about Temporary Protected Status of the immigrants at the end. I had no idea that existed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_protected_status.

I'd would think the fact that disgusting group marched there and made bomb threats would make the community and the government protect them even more. The city launched a law suite after all.
Show HN: Gumshoe.ai – SEO for AI
Hi HN,

We're Todd and Patrick, the founders of Gumshoe (https://app.gumshoe.ai/go). Between us, we have like 50 years of experience in early-stage startups. For better or worse, I helped build one of the original meme sites (ICanHasCheezburger), so it’s partially my fault that there are so many cat photos on the internet. Around the same time, Patrick built Starwave (which is now ESPN Fantasy Sports) and later cofounded UrbanSpoon.

We’re now building Gumshoe to help companies understand how AI talks about their brand.

As AI search tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity have become more common, they’ve changed digital marketing. SEO used to be the primary focus, which led to the hyper-optimized kind of gobbledygook you see on the internet today. Now, marketers need to think about the broader context in which their brand is discussed. This shift is an opportunity for the internet to get better: results could be less "optimized", more nuanced, and ultimately more useful. At the same time, it also introduces challenges. Marketers want to know what AI is saying about their brand and how they can influence it. We want to help marketers share their products through AI, without it feeling forced. Ultimately, everyone wins if the LLMs recommend the best product for you.

The idea for Gumshoe came from a conversation with a friend who founded a large consumer app (Rover, the dog-walking platform). They’ve spent years working on SEO, but when we asked ChatGPT about finding a dog walker, it listed his competitors in the same sentence as Rover. That set him off on a deep dive, trying different prompts to figure out when he was winning and when he wasn't.

Gumshoe automates that process. We run hundreds of conversations with popular LLMs on behalf of our users. Given a brand and a list of relevant topics, we generate search personas, create questions they might ask, and analyze how different AI models respond. The result is a representative sample of what LLMs say about that brand.

What’s different about our approach? Traditional SEO is focused on individual pages, but AI search is more context-driven. While LLMs are trained on fixed data, many RAG implementations seem to prioritize high-quality, concise, and objective content. We’re still researching how LLMs weigh information and we’d love to hear from the HN community about your insights and experiences with AI-driven search. Ultimately, our goal is to make the internet better in the future, so would love your thoughts on how to make sure the best results get surfaced organically in AI search tools.

If you’re curious, we'd love for you to check out Gumshoe and share your feedback. We're here to answer any questions and eager to learn from your perspectives!

Cheers,
Todd (sawickipedia) & Patrick (patricko)
How is this different from any other roguelite game that has random rewards, sometimes in card form, that also don’t cost anything? This comparison is ridiculous. Because runs are so ephemeral and you don’t actually keep anything, I don’t see how this translates into becoming addicted to opening packs that cost actual money.
Hm, do you want to deny anyone with this opinion any opportunity for employment?
As a result I hear B0 everywhere, in power lines, electric arcs, industrial motors, speaker buzz, etc
I think that solar radiation isn't a direct danger to life, as it is quickly blocked by the surface of oceans and land. If an atmosphere turns out to be a major factor in the development of life, lack of a field could be a bigger impact. That said, atmospheric stripping like what happened to marks isnt sure bet. Venus has no internal Dynamo, but a massive atmosphere, despite 5X the solar radiation.