skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well cult this, cult that. What i care about is the wellbeing of the citizens. Who is being helped by erasing "trans gender idealogy nonsense"? Give me specifics about how certain people are being tangibly helped. Otherwise it's just more idealogy. It reminds me about how removing abortion rights was about "freedom of religion", who's freedom and what religion? I need examples of actual tangible assistance that has been gained by this. As of current it just sounds like certain people are mad that other people exist.

We can talk about the sports issue, the bathroom issue etc. But how many of us have had said issues? How often do these issues occur? Is the resolution in favor of the status quo actually better on the whole if it costs the personal expression of say 10,000 people? 100,000? How many people should be told what to wear and which doctor to see before you are satisfied to have squashed the "idealogy"?
Nothing ever looks bad for Trump. His followers will always make excuses for him. The latest is that Trump campaigned on “America First” and isolationism and now MAGAs are cheering his ideas of using American troops to take over the Gaza Strip and making it a tourist destination.
Well could you see the multicolored confetti?
That's probably the most incorrect analogy. If I have objects, I can change their state in the middle of any bookkeeping.

There should be a different name for functional programming with mutable objects.
Haiku/sonnet/opus are easily the best named models imo.
The offer mirrors Elon's offer to Twitter employees and many of them did not receive the money they were promised.

Elon doesn't have the legal authority to make this offer today, it's poorly defined, and not a standard separation policy for federal employees. I'm not saying they won't be paid out, but I would't bet my livelihood on it
Do not obey in advance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tocssf3w80&t=159s
The numbers are irrelevant. It is a second term presidency. What matters are the numbers for those facing reelection in less than a couple years. Even the burn down crowed don't want to remain on a wagon heading for a cliff in four years.
Minor typo:

from over an our to under 30 minutes.

s/our/hour/
> News flash: you can read newspaper articles at the library.

Reading an article != selling a product that redistributes the article.
I'd prefer a pay-as-you-go / per API call / search pricing model... to something that if I use it just once, I pay full price for a month. Same rationale for AI in my IDE, I'm waiting for the pricing models to change
This makes me think it would be really cool to tie code sections to slack conversations or emails. There's always commit messages yes, but most product decisions on why something was done lives in slack at least where I've worked.

Even an AI tool that takes a slack thread and summarizes how that thread informed the code would be cool to try.
By this logic you're writing the garbage collector by hand in C.
I wonder if that's more an issue with them than you. I subscribed to peacock for one month during the Olympics, and it was terrible. Streams frequently were stuck at something super-low 320p, or just halted to that stupid sad cat error page.

Cutesy error pages are cute exactly once, then they're even worse than a minimally viable error page.
>Thinking that the new administration will just openly refuse to pay people's salaries as part of a formal deal?

The chief executive of the new administration is literally and actually widely known for doing that exact thing repeatedly, for decades and decades, up to and including screwing local municipalities who entered into binding legal agreements with him to incur expenses to be repaid in full as part of his campaign.

This is not bias or propaganda it is fact.
I've been using NotebookLM powered by Gemini 2.0 for three projects and it is _really powerful_ for comprehending large corpuses you can't possibly read and thinking informed by all your sources. It has solid Q&A. When you ask a question or get a summary you like [which often happens] you can save it as a new note, putting it into the corpus for analysis. In this way your conclusions snowball. Yes, this experience actually happens and it is beautiful.

I've tried Adobe Acrobat AI for this and it doesn't work yet. NotebookLM is it. The grounding is the reason it works - you can easily click on anything and it will take you to the source to verify it. My only gripe is that the visual display of the source material is _dogshit ugly_, like exceptionally so. Big blog pink background letters in lines of 24 characters! :) It has trouble displaying PDF columns, but at least it parses them. The ugly will change I'm sure :)

My projects are setup to let me bridge the gaps between the various sources and synthesize something more. It helps to have a goal and organize your sources around that. If you aren't focused, it gets confused. You lay the groundwork in sources and it helps you reason. It works so well I feel _tender_ towards it :) Survey papers provide background then you add specific sources in your area of focus. You can write a profile for how you would like NotebookLM to think - which REALLY helps out.

They are:

* The Stratigrapher - A Lovecraftian short story about the world's first city.
All of Seton Lloyd/Faud Safar's work on Eridu.
Various sources on Sumerian culture and religion
All of Lovecraft's work and letters.
Various sources about opium
Some articles about nonlinear geometries

* FPGA Accelerated Graph Analytics
An introduction to Verilog
Papers on FPGAs and graph analytics
Papers on Apache Spark architecture
Papers on GraphFrames and a related rant I created about it and graph DBs
A source on Spark-RAPIDS
Papers on subgraph matching, graphlets, network motifs
Papers on random graph models

* Graph machine learning notebook without a specific goal, which has been less successful. It helps to have a goal for the project. It got confused by how broad my sources were.

I would LOVE to share my projects with you all, but you can only share within a Google Workspaces domain. It will be AWESOME when they open this thing up :)
Bending Spoons closes $233M acquisition of Brightcove
You’ve already resigned…
This is a good summary slide deck, but there’s not anything new in here really. I think the big developments will be around increasing sanctions or export controls, China’s development of their own AI processors, and the trade war in the background. Unfortunately I don’t see enough being discussed about the risks of China having state of the art AI, as it has significant implications for how they control/suppress their own citizens and how they may apply these technologies to help their military goals.
Ha. You have a superior brain!

This is a case where I wish for a personal archiving tool to scoop-up and index everything I read on the web (and everything write, for that matter). I know there are projects out there to do that. I really should look into one. I always get hung-up in perfect being the enemy of the good and don't do anything.

The Microsoft Recall product sounded vaguely interesting, albeit I'd want a local-only version.

I've also wondered if accessibility interfaces for screen readers could be used for bulk capture of on-screen data for scraping into this mythical index. That would make the index application independent, since the text is being captured at a different "layer".
The Lego pieces are indeed available for you go build this stuff yourself, but the engineering effort required to do so quickly make Palo Alto or Checkpoint's licensing look extremely cheap.
1g = 1000mg

40mg = 0.04g

Hope they have enough spaces in those prisons
How insecure do you have to be in yourself and the size of your hands to reach this level of pettiness?

As per the original report on 404 media, it’s not just women, but also underrepresented groups/people, indigenous people, and more.

https://www.404media.co/nasa-dei-drop-everything-executive-o...

Anyway, the Gizmodo story has a comment which is as funny as it is on point, and it is worrying that it sounds so plausible:

> In his order, Trump also demanded that black holes be renamed to "space holes" and any mention of binary stars be scrubbed completely as the term implies the existence of stars that are non-binary.
HyperCard on the Mac solved this problem on System 6 through Mac OS 9. It was very easy to build your own stacks and even build stand-alone apps. With HyperCard, MacWrite, and MacPaint or even ClarisWorks (alter AppleWorks) bundled with the hardware, pre-OS X Macs were fairly personal in both hardware and software right out of the box. And when Apple started to bundle Claris Emailer and Claris Organizer with Macs along side SoundJam (and later iTunes), you really didn't need much more for the average Performa user.
The whole point of many of these grants is to invest in research on the leading edge where, by definition, nobody knows whether what they're trying to do is going to work, because it's actually new.

Of course that can be gamed, and of course we need good faith oversight, but if none of the research projects we're funding were to ever fail, that would be evidence that we're being massively too conservative in the avenues for new discoveries that we're investing in exploring.
I looked it up. Rule 5.4 of the American Bar Association.
It might not be about race, per se, but when on the flip side the effect is to exclude people based on race or gender, it does kind of become about race, doesn’t it?

I don’t see DEI helping poor white males, for example, and there’s a lot of those in America. Even those whose families don’t own property and have never been to college.
> Enslaving people because you deem them inferior to your own race.

This is irrelevant to the discussion of hiring in 2025, unless you believe your fellow “white” population harbors literal beliefs of a.) racial identity and b.) racial superiority, that c.) the “white” people making hiring decisions are actively excluding candidates based on these beliefs, and that d.) application of a nonwhite bias is just and measured in the face of a-c. I think all are incredible claims, and they’ve only lasted a decade because they have become rabidly-defended shibboleths for people who want to fix racism (and sexism and…).

> I cannot fathom the ignorance necessary to believe that white males are at an disadvantage because of university administrators being "woke"

If 1000 group A individuals and 10 group B individuals apply for a team, and both groups are accepted at ~50% due to a group B preference, then group B is ~100x as likely to be selected for the role due to that preference. Such observations are where my own perception of “disadvantage” comes from. Unless you’re claiming that no such preference exists, or that some prejudice you might have about group A justifies its individual members’ relatively unlikely chances of being selected, I can’t see how this preference doesn’t qualify as a disadvantage for such individuals.
The idea that government workers cannot be hired and fired at will is wrong.

Government workers should have no more rights than the single mother working at a restaurant or business, or anyone working at any normal business in the US.

I other words, they should not have more rights or protections than the people who pay the taxes that pay for their salaries and benefits.

One of the most fundamental problems in various types of organizations with these types of protections is what I call "human rot". These are people who are lazy and incompetent and who only remain employed because of these protections as opposed to merit, doing a good job and actually making valuable contributions to the organization.

Locally, one of the most disgusting examples I came across is a middle school "science" teacher who is a chiropractor and teaches absolute nonsense and falsehoods to our kids. For example --and this is just one of many-- he has been teaching that the moon does not spin on its axis. Yeah. Beyond that, he is a jerk to the kids and does not allow them to ask questions. He cannot be challenged or fired for any of it. He is protected. And we wonder why our results in education are shit.
Where I live, people buy apple because you can show it off.
That's why you see these in cafes and airports.
Yes. Discussions:

United States Digital Service renamed to DOGE (130 points, 16 days ago, 98 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42775684

DOGE Takeover of USDS Allows Them to Surveil the US Government from the Inside (112 points, 11 days ago, 125 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42823510
*harder to get data by asking
One thing that lead to this problem is that pretending every relationship goal must be bundled together with every other relationship goal.

There is nothing invalid about wanting casual sex. The problem is failing to communicate that that is what you want. The result of that problem is "players" of "the game" devolving the entire situation into something that is fundamentally intractable for everyone involved.

It turns out that a significant percentage of women do want casual sex. The overwhelming majority of those women also don't want to be exclusively objectified and used, because that leads to poor quality sex, and a general lack of post-sex aftercare (which is important groundwork for good next-time sex). This situation is nearly always expressed by women with the same overgeneralized story that paints every man who has ever interacted with her as an abusive narcissist. The problem is that a woman's desire for casual sex is overwhelmingly catered to by men who ignore this story, and most of those men do so by behaving (intentionally or not) as abusive narcissists. Why? Because the men who do listen to this story are left with no meaningful room to make a move.

We have too much narrative focus on women telling men "don't". Obviously that's an important discussion to have, it just needs to be accompanied by women telling men what to "do", and "how". Most men really need to hear everything a woman is concerned about, good and bad.

Dating apps have involved themselves in this problem by replacing dating itself with advertising. If a woman has a real conversation with a man, then there is real room for her to lay out positive interest. On the other hand, if a woman advertises her positive interests, then she is effectively asking for both constructive and harmful interaction. So very few women actually communicate (on a dating app) any interest other than a desire for committed romance. Those who do are overwhelmed with men who finally found what they are looking for. Those who don't are overwhelmed with men who just want to check behind the curtain.

If a man wants to advertise himself as a thoughtful listener, there is no meaningful way for him to prove he is genuine. If a man wants to advertise himself as the best compromise (who will give you lazy sex, but be hot enough to make up the difference), then he must compete with the rest on a scale of immediate attractiveness and nothing more.

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Like most of our social problems, the advertising model sits right at the heart of it. My answer to that is to do something about its foundation: eliminate (or significantly redesign) copyright.
Optimize your resume to get more interviews
Eggs are not treated as the most important investment of your life, the value of which you hedge the entire rest of your life against, and which is expected to increase in value to support an growing rather than shrinking lifestyle. Eggs are nothing like houses economically
I think sadly the scale becomes less about the size per say and more about the unpredictability. The "vibes" on the internet late 90s early 2000s where very... on point, so it didn't feel like emotional labour. I can imagine being someone who cares about someone on the internet in 2025 would be, frankly, exhausting, in 2002 it was just fun.
>First, Trump voters didn't exactly vote for this, at least not many.

That's exactly what they voted for. Most people don't trust the govt. Only Trump can be expected to cannibalize the govt.
Yeah some of us have been working on agents predominately for years now, but at least people are finally paying attention. Can't wait to be told how I'm following a hype cycle again.
Can't share the full prompt, but I share methodology on the about page: https://www.newsminimalist.com/about
Oh, I just read the rust doc and its says "once a value is bound to a name, you can’t change that value." but I've thought of immutability the other way around, once a name has a value, it can't be changed.

I thought the value of const was once you read const x = 1024, you can be sure that x is 1024 while its in scope, that subsequent code can make assumptions about the content of variable x. Or, when you see x in the code, you can jump directly to its definition and know what its value will be. Defined once and not changed.

Apparently I don't understand the value of const at all.
The captcha on robots is a misconfiguration in the website. CF has lots of issues, but this one is on their costumer. Also they detect Google and other bots, so those may be going through anyway.
If I can run Doom on a dongle or on an Ikea wifi lamp, why cannot we get a portable computer in a smartwatch?

I suspect bloated complex operating systems won't make this happen.
I've been going through ziglings https://codeberg.org/ziglings/exercises/ and am a bit more than halfway through it.

So far, it feels like though there's been a bunch of things to learn, they all fit together easily in a small mental space. It does generally feel like they've redesigned C for the modern times without going overboard, and succeeded to an admirable degree in the goal of being a simple language.
having seen some of these tables, I would guess that's probably above a layperson's score . Some are very complicated or just misleadingly structured.
Global Caps Lock Key
most women do not approach men first; men are usually first to be rejected

This is true, but from what I've seen it's not because women are particularly scared of rejection, it's because they use men's approaches as a filter. That is, they want men to be confident enough to approach them, and charismatic enough to do it well.
If you are pretty seriously into Sci-fi, you will enjoy this PDF. The preliminary pages are in Czech, but the body of this Bachelor's thesis is in English.

I was herein introduced to the term handwavium, which I found quite amusing. It's probably old hat to serious fans of the genre?
I breezed through this test, with the exception of maybe one or two squares.

I’m red/green colorblind but constantly doubt if I am. Every few years I ask an eye doctor if I’m colorblind. The last time I did this they only went through a few pages of the Ishihara test before closing it and saying, “Yep, you’re colorblind.” I’m also able to read reverse Ishihara tests which my non-colorblind friends can’t.

I don’t think I’ve ever called something red when it was green or vise versa when someone’s asked me to identify its color. Red and green look quite different to me! However, I cannot for the life of me spot my dog’s red frisbee in green grass, or pick out a red character among a bunch of green ones without looking at each character. These are both things people in my family with perfect color vision do just fine and without difficulty.
This is a bad idea. You can make Linux look like Windows on the surface but people are going to then be surprised and frustrated when it doesn't act like Windows, it will come off as cheap imitation. People get confused about the idea of something as simple as the concept of a single root file system, they will not understand that coming from a world of C, D, and E drives. It's best to make it look foreign to them so that they don't have their expectations subverted when they realize it actually is a fundamentally different operating system.
My personal and probably not unique prediction is that these people will be let go and not be paid - same thing he did with twitter.
You act as if the next step isn’t being fired and that the federal government won’t slash benefits.
Your mention of blind reviews reminds me of a social experiment I read about several years ago. All of this is anecdotal though. The article was written by someone that administered a web site that paired candidates with employers. Employers would conduct a phone screen via the web site to choose candidates. The web site saw that females had a lower chance of being selected, and based on the assumption that it was their gender being the reason, decided change the pitch of voices to mask their gender. This experiment actually backfired and lowered the chance of women being hired though. The author's conclusion in the end was that women had a lower chance of being hired because they gave up too easily, they couldn't handle rejection as well as men.
Related Let's Encrypt Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails (80 points, 14 days ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42794787
I discovered the same recently and have abandoned it. It's unfortunate because the potential is there for a real city wide or nation wide group discussion platform. But who moderates the moderators?
You might be on to something here.

Yes there is structural issue.

When researchers see that appealing to DEI and inclusion make is easy to gain finding for, allegedly, research that is wasteful and not meritorious, everyone will attempt to do it.

Conversely, when appealing to "equality of white people" becomes more likely to get you funded, everyone will also attempt that. Which is going to be the case going forward. If you do not believe me, DJT has appointed someone at the helm of EEO commission who explicitly does this in their LinkedIn bio.

So the issue is structural, it is not dei or white power.
Show HN: My Next.js and Supabase and Lemon Squeezy Starter
RealSaaS is my take on the old Next.js Subscription Payments starter, which is now deprecated. I put in a lot of work improving the UI, refining the Supabase auth flow, and integrating Lemon Squeezy for payments and didn't want the code to go to waste.

I really like the auth flow they had of using params to trigger toasts. There are some issues that I think still need to be figured out with the whole middleware auth flow which I have personally found to cause perf issues like slow navigation. Open sourcing this hopefully lets people optimize this.
I will elaborate, for the intentionally obtuse and for people who have not lived in the world of academia. When writing NIH grants you typically have a section describing prior foundational work in the field or in the lab itself that the grant proposes to fund.

In our lab, at the time I was there, the majority of our publications were from 2 white and a chinese male. When writing grant proposals to continue this work (to be continued by the same 3 chemists) the gender/racial characteristics of other members of the lab who were female and of other racial backgrounds were described in great detail, even though they had not contributed to the prior work and were not going to continue the project in the future. Our backgrounds were left unmentioned. This was the way to secure funding was what the PI in our lab told me when I inquired about the glaring discrepancy.

It is my opinion that backgrounds should be irrelevant and funding should be granted on the strength of the proposal. That's not the case today.

EDIT: I left academia in 2013, maybe things have changed.
Probably the baity title was part of it. We've replaced that with the more neutral URL slug now.

Edit: oh and yes, users flagged it. That's nearly always the case with submissions marked [flagged]. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Doom is running by using the hardware (CPU, RAM and I/O) which is embedded into the HDMI dongle.

It is not using any of the computing resources of the Mac.
The book "Making Vegan Meat" by Mark Thompson has a great recipe for this (amongst other things). It was kinda wild how easy it was to make well.