skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My “digital identity” isn’t tied to Google.

When Reddit started acting crazy, I deleted my Reddit account and didn’t look back.

When Facebook, went full MAGA, I deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts.

I use Gmail. But if it disappeared, there are a million other email providers.

Google Photos is just one of many services my photos and videos sync to - iCloud, OneDrive, Amazon Drive (photos only) and my local Mac.

It would be an inconvenience for the few places that I use Gmail for. But I have use Apple’s Hide My Email feature since it’s been a thing and that’s connected to Yahoo address and I could change iCloud to forward to another email address.

It’s a lot easier to remove my dependence on Google than get from under the thumb of the US. I know, I’m seriously thinking about a “Plan B” to get out of the US after retirement with the way that the US is headed under President Musk with the dismantling of the health care system and trying to undermine Medicare and probably the ACA where I won’t be able to retire early and buy insurance on the public market.
India's Prettiest Library
Ah pero eso para compilar, osea que no hay dependencias de runtime tipo otro linux. Es todo assembly.
The biggest flaw I always saw in Kagi has now been addressed by this. Thank you for listening and working to make the product appealing to (almost) everyone!
Also, a great deal of the research organizations like META "just do" wouldn't pass muster with any IRB worth the name.
Americans love to talk about freedom and rights, you don't even have the right to die with dignity in this country. Healthcare in America is just a basic racketeering scam at this point.
Much more than iPhone. From Tmobile's FAQ [0]:

Apple iPhone 14 and later (including Plus, Pro & Pro Max), Google Pixel 9 (including Pro, Pro Fold, & Pro XL), Motorola 2024 and later (including razr, razr+, edge and g series), Samsung Galaxy A14, A15, A16, A35, A53, A54, Samsung Galaxy S21 and later (including Plus, Ultra and Fan Edition), Samsung Galaxy X Cover6 Pro, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 and later, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 and later and REVVL 7 (including Pro)

[0] https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/satellite-phone-service?ic...
It very often is.

Perhaps "useless" was the wrong word the GP used. "valued" may be better.

It's fairly common for very useful/valuable code to be discarded because the engineer (or his management) failed to articulate that value to senior leaders as well as someone else who had inferior code.
My first thought was that the was gonna be more like the defunct VC Fund My Life (vcfml.com), but I suppose growth-hacking startups that offer extravagant coupon codes for "Uber for naps" are so last decade. The new hit thing is apparently startups folding.
Who confirms judges and heads of various departments? The House is powerless compared to the Senate.
Decision-making must be easy when you see the world in black and white. From where I stand, not all killings are equal.
The diagrams are really cool. Congrats on the launch.
What, these? https://www.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/Discover/LO52-Scr...

I think they're beautiful, and much more communicative than modern icons. Personally, I prefer the density of the small ones although I'm surprised there's no larger setting (in general, buttons got bigger when touchscreens were introduced but I still do all my serious work with a keyboard and mouse).
More detail and the methodology:

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-would-...
These graphs were available to me for some time now but I have not really found them all that interesting. For some reason, I had to wait for the diagram to render and then for the text to slowly render.

To my poor understanding of LLMs, when the diagram was slowly created - the text behind it should already "be there" and should have been displayed immediately after the diagram but this was not the case. Also, often the slowly drawn diagram was only presenting my rather clear (for LLM) prompt: "i did this, when situation was this and that, and than this happened; question: why the result was A and not B?"

I found myself falling back to Claude more often than not over using Phind 70B and 405B models. I found it kind of... more gimmicky than useful.
The question isn't whether this is obviously a result of the current structure, but rather, is this good for the people of the US to live like this? Should we tolerate people being evicted from nursing home programs because their coverage was wrongfully revoked? And when we have story after story of private insurers doing this kind of thing, do we keep living with it to stay in our capitalist utopia, or do we conceive of something different and collectively pay for that instead of for the private insurance we all hate?
This is @lina, not the same guy in the post. Did I miss something?
IRBs are one of the most wasteful and hurtful institutions in the developing world today. In order to prevent a few possible ethical lapses, they smother hundreds of good potential research.

See Scott Alexander's works on IRB review.
Waving around printouts of screenshots and calling them receipts is hardly evidence.

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One great feature of the SQL pipe syntax is that it works much better together with programming languages (generating, or modifying existing SQL queries).

It would be great to have it standardized fast and implemented everywhere.
A QR Code on Food?
How you frame a problem, determines what solution you are going to find.

I went over many assumptions after the elections, to understand what I had missed. But things changed when I asked a different question.

Its not a question of how Harris lost. Its a question of how Trump ran in the first place.

With that change, things clicked into place.
Does it make a little more sense when you remember that "health care" and "health insurance" are industry segment names in the US, not literally descriptions for what those segments are centered on? Both of them are for-profit industries that focus on converting maladies, and the absence of maladies, into money, respectively. That's their prime focus. And you can be cynical about that and go "So, what, it's in their interest to get people sick and then keep them sick? That's insane!"

And yes.

Yes it is.
Mathematical intuition is, as the LLMs say, crucial, to technologists and engineers. We can "chi by eye" or "guesstimate" or even better solve problems with much less effort and error because we know how it works and why it works that way. Bayes's Theorem was a concept I struggled to grasp intuitively for a long time. I could apply the formula, but I didn't get it. The common teaching methods, like confusion matrices and Venn diagrams, helped with the mechanics, but they didn't provide the deeper insight I was looking for. So, I memorized it and applied but, but I needed a more intuitive way to think about it. Last week, I found an approach that finally made it click, and this post shares that method.
You still have to make the stance clear. Avoiding conflicts and dealing with them are two different things.
Not exactly the same but being a mod made me realize the same, people will 100% treat you like a whole other being in a dehumanizing way, if you're just a passionate person about the topic you get whiplash at first.
Ah I just get annoyed. You write up your genuine experience and it gets buried. That's not helpful to anyone. It's not helpful to the engineers on a project or the customers. But it validates someone's ego somewhere. It just seems so immature.

I'd rather there was no upvote or downvote at all.
This is a problem with "Medicare Advantage", which is an HMO scheme. The Government pays the HMO a flat fee per patient, and they try to minimize expenses.
Don't take that route. For now, "Traditional Medicare" plus a commercial supplement is a far safer deal.

However, this may change. See [1], p. 465, which proposes to make "Medicare Advantage" the default.

"Medicare Advantage (MA), a system of competing
private health plans, is the major alternative to traditional Medicare for
America’s large and growing cohort of seniors. The program provides
beneficiaries with a wide range of competitive health plan choices—a richer
set of benefits than traditional Medicare provides and at a reasonable cost.
Equally as important, the MA program has been registering consistently
high marks for superior performance in delivering high-quality care.
Critical reforms are still needed to strengthen and improve the program for
the future. Specifically: 1. Make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option. ... "

[1] https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA...
The SEC really doesn’t like such plays.

No wait that was a couple months ago.
To be fair, nothing in human history has psychologically prepared us for semi-real-time two-way interaction with thousands or millions many people at once. Once I realized this, I began to become much more empathetic toward popular public figures who “crash out” (as the kids say these days) on social media. I've never experienced this myself, firsthand, but after seeing this happen time and again over the course of the past two decades or so—especially since the advent of smartphones, which dramatically increased the possible frequency of such communication—it's the logical conclusion I've reached.
I still use HomePlug to connect some cameras and TVs in my house. It works, though real world performance tends to be far lower than advertised.

You only get close to advertised performance if all plugs are more or less on the same circuit branch and the distance isn’t too large.
I haven't paid for anything but I wonder. What should the offer be that makes one consider it?
> Yes, they're free to rewrite their own projects in Rust.

Um, or any other they so choose?

> Yes, they're free to rewrite their own projects in Rust. They aren't free to force others to do the same to their projects.

Where is anyone forcing anyone else to do a rewrite in Rust?
This is people I know or my family knows. My mother knows 4-5 people. I've had 2 coworkers die of it. I've had 1 in-law die of it. It's crazy how fast the numbers add up.
Designing Products for Resilience and Graceful Failure
“They were just cutting him off because they could cut him off and reduce their expense,” Robby Martin said in an interview. “It’s all a money game to them.”

What else would it be to them? They're not a charity. I don't see why people keep directing their hate toward the corporations for doing what they're intended to do. The hate and effort should be directed toward the politicians who prevent the implementation of changes that people want. Or do the majority of people not want changes that would prevent this kind of thing?
Thanks for the feedback. We're working on making the answers a lot faster for the Phind models. I can see how it would be frustrating to be waiting for the diagram to generate when you're waiting for text or for an example.
That's a cool idea! Seeing the screenshot I almost immediately figured this would be related to Chaum's digital cash and blind signatures, and it seems to be cited in the linked paper. I had thought of using blind signatures for anonymous authorization, but I was not aware that there was an actual design for that application.

I think government issued digital identities should also use this.
Its sad that they chose Apple, instead of like investing time into the upcoming ARM laptops to make the Linux more optimized on them. That talent should not be wasted on tech jewelry.
Stallman acknowledges the he did not invent the term, and describes how the "L" was added to connote freedom in the free-as-in-speech sense, rather than type of freedom the "F" was typically associated with.
I did some software work, years ago on a 'perimeter' machine that projects points of light at varying intensities so that doctors can track macular degradation.

https://www.icare-world.com/us/products/#perimeters

It was interesting work in terms of the tech, but pretty sad stuff learning to the doctors come in to present information about the pathologies involved.
The same is true in my city in the US, though. My dermatologist schedules 6+ months out for new patients; cardiac/neuro is 3-9 months depending on the urgency. Most of the primary care practitioners in the area are full up; I see regular posts on the local subreddit looking for anyone, anyone taking someone.
According to the Office of Compliance at the University of Texas at Austin, my graduate advisor didn't need to get IRB approval to perform experiments on human test subjects that risked severe bodily harm. I reported him, they ignored the complaint, and then gave him tenure.

They also didn't care about the part where he falsified his results or lied to his sponsors about how he was spending their money.
Thanks for posting! I too was going to post because he cofounded Wikipedia.
That's all great info, thanks!
Up until recently (assuming you believe he's genuinely reformed), Torvalds was also one of those abusive bullies, remember.
Awesome. Subscribed again.

(Your lucky day cuz my openai subscription ended last night)
wow, memelord.tech is… cringe.

& this whole post seems like a slight joke / promo for it.
What's to stop someone on the Kagi side from just adding a new column to the token table that has the user (with their SessionCookie) who generated the token next to it? I don't see how this can't be trivially connected to the original token generator.
Stating it is not out of the ordinary isn't excusing it. Are you saying they should have rushed it? Is PHI data being leaked because they rushed it not consequential?
Speeds aren’t great. Directional WiFi antennas and a local mesh are a much better option for communities. There’s also a slower 900mhz WiFi standard out there that can cover a lot of area and may still be faster than crappy abandoned copper in questionable shape.
He was 76 and in really good health. Worked out regularly. Ate well.
If the companies are selling, then the government can always buy, or just ask.
This seems especially relevant given the massive outage that Barclays, another major UK bank just suffered. Barclays was down for around two days with customers unable to spend money at all.

I suppose had they implemented a similar system, they would have degraded into a minimum viable banking system rather than the total outage that impacted so many brits.
In other words, the EU mandates that I follow their law, even though they have no jurisdiction over me. I can follow it by refusing to track PII, or I can follow it by “blocking” Europe on the WWW. I can’t be bothered to figure out how to do either of those things, so I don’t bother. I just spin up an instance of Discourse and move on. Because their claim that I must follow their laws is just as bogus as the UK’s claim, even if I think the EU had admirable goals and the UK has terrible goals.
I don’t know whether it’s better or worse than using macOS by itself, but it sure feels better than any other laptop I’ve tried.
To be clear, tech companies provide subscriber metadata (e.g., billing address, real name) with a court order or subpoena. They provide actual user data (e.g., voicemail) only with a warrant.

Or has something changed since the last time I requested user data from a tech company by subpoena? Or are you talking about intelligence collection as distinct from law enforcement?

Also worth noting that LE frequently has PC without having a warrant (for example: every time they ask a magistrate for a warrant and secure one, we can infer they had PC first). In fact they perform many searches with only PC (see: exigency, eventual discovery, etc).

It would be more apt to say any subscriber metadata Apple knows, the FBI can know without a warrant.
I'm saying the Dems were idiots.

As you pointed out, they made this Framework, They had it since the Obama era! And they never used it like Trump/Musk are.

What fools! IF they had, who knows where we might be today.
Apropos book: The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by J. Sharlet

The Joe Rogan, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch (indirectly), and Paul Harvey types of talk radio/cable "news"/streaming have been wildly-successful in dividing and conquering America by convincing a large fraction of Americans that their interests coincide with the billionaires'.

Bonus book: Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by C. Johnson
Exactly the question I had in mind. You can't rely on server side trust so I'm curious if I just misunderstood something...
Have you figured it out?
Sorry, but I’m struggling to parse your reply.

I am uninterested in creating an account to use an llm service, and doubly uninterested in giving one my email address.

These are separate concerns.

For instance, HN allows account creation without providing an email.
His two major complaints are demanding consumers and the rejection of upstreaming his rust driver patches. He has some legitimate complaints since users depend on kernel features like Mesa Integration and Docker support for GPUs, which are critical now that people are training & doing inference .

I still think the best outcome is to fork and recruit some lieutenants for community management. To me the community is losing a lot with his departure. His complaints are legitimate and hopefully linux kernel team can better accommodate his patches. many distros and corporations deliver tremendous value from their forks and it's a better solution than quitting.
> I agree that "reproducible builds" now means something different, but that isn't exactly the fault of Nix advocates. I guess a new term for "being able to repeat the same build steps with the same inputs" is needed.

I've usually seen "repeatable builds" used for that.
This reminds me a bit of MSFTs Kusto language. Such an immensely useful way to slice and dice large amounts of structured data.
> What else would it be to them? They're not a charity.

I mean, they could be a not-for-profit entity.

> The hate and effort should be directed toward the politicians who prevent the implementation of changes that people want.

Why not both? I can be mad at the companies who are purchasing those politicians, too.
> The thread was not about Rust drivers, it was about adding Rust code to the DMA module. I.e. about mixing two different languages in a single module

AFAIK this is false. The patch was CCed to the maintainer as FYI, but all the code was in a Rust a module binding to the C DMA interface. If I'm wrong, show me the code.

See the discussion here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/1/9/398
i made https://perfectpitch.study a week or so ago. i am old and musically untrained and wanted to see if rote practice makes a difference (it clearly does).

most of the sites of this type i found annoying as you can't just use a midi keyboard, so you just get RSI clicking around for 10 minutes.

I tried getting adsense on it, but they seem to have vague content requirements. Apparently tools don't count as real websites :-(. I couldn't even fool it with fake content. what's the best banner ad company to use in this situation?
The Evolution of Relationship Expiration in SpiceDB
I'll keep that in mind as a guy has his interns plumb around in sensitive government computer systems for... reasons... with no statutory or constitutional authority to do so.

Completely benevolent reasons, I'm sure.

You don't get to the levels of wealth that Trump and Musk have attained without thoroughly screwing over a lot of people. One contract being halted doesn't exonerate them from that.
I think you are trying very hard to disagree on basic stuff that works very similarly across different language ecosystems, and (looking at other responses) that you're very angry. Disengaging.
I agree. If the articles were "Major government IT system crashes and loses data" or "NASA victim of cyber-attack" or "United States Digital Service product roadmap," then the articles would be on-topic and unflagged. But, as soon as the words Elon or DOGE enter the picture, they're insta-flagged. Yes, these topics tend to get heated but that doesn't make them off-topic or irrelevant to a tech news site, or justify user flagging.
Paywall posts should not be allowed imho - not very inclusive.
The Galleri website says:

>Assumes screening is available for all prostate, breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer cases and 43% of lung cancer cases (based on the estimated proportion of lung cancers that occur in screen-eligible individuals older than 40 years).

Doesn't list pancreatic.

EDIT: never mind, I found a more complete list.

https://www.galleri.com/what-is-galleri/types-of-cancer-dete...
Finta: Magically Simplify Accounting and Taxes
> in any system where there is some political influence over prosections.

That's why you got to trust your democracy, and in the balance and independence of each branch; and work on maintaining that trust. If you ever get your trust broken in the institutions, it's all downhill from there. It's a constant effort.

> It is up to the electorate who wins the election.

That point of view makes might prevail over law. Doing so invites corruption, systematically. And that's precisely not how a democracy works.

> If the convictions were disqualifying, the candidate would be unelectable.

I don't know how you can judge a character morally and strength-fit for presidency, of someone paying a prostitute to shut up about it, and denying having done so when caught. It's a telling trait for someone vulnerable to corruption or kompromat. That single bit alone should be a basic repellant (it would be a matter of dismissal for any high ranking public service officer, and for any CEO), but... obviously not for everyone.

See, in France, we've had our own corruption issues (and still have some, it's a constant struggle too). And finally, hopefully, a past president has been convicted recently (Sarkozy). And boy, as much as I have trusted this guy, and voted for him, twice, as much am I relieved that the justice made things clear: being a president does not make you apart, you get to live by the same rules as everyone. I'm relieved too because it revealed how much the right and hard-right in France are against the independence of the judiciary breach, while unfunding it (for obvious reasons), and how it opened my eyes: democracy is so, so far from a given. And it's been a terrible realisation that today, you have the right fighting actively against democracy, the left not realising and complacent about it, the center about the same, and the far-right and far-left just waiting for it to fall.

> I don't see any evidence that he is ignoring the constitution.

Ok. Cool. Obviously we don't read the same events. See you in 4 years then. I promise I won't ever come to the USA (to your relief). And, believe it or not, I promise I will eat at least a piece of my hat if there is a next election and if Trump concedes willingly and peacefully to the result then.

> Do you apply the same standard to every president or governor

I am not defending any other president, I'm telling on yours, right now.

> that has signed blatantly unconstitutional gun control legislation?

You're telling on yourself right there, on a different plane. The USA is the only country in the world that has such a permissive regulation on fire arms, with an equally permissive and disdainful result in civil casualties. Yemen comes next.
Nearly a Year Later, Mozilla Is Still Promoting OneRep
When HN was an entrepreneurship oriented community, the overwhelming attitude had been that it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission. That’s because even if you’re doing something clearly good and morally unimpeachable, having to ask for permission slows you down and invited bikeshedding. Now that HN is a general industry forum, the attitude is more favorable towards preventing risk at a cost of reducing amount of value produced.
States are not "sovereign". We don't have the Articles of Confederation anymore. States do have certain powers, but not as many as even e.g. Canadian provinces have.
agreed, thank you