skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're reading an artifact of a point in time, before the it hit stable and the rest of the project found out about this. t-libs-api misunderstood the impact because in the past there had been situations that looked similar and were unproblematic to go ahead with, but weren't actually similar. There were follow up conversations, both in public and private, where the consensus arrived was that this was not ok.
Quick math nitpick:

> We're talking hundred's of billions of dollars here; $20 million is already a big fortune where 2% interest gets you $200,000.

$20 million at 2% interest is $400k a year

> These people (on paper) have 5 orders of magnitude (100,000x) more.

Musk's wealth ($200B+) would be 4 orders of magnitude (10,000 times) higher
My dog trainer explained this to me like this: trust is like a bank, you build up and store a lot of trust, and sometimes you spend some trust, but if there's a lot banked up it will be fine.

The first day I got my dog, he had parasites in his ears and stomach. We had to force down gross medicines into his ears and his mouth, and he hated it and us for it.

Three years later we have built up so much trust that I clean his ears every bath and he stands still and waits for me to do it. He still hates it, but he trusts me and knows that I'm not trying to hurt him.
All of them are accidents caused by user and one of them is a suicide attempt.

How is tesla or any car manufacturer responsible for any of this?
Exactly, the UK’s number one priority right now is growth, otherwise we’re headed for austerity and possibly an election victory for Reform/Nigel Farage. I don’t think entering into a standoff with Apple over this is going to do much to give the impression the UK is great for business.
There were substantial policy and economic philosophy changes around this time. The 1970s are the rise of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics, which led to the Reagan Revolution in the US and Thatcherism in the UK, as well as the Washington Consensus within the IMF & World Bank. Those were the philosophies that drove the privatization and anti-union movements over the following half-century, which decimated the power of labor and removed restrictions on the accumulation of wealth, which directly led to the current state of affairs.
Hate futzing around with multi-GPU configurations. It's always a bit of a mess from a driver perspective, not to mention all the extra power connectors needed, even though this card only requires two.
We should have privacy from both. In fact I very much dislike the framing of privacy as being from something — my privacy is for me.
> My government doesn't have a copy of my family tree

They absolutely do, your parents were on your government issued birth certificate, and the government issues marriage certificates and official name change paperwork too. I'd be a bit surprised if they don't some idea of your DNA as well, though I'd agree not to the level of Ancestry.
Hi Michael, thank you for all the hard work that goes into the Phind models and congratulations on the new UI. Been a paying customer since first finding Phind here on HN in September.

Question: are there any plans to allow access via API to integrate the Phind models with the Continue plug-in (would also love to integrate into my personal RAGs)? Mostly using IntelliJ and integration would be awesome. Do have the VS Code plugin setup and use that when needed. Also running the smaller Phind models locally to use with Continue, but that only gets me so far without needing to open the real UI. If the API opened both the 405B for chat and the 70B for auto complete would be a big step in gaining more paying customers (IMO). No need to open the other models as those can be done with other API keys (if one wanted).

If there are no plans to open the models via API are there plans to support other IDEs (IntelliJ) with the chat feature?

Please let us know!
The entire problem is that it's very difficult to obtain ID in many jurisdictions because the ruling class uses it to decrease the "wrong people" from voting.

None of the people who want ID for voting want to make getting said ID easier.
> Frequently filed without logs, without reproduction steps, sometimes without even saying what the filer thinks is wrong.

In projects where this is a problem, I've made an issue template that clearly requests all the stuff I think I'll need. There's a big note at the top of the template that says it's not optional and that if it isn't filled out fully, I'll close the issue without comment.

And then I do that, every time. Sometimes they fill it out and reopen, sometimes they don't. Either way, I don't end up wasting time trying to help people who don't respect my time.
The Kings of College Radio: What happened when REM went mainstream
MapTCHA, the open-source CAPTCHA that improves OpenStreetMap [video]
Presentation Video: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5879-mapt...

Repo: https://github.com/ciupava/maptcha_dev

Demo: https://maptcha.crown-shy.com/

I didn't make this I just wanted to share here before I add it to my weekly urbanism roundup newsletter https://urbanismnow.com
1366x768 laptops I can find in 10 minutes of searching, all being sold as new, running from $150 to $900

HP 15-fd0023dx ($280, 12th-gen i3, Win 11 S, 8 GB RAM, 15.6" touchscreen)

HP 15-fc0025dx ($580, Ryzen 5 7520U, Win 11 S, 8 GB RAM, 15.6" touchscreen)

HP 15-fd0067nr, 15-fd0077nr ($510–$900, 13th-gen i5 or i7, Win 11 Home or Pro, 8 GB RAM, 15.6" non-touch)

HP 14-DQ0052DX Stream 14 ($230–$280, N4120, Win 11 Home or Pro, 4 or 8 GB RAM, 14" non-touch)

Lenovo IdeaPad 3 ($350, 11th-gen i3, Win 11 Home, 8 GB RAM, 15.6" touchscreen)

ASUS Chromebook CM14 ($155–$280, MediaTek Kompanio 520, 4 GB RAM, ChromeOS, 14" non-touch)
> 99% of insufferable Rust vs. C interactions I've come across it was the C fella being the asshole. So sorry, but no, not very convincing or "totally reasonable" at all.

This has also been my observation as a C++ developer who finds themselves in a fair few C/C++-aligned spaces. There are exceptions, but in most of those spaces the amount of Rust Derangement Syndrome I've witnessed is honestly kind of tiresome at this point.
The people in the UK actually go to prison though
I mean, I've used XSLT plenty in my career and I honesty don't have any issues with it at a high level. It's essentially just another templating format with the added benefit of being a markup language itself and being rendered directly by browsers without adding any JS.
The video is out now and I've reposted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43040382
> A dog isn't a kid obviously, the dog you leave him outside of the home once you're done and it requires maybe 30 minutes of attention a day. a kid, it's constant attention.

You can have a relationship with a dog like this, but you don't need to. You can have a relationship where lots of attention and love is shared. It's very meaningful and powerful.
If an honest alien says "we don't want to convert humans to our religion" that means you can have whatever religion you want. If a dishonest alien says it, it might mean "we don't want to convert humans because we are going to kill all humans", it's selectively true - they aren't going to convert us - and leaves us to imagine that we can have our own religion. But it's not the whole truth and we actually won't be able to[1].

An honest "no one will be forced to use Rust in the Kernel" would be exactly what it says. A paltering reading could be "we want to make Rust the only language used in the Kernel but you won't be forced to use it because you can quit". i.e. if you are "literally shoving facts in someone's face" and they don't change then they might think you are not telling the whole truth, or are simply lying about your goals.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paltering
> Someone's got to create new data for the AI borg

AI companies could always go the route that the creators of Pokemon Go went:

> The model uses geolocation information from scans players submit of real-world locations while playing Pokémon Go.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2024/11/23/niantic-pokem...

Make a game, have people submit pictures and video to you as part of the game.

Where Niantic were using Pokemon Go for collecting scans of locations, other games could get players to take other kinds of pictures and video too.

"Oh, look! There's a 500XP bonus if I can shoot a picture of a perfectly grilled steak within the next 45 minutes!"
and this could even be obfusicatively re-packaged as a video, or photo album

[edit] gadzooks i just realized, that the cat and mouse game ends with the death of document files, and evolution to a DRMable image or video form, served out y0u7ube style
I meant value as in not being able to achieve other life goals due to the pursuit of a PhD, of which many could be due to insufficient funds due to prospects of low pay and high volatility.
Apple’s own transparency report. Look at the FISA (FAA702, aka Prism) section.

Per the Snowden slides, this (FAA702 collection) is the #1 most used collection method by US spies.

They can basically read approximately every camera roll and iMessage in the country with a few clicks.
Really? They do not run on servers? Where us the data stored then?
Nothing is certain in courts, obviously, but Red Hat's license is very explicit that that is the intent:

> Red Hat intends Our Promise to be irrevocable (except as stated herein), and binding and enforceable against Red Hat and assignees of, or successors to, Red Hat’s patents (and any patents directly or indirectly issuing from Red Hat’s patent applications). As part of Our Promise, if Red Hat sells, exclusively licenses, or otherwise assigns or transfers patents or patent applications to a party, we will require the party to agree in writing to be bound to Our Promise for those patents and for patents directly or indirectly issuing on those patent applications. We will also require the party to agree in writing to so bind its own assignees, transferees, and exclusive licensees.

If a court somehow overturned that, I wouldn't hold it against the patent filer.

> Why don't more corporations or patent lawyers advocate for this?

My opinion is it's because the patents have value as a weapon, not only for defense (this here is my disagreement with your original claim that these patents only exist for defense). De-fusing the weapon by using a legally binding license like this lowers the value of the patent in a potential purchase scenario. In other words: "money."

> I just think you are barking up the wrong tree trying to lay guilt trips on engineers for doing what their lawyer advised them to do.

Nah. If you do a bad thing, you are responsible for the bad thing you did. I think the OP can probably handle a little light scolding from some anonymous person on an Internet forum. My hope is that they, and other readers, learn from this mistake and don't do it again.
It's simple statistics. With a large enough sample size, you're going to always have a few very loud outliers.
USA-style Republican today? The thing is… if they were upholding the Constitution, right now, I could name one.

Frankly, all that emerges from the brouhaha coming from the USA sounds like The Onion headlines on steroids. Looks like the alternate reality movies from the Man in the High Castle. Unreal.

McCain could have saved something in the party back then, but the party chose otherwise…

And seeing how a conversation is not even possible anymore…

How does one rationalize electing these people? How does one get radicalized to that point? The very same playbook is run, again, and again. And it never resulted in peace and harmony through history. Never.
Money doesn't always talk. Me (programmer) a sysadmin and a DBA ran a Visa level 1 merchant's credit card processing for 2 years. The last year we had zero downtime outside of scheduled maintenance windows. The company offshored my job ("we can pay 3-4 people in Bangalore with your salary"). The next year they had lots of downtime, probably more than enough to pay my salary. I expect offshoring was considered a success, because that company has outsourced and offshores everything but lawyers and C-levels. Now, they can no longer offer static IP addresses to customers, and haven't managed to do IPv6.
> You don't have to search online forums and mailing lists very long to find countless others like this.

So -- you're bothered by people on the internet, but not specifically the Rust for Linux people or the Rust project people? I guess -- I'm sorry people are saying mean things about a programming language on the internet?

There are also just as many (more!) anti-Rust partisans out there too, who say lots of crazy stuff too. I'm not sure there is much to be done about it.

> Yet there are countless people in the wider Rust community that believe Rust is the future and every line of C code still in use should be rewritten in Rust.

So what? Does your C code still run? I'm struggling to understand what the problem is. People are free to think whatever they want, and, if they what to rewrite things in Rust or Swift or Hylo or Zig or Java, that's how many of them learn!
No it's not. That's a woke lie. Race is definitely a biological concept. Sickle cell anemia for instance is heavily racially based.
Or maybe some customers are morons. Who knows.
My mind stumbles upon it and loses the flow of thought. I tend to just ignore posts like that too after a couple of strikes (mistakes are fine, second language-ing is fine, leftovers are not fine). Don’t have linguistic respect, don’t have my attention.
I'm probably further left than most people you've met, and even I've come around to the idea that cosmopolitanism isn't the zenith of culture, but the negation of it.
The thing is, the solicitation was initiated under the Biden administration and when Trump/Musk found out about it, they actually halted it [0]

> Vehicles made by Elon Musk’s company were on a purchase list issued before Donald Trump was inaugurated, and before Mr. Musk became one of the president’s top advisers.[1]

Sorry, but the basis for your narrative just blew up. But I'm sure you'll try to find a way to blame Trump/Musk for this anyway.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1-48571/trump-administrati...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/us/politics/state-dept-ar...
It is, and I do think it’s as subtle as the conversation on any other checks-and-balances mechanism in government these days: we can weaponise both painstakingly following the rules, or weaponizing the fact that rule enforcement is a human process that people ignore by convention.
Our models are not inferior because we're not constrained by copyrights, which is the entire concern we're discussing.
You are partly correct to note that local markets are often not economical, but the reasons for that are precisely low density, car dependence and restrictive zoning.

For a local market to be economical it needs a catchment area containing enough customers.

Once customers start driving they prefer to drive a bit longer to go to a mega market or mall with good parking options, i.e. not a local market.

Local markets thus have a catchment area that is defined mostly by walking and biking.

(Not having a lot of parking can also help to make local markets more economical)

Some important conditions for local markets are then:

1. Zoning needs to allow the shop to be very close to residential areas, and with only few parking spaces.

2. Residential density needs to be high enough to have a large number of customers within walking or biking distance.

3. Walking and biking should be sufficiently safe and pleasant.

It is easy to see the why there are few local markets in suburban North America, but they are very common in urban places all over the world, as well as in thoughtfully designed and slightly denser suburbs in many countries.
Excuse me what. I did not know it could do this I shall have to try it
They're pretty common at low price points. Good displays are expensive, it's an easy thing to cheap out on to lower cost.
I would call it the "Cinderella Method" after the German version of it:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella#Aschenputtel,_by_th... ("Die Guten ins Töpfchen, die Schlechten ins Kröpfchen"_)
The actual page title "marshmallow test and parenting" is much better. The HN title makes it sound like it's only relevant to a subset of parents ("young ones").
>Trump's approval ratings are quite good, while Biden's are tanking as their corruption is uncovered.

That is what you said.

I addressed what you said. Trump's popularity is below his unpopularity. For a new sitting president.

Biden's data goes only to the 20th, so its not dropping anymore. Since he isn't a president.

The data source you may be quoting, seems to have set you up to make a conclusion, but not the argument.
> In London, a barrister who held up a blank piece of paper in Parliament Square was asked for his details by Metropolitan Police officers, and told that he would be arrested under the Public Order Act if he wrote "Not My King" on the paper.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_paper_protest
This is largely the reason I gave up on rich text editors in favor of a plain text source and some sort of rich text compiler.

There is an absolutely mind boggling amount of programming work that goes into making a WYSIWYG word processor. and this complexity tends to bleed out into editing quirks and corrupted documents. Not that there are no quirks or corruption with an explicit separate compiler it is just that it will not touch your original source, so you can fight the quirks in a systematic way. I think this is why word perfect users love the show codes function so much.

"You know why they call a word processor right? Have you ever seen what a food processor does to food?"
> This sounds so rough. I can't imagine pouring your heart out into this labor of love and continue to have to face something like this.

Or: he shouldn't steal people's time with false advertising :shrug:

Also if he wants to create an operating system, then these aren't even requests, but
bug reports. So the users ate his false advertising, spent time to try out his system, then spent some more time to file bug reports, and then he calls them "entitled users".
Yes true, and in Ellison's case probably is a bit of both. He definitely isn't a paragon of integrity
So the product has a builtin feature where you can tell it what you want, but instead of using that feature you want it to read your mind?
How is race not a biological concept? All the things that differentiate race are genetic.

Culture and race are not synonymous.
> Except that's largely not true - government agencies always (with very rare exception) implement the will of Congress, as directed by the President.

That was indeed the norm. When Trump became President in 2017, things changed. It became politically acceptable to be political. [1]

I don't know why things changed. It coincided with a period of increasing political polarization, but some of it can only be described as Trump derangement syndrome.

What is clear is that things did change, and dramatically so. Unelected bureaucrats came to believe that their understanding of "the national interest" superseeded that of the elected President, and that that justified not just dissent, but insubordination and sabotage. Democracy cannot work like this.

What is happening now is the logical consequence of the short-sighted actions of these people 4-8 years ago.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house... / archived: https://archive.ph/jROnq
I just order them myself every year at LabCorp. https://www.ondemand.labcorp.com/products

I definitely prefer doing the testing myself instead of begging the doctor to order things.

About the only time I go to doctors is to beg for antibiotics- which they often refuse to give me. They say, "oh, it's probably a virus." Okay, but all of the virus tests I can find came back negative. I have a CBC showing elevated WBC. Coughing up yellow-green slime. Can you order a sputum culture for me? "no, come back if you are still sick after 10 days". Great, $200 and 30 minutes in the waiting room getting exposed to other sickos for nothing, miss another week of work. The gatekeeping of medical care infuriates me. I have plenty of money, let me use it to get better faster.
Sounds like: asking for forgiveness is better than asking for permission ...
Schenier should not be flagged. I have been waiting for someone to come up with a calm collected assessment of the Cybersecurity risk, for days now. This is as close as we will get.
How's battery in such a case? Should still be on the great side, no?
I don't see this on any of my phones or wearables. I'm aware QD-OLED in particular has this weakness, but haven't heard of or experienced any other OLEDs having this issue.
Nothing actually happened to the guy with the blank sheet of paper (or at least, if it did, that’s not reported in the article).

Certainly you can find examples of the British police overpolicing protests, and that’s something that people rightly get angry about. It’s just that there’s a huge distance between that kind of thing (which happens pretty much everywhere from time to time - do US police forces have an exemplary record of policing protests?) and the kind of wild claims you can see in this discussion that the UK has become an Orwellian police state.
It should have always worked this way. Without this feature you take the algebra out of relational algebra. That's the root of most of the composition issues in SQL.

Sadly it's a few decades too late though, and sadly this just fragments the "ecosystem" further.
You're right, it is really difficult and can come with severe consequences. These situations are when our values are truly put to the test.

These moments test us, but they also define us.
Fundamentally not the same thing. Notifications aren't encrypted. Apple has made no claim that they're secret from the govt.

Apple has very loudly and prominently and specifically stated that their encrypted is ecrypted and not even available to apple. They list which portions of icloud this applies to and not.

Huge different between an omission and a large, positive lie.
I still do this for friends and family: put in an SSD and maybe add a bit of RAM.

Either, clone the OS or else do a fresh install. The old drive goes into a USB enclosure if it's a laptop.

It feels like a brand new computer, going from minutes to seconds to do anything.

(Going from a Raspberry Pi 4 on a MicroSD to a pi5 with an nvme drive is a similar night and day difference. The pi5 feels like a snappy modern computer. Previous pis always felt slow.)
TFA claims remote workers work 3.5 hours per day less than in person workers. This makes me question the whole article honestly.

On one hand, I am not surprised given the tiktok remote worker trends during early pandemic. But I doubt this holds for all job types, workers, or industries.

OTOH, I work 10-11 hrs per day because I can. It's relaxing to have extra time or to get ahead and not have to commute. I can work when I'm productive (early AM). When I can't, I work 8 and it feels light. That flexibility is incredible and I'd bargain hard for it.

I refuse to believe I'm an outlier I've only ever worked with folks like me.
I agree with your points in general but I'm still confused - how do you connect any of these to the USA tariffs? I'm specifically asking you how you can justify this statement "I blame Canadian leadership [for the tariffs]."
https://archive.is/2025.02.13-153306/https://www.economist.c...
I think neither is a possibilty: there is zero appetite for rewrite what they've written in rust in C, I think the most likely result of it not being upstreamed is it becomes a long-lived fork.
Can you clarify? I'm not completely understanding your position.
Is it possible to agree that having one’s work compared to cancer could be insulting but also that trying to publicly shame people about it isn’t the right response?
Sure but if you don’t have a stamp for whatever reason, which is increasingly common