skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I know this comment invites disaster but.....what is heaven other than the ultimate delayed gratification? i.e. don't worry about your miserable life as a serf toiling for the lord of the manor 6 days a week because if you're good now you'll be happy after you die. You can imagine the aristocracy laughing to themselves about that idea.

You are correct. This is the delusion that peasants feeds their kids so that life appears to be worth living. In the west it's the similar rigmarole of mortgages, debt, divorce, unstable jobs etc that their parents did. Not saying that there is no value to discipline, but it has to be intelligently applied ( not easy) else you will loose. For example saving for a house (vs taking a large mortgage) will not do you good if the inflation is high.
Inflation.

Any spending cut on that scale, ~7% of your GDP, will unavoidably cause a recession so hard the impacts won't be limited to just the USA.

Any tax hike at that scale will do similar, because that just changes who is doing the spending not the amount available in the economy to be spent.

Inflation is — or at least is supposed to — encourage spending by anyone simply holding money instead of creating wealth with it; this is supposed to create investment opportunities that grow the economy, this is supposed to automatically provide a greater tax base that automatically reduces any deficit.
I think she was convicted in state court. POTUS can only pardon federal crimes.
I keep thinking about a similarity with tech in general. Around 2010 or so the media could not stop writing articles fawning over Google and other tech companies. They placed them on such a pedestal, and in doing so, were complicit in helping them amass immense cultural capital alongside their financial capital.

It's trite at this point to say we, the readers, are part of the problem. But it does make me wonder why we keep needing to glamorize the successful. They've made it, no? Do they need to be continually propped up? Probably the human instinct for worship gone astray.
I'm too dumb for this, and how popular it is here gives me anxiety
The |> syntax? Perhaps F#. Pipes have been around since at least Unix v3.
I like to think of it not as "computer program with extra steps" but rather "service I can access from anywhere/anytime using any device with added privacy and control".

DISCLAIMER: I'm a backend software engineer so I'm biased.
can coming into contact with a single transformer disrupt power to the entire island?
Great post. The increasingly insane purity tests that the far left levy upon others they deign as less woke (in the original sense of the word) has gotten completely out of hand. Especially here on HN. Too many times I've seen normal discussion happen and then someone comes along with "Um excuse me can you not use that term because [3 paragraphs of nonsense when one time one person somewhere took offense to said term]". It feels paralyzing. People can't have discussions anymore, especially online. There's always 20 caveats you have to worry about.

Personally I blame autism for much of it but that's another can of worms.
The intent of non-invasive tests like this are that you give them to everyone, at scale, frequently.

And specifically tune them to minimize false negatives.

Worst case with a false positive? You're causing someone anxiety and giving them an extra scan.

Best case? You just saved someone's life by detecting an aggressive cancer early enough to do something about it.

At the end of the day aggressive, metastatic cancer is a time game. If the cancer is given time, it becomes progressively harder and harder to treat, and effective treatment options become tougher on the rest of the body, until finally there's nothing to be done.

So anything that gains time is critical.
All but 2 are literal children.
I think you're avoiding the point. These are individuals that have otherwise already passed military training and fitness tests to determine whether or not they are able to participate and function as soldiers. They are actively a part of our military and being thrown out.
Do you think individual technical contribution is the hardest part of retooling an entire industrial supply chain? Making a car is easy.
Most people these days? Especially those in the trades. Impact drivers with adjustable torque are pretty standard piece of equipment. I have a Milwaukee drill and impact driver. The driver is WAAAAYYY less likely to strip screws than the drill is.
> 'Kitty bar the door.'

It looks like Katy or Katie are the more common spellings in the Southern US, although Kitty seems to the standard when talking about hockey. The origin is disputed: https://worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-kat1.htm
Originally? Douglas McIlroy for Unix in 1973: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline_(Unix)
Shell would at least qualify as prior art, I’d assume
TSA facial recognition technology faces audit probe
I saying this as no fan of AI but, honestly, this again seems unrelated to AI. Building computers are not skills the average populace had, and I don't see any signs that the people who did make those decisions are outsourcing their choices to AI.

I don't know what you mean when you say "what happens to a society as it advances is collapsing". Civilizations both advanced and not have collapsed. All that being advanced did was make it more obvious when they do. This is blaming technology when time is the actual culprit.

It feels like we're blaming AI when it's really profit chasing that's killing us.
Have you considered that doing a nazi salute, whether earnest or ironically earnest, is just not okay?
> Screen sharing works fine now

What software did you use? I have to use Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Anydesk, and an onscreen keyboard. When I checked a couple of months ago, Anydesk wouldn't even launch. I have been dabbling with Wayland ever since it was made available on Arch Linux, but invariably have to go back to X.org after just a few hours on Wayland.
Interview with Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer
I'm actually in need of a service like this but have been unable to find anything close to it until yesterday when I saw a video that twelvelabs dropped showing off their new model. Initially I was extremely excited, but then after trying to dive in deeper, I realized that I can't find anything about this company. The video even makes it seem like they already had a model out there capable of doing this, but I can't find any clips of that being used by a neutral party. I want to give the engineers the benefit of the doubt here. But I think we've all worked at companies that had a "sell first, solve later" philosophy, regardless of engineering opinions. Im considering asking for a demo and making them go off-script to see if it really is vaporware.
That seems to be more about culture, which is separate from race or location.
Easy: N-OLED

Non organic LED lol

N also has a history in a few markets of being the “best” one or the fastest, high end, juiced up one. If its all OLED now, join em, then stand above. Most people dont even know what OLED stands for.

So long as they don’t pull a lazy birdbrained ripoff of Apple’s stupid ProProMaxUltra bullshit. ProLED. LED Ultra Max Pro.
>I take it that you have either never been to a beach or the one you have been to is only open to athletes and supermodels.

Have you been to the beach in the last 10yr. All manner of 1-pc swimsuits are arguably the default style for women.

>So you haven't had the chance of seeing Indonesian woman wearing full headgear and clothes covering their body having fun at a beach far away from Indonesia? Not joking, they were having a genuinely good time - from direct experience.

My mistake, I mixed up Indonesia and the Phillipines in my mind. No surprise muslim women will not be wearing bikinis. But the Westerners will also be far more modest in a setting where that is the prevailing default so....

>The world is much bigger and has far greater variety of people, customs and norms than you can imagine.

If looking down one's nose like that is what it takes to be cultured I'm glad I'm not.
Reuters Contract: Large Scale Social Deception (LSD)
Thanks! It's open source: https://github.com/anandbaburajan/wordamour.
Measuring your blood pressure is an example of proactive screening.

I assume we will start screening for things like cancer when the test will be as simple / cheap as measuring your blood pressure.
If the product is as good as the name...
They always have been.

Falklands vs Malvinas,
Bodensee vs Lake Konstanz,
Lake Geneva vs Lac Léman,
countless islands in South China, Sea (Philippines vs Chinese names),
Japan vs Korean island names,
Chine vs Russian names

and on and on.

Only uninformed people are surprised by this.
Ready-to-use SRT/WebRTC/RTSP/RTMP/LL-HLS server/proxy (publish vid/audio streams
The thing though is that neither the intent nor de post-hoc made up intent are relevant in the real world. Neither is he time/effort spend on needlessly elaborate processes. What matters is if the average user thinks it looks good or not.
It's a great idea (from Google's POV) because then they can claim "Look, we also hide users IP from our own service!" which sounds great in marketing material, and not many will realize that it doesn't matter since the user is logged in with their Google account in Chrome so Google already have the data, this is just about hiding the data from companies that aren't Google.
A single person's allegation of being passed over is a long way from proving that DEI policies contributed to staffing shortages. Moreover the audio from the recordings shows that the helicopter was warned and advised to avoid the plane, suggesting that staff shortages were not a crucial factor.
...not a meaningful distinction.

A meaningful distinction would involve how much "monitoring" or "supervision" is being employed.

For example, if the robotaxi needs remote help maintaining it's lane, I'd argue it is not really "autonomous" at all --- every car would probably require 1 active, dedicated remote human "monitor". Given the inherent shortcomings of wireless communication, I'd argue Waymo crashes would be occurring on an everyday basis if this were the case.

On the other hand, if 1 person is remotely "monitoring" 100 cars waiting for a remote request from either a vehicle or it's occupant, I'd argue this is indeed a very significant level of autonomy.

The obvious problem with the original claim is that it is lacking this sort of meaningful insight.

Based on my research, Waymo claims to employ 2800 people across 6 continents to deliver 20K robo trips per day at all hours. Either everybody working at Waymo is a "monitor" or there is some significant autonomy going on to achieve this.
why are spanish-speaking people not interested in source-code?

what about bilingual people, do they have an average amount of interest for the source-code?
I don’t disagree that overpaying can be a good strategy, but I question whether it has any bearing on integrity.

I hire someone to paint a fence. We agree on $200 for the job and I pay them $200. We both know that it’s undifferentiated work and I could find a dozen other people who would do it for $200.

Where’s the lack of integrity? Or does it just appear if I know that I actually could afford to pay them $10,000, but chose not to?
> What sorts of skills are you looking to build?

I work as a system engineer / devops engineer / infrastructure engineer. I often need to keep postgresql up and running, ideally in a smooth and performant way.

I don't like tool-specific tutorials or storytelling-based articles.

I'd like to learn the core postgresql things (terminology, tasks, operations) so that then i can evaluate autonomously what tool to pick and why, rather than following the trend of the month. And of course, being able to actually do "the things".

Ideally, the next progression of this would be being able to understand postgresql performance and how to tune it (again, in an holistic manner).

Per my understanding, this is the kind of skills that a DBA should have. Some of it overlaps with the skills of a decent developer (i understand that).
I should refine my original comment: good marketing is about meeting the right people with the right message at the right time.

That kind of persistent nagging is the wrong time, with the wrong message at the wrong people.
I think the core of what people are scared of is fear itself. Or put more eloquently by some dead guy "There is nothing to fear, but fear itself".

If we don't want to live in a world where these incredibly powerful technologies are leveraged for nefarious purposes there needs to be emotional maturity and growth amongst humanity. Those who are able to make these growths need to hold the irresponsible ones accountable (with empathy).

The promise of AI is that these incredibly powerful technologies will be disseminated to the masses and Open AI know this is the next step and it's why they're trying to keep a grip on their market share. With the advent of nVidia's project digits and powerful open source models like deepseek, it's very clear how this trajectory will go.

Just wanted to add some of this to the convo. Cheers.
Is there any source for you claim that any (democratic) government wants to criminalize running code on your own computer? I didn't see it in this declaration from the AI Action summit where the USA and UK are missing from the signatories https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/11/02-11-...

As you mention ethics: what ethics do we apply to AI? None? Some? The same as to a human? As AI is replacing humans in decision-making, it needs to be held responsible just as a human.
A third party that is paid by the first party is not much different from a first party.

It does seem like privacy theatre, anonymity protocols like Tor are carefully designed to make malicious cooperation difficult.
The article seems to be jumping ahead of the current reality rather. I mean Trump may get worse but so far

>CBS News poll — Trump has positive approval amid "energetic" opening weeks; seen as doing what he promised (CBS polliing article https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-approval-opinion-poll-202...)

I think the fix may be more for the Democrats to change closer to what the origins of their name mean - people power - and align more with what the average people want rather than the leftmost 10%.
No. Nuh-uh. Not me. I'll definitely find some time to read and work through this. As soon as I finish a few of these things I still have on my TODO list... Just a few more days...
No, it is a multi-stage build. The second stage [1] uses oven/bun:distroless

[1] https://github.com/regexplanet/regexplanet-bun/blob/main/Doc...
Unlike corporations in other countries which gladly give away money and labour to their clients. Or something.
I hope Zig makes it into the kernel one day!
> Tell me what is happening now is not exactly how Greece and Rome fell.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Ancient Greece was a loose coalition of city states, not an empire. You could say they were short-sighted by being more concerned about their rivalry than external threats but the closest they came to being united was under Alexander the Great, whose death left a power vacuum.

There was no direct cause of "the fall" of Ancient Greece. The city states were suffering greatly from social inequality, which created tensions and instability. They were militarily weakened from the war with the Persians. Alexander's death left them without a unifying force. Then the Roman Empire knocked on its door and that was the end of it.

Rome likewise didn't fall in one single way. "Rome" isn't even what people think it is. Roman history spans several different entities and even if you talk about the "empire in decline" that's covering literally hundreds of years, ending with the Holy Roman Empire, which has been retroactively reimagined as a kind of proto-Germany. But even then that's only the Western Roman Empire - the Eastern Roman Empire continued to exist as the Byzantine Empire until the Ottoman Empire conquered Constaninople. And this distinction between the two empires is likewise retroactive and did not exist in the minds of Romans at the time (although they were de facto independent of each other).

If you only focus on the century or so that is generally considered to represent the fall of Western Rome, the ultimate root cause actually seems to be natural climate change. The Huns fled climate change, chasing away other groups that then fled into the Empire. Late Western Rome also again suffered from massive wealth inequality, which the ruling class attempted to maintain with increasingly cruel punishments.

So, if you want to look for a common thread, it seems to be the hubris of the financial elite, not "society" as a whole.
"MITM proxying incognito mode" is so far from the truth. Google doesn't get the plaintext contents, unlike typical MITM. They don't even know what site you're connecting to because your traffic is sent encrypted to a CDN partner.
I tried to do it last night, and it said one of my accounts was ineligible. Didn't say which one, or why it was ineligible. I got on a live chat with Apple Support... for 2 hours. Surprisingly, the dude had already been very very trained on the ins and outs of the migration process. He knew everything.

You can’t migrate purchases if both of your accounts have Apple Music libraries. This is minor, as you can get around it by simply deleting everything out of the primary (aka non-purchasing) account. He did know that it will also migrate iTunes Match, though, which I had been worried about since it's not mentioned in any of the support documents, and it doesn't even show up in my subscription list. He said they include iTunes Match as part of Apple Music itself, so it's not listed separately.

The MUCH bigger deal (especially if you use Family Sharing) is that you cannot have shared your iCloud storage more than 1 other account. Well, I have a wife, 2 kids, and my purchases account. The only way around this is for me to disband my “Family”, then do the migration, then re-create my family… BUT it’s not that easy, because kids MUST be in a family. SO, first my wife has to create a Family. Then I disband my Family and transfer the kids to hers, where she’s the organizer, not me. Then I do the migration. Then I rejoin the family, but she hates tech, so I need to be the organizer, so then she has to leave her own Family, which will make me the organizer by default. Then she can join back. Then we should be ok… except that during that whole time they will have zero iCloud storage (it’s all on my account), and no access to our subscriptions (all on my account), and no access to family shared apps… AND if anything goes wrong, we’re in a huge effing mess.

Oh, and I forgot to ask if or how it would affect our Photos library, where my wife and I each have a private library, but also share a library with 150k photos and videos in it.
It's not just AI/AGI, it's its mixing with the current climate of unlimited greed, disappearance of even the pretense of a social contract, and the vast surveillance powers available. Technological dictatorship, that's what's most worrying. I love dystopian cyberpunk, but I want it to stay in books.
Well, I think we both agree that Democrats lost the most recent election because they got less votes than Republicans, and because some/many people who voted Democrat in 2020 voted Republican in 2024 (including in Washtenaw.)

I think we might just disagree about how impactful, or out of the ordinary, the swing in Washtenaw Co specifically was (or maybe I've just done a poor job of expressing myself or understanding your original comment.) See 2016 for further comparison: https://electionresults.ewashtenaw.org/electionreporting/nov...
Show HN: RAG Engine – Connect external data to LLM in minutes
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-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_PROJECT_API_KEY" \

-d '{

"namespace": "user:1",

"type": "website",

"url": "https://mywebsite.com"

}'

And to search across all your data just make another API call:

curl -X GET "https://ragengine.io/search?query=...&namespace=user:1" \

-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_PROJECT_API_KEY"

Response:
{

"documents": [

{

"source": { "type": "website", "url": "https://mywebsite.com" },

"content": "...",

"similarity_score": 3.99

},

{

"source": { "type": "file", "filename": "pricing.txt" },

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"similarity_score": 3.11

}

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Not seeing the problem. Are you assuming that somehow there is at most one Gmail account per person on earth?

I have… I’m not sure. Ten maybe? And those are actual conveniences for different purposes. I’m sure plenty of people have hundreds, if not thousands. So what?
Ford Godzilla V8 Knocks on the Door of 1k HP Without Boost or Nitrous
There's no single approach that works for everybody. What works best for you is dependent on several factors:

- Whether you're primarily developing or maintaining

- Size and organization of the codebase

- Size of the team working with the codebase

- Your production deployment strategy

- Probably others

Here's the thing: I know teams using trunk-based development and teams using feature branch development, and they all work in the same organization! Like most things in software development, the best strategy for you is dependent upon your needs and you should eschew the idea that there's only one right way to do everything.
Depends, colon cancer, breast cancer, prostrate cancer, etc. are pretty commonly tested/screened for in certain age groups and that definitely saves lives.

My aunt died of pancreatic cancer last year. It's a pretty common and aggressive form of cancer. She only had a few months from diagnosis to the grave. By the time she got diagnosed, there was nothing that they could do except provide pain relief.
Used that a bunch in physics class in school. Makes it much easier to calculate with units since you simply add up the exponents of the units instead of having to consider the notation around the units.

Doesn't work well in pure text mediums.