skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I thought it would bring people together, but instead, it's used to find and create new ways in which we can group and hate each other.

As McLuhan wrote, "The Medium is the Message". AFAICT, the medium known as "the web" is (paradoxically) not about interconnection, but its core property is fragmentation.

This intrinsic nature is turbocharged via algorithmic per-user "engagement optimization".
It requires the same violation of personal privacy by the state to prevent someone from having an abortion as it does to compel one.
It's good that people are focusing on detecting such things early but unfortunately the management of any cancer basically falls into two categories - burn it or remove it. Burning maybe done via radiation, chemo etc. And treating liquid malignancies is even difficult.

I lost my absolutely fit and fine father last year to AML. I couldn't do jack shit about it and have this lingering feeling of how archiac the whole medical science - especially the drug discovery is.

No one in medical field is interested to cure any disease. All want to manage it so that pharma can get as many "subscribers" as possible to keep that money flowing in.

And such novel tests is just another mechanism to enroll new subscribers early in the journey to earn money for some more months. That's all.
Well tone police is finding themselves pretty hostile world lately.
SPARC and SPARK are two entirely different things.
The elections aren't known to be broken yet, so don't panic just yet but rather watch out very carefully and do whatever you realistically can do (aka bug your representatives) so those remain as safe as possible if you notice any attacks on it.

The foundation of democracy is term limits and fair elections as means of non-violent change of power. Within the terms, people can elect all sorts of monsters - the key point is that there's a certain end to that, as long as the foundations are upheld and next term new people can come and take over the mess. Unlike Russia, there's no long history of massive election fraud.

And that is not broken yet, as long as Democrats don't mess it up too bad and cease to be (turning it into one-party system and then autocracy).

Remember, headlines are fighting for views. It is natural that they spread "we're all fucked real real bad" vibes, as they capture attention really well, but also have this side effect of spreading panic. That's not to say I'm happy about the way things are (things are bad), but that it's not as bad as you say it is - so far.
Sure — but life is a risk tradeoff, ie cost versus benefit. So we should focus our attention on the most dangerous things, not panic over everything.

There’s also contrary examples to your general rule, eg, catching cowpox protected you from smallpox — so you were better off being exposed to the relatively weaker cowpox, even if it wasn’t risk free.
For what it's worth, their server can be hosted on Windows and Linux, so somebody could make a Dockerfile for it. But yeah, in any case I'd double check for any log4j like known vulnerabilities.

[1] https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/server/tree/8f4fd3383656602115...
Because it's unpopular. Polls show the vast majority don't want TikTok banned.
Glad you took the time to read my thoughts and respond :) have a good one friend
Similar story with Ubuntu's software app and Snap, though to be fair snap is mostly fine these days.

I still uninstall it and use apt instead (and "downgrade" packages that are wrappers around snaps, and block snapd from being able to install...).
>The old-school guys want to keep things old-school. The new-school guys want to make things better in a new way

The new school guys greatly underappreciate the wisdom of why and instead try to change things without first understanding.
Show me one.

When "literally" is used in a figurative way, it's an intensifier. It means "very much". It never means "figuratively".
> While documentation is often disliked, it is essential for configuration options, because [...] options are only added to a text file with a one-line comment at best.

This resonates. Feature Flags over time devolve into a lovely career of code archaeology.
They did... It's clear their strategies are at best outdated, or at worst more focused on a neoliberal policy over a proper socialist strategy (hence, them blocking Sanders out twice).

I know it's small fries given current issues, but this is part of why I think (or thoght) the biggest focus for the people should be getting more states to adopt ranked choice voting. That's the only way out of this game theory disaster.
Dodgy Elon
But the training data isn't open...

I agree that open source doesn't mean open assets, but neither does open assets mean open source. You could make a linguistic argument that the training data is part of the "source" of the model (as in, from whence it came), but in any case the point is moot because neither the training data nor the code is open.
The whole article is parody.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036904 - Feb 2025 (826 comments)

Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972062 - Feb 2025 (1015 comments)
Just wanted to say this is awesome! sent it to a few coworkers
Obama, Trump and Biden have ignored federal cannabis laws for years. Laws and even the Constitution are ignored routinely Snowden showed us that.
> I'm just a Linux user watching this shitshow unfold

Yet he can't even put up his real name. Pathetic
I'd say that this is pretty political[0]

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-antisemitic-comments-...
How generic these symptoms are! I always wonder if medical science has really attempted to study these diseases to understand their unique symptoms.

I lost my dad at age 62 last year to AML. His generic symptom was weakness.
Well, most don't have an ideology.

Twitter does, though.
And yet if you stop watching the news nothing has really changed at all.

80% of “most consequential president” is just media nonsense.

Stop following the news and suddenly things don’t seem that bad. Because in reality all the media (all media not just the media one disagrees with) does is fuck with your brain and intentionally divide people and piss everyone off.
The whole point of flatpak is so that the upstream maintainer can release one well tested binary and it works on all distros...

As a long time Linux user and someone who tried to get in some software into Few Linux Distro Repositories, it's high time we start recommending the above model.

Not my words, but at this point I'll even take just a zip file with apps that always just works over having to deal with all the headaches from distro package managers for user level software.
Definitely in a coup, if not completely taken over. Check this https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/politics/danielle-sassoon-eri...
I have noticed in general people don't like pop-ups or modals, at least during the first-mile experience of the product.
I joined four companies since COVID. All but the latest company did onboarding remotely. All of them made me take twice as long to ramp up on my duties compared to an in-person experience

Also, virtual onboarding are TORTUROUS (for me). You're in a Zoom all day, sometimes for multiple days, trying your best to look into the camera and absorb mountains of information while trying very hard to not be distracted by the wonderful things happening in and outside of your house.

If I'm going to be in all-day meetings, I much prefer to be in an office with other people when they happen.
From "An ultra-sensitive on-off switch helps axolotls regrow limbs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36912925 :

> [ mTOR, Muller glia in Zebrafish, ]

From "Reactivating Dormant Cells in the Retina Brings New Hope for Vision Regeneration" (2023) https://neurosciencenews.com/vision-restoration-genetic-2318... :

> “What’s interesting is that these Müller cells are known to reactivate and regenerate retina in fish,” she said. “But in mammals, including humans, they don’t normally do so, not after injury or disease. And we don’t yet fully understand why.”
> National security is in the interest of all the Americans

No it isn't (there are plenty of people who'd be better off in a less secure America), and certainly not at any cost.
I think experienced windows devs would use and recommend windows libs/userland over WSL.

May because WSL becomes a huge dependency and many windows boxes don't have it installed, whereas windows userland is always available.
This is a longform "nuh uh"
State Capture
new faces but we have the oldest president in history. anti-establishent so they root on the literal richest man in the world to take more money from them. Too poor but they aren't out on the street protesting hunreds of billions in tax cuts to the corporate chains they are binded by.

I completely get being rebellious. But is any of this "fun" for them? Just saying they are nihilistic makes more sense at this point.
I'm on Medicare.
with correct spelling and a link:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dk%C5%ABle%CA%BBa
which conspiracies?
How do you make money doing this and if you earn nothing, how can you afford to in this economy?
It's probably more grey than that.

There are lots of ways to tilt an election without breaking existing laws, especially if you have all 3 branches of government and an execute that'll selectively enforce laws and out in the open go after political opponents.
Ah! The conflict makes more sense then.
Hybrid warfare is nothing new and we’ve been seeing it clearly for the past decade, at the very least.
Emacs suffers some on windows too, because it also depends on external utilities for some functionality. For example grep-find depends on external grep program which is not bundles in, and on windows, the operation will simply fail.
I don’t think the national security concerns have been well asserted. What’s the specific national security issue, and the evidence of TikTok doing it?
Perhaps.

In my role I wear a lot of hats, and abstracting away part of 1 hat while using it to help me develop my skills makes sense.

But if you only wear that one hat, you are getting better at managing ChatGPT, rather than getting better at coding, because thats the most efficient output.
gcc vs. egcs, emacs vs xemacs, bsd vs bsd, bsd vs att, etc, etc, etc.

FOSS evolves past its chokepoints by forking.

So, a credible group of Rustaceans and their backers need to come up with a plan to do it.

It doesn't have to be antagonistic -- it's exploratory. If it works out well, it's a lot easier to adopt once the imagined issues are resolved or evaporated.

Subsystem by subsystem would be my suggestion. And just do it. And sooner or later, it will be (a) good enough that it's pulled into -next, or (b) they'll give up because it's not worth the effort.

I'd be pretty surprised if, for instance, one of Google/Amazon/Meta/Microsoft/Cloudflare/Netflix/etc wasn't interested in an ABI-compatible kernel written in Rust. Get a few biggish backers, and LF would possibly even adopt it.
The bitterness is palpable.
Also pharma companies.
This was true for the lead up to many dictators. By itself, just having an election doesn't really mean much. We'll see if there are future (fair) elections.
Google selective enforcement. Happens every day.
Thanks. These discussions are so unbelievably bad* that the user flags must be correct.

* By "bad" I mean bad for HN: low-substance, flamey, high-indignation, high-snark. Not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, Kevin Munger's book skillfully dissects what he calls "The YouTube Apparatus" [0]

The creators aren't really tuning their output based on consumer feedback, they're actually optimizing for the platform's metrics, so it's the (algorithmic) machine incentivizing humans to essentially feed it money.

[0] https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/in-the-belly-of-the-mrbea...
Well, the assumption is that an acceptable divestiture is going to happen, but these things take time. And yes, TikTok is pretty special to me and has positively impacted my life in a variety of ways.
what does that mean in the context of

>There's a reason Musk brought in younglings to do the illegal stuff.

You can pardon people of any age. And Trump even in this future of "there won't be any more elections" probaby isn't living much longer than this presidential term at his health.
> The .org was quite important to them in the name.

Apparently because, in some country in which Sun did business, someone else had already trademarked “OpenOffice”, but Sun’s lawyers believed the addition of “.org” was enough to sidestep that trademark.

I think in many jurisdictions, if someone else already has legal claim to a trademark, sticking “.org” on the end may not be sufficient to escape infringement. But, maybe under the laws of whichever country this trademark existed in, it was. Or at least, so Sun’s lawyers believed-hence, they were quite insistent on including the “.org”
> nobody seems to have ever been prosecuted

But they have been sued, sometimes for extraordinary amounts, as have their employers, corporate sponsors, etc. And they have lost funding for their research and the trust of everyone above (and of future IRBs). These are powerful disincentives.
Cool feature, curious, does the bangs solution (! Language ! Region ! Safe search) to the inability to use your config not introduce the same privacy concerns?

> allowing users to send a small configuration with every request (language, region, safe-search) to automatically customize your search experience to some extent. However, we currently believe this would quickly result in a significant loss of anonymity for you and for other users.

> For manual search settings customization, you can always use bangs in your search query to enable basic settings for a specific query.
While this is true (to some degree anyway), it seems qualitatively different from Congress (and then backed up by SCOTUS) explicitly banning a specific company (and explicitly banning other companies from doing specific things related to that company) and then being completely ignored by an incoming president who just says "wut? no worries, carry on tiktok".

this is not a debate about just what the intelligence community can and cannot do, or what level of enforcement and in what communities is appropriate for a given law. it is a point blank statement "i am the president, and you (tiktok) and you (google, apple) can ignore the law", made in public, without any possible national security justification (whatever level of BS that might normally come with).
"quantum computers are no better than classical ones [for sorting]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_sort
Just wanted to back up this comment with a tiny bit of possible evidence:
https://lwn.net/Articles/950567/
I've been looking for a project that would have an easy free/extremely cheap way to do OCR/image recognition for generating ALT text automatically for social media. Some sort of embedded implementation that looks at an image and is either able to transcribe the text, or (preferably) transcribe the text AND do some brief image recognition.

I generally do this manually with Claude and it's able to do it lightning fast, but a small dev making a third party Bluesky/Mastodon/etc client doesn't have the resources to pay for an AI API.
It's "art" as in the phrase "More of an art than science"
That line stopped working after they lied us into the Iraq war.
I maintain a searchable archive of historical documents for a nonprofit, OCR'd with Tesseract over several years. Tesseract 4 was a big improvement over previous versions, but since then its accuracy has not improved at the same rate as other free solutions.

These days, just uploading a PDF of scanned documents (typeset ones, not handwriting) to Google Drive and opening with Google Docs results in a text document generated with impressive quality OCR.

But this is not scriptable, and doesn't provide access position information, which is needed so we can highlight search results as color overlays on the original PDF. Tesseract's hOCR mode was great for that.

For the next version, we're planning to use one of the command-line wrappers to Apple's Vision framework, which is included free in MacOS. A nice one that provides position information is at https://github.com/bytefer/macos-vision-ocr
Terminader: Merging the Finder and Terminal
I appreciate a designer who prioritizes haptics and the personal touch in controls over relying solely on touchscreens. While touchscreens give devices a modern and multifunctional feel, I prefer some basic features to be handled using a handheld hybrid combo. The team has done a fantastic job creating a ready solution for this. Hopefully, some Japanese companies get this imbibed in their models, especially Toyota and Maruti Suzuki!
Biden refused to enforce the law as well.

Edit: you all are out here downvoting provable facts.
Do you consider elections in Hungary to be broken yet? After all, they still happen in a way that roughly corresponds to the way they did 10 years ago. Talk to people who don't support the current leader of that country however, and you'll get a totally different story about the elections that happen there.
https://archive.is/F5dbW
Thanks! I appreciate your taking the time to do this.

Of the 10 links you listed, 7 seem to me obviously to break the site guidelines and I've flagkilled them. One, incidentally, was from an account that we banned earlier today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43042278), and another was from an account that we banned a couple days later (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42483610).

Of the remaining 3 of the 10, I disagree with you about saagarjha's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42907076. That one seems thoughtful and in keeping with the site guidelines. It does use a lot of sort-of trigger words (I counted "trans", "vegan", "left wing", "Democrat", "progressive", "conservatism", "Republican"), but surely we're not going to punish people just for using words like that.

The other two seemed borderline to me, although I confess that one was so long that I couldn't read it before becoming le tired.

> I could find many, MANY more examples.

I'd be interested in seeing them, and I hope it's clear that I mean that. I don't want to argue about this—I want to see what you're seeing.
There are also a few businesses e.g. Collabora that pay LibreOffice developers today.
A free speech dispute over a New England pastry shop painting heads to trial
Nice work. Just what I need to train the non-tech ppl in my team. Wish more things were fun to learn like this.
Elections have consequences. The Democrats should have listened to what the people wanted instead of just being anti Trump.
Isn't one of the key distinctions here that government does not have to be concerned about failing? Businesses can end or change something to survive. Government bureaucracy can keep protecting itself without having to face harsh realities.
The article suggests that this is an escalation relative to the last few years. I don't think the article is suggesting that no such thing as sabotage had ever happened previously.

I also think the significance here is in the context of Russian aggression in Europe beyond Ukraine.
Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor industry
Next admin a socialist? Hold my beer sez Oligarchs.
> The flu is fun because if you are infected with 2 strains at the same time, the virus genomes mix every which way to see which combination works the best against you.

Ugh, that's not good. Especially as someone who recently had both Flu A then Flu B a few days later. :( :( :(

Is there more info about that mixing of strains anywhere, as when I was searching for stuff online about that ~2 weeks ago nothing showed up.
This is not what is normally referred to as "selective enforcement".
Absolutely right! This test is hyped. It has abysmally low sensitivity of 16% to detect stage I cancers and overall 44% for cancers of other stages. It is extremely poor sensitivity for any detection test.
Can I try with a hosted version first?
By Jan 19, which has passed, so I think you may not be fully aware of that law.
To the website author: add the `playsinline` attribute to your <video> tags.
> German police were investigating an incident at a Hamburg shipyard where several dozen kilograms of metal shavings were dumped into a corvette-class vessel's engine system.

Italics mine, and holy crap that's a lot of metal shavings.. like multiple 55gal trash cans' worth.
>for diversity to matter at all there must be some functional element

>without measuring it seemed very unscientific to me.

Well, I think it's accepted that there were "unscientific" elements here. I'm not saying everyone agreed on their value, but they were stated as benefits.

For instance, diversity in viewpoints based on varied experiences would theoretically bring about more interesting solutions. I'm not sure how one would objectively measure that purported effect.

Likewise, helping a company to understand cultural sensitivities among different customer populations, so they don't blunder in language or otherwise.

And, to whatever degree we consider it beneficial for companies to be considered "good corporate citizens" in general, I suppose that would apply here as well—though, again, hard to measure.

So, I agree that say, race/gender are proxies for deeper cultural diversity. I don't know that you would define that diversity as "functional", or that you would need to in order for there to be some benefit.
The NIH is not a scientific source? The Human Genome Project isn't a scientific source? The journal literally called Science? Duke University? Science Direct? The American Medical Association? The Experimental Physiology Journal?

That's a tough thing to read on HN, I have to be honest.
and there were infamous hackers too

https://youtu.be/vNhBq3kjq_Q?t=2011
TikTok returns on Apple, Google US app stores as Trump delays ban
The current "regime" is so obsessed with anti-DEI that they managed to create a government consisting of the most unqualified group of humans since Nero.

I could not be more embarrassed for humanity, and my country.

If anyone would like an escape, please watch the amazing, and incredibly ignored show Pantheon.[0] The main topic covered is uploaded human intelligence. The script tech advisors, animation, and voice actors are excellent. Check it out. Much better than dealing with this folly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon_(TV_series)
I really hope that both major parties take turns gutting each others' pet projects each election cycle, instead of adding onto them as they've done in the past.
> The Supreme Court ruled on the legality of it at the very last minute, so there is broad bipartisan support for more time to find an acquirer,

How does that follow? The law passed in Congress with "broad bipartisan support", including a strict and limited window for an acquirer to be found. That window has closed.
Does this mean there’s a lot of bird flu in the bay? The news has been saying Bay Area hospitals are full of flu patients.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/california-severe...
Storing model weights for inference wouldn’t be writing much.
The HTML and <pre> tag is your browser's doing; most browsers are configured to make raw data files easier to digest (FireFox does similar prettification for raw JSON files, for example). The actual data being sent over the networking tab is a "text/plain" document that has no such HTML.
> In order to prevent a few possible ethical lapses, they smother hundreds of good potential research.

Doesn't that describe all safety and security measures? Airport security wastes millions of hours in order to prevent a few possible problems.

> ethical lapses

That's quite a euphemism for death and bodily injury. I'm sure you wouldn't mind it yourself.

There is plenty of evidence of what happens without IRBs - just look what happened before IRBs.
The extension is over. Congress pass the bill they passed not the one you think they passed.