skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been running Win11 for a long time; used to be on the Insider track, so the upgrade came early and automatically.

No ads on the start menu. No bs notifications. OneDrive disabled and set to not auto-start.

I did have to disable all of the "interests" on the whatever-widget in the lower left corner, only leaving on the weather, so now it shows the current temperature, but doesn't feel the need to pester me about "breaking news". And I'm really irritable about that shit. Even text or an exclamation point grinds my gears; I feel that same way on mobile phones. No Best Buy, you don't need an indicator on your icon because I've dismissed your 3-times-weekly sale announcements.

Not sure about telemetry, need to look into that. I'm not really against telemetry, per se, provided it has a valid use case. If they're taking pictures of my screen while I'm working to train AI or do god knows what with it, I will deal with that (including moving full time to a distro, which I have done in the past).

Otherwise, my only real complaint is they manage to eff up the mouse in some way every every 4th update or so. Latest one is special pointers failing to return to normal after mousing away from whatever caused the special pointer (i.e. the pointer switches to indicate resizing a window and then doesn't switch back).

Beyond that, mostly smooth sailing. Wish WSL2 would finally officially support 6.x kernels, but they've been blocked on some random issues for 8+ months now.

I'm running Pro btw.
How’s the experience of emulating windows for gaming on macOS today? Like on a MacBook pro with their proprietary chip?
Perplexity Deep Research
If you don't respect the field in general, why do you think an AI amalgamation of that field to be better?
Very interesting experience. Thanks for sharing. I’m a sucker for good UX/UI, and it sounds like the product is legitimately useful long-term. I wonder how well it integrates into Firefox/Chrome, since I see extensions for both browsers. I’ll check it out!
500K Open-Licensed SVG Icons
What Goes Around Comes Around and Around – Andy Pavlo (Dijkstra Award 2024) [video]
Unless a way is found to prevent pardons like these. They should never be used to protect members of the administration, or should not prevent investigations (actually, being proactively pardoned, one shouldn't be able plead the fifth).

OTOH, I understand why Biden pardoned his son - the incoming administration would absolutely crucify him for whatever they wanted. Just the effect of publicly accusing him without evidence already creates safety risks.

Which brings up another topic - public figures, elected or not, should be held accountable for their public communications in proportion to their impact.
I hear you and I hear the other users expressing similar feelings, but what you guys need to understand is that the community is split on this, and the larger part does not want the frontpage to be taken over by this (or by anything else, presumably).

The more repetitive these threads get, the lower-quality they become. The most recent ones have been truly terrible, by the standards of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. That's another key indicator of which way to adjust the valve. The more people are unable to discuss this topic thoughtfully, the further it drifts from the intended spirit of the site.
Scooby dooby Doo...
I personally don't see the benefit of either down voting or flagging. Flagging in particular, more often than not, seems to denote: "This post is not sufficiently ingratiating to my political convictions".
Arm to start making server CPUs in-house
I think that, on the contrary, government contracts will increase. There will be increased privatization of government services. These services cannot cease, but they will cease to be performed by the government. I imagine government contractors like Palantir will actually do quite well. A smaller government is good for business due to privatization, but perhaps more often bad for people subject to those businesses with less government oversight.
Wine wasn't seen as a threat as SteamOS can be against Windows/XBox handhelds.

Think of how Microsoft quickly killed the Linux based netbooks, when they really started paying attention, then the new tablets market did the rest.
I highly doubt this. US Air Force fighters intercepting an unknown aircraft near the Whitehouse still request ATC clearance so they don't accidentally run into an airliner. And we're talking something that shoots missiles into other planes. Any VIP transport isn't going to get any higher priority.

Here's why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Airwest_Flight_706

And they don't need priority. If Air Force One wants to land anywhere, they simply have the airport closed and the airspace cleared. And you don't need to close an entire airport. You can just mark off a place in the sky that's restricted during a certain time.

Additionally, any plane can declare an emergency and take priority over all other traffic, including anything military, including Air Force One. It would be silly if you think you are so important that an airplane currently in the middle of crashing will go around you.

You can verify all of this by listening to ATC transcripts on YouTube. They are pretty easy to find if you're looking for sources.
Do you think Elon's relationship with Trump will degenerate to the point Trump will not issue a blanket pardon?
It's pretty interesting and mildly shocking that everyone is just making the same 'who needs a new JS library' joke.

What about closed source tooling? How do you expect an AI to ever help you with something it doesn't have a license to know about? Not everything in the world can be anonymously scraped into the yearly revision.

If AI is going to stay we'll have to solve the problem of knowledge segmentation. If we solve that, keeping it up to date shouldn't be too bad.
how does ExtJS 2.0.2 measure up to ExtJS 4.22 in your opinion / experience ?
Lake Superior got its name “on account of its being superior in magnitude to any of the lakes on that vast continent”.
(copied from an earlier comment)

There are at least 60 recent DOGE stories on HN with comments on. I guess people get a bit DOGEd out.
It's probably part of the Trump/Musk strategy. 'Flood the zone' with so many things people can't follow it.

(on zone flooding https://youtu.be/iTSgL_R1CC4)
Think how Linux netbooks was dealt with, and XBox wanting a piece of handhelds market.
My PC was never updated because the capable 7700K was not supported by win 11 even with TPM. Microsoft dropped the ball hard on system requirements.
Is that his device or his search term? Either way, my view of the internet is probably different than the average with pihole + ublock. Three pages of ads is kind of unbelievable.
Just ask them for Microsoft PowerToys, FancyZones is what you want.
My Windows 10 install doesn't do that either, although I have no idea why it gave up (AFAIK there's no reason why it wouldn't be compatible).
Discussion (38 points, 13 hours ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045010
YaST was pretty clunky but rock solid!
Microsoft solved it on Windows 10 already with their own extension called PowerToys, it adds a really powerful window management extension to windows and it's completely free(plus a tonne of other very useful utilities).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzon...
Why should we wait for SteamOS? I’m using Pop_OS! on my gaming machine and can play all new games with the Steam compatibility mode. Baldur’s Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II work perfectly fine. I was quite surprised that there are no problems at all and happy that I can go Windows free now
Can you share a specific instance of fraud that has been found?

"Contracts I don't like" != fraud, obviously.

So I'll ask again: Can you share a specific instance of fraud that has been found?
Wtf is this:

> Depending on the configuration Tracy may broadcast discovery packets to the local network and expose the data it collects in the background to that same network. Traces collected by Tracy may include source and assembly code as well.
I read a thought-provoking article here about feature flags, entitlements, keeping them in but using a database or decoupling something something. Anyone remember the one? I am trying to grasp a principled way to collectively approach feature flags, entitlements, and authz.
See if your work place will let you install PowerToys, which includes FancyZones. It’s a Microsoft power tool (not third party), so they might allow it, and it has much better window snapping.
fair enough; thanks for the explain. I do appreciate that HN doesn't turn into a flamewar while allowing discussions and not flagging everything just because it's controversial, especially with all the impactful stuff going on. kudos on the moderating and threading that needle; tough job
I respect the research and researchers - but medical researchers are far removed from medical practitioners.
DeepSeek, o1-mini, Claude, Gemini face off in Connect Four
This is an arena that I built for educational purposes, but it's super fun to watch the LLMs duke it out! Play some games, and see the leaderboard on the 2nd tab for all games so far. DeepSeek is leading as I type this, but o1-mini closing in.

It was amazing how easy it was to build this - there's a link to the video, with the game running after about 10 mins.
At least health insurance should cost more on the "Vaccine Freedom" regions. I would expect insurers would want to adjust to new risks governments create.
I'm predominantly a Ubuntu / Mac user (roughly 60/40).

My Windows machine has seen an uptick in use over the last months for development purposes, but it's still stuck on Windows 10. I don't think I need or want to upgrade it.

Two questions:

- Do I need to upgrade it?

- How do I get comfortable with Windows shell? PowerShell doesn't do Unixisms. There are too many shells. Command Prompt / CMD, PowerShell, there's some utility that installed mingw64 terminal, and WSL is also a thing. Which one(s) should I use?

I'll expand on my shell question: The thing I'm struggling with now is that when I install utilities like git, cargo, etc., they seem to work for some shells but not others. They seem disconnected and not have the same access, visibility, and privileges. What can I read or do to get me over this hill? Which one(s) should I use? (I assume "CMD" is dead?)

I'm doing mostly Rust / TypeScript development on Windows, FWIW.
Valid point. I concede my point.
Retro review: Microsoft's 2008 Surface/PixelSense 'coffee table' (2017)
That’s interesting — Claude WITH web search. Like Claude makes suggestions about search terms? Or maybe helps to navigate the results? I’m struggling to picture how google search is a 2-“person” job
I'm also going to argue that Rust is a less AI-friendly language than, say, Go.

GC languages have many benefits that come from 'you don't have to think about memory allocation'. For instance you can just smack an arbitrary library into a Java program with maven and not think at all about whether the library or the application is responsible for freeing an object. The global problem of memory allocation is handled by a globally scoped garbage collector.

LLMs are great at superficial/local translation processes (e.g. medium-quality translation of 中文 to English doesn't require constraint solving any more than remembering which of the many indexing schemes is the right one for 'how do I look up this row/column/whatever in pandas') But fighting with the borrow checker (getting global invariants right) is entirely outside the realm of LLM competence.
aging population -> more farting -> increases air temp?
That would make them explicitly pornographers would it not? I think that's not the business they want to be in.
>if the nazis look like liberators compared to that

I have no doubt that Nazis looked like liberators to the people who ethnically cleansed Jews[0][1] and Poles[2].

Fast forward to the 21st century and we see major avenues in Kiev renamed to honor Nazi collaborators. It's quite telling that the avenue that is now named after Shukhevych[3] used to honor Nikolai Vatutin[4][5], Soviet general who fought Nazis on the territory of Ukraine.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamianets-Podilskyi_massacre

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_pogroms_(1941)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shukhevych

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vatutin

[5] https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Проспект_Романа_Шухевича#Істор...
Good thing we have the best and brightest at DOGE!
The internet archive generates MRC pdfs and have open-sourced their tooling: https://github.com/internetarchive/archive-pdf-tools
"...the eradication of the federal civil service, along with its culture and values, and its replacement with something different. In other words: regime change."

The U.S. has a "regime change" every four years (eight on occasion). This should not be a revelation.

For the uneducated--as apparently is the case with this author--the federal executive branch works under the Executive (President). This is the branch of government currently under assessment of DOGE (stupid bro acronym, in my opinion).

While the roughshod methods currently being used by DOGE to examine and cut the executive branch workforce is upsetting, it is not an abuse of power. In fact, you could argue that examining and pruning the workforce is something that every responsible President should do.

There is no implied obligation of the government to provide "forever jobs" to anyone in federal service. Things change, and merit (productivity) matters.

Non sequitor--We should start with the politicians. I wish the electorate would vote out every incumbent after one term. That would be a breath of fresh air.

But the federal government, like any organization, employs a lot of unproductive workers. It's time for a housecleaning--I just wish it was being done by somebody else with a little more class and respectfulness.
Thanks, yes it's using Whisper large v3
For anyone interested in learning Godot or building an arcade beat'em up similar to Double Dragon or Streets of Rage, I put together a 10h course on Youtube. It's broken down in episodes of 30 mins and is quite accessible to beginner / intermediate developers with little experience in Godot.

You can try out the game you'll be building here: https://gadgaming.itch.io/fists-of-fury

Hope it's useful to anyone who wants to pick up gamedev as a hobby!
The day when a portable device like this becomes mandatory will be the realization of the film "Minority Report" - but instead of two "precogs" snitching on you, you'll be snitching on yourself!
Then your eye will keep rolling when all people asking for a “docker image ” for any existing software.
The lack of new training data also makes it bad at projects that are still maturing because it will suggest outdated code - or worse it will mix/match old and new syntax and generate something completely broken.

I worry that the lack of new examples for it to train on will self-reinforce running old syntax that has bad patterns.

If the "AI" could actually store its mistakes and corrections from interactive sessions long-term I think it would greatly alleviate this problem, but that opens up another whole set of problems.
I don't mean "traditional American Judeo-Christian morals," whatever those are. I mean an authoritarian mindset. Trump is definitionally good because he's "strong" and he's their leader. Similarly, police are definitionally good because they enforce the law. Anything they do (unless it's against their own, or against a group more worthy than they) is therefore inherently justified.

They excuse Trump's immorality because they don't see it as immorality. They might talk about it in those terms, but that's just because they know that things like having sex with a porn star while married is generally considered wrong. It's not actually used as part of the evaluation of how good or bad a person is.
Check out Extism
The way I’ve been saying it is the Right did such a good job of inventing phony boogeymen to get them elected (and then never do anything about said boogeymen) that they finally bred a generation that thinks their BS is real.
>- He claimed the US funded bio-weapons when they found payments for gain of function research.

This is factual though.

The previous NIH director Dr. Hugh Auchincloss and current deputy director Dr. Lawrence Tabak agree that the definition of "gain of function" as was listed on the NIH website applies to engineering a biological agent to infect something it normally wouldnt be able to.

That coupled with the fact that Dr.Daszak submitted the Year 5 Annual Progress Report Nearly Two Years Late. Said report had the experiment with infected transgenic mice with four different coronaviruses, three of which were chimera or recombinant viruses with different spike proteins.

When confronted in the deposition Daszak said that the reporting system was inaccessible. So they deposed the IT stack of the reporting system, and they showed logs that it was accessible and actually logged into several times during the 2 year period that the report was late.

This is pretty strong circumstantial evidence that they were attempting to hide or delay the experiments from being discovered by the grant review process at the end of the year. The report is pretty damning.

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/12.04...
Yeah, those results are ass. Do you happen to have the Kagi equivalent of the search? I’m curious to see how they compare.
Cue the measles outbreak in 3... 2...!
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/12.04...
And this is even before we get into the philosophical / epistemological questions about "cause."

You can make the argument, from correlative data, that bridges and train tracks cause truck accidents. And more importantly, if you act like they do when designing roadways, you actually will decrease truck accidents. But it's a common-sense-odd meaning of causality to claim a stationary object is acting upon a mobile object...
At Mindsdb we have been using it, and I truly believe it’s the future of open source code management.
That colliders and confounders have technical definitions is not known by some:

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Confounders
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A variable that affects both the exposure and the outcome. It is a common cause of both variables.

Role: Confounders can create a spurious association between the exposure and outcome if not properly controlled for. They are typically addressed by controlling for them in statistical models, such as regression analysis, to reduce bias and estimate the true causal effect.

Example: Age is a common confounder in many studies because it can affect both the exposure (e.g., smoking) and the outcome (e.g., lung cancer).

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Colliders
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A variable that is causally influenced by two or more other variables. In graphical models, it is represented as a node where the arrowheads from these variables "collide."

Role: Colliders do not inherently create an association between the variables that influence them. However, conditioning on a collider (e.g., through stratification or regression) can introduce a non-causal association between these variables, leading to collider bias.

Example: If both smoking and lung cancer affect quality of life, quality of life is a collider. Conditioning on quality of life could create a biased association between smoking and lung cancer.

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Differences
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Direction of Causality: Confounders cause both the exposure and the outcome, while colliders are caused by both the exposure and the outcome.

Statistical Handling: Confounders should be controlled for to reduce bias, whereas controlling for colliders can introduce bias.

Graphical Representation: In Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), confounders have arrows pointing away from them to both the exposure and outcome, while colliders have arrows pointing towards them from both the exposure and outcome.

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Managing
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Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs): These are useful tools for identifying and distinguishing between confounders and colliders. They help in understanding the causal structure of the variables involved.

Statistical Methods: For confounders, methods like regression analysis are effective for controlling their effects. For colliders, avoiding conditioning on them is crucial to prevent collider bias.
> But I don't have a problem with what someone else wants to run on their computer.

Neither do I. This discussion isn't about what someone else runs or doesn't run on their computers. By all means, run `jj`.

Or use `fossil`[1], which I maintain is technically superior to both `git` and `jj` (if you disagree, show me another VCS that also gives me a ticketing system, wiki, documentation system, forum and webui, all from a single executeable that allows me to set everything up with a few command line invocations ;-))

[1]: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Edgware 1924: The Making of a Suburb
We were all optimists back then.

We should have burned the thing to the ground. I'll go a bit further: we should never have made easy-to use computers.
LLMs writing emails from a set of bullet points supplied by whoever needs the email written, just for those emails to be read by another LLM and reduced back down to the bullet points for the recipient to read. Why not just send the bullet points instead?
My read on it was that if you keep wait_for_async_insert=True then the client will still wait until there's confirmation of a successful transaction, giving the possibility to retry. It does require one to actually have a retry handler on the client side, but that's a good idea anyways.
Asked a tricky tax question concerning AMT on LTCG. Phind 70b answered quickly and correctly. ChatGP-4o thought longer and answered incorrectly. o3-mini gave correct answer, but spent a lot of time thinking. Impressive.
When unplugging and plugging back in external monitors it moves windows back to the same monitors they were on before unplugging them. This is probably the most significant QoL feature.

The control centre generally feels better than Windows 10, except for switching sound outputs or getting to the volume mixer, which require too many clicks.

The settings app is a little more cohesive and has had some more control panel functionality transitioned into it.

Nothing they couldn’t have fixed in Windows 10, but it is overall better for me due to the above.

My new-ish work laptop runs Windows 11, but my personal desktop for gaming on a 6th gen Intel doesn’t meet official requirements. It has TPM 2 though, so once October arrives I reckon it’s better to run Windows 11 in a “technically” unsupported manner rather than stick with an OS which is no longer getting updates (and no, I will not switch to Linux as I’m not looking for another hobby).
Year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 WiFi Networks
https://archive.ph/Gnqhv
"Trust but verify" isn't applicable in a situation where any sentence in a passage could be randomly false. If you have to verify every part of something, you'd have been better off doing the work yourself.

(Unrelated, you're also better off doing work yourself because that's how you build expertise, but no one's really talking about that.)
Pope Francis hospitalised with bronchitis after struggling to speak
> Ocr is well and good, i thought it was mostly solved with tesseract what does this bring?

This is specifically for historic documents that tesseract will handle poorly. It also provides a good interface for retraining models on a specific document set, which will help for documents that are different from the training set.