skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, I understand why they tested multi-vitamins and fish oil,

I don’t see that in the linked article or in the paper. The words vitamin and fish don’t appear anywhere in the paper either. I didn’t see supplement use in the tables.

Where are you seeing this?
Even dumber than that. The cards are there to make sure that the federal government doesn't pay state taxes.

This is literally going to cost the government more money.
It looks like the site you are referring to quotes pure ISP costs while the matrix foundation bridge costs include maintaining bridge related software they would otherwise archive.
the $100k is to fund folks to maintain the bridge software, as well as the hardware costs of running them.
The claims from Musk are complete garbage and I have the receipts to show it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43116844
TFA is saying that it's your product that matters, as always, and that using AI can't be your moat since everyone has access to AI.

It seems cursor did a bunch of things right, from choosing to base it on an already popular editor, to the vision and specific ways they have integrated AI, to the flexibility of which models to use. No doubt there was some "early mover" advantage too.

Certainly the AI isn't their moat since it's mostly using freely available models (although some of their own too I believe), and it remains to be seen how much of a moat of any kind or early-mover advantage they really have. The AI-assisted coding market is going to be huge, and presumably will attract a lot more competition.

I'm old enough to remember when the BRIEF (basic reconfigurable interactive editing facility) editor (by Underware) took the world by storm, but where is it now?

Any other former BRIEF users/fans out there ?!
Couldn't find much.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-ends-many-twitter-...

> Twitter will no longer be covering several costs or paying for a number of perks made available to employees, some for many years, for example. And the maximum amount allotted for work-related trips has been limited, as those trips are also set to become rarer.

> The allowance for a mobile phone bill is now $50 per month and the daily allowance for food while on a work trip is now $75... Meanwhile, the overall limit on expenses for any kind of work-related travel has been "revised" by seniority level

Searched for things like "expenses," "cards," "subscriptions," etc.
Film sets of the near future: Just as fake as the 'film' itself
The US is a joke when it comes to things like health care, or labour protections.
Even with an average software engineer compensation, you probably got paid a lot more than a penny for every custom "select" you implemented :)
huh? what idea are you trying to convey?
Even the E2EE implementation is garbage. To this day fifty percent of the conversation in every E2EE group chat I'm in is "Hey XYZ I can't see your messages because they fail to decrypt" because they still have bugs in how clients distribute their keys to other clients. Imagine the state of a chat platform literally failing at chat.

Or look at how until a few months ago, the media store of every homeserver served media on the internet without any authentication. Someone just had to post CP in a popular room and they'd get hundreds of servers rehosting it for free. (Recently they finally added the ability to require authentication for the media store, although they didn't add support for it to their web client, only their new Android one.)
Ask HN: Which CRM can help manually curated leads and automate lead discovery?
I'm currently juggling a lot of CRM-related work using Notion and Gmail—taking meeting notes, sending follow-up emails, and tracking lead statuses manually. While this setup works, it’s becoming increasingly cumbersome.

I’m looking for a tool that can both:

- Import manually curated leads: I already have a database of leads that I've built up and want to easily dump into a new system.

- Automate parts of my lead discovery process: It’d be great if the tool could help streamline or even automate the process of finding new leads.

Has anyone successfully integrated such a tool into their workflow? What solutions have you found that meet these requirements? Any recommendations, insights, or experiences would be appreciated!
It’s almost as if, instead of “rooting out waste and corruption,” they are really just griefing workers, doing all sorts of big and small things to make their lives uncertain and miserable…

If they were really attacking waste, why haven’t they so much as made a peep about military spending?
Are Correctness Conditions Descriptive or Prescriptive?
My system uses the OpenAI api for summerizing and translating local language news into English from all EU countries as wel as a few non-EU ones. Works amazingly well.
Leaders of our government (apparently he is one, now) proposing policy changes because they're throwing little-baby tantrums on social media is definitely something worth worrying about.
I assume statistics could be found for that subpopulation.

And well.. I only mentioned Spain and Italy, not Sweden.

Regardless this seems besides the point? I just found it interesting that Hispanic Americans live longer than non-Hispanic whites despite being poorer and more overweight. They must be doing something right.
Meh. For my purposes, Julia strikes a quite nice balance of fussiness versus permissiveness.

Sure, there's things where I find it too fussy and I wish it'd go "yeah yeah I get what you mean" and there's also things where I find myself thinking "man, I really wish you had complained to me about that, it was clearly a bug / bad style!"

But all-in-all, I find it's a language that mostly gets out of my way and lets me code, which I find very useful and nice for scripting.

I think if one finds things like scoping rules annoying for scripting, that might just come down to just knowing and being more familiar with another language that has different rules.
Sure. But if you showed this video to someone 5 or 10 years ago, they'd say it's fiction.
Other nations don't find it difficult. You just throw money at the problem, and the problem goes away. Like most problems.

Deciding that we need to serve food at a minimum of cost with a minimum of staff who is minimally trained according to a minimalistic nutritional guidelines, and charge children for the privilege of choosing to eat, and you aren't getting a feast full of fresh produce.

Japan is a decent model in making meals more communal and spreading the labor requirements around to students so that staff can focus on back of house work, but it starts with a higher budget basis to start with, makes meals mandatory, and provides significant subsidies.
You beat me to it!

When I was a work/study intern at Hughes in the late '70s, I worked with a guy who had worked on the Glomar Explorer. He was told that he was working on a program for outer space, and told his supervisors that the hardware was ridiculously overspecced. Of course, the HW did in fact need to withstand very high pressures that far under water.

I was never accessed to the Glomar Explorer program.
Yup. Anyone still there tacitly endorses this nonsense, especially including the feckless “journalists”, too scared to lose their follower counts.
Tired of Medical Residency Scheduling Nightmares?
More info on the Transporter. They tested it using rockets fire another transport truck at it.

https://www.twz.com/37156/new-nuke-transporting-tractor-trai...

https://www.twz.com/14253/the-us-moves-nukes-in-booby-trappe...
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Using cards is the preferred procurement method for expenses under the $10k threshold. I suspect that covers a lot more than magazines and news.
whoa I totally did not get the memo on omemo this sounds great
> Manager level to replace the dumb question manager. His were all Mac terminal eye candy. He did not get the job

Huh? Please explain
I think in practice pest control does require killing the pest, and in that example was a necessary part of growing broccoli to harvesy
Honestly, the cynicism in the comments here is extremely disappointing.

EU citizens badly need AI systems that are open and privacy-respecting. Getting together this rather large coalition of experts with quite some money and (importantly) access to compute power is a nice first step.

Let them play around, train some models, fail-and-get-up-again, start over, write papers and hopefully get some useful output. Remember, for the involved PhD students it will also be a learning experience!

Yes, it's only the first step. But yeez, it's a press release indicating the start of a scientific collaboration! Let's hold back on the negativity for a couple of years until after they've had a chance.

I, for one, hope this will lead to success and wish the team the best.
Firefox (with all the foundation's junk turned off) with noscript and ublock origin is a compromise that works for me. Lynx feels too impractical in today's world but it's fun to use every now and then. Just trying hn on it now it doesnt render it cleanly
Our son was specifically chosen to be in his 4th Grade class because it spent part of the day hosting the spectrum kids within their "regular" class. He was chosen for that honor because of his kindness.

He has been taught to love others since he was born, and the Path of Love has borne fruit for all those around all four of us.

All the people who say it can't be done have never tried consciously evolving with Divine help.

{Complete lyrics} --Sinead O'Connor in Massive Attack's "What Your Soul Sings"
There's also an 8-bit architecture designed for emulating 32-bit architectures: AVR!

(https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bi... ... and, yes, that's the joke, it's still an amazing hack more than a decade later!)
Like... XMPP ?

IETF standard, massivelly used (video-games https://xmpp.org/uses/gaming/, IM https://xmpp.org/uses/instant-messaging/, social...), modern features, managed by a fundation with a good ecosystem and plenty of alive projects: https://xmpp.org/software/ .

Yes its not perfect, yes there's still things to improve, but the clients are there, working, on many platforms. The server-S (yes several of them!) as well, they can scale, they can adapt to many use cases.

Matrix did a few things better than XMPP (the Spaces/Servers things, that XMPP is still figuring out), but for most of the rest... well.

Oh and there's also many bridges on XMPP, maintained by different projects, and they don't need 100K$ to stay alive :)
> I'm shocked that Matrix Foundation is considering shutting down if they don't raise $100K - what's going on behind the scenes here?

That’s not what’s happening. The point is that running and maintaining bridges requires $, and without $ that won’t happen.

The problem on financials is underfunding.

edit: If you’re interested in how we’ve ended up there: https://fosdem.org/2025/events/attachments/fosdem-2025-6274-...
Is it corruption? Or just narcissism?
Wanna know too. Please help write more info
This whole situation makes me think of a child who says "If I were president for a day, I would ..."
The (A)GPL explicitly allows certain restrictions under section 7 (Additional Terms).

Back in the day FlowPlayer (a JavaScript component to play videos on the web) used additional terms per GPL section 7 to force users of their unpaid version to keep their mark intact in the UI or for modifications keep a "based on FlowPlayer" in.

I followed the discussion on this back then and the consensus seemed to be, that this is in line with what section 7 of the GPL allows. I think there was even a statement of the FSF, but I could not find it anymore.

Of course the iText case is different, but I believe section 7 (especially 7b) allows a way to add terms for attribution.
Sure, Trump could "find a way" regardless. But the SCOTUS ruling gives him more of a cover, and more importantly, removed a potential threat.
I have to assume it's a chrome-specific comment, because I have not noticed anything different with it (or my browsing experience) on firefox (nor heard anyone else complain about differences).
"Identity politics is over" says the guy supporting hyper-identity focused mysoginists.
I'm reminded of the story of the Air Force designing cockpits for the "average" pilot, only to find that

> out of 4,063 pilots, not a single airman fit within the average range on all 10 dimensions [0]

Surely, there are so many employees in general that probationary employees aren't needed. And surely, most government employees don't need to purchase things on a daily basis, so we can inhibit their credit card use. And most contracts about XYZ aren't crucial, so we can cancel them.

But, my goodness, there is so much nuance and breadth to the things a government does, let alone the government that is responsible for the largest military and that props up a big part of the world economy, that compounding these rash decisions will have far-reaching and serious blowback. I'm all about efficiency, but why be stupid about it?

The plane that we're all on is being dismantled midair, the engines have been turned off, and we're just gliding now. Gliding or falling, anyway

[0] https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/when-u-s-air-force-disc...
As it should be.

> For most of my professional life, this blog has been my forum, where anyone in the world could show up to raise any issue they wanted, as if we were tunic-wearing philosophers in the Athenian agora.

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6576
The simpler and much more likely answer, my friend, is that people didn’t vote from a combination of disillusionment, assuming Kamala would win, and likewise factors.

I saw many people close to me not bother voting because they didn’t enjoy Biden’s presidency, despite voting for him in 2020.

So, I find that FAR more likely as a reason than supposed election fraud.
I must be looking at the wrong articles because the two I started reading were all about logistics. (For both universes.)

My memory of Lord of the Rings is that the Shire mostly makes sense, but outside of the Shire, the world doesn't totally add up. The Roharim seem like romanticized Ango-Saxon eorls, but basically on grass plains and without obvious agriculture, the elves kind of just magically subsist, Orthanc is populated with orcs going through a secret industrial revolution without a food supply, large stretches of the world are basically empty... Once out of the Shire I don't really remember there being serfs or peasants or churches or much agriculture. It's possible my memory is betraying me, though.

That said my view on why there's a perception of Game of Thrones as more realistic than "most fantasy" is that in the 1200s through 1600s there really was a ton of plotting and power seeking, and a ton of violence, and social status really was a huge determinant of who could do what and how much would be overlooked. And lots of fantasy pre GoTs had various kinds of chosen one narratives, with side of light overcoming obvious evil, with middle ages trappings being little more than window dressing on permutations of Luke Skywalker or just sort of pre modern alternative societies. While GoTs goes hard on the violence, corruption, actual class differences, and power struggle plotting, and mostly does so without basing those things on magical or spiritual alignments. So IMO it's got flaws and is not a fantasy retelling of the real middle ages, but just clears a low bar of not really romanticizing feudalism and having power struggles that are more people-driven.

I do think Tolkien is much more influenced by and matches way more pre-1200s stuff. And particularly things like the Hobbit, his outside LoTR writings, fit super well into what I'd label kind of the "Beowulf to Egil" sort of era/time period.

I do agree that the relationship of religion and behavior in the middle ages is very hard to understand from a modern perspective - and I don't think it's some GoTs even tries at. (Though obviously we did eventually get the reformation because the divide between the Bible and the Church grew too large and too obvious, but it's also not very likely the case that those precipitating the reformation disbelieved.)
We never have any proof or source for that, and when we have one (like the Devin thing) it’s always a ridiculous project in JS with a hundred lines of code that I could write in one day.

Give me some refactoring in a C++ code base with 100k lines of code, and we’ll be able to talk.
Coincidentally I just got an XMPP server going and have a bunch of people happily chatting on it. Yeah it has its issues, but it's an open, well-defined protocol evolved over a long period of time. It won't disappear if its singular maintainer disappears (referring to both Signal and Matrix here).
If you are going to mine monero, try p2pool. It is better for the decentralization of the network, is capable of even smaller payouts and has no fees.
It's not cynism, people feel offended that there's another way to fund projects that via VC money.
Just curious, what’s so much better about a different hash digest? Is CRC32 not fast enough?
> We had sufficient AI to make death machines for decades

And we already reached the peek here. Small drones that are cheaply mass produced, fly on SIM cards alone and explode when they reached a target. That's all there is to it. You don't need a gun mounted on a spot or a humanoid robot carrying a gun. Exploding swarms are enough.
Read the linked blog post by Sabine again. That’s not what she says at all.

She’s saying something much more specific about the earliest moments (milliseconds!!) of the history of the universe, and before that time, of which we have practically zero observational data, and can’t ever visit even in principle.

She’s arguing against woo, against science fiction, against unsupported what-if musings that are fun to talk about — but are not science.
How the fuck does kneecapping the ability of government employees to purchase things on a credit card increase accountability? Either they’re monitoring purchases or they aren’t, it isn’t any more difficult to do so with a credit card.

Like, you do understand that all purchases on a CC are inherently digital and thus logged by default?
Government workers were already making do with a lot less than is generally accepted in the private sector, especially after the GSA conference scandal of somewhat over a decade ago.[1] During my time as a federal employee, many government offices had no soap at the kitchenettes, and some had no coffee. Folks tended to bring in their own drip-coffee pots for the office.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/04/03/14993...
> It's clear, in the Health community, that pregnancy can be avoided with contraceptives and instructing the population (adults and teenagers) on how to deal with this issue.

It's not clear to me that the Health community is winning that battle based on abortion rates.

For 2023 Guttmacher estimates 1,037,000 abortions were provided by clinicians in states without total bans [1].

Compare the 2022 CDC leading causes of death [2] which starts Heart disease: 702,880; Cancer: 608,371; ...

That is, if one thinks of abortion as an avoidable disease it's one hell of a disease. And the rates suggest the Health community hasn't solved the root causes by a long shot.

[1] https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-unite...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
thanks for the feedback! fixed.
Why are there several Linux distros ?
I suppose the next big milestone is Wozniak's Coffee Test: A robot is to enter a random home and figure out how to make coffee with whatever they have.
Elinks is alive, and with better support for many modern sites (no js, though).

https://github.com/rkd77/elinks
> And they need to respect the wishes, and more importantly, the laws and regulations within those political boundaries.

Those laws include the federal laws which are now being applied.

> Do you have so little respect for your fellow Americans that you will happily pollute their homes with noxious gases, noise and the stench of automobiles?

Those Manhattan residents are heating their residences with predominantly fuel oil and natural gas. If we're constraining the combustion of things they're going to be pretty cold.

I've been inside the New York City subway system; it smells strongly of brake dust and the electrical contact shoes generate a significant amount of ozone from arcing. Are we going to discontinue running those too?

Everything has costs.

And electric cars have no local exhaust emissions and significantly reduced brake dust from regenerative braking, are you proposing they be exempt from the congestion charge? That isn't currently the case.

> I'd also note that you aren't making the same argument about the toll roads in New Jersey.

No, you can see elsewhere in the thread that I am. They should get rid of all toll roads everywhere.

The argument there is different because the purpose of the toll there is strictly revenue generation rather than purposefully deterring usage, but tolls are still an inefficient and privacy invasive method of funding government programs and should not be used. Use fuel taxes (which promote more efficient vehicles and help to price carbon) or general taxes instead.

It's also not productive to make emotional appeals and personal attacks. It's politics, people get heated; make an argument, not a scene.
What does he think will happen after four years? Trump is old and can escape accountability by dying but most of these toadies are middle-aged.
Regulatory capture: "Hold my beer!"
How do you figure? Is this conjecture based on the propaganda out of DOGE? The media spend they're purporting are also over that certain amount.
The sad truth of hiring is that you can't afford to interview everyone, and have to keep in mind that prospective employees are showing you a different version of themselves than they'll actually bring to work.

Especially in a small company where your hiring manager may also be busy with development and sales, and not have an HR department to run the process for them, you're much better off interviewing candidates you are 50% sure of being a good fit vs 5%. Personally I prefer interviewing candidates coming from FAANG-ish companies and often make exceptions for candidates that demonstrate exceptional skill/interest, but when you can only interview 1-10% of your applicants you have to prioritize those who are likely to succeed at your company (keeping in mind implicit bias and such).

> filtering based on random signals like this is not useful.

In aggregate it most likely is useful for those companies.
It has to handle every possible use case for a grid. You’re thinking of your use case. The spec needs to handle everything else. I don’t see how that’s manageable.
Concurrent Compaction in Automerge Repo
The conservative side is not taking action, it is regressing things to pre-1968 norms.

Progressives weren't defending the status quo, they were trying to improve the lives of people who were at the bottom of social order for centuries.
Oh interesting, can you tell me what browser environment you're on?
I bet there’s a good number of us. How do we make this a reality? :)
Interesting Look at Algorithmic vs. Floor Trading
Suspension of floor trading (ie real humans) leads to higher spreads and larger pricing errors for treated stocks relative to control stocks.
I would never in my whole life sign anything in a foreign language that I don’t understand. It’s the perfect example of what AI is: let’s do anything that looks like a job well done and fuck it. That is not convincing. It’s suicidal.
Anybody would do a better jobs than these clowns.
Not employee cards
>So a few days ago Elon Musk blocked all links to Signal from the X platform and now this... Could be a coincidence but the timing sure is sus.

Not surprising considering Russian Oligarchs enabled Musk's takeover of Twitter:

https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oli...
Nah, not really. I sometimes wish that this was all about Rust but as of now the library is mostly being used through the Python wrapper.