skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [rectangle] Touch ID doesn't work quite as well as the round Touch ID

Still more deterministic than Face ID.

There was also a rumor of in-display Touch ID.
My completely unvarnished thoughts, in the hope that they are useful: I had one JIRA-ticket-worth of stuff to do on a conda environment, and was going to try to use pixi, but IIRC I got confused about how to use the environment.yml and went back to conda grudgingly. I still have pixi installed on my machine, and when I look through the list of subcommands, it does seem to probably have a better UX than conda.

When I go to https://prefix.dev, the "Get Started Quickly" section has what looks like a terminal window, but the text inside is inscrutable. What do they various lines mean? There's directories, maybe commands, check boxes... I don't get it. It doesn't look like a shell despite the Terminal wrapping box.

Below that I see that there's a pixi.toml, but I don't really want a new toml or yml file, there's enough repository lice to confuse new people on projects already.

Any time spent educating on packaging is time not spent on discovery, and is an impediment to onboarding.
300+ comments about a 'new' iPhone. Does it even fold? Lol
Apple unveils cheaper iPhone 16e powerful enough to run AI
DOGE is not comprised of individuals having accounting experience, certainly not at the level needed to investigate federal spending. They have absolutely no idea what they're doing and so it's not surprising they've resorted to simply making stuff up. I wouldn't hire these people to audit a mom-and-pop pizza shop, let alone the federal government.
>It's like if every Mastodon user ran their own server

No, it's like every Mastodon user used the same server, and all the coordination is done by one server that nobody can replicate.
interesting to contrast the recent memory releases

- https://mastra.ai/docs/agents/01-agent-memory

- https://blog.langchain.dev/langmem-sdk-launch/

- https://help.getzep.com/concepts#adding-memory

not sure where all this is leading yet but glad people are exploring.
Granted the lines are a natural monopoly. I don't see why the usual regulatory approaches shouldn't work. The government could even provide the infrastructure similar to highways.

> sometimes more expensive

Examples? Because that seems patently ridiculous on its face given the differences in energy requirements.

There are plenty of places with functional rail systems to compare to. This stuff isn't rocket science.
please add YC to the title
Stephen Miller worked the DHS and HHS the way you described in the first Trump administration. Presumably Biden had ample time to “seize these levers” no?
School to school I feel like this could be bad ... or good.
This is not true. Third party PDSes are fully supported by our app view, and our app view generates timelines for all the users on those PDSes.
EV Maker Nikola Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Not everything good becomes bad. That premise is wrong.

Bluesky accepted VC money. For a social platform that means its death certificate has already been signed.

What you're ignoring with that framing is that we can use social media that operates outside the VC startup pipeline and doesn't have enshittification baked in from the start.
There is one comment explicitly disagreeing saying 10 was better, the others are not disagreeing about the ranking if W7 at all so much as making the same point that subjectivity can play a part in considering what is the best, which is not something I ever disagreed with. One comment is just saying they didn't see what was great about W7 that it just seemed like vista, and other comments clarify things for that user.
This is what helped me as well, plus probiotics to turn my gut flora around.

I have a nagging feeling that "migraine" is actually not an actual single disease. It's rather a syndrome, i.e. a set of symptoms people have for various different reasons.

Through keto and the probiotics experimenting, I've learned much more about how the whole gut thing "works" (very much not an exact science!) for myself and that doctors in general are clueless about it themselves. Or ignorant. Or don't want to deal with anything they can't just diagnose with a 5 minute talk.

My migraines are food related. Without the probiotics I could somewhat control when I might get one by not slipping and eating something tasty but bad for me (like lasagna two days in a row - tomatoes bad). Add to this the fact that food in many cases takes two days to go through your system, eating a food and getting symptoms is delayed. Evacuating the food from your system would also cure the acute migraine headaches and other symptoms. With the right probiotics I can now eat all the lasagna I want and throw in blue cheese and red wine as well!
Stuff like this just comes up from time to time as soon as you run a four digit and up number of systems.
Farm fertilizer could suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – Science – AAAS
Not even something like "woe" for woah, or "hmf" for hmph? :P
It’s really impressive how well Bluesky is performing. It really feels like a throwback to older social media platforms with its simplicity and lack of dark-patterns. I’m concerned that all the great work on the platform, protocol, etc won’t shine in the long term as they eventually need to find a revenue source.
MagSafe chargers are Qi/Qi2 compatible. They'll charge without a magnetic ring.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX6X3LL/A/magsafe-charger...
>> NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, who ordered the firings, did not attend the meeting

Such courage. I've had to fire a number of people over the years unfortunately and I've always had the courage to do it myself.

>> terminated by the end of the day, without severance

As long as its done with humanity.... oh, no? Oh well.
The impression I get from simply reading these various discussions, is that some folks are not convinced that the pain from accepting Rust is worth the gain.

Possibly also that a significant portion of the suggested gain may be achievable via other means.

i.e. bounds checking and some simple (RAII-like) allocation/freeing simplifications may be possible without rust, and that those are (from the various papers arguing for Rust / memory safety elsewhere) the larger proportion of the safety bugs which Rust catches.

Possibly just making clang the required compiler, and adopting these extension may give an easier bang-for-buck: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafety.html

Over and above that, there seem to be various complaints about the readability and aesthetics of Rust code, and a desire not to be subjected to such.
Show HN: Cline – Open-Source VS Code AI Coding Agent with a New MCP Marketplace
Hey HN! My name is Nick, and I lead Product Marketing at Cline. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been hard at work on a major update for Cline (https://github.com/cline/cline) and would love your feedback.

For those who haven’t heard of us, Cline is an open-source AI coding agent extension for VS Code (we just hit 30k stars on GitHub). It’s model agnostic and works on a bring-your-own-key API model, enabling Cline to read, write, and edit your files so you can build and maintain complex software faster than ever before.

A couple of months back, we introduced MCP servers (https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction) to Cline, allowing users to integrate new tools powered by Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol. While we’ve seen some really cool uses—from perplexity research to Notion integration—we noticed that many users find the concept of “MCP” a bit abstract.

That’s why we just launched the MCP Marketplace—a one-click install suite where you can easily add a variety of new tools to Cline. We believe this will lower the barrier to entry and help you better understand and leverage MCP servers. (Tip: The perplexity MCP is my favorite!)

I’d love to hear from both long-time Cline users and newcomers. Your feedback will help shape our content and support efforts for adopting MCP servers in Cline.

Here are a few questions that would really help us improve Cline:

1. What is your current understanding of MCP servers?
- How do you think they work and what benefits do you expect?

2. Have you tried using MCP servers in Cline?
- If yes, what was your experience like? If not, what’s holding you back?

3. Where do you see gaps in understanding or setup with MCP servers?
- Are there particular aspects (documentation, installation, use cases) that feel unclear or challenging?

4. What kind of content or support would help you adopt MCP servers more confidently?
- For example, would detailed tutorials, videos, or troubleshooting guides be useful?

Looking forward to your thoughts and questions—thanks for taking the time to help us build a better tool! Thank you!

-Nick & the Cline team
So the NSF has to manage $9B in grants but with fewer people to do so. That $9B will probably be less well spent now. So we're risking mis-spending $9B in order to save less than $20MM in salaries. That would be a really stupid move if the motive really was to improve efficiency.

Except obviously the motive is to not efficiency. It's about ensuring loyalty and even deliberately breaking the government to justify later actions.
Love this! But I'd make an exception for expensive school books so they can be given away (or at least done in pencil)
Yes, it's five minutes to set up now. But it's an extra liability to have to maintain the network in the future, when things inevitably change.
late to the party but theres a pretty cool group of ppl working on building a library of HD, spatial, ringside combat sports. these ppl seem like real fans. theyll chat with anyone about their process and seem excited to share a project that excites them.

called Vantage:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vantage-official/id6698850979

at a closer look i dont think they even have a website. ive only seen them on reddit and now that i search i think they pretty much only exist there. despite that, whoever runs the account is nice, knowledgeable and responsive

it makes me, a college basketball fan, want to talk to some of the local smaller schools about a similar project
This even happens at a local level. I witnessed a Republican county councilor who was beginning to work with a local community on a serious issue they were having with their ferry. She got replaced with someone who wants to obstruct and cut in all cases, which serves as an object lesson for anyone else on the council with an at-risk seat.

For some reason the people who keep saying government doesn't work are working very hard to make government not work.
> Very high performance ...

From the user's perspective, of course.
Filtering spam with GPT4o-mini for $0.00008 per email
Highlighting some of the cool work RSpamD has done to integrate OpenAI's API into spam filtering. Makes a lot of the big guys look less relevant esp. at the price points being charged for spam filtering nowadays, typically paid handsomely by large enterprises with on-prem mail.
Sounds exciting, even though I'm skeptical how far off into the future that supposed 1 million qubit chip is.
> having our judicial branch become openly partisan

A lot of the decisions that have been flagged as "openly partisan" are just the Supreme Court saying exactly what you're saying: the executive branch and judicial branch don't have the authority to write laws and both branches should really stop writing laws and force Congress to do that.

We will see this year and in coming years whether this Supreme Court is partisan or just activist in tearing down executive authority. If they uphold this administration's opinions about executive power, then yes, they're blatantly partisan and have no integrity. If they stand in the way, then maybe they just finally had the numbers to rein in the executive branch like conservatives have been arguing for for generations.

I don't think we have enough information at this point to judge which is more likely (though I know most here will disagree with me on that point).
In a debate tactic I've seen a million times you committed the "begging the question" fallacy, so I drew attention to it. If you don't like it then--what were the words you used?--oh right, "I honestly don't know what to tell you."

Toodle-loo!
I don't think they are a bit loaded at all. What have the last several congresses done that has actually helped the populace?
I rather spend life in a poor democracy than a rich technocracy which supports dictators around the globe.
link to this agent?
So backwards…
This really is splitting hairs anyway. There’s a good argument that the median income of the US is very rich.

I take rich/wealthy to mean a much higher social class than $1 million in annual income. That type of income would be like a husband and wife who are doctors working as employees with a boss bossing them around and working long hours.

If you’re a W2 employee like that I don’t think you are rich/wealthy.
I love the aesthetic, maybe it's nostalgia from the days of playing shareware games.
Health insurance can't ask about this since ACA (I think).

Life insurance can and often requires an actual physical exam. And can exclude specific activities such as flying on small private aircraft from coverage.
I disagree on all of the above apart from

> So let's just not engage with each other anymore?
From what I gather about the game market, you need to get lucky to make it big being on Steam, too.
You never had a job like this I guess. They hire someone with a particular set of skills because it makes some metric somewhere look right, and then they use you for something that uses none of those skills, at all. The weird part is that they even put the real job in the listing.
> The law would "prohibit officers from knowingly and intentionally making false statements about any material fact, including by use of inauthentic replica documents, prior to or during a custodial interrogation of a child to secure the cooperation, confession or conviction of such child."

This is specifically about lying to children to manipulate them into giving testimony/confession.
My (non-technical) Mom actually got my whole extended family on Signal with a group link. Since there's no real account creation it was painless. It's how we do all video calls/photo sharing/chat now.
You should read his articles. It will fairly quickly disabuse you of some preconceptions. In particular, the shire is a quite realistic portrayal of peasants and lords and such once you realize Bilbo is mostly nobility.
What do they produce?
> By the way: The international way to express a decimal separator is a (thin non-breaking) space. There's no misunderstanding possible.

According to whom? The CGPM recommends thin spaces as thousands separators, and either points or commas as decimal separators. NIST, ISO, etc. generally copy this, sometimes stipulating the decimal separator as one or the other.
"No employee of the executive branch acting in their official capacity may advance an interpretation of the law as the position of the United States that contravenes the President or the Attorney General’s opinion on a matter of law"
>99% of jobs advertised online are fake

Doomer much?
Real-time logs analytics architectures that scale
Ask HN: How do you quantify success of a boycott?
A few questions about boycotts.

1: What is success?
2: Why do they often fail
3: Do we really want the end result or even know what that should be?

Some food for thought.

Maybe instead of outright failure of a given company we want it to act with moral integrity.

Given that boycotts typically fail as a result of convenience how do we start to take back a democracy in a capitalistic society?
It would seem to me that voting with your $ is the only way, but getting the mob to agree with the moral choice is the challenge.

I'm thinking more then ever given the state of things we really should show that the public can influence choices of the elite.

What am I missing?
That's not what these do though.
I disagree. Go have another read of the comments. I counted at least 3 before I stopped reading.
I want bipartisanship. Consensus and a willingness to concede are the only way to govern fairly. Anything else is just naked fiat, which is another word for authoritarianism.
Based on https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc... but the <> don't seem to do anything for the url

news.ycombinator.com

ycombinator.com

thisisatest.org

thisisatest.io

thisisatest.ai

https://www.test.com

http://www.test.com

https://www.test

https://fake

https://asdfasdf.asdf.as.fd.2asdf$$$asdfaf11<>ASDFhttps

<thisisatest.org>
As others have noted, the appview is open source. The dataplane has two implementations, one in postgres and another in scylla. The scylla dataplane is closed, the postgres one is open.

The interesting next stage for the postgres implementation is to create a sync engine for partial syncs of the network, so that an appview can run affordably. We ran some benches on the current state of the postgres implementation and found we could index 300k users on a $100/mo vps. I think with a couple of weeks of optimization that could reach 1mm users.
Ah yes, good ol' "moron rube" fellas, whose entire understanding of their role models is based on Hollywood depictions.

I was primed to agree with the article's premises, until...

> Leonidas’ 300 men made a brave stand in the mountains, and a superior Persian force wiped them out. You can see it like the Nazis did and the guys in the ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ T-shirts do, as a glorious battle in which an honorable band of brothers sacrificed their lives for their principles. Or you can see it as a tragedy in which the leaders of an oligarchical, slave-dependent society threw away their finest soldiers’ lives, and for what? To briefly delay the Persian Army while failing to achieve their goal of protecting Athens and the rest of northern Greece from the Persian attack?

...is this really the moral of the story here? That the Spartans should've just surrendered? That the proper response to a superior force (of another oligarchical, slave-dependent society) wanting to subjugate you into said oligarchical, slave-dependent society is to... simply roll over and let it happen?

That's the real irony here about the Moron Rubes. They envision themselves as Spartans defending Greece from the Persian onslaught, but they have much more in common with Ephialtes.
You call them. Or use SMS. Or use e-mail.
idk man

https://js.langchain.com/docs/introduction/

https://www.vellum.ai/products/workflows-sdk

https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/agentic

which is not to say any of them got it right or wrong, but it is by no means "missing". the big question w all of them is do they deliver enough value to last. kudos to those who at least try, of course
> There is a difference between a straw man and satire presented in a clear tone that cannot be mistaken as a reconstruction of the other person’s statements.

You are correct, my apologies. However, it's unclear to me how satire is any more useful a contribution to this discussion.
Always wanted a tool like this. Will try it out next time I need to inspect traffic of a docker container.
It seems this way to me as well. ATProto fundamentally changes how monetization works in social media by removing lockin. It's going to be interesting to see what emerges from this design decision.

Another interesting way to view ATProto is that it could be a collection of headless features and network browsers that leverage those feature providers.
Well half of them outright won't for obvious reasons. And so what if a state says no? That doesn't change anything. He is now saying his word is above the legislative and judicial branch and all enforcement and regulatory powers of the federal government answer exclusively to his will.

This is America's Gleichschaltung. The president is now the absolute authority of the entire administrative state.
I watched the video presentation going over the new features, and the poor developer looks like he really needs a rest.
167g. Lighter than the 16, but still far too heavy.
Why do you suppose hotel showers all have grip bars?
Apple is rumored to be working on foldable phone and tablet, https://www.macrumors.com/guide/foldable-ipad/
Ubicloud does not have an OpenStack dependency.
Beyond the marketing value of these types of announcements, how much time until consumer grade quantum cloud computing? Years, decades?
I have never used LinkedIn for finding freelance work. Canceled my account several years ago. I don't know any other freelancers using LinkedIn either. I don't doubt that some people use it, or try to.

Word of mouth and referrals work best. Even cold-calling has worked fairly good for me -- not to businesses but to IT consultancies and web design/development agencies that already have customers. I have found gigs through some competent recruiters I trust.

For the last decade I have worked through an agency that does the marketing and sales, along with the legal and accounting stuff. They represent me so I can focus on billable time.

A few years ago I got a freelance gig through my agency, and the customer had heard about me and the agency from another customer I had done work for. We had a phone call to introduce each other, during which the customer asked me for my "socials." When I told him I don't use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc. (and if I did wouldn't use them in a professional context), he said "How do you get customers?" I had to laugh, I asked him how he had heard about me.
Xitter has a login wall
Napoleon was a tyrant too.
That is very much not true.

He wrote a hysterical philippic [1] just before the election calling Trump a fascist, which was written with about the same level of historical rigour as the Paul Krugman's rants exhibit for economics.

You may argue that "Trump is a fascist" and you are entitled to that view, but that is not a centrist view, and is at odds with the majority of the US population, which voted for Trump.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2024/10/25/new-acquisitions-1933-and-the-...
> I‘ve found that the „high expectations“ were acutely stressful because they were concealed: there was no way to match them.

That's a very good point.

I remember the first time I was in a cycle of trying to meet impossible expectations. We kept putting in a lot of effort and doing some very impressive things, but every time we got close to delivering something the goalposts would move.

After far longer than I'd like to admit, I realized that those lofty expectations weren't designed to be met. They were designed to keep us perpetually insecure. Always feeling like we needed to try a little harder. And it was working on us, at least for a couple years.

The illusion was briefly shattered when a manager gave us a goal that numerically meant that one of our vendors would have to serve us at a loss. He wanted us to negotiate a contract where they paid us to be their customer, when you added up all the factors. When we showed him, he did a pretend-angry routine and lectured us on how we should be thinking bigger all the time. We "failed" to meet that impossible expectation, to the surprise of absolutely nobody on the team. After that, it was like the team had been freed from the shackles of impossible expectations. We did our best and shrugged off the disappointed manager routine when it didn't meet the arbitrary expectations. It was interesting to watch as the manager realized his power over us had been broken, which quickly gave way to a slow-motion process of sidelining us for younger replacements who were more receptive to the disappointed manager routine.

I miss many of those coworkers, but I do not miss that job.
That's just saying "The hard drive is 128GB, but your user directory only gets what the system doesn't need". Not at all surprising?