skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The first time you've seen these objects" is a weird thing to say. One presumes that this is already in their training set, and that these models aren't storing a huge amount of data in their context, so what does that even mean?
Oaxaca Indigenous leader's killing leaves land defenders' safety in doubt
Somehow Musk has surpassed Trump as a target. Cynically: I think it's because polls show Trump's approval rating at record highs, but Musk's isn't.

As a result, opponents are hyper-focused on Musk's involvement instead of Trump's.
Ask HN: What's your app idea that you don't have the time or motivation to build
I suddenly have some time on my hands and would like to use some of that time to write some code and learn some of this new fangled tech that all the cool kids are talking about.

Would love some inspiration and hear about your idea that has always been in the back of your mind that you could neither find the time or motivation to get going. Whether it's a dev tool or a todo list for your family, I'd love to build something that helps improve a Hackers life.
cure democracy? they just broke it. did you vote for musk? did anyone? are you thinking right? A fascist dictator just ruined america for good and this can't be fixed. Just the reputation of america alone is ruined for generations to come, and I bet you are not even thinking of what "reputation" means, it isn't "like me please" type of a reputation but "let's avoid wars and trade with each other" reputation. I honestly think people like you deserve the america these evil people are creating, too bad the rest of us are stuck with you. You just lost our country and you have no idea what a precious and wonderful thing we've lost. You put your trust in a greedy evil billionaire, foolishness for the history books.
1) Hetzner has more than one /16. Probably not in the same rack though. Might be adjacent rows. Organizations which have their own IP ranges can use them at Hetzner, too.

2) Exit circuits are not the only type of circuit.
TVs : displays already are software defined matter. But ya.
The people who think meat comes from a magic meat factory are blind.
We are orders of magnitude more cruel to factory farmed animals than farming at any other point in history.
I understand what the author means, though I struggle to express it as well. The best I can come up with is this: What defines I? Is it separated from "I" and if so how? Or does I merely appears that way because our perspective is informed by our limited being?
> When we invented cooking it gave us a massive advantage because of the nutritional efficiency,

I was reasonably confident cooking reduced nutrition but reduced food-based disease way more.
I'm sure you can take them to the small claims court, of course if you do that Amazon ban you from ever using any of their services. Given how many people rely on Amazon prime these days that's not a pleasant prospect.
Would Euronics work for you?

https://www.euronics.it/
They were specifically looking at worst-case performance. P99 means 99th percentile, so they saw 96% improvement on the longest 1% of jobs.
Why are there multiple examples of agency heads resigning, in series, until someone agrees to implement Musk’s advise? They report being pressured and bullied into doing so. This isn’t how advising typically works.
If this is true, then shouldn't we expect an economic "bump" from NN/LLMs/AI as they are today?

I have not noticed companies or colleagues 10x'ing (hell, or even 1.5x'ing) their productivity from these tools. What am I missing?
I really wish I could still believe that last part.
After my knee surgery (meniscus cartilage tear/repair) and after my appendectomy, I was pretty keen to get up and moving so that I could go outside and smoke. Both times the nurse commented that while smoking on its own isn't great for healing, the fact that it forces you to get up and moving quickly and frequently is generally helpful. In both cases the doctor was quite surprised at how quickly I'd healed up when I went for the follow-up/stitch removal.
But you will get rotten eggs easily.

In thirty years in Europe, I’ve had a single incidence of salmonella infection when I handled egg shells badly while doing a Carbonara (which requires raw eggs to be spread right over the plate).
This really, really isn’t a problem if you follow minimal hygiene when cooking (don’t touch food after touching shells without washing your hands in between.
Well I will fight this trend to the death. Thankfully I don't like to surround myself with philistines
This oft repeated talking point lacks perspective on what companies want and how interviews work. It also doesn’t address the AI problem.

Interviews are screening for multiple things, not just the ability to do one specific technical job. More often than not, technical coding ability is not even at the top of the priority list. Interviews are looking for well-rounded candidates who can do more than 1 job. Companies want to know if you can change jobs easily, they want to know if you’re average, better than the average programmer, or exceptional. They want to know if you’ll make a good manager after a few years, how good you are with people, how well you prioritize and communicate.

I had a professor in college that graded tests with the median skewed low, centered on a D. He complained that the usual practice of putting it on C or B made it so he could clearly see the difference between F-, F, and D- students, while the A students were all clumped together. He wanted to identify the hard workers and superstars in the class, see who was A vs A+ vs A++. It freaked everyone out when grades came out much lower than expected, but he renormalized at the end and people with test scores in the Cs and Ds got As and Bs in the class.

Be careful what you wish for. It’s competitive right now and interviews that limit screening to ability to do basic job-level coding and don’t screen for knowledge and soft skills and exceptionalism will make it harder for people who are good to demonstrate they’re better than people who are mediocre or use AI. Is that what you want?
Do you have network access? I would pick ssh.
I doubt there will be a direct military conflict between US and EU. I don't see how either side gains from it. I think what the current US government really wants is to extract enough $$ from the European countries by forcing them to increase military expenditures and deployments.

But in case it does happen, I think Apple is the least of your trouble. I would just stock everything into a hard-disk and store it somewhere underground.

Linux foundation is based in US but I'm sure Europe has enough talented developers to maintain their own branches.
Yes that is the crux of the issue. However many times when I reported bad actors to Mullvad the attacks were multi day attacks that were ongoing. It would have been trivial for Mullvad to add a filter to check for future packets from that VPN ip to my server IP and flag the associated account. However I believe even this approach is far to manual and invasive. I think there would be a better way using AI to analyze abuse patterns, and automatically flag bad users which match these patterns.

The issue is that VPN providers have zero motivation to do this, because a non-zero percentage of their user base is literally paying them BECAUSE they can use the service to attack other servers with a level of anonymity. If the VPN providers were to combat this issue it would negatively impact their revenue.
This is a state with no exception for rape or incest, and castle doctrine and stand your ground rights to self defense.

Forcing a raped woman to carry to term and parent for life exceeds the sentencing guidelines. When the state abuses the citizen beyond the sentencing guidelines, the citizen has the right to self defense using at least equal force.

That is, don't persons denied abortions by the state have the right to trap their abusers into parenting a reminder of their trauma for life, in self defense?

"Just put your kid up for adoption, to please God."

In 2024, there were 391,098 kids in foster care hoping to be adopted or age out of the system. There are demographic breakdown by race(s) and preference(s).

**

It would not please a benevolent God to trap rape victims with a reminder of their trauma for life!

It would not please a benevolent God to force children into a life of resentment and neglect!

Is there a benevolent God? Not in law, no.

Should the court admit that:

God designed that humans would be the genetically disadvantaged incestuous products of Adam and his daughter Eve and their children?

Genesis (Bible Chapter 1): Adam and Eve begat Cain and Abel, and then they violently fought and Cain slew Abel, but the third child was fine (*).

Why must the church track genetic relations, in God's design? Isn't it criminally abusive to teach kids in public school that we're all the products of incest, which survived after God's drowning genocidal wrath toward God's own creations?

Is it morally acceptable for God to drown everyone on Earth to fix God's design and keep testing free will?

If God was qualified to be teaching about medical PPD, God should have instructed humans to wash their hands before delivering babies* instead of instructing them to spread Kaneh Bosm (Holy Anointing Oil) all over the tabernacle or manger.)

In 1865-1867 AD/CE,
Joseph Lister discovered that sanitizing surgical instruments with carbolic acid - an antiseptic to prevent sepsis - reduced the number of post-surgical infections, amputations, and deaths.

What has law, for childbirth and God?
It still has to be torn down though, don’t you see that? Even if a following government wanted to keep things of benefit, it was implemented in an untrustworthy way without oversight. It has to be rebuilt either way now because they didn't follow best practices for the implementation. They objectively fucked up.
If you get a few hens, don't do it for financial reasons. There are a lot of reasons to do it, but money isn't one. The financial breakeven will take many years to decades.
I think it's like the rest of the school experience—your parents are the major influencers here. Our kids like what we like because we've fed them what we eat, from sardines to Sichuan to sushi. They take leftovers to school — cheaper and they don't like most of the cafeteria food anyway.
The first step is to acknowledge that there is something wrong here. This categorization of "pets" and "farm animals" as different sets is completely virtual. In real life, both are just animals.
thank you so much. now i just need to track down which magnesium of the 4 dozen you're supposed to supplement to help vitamin D do its job. My research on stuff like this is slow going because i always get nerd-sniped by the mechanics of the minerals and metals in our bodies.
Filesystem support for block sizes larger than the page size
Truly an incident where I couldn't tell how much of that was legitimate insanity, and how much of it was carefully curated fake-controversy-as-distraction. A common question I ask myself about conservatives every single day. Multiple times a day, lately.

It's objectively true no sane person would have cared about that issue.
>So I also consider it a type of cognitive attack vector

What does this mean?
Doge Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency
Yes, the real check on Trump isn't congress or the courts any more, it is the bond markets. It they get scared, he is in big trouble.
So weird how people freak out over winter storms in NYC. In the decade I've been here I don't think I've seen a single snowstorm had enough of an impact to close grocery stores.
I have one. It was the first computer that was completely mine.

I was disappointed in what the embedded basic could give me...it was slow, it had sprite-only graphics exposed (couldn't draw a vector from X,Y to X,Y) and my parents only bought touch typing tutor.

and in my boredom, I'd slot and pull the cartridge which made it do -interesting- things...dumping memory space to what would eventually be called a frame buffer...and when it did, it would show cycling bitmaps at a much higher speed than you'd ever be able to do with Basic.

So you could see the potential, but a 12 year old with nothing but a tape drive and one cartridge couldn't and didn't know how to touch it.

And 4 months after spending $350 for it, Sears was closing them out for $50. Which was why, a few years later, when I wanted an Amiga, Dad bought an XT clone. It's support and software cpabilities was much improved over the TI.
The maximum battery capacity is showing 83%, which seems decent. The phone is over 3 years old now. And I love the Mini form factor. I want something that fits in my pocket...
So you … agree? But are so set on disagreeing you frame it that way? Do you even listen to yourself?
And many, many reasons to think that in fact they do. See my favorites for flagged stories about the DOGE staff.

Even their stated reason - to fund trillions in tax cuts for the .1% [0] - is heinous. Inequality is already breaking the economy. 4.5 trillion dollars ($13k for each and every American) being transferred to the yacht class will inflict generational harm.

0 - https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-01-10/trump-tax...
I agree. I doubt eggs are a significant outlay for many people. I think it's probably because it's a stereotypical staple, like bread, milk and cheese. It's a kind of representative of food prices in general.

But yeah it doesn't make any sense to care much about it in isolation, unless you run a mousse business or something.
Thank god chime is gone
> I don’t know much about many of those countries, and I have no reason to spend hours googling them.

A good reason might be to back up the serious accusation a few comments above.

> A recent law has enabled the Swedish police to open mail to private individuals if they suspect there might be drugs in them. This is just one change of many that has reduced the liberties of the citizens.

While this isn't ideal in a vacuum, I don't see the alternative. If physical mail is given inviolable privacy, you're pretty much handing bad actors the perfect delivery system on a silver platter. I'm sure there's other examples of decisions that increased Swedish authorities' surveillance capabilities, but to call a country a surveillance state requires a little more than "They can check your mail if they suspect you're using it for drug delivery".
I have so many horror stories from there.

When they did decide to lock down the database, the DB admin only locked in down in the sql server client most people used. If you used some other client, you still had access. _sigh_
In those gl/dx games (built for non-specific hardware) all the textures and shaders are compiled either during the game's build OR before you get into the scene. Many console systems, particularly Nintendo, do that precompilation specifically for the hardware GPU that is inside the console. That is not known to the emulator in advance (unless someone publishes a shader compilation alongside the rom...) so when the shader is referenced in the scene, it needs to be compiled in runtime to work on the emulated graphics system (translated from nintendo-hardware shader code to direct-x, vulkan or openGL then further into the vendor-specific shader)

Most modern emulators implement a shader cache which stores those shaders as they are encountered so that this "compilation stutter" only happens once per shader - but modern titles can have hundreds or thousands of shaders and that means on a playthrough you're pretty much encountering it consistently. Breath of the Wild was one that stands out as a game where you basically had to run it with precompiled shader caches as it was borderline unplayable without it.

Ubershaders act like fallback shaders - using an off the shelf precompiled "particle" shader vs the actual one, while the actual one is compiled for use next time - this prevents the stutter at a cost of visual fidelity. If you see an explosion in a game, it will be a generic explosion shader vs the actual one used in the game, until it is available in the shader cache.
Its a rather old sample, but from the same author and project (somewhat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl7WvabHfk4

the OG "less compressed" video was on a twitter post that i couldn't find right now.
Yeah but I don't think those are even near being free-range.

The US has some awful widespread practices for their livestock.
Preswald
Where is the evidence that we're in hyperinflation?
That's so keenly true I wonder how we've ended up with a society where it's not only non-obvious, but even dubious, to such a significant percentage of people.

There's not really any human analogue to industrial meat factories, except maybe like Nazi concentration camps, or ... I mean really only that, right? Maybe something Genghis Khan did might occupy that same space.

Like Eazy-E famously said, it's not how you die, it's how the moments from your birth, all the way through to the end of your life in this world, add up. Do you get a positive number?

Chicken/horse born on a ranch? Yeah.

Chicken/horse/cow born in a concrete meat factory? I mean, I don't think so...
Not just new hires.
They are firing people on "probationary" status,
and people in civil service go through a brief probationary period after being promoted or moved to a new position.[1]
This means some people being fired are long-time senior civil servants with expertise and knowledge.
The reason they are firing probationary people is because they are easier to let go,
by civil service rules.

I suspect the people in charge of the firings are under the same mistaken impression as you are,
that all the probationary people are new hires who aren't yet essential.
Witness the "oops, we fired the wrong people" rush to rehire.[2][3]

1 https://www.npr.org/2025/02/15/nx-s1-5298182/trumps-probatio...

2 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o

3 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/usda-accidentally-fire...
Legally, probably. But in the US, "legally" is enforced by the executive, and that's who's telling them to comply.
Yeah... I understand the intent here, but what people are going to hear is "oh car exhaust isn't that bad then".
How would you get training data for the AI without logging packets?
We used them to manage the garden. It much easier to put down nets/steel wire around problem areas, then it is to clear out weed and insects, and the chicken bring their own fertilizers to the mix. They are also great at managing grass lawns.

There were several lessons that we learned. Chicken will find dry earth to use as a bath. If one do not want that then you need to remove access and solve the underlying need. They will also dig up seeds and eat seedlings, so any fresh worked soil need to be covered/restricted. They also eat some fruits and herbs, but not others.

In term of total work they did save a lot of time and the garden was in much better shape than before.
> as long as you have a structured, rules based system there is no need for bureaucrats.

Bureaucrats consider, implement, and modify the structured, rules based systems our society comes up with.
I'm sorry but this is a stupid idea. It will be so expensive to ride this. Only rich people will be able to afford it. It will be underused.

They should spend the money on INTRA city travel. Expand the subway systems in Toronto and Montreal.
I think it's a serious stretch to say Google is on "our side". They support some efforts that benefit us, and they also support some efforts that harm us.
GarlicGPT is back – we hallucinate so you don't have to
they'd probably be better off setting a pile of money on fire instead
>> The federal bureaucracy is not a separate branch of government that gets to have its own checks and balances on the president. They are people that he hires to carry out his duties in his stead.

> The civil servants are beholden to the law as passed by the representatives of the people, the chief executive can only give orders as allowed by the law.

And I restated the first point.

This is the context in which I am responding — and that point is true: they are not a fourth entity that is created by law, but an extension of the president carrying out his duty to enact laws.

To the extent the president gives a lawful order, failure to comply by the bureaucracy isn’t lawful — it’s a coup against the elected government of the US.

> the chief executive can only give orders as allowed by the law

The mistake is here: the law does not permit the president to carry out executive functions, but restrains what he can do from the presumption of anything. He does not need permission in law; the absence of restraint is sufficient.

I understand many people (such as yourself) don’t respect that because you favor an autocratic politically aligned bureaucracy — and hence are outraged that the public will is imposing itself on the rogue bureaucrats.

That fascism is disgusting.
> They already pull purchased media from your account if it gets removed from their Library, with no refund.

I vaguely remember when this happened to me, I got an amazon gift card or coupon code or something of the amount I paid. I'm not saying they will do the same in this instance, but maybe?

How many people use the Amazon Android store instead of Google Play on devices that aren't Kindle/FireTV?
There's nothing wrong with being partisan if you're partisan against fascists who want to destroy democracy and the rule of law.
+1 to all this. It still surprises me how many people, even after being in the industry for years, think the goal of any interview is to “write the best code” or “get the right answer”.

What I want to know from an interview is if you can be presented an abstract problem and collaboratively work with others on it. After that, getting the “right” answer to my contrived interview question is barely even icing on the cake.

If you complain about having to have a discussion about how to solve the problem, I no longer care about actually solving the problem, because you’ve already failed the test.
A friend of mine who is a doctor, osteopath a once played pro basketball in Austria said: if pro sports injuries would be treated like the general population is treated there would be no pro sports.
I don't like writing code for the sake of it, and have gotten a lot better, over 25 years of writing code, at evaluating whether I need to write code or whether I'd be better off using something that already exists and putting up with its limitations, or even just doing nothing (see that XKCD comic with the time-savings payoff chart).

The result is that I don't think I've written anything longer than about a ten-line shell or python or JS script for my personal use in... a decade or more.

Frankly I probably think you shouldn't be paying anyone to do the thing you're wanting to pay me to do, because computers are likely just an expensive distraction that management's pursuing because the promise of legibility, even if in-fact pointless in this case, is incredibly enticing to them, but also I like money and will build the thing you shouldn't be building for you if you pay me. I'll even do it well, if you let me. But I don't make the same mistake (much) in my own life, any more.

Would I write a bunch of code on my own if I thought it'd be worth it? Yes, but that'd almost certainly mean I had a product idea. If I were any good at thinking of product ideas, I'd long since have had my own business. I'm terrible at it. That's literally the only reason I'm applying for a job. If I had a pile of decent code to show you, it'd be because I didn't need your job.
I've been buying and restoring older stuff (2013 Mac Pro most recently, recapped a Mac SE before that) and I think you just gave my 99 4/a new life. Thanks for that!