skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your Lisbon Treaty argument ignores that France later approved it through constitutional processes. Should one referendum permanently bind a nation against any adaptation? That's not democracy - that's fossilization.

On Chat Control - you're using classic slippery slope fallacy. Debating specific measures against CSAM isn't equivalent to "ending all privacy" or "bringing back slavery." This kind of hyperbole reveals bad faith argumentation.

About right-wing coalitions: When parties openly advocate undermining democratic institutions, refusing to empower them IS protecting democracy. Not all electoral success deserves governing power - see 1933 German Elections for why.

Your "ignoring votes" argument confuses:

- Right to be voted for;

- Right to automatic coalition inclusion;

- Right to implement anti-democratic agenda;

No one's votes are "ignored" - but winning some votes doesn't grant right to dismantle democratic safeguards.

You're basically arguing that protecting democracy from its enemies is somehow undemocratic. That's both logically and historically wrong.
curl ipinfo.io/`dig +short news.ycombinator.com`
{
"ip": "209.216.230.207",
"hostname": "news.ycombinator.com",
"city": "San Diego",
"region": "California",
"country": "US",
"loc": "32.7157,-117.1647",
"org": "AS21581 M5 Computer Security",
"postal": "92101",
"timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
"readme": "https://ipinfo.io/missingauth"
}

Impossible to survive on the internet...
While I agree this is good enough for 99% of purposes, it is a good thing to keep in the back of your head if you're doing e.g. archival or restoration work. I want to believe that in a hundred years, a PC museum employee finds this post and knows what they need to do to get their ancient 2025 era PC back up and running.
so, historically speaking, who should i short? ;)
That's a great habit! Not only does it help solidify what you've learned, but it also makes life easier for the next person facing the same issue
And shopify doesn't close her account for this? I don''t oppose the lady doing it and thing most drug laws are self-serving corruption machines of the worst kind, but i'm surprised that a regulation-fearful, self-serving corporate entity like shopify would just let her site stay up.

Honestly curious.
I (legally) hacked a telnet server
> It's just that a lot of what's happening is quite technical for normal people

What's the point of news media if not to explain these issues to the general public in a way they can understand? If we lived in a free and open society that values personal privacy and opposes government overreach, this would be prime-time news, plastered across the front pages of every newspaper.

I don't see a practical difference between what's happening here and what's happening in China, except that the Western world is considerably more nuanced in how it controls the (global) narrative. We've been living in an Orwellian nightmare for a long time.
In France we read our numbers in pairs: 01 23 45 67 89. The initial zero is complicated, it is a butchered-up solution when we were transitioning the numbers and in an international context one never knows whether to say +33 0 1 23 45... or +33 1 23 45... (the latter one is correct, though both will likely work). When you remove the zero in the international version, lots of systems will format the number by triplets, which seems to be more common in Europe (+33 123 456 789)
Why is that unreasonable?

Within my lifetime that wasn't even physically possible.
You should read up before making grandiose statements like that. Totally not true. https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/01/30/c...
You sound like someone who doesn't have young children who cross a road where the road users should be respecting the speed limit set deliberately low because it's right in front of an elementary school, but instead a significant proportion of them are Michael Schumacher wannabes who need to drive everywhere at 60km/h.
Normally, when a vehicle like this crashes, there is an inspection. Historically there have been and they have been finished normally.

It was started also this time: https://www.fox7austin.com/news/faa-spacex-starship-explosio...

E.g. in 2023 such inspection lasted around 5 months and "63 corrective actions the company "must take to prevent mishap reoccurrence"" was stated by FFA. https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-closes-spacex-starship-mish...

However, this time, as the article states, it was suddenly "finished". Nothing. They wouldn't have time to conclude it properly.
By only reading HN in the shower I limit the time wasted on browsing HN to a couple of hours a day.
Spain is flooded with Argentinians fleeing. Spain, which isn't even that good. Europe is still a much better place to live to the common people than anywhere else in the world.
Only Vodafone refused to implement the blocking.
Indeed. Zeiss lenses. Medical equipment. Boss. Siemens. The only thing that's really lacking is ict and ai. But that can be fixed
QT is sightly better, but not much: you have QtStyle, QtQuick styles, and separate Plasma styles.
in an alternate universe, most software would come with a core part that does all the specific work and the UI would connect to it with a fixed interface, and you'd be able to swap out whatever you want.
If you go too far right or left, both types of authoritarianism are difficult to distinguish. I think this just makes the case that every election you need to be a swing voter, make sure your politicians still overlap with your ideals.

Apple today appear to be on the 'correct side of history', but even then you need to be swing consumer.
Huh, you are absolutely right. I think I knew about the private copying levy but didn't consider it when writing my original comment.
you forgot hydro, which is the current leader for worlds deadliest power plant disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure orders of magnitude worse than Chernobyl and Fukushima put together
Yeah, this is an obvious meta-suggestion to rewrite the title to something like "'Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II' reimplemented in portable C" or something.
Went through your profile searching for a demo and discovered fractional CTO. Could you share a bit about how you evaluate new gigs and figure out how much time each one would need?
Ah, fair enough, fair enough, it's hard to know these days and evidently in between all the other comments and the general mood, I guess a lot of people are in a very defensive stance at the moment.
He is: this refers to spending Microsoft had planned on its own outside of Stargate. It says so in the article.
Trickle down has worked perfectly, millions of people have got rich comodifieing and corporatising all of the things, I think right now
daycare is bieng swallowed up.Recently here was a
new "file navigator" was presented for a realy hefty price, with a subscription, so the idea is to put peoples local ,self created files, behind a pay wall.
While tiny in overall scale, the trickle, is very much alive, and sucessfull.
The only issue is that this has become so prevelant as to interfear with civil engineering(road salt, fire trucks, etc) that basic infrastructure is regressing and becoming clumsy.
That and there are no more "killer apps", but legions of sasy wanabees.
On.the plus side ,there has definitly been a technological revolution in energy production, and material sciences is doing well, all of the core research tools, have gotten ,much better,cheaper, smaller, and are in thousands of labs, vs 10's of labs of a few years ago.
Industry at the largest scales is just getting more efficient, and less impactfull, with recycling of strategic metals and materials happening at scale.
But if what people are bemoning is the failure to create a vast and growing complacent suburban middle class, then boo boo to you, that was never
going to happen, suck it up, and put your back into all of the everything that still needs done,
its actualy fun to work, and sweat, surviving where true failure lurks, and the lessons of pragmatism shine...oportunity is everywhere
I'm a long-time FreeCAD user, and one of my annoyances is that long-running operations lock up the entire UI and can't be aborted. This is particularly annoying if you realise you made a mistake, but have no way to go back and correct it without waiting for the operation to complete first. Or you kill FreeCAD but then you don't get to save your work.

So for my first contribution to FreeCAD I'm working on fixing this.

The underlying CAD operations are done by "OpenCascade", and at first I thought OpenCascade had no support for aborting operations part of the way through. So my first implementation was to move the operation into a child process and give the user a dialog box that would allow terminating the child process.

But it actually turns out OpenCascade does support aborting the operations! So now I'm working on doing it the OpenCascade way.

My PR is here: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/pull/19796
Fortune(6) – Linux Man Page
I’ve worked in equity research, and an accusation of FUD is an accusation of intentionally malign behavior.

Getting reporting wrong is not the same as FUD.
The issue is that space launch is a lot smaller market than EVs with a lot higher unit costs. I think the majority of the companies you mention are going to fail, because the market isn’t big enough for them all. Rocket Lab is most likely to survive because they’ve already got a decent sized business even though it is primarily at the low end, but moving up the market is arguably easier than starting from scratch. The others are competing not just against SpaceX, but also Blue Origin (which despite being rather slow is still way ahead of most of the companies you mention), as well as against Rocket Lab and each other
I can't seem to parse this reply. I never said any of it was easy. Quite the opposite, in fact. The community was all too happy to embrace an ecosystem provided by a for-profit company just precisely because it made things easy (and the company was not Microsoft).

And I am not saying Docker is wrong to try and monetize. People have built entire business models on top of way more mundane things than the Docker Hub.
Going for "deletio" too many times causes the JS to go into a loop.

Still, fun.
Sift: Grounding LLM Reasoning in Contexts via Stickers
I've recently been prototyping a mobile application to track your food nutrition. The key feature lies in auto-detecting the food based on a given image, and breaking it down into it's ingredients and then into it's macros.

Existing apps such as MyFitnessPal and HealthifyMe fall into two ends of the spectrum where you either need to add ingredients one by one, or your food is logged with a standard macro count where you cannot change the ingredients used.

Weit ideally provides a seamless experience in taking a picture to retrieving ingredients to retrieving macros per ingredient. Once that's sorted, food tracking should be granular enough to build intelligence around it to improve one's diet based on their requirement.

Honestly, I used to constantly struggle with the realisation that none of my ideas are unique and whenever I see someone having built something similar, I feel like I'm wasting my time. I'm getting better at dealing with it now though.
Then why has he accepted so many billions in subsidies?
You are of course not personally culpable for what was done to them (and many other tribes), but you still indirectly benefit from it and they still suffer from it. You can’t disentangle history from the present.
I hadn't heard of this, but from googling, if you mean this (https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-accent-colors-are-coming/), that doesn't seem to do what I want. It doesn't affect the background color, and it hard-codes a list of colors that don't include what I want as my background color anyhow, so it wouldn't help me even if it did.
A web-native[1] protocol for secure[2], decentralised[3] access to files distributed across mirrors:

1. "Web-native" as in the protocol is designed with HTTP and modern web browsers in mind. Consequently, it can be implemented using Service Workers so that no additional software (nor even browser extensions) are needed to access files.

2. Files are addressed by their cryptographic hash of their content (a) to ensure the authenticity of the data received from mirrors and (b) to avoid hard-coding specific locations/servers (i.e. content addressing).

3. Files can be mirrored by anyone and users can retrieve files from any mirror; no party requires any permission from any authority. This is in contrast to traditional mirroring schemes, where mirrors have to "register" with the owner of the content (e.g. to mirror a Linux distro).

Demo: https://webmirror-demo.netlify.app/

Code: https://gitlab.com/webmirror/webmirror/

Work in progress!
LaLiga is the main football league in Spain, where Real Madrid, FC Barcelona,... play. It's also considered the second most important league in Europe after the Premier League in England. And, related to this, it manages the TV rights of the matches.
I'm wondering from where you get these ideas? Which social media hell hole?
well... try search 'VPN' in weibo

We don't need to use VPN secretly

how do you think companies which has international business operate in China? how they communicate with their clients? how they advertise in YouTube?

how developers of Microsoft in China pull their docker images?

how Tony sell his LED signs?
As others have pointed out this was a practice that continued into the 1960s and 1970s .. hence my statement that "some women that had these procedures w/out their consent are still alive" and that "some of the practitioners are also".

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Indian Health Service (IHS) and collaborating physicians sustained a practice of performing sterilizations on Native American women, in many cases without the free and informed consent of their patients. In some cases, women were misled into believing that the sterilization procedure was reversible

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterilization_of_Native_Americ...
Yeah it’s not a great explanation.

To me (and I’m of the era they’re describing so I used it a lot) it’s simply that _blank is a reserved keyword that means open the link in a new, unnamed window.

Other reserved keywords for “target” are _self (default value), _parent, and _top.

https://www.w3schools.com/TAgs/att_a_target.asp
> One issue is that there is no such thing as "the default platform for discussions"

Isn't this what the various linkback mechanisms tried to solve? It seems like the ideal solution: let anyone comment wherever they want, from a tweet to their own follow-up blog post, and connect them all via automated notifications.
I don't find it a reasonable take, it's like saying stackoverflow.com is taking developer jobs by making it easy to code, we better develop new stackoverflow.com
Ok. But what is machine-readable, then?

Is a picture of my passport machine-readable? Is a PDF machine-readable? How do you classify it? And what happens when ten years in the future once algorithms become more optimized? If an AI can read Shakespeare, and parse its paragraph for verbing a noun, is all human written stuff then machine-readable?
> For regular programmers, if your machine won't boot up, you are having a bad day. For embedded developers, that's just a typical Tuesday, and your only debugging option may be staring at the code and thinking hard.

Of course where it becomes even more fun is when it's a customer's unit in Peru and you can't replicate it locally :). But oh how I love it. I have definitely spent many a day staring at code piecing things together with what limited info we have.

But to get back on topic, I can definitely confer on the quality of most embedded compilers. It's a great day when I can just use normal old gcc. I've never run into anything explicitly wrong, but I see so many bits of weird codegen or missed optimisations that I keep the disassembly view open permanently, as a sanity check. The assembly never lies to you - until you find a silicon bug at least.
Another one. "“x̂” ⇒ “^⁣x” → “∧x” → “λx”.]" The first ⇒ should be →.
The hype starts to head down towards reality.
Thanks so much @chfritz for the honest feedback and for taking the time to go through the pitch deck in detail. Super valuable.
What's New in Emacs 30.1?
The Spain map is not showing Spanish only, those are separate languages spoken in Spain
Show HN: Libredesk – Open-source customer support desk. Single binary app
Libredesk is a 100% free and open-source customer support desk, the backend is written in Go and the frontend is in Vue JS with ShadnCN for UI components.

Unlike many "open-core" alternatives that lock essential features behind enterprise plans, Libredesk is fully open-source and plans to always stay this way.

It's in alpha (v0.1.0) right now, but there’s a working demo available. I built this because I wanted a truly open and self-hosted alternative to platforms like Chatwoot, Intercom, and Zendesk.

Would love feedback, suggestions, and thoughts from the community.

GitHub: https://github.com/abhinavxd/libredesk

Demo: https://demo.libredesk.io/
I wont be shocked it if turns out Meta has been using users Meta apps on their phones to pull this off.
Like a giant bot net, just pull small amount of data, send home. Not enough for anyone to notice, but large enough user base to sum all the small segments together and download without Meta directly seeding anything back.

Or just rented for a bunch of seedboxes anonymously
Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US
I'm building the quickest AI extension for chromium browsers https://chatgptwriter.ai
I'm guessing it was possible before the window-opening behaviour came in (unless it was always there from the genesis of frameset), but it was assumed that the underscore prefixed version would be less likely to conflict with existing code than without.

I'd be interested to hear either a citation proving or disproving that guess though.
Not everyone with ADHD struggles with small heap size.

Even if I have a smaller total heap size (maybe), personally my hyper focus allows me to nearly dedicate all the heap space to the specific task at hand. I probably outperform neurotypical people here. I just can't have anything else in my head. Task switching kills me.

So it is hard to say cause everyone is a bit different.

For me the interactive, REPL-based workflow makes my ADHD brain very happy. Always having a program running is really nice.

Plus immutability makes it much easier to reason about things.

I do like static typing as well and I could see how it might help. I strongly believe that gradual typing allows for the best of two worlds, so that you can do both exploratory, interactive programming and type driven programming, depending on your needs.

Not sure how well the solutions for gradual typing in Clojure work though. I have only experience with Common Lisp. Coalton might the exactly what you need: https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton
Ask HN: GitHub and ArXiv and Jupyter for Scientific Papers
I am a university student who has never published, but I read papers quite frequently. Through my institution, I also have access to for-profit journals. As far as I know, researchers in Medicine and Chemistry often publish in such journals, partly because studies based on data rely on institutional quality control and trusted peer reviewing.

My proposition is a platform based on Git that is supposed to be used to share independent science papers and thus combat the typically extortionate pricing for journal access. The site should extend the feature set of arXiv by hosting the paper as well as all the primary data, assuming the data is somewhat moderate in size. The website would re-evaluate your code and display the result every time you push updates to it. Additionally, the site would have a discussion section and pull-request-like functionality.

If you are a scientist who has published before, I wonder if you consider this a useful idea?
A lot of vibrant color, which is a nice change from muted and flat pastels.
Thank you. The overuse of militaristic lingo is incredibly annoying.

I've personally eliminated it entirely from my vocabulary: whatever you ask me, there was no war room: there was a conference call or a meeting.
Tuesday, indeed. :)

In the embedded world, correctly working hardware isn't a given, either. Part of the board bringup/hardware verification process is just determining that everything on the board actually works. Always fun when you have to figure out if a problem is in your code or in the hardware. (HINT: It's often both.)

It's rare that you need to break out the oscilloscope or logic analyzer, but when you absolutely have to know if that line went high or not, there's no substitute. :)
Not a citation of the claim you made.
Here's the link to that antenna: https://samim.io/static/upload/Screen_Shot_2018-03-15_at_09....
> No, it's much broader than that. The UK is asking for a backdoor to your data and backups in the cloud, not on your device. Why bother with searching physical devices when they can just issue a secret subpoena to any account they want?

My point was that there was already a clear chain in place that would give them access to the data of foreign nationals. It's not just a "UK problem", but actually the ramifications are further reaching.

Another thing to consider is that these cookie alerts on sites were for EU countries only, but ended up everywhere. If Apple were to comply, this cloud backdoor could end up in other countries too, with the keys sitting there ready for collection.

To make things more complex still, they would need to support dual/multi nationality. It probably ends up looking like a dual key E2E system where there is a unique key for the end-user and then a third party. Key revocation would likely be difficult, so it would likely be the cloud provided decrypting and re-encrypting the files per request, throwing E2E out the window entirely.
Here’s the TD Cowen research note:

https://www.threads.net/@firerock31/post/DGbK1VkyKlp/in-late...
I'm sorry but your view on the economy and society is really naive. As if everything could be solved by markets. Monopolies don't exist. Powers other than supply and demand (political, societal, geological, etc) don't matter. It's not that simple. Read some books of (old) economists or philosophers
On windows you can “link” your phone to your windows account, or log into your Microsoft account in edge on mobile. That could solve the login part somehow.
Bridging 3D editing with AI image/video-to-video. I have a lot of the disparate elements (timeline, video export, texture projection, etc) but I'm still playing around trying to find the killer use case.

https://mixreel.ai

Website is just a placeholder, but I'm documenting my progress on Bluesky at https://nickfisherau.bsky.social/.
That depends on how hard it is to auto ingest context.
I'm pretty sure the reason for Gtk being way more common than Qt has more to do with inertia (way in the past Gtk's license was more desirable and wasn't until Qt4 that changed, so any programs before or around that time that were made in Gtk remained in Gtk even after Qt4) and language availability. Specifically for the latter, C is much easier to make bindings for and GObject provides functionality for doing it automatically, thus Gtk is available in many more languages whereas Qt's use of C++ is much harder to both make bindings and do it automatically. The end result is that Gtk is simply more widely available and so much more likely to be used by someone who doesn't want to use C or C++ (the main exception seems to be Python which has official high quality bindings for C++).

The UI designs are just a byproduct, there is nothing about Qt that makes it hard/impossible to have Gtk-like designs, but since Gtk is used by a lot of programmers, when encountering a program like those you mention, the chances are higher that it is written in Gtk than in Qt because more programmers use Gtk than Qt.

(note that this is specifically about Linux desktop applications, i think overall Qt is used more than Gtk outside Linux)