skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about incentives to write safe code even in C? They do not exist.

You are not rewarded for:

1) Formal proofs or careful programming. No one cares if a piece of software works quietly for years.

2) Preventing others from ruining a working piece of software. To the contrary, you will be called a gatekeeper and worse things.

You are rewarded for:

1) Wild ideas, quickly and badly implemented with the proper amount of marketing.

2) Churn, "social" coding, and LGTM.

3) Ironically, if you are a security researcher, finding exploits can help, too. As above, preventing exploits in the first place is regarded as a waste of time.

All of the above is true at Google. But of course they have a technical solution to a social problem. Which might catch one category of bugs at best.
Thanks for this. The mention of compatibility between conservatism and neoliberalism is interesting. The UK Conservative party historically aligned with a more "mercantilist" economics. This sometimes stood in opposition to free market ideology; for example the Corn Laws divided the party, and there was strong support for tarrifs well into the 1900s. But Thatcher instituted a shift very similar to Reagan's, and by the 1990s everyone was a neoliberal.
I mean... at first blush it seems like `./scriptname` which is what the `uv` shebang provides beats having to remember two commands and && them together.
French dev currently working for a French but global client, here. The UI of the timesheet app is in English but the fields only accept `,` as decimal point. It's so needlessly confusing.
Hmm not sure why the offensive tone, you make a lot of assumptions about ie me while knowing 0 about me, and obviously you are wrong here.

> Are you going to tell that you have no preference with regards to living in Germany, France, Poland, Argentina, or Canada? That is obviously not true.

That is certainly true for me. Please add some more diverse cultures, your list is pretty narrow-minded. And it already had happened so not talking theory here, and it was and still is properly enriching for me and my family.

But you highlight an interesting point - I wouldn't mind living in same country as people like you as long as they can handle those basic requirements, but I would certainly prefer not having to spend any time around such people.
https://archive.today/EszIB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Hackman

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000432/
Tate is a hardcore convert to Islam. Not sure if that's going to play with the MAGA base but what do I know
This is great! Really wish that I'd known about this tool a month ago. Would have saved me a lot of headache. Thanks for sharing.
Their flight to the US comes after the Financial Times reported that Trump’s special envoy, Richard Grenell, had spoken to the Romanian foreign minister, Emil Hurezeanu, about the Tate brothers at this month’s Munich Security Conference.
and I answered by pointing at a mirror while you continue to clutch your pearls.

To write it out for you. It is comically because even a vague statement (like mine) which could be interpreted positively brought on a vicious reaction (like yours). At this point somebody could compliment musks (or trumps which wasn't even part of the discussion) lawn and someone would jump out of the woodworks that they are small brained, childish and also supports supposed bullying.
> I have better tools for doing that.

For example?
>You kill the adults and raise the pups.

You are talking about the second domestication period, not the first. The first domestication period was not intentional by humans. It was that some wolve packs scavenged scraps from around human settlements, and so were in slightly closer contact. Over generations, the humans and wolves became slightly more comfortable with each other and humans started seeing some benefits from the proximity (early warning system, additional deterrent against other predators, etc.). This likely reinforced the developing relationship and prompted some humans to occasionally actively feed scraps/leftovers to the least skittish wolves, which again over generations, led to some wolves being close to what we would call “friendly” towards humans.
This is the USDA.

If it gets out-of-hand very much further, the appropriate stimulus would be thousands of farmers descending upon Washington with pitchforks in hand.
highly likely they have millions from the stock alone, assuming they didnt sell
Someone on HN recently compared AI to a really buggy GPS.

People will still use it, since it mindlessly gets you on the road and looks like it knows what it is doing, which makes it the path of least resistance - and that will beat out better results for most people most of the time.

The same applies to Alexa and ilk - if you have it than it is easier to use than to do things any other way. Even if there are all sorts of mess ups on the way, it still will become the default action of anyone who tries it.

As they say - "Even a bolt of lightning will follow the path of least resistance, and it's not combating laziness or lack of focus"

Don't ever dismiss the power of inertia [or whatever this is called]. A listening AI agent that can perform tasks takes advantage of inertia.
rouguelike is such a fun genre, congratulations

the only genre that made gaming fun for me after my childhood attachment faded.
The main issue is that prevailing winds have a direction, and there's not a continuous open ocean path other than the Southern Ocean which is harsh even by the standards of oceans. Sure you can steer along trade winds in the Atlantic or Pacific but there's quite some efficiency loss.

(Give climate change another decade or so and the Arctic Ocean maybe becomes an option, although by then we'll have bigger fish to fry, or perhaps poach).
It was my understanding the ridiculous and historic COMPlus name had been replaced with just DOTNET several years ago.
Fish 4
Ok. I guess it doesn't damage the credibility of this conference that they've invited an anonymous racist troll as one of their speakers because no-one is as smart as Isaac Newton.
> People are mad at Musk. But they themselves have bought the proprietary car

These may in fact be two different subsets of "people"
both this and parent comment are right! once you have the first frame, it's probably just a few hundred more megabytes to get the second one - although I won't be the one to find out! 1 is enough for for me!
recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43076088
Show HN: Vagon Teams – A Simpler Alternative to Citrix, AWS and Azure VD
Hey HN,

I’m Hasancan, CTO of Vagon. For the past three years, we’ve been providing cloud desktops for creatives. More than 500,000 users have tried Vagon, and thousands use it daily for 3D design, video editing, game development, and engineering.
Teams using our cloud workstations started requesting features like security controls, file sharing, and team management. Existing options like AWS Workspaces and Azure VD are expensive, require deep cloud expertise, and don’t scale efficiently. We built Vagon Teams as a simpler, more flexible alternative.

What Vagon Teams offers:
One-click deployment, no IT setup required
Flexible performance scaling per user, per task
Usage monitoring, permission controls, and secure file sharing
Works on any device without latency issues
The problem with existing solutions
AWS and Azure are complex and require technical expertise to set up and manage
High costs with rigid pricing models that don’t adapt to team needs
Limited flexibility in performance scaling and resource allocation

What’s next? We’re developing a version that lets teams use their own cloud servers or cloud provider credentials while benefiting from Vagon’s flexibility and performance. This will give teams more control over infrastructure costs without sacrificing ease of use. Would love to hear your thoughts, we're also live on Product Hunt today.

Any feedback, ideas, and upvotes are appreciated.

To celebrate our launch, we’re also offering a 1-week Vagon Teams trial for just $0.99, with 75% off.
Out of curiosity, what kind of pricing are we looking at here? All I see is "contact sales"...
HelpScout
As someone not at all really familiar with maths/3D stuff, your comment gives me some relief that should I want to do any for hobby projects, I can use quaternions to avoid accumulating floating point errors.
Love the fact that on mobile if you stop touching it will automatically pause!
"developed" and "codes" have different meanings.
Everyone seems to be cheering for this, but I think it's important to remember that Swedes have a need for private, secure communications just like the rest of us. If they've already gotten their normie friends to switch to Signal, I highly doubt they'll be ecstatic about moving apps again. This is bad for people that depend on Signal, period.
Employee ownership isn't that weird though? Most top execs get paid mostly in shares and options. Employees often have this option too. In a socialist view there would be no stock market at all.

The Scandinavian countries aren't very left wing. They're just very rich so they have lots of money for welfare programs. But they're pretty anti immigrant. I would consider Spain more left wing.
Whoa. Aircraft carrier approaches, just without arresting wires.
imagine using the coercive power of the world's only superpower to get cunts like these busted out of jail.

what the actual fuck.
Tech Libraries
Is not the first time people flee abroad while prosecuted in Romania. There are quite a few high profile cases, usually for corruption.
My point is that anything is possible in Romanian justice, either through bribes or influence.
Show HN: Free Booklet on Hiring Developers
Really needs an about page. WTF am I looking at?
> I can strongly recommend Compulab

Thanks for the rec. This board looks promising, including Debian/Yocto support, and they apparently have an option for hardware customization, https://www.compulab.com/products/sbcs/sbc-iot-imx8plus-nxp-...
I hope this doesn't come off wrong like but honestly - but the outcome on this project doesn't change my view one bit. it didn't make me dig in my heels either, but I strongly doubt it's possible in a human lifetime to do this with at least some of the other languages that have type systems that are considered Turing complete.
Holy cow does the word "could" do a lot of lifting in that title and article.

This reads like a nothing piece. Am I wrong?
I couldn’t find a low-noise way to stay updated on frameworks and libraries across my favorite tech stacks—so I built one. It’s ad-free, with RSS and email notifications. You can follow top, trending, or new additions. There are already some hidden gems, with more to come. I’m sure I missed some great libraries, so contributions are welcome. Enjoy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

In this particular case, it's the "justice", which is the driving force behind.
Our technical questions typically stay within the realm of the position we are hiring for, so technical usually revolves around “would you use X or Y in this scenario? Why?”

Understanding how someone thinks is more core to evaluating candidates, so questions like “let’s say you own a window washing company and you’ve been hired to wash every window on every skyscraper in New York City - how do you do it?” provide a much better insight into how someone goes about approaching a challenge.

A coworker has a simple diagram they use outlining a tech stack: backend, cache, frontend, and they give a brief overview of the “application.” Then they explain that there’s a big report that “customer says X isn’t working - how would approach fixing this?” It’s less technical on details and more about again how they would approach finding the issue.
Agreed, would be good to have an alternative to Solidrun.

On the consumer side, QNAP offers both a NAS and network switch based on Marvell CN9130.
revised version by an another user

https://github.com/rambod-rahmani/ffmpeg-video-player
All the right notes but not necessarily at the right time.
Looks like you can do that for $200-$300.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/1f9s8kk/comment/luquux...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43170850

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43180133

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175023
With the help of a stochastic parrot I've determined the following: Consuming an LD50 quantity of eggs (400–500 eggs) would amount to about 29% of a 70 kg person's body volume. This suggests that such an amount would be physically impractical to ingest in one sitting, even before metabolic toxicity becomes an issue.
Really what we need is “taxing the fuck out of the wealthy” but that’s sure not gonna come from this administration.
A trick to manage frequently used prompts in Claude/ChatGPT
> Solar and wind cannot replace base load power

This is incorrect, and also completely misunderstanding how electricity pricing dynamics work.

Power grids don't need base load providers at all. They need enough dispatchable sources (and/or imports) to cover demand at all times (at least if they want to avoid rolling blackouts like in SA).

Providing base load is a privilege you get to enjoy if you have the lowest marginal price at all times (or are technically unable to regulate your output down, and would rather pay not to)-- cheap intermittent sources (solar/wind) make it very difficult for conventional plants to act as "base load provider" profitably.
I don't care about that, I truly don't. What for? Traditions worth their salt survive and thrive to these days and will continue to do so. The rest can disappear, just like endless stream of such disappeared over millennia. Its not that I want to push for this ASAP, but its eventually inevitable with the way we live our lives and move around.

Life for me is about more important matters - family, friends, my own happiness going back to everything. And yes eventually world will over-mingle, the only way this won't happen is some proper catastrophe that will return whole humanity, or tiny remainder of it back to caves.

You want benefits of travel trivially globally but forbid people falling in love elsewhere and making kids, moving for better life or simply location/climate/culture they feel is much better for them?

In 1000 years most if not all countries we know now will not exist, maybe even memories and records of it will be vague and incorrect. Thats the lens I use to judge what is worthy of an effort and what is not.
Nice work. I cannot test the demo as it is down now but just wanted to share I have been using open source solution Zammad and I am pretty happy about it. It's fully open source (it's a ruby app - so different stack.) and pretty robust. The frontend is a bit oldish, but it has a lot of nice features. The single binary, easy deploy + fresh UI is interesting thought. Are you planning multilingual features?
C++26: no more undefined behavior in lexing
Thanks, I’ll send you an email!
According to recent executive orders, it looks like there are plans to sell to overseas interests, but only those who would be able to pay much more than states or domestic entities.

Seems like Trump is setting himself up to sell to the highest bidder on a case-by-case basis, according to which foreign parties he likes at the time, with no opportunity at all for any that make him whine.
I Built a LinkedIn Connection Tracker
Like many of you, I have a love-hate relationship with LinkedIn. Love the connections, hate that I forget who half of them are.

So I built a simple tool to tag connections, write notes, and set follow-up reminders—before they disappear into the void.

What It Does:
Tag contacts so you don’t confuse “Met at a conference” with “Sent me a cold pitch for crypto AI automation”
Write notes so you remember if “We should stay in touch” was real or just polite small talk
Set follow-up reminders, because “Let’s reconnect soon” usually means “See you never”
Would love feedback! Unless it’s “Just use a spreadsheet.” Already tried that, still bad at keeping in touch.
Yes, curious about this. Looks like Mac and Linux support are available with Godot…
Fusion fuel is so compact, there's really no need for that. To get an idea of it, deuterium is less than 0.1% of the hydrogen in water, and there's enough in your morning shower to provide all your energy needs for a year.

Nuclear aircraft carriers go thirty years without refueling, and fusion could easily do the same.
a-href only club is the sweet spot I think.
This is naive, but can you ask the model to provide a confidence rating for sections of the document?
There were a bunch of studies saying high cholesterol was bad and would give you a heart attack. Then also ones saying low cholesterol would make you crazy [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4215473/].

And also ones saying food high in cholesterol was bad. Then ones saying food high in ‘bad’ cholesterol were bad, and one’s high in ‘good’ cholesterol were good.

Then eventually we figured out that dietary cholesterol has almost no impact on blood cholesterol levels except in a tiny portion of the population.

Fun times eh?
Ask HN: My web game went viral – am I in trouble?
Hi HN

My stupid little webgame https://368chickens.com went viral with over 200k visitors yesterday.

This is my first website that has received any significant traffic and I have a few concerns:

1. I'm hosting through cloudflare pages free plan - is this 100% free or will I need to pay something later?

2. I'm using google analytics - do I need to have a privacy policy or something?

3. The images in the game are from Canva - can I use the these without a license?

Many thanks to anyone that can help
Yes, it's such a waffle. Instead of the unnecessary title "A Radical New Proposal For How Mind Emerges From Matter" – a more appropriate one would be "On plant intelligence (and possible consciousness)" given the entirety of the article is devoted to plant intelligence. We don't have anything radical, nor is it very deeply related to the mind/matter problem. If an author can't get something simple like that correct, then they don't deserve our time. Shame one has to get paragraphs deep into the article to find out we have a spiel about plants, not about mind.
This article has a link to the steam page, at the end. https://godotengine.org/article/2024-cherry-picks/

So my guess is Godot.
Asking what?
no audio - correct. technically, in a certain sense, the first frame will contain only one sample of audio, and I did consider that, but a single impulse is the definition of "juice wasn't worth the squeeze", haha.

re the .WAD - the types-only-wasm-engine doesn't know anything at all about Doom (it only knows about what to do with WebAssembly) so actually the .wad is embedded in the WebAssembly exactly like you see in any regular WebAssembly Doom project (e.g. https://diekmann.github.io/wasm-fizzbuzz/doom). There's more to say about what "the WAD" means in this case, because it's a very minimal WAD - but it's all open source and I'll be explaining that in great depth soon!
Brother.

The default of the command is to generate locally. They don’t need to open source an entire web app. It’s easier to deploy themselves then deal with the burden of open sourcing and maintaining.

This isn’t some conspiracy. It’s a tiny startup trying to ship something useful.
> Is this what folks voted for? To pressure for the release of a man who openly brags about pushing women into sex work and profiting from their labor?

Yes!!

Now, to qualify, I don't mean all Trump voters voted for this, or would align themselves with other individual things, say, stopping the development of an oral covid vaccine, or pardoning violent criminals and international dark web drug kingpins, or giving a billionaire essentially unfettered control over the federal government (and then pretending someone else is in charge when called on it).

I don't even mean that the reasons people vote for people are individual (though of course they are).

What I mean is, the promises the Trump campaign made were highly segmented and targeted, in ways that are not obvious from a national or international media perspective because that media perspective was dominated by what Trump says. (And since Trump voters don't listen to the words, they listen for the tone -- the shared anger and the feeling of being heard -- they will often "listen past" anything Trump says that directly contradicts the campaign outreach)

For example, Latinx voters were sold a very different, more nuanced picture of immigration reform through outreach than the national picture. Muslims in Dearborn will have seen voter suppression efforts if not outright claims that Trump would get a better deal in Israel. Clearly libertarians believed, with some justification, that they'd get RFK Jr (a priapic lunatic) in charge of healthcare and they'd get Ross Ulbricht (a man who is credibly accused of having purchased a murder) pardoned.

I strongly suspect that if you dig through the outreach they made to the young-manosphere on social media, on Tiktok etc., you will see ways they presented themselves as sympathetic to the Tates' plight that will make this look like acting on a hinted, if not explicitly stated, promise. Someone will have said "we're going to strongly look into that".

Now, I am not going to pretend I think Trump is good for anyone. He's not. And I am not an American.

But I think the Democrats need to understand something important: they spent all that time laughing at the hamfistedness of Elon Musk's wasteful ground game, which probably was useless and counterproductive, and they ignored how effective, organised, and segmented weird little Charlie Kirk's ground game was.

It's clearly one of the greatest successes in campaigning history: they sold a crooked, bullying, manipulated, intellectually ignorant felon to an electorate and won.

Do I think first-time-voting and angry/lonely/divorced twenty-and-thirtysomething men were targeted by a campaign that spoke to them in Andrew Tate's language and suggested he was being unfairly treated? Fuck yes.

(Posting throwaway because I no longer have an account)
You just reinvented Wittgenstein a priori.
Why do all these OCR services only show examples with flawless screenshots of digital documents? Are there that many people trying to OCR digital data? Why not just copy the HTML?

If it's not intended for digital documents, where are the screenshots with fold marks, slipping lines, lighting gradients, thumbs, etc etc.
OP has mentioned that they worked with an artist in other threads
Looks like a fun game, I love the art style and that it’s Verified on Steam Deck. Just bought a copy to try it out!
Tangential but your comment has just given me a penny drop moment that I can isolate each degree of freedom (finger, wrist, elbow, shoulder) and still play a key to sound a note.

For context I have been working on playing multiple lines of music with right hand lately (Chopin etudes, much struggle...) and saw a video from a professional recommending playing the main melody "with the arm". This has helped a lot with the visualisation and now I can really have a cleaner technique playing the accompaniment above the escapement (using nice flat fingers) and the melody with a much richer tone (using the arm typically for the pinky).

I sort of understood in an intuitive nonverbal sense what I am doing but after your comment, the mechanics now makes a lot more sense of what I'm actually doing - thanks!
Thanks. If I could, I would edit my comment with, "more people voted for it than any other alternative" so that my comment could run ok through the HN compiler.
I like Annas Archive but its definitely not legally gray.
Nasal Covid-19 vaccine to enter US clinical trials
But is it? The event horizon will eventually be receding again, maybe enough to prevent you from actually falling in. However fast you're falling, you'll still need time to actually move forward. Time that time dilation doesn't give you.

Which of course is infinite, but not QUITE infinite infinite. The last light to reach you will be from the time the black hole ceases to exist, which is "close" (in relative terms) to the heat death of the universe, even if it's incredibly far away from it measured in years.