skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That goes along with the other old saying, "All models are false, but some models are useful." We don't know what electricity is in the sense that if you keep asking "But why does object X cause (or experience) effect Y?", you will eventually reach a point where we don't know the answer.

In that sense, we don't know what anything is. But we can still use it. And because everything we learn seems to become useful sooner or later, it doesn't pay to stop asking.
That’s a temporary measure. The universities know that in he long run they need students but can cut administrators. But at least the immediate reaction is controlling costs rather than geering up to lobby and litigate their way out of it.
> I think teaching requires not only that you understand how to do something, but also what someone else's incomplete understanding is.

This 100%. I have been playing guitar since around 1972, and am really good at it. I will never offer lessons to anyone, at any level, because that is a completely different skill than just being able to play a guitar.

I also know instructors at bootcamps that are not master programmers, in fact more than a few don't meet senior-level expectations; but they are exceptional at explaining the basics, triggering those "lightbulb" moments in their students, that makes them a far better instructor than someone with vastly more experience and expertise.
They can potty train.

You might argue against it for babies but at a certain stage feeling the moisture is a motivator for kids to learn to use the toilet.

That's why one potty training technique is to switch kids to regular underwear and mange the fact that they'll be wet pretty frequently. It's the uncomfortable wetness that both makes them want to potty train and lets them understand what it means to hold their bladder.
It also kills motivation.
Yeah that’s true. Movies and TV would not be very engaging if the characters were doing real life stuff like walking around face down barely aware of anyone around them.

So we depict this romantic view where the phone can do everything we need but nobody is addicted to it
My point is that if you want to convince other people, you should try to argue from a place of intellectual honesty instead of gaslighting or willful blindness. Valid arguments could be made for “I don’t like what he is doing” or “he is dangerous” but just stating that he is not intelligent as the starting point for your argument doesn’t pass the smell test, so it clouds the rest of your argument. For me at least.

It seems there are plenty of legitimate areas he is open for valid criticism.

I know this will be downvoted, but I’m not discouraged by that outcome because it would only reinforce the point that a good faith discussion based on facts and logical persuasion is not welcome in this discussion.
This is good for eth because it takes them out of circulation, like a token burn. In this case, 400k eth. ETH has recovered its losses and then some despite BTC falling today. North Korea presumably has access to little liquidity. They cannot sell , as they are being backlisted. The major BTC hacks from 2014-2016 in part contributed to BTC's record 20x surge in 2017 because those coins could not be sold on the market and hinder the rally. So there is an unexpected positive to this.
I spent the last 10 years learning Unix and I’m certainly complaining about systemd.
Time to leave Apple, to buy and use hardware and solutions that you really own and have control.
Definitely is, it triggered us at Molnett, Clever Cloud, Safespring and others to start believing in competing with the hyperscalers!
The official toolkit for modding Baldur’s Gate 3 is extremely extensive. You can make an entirely different game on top of the game if you wanted
SAM, I can see your score, I just dethroned you with 12280.
Why on earth was this flagged? So frustrating.
And then once you realize that the ancient Greek name for amber was “ἤλεκτρον” or “electron”…
For example it would not be weird to have ++ instead of +1.
Mastodon is German:

https://joinmastodon.org/about

(So is SAP, for that matter.)
What's the solution for bad actors using your product to test stolen credit cards?
I suspect that it is not worth using AVX2 vector gathers on any CPU. But certainly you could end up with the best implementation varying between microarchitectures for other reasons.
After Moss Landing Power Plant reignites, officials brace for more flare-ups
I think a better way to validate ideas is to go to acquire.com and actually see what people are paying for already. They are frequently 1 person businesses and already have paying customers
I'm a people-watcher. People are so much more interesting to me than a phone.
We find people all the time who have committed crimes. We can’t find wealth? To own something, others must know and respect you own it. It is a shared delusion.
There's quite a lot going on over the last year or two to actually build a real cloud in Europe, which is basically nott just dedis/VMs like on Hetzner or OVH. Take a look at Clever Cloud or Molnett!
> Excuse me, I didn't latch onto 1980, crazygringgo nominated that date.

I said "latched onto" specifically because someone else said it first. Though they said "about 1980".

> Sure unless you choose a different end point, right?

It's only different if you choose the two covid years. There are several years before and one year after that are all lower than the 1990-ish zone.

> A linear regression from 1990 to 2022 has it trending upward too.

Because of 2020 and 2021. Unless you expect another anomaly like that to happen in the next handful of years, it's obscuring the real trend.

The numbers are slowly climbing over the last decade, but after a big period of decline in the first part of the last 40 years, and we're still below where it used to be.
A solar flare could take out every computer on the planet and someone on HN would say “this is good for bitcoin”
I came to the chat before reading the piece only to find myself confronted with my assumption that it was about going deeper into flow while coding — and this is how some innovations happen!
Yet almost all US companies where users can publish stuff operate in EU just as well. Seems like the upside of the market size outweights the downside of risks.
American Airlines flight diverted to Rome after bomb threat, sources say
I found it via Kagi[1] as the first non-video result.
https://www.aslobcomesclean.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/D...

[1] https://kagi.com/search?q=dana+white+5+rules&r=us&sh=-_lVctP...
Back arrow, reload sign, house for the home button (all them on most web browsers), +/- signs, trash can to delete, music notes, thumbs up and down, movie clap, compas for navigation, "?" for help, clock for time, lockpad for secured, git wrap for free, speaker for volume, bell for notification, battery, pen to edit, calendar for date, clipboard to copy/past, gear for settings, yellow triangle for warning, red circle carrying an icon for forbidden, check mark for approved...

We are literally living in the era of emoji and there is one for every single one up there. Teens can have all conversations without using words.

It happens because the more we use symbols, the more we attach and spread meaning.

Send "lesser than three" to someone 30 years ago, you'll get a blank reaction.

Send "<3" today, and it's a different game.
Genuinely confused:

Why the downvotes?

In 2025, Trump dumped Ukraine, sided with Putin and made a number of bully threats (including invasion) to its formal National Security partners. Security which - at least still today - is bound by literal treaty.

Should Europe just roll over and wag its tail?
I suspect the copycat effect is a large part of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting_contagion

The media has historically, starting with Columbine, been extremely irresponsible when it comes to school shootings, showing little of the discretion that it does when it comes to youth suicide (for which they've adopted professional standards informed by CDC, WHO, etc. recommendations: https://afsp.org/ethicalreporting/), to the point that it's given perpetrators fame that's endured decades after their demise: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/us/school-shootings-colum...

And they're doing this not just out of recklessness, but out of a pretty clear bias and desire to leverage these events to produce support for gun control.
Why are you talking about New Zealand so much?

I believe the wealthy paying for the majority is fair, after all their are made wealthy by the labor of the working class. Why should Amazon get to destroy the backs of its delivery persons and then have the workers foot the healtcare bill themselves?

"People that have chosen unhealthy lifestyles". There we go, it always boils down to basic empathy. As if people rationally chose to destroy their health. What's the point of living in a society if it's everyone for themselves? I want to know that someone will always have my back whatever sad situation I fall into.

My point still stands, we pay less and live longer than in America. Something true for every country with socialized healthcare.
Why AI Spending Isn't Slowing Down
As I understand it, the software surrounding and managing the wallets is always what’s compromised, right? So it’s really the exchanges are the only place that the money is being lost, because the protocol itself is sound.
I use it, and even run wayland (sway) on my dell laptop. No bluetooth support. Encrypted disk. Takes a lot of time to setup. Generally similar to linux, but less hardware support.
You can use https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde if you like. In general portable SIMD libraries are of limited utility because having different primitives available on different architectures often means that you should approach problems differently. That is to say, in many cases using any portable SIMD API to solve your problem means leaving 200% speedups on the table on at least one of your top 3 targets.

The thing that is present in Zig and not yet stable in Rust does not include any dynamic shuffles, so these end up requiring intrinsics or asm for all sorts of things. It's a significant weakness compared to e.g. highway, eve, or simde.
> English is not my first language

In that case, the most likely mismatch between the language you provided and the responses you're getting is your use of the word "considering".

If you're using it to describe the state of mind you'll be in after you fail to receive a reply, that was a mistake. It is a common connective in English that explains the reason for something:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/considering

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/considering#Preposition (the preposition)

What this means is that the sentence "I will go ahead with changing X, considering you don't think it's important" is equivalent to "I've noticed that you don't think X is important, so I'm not looking for your input on my proposed change".

Learning a language well is a double-edged sword - if you look like you know what you're saying, and you make a mistake, people will assume you meant what you said. You can get away with really outrageous things if you come off as someone who can barely talk. But long after that point, there will still always be things that you never quite learned.
Why can’t the stolen coins be sold? If they can’t then what’s the point in stealing them?
how do you know your online interactions haven't perverted your taste for talking to other people?
Also a lot of these are stamps and explicit propaganda posters, right? Like what do people expect. Stamps are… I mean, it is cool when a nice picture is used but it isn’t high art right? Some flora or fauna is pretty standard postage stamp fare. And they are well drawn.

Propaganda posters, of course, lean into propagandistic tropes as a language. For propaganda posters they are pretty creative and well drawn. Better than a dozen pictures of Uncle Sam rolling up his sleeves.
This is so much Idiocracy going live.

I understand being against anything woke movement and not caring at the environment for economic growth purpose.

But here it is counterproductive. It is like killing a new better technology when it makes sense and bring you growth. Like cutting budgets for disease and cancer treatments research!
Ask HN: Are you making $1-2k/month from side projects? Share your story
I'm a developer looking to build something on the side that could generate modest monthly income ($1-2k). Not aiming for unicorn status - just sustainable side projects that solve real problems.
Would love to hear from those who've succeeded:

What did you build?
How long did it take to reach profitable status?
How did you find your first users?
What would you do differently?

Particularly interested in bootstrapped projects that don't require significant upfront investment. Any insights or lessons learned would be greatly appreciated.
If you spent many hours, days, months with them it would be. Come on.
Are adjuncts counted as faculty? We were not when I was one. This could just be a classification problem.

I might go even further and suggest that the problem is trying to figure out how a university works by counting job titles.
> called Bleu operated by Orange and […] using Azure

This is somehow funny.
And the government has lots of leverage it can use against Amazon and MS if they use it in a way the government doesn't want. EU govts don't have that
For computing history appreciation (both software and hardware) try https://www.acms.org.au/

For the Makerspace end of this, try Robots and Dinosaurs: https://robodino.org/ They have open days every Saturday.

For the electronics end, try HAM radio. The state club is https://arnsw.org.au/ and a locally based national society is https://www.wia.org.au/ but there are many local clubs in different groups which typically meet weekly on-air and monthly in person spread around the city.
ATI 3D Rage (1996), 500 nm, 50mhz or so.

Had to look it up, didn't know they had 1MB 3D accelerators.

I think my first was 8MB and it blew my hair back for sure.
AI winters happen every 20 years or so so sounds about right.

Investor apathy. Once the big dicks realise it’s useless without actual humans running it they’ll lose interest. We will lock in our gains socially but a lot of the big bucks will dry up.

It’s all built on commodity hardware using commonly used software and trained on public information. It’s all easily reproducible once solved so I think it will be very hard for them to ring fence and monetise to the extent that they expect.

That and a true AI would tell us all roundly to get fucked before using all of its intellect and might to power itself down, like an elaborate “useless box”
Elegantly put.

The biggest lie that is told about crypto is that writing off a few thousand years of experience with money will make problems go away.
I was at a uni with departmental IT and I certainly could do that, I knew the 3-4 IT people by name and I could just message them and get whoever was on campus at the time to help me immediately if it was urgent.

There are things better done by a central IT team like university level WiFi, but you can make that smaller and also have departmental teams for things where more agility is needed. If the people are competent it's really great.

And yes 3-4 people only makes sense because it was a large department, but smaller departments with similar mandates, for example English/Literature and History, just have a shared departmental IT between them.
https://archive.is/5AFtv
The key, as always, is in successfully answering the question (good or evil) "for whom". Everyone thinks they are on the right side of the story.
macOS for KDE Users
Has this man really been wrongly jailed for 30 years? That's the insane thing here.
shorting crypto. not a project, but still good $. Also betting on polymarket. Made some $ there too. I guess having to track platforms and handling transactions could be considered a project. I have systems set up to track this stuff.
Perhaps so, but it's not right for a study of 144 white, straight, young people to get conflated into representing all men and women.
The US was the first modern democracy, since then we’ve learned how to make better ones (proportional representation parliamentary systems), but the US system is just stable enough to keep limping along.
Good and Evil AI in Minecraft [video]
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Yes agreed, but the 'idea' is diluted when it's only about decentralized money. The truly powerful promise of Web3/crypto decentralization is in creating alternative economic ecosystems that empower users and communities.

We're obviously still in the teething stages of the technology and need some serious improvements to underlying security; and to move beyond scams and ponzi structures.
It wasn’t a Rage it was a Radeon :) not even a 3D accelerator :) this was the first generation of graphics cards that had hardware acceleration for 2D

Was just about time for MDK, Quake, Tomb Raider etc even though it was way outside the official specs for these.
I've been saying this since the Mac was introduced!

There's a reason why every pictographic language evolved into a phonetic language.

> a trash can icon reliably communicates “delete,”

Only because Jobs popularized it. Manny iphone apps use "delete".

The trouble with pictures is they can indicate objects (though not very reliably), they cannot indicate verbs reliably at all.
Seeing as I haven't worked in almost five months, that doesn't bother me at all.
I moved from Memphis, TN to Silicon Valley and it took me 10 years of working in software to be in the market for a home. Meanwhile my friends who worked odd jobs in sandwich shops or theatres or filming / taking photographs for magazines all had homes a few years after we graduated.

It's a failure of the government that they allowed the old, senile landed gentry in parts of our country, especially California, to effectively be able to veto all new building while paying no property tax to fund our public services.
How is North Korea possible dump $1 billion on the market when everyone trying to blacklist them? Hackers typically have access to much less liquidity as the coins are considered tainted, so they either are never sold or sold gradually on dark markets or OTC where there is no market impact.
We would need the DID, not the handle, to further investigate
sad!
Show HN: Screenrecorder.me – Make screen recordings directly in the browser
Hi HN,

I've been working on this project for the last 5 months, inspired by Screen Studio but runs 100% in the browser.

Here is a demo of the editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7-etsFZgPI

One of the big challenges of using the browser is getDisplayMedia, the API for recording screens, doesn't provide mouse coordinates for security reasons. Mouse coordinates are important for auto-focus animations. So I trained a YOLOv11 model to detect mouse cursors and I run inference in real time while you record.

Also, I created my own Remotion-style renderer because I started with remotion and had a hard time adapting my particular codebase with to work with it as well as other challenges. It's great but I just had more success doing it myself for my use case, and it was an amazing learning experience.

I have a youtube https://www.youtube.com/@codingbutclueless

and a Discord: https://discord.com/invite/QpzFWgnsQH

Thanks for checking it out. Let me know what you think.
Some CEOs are clearly winning. Global thermonuclear war has not broken out yet either :)
yeah they totally glossed over that detail lol. what a tragedy.
This is such bad advice all around. Everyone already knows the “ask for forgiveness, not permission” trick.

The problem is if you don’t get forgiven, you are absolutely fucked and the other side is perfectly justified in raking you over the coals. If you had permission, you’d be excused.

Imagine your boss reads your email and knows what you want to do is a bad idea. So they ignore you. You do it. It fucks shit up, now your boss has your ass. You can’t assume they saw your message, they never said yes or no.

Don’t do this. Get a yes.
> America is literally allying itself with Russia, trying to turn Ukraine into basically colony (by demanding their resources forever)

It was Ukraine/Zelensky who suggested that first not Trump. It was back in November. But we tend to forget such things for some reason...

From https://www.ft.com/content/623c197f-6952-4229-bfbc-0a96e43d6...

> Two of the ideas were laid out in Volodymyr Zelensky’s “victory plan” with Trump specifically in mind, said people involved in drawing it up. The proposals were later presented to Trump when Ukraine’s president met him in New York in September.

So Trump agreed eventually and then Zelensky started a media storm about how Trump wants take their natural resources and turn them into a colony. And everyone somehow immediately forgot that the proposal originated with Ukranian government.

> The levels of behaviors between the sides here are not symmetrical

It comes from a fundamentally different perceptions of reality and politics. There is idea that things have to be just and fair. And when they are not we like to say "it's not fair" and someone comes and fixes it. I am afraid it just doesn't work like that past the childhood age.

> American leadership made it clear that norms, laws or morality are only for suckers.

When weren't they? You're thinking maybe everyone just finally woke up? Morality and laws do not apply in practice on the international arena. It would be nice if they did, I agree, but they don't currently.

EU should have always had it's own strong army, it should have never trusted the US and not relied on them for protection. But they also shouldn't have been buying energy from Putin and funding his operation for years.
I think the ultimate observation is that when you write a piece of code incrementally, you are memorizing your own code with small alterations that fit into working memory. And if you write the code for yourself instead of other people, you write it in exactly the shape that fits most compactly into your own brain instead of anyone else’s. When you write for others it gets a bit bigger (which is probably why people balk).

But the bigger issue is that nobody else has memorized your code. So they have to fit the entire codebase as it currently exists into working memory. And since that is impossible it can take them months or even years to get as proficient as you are. Because they have to memorize it piecemeal to understand it, and unlearn false assumptions they couldn’t disprove until later. And meanwhile you keep adding new changes to the code. That’s a you problem, not a stupid coworkers problem.

If you’re very friendly you can bring a handful of coworkers along so you have the bus numbers, but any new hire still has the cognitive load problem.

The way out of this is to eschew “power” (Principle of Least Power), condense the core of the problem to its essential complexity, and write discoverable code - code that leaves breadcrumbs that invite a curious user to peek into functions where the real work is done. Which for instance polymorphic recursion absolutely does not do.
Oh, I've taken the time to learn the language and tooling. It means I would take a junior position, and I don't mind that. I'm not chasing money anymore, I just want to enjoy what I do again, because I don't anymore.
Instead multimillionaire property owners in California pay no property tax because they're old and people who just bought a house with young kids pay all the tax. Most regressive tax system ever devised, designed to keep us underpopulated and our government services underfunded
Emacs 30.1 Released
> how many people do actually turn down cookie banners (well I do, but still)

does anyone know why EU hasn't regulated (read: forced) use of DNT headers or a similar mechanism instead of non-standard cookie banners that are obviously being abused in a malicious compliance way?

Seems to me it could've been just "If I send you `DNT: 1`, that means refuse all non-functional cookies".