skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know that there are equivalents in managed or interpreted languages (like Java's Jackson library), but I haven't managed to find anything quite like it elsewhere on the Internet for compiled, unmanaged languages.

Like Rust's Frunk? Or like what Zig or D let you do with "compile time reflection"?
The other guy's point is that Russia is not a hoax and we'll see that when the files are opened up.
I think every microphone will give you some characteristic atmosphere and space for the voice recorded, so it's kind of a part of a sound baseline. It's only annoying when there is too much, but when it's only on the edge of perceivable it adds that naturality to the sound. You can reduce it to the minimum of course, but you cannot completely eliminate it. That slight room tone or mic signature kind of glues everything together, making it feel more real.
People only handle checked exceptions that way because Java the language hasn’t given them the tools to deal with them properly (Swift does a good job at this) and historically people would check exceptions from their downstream function calls that they couldn’t handle rather than unchecking them.

Checked errors are good and are so important to have program correctness, but you need a way to easily escape them when necessary. Rust and Swift have both have realized this. Rust provides ? and Swift has try!, Java needs the same.

> Look at the JDK 8 streams library of an example of a library that (a) is awkward as hell because you can't
> stream.map(this::someMethodThatMightThrowAndException)

This is again Java the language not providing the necessary tools. Checked exceptions can work across high order functions: https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/experimental/ca...
Microsoft global outage left thousands unable to access email
My sibling is a molecular biologist working in the industry and they do use BLAST data. She's been telling her company for months they need to secure access with an alternative source or offline backup, hopefully their software team started it in time.
I hate that feature with an intensity that's hard to describe.

I know you can press it again or something but for the love of $deity don't fuck with the defaults.

That said I'm equally angry my browser so happily allows this.

Sure if it's a proper web application like OnShape then sure, override default key bindings, but ask me first and remember my choice. If I say no then just don't feed those keystrokes to the webpage.
> Oh, doing your own benchmarks on your own hardware which you paid for and releasing the results to the public was verboten, btw.

Well, Cloudflare did anyway.
I would recommend Vivaldi then. I've been using it for half a year and it's pretty good.
Reminded me of DateByDays, similar but the base unit is days instead of weeks

https://datebydays.com/
If you get compared to Russia and Syria there certainly something wrong with you.
Can one copy a firefox profile to Vivaldi? Do you think it's possible?
I built Firefox from source recently, it took under 15 mins to compile on a 7800X3D.
The fact that a company operating detention facilities and profiting from it could be called CoreCivic is such a perfect metaphor. The unholy blend of techbro disruptivism (look, CamelCase!) and Orwellian doublespeak. Utterly disgusting.
I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Firefox is worse today than it was 15 years ago, and it's because Mozilla pivoted into some sort of failed think tank rather than a browser maker.

It's not pitchforking, it's a legitimate frustration towards the tragic downfall of my once favorite browser. I grew up with Firefox and I'm really sad about what it's become.

As a user, I'm sick of all the spam and advertising and bundled crapware. Every time I launch it or god forbid download it on a new machine, I'm bombarded with a dozen pop-ups for things I don't want, like whatever the hell Pocket is or a dozen new tab ads. Somehow Chrome, from the world's largest advertising company, still manages to be way less spammy.

As a frontend dev, it's been a decade since I've had to resolve any major differences between Webkit and Blink, or Safari and Chrome. But every year, multiple issues with Firefox arise, usually related to graphics performance. Multiple teams and companies I've worked at have deprecated Firefox support because of them, when every other desktop and mobile browser did not have those issues.

Shrug. Maybe the mob is justified in this case. Mozilla's mismanagement drove Firefox from global love and popularity into complete irrelevance. When Edge is more popular, you're really doing something wrong...
There were many. Some commercial, some opensource. The most popular opensource one was FlashDevelop. At the time, I even wrote some plugins for it.

The most popular commercial competitor of FB was FDT (Eclipse-based plugin, just like Flex Builder).
While these forks are nice and all, I'm not sure how meaningful it is in the bigger picture if 99% of the work done on it is still done (and paid) by the same people.

Similarly, I don't get those "I use brave instead of Firefox", as if that wasn't 99% chromium.

Don't get me wrong, I know there's not much choice. But that whole direction of "action" that people take just seems like a working marketing tarpit to me.
Sure, Garmin devices work with iOS but a bunch of features don't like notification replies. It's not that 3rd party smartwatches don't work, it's that they are deliberately knee-capped by Apple to make the Apple Watch seem better.

And come on, in most developed countries iOS is like half the market easily.
We can rebuild the government. We will eventually rebuild the government. All of these agencies will eventually be rebuilt. It might take 20 years, but eventually the USA will get back to where it was in late 2024, in terms of state capacity. But the damage being done right now almost guarantees a "Lost Generation" that has to spend its life rebuilding what we had, rather than moving into the future.
Doge plans to fire nearly all CFPB staff
1) This is horrifying and shouldn't happen to anybody.

2) You have to be an idiot to visit currently. The rule of law is now nothing more than guidelines and Trump and his ilk have publicly stated they alone can decide what's right or wrong.

Edit: Somebody fucking explain. She tried to cross the border on the 25th, 5 days after Trump's presidency started and after he started rounding up and deporting people.
What the fuck? She did everything right. She had a passport, an entry visa, and a return ticket?

Don’t visit the US. Don’t come here and spend your money. Don’t send your kids to our universities. Don’t vacation here. Stay away for the next 4 or so years. It’s clear this administration is brain dead and can’t govern.

From the article: “Brösche had her German passport, confirmation of her visa waiver to enter the country, along with a copy of her return ticket back to Berlin, Lofving said. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent pulled Brösche aside for a secondary inspection.

“I look at her and go, ‘I’m going to wait right outside for you,’” Lofving recalled.

She didn’t know it then, but it would be 25 days before Lofving would see her friend again. Brösche would spend that time in federal detention, where she remains, waiting for a deportation flight back to Berlin.”
It supports web extensions.
> What's changed that you suddenly need it?

That lawyers are spooked. That's all there is. California changed the rules and that made every lawyer in an organization that can't have a portrayed legal battle with the state very nervous. Nothing in the language says that they can do things that they couldn't do before.
> and if I'm stalking an ex then fire and sue me.

I agree that's really frustrating but that's probably the worst example you could use. Real "can't unring that bell" stuff.
It doesn't just "get deleted," by default it prompts and warns the user that there is a deletion planned, and the user must manually confirm the deletion. There is no issue.
You answered the question yourself - "faking rapport and in general make you 'addicted' to loop you in babble with it."

Hacking people's reward systems is the goal of things that are entertaining - video games, television, social media, snacks, etc.
I'd love to know the results of your test. Plese let me know if there's a social media account where you'll post your results.
Hetzner is great. I've used their services for some time and always had a great experience.
Probably not since they are based on completely different browsers. You can import bookmarks, passwords, etc. though.
It is not incompetence to put people with no relevant experience into cabinet positions. It's purpose. Destruction with a huge amount of distraction is the purpose.
As a well educated and literate American, I confirm: the majority of US citizens are either beat down or a sociopath, largely thanks to a completely failed educational system. We manufacture these morons.
What we are seeing is clearly an act of malice. We need to be honest about that. Trying to obfuscate what we are seeing helps no one. We should use plain English and talk in a straightforward way about what is happening.
And do you have evidence to suggest more people would’ve been activated by more “he’s a fascist” messaging?
> At some point we have to consider the possibility that these aren’t just cuts to the budget

"At some point"? That point was a few weeks, like when they blindly purged the folks that did maintenance on nuclear weapons:

* https://time.com/7225798/doge-fires-national-nuclear-securit...

Or when they purged people dealing with bird flu:

* https://apnews.com/article/usda-firings-doge-bird-flu-trump-...
I will only bend my knee to a Pizza Overlord. (I've heard they will have a stuffed crust and extra cheese, at no extra cost!) All they require is I give up most of my freedoms and stop any critical thinking.
Yeah, but there are classical algorithms with tunable sharpening that are cheaper and widely known (e.g. catmull-rom or the "magic" kernel sharp algorithm by John Costella).

My suspicion is that none of this mattered though, because the evaluation was probably "perceptual equivalence" vs bitrate. I can easily believe it might be a marginal win over traditional algorithms from that perspective.
In many places tier one tech support is "fake" tech support. The kind where you ask users "what color is are the contacts if your power plug" because rebooting may solve the issue but most callers will lie about performing or having performed that step.

It's much better for specialized products. But products and services with a large and broad customer base spend the early stages of tech support filtering out the routine issues, and that lends itself to automaton
> On paper, yes, you shouldn't be excluded because of age. In practice, it doesn't work like it. 60 is basically retirement age for a reason, and it's been stretched to ever higher numbers due to demographics and strain on social spending pyramid schemes.

No, its being stretched mainly due to people living longer. People are able to stay active in the workforce until 70s now, so the capitalist governments are pushing the retirement age up to 74-75, calculating that the current generations will live well into their early 100s. Of course, the social security system's format and the desire on the capitalist elite to dump the tax load on the working class do play into this, but the main reason is people live longer and healthier.

In the middle of last century, you'd retire in your 50s because you'd already get some debilitating illnesses or get weakened too much, and you were expected to die sometime around your mid 60s. The retirement age in the countries that still did not push it up because of capital's pressure reflects this.

> Yes, everyone will step out of their way and bend backwards to accommodate 55yo John Carmacks and alikes with impressive track records and impressive resumes where their experience and skills

Actually, many countries are doing exactly that? From Europe to China? That's the norm, not the exception. The exception is the US and its 'lets fck everyone for the profit of shareholders' mentality that reflects in tech corps enshttifying everything and exploiting 20 to 30-year-olds as code monkeys. And from how China is kicking America's ass in almost every tech field, they seem to have got it right and not the US.
That is not even close to analogous.

Meh, feel free to disagree. How many MAGA voters do you talk to on a daily basis?
Show HN: Fuzzybrew – Terminal UI for Homebrew packages
How ?

One is a convicted felon and the other one openly stated that he's going to prison if said convicted felon is not elected president.

WAKE UP AMERICA
Ah, yes, I remember Yarvin. His goal was to become a cult leader for billionaires whose brains had turned to mush from surrounding themselves with only yes-men for decades.

The theory was that their imagined sense of being above others would make them easy marks.

Apparently he was correct. What a wild timeline we are living in.
I suspect success of advertising is less about people falling for deception and more about information availability. If you know nothing about two brands except you've heard the name of one 50 times in ads, you'll probably try it first.

I think propaganda is a better example, although again I think often people aren't deceived, they simply agree with the message or don’t care about the underlying truthfulness of the message and just use it as a way to align with their tribe, etc.
Apparently the FAA database that tracks accident investigations is down also, and probably a bunch of other systems that regular people aren't aware of that various organizations rely on.

If this was a Chinese cyberattack, it would be the scandal of the decade. But it's on purpose.
Show HN: Hanabira Japanese YouTube Immersion – free, open source, self-hostable
Built Japanese immersion text reader and YouTube subtitle assistant for vocabulary and sentence mining. Has built in dictionary, kanji definitions, audio, even some very simple SRS flashcards. Nothing crazy. Something similar to LingQ.

There are many website/apps like this for Japanese already, pretty much all of them are paid with monthly subscription though.

Hanabira is simpler, but open source and can be easily self-hosted with just 3 commands that spin up few containers.

Example of the system is running on hanabira.org.

It is Alpha in functional MVP stage, but I want to work on this for years to come.
I downladed WebKit for Windows nightly on a whim, not really usebale (as in no extension support) but I wish it were…
I don't think you know what 'liquidity' means, but if you do you are incorrect about it here. Deposits provide funding, not liquidity. Banks certainly do use deposits to fund loans.

It is not true that most countries do not have reserve requirements.
If it's the first time in 10 years and they're in your upper tier, then perhaps it is.
Also from the article:”CBP agents at the border accused Brösche of planning to violate the terms of the visa waiver program by intending to work as a tattoo artist during her trip to LA, Lofving said.”

Though the article doesn’t say when they determined that, how they could have known, and anything from the woman detained.
“Helps no one” except probably winning elections, given the “he’s a fascist” messaging (while true) didn’t seem to resonate.
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43225342

> Everyone should watch the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, speak on government workers:

Russell Vought is the architect of Project 2025:

* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c977njnvq2do

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

You know, the thing that Trump publicly said he wasn't part of.
FF has ublock origin, so already end of story there. But it also does a better job of allowing me to request desktop site and actually get it, and thus around some website bugs.
The problem with Chromium is that it's controlled by Google. Given they control the engine in the majority of browsers, they get to call the shots on the direction of the web as a whole.
If whole operating-systems can survive out in the open a browser can too.

Software don't need AI-hyping 6 million dollar swallowing CEO's
Because they’ve been gutting public institutions for an entire month now? Is this a serious question and you live under a rock, or are you a troll?
For various reasons, the Tesla brand has no future in Europe and Asia. Automakers don't die quick, but I don't expect this one to last very long.
Thanks for the correct link! It doesn't trigger the warning on the latest Firefox android though :(
Cool, thanks! While the chaos monkey is at work, the true ARPANET spirit is still alive!
If not LibreWolf, why not use Mullvad Browser, Floorp or Zen Browser, both based on Firefox?
The government should have just denied her entry if they believed she would violate her visa. I don’t understand the cause for detaining and putting her on the path to deportation.
From daisyui.com:

Tailwind CSS provides low-level utility classes, wich usually inlcude only one CSS rule.
daisyUI classes are a combination of multiple CSS rule that are named semantically for each part of the UI.

So, to put it simple, Tailwind re-implements css property-value pairs as classnames, whereas daisyui re-implements css classnames.

It seems like the whole dance is to avoid

class="btn" style="font-color: #3e3"

So what is different from above is that a style override is now possible via class like

class="btn font-color-3e3"

(or whatever tailwind provides as builtin class). Are these layers of indirection worth it, and still needed with modern css?
I remember we came to css frameworks and BEM because it was difficult to scope css.
Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises to not sell their data
> CBP agents at the border accused Brösche of planning to violate the terms of the visa waiver program by intending to work as a tattoo artist during her trip to LA, Lofving said.

This seems to be key point - but sounds awfully subjective if you can just be accused. Did she bring her tattoo equipment or something? I mean a person could type or code on a laptop too for work...

Edit: yes, apparently:

> According to Lofving, Brösche had equipment on her that she used for tattooing, and this may have been part of the reason for her detention.

https://www.tag24.com/lifestyle/tattoos/vacationing-tattoo-a...

Still seems a dumb criteria.
To serve their models on Azure and into phones. Co-Pilot is a joke. At least Google have rolled Gemini into Docs, Sheets, Android Studio, Gmail among other things.
GitHub – proxifly/free-proxy-list: Free HTTP, SOCKS4, & SOCKS5 Proxy List
It's combined with failed justice system.

Legal aid for migrant children has now ended, leaving many to navigate courts alone https://apnews.com/article/trump-legal-aid-unaccompanied-chi... US Judges, liberal and conservative, just continue sit there day after day and don't find that "right to fair trial" is not violated.

More generally US plea bargaining system is just cruel. See US Bar Association Plea Bargain
Task Force Report: https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/cri... Prosecutors are effectively coercing people to take prison sentences.
Surely you do not want to experience EVERYTHING. It's better to not exist than to experience all the dark things in life. Although, according to my onthological beliefs it's not possible to not exist and therefore I do fear death, not just the process of dying , but death itself. Because there is some uncertainty there.
At least Brave is a profitable company that employs multiple people and they can keep up with Chromium's changes (Some manifest v2 extensions are kept available or certain UI features are reverted).

Most of the Firefox forks are 1-5 person gigs. They are not sustainable.
Loving Ada without using exceptions or inheritance on embedded and desktop. Some love Ada full OOP tagged types. I love Ada procedural style with privacy and abstract data types. I wish Flutter was written in Ada but atleast Dart is better than JavaScript atleast for procedural code without it's oop boiler plate. You don't actually need OOP for widgets.
I wonder, how close does Godot get with its web export support? The "authoring tool" seems pretty good, and it exports to WASM.
Do websites using akamai work with that browser? Try checking prices on Radisson hotels (their own website, not OTAs), for example. Do prices load, or is it only static resources which work? Same question for Marriott hotels, I can't see any of their rooms unless using an original build.
correct, the guy is not exactly strapped for cash after 10 sweet years at Facebook. He's 10M+ NW probably.
Physical Security Maxims (2008)
So isn't so powerful at the end of the day :-)
Possibly has something to do with Musk's limit on credit card payment? Very smart all around.
There are many Gecko-based browsers: Zen, Floorp, Mullvad, LibreWolf, IceCat. Why not use them instead?
Is Domino's Pizza inflation-proof?
They're not in any position to control the web as a whole; Safari is too strong a competitor.

But even if Chromium was at 100% market share they couldn't control the web. If they start throwing their weight around then the other web companies will start organising around a Chromium fork. The important thing here is OSS/not-OSS rather than market share. Market share can change quickly enough in response to problems. It is like GCC - there was that spat back in the day, someone forks the code and there is a little war until people figure out which is better. Then the better version became "GCC".

It is fine to have one custodian as long as the actual power is retained by the users. Efficient, even.
Wouldn’t it be in the interest of the detention facility to have detainees?
Given what we've seen so far it wouldn't surprise me if Musk had built a kill switch into these vehicles to stop the police from taking action against him.
The entire 18f org was let go. Many of these employees oversaw the building of digital services.

Login.gov is a most critical SSO resource for logging into services such as the IRS for tax payments. It’ll see peak usage next month for taxes. The teams maintaining these have been indiscriminately let go.

More of these online services will start to go down, rapidly.

If the point of DOGE is really to tackle the deficit, all these moves are incredibly shortsighted.

(Yesterday the 18F former employee put https://18f.org/ as a transparent warning of what’s to come)
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted.

It's a viable explanation.

Russian state media were allowed into the Zelensky meeting while other traditional news orgs were not.

The use of tariffs and customs against trading partners to shape general foreign policy, via a compromised president, as well as other things, is strongly reminiscent of Russian interference in Ukraine pre-2014.

Even the Mueller report is best read as concluding there was obstruction of justice into the investigation.

Thiel has openly discussed disappointment with democracy and advocated for autocracy, and his companies have celebrated the current state of things in shareholder meetings.
A.I Monarchy unironically better because AI wouldn't corrupt
I read an article in the German press about it a few weeks ago, she had her tattoo equipment with her and that was what aroused suspicion. According to her and her friend it was so she could tattoo her friend during her visit.
Checked exceptions are represented in the type system. There is fundamentally no difference between these two:

A b() throws C
fn b() -> Result<A, C>

A a = try {
b()
} catch (C c) {
new A()
}

val a = b() match {
Ok(a) => a
Failure(c) => A()
}
Chromium based browsers are beholden to Google's whims the same way Firefox forks are to Mozilla's. I expect those Chromium browsers planning to continue support of effective APIs for adblock will soon find they don't have resources to maintain those patches as more of the underlying infra gets removed from upstream, for example.

My level of trust in Mozilla has fallen, but it still doesn't look likely to fall below my trust in Google in the short to medium term