skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it called "gain of function" if there's no gain of function?

> why lots of people are so against it

Hearing "GoF is NOT GoF" just makes me suspicious instinctively, that's all - no bad intention.
Just to add: ownership and agency, I know a few startup founders who completely wrecked their mental health after accepting dumb money which took away their agency to pursue their vision while still having to work absurd hours.
I am not a native english speaker so I often forget to uppercase the 'I's
Keep on outsourcing to eastern europe big tech. Everything's fine..
It seems that discussion is flagged but the curious thing is that there's no "vouch" button
That's my expectation too, but it makes avoiding Chrome & Chromium unavoidable.
Unwrapping Intermediate Representations
Yeah, I am not sure who this author is but it is at least a useful summary of the dynamics and history of neoreactionary movement. I don’t think most small l-and-c liberals and conservatives have any idea of what they’re up against, and are simply bewildered by what’s happening.
There are more Gecko-based alternatives to Firefox: Mullvad Browser, Zen Browser, Floorp, GNU IceCat, next to LibreWolf. There used to be also Pulse Browser and Flock Browser.
It’s terrible on mobile, too. Everything is big, plus a horizontal scroll.
What do you mean by that "mostly around privacy and not being Google"?

Can you elaborate further?

It is a not-feature ("X without Y and Z"), and it is hard to capitalize on. Also, what purpose can be served today with even the die-hard Linux guys I know are willing to succumb to binge-watch on TikTok or any other popular app so that there appears to be some double standard and/or lost battle since you cannot prevent data gathering in the public service or transportation, carriers, hotels that combined more than compensate for any measures taken by a "privacy first" browser, security leaks not to mention.

Just curious about clarification.
Conservatives have the media literacy of a dead chicken.

See: necessity of writers of The Boys making it increasingly obvious that homelander & co are are the bad guys. So many conservatives are stunned when they learn homelander is directly written based on trump.
So does MS Edge but you get Microsoft ads and tracking.
No dessert until you finish your bong hit, sweetie
Which was a horrendously stupid tag line. All people saw was "prices not going back." Everyone in America remembers simpler, better times. 1990s race relations alone were far better than they are now.

I saw that slogan and cringed immediately.
I think for getting in the 70th percentile of UI design, tailwind + daisyui are fine. If you need to have the absolute best UI, it is necessary to understand CSS from the ground up.
It's strange to have so much anti-sentiment here about the internal data that Google has.

Of course Sergey doesn't have to spend 60 hours as he retired.

I have never been asked to work more than 40 hours when I was working at Google, I had amazing salary, and I knew that the people who are getting promoted over level 4/5 were working on the weekends as well, 60 hours was just normal for them.

Google has enough data to see that the most productive engineers are the ones who spend so much time mastering their skill.

Also I believe an AI company (which Google categorizes itself as) can't stay competitive with China if the 100 people in the core AI team work just 40 hours a week. For the rest of 100000 people it doesn't matter that much, as they are working more on integration and less competitive stuff.
It's astonishing to me how many front end developers refuse to learn how to use vanilla CSS and Javascript, and the lengths they go to avoid touching them. I think of a lot of modern web tooling as a giant mech suit developers climb into to do battle with the underlying technologies of the web. There's so many layers of abstraction between you and the medium you work in, you can go your whole career without learning how to build a website yourself.

The original justification was 'scaling' (a word that stands behind a lot of bad behavior, actually), because you cannot just write bare CSS for a large production website, obviously. But then it creeps down the ladder until pretty soon your hobby website is a 20 megabyte SPA with 500 NPM packages backing it.
Have you ever been on social media? Where do you think all those Netflix GIFs on Giphy come from? User generated content is what powers those networks and a huge chunk of that are TV show memes and discussion, all of which need screenshots.
Also, Firefox Send, an actually useful feature, was discontinued.
I've seen different polls, in which disapproval is slightly higher than approval, but anyways, we're still supposed to be in the honey moon period. And even your polls show a dip. We'll see.
Slirp lives on in QEMU and container engines: https://github.com/rootless-containers/slirp4netns
A much more valid argument! But also a change of subject.

The previously mentioned side bets, e.g. VPNs, Pocket, Relay, Fakespot -- there's been a narrative attempting to imply that those involved a trade-off from, well, sometimes the argument was quality of the core browser experience, but in this particular variation it's suggesting that these side bets were a reason they couldn't maintain commitments to privacy.

The adtech purchases absolutely do raise an eyebrow, but they have nothing to do with this narrative that attempted to tie the side bets to compromises on privacy. If anything, I want to encourage them to do more of these, precisely because they don't involve any of those compromises and everyone seems to want them to diversify their sources of revenue in non-adtech directions.
Raspberry Pi Pico audio player
> The most important piece of the language Python in docs is...

Asking as an intermediate python programmer (in my assessment!): what is the importance of knowing this? Is it essential to know to _use_ python correctly or to _understand_ the language implementation?
But they think cyberpunk is really cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGhsEADnbOU
Learn Spanish from news (content adapts to your level)
Hey YC,

I've spent a lot of time building something I wish I'd had when I was learning Spanish: an app that lets intermediate learners practice with real, interesting content. When I studied Spanish, I often got frustrated because native content had too many words and expressions I didn't understand.

Thanks to recent AI advancements, it's finally doable—but getting it right was tricky. It took setting up a multi-step pipeline and fine-tuning several AI models to make it work smoothly.

Here's how it looks in practice, turning a Spanish news article into a personalized language lesson:

- Simplify the article to match the student's current skill level.
- Add language elements the student is currently studying (like the past tense or certain phrases).
- Include specific vocabulary words the student is learning to reinforce them in context.
- Use another AI model to tokenize and lemmatize the text so the app can accurately recognize each word's context and offer quizzes, definitions, and comprehension checks.
- Automatically link words and expressions to detailed dictionary entries.
- Generate high-quality audio with ElevenLabs for authentic listening practice.

There are a few smaller steps involved too, but those are the main ones.

I think Topics is the first app to create fully personalized, contextual language lessons directly from current news content.

I'd love to hear your thoughts! If you're interested in trying it out, send me a PM—I can give you an access code in exchange for your feedback :)
A oft-missed point is what's required for redress of waste at scale: more spending.

It costs money to save wasted money.

Sometimes, that equation is net positive and other times net negative. But it's never financially efficient to reduce waste to zero.
I have a research project on Nick Land's main thesis that capitalism and AI are identical.

It contains (almost) all primary sources for his thesis (182 as of this writing).

https://retrochronic.com/
We have one life to live. Most people would rather not spend the bulk of that precious life being wage slaves whose hard work does little more than produce technology that is marginally beneficial to society and that primarily serves to massively enrich a few people off their hard labor.

If you find yourself aligning with billionaires making completely unreasonable demands, unless you are one of those billionaires yourself, I think you are fully drinking the kool aid and should seriously reevaluate your life .
Rackmounting that which should not be rackmounted
My Sales Pitch for TypeScript
everybody does...instead of playing games lets put the worshiping to one side and start using alternatives
Yet another reason not to answer the phone for unknown numbers.
Toronto Hacklab has an occasional thing they call Junk Independence Day
> What FOSS operating systems (and not even Linux specifically) offers is freedom to choose. But the effort of using some alternatives can be significant.

True. On the other hand, Linux (the kernel) does provide the foundation. You can replace most of components above it and you will still have hardware support for a wide range of hardware. Even if you were to develop an entirely new kernel, the Linux kernel can serve as a proxy for documentation for undocumented or poorly documented hardware.

I realize that places a disproportionate amount of emphasis on the device drivers when the kernel offers so much more and an incredible amount of effort goes into the ecosystem outside of the kernel, but the reality is that most alternative operating systems grow beyond the academic toy phase. Part of the reason is the difficulty in attracting potential users, including developers, if those users have to use said operating system in a virtual machine.
Isn’t that patch just converting inline strings to localized/internationalized strings?
I don't think we need to pick between incompetence and malice here. I think both apply to most of their actions.
I stand corrected! I will note that at least from my use case a saved copy of web view is a rather idiosyncratic user need not catered to by I think any of the other apps. As you do get article view and article view is what I actually want.

But you have reminded me, because I do recall that phrasing that you quoted about pocket deciding whether to choose Article or Web View.

I don't it's a particularly huge loss, and the exasperation from the commenter I was replying to seemed to suggest that they thought saving of any articles had been removed, which would be an appropriate cause for exasperation. But I don't think that reaction is warranted at all, just from not saving web view.

I also think it's not quite right to suggest that saved article view "doesn't work" or is a mere novelty. I just went through a bunch of my articles and randomly spot-checked them, and all of the ones saved to article view are without problems. Although I do recognize there's an occasional issue, but those are the exception rather than the rule. It remains a critical antidote to the unviewable overloaded with ads viewing experience that is the default experience for most people with most web pages. There's also an open secret that it bypasses login screens and pay walls, fir which it continues to be one of the best solutions.

But alas, I was not correct to suggest this had never previously been available.
+1 for icecat, it's the way to go until ladybird is ready. you'll need to disable some of the default extensions to make it usable.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

https://icecatbrowser.org/index.html
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35975308/

How could NAC help here, if it reduces mucus?
Why wouldn't the owner sell?

Keep in mind that land that is owned outright is almost exclusively very low value land.
whats your vibe feedback on "subscription/escrow approach to angel investing" ?

A 4-$-figure subscription goes into a escrow pool, and disciplines you into reducing other expenditures

you can make periodic invest/decline/accumulate decisions from the pool in various funding rounds
Sounded to me like parent commenter was not advocating for that sort of thing so much.

They said

> Like imagine your company’s main “button” element. It’s got 8 different sizes, optional icons on both sides, animations, styles, each needing to support different color combos. Tailwind is miserable for that. You get giant huge balls of spaghetti classes all over your button, and it’s pretty incomprehensible.

Which to me sounds like they would not use Tailwind for dark mode / light mode things either. But I might be misunderstanding
This is definitely true. Young people viewed the establishment as unsympathetic to their need for housing.
One thing I never understood - what's the plan for these accelerationists / techno monarchs if the "plebs" simply decide to say no, and rather just cut off their heads?

If history has shown one thing, it is that it is much easier for the working/lower class to overthrow the upper class, than the opposite.
I don't get the humor
Linux is majorly being developed and maintained by paid company employees. What interest would companies have in maintaining Firefox? They don’t seem to be very interested in contributing to Firefox development today. Another data point is that Microsoft gave up on their original Edge browser engine because using Chromium was ultimately easier than chasing Chrome compatibility. Who will defend Firefox’s interests in WHATWG? In the best case, it would result in something akin to today’s Mozilla Foundation.
> The Force is also available to both Jedi and Sith alike. The use of a 'the' nomenclature is not indicative that the subject is solely available to a singular individual, only that the power is available.

In your construction, all the work is being done by your use of the word “available.” But the constitution doesn’t say “the executive power is available to the President.” It says: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” The word “vested” means “secured in the possession of or assigned to a person.” So the executive power isn’t merely available to the President. It’s assigned to and given to the possession of the President.

Your Crown example actually proves the opposite of your point. That phraseology reflects the traditional british notion that all executive power is vested in the king, who is the chief prosecutor but may act through delegates: https://digital.sandiego.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=/con... (p. 1707).
That bait-and-switch reveals the core, though. The R base wanted what Trump is doing all along but was tricked by the establishment business class. The reason they are so loyal to Trump is because he ripped away the fasaud and acts out their longstanding wishes.
The results speak for themselves. Here is clickbait trying to coin a nonsense word and you aren't defending it on substance, just on the fact that you recognize the name of the person who wrote it.

The most embarrassing part is everyone immediately going along with it. It is like an improv game or a man on the street interview where they ask a pedestrian about an event that didn't happen and the person being interviewed just acts like they were there and know all about it.
Regarding JS - we are aiming for the modern device user. I understand that security is a thing, but in 2025, few sites work without JS.

Most other questions are simply because we made highly opinionated choices.

In terms of edit and delete — so many people take advantage of edits and deletions which isn’t natural. You can’t do that in real life.

As for legal and illegal - if it’s legal in the US it is legal here!

Great questions sir!
That’s not really accurate. Ukraine was not a member of either defence or economic blocs, like CSTO, or Customs Union, headed by Russia. Also some of the Ukrainian governments were effectively against relying on Russia, Yuschenko 2005-2010.
Yet, there were extensive economic ties up to 2014, and some cultural ties up to 2022. Its not black and white.
This is also the case in Seattle or San Francisco - it is not significantly predictive.
People love being conned. And he has been conning people a long time, and is very good at it. I expect most of the money he and Melania made on their meme coins were from his followers.
The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce by Tom Wolfe (1983)
Tiny Ten DSP-Based HF Transceiver
I think this is consistent with big universities at the time. I remember when Alpha was becoming discontinued, reinstalling RedHat on those did give Linux a boost as a daily driver for researchers.
I guess I must be blind, I've never seen anyone identifiably homeless.

The government wouldn't allow encampments, so how can you even tell?
> I support Mozilla directly -- in a small way, this helps to ensure that Firefox is available to me and others.

Money you send to the Mozilla Foundation cannot be used on Firefox, because Firefox is a project of the Corporation and money can only flow from the Corporation to the Foundation, not vice versa. There is no way to help support Firefox development directly, Mozilla employees will always point you to buying one of the Corporation's side projects instead.
>They have a demo at https://youtu.be/qE673AY-WEI

That's not a demo, that's a video. Anyone can make something like that in an afternoon with a couple friends and a microphone.

Also, Google is known for putting out fake "demos", remember the Google Duplex scam?
Yes. The answer is not to "convince" individuals of things en masse. It's to identify the policy change that would take away their power to do this, and then identify approaches to law that could cause that policy change. Then, build theories of change to get there. Many theories of change do not require broad public support.
Desktop only, it seems.
Trump is too reactionary to have an N-step plan. The man thrives in chaos and uncertainty. Furthermore project 25 is large enough I'd be a lot more surprised if whatever happens wasn't on that wishlist somewhere.
Conservatives are currently dismantling the Federal bureaucracy, not conserving it.
That is an unreal standard to hold anyone to while using Microsoft or Google products, because this wouldn't even register compared to what these companies do on a regular basis. People are just less dependent on Mozilla so moral outage doesn't feel as pointless.
Syslog is good as well syslogng
One server to act as central syslog server and rest of them to syslog send all their log there, but Initial request was local email smtp
996 anyone? [1]

Seems to be normal elsewhere, why not here in the West? What makes the "workers" here any different to those in other places?

This is globalisation, internationalisation and capitalism. Be thankful not to have to go down the mines to fetch the rare metals needed for the "digital" revolution. Nor working slave-like conditions making the fast fashion to glorify our individualised tastes and styles. Or having to work on container ships carry the cheap plastic products from China to the West. Those kind of jobs don't have "work from home" clauses.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
Tried to do the demo but it kept cutting every sentance off half way through. When I told it that I couldnt understand it because their voice kept cutting off, it said 'oh you noticed that did you? Sorry about that we are still working out some kinks' - all perfectly with no cutting out. I fail to see that as coincidence.
The never really did. If you saw them referred to that you were getting flimsy analysis. These people have a much more purposeful, active, and visionary approach to politics and society than any conservative ever has. Conservatism, since 2018, can be pithily summed up by this quote:

> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Thiel et al's machinations are much more sophisticated than this quote (not an endorsement), but it basically does encapsulate the irritable gestures of your sundowning uncle and the cold selfishness of the old money class.
Lincoln held the Union together and led to a USA that saved Europe and beyond. He also advocated letting the defeated South “up easy” in an effort to rebuild some sort of national unity after the greatest loss of life we have ever experienced in this nation. Could you imagine Trump doing the same? Lincoln guided us through a national disaster as best as possible for a person to do, I don’t recall him enriching himself either.
Free Pascal, but I am interested in Ada and will be learning it more this year. I love the readability of the syntax, and on the outside looking in, the community seems good.

I have also moved back hard to using TCL as my scripting language. I like it too much, and bouncing between Python, Go, and such for DevOps glue tires me out.

For systems, I love using plan9 (9front) to solve problems, which grounds me to C, awk, sed, and the rc shell.
I believe they meant that the air boss has a role like an ATC, in a more challenging situation (because you want to keep aircraft somewhat close). Whilst at the same time the air boss doesn't need anywhere near the same training as ATCs do.
Usability is a thing and can be improved in some things, but sometimes it’s people that don’t want to read the manual and instead spend their day chasing after abstractions. Which they will abandon at the first edge case they cannot solve because of the lack of foundational understanding.
When ever anyone talks about government inefficiency, ask what perfect efficiency would look like.

Nail them down to specifics. Not just improvements, but perfect efficiency.

Guaranteed they will soon start to flounder, because "inefficient government" is a propaganda talking point, not a fact that can be established with any workable economic definition.

And "the deficit" is the difference between what government chooses to spend and chooses not to tax.

A huge proportion of government spending is either/both an investment and/or a direct driver of beneficial economic activity. That includes "unworthy" spending like welfare.
As someone who's worked at a company using Mercurial, the wild fire was that everyone was begging to get onto something better and less opinionated.
Is Agile All You Need?
At this point, if this isn't reckless incompetence, it's malice.
It would maybe be better than normal monarchy in most ways, I guess.

Other than that AI doesn’t die. The best thing a king can do is die, because monarchy is terrible.
For now. I can't imagine they'll let mobile users escape in the long term.
The last paragraph of Animal Farm by George Orwell reads:

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

My take:

Democrat and republican party are two sides of the same coin!

The parties shift, the faces change, but the game remains the same. Battles are waged in public, deals are made in private. Power is the prize, and blind loyalty is the sacrifice.

Allegiance is demanded, division is fueled. One side painted as righteous, the other as corrupt.

But no more! No more blind devotion. No more politics as theater while lives hang in the balance.

Judge not by party, nor by word but by action and how it affects you.
Lenovo Thinkpad 11e aren't junk. I own one with Ubuntu and it still serves me well. Why people in the 1st world disassemble them or throw away rather than upcycling by upgrading OS and donating to the children of the 3rd world, like OLPC used to do? Still half of population doesn't have access to computers. This is hugely missed opportunity to help poor children!
This is exactly how the HN community responded to Twitter, too. The amount of baseless speculation paraded as fact is crazy for a supposedly rationalist community.