skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reparations certainly deterred further violent fascist statism in post WWII Germany.

Unfortunately the Berlin Wall.

WWI reparations were initially assessed by the Treaty of Versailles (1919) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_reparations

Dulles, Dawes Plan > Results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Plan

> Dawes won the 1925 Nobel Prize, WWI reparations obligations were reduced

Then the US was lending them money and steel because it was so bad there, and then we learned they had been building tanks and bombs with our money instead of railroads and peaceful jobs.

Business collaboration with Nazi Germany > British, Swiss, US, Argentinian and Canadian banks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Na...

And then the free money rug was pulled out from under them, and then the ethnic group wouldn't sell their paintings to help pay the debts of the war and subsequent central economic mismanagement.

And then they invaded various continents, overextended themselves when they weren't successfully managing their own country's economy, and the Allied powers eventually found the art (and gold) and dropped the bomb developed by various ethnic groups in the desert and that was that.

Except for then WWII reparations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_reparations

The US still occupies or inhabits Germany, which is Russia's neighbor.

Trump was $400 million in debt to Deutsche Bank AG (of Germany and Russia now) and had to underwrite said loan himself due to prior defaults. Nobody but Deutsche Bank would loan Trump (Trump Vodka, University,) money prior to 2016. Also Russian state banks like VEB, they forgot to mention.

Business projects of Donald Trump in Russia > Timeline of Trump business activities related to Russia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_projects_of_Donald_...

It looks like - despite attempted bribes of foreign heads of state with free apartment - there will not be a Trump Tower Moscow.

"Biden halts Trump-ordered US troops cuts in Germany" (2021)
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-military-f...
Yup! Keeping those in there was important for us as we know the core community would love to see this historic data!
> I am sad to see you go.

I'm not going anywhere! My grammar isn't always the best, so I apologize for the confusion.
A coworker might be questionable. We're talking about the CEO. I think a CEO who tries to take basic rights away from their employees and users should go.

> the harm was when he gave $1000 which is when a bias because mistreatment

Sorry, I'm having a lot of trouble understanding what the second half of this is supposed to mean. The harm is taking a position opposed to basic rights of people who work for you and who use your product, and backing that up with cash.

I really doubt all of you saying that this isn't a big deal would be so blase about it if the CEO of your company donated a thousand bucks to a cause that considers you to be sub-human. But you're probably not the target of this sort of thing so you don't care.
One is heritable, the other mostly not.
Apes Freaked Out When I Spoke Their Language [video]
Apropos of anything else, it's one of the things I like about Kagi for search. You can tune a domain to be heavily bumped, bumped, deranked or heavily deranked.
They also usually type "gg" into the game chat
For C, you might be interested in https://github.com/weggli-rs/weggli or https://github.com/semgrep/semgrep (I work on the latter). Both are also tree-sitter based.
Isn't that already how it works? At least for specific values of "the wrong thing" - one day you find you can't get on a plane because you said "I want to blow up this plane."

But also "I am going to Colombia to bring some cocaine home." and "I am going to Washington to assassinate the president." and "The right of the people to keep and bear nuclear bombs shall not be infringed." and any number of other things that don't immediately threaten the plane's integrity.
I might misunderstand, but can't you just ask for the reference? I've also been using (Gemini) a lot to basically replace my search engine, but I always tell it to give me a reference. I've had pretty good results with this approach.
The title should be edited. It's missing the main part which is that the tooth will be implanted in the eye of the patient, not left in their mouth.
The Chromium codebase also implements requirements that you may not need to take on for just a web browser, e.g. all of the infrastructure to make it ChromeOS, including for example being a Wayland compositor and a lot of other stuff. The projects are somewhat apples to oranges.
All security issues are subclass of bugs. Security is a niche version of QA.
It's nothing like as as grotesque as the headline makes it sound. Worth reading.

Suggested headline: "Surgery implants tooth material in eye as scaffolding for lens" or something like that?
After some experience and testing, I've become well aware not to use LLMs to ask questions like "who did X" and "what is company Y's policy about Z", because they tend to hallucinate responses (even for well-known people).

What I've not yet figured out how to deal with is how to handle being surrounded by a society of people who go ahead and trust LLMs for their factual answers anyway. I think even if I'm careful about selecting my sources, the background noise floor is going to climb up to the point that there's no signal-to-noise ratio left.
Same for me. The only thing I still use Google for is for up to date data as LLMs are not great with that yet
If enough people use it, websites can stop following the W3C.
I don't think it requires it but it would certainly be an edge with "backpropagation"?
Apparently the title was edited since I posted it—it was originally about the same as the article.
10 years ago I'd agree with you completely. I definitely get your point and share some of that same sentiment, but search results these past 10 uears have become overwhelming absurd, shallow, and barely tangentially related to what I'm looking for
I agree, and I think the militarization of the police has been a net negative on the US. It should be police action. East Asian countries have very low drug use rates because they deal with drug use appropriately. Meanwhile in San Francisco, a comparably far richer place, drug use is tolerated and the problem proliferates.

And you don’t need armored vehicles and SWAT teams to get to a better place.
Not much like software, but a representative example could be insurance policies.

All kinds of people pay for them in all kinds of ways, some mandated, others reluctantly, while some pay enthusiastically for the coverage.

But even the most willing payers often don't actually like the product they are getting at all.
> Does curl need a license to send HTTP requests for me?

No, but if they had one and it was phrased like this one, the license itself would be limited to these activities. If you want something to decry from Mozilla's terms, pay attention to this part:

> Every once in a while, Mozilla may decide to update these Terms. We will post the updated Terms online. We will take your continued use of Firefox as acceptance of such changes. We will post an effective date at the top of this page to make it clear when we made our most recent update.

Note that they even tell you that you can check for yourself to see if/when they tell you that you've agreed to give them a new license. That is much closer to allowing them to do anything they want than what the current license allows.

Regardless of any of that, the thing to have in mind is that this is an explicit message from Mozilla that you are agreeing to these terms by using firefox and continuing to agree to the terms by using firefox. Not to say this is ideal; just that it's as good a time as any to move on from Mozilla and firefox, especially if one is unhappy with these terms. I say this as someone who has left behind Mozilla and firefox after using it for over a decade. I will continue to be on the look out for and supportive of alternatives. So far librewolf (https://librewolf.net/) has been an easy pick-up as it's primarily just firefox with telemetry turned off.
Having things look the same makes everything easier to use. I know exactly what's clickable and what happens when I click them, instead of having to figure it out each time.

I don't understand why you'd be annoyed at different checkboxes within an app but not at different checkboxes between apps. Do you only ever use a single app? I constantly switch between many apps.

More importantly, having things behave the same makes everything much easier to use. If your checkboxes don't work the same way as the standard ones (and yes, this is a thing that happens) then that's a problem.

In addition to intentional behavior differences, you also have bugs. For an example close to my heart, Slack often loses its mind and destroys my input when I try to use the Undo functionality. This sort of bug would be impossible if they just used the standard UI widgets built into the OS, because the OS's widgets have competently implemented undo.
A distributed file system is honed as one of the trickiest software to write, and we are usually advised not to write a file system from scratch (even on top of FUSE), let alone a highly optimized one. When a silicon value company is having the 100th meeting to align god-knows-what, a team of fewer than 60 already came up with a production-grade highly efficient parallel file system.

Have we in the valley companies lost touch?
Fusion's public-relations drive is obscuring the challenges that lie ahead
> You think Jim, who's been training the new hires on the factory floor for a decade, who knows all the tricks to making this fit together at wiget factory even when the process instructions are vague, has documented everything?

No, I don't think so. That's why the lay-offs predominantly target probationary employees.
It's shocking to me that people would intentionally seek Reddit threads. The quality of the discussion on that site is absolutely appalling beyond belief.
Yeah, I saw their YouTube video which was immensely annoying to watch. That’s why I was pretty pleased when I discovered Orion and I recently switched from Arc and MobileSafari to Orion as my defaults, but I’m using Arc as the Chromium browser I keep around for when that matters (which right now just means DRM streaming sites like Netflix and Crunchyroll), but Brave could fill this spot just as easily.
I may have written one of those dusty guides in my younger days.

>I've seen none that even hinted at making the DVD ISO a target, leading me to believe it wasn't well supported 20 years ago.

iPXE has always supported this, but the devil is always in the details.

Windows Setup has a disk-bootability-validation step that it runs before it'll let you install Windows. It checks that the firmware can actually see the drive (i.e. it was present during system boot) and understands the boot chain, looking for the ESP or MBR that will actually load Windows once Setup completes.

There's something about loading more than one disk into the iBFT[1] and hooking those disks into INT13 on a BIOS-based system that very frequently breaks one of those checks. You try to select a disk and Windows Setup complains about not being able to verify that it's bootable.

It'd all likely work just fine on a typical UEFI system these days.

Of course, since it's Windows, there's no "I checked and it's okay please install anyway" button. But I'm pretty sure you can just apply the wim manually from the command line and install the bootloader, but I was never clear if that process implemented the driver reflection step necessary to ensure the NIC would start on boot...

It's unfortunate that Windows Setup itself isn't open-source. It'd probably have made the time I spent doing this stuff a lot more interesting.

[1]: iSCSI Boot Firmware Table is a memory structure used to pass iSCSI disks from a firmware-level software initiator to the OS-level software initiator after the kernel takes over the hardware

[2]: https://ipxe.org/wimboot
This series of puns has really been a gem so far, but it's going off the rails at this point
I remember reading that article but being unable to understand it due to my lack of knowledge in the area. I will have to give it another go.
Next challenge: Wifi
The selling point of original Skype was that it allowed making audio calls on worst connections, requiring just several kilobytes/sec, and going through NATs (other products required a direct fast connection and were usable only within a local network). As for P2P, I don't think users care about that. Not having P2P is actually better because P2P can disclose your IP address.

For example, Tox is a fully decentralized P2P messenger and it is not widely popular.
probationary employees
My Thoughts on the Zen Browser
This is fair, but I feel like HN is often an echo chamber of people who have a common experience that I'm not sure is representative of industry or society writ large.
Furthermore the Industrial Revolution stimulated the need for a trading empire to supply its materials. Nowadays we have global free trade (enforced by the US Navy - yet more technology) so trading empires are unnecessary.
Lake County library leaders expect to see more challenged books
ah, got it... so same idea, but no "Show HN"?
At first I was curious if they'd included any pictures of what it actually looks like, but when I saw the pictures I definitely came to doubt my decision. So for the feint of heart, beware.
We gave Wiki the info. AI took the info. These things are not the same.
If you asked people working for XIV before IBM discontinued the project, they'd tell you the same thing more or less.
I've been that developer making a single-threaded app multi-threaded. Best way to learn though!
> that their loyalty is not at all to America. It is not to the American people or the Constitution. It is to themselves.

I am visualising such a person just now ...
Do you use a CDN in front of it?

Would something like Cloudflare help with bot detection?
It’s a CSS issue, just needs `whitespace: nowrap;`
I'm a big fan of general search.
>That research, conducted over the past decade by the immunologist and medical doctor Michael Mina and others, revealed that measles destroys immune cells. Even people who recover from the virus lose much of their immune memory, and therefore the protection they had acquired from prior infections or vaccines to all the other childhood illnesses. This leaves survivors more vulnerable to many other diseases for years afterward. Worse, these victims may now face those childhood diseases, to which they lost immune protections, as older children, which puts them more at risk for complications.

That is scary, the implication seems to be that a lot of other child deaths that we hadn't attributed to measles may in fact be related to measles when it was widespread, making measles dangerous than previously thought.

Surviving alone might not mean you're out of the woods.
Thanks! I think this is a really insightful comment because Nomad is more opinionated than I think we let on. The subtle interactions between signals, service discovery, health checks, templates, etc. all have a big impact on the reliability of the system as a whole. I've always wanted to do a "HashiCorp Validated Nomad App Design" kind of doc to outline these best practices, but it's always proved too big of a lift. Maybe now is the time!
Why did you make the day itself into a checkbox? Did you use this for weekly reviews or something?
Mozilla now sells data, while Brave does not?
What was that about free markets, Jeff?
Measles is not really that bad --- just wait for a polio outbreak.

Anti-vaxers are a danger not just to themselves but to others they have contact with.

Religious voodoo is not an effective treatment or preventative --- proven over and over again all over the world.

https://apnews.com/article/australia-manslaughter-diabetes-t...
The trajectory actually seems to be plateauing already. OAI is struggling mightily to improve GPT enough to call it 5.0 and te struggles will only get harder as the number gets higher
I’ve never really understood the love for Explorer in any of its iterations. It was just alright at its best in the Win7 era and somewhere between mediocre and bad in other eras.
On rereading this didn't come back like I intended. IMO this post is fine. What I'd caution against is reading too much into the targeted feedback from reddit/etc about your game. Studying like you're doing is great, but nothing would beat actually sitting down and talking to someone in person who has played a lot of games and picking their brain. You say the "feedback was tough", which makes me think that you didn't expect it. If you sit down with someone and have a conversation about the game, I think you'll find that you can empathize with their feedback and understand it better. Instead of just feeling criticized, you'll realize that the things about the game they don't like, you also don't like, and be able to make it better. Basically I think that empathetic human-to-human feedback is a lot easier to process and learn from compared to anonymous feedback from disinterested strangers.
For sure, and I agree - it’s terrible for the company. I’m more speaking from my perspective as an IC, or even as a lead/manager role - it erodes my morale faster than almost anything else, having to sit in meeting after meeting about very obvious issues that are never directly addressed, even though a lot of people in the room know the exact problem, due to this fear of stepping on any toes or gasp admitting we had a shortcoming or failure somewhere.

I will either get promoted or moved off the project in such situations, and almost nothing in between - I am completely discontent to sit in a room and pretend something I know isn’t something I know due to fragile egos. The worst is when I get hired for this trait (I am very up front about it) and end up in this environment anyway, because the management wants a “disruptor.” What they’re really doing is using you as a proxy, and it’s annoying and miserable.
(We) don't use LLMs for writing
Thankfully my library hasn't been impacted, they actually have stand of "banned books" near the door.
Human Authored Certification
Those thing aren't mutually exclusive. You can be on a decline and something comes along and tanks your visits well beyond what a natural decline would have been.
Just be aware that once you escape your default setting, you'll come to realize everybody else hasn't.

It'll be like teenage angst at your parents, except it'll be angst at the entire species :)

Anyone that writes and asks earnest questions pretty quickly turns to spirituality, religion, philosophy or pseudo-philosophy/pseudo-science (self-help) because they end up realizing oh - I don't know what's going on at all!

The spiritual path is living with truth of don't know. Religion is choosing to have 'faith' and a set of instructions but really is about huddling with others for warmth and comfort. Philosophy is about attempting to build a logically consistent system of what's going on. Self-help is a set of quick hacks to make one feel better.

Almost all people settle in a modified default setting (self help) and choose to use thinking to do tiny little puzzles instead of asking the deeper questions. They can't handle the angst, they want that human comfort more than they want the truth :)
Idk if there's just something wrong with me, but I feel like every time someone says "look how much better P3 looks" I just think it looks over-saturated and the more muted look of the srgb just looks so much better to me.
The problem is, except for the very first ones in Japan, there were never any nuclear weapons being used in a major war exactly for the unknown consequences of the other players.

It is all interconnected. If one nuke is used, then there will be many on the other side applying pressure to also use a nuke. And so on. I assume much more countries secretly have nukes and the frontlines are somewhat blurry. Meaning, at the moment I am also not too worried, but if a nuke is used it will be a very high gamble, that it will be just the only one.
Here are some examples of retail memecoins buyers trying to do that:

https://www.reddit.com/r/solana/comments/1gye9qf/cant_sell_m...

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/17zrvoj/hel...

https://www.reddit.com/r/solana/comments/1c3hxht/how_to_sell...

If you are buying this stuff retail, you are probably already too late to sell and make a gain, because insiders are ever innovating on strategies like "single sided liquidity" to get their money out before retail buyers can, i.e:

https://x.com/beaniemaxi/status/1891904092361879674

I suspect you were already aware of all that, though.

Also, casino gambling games are regulated.

Memecoins, like NFTs, are just a mechanism for exploitation of the uninformed and a channel for anonymous bribery of the powerful.
I am so sorry; I conflated your comment with the sibling from zeeg.
Let's just get rid of the idea that we should pay to listen any song. I don't want to have my listening habits quantified or used as a proxy for how much any work of art is worth to me.

We can make this super simple: we can still keep the subscription model, we just need to change the revenue sharing system. Let's just charge a base monthly fee for the streaming service itself (say $1/month) and let's add a monthly "pay what you want" amount where 100% of the value goes specifically to the artists you choose.

So, let's say that I pledge to give $10/month, and I spread that around some 10-15 artists, This means that 90% of the money I am putting into the system is going to the artists. Someone wants to give $20/month, it would mean 95% of the money going to the "right" hands. We wouldn't have to argue about what the "right" hands are because that is defined directly by the people voting with their wallets.
I've personally been seeing an overall shift in the direction of a strong dislike for any kind of low-effort content.

People are pretty hostile towards AI-generated content, so any platform wanting to remain relevant is going to have to take measures to keep out AI-generated content. If you allow it in, it'll quickly become 99% of your overall content and all the human consumers will leave.

As a side effect I'm seeing a lot of human-generated content getting labeled as AI-generated because it looks AI-generated. Sure, a lot of blogspam is going to be replaced by AI slop, but even human-written blogspam isn't going to survive the shift, simply because its quality is so poor that it is essentially indistinguishable from AI slop.

Right now we're in an in-between phase. Most people are still using low-quality aggregators like Google. This will inevitably have to change. Either Google & friends somehow get their shit together (I doubt it), or we're going to see a shift towards known-good curated content like 1990s webrings. I wouldn't be surprised to see a vetted-human Web Of Trust, but for content.
Fennec on F-Droid
Agreed. Open source is great, but the only way we build the software world we want to see is by supporting the software projects which align with your values. Using software is not supporting it; contributing to it is, but that simply isn't viable for many people; paying for it also is, and that's viable for most people, especially software engineers.
Microsoft wants Donald Trump to change AI-chip rules
the analysis isn't correct, it feels like a forced segregation

- reddit got boost because of google's investment in it, and they're consciously boosting it
- wikipedia clearly doesn't have increase in page views
- substack as a product has been on rise, more authors leading to more views, no actual co-relation with the content on the platform
I still have a leather bound journal, but these days I also use Obsidian to make my writing easier to search.

Since it stores everything as markdown files in folders, I can use ripgrep to search for things.