skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The value is in leadership, and being able to avoid certain classes of bugs from appearing in the first place. Troubleshooting just happens to be the skill that allows you to gain the knowledge to lead.
Small discussion earlier in the week (19 points, 4 days ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162877
You are changing the framing to excuse drug dealers. Most of the people with harsh lives don’t become criminals.
I wish the EU was more ... united.

Most of the nations were woefully slow to act with Ukraine (hey let's send some token helmets). They've got a totalitarian regime invading democracies in their back yard but don't seem all that united about it ....
It's been independent again since 2023, so multiple years
How can you have hacker culture at any major tech companies when the entire management structure is nothing but business brains?

How many CEOs of prominent tech companies right now even use technology? Like REALLY use it.
Quintrophy1x has been appropriately renamed as, Quintropy1x. This aligns better with the Quintessentropy suite as well as succeeding it's purpose in delivering quintessential entropy on every encryption.
No, in the sense that blockchain is. This is just the latest in a long history of tech fads propelled by wishful thinking and unqualified grifters.

It is the solution to almost nothing, but is being shoehorned into every imaginable role by people who are blind to its shortcomings, often wilfully. The only thing that's obvious to me is that a great number of people are apparently desperate for a tool to do their thinking for them, no matter how garbage the result is. It's disheartening to realize that so many people consider using their own brain to be such an intolerable burden.
It's been independent since 2023, so multiple years
trump and the republicans must really be stupid to trade NATO for russia, while leaving an opening for china to side with europe. If US ditches europe, india/SK/JP and the rest of asia will soon reciprocate.

All this so that US sides with a bankrupt cleptocracy and dictatorship. 1000iq move, I guess.
The title of the paper is "The serotonin theory of depression" and it uses the phrase throughout the paper.
Nope, this is the first such "blow up" where folks at the white house berated a guest they invited there.
Research area that would be extremely interesting: whether and how epigenetic changes of this type correlated with social-political behavior and values.
So why won't people listen to me that compassion for all human beings is the only excellent choice for us, both personally and in our cultures/societies/groups?

The side that takes pleasure in the misery of others does so because the negative effects can be -- just as this title states -- deleterious for generations.

We must evolve ourselves to, instead, sow the seeds of compassionate concern for all human beings to rid ourselves of the damaging effects of abuse of every kind, between any two people or groups of people.

Yes, accomplishing any progress in that direction is fundamentally difficult because it goes against our animal physiology and negative potential, not to mention the even more generations of institutional pack mentality that so permeates our cultures' seeking of power.

We could choose peace and compassion, if we chose to, but such a bold endeavor takes utter commitment and real work, for each and every one of us.

Compassion is always the solution to ALL our problems, because the lack of compassion is ALWAYS the fundamental cause of EACH and EVERY one.

It is both that simple, and that difficult, but it is also rewarding beyond normal comprension, for it is the most real kind of magic in this multiverse.

"Love, baby, love." --Louis Armstrong
Independent FOSS forks of firefox without Mozilla services / tracking exist

https://librewolf.net/
Working on mobile it gets even crazier because everything* is shipped to everyone.

"Oh we just need to include this lib for that one tiny thing, who cares."

Turns into

"we're using 7TB of mobile storage around the world for this one tiny feature"

or

"Our app is responsible for ~472TB of mobile storage being used."

(actual numbers I just calculated btw)

*: Some stuff is optimized out, not everything but essentially anything needed to run any part of the app on a users device is included, even if they just need to do one specific thing and nothing else.
Programming Without Pointers
My wife and I still use Skype, primarily for chat, but sometimes video calls. I had Skype Credits, but I don't really need that anymore. The service has definitely degraded (like it couldn't deliver text in a timely manner frequently), but we never switched because despite its faults, it was comfortable enough. No way in hell I am going to use that garbage Teams. I am stuck using it at work and loathe it. This motivates to find a Free Software alternative to this.
Its not just the internet. Its almost everything in your life. Financialization of products and services seems to keep pushing products to get cheaper while providing additional supposed 'value'. In reality, you are usually paying more for less but are fooled into believing that you are getting more.

I was reminded of this recently by comparing an old 90s Toyota to the latest models. The 90s cars were over-engineered and 30 years later, had more breathing room to keep going. Meanwhile the latest stuff is all plastic pieces that have been engineered to perform many tasks using just one piece. The idea was that they could focus on making that one piece as robust as possible and still save money on reducing parts and making the operators life easier during assembly (no one cares about the plight of the repairman). All in the name of saving costs to keep the product competitive in the face of the declining value of fiat money.

Well even though its supposed to be better, the new stuff still sucks. People are holding onto their old cars, we lost so many wonderful 2000s cars due to cash for clunkers. The designs and colors are also more boring.

How do you fight this?

Well as software people we have an out: Homemade software and open source. Homemade software allows us to cut the cruft out of products that companies add. We pay for in our time but if it is important enough to us then it has to be done.

This applies to everything: You can make your own food instead of accepting the declining garbage from takeout/restaurants, you can buy raw materials and do your own woodwork/electronics/metalworking.

Even something like cars can be somewhat pushed back on. Communities form around popular cars to document and better understand the issues prevalent with certain models. Use this info to self select on a vehicle that has a large community and to help anticipate problems that can be coming down the pike with that particular model.

Again, no one has infinite time so you have to decide for yourself what things are important to you and take back control while trying your best to minimize nonsense in other areas.
I think they did, but they didn’t expect Zelensky to punch back. He’s more of a fighter than either of them will ever be. Trump is the classic bully where all you need to do is push back. Then he folds.
Can LLMs play real-time games like supermario (other than Pokemon red)?
gaming agent code here: https://github.com/lmgame-org/GamingAgent/tree/main
R2D2's language is real.
FSD has been just around the corner for over a decade.

What is not just around the corner is a significant decline in Tesla sales world wide. It is here and now and will be revealed in next quarters numbers.

My advice is to place your bets accordingly.
I already mentioned it under another comment (so I probably look like a shill), but Telegram also has this functionality, all wrapped in a native (C++/Qt) and relatively efficient desktop client.
I think if a bunch of Chromium forks come together, they can maintain v2 support for quite a while. A fork maintained by a combination of Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, and maybe some of those startup-based browsers can probably keep the most important APIs running for quite some time.

At some point the issues will become too difficult to fix, but none of these companies need to be doing it alone. Adding a separate upstream with some "fuck off Google" fixes for them to base their proprietary browser on seems like a smart thing to do.
> So if you want a better web experience with uBlock Origin, Firefox is your only choice (or use Firefox forks that support it).

Stand up against the browser hegemony*, choose WebKit with support for UBlock Origin:

https://kagi.com/orion/

---

* Tongue in cheek, of course. Long live Firefox.
Can we take the opportunity to discuss why Trump's administration is so desperately going after rare earth minerals? Greenland, Canada, Ukraine...

Is it only about chips and AI for economic reasons or is there more involved like, an army of robots or something to control everything?
Don’t mean to hijack this thread, but I don’t think HN has DMs. Read some of your comments and as a person with cancer would love to pick your brain a little to develop my mental model further (and of course wouldn’t expect anything for free.) Drop me a line at [my HN username] [at] nearby.org if open to discussing more. Thanks!
> But boy, will the nations of the world remember this -- how quickly the US can turn from ally to bully.

Nothing new, smart people knew that for a long, looong time. May I remind you it took Pearl Harbor to get the US into WW2.
Realtalk: Would you entrust the nuclear arsenal to someone who honestly thinks "asylum seekers" came from an insane asylum?

https://thespectator.com/topic/spectator-interview-president...
Let's hope the EU countries fully support Ukraine.

Too angry to type more.
Well Washington Times is free !

Maybe Washington Post could also be made free well. Every good journalist worth following will be on substack; there is nothing of value left in the Post and hence it should be free.
This timeline is so bad, it is increasingly hard to dismiss the possibility that that is not the product of change, but rather the product of being in an absolutely shitty simulation.
I think there's no actual plan, trump et al are just stupid. Looking at how DOGE is doing seems to coroborate this view.
if there are any warnings I'm supposed to ignore then there are effectively no warnings.

there's nothing pagmatic about it. once I get into the habit of ignoring a few warnings that effectively means all warnings will be ignored
It looks like the US wants a regime change in Ukraine, it's possible that this became a pre condition from russia for talks to go forward.

OTOH, a minerals deal with the US ensures that the US will have a stake in defending the postwar ukraine.

Lots of drama and optics involved for sure, but it seems the outcome or the talks was predetermined

JdVance will not last for long - is there procedure to replace him?
Well most of the nations of the world didn't do anything for Ukraine, or supported Russia one way or the other.

Maybe a lot of them see the US and/or the Western countries as bullies anyway.

edit: not sure by which part of the world this is downvoted ;)
The doj v Google ad tech case is awaiting resolution and possible remedies, so we don't know what antitrust allows right now.
Russia is in war economy now, you definitely shouldn't underestimate them.

Especially if the US lifts their sanctions against Russia.
A new study identifies differences between human and AI-generated text
We need a trustworthy Web browser. There isn't one. And such a massive complexity moat has been created with de facto standards, and also made a moving target, that some nice programmer's temporary hobby project isn't a viable solution.
(I work at Vercel) We are primarily built on AWS hardware and our own software.

For example, a custom CDN/proxy¹, build infrastructure², compute³, WAF⁴, etc. – and then take advantage of AWS' network/fiber (like AGA⁵) and their hardware.

¹: https://vercel.com/blog/life-of-a-vercel-request-what-happen...

²: https://vercel.com/blog/a-deep-dive-into-hive-vercels-builds...

³: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-fluid-compute

⁴: https://vercel.com/blog/preventing-infrastructure-abuse-with...

⁵: https://aws.amazon.com/global-accelerator/
> the amount of ads that are presented in Safari

First, consider NextDNS to DNS adblock all your apps.

For in the browser, for those who do use Safari, consider 1Blocker, otherwise consider AdGuard Pro.
Wapo is storied and all but i honestly wonder how you guys could collectively forget newspapers during the gilged age. I'm not saying it's good or bad just that the pseudo umbrage is misplaced
On Linux I’ve done this by pinning processes to a certain range of CPU cores, and the scheduler will just keep one core free or something. Which allows whatever I need in terms of management to execute on that one core, including SSH orUI.
Option-Left/Right to move by word; Command-Left/Right to move to the beginning or end of the line.
> OTOH, a minerals deal with the US ensures that the US will have a stake in defending the postwar ukraine.

Most of the minerals are in russian-occupied territory, so if they want that they would also need to further arm Ukraine now.
Sounds like your dev-setup could use a little magic! I have sprinkled some automation & LLM pixie dust on mine, and commits writes themselves!
> I. Don't. Care.

What are you going to do about it? Are you going to kick Tim Cook's ass?

> - My naive family member might be tricked

That was probably somebody else, I didn't say that.

> - Claiming allowing sideloading will ruin the platform for 'normal' people

The proof is in the pudding: Every other platform is destroyed, because they are made chiefly for corporate and for programmers. Since there is one platform that is actually good, among hundreds of alternatives, they probably know what they're doing and should continue doing that.

> Do you have any argument that can actually defend why someone shouldn't be able to put whatever OS or apps they want on a computer they bought?

You can put whatever OS or apps on any device from Apple, if you have the skills. If not, buy something else. Or try to kick Tim Cook in the ass.
It also took the White House being set on fire to understand the sovereignty of the land across its northern border. And now there's all this Trump talk of trying to invade once again.
The only one who looked strong was zelensky to me. But I’m sure the maga base will eat this up and oddly are pro Russia now.
Not a realistic risk, if only because I don't think they can credibly man a second front of any length at this point.
Zelensky just proved once again what real leadership looks like.

He went to the White House knowing that they will try to do exactly that and yet he did it with his head held high and did not sign the deal. Amazing guy.

This is also a historic day for the world. US dominance over the West is over.

As a European, I will vote against any politician that keeps talking about EU-US special partnership and doesn't put 'EU First'. The special partnership is over, we are still doing business together but it's clear as a day that it's only business from now on.
Thought they 'quit' doing this, a year ago

General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior with Data Brokers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793903
"We've seen that international law doesn't really work, but international engineering is very effective"

I would not bet against Ukraine.
Ask HN: Firefox may be selling our data. Can you recommend an alternative?
Firefox just made a change their TOS copy that implies that they may begin selling our data [^1]. I'm a web developer– which means I need access to browser tools, and the 1Password extension. Are there privacy-focused forks of Firefox or an alternative browser you can recommend?

- [1] https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847L60
Good catch—thanks! I've put that more accurate quote in the title above (or rather, a shortened version that fits HN's 80 char limit).

Edit: merging into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185909

Earlier thread (in this case) was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200065, which had that title.
Big take given how much AI companies hate alignment folks.
I'd like an answer that is more than just a sound bite.
It's pretty rare. It was flagged dead when I came across it. My comment got over a dozen upvotes so it seems others feel similarly.
I get the sense that Vance and Musk are the ones really in control.
Wasn’t the excuse that Elon is autistic?

Wait till he finds out what the Nazis did to autistic people.

Why is it so hard to just say “Nazis suck, I hate Nazis”…
FSB psyops directorate is celebrating so hard they won’t get sober until next Tuesday.
Besides what others have said, the government is immune from many of the multi-agent coordination problems that trap other types of entities. It's basically the essential reason we have government at all.

So no, not all things government does can be replaced by the private sector, for reasons of game theory.
"Retinoid restores eye-specific brain responses in mice with retinal degeneration" (2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33129531

Fluoxetine increases plasticity in the adult visual cortex; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43079501

Zebrafish can regrow eyes,

From the "What if Eye...?" virtual eyes in a petri dish simulation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044958 :

> [ mTor in Axolotls, ]

"Reactivating Dormant Cells in the Retina Brings New Hope for Vision Regeneration" (2023) https://neurosciencenews.com/vision-restoration-genetic-2318... :

> “What’s interesting is that these Müller cells are known to reactivate and regenerate retina in fish,” she said. “But in mammals, including humans, they don’t normally do so, not after injury or disease. And we don’t yet fully understand why.”

/? Regenerative medicine for ophthalmologic applications
I don’t see this happening. Five Eyes is the US’s invite only security umbrella. Many in Australia would love to kick the Americans off our land (eg Pinegap) but as the US will “coup who they want” that ain’t happening.
So it was just like literally everything else this administration is doing. Shocking.
My advice, which you might not see here, is to write about every game you play. And ideally every movie you watch and book you read, too. To develop a sense of your own taste and what makes a game good to you, you have to write your ideas down. Go through the major moments of a game and describe how they made you feel, and what they did to make you feel that way. Dissect the mechanics and identify stuff you liked and stuff that frustrated you.

This is pretty much what college is. You just write essays where you dissect stuff like that and then a professor reads them and gives feedback on your ideas and how you communicate them. You can do the same thing informally with your friends and partners, just discuss games.
Idk, I'm an amateur and that just looks like an obvious terrible move. I don't get it. What's to calculate?
AK HN: Is the Era of Hackers/Startups Over?
As a longtime HN user. I've noticed a drastic shift in the last few years in the industry. The glamour of a "hot startup" has gone away in lieu of the inevitably of big corporations and big platforms. Being a programmer doesn't seem as desirable or command nearly the respect that it did just a decade ago.

The "hacker ethos" seems to be in decline, for any number of interconnected reasons:

- The rise of AI

- High interest rates

- Dooming/decline of tech optimism

- Decline of the open internet and the rise of proprietary services

- Abandonment by tech leaders

- Diminishing returns of software on human productivity

- Generational changes

Does anyone else share this feeling? Temporarily or as a fundamental shift?

To that end, to what purpose is HN if the idea of a "hacker" goes away? It's hard not to understand the sudden shift of HN posts being political news, but what other topics are more broadly relevant to tech people right now?
Microsoft abandoned Spartan (the original MS Edge rewrite) for Blink, Trident was just phased out and left to die.
Future generations aren't voting in the next election.
You are not wrong but even among biologists and geneticists there are differences of opinion and differences of context. If a mouse geneticist says they knocked out gene X they usually mean that they inactivated the production of mRNA from a specific gene “model”. If you were talking to Richard Dawkins he would have a much more expansive definition of a “gene” that would include a much longer sequence of DNA (many protein-coding genes) that remains in a particular state long enough to be selected for (or not) or to drift to fixation or extinction.

It is not quite right to say:
“a gene is … a heritable trait.” This definition equates gene with trait. Yes that is how Mendel thought about his results since he could only see and quantify traits. But there are still a depressingly large number of protein-coding genes without linkage to traits.
Stay tuned for Ladybird.
There was an opinion poll amongst British on this and apparently even Brits don’t trust America anymore.

Only %44 believe that US will come to their help if Russia attacks UK.

Yougov: https://x.com/yougov/status/1893967204846063823?s=46
I also wrote a small tool to generate more templates, and it fits in a comment:

usage: weeks YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM-DD

weeks () {
one_day=$((60 * 60 * 24))
unix_from=$(date +%s --date="$1")
unix_to=$(date +%s --date="$2")

while [ $unix_from -lt $unix_to ]
do
echo @$unix_from
unix_from=$((unix_from + one_day))
done | date +'%F w%V %a' -f -

unset -v one_day unix_from unix_to
}

seriously, what's a compressed 1.2MB small tool?
https://u24.gov.ua/
You can choose the allocation of your donation, defence, or if you'd rather donate to other causes, humanitarian aid, demining, rebuilding (...)

A few months ago in my city, an ambulance shelled by Russians in kharkiv was shown. It was quite destroyed, and chock full of holes. It was quite moving
This is what JD Vance calls 'free speech'...
After 3 years the finish gets dull, but it’s still not bad. Not the worst contract I ever worked.
Reaction from Dmitry Medvedev a few minutes ago: "The insolent pig got a smack down in the White House"

Maybe the current administration can work more efficiently if Russia and the US have a single spokesman?