skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if starting with intentionally getting a parking fine in Chicago, followed by then submitting an FOIA about that fine and all related documents / data would have worked.

Edit: seems like that was the part of the origin story of this according to https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2025/02/09/fixing-illinois-foia/
Launch of Personal App
hey everyone... just coming to leave the link for the app that I have been working on, it's just a MVP and there are a hundred of things that will come in the future... hope you guys like it...!!!
To someone who thinks "Laborer coordination and workforce strikes." are "very Marxist", China is indeed Marxist.

I know you're not the person who responded with that conflation, but if you were, to ask if Lenin would agree with that assessment is a motte-and-bailey fallacy.
If I get a new non mac laptop I max out the warranties and accidental damage. Top service level. Then consider that real OG price. Without those extras you have a brick-in-waiting.
Are we so beaten down that we think no new useful technology is possible ? That we cant do large projects ?

It is quite hard to not be cynical .. we have lots of evidence that we should be cynical, that our politicians are scamming us etc.

But it does seem to me that we have geo-engineered our way into a warming climate - by burning Carbon fuels the last 150 years - and we will need to geo-engineer our way out of the mess.

I saw a statistic that said around 50% of people dont believe that climate warming is caused by human activity.
It seems unpopular on HN to talk about climate change, but here goes :

We are nearing or at +1.5C now, currently at a long plateau of peak CO2 and CH4 emissions .. and we may be warming at around +0.3C per decade. That puts us near +2.1C by 2045 .. not so far in the future.

Lets say we electrify everything and reach "Net-Zero" by 2060 .. the accumulated CO2 will stay there for a long time until we remove it. Its the area under the graph that counts. Net Zero emissions == Peak CO2 == PEAK HEAT

Were headed for more ice melt, more energetic storms, more wildfires, more floods, crop failure, less stable food supply.

Id prefer if we could go back and stop burning carbon 30 years ago .. but here we are, soon heat itself will be its own problem.

Only a few crazy people seem to be willing to discuss the unthinkable option of _deliberately_ polluting the sky with Sulfur particulates to increase cloud cover over the ocean, so more light is reflected and less heat is absorbed by the sea .. but what other plan is there to survive peak heat ?

Given the urgency of the problem - the burning need to get away from Carbon fuels - I have to wonder why governments aren't underwriting large projects such as deep drilled geothermal ? If otoh, Small Modular Nuclear reactors are really the best solution.. why dont we have a whole coterie of them working by now ?

Why aren't rich ex-founders financing more of these hail-mary projects ? Drilling a 12-km hole in the ground and pouring a billion dollars into it, with 5% odds of getting a vast supply of free energy out of it seems an okay tradeoff to make, if I have 10Bn net worth and there is a chance that Ill be making the planet livable for my grand-kids.
What happens to the products of lithium battery waste, or gases and products of coal mining and burning?
IIRC hair dying is not great during pregnancy. It is slightly, but measurably oncogenic in children of mothers who died hair during pregnancy and breastfeeding. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3543291/
I don't want to rain on such a cool parade, but I'm pretty sure doing the same with a truly performant GC is a whole different ballgame.
Google replaced search by image with Google Lens
Different films have varied responses/curves to contrast than digital sensors. This is likely what GP is referring to.
They announced they are planning linux release in 2025 in their end of 2024 event, and down in the thread you linked they hint apparently it is now in active development.
To me the question now is rather individual level related, instead of mass organization and action: what is threshold beyond which one - while having lost job, health[care], housing, social services and maybe even family member(s) - decides that s/he won't have absolutely anything else to lose, to then "pull a Luigi" on someone who s/he may feel responsible for his situation? Then iterate from 1 to n -> where would "n" make a real difference?
No extra risks compared to a normal blood transfusion.
> We have absolutely zero idea how to maintain current lifestyles for N billion people across tens of thousands of years

Perhaps, but then you end up in the extinctionist/Malthusian doom loop instead.
Yeah, that's pretty creepy - that also includes private that that would otherwise not reach the internet.
Thank you for this take, which I haven't seen before.

I believe it will help me deal with the current doomsday news (and be more stoic in general).
Ariane 6 is still one of the most impressive feats that came out of ESA in a long time, but I keep circling back to the fundamental issue. Why not reusable?

It feels like Europe fell asleep when it comes to space innovation, but at this point reusable launches are not even an innovation, they're just how the business is done. And until we manage to build reusable infrastructure and rockets, the costs are going to be astronomical compared to the competitors.

Perhaps with the situation now, Europe could snag some rockstars from US?
Those banks are very far from being more trustworthy.
> Luteolin was applied to the skin on their backs for 16 weeks. The results showed that mice developed gray hair less frequently than those that did not receive luteolin. Oral administration of luteolin provided similar results.

Seems so, although I can see taste being a barrier for many.
Vertical bifacial agrivoltaics system are a promising setup that addresses some of your concerns. Most importantly, tractors can easily pass through them.

Another good setup is to combine it while grazing sheep.
New engines don't ever need to be honed. You can change the performance parameters in software easily enough.
Lack of 120hz scrolling is a bummer, so LF feels somewhat sluggish on a macbook pro compared to other browsers.
Britain and America are not exactly close...
I checked my bookmarks file to see if I had summarized any of their videos there, but if I did, I didn't tag them with the channel name, as I usually do for especially terrible videos. So, unfortunately, to give you examples, I would have to watch another Real Engineering video, which I'm unwilling to do unless someone pays me.
> You swap out metal gears for plastic gears, for instance.

Great, till the motor that drives the gears jams. When the gears are metal,the expensive part (the motor) is more likely to lose. When the gears are plastic, the motor survives and you need to replace the gears with nylon ones or 3D print your own.

The plastic gears may not always be designed as a sacrificial part, but most consumers unfairly dismiss the possibility immediately

This comes down to warranty too. If it fails during the warranty period, which one does the OEM want to pay to replace: the expensive motor, or the cheap gearing?
Lighter fluid will easily remove the soft touch coating and you can reapply it again if you wish. Steering wheels are mostly leather.
The real problem is that they are collecting too much data in the first place. Really, the company making the browser should receive no data at all - even auto-update servers can be handled by other non-profit organizations like universities.
They mention "other browsers" in addition to Firefox that will continue to support Manifest v2, but I can't find a list. Does anyone know off-hand the additional browser options for Manifest V2 and multiple-OS support?
> Why must everything always "scale" in order to be good?

Because there's eight billion of us. A lot of things work for one person but not for everybody. The big issues of land use, density, water, and transport end up forcing people into choice that perhaps nobody ultimately wants.

(this is not a reason for you or anybody else not to do it! But it's a reason against all sorts of "why doesn't everybody just X")
Is the top half of the comments on this forum for entrepreneurs really discussing the communist revolution revisited?
awe inspiring photos .. and we really need awe-inspiring right now.
> how does a design decision today, impact the future of 7 generation down the line?

There is literally a) no way to answer that, and b) it probably doesn't even matter. For instance, in 1850 (which is roughly 7 generations ago), the Austrian Empire abolished the customs and tariffs between its Hungarian and Ausrtian pieces. How does it impact us today?
Not relatively. They were incredibly expensive compared to the resources at the time, not least because of the difficulty of moving supplies around and the huge amount of opportunity cost in the lost work of the men recruited into the military.
God bless. That guy is the closest thing to a real life comic book superhero.
[citation needed] :)
lol but brave is chromium with some bloat and a crypto scheme bolted on. it'll be unable to block ads with anything but crippled MV3 solutions when the flag is disabled in July
No they didn't, some of them went bankrupt anyway, while others used that money in corruption schemes, which is why in Portugal many people nowadays avoid any kind of offers their bank advisors propose.
This!

I keep "my money" in a few different places. I keep a spreadsheet and every 1st of the month I 'do the rounds' and add the numbers of deposits, investments, '401k', etc. so I keep an eye on my 'net worth' on a monthly basis. When COVID happened and I saw that SP500 tanked, I bought more than my typical 'monthly purchase'.

Now, I am a nobody and worth a little. Someone who had $50m in the bank, well connected, and with access to info, 'went in' for x1000 what I did, at a better timed entry and left at a better timed exit made big bucks.

I am definitely part of the top 1% (8b people --> 80m)(considering that majority of the planet lives 'poor')(my definition of 'poor' was redefined when I visited the Philippines and saw a family of 4 live in a carton box from a fridge).

"We" here in HN (most of us) are in that 10% of the global population, whether we like it or not. And it's not because "everyone living in the EU is rich", it's more like in so many countries for majority of the people their income is well below $upper-tripple-digits.
You have to both outnumber the loyalists to certain degree and show significant determination. Euromaidan did that with 800,000 protesters at its peak. As a percentage of the population that's less than what Belarus saw, but at the same time Yanukovych had significantly fewer people willing to do his bidding than Lukashenko.
Problem
Is government as they should know exactly what is wrong - that is their job
Wait what, you're surprised by this?
Been there, done that... Not worth it
This is a fair question.

I also get nitpickity about it.

Not because some organization or some person is Russian, then it must be under the control of Putin.

Pavel Durov is Russian, and I don't have reasons to believe he syphons my data to the Kremlin (other than getting randomly detained in France).
Author of the post here. We’re a 4-member team running 4 products with 4,500+ paying customers. No sales team, no infrastructure team - just freemium and serverless computing (Firebase) doing the heavy lifting. I’ve been a developer and founder for 20+ years, and I know that 15 years ago, each product would’ve required at least a 30-member team to build, maintain, and sell. This isn’t hypothetical, it already happened to us.
Most of this leverage comes from internet distribution (freemium) and cloud computing (serverless), not AI. (Though we do use AI to answer support questions—since my cofounder is the only one handling them.) Now with AI, I argue that a solo engineer could outbuild a 100-member team in a couple of years. Given how much productivity has already increased, why is that an insane claim?
> Short of a financial crisis I don’t really see what slows this trend.

Vote left and increase taxes for the rich?
Ehm, everyone gets a holodeck, a replicator, and an abundance of energy to run them? Deal, take your beach villa, idc.
If you like staying in a post-soviet hostel, that's perfect.

I rather like something comfortable these days, so I'll stick with my M1 MacBook Pro. The creature comforts genuinely make my life better so I'm willing to pay for them.
But when they are it is easy and simple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Traor%C3%A9

https://youtu.be/wq14Vrz7ax0?t=73

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brice_Oligui_Nguema

https://youtu.be/4JU1W6dep_8?t=400
What user data? Telemetry from using their antivirus products? Is that what they’re talking about?
Anything based on Firefox, like LibreWolf, as well
> Is that because they're older?

Honest question, but do you know much about investing? The investment curve isn't linear. Someone making steady contributions should have around 10 times the amount of wealth at age 67 than they do at age 30 [1].

Millennials have more wealth than previous generations _at_ _the_ _same_ _age_[2]. Generation Z is earning even more than millennials _at_ _the_ _same_ _age_[3].

If you have evidence for why we should dismiss age cohorts, feel free to share it. All of the data I've seen shows that it's extremely important, and people who intentionally ignore it are pushing a narrative that doesn't match reality.

[1] https://www.fidelity.com/viewpoints/retirement/how-much-do-i...
[2] https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/04/16/g...
[3] https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/04/16/g...
Release candidate: Godot 4.4 RC 3
> That said I totally get that writing specs are hard, so not dissing the authors as such.

Oh definitely. Yeah maybe I come off as anti-spec or something, but in this case I just think MP was really well thought out, and then Bormann hung a bunch of stuff on it that really wasn't, and I'm salty haha.

> Anyway I've only looked at CBOR and MessagePack when I dabbled with some microcontroller projects. I found both to be too big, ie couldn't find a library suitably small, either compiled size or memory requirements or both. So I ended up with JSON for those due to that. Using a SAX-like parser I could avoid dynamic allocations entirely (or close enough).

Whaa? I wrote an MP implementation specifically for this use case: https://github.com/camgunz/cmp. JSON parsing terrifies me; there was some table of tons of JSON (de)serializers with all their weirdo bugs that I never would've thought of. There are probably pretty good test suites now though? I've never looked.
How about "Pax Nubis Lucifera"?
The peasant had to pay 20% tax and had free housing and food and worked half the amount of hours / year that we work. And they got revolutions. What does it tell about us?
Google is milking a dying cow.

LLMs are much better in searching for information than advertisement-exposure optimized google.

People are paying for LLMs, consumers are no longer a commodity.

Internet will change, maybe creators will be paid for their content? But what will happen with advertisers?
it's also essential for keyboard navigation. accessibility is not only for people who have some impairment!
Show HN: Remote pair and mob programming timer
I built this since I didn't like all the other tools available. Homage to mobster.cc
They do, it prevents any upstart competitors who can't afford that cost.
You seem to be completely confused about why absolute vs relative matters. Moore's law literally states: "[Moore's law] is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years".

This is literally a relative measurement. You cannot reason about Moore's Law in absolute changes.

The other poster has laid it out for you in the simplest terms: a 1 billion transistor increase could mean anything. It could be a 1000% improvement - which is absolutely humongous - or a 10% improvement, which is basically irrelevant. If you want to measure how impactful an increase is, you have to look at relative change. 1 billion transistors on it's own means nothing. It is only interesting with respect to the number of transistors in the previous generation - which is a relative change measurement.

Say we are at Generation 1 with 100 billion transistors. By your reasoning, if we add 1 more billion of transistors to this, that's big. 1 billion transistors are a lot. But this is absolutely incorrect! Because we started out with 100 billion transistors, the change is actually irrelevant.
- Total Global Wealth: $454 trillion

- Annual Global GDP: $105 trillion

- Cost to Feed Everyone for a Year: $10 trillion

The issue is not a lack of money but rather distribution, logistics, and political will.
This entire article is laughable. Back when I was in the dating pool, I encountered a couple of women that had this mentality that they would be dating down because I don't have a degree. Unbeknownst to them, I commanded a six figure salary and it was I who would be dating down had I stuck with them and their poor worldview. This mentality needs to just stop though, the idea of "dating down" or "dating up" is just nonsense.
Cedar waxwings are pretty sharp looking too.
The idea of Solarpunk has been resonating with me for a while now. I'm not completely sold on some of the community aspects (a little too hippy) but it's an incredible breath of fresh air compared to the cyberpunk dystopian bullshit that we are being force fed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R8GlENvhLI

I'm an Aussie living in the EU, and if anything is going to eventually tempt me to go back it's going to be ridiculously cheap solar energy. I think the odds of building any kind of utopia there are pretty remote but I think massive scale green steel smelters (+ other metals), green ammonia facilities, and expansion of desalination (combined with indoor agriculture). If Aus doesn't completely fumble the ball, I think there's a really good opportunity for another "mining boom".

Had a lot of fun listening to Saul Griffith explaining that solar energy and electrification is inherently deflationary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFr87rZyr3o
Brick – SaaS Starter Kit is live on ProductHunt today
I was thinking about this and honestly, I would be more willing to take action exactly if I were old, simply because I'd have less to lose. Sucks to get life sentece at 20, doesn't change much when you're 80.
In my experience you just don't keep as good a map of the codebase in your head when you have LLMs write a large part of your codebase as when you write everything yourself. Having a really good map of the codebase in your head is what brings you large productivity boosts when maintaining the code. So while LLMs do give me a 20-30% productivity boost for the initial implementation, they bring huge disadvantages after that, and that's why I still mostly write code myself and use LLMs only as a stackoverflow alternative.
What is "reality"? For each of your examples, I can make valid points for both sides off the top of my head. Different things are more important to different people.
Recent Virus Research Should Raise Alarm
IMO it's only a matter of time before LLMs will include ads. Current pricing isn't covering the costs of running LLMs and brands will pay a high price for being favored in responses.
https://archive.ph/6obk9
Oats don't like hot dry areas, such as kenya in summer/dry season.

plus, burning oats is really fucking expensive, the chaff is a reasonable feed, and the straw is good bedding/binder for building stuff.

Burning for power is really a poor use, especially as it needs compressing into bricks first. Plus you only get a tiny bit of energy once a year, compared to ~1kwhr per panel per day. (depends on panel size and positioning etc etc )
My (human) black hair seems to have received no benefit from my love of tenderstem broccoli.

I'm 35 and really rather grey.

Also, if they plan on developing a treatment that stops hair going grey, what's the ultimate benefit against just using hair dye?
Hehe: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Orthodoxy
What progress meter? Infinite spinner is where it's at.
Please don't use the mind virus adage. That term is completely burnt by Musk's braindead agenda—there is no virus, if anything, there's opposing viewpoints that you may not agree with, but are just as valid as yours.
I don't share GP's word association but a possible answer to your question is in your own URL: Coccinella.
lead acetate. I worked in an environmental lab and one day all our water samples were spiking outrageously high in lead. As we began to check for contamination we traced it to my boss. He used Grecian Formula and had a habit of touching his hair. We were testing for ppm of lead at the time in waste water but this batch of samples was peeking out our equipment. Turns out Grecian Formula has %’s lead ! So just touching and equipment or glassware after touching his hair totally contaminated all the samples. So yeah, stay clear of that stuff unless you would like a measurable drop in IQ from nerve damage.
For 2D design, I highly recommend QCAD (https://qcad.org/en/)

I discovered it when I was preparing materials for waterjet cutting, and I was astounded at the quality of the software and its huge range of features.

It's multi-platform, and very attractively priced.
China's economy is more state owned than not. The private market is strictly controlled with socialist ideology. The difference between Chinese markets and liberal markets is that the state there controls the capitalists, in the US the capitalists control the state.
Pattern recognition. Some people have and some don't. It's also situational for some people.

I had a friend who could immediately see patterns in fighting games, after a few plays they'd immediately know how the CPU would react in certain situations. I could never.

I can see patterns in code, how it relates to other code and in the processes surrounding it, especially when I'm not taking my ADD meds. It's a superpower when shit's on fire and needs to be handled fast.

Similarly some people form this "sixth sense" situational awareness for physical tools and safety. They'll just look at a worksite and "feel" something is off. Or they pick up a tool and immediately know something is off - something in the balance or how it feels in the hand, or maybe it made a noise it's not supposed to.
that css preprocessor would be CSS modules and yes it solves the scoping problem today
Now I think you come to thw crux of it.
This argument would fall apart if we could simulate a human mind, and there are good reasons to think we could. Human brains and their biological neurons are part of the physical world, they obey the laws of physics and operate in a predictable manner. We can replicate them in computer simulations, and we already have although not on the scale of human minds (see [1]).

It's on Penrose and dualists to show why simulated neurons would act differently than their physical counterparts. Hand-waving about supposed quantum processes in the brain is not enough, as even quantum processes could be emulated. So far, all seems to indicate that accurate models of biological neurons behave like we expect them too.

It stands to reason then, that if a human mind can be simulated, computers are capable of thought too.

[1] https://openworm.org/
Mainly recycling.
They did not see the use case for reusable rockets. There just was no need, no plan to launch so much so often as spacex does.

It's probably that Europeans just don't have such intractable problem to pull fiber everywhere the electrical grid already is. So providing the internet with megaconstellations is seen as superfluous and wasteful.
interesting take, resonates strongly with my own experience. my views changed a lot from my naive idealistic teen years.