skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not supporting any party in this case, but this argument is weak.

This is like saying "putting padlocks cost money. We have to make sure we research about locks, buy the right one, give right people the keys. It is easier to just .. keep the door unlocked"

Every solution has its costs. The question is whether those costs outweight the benefits it seemingly brings. In this particular case, Apple has decided the DRM implementation costs outweight the benefits.
Fortunately, for those of that are lazy, the last page has everything you need to know in giant, bold letters:

1. Vitamins do NOT prevent measles.
2. Giving high doses of vitamins may be dangerous.
3. The best way to prevent measles is vaccination.
Hmm. You ever just stumble upon your reason for living?
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A late fee that a customer quietly pays is a win. A late fee that a customer feels you screwed them over on and kicks up a fuss about can be more trouble than it's worth.
Our enemies could and did and Trump was the tool they used.
Your phrasing is curious, but let me play this straight: No, never to that point. More in the pacific mode. Current phase: reduce expenditure and financial risk in tech. Consider a move to the west coast, or Canada (again).

Maidan Square situation not inconceivable any more in quite a few countries. Too bad not in Russia though, or as you hint, in the PRC. Our Tiananmen would be the Washington Mall.

And please don’t tweet: send condolences to your Mastodon account or HN. I’ll check this thread every few years.
The soundtrack does an excellent job making you feel the how desolate everybody feels.
> So if you would make the problems actually go away, they would lose the ability to run on them.

But the fact that they run on them without solving them shows that it's possible to run on a vaporware platform and never do what you said you would. So they would just find some new nonsense to run on. Also to a non-negligible extent the "problems" they run on are already illusory or unrealistically exaggerated, like demonizing various groups, or capitalizing on people's lack of understanding of how regulations can amortize risk.

I think we agree that structural reforms are necessary (like changing voting systems), but I think it's more than just that. There is a very real movement that is based in getting a large mass of non-wealthy people to reject reality in order to capture their votes to support the goals of a small number of wealthy people. Switching to STAR voting isn't going to fix it. That entire phenomenon has to be actively purged from society in the way that Nazism was purged in post-WWII Germany.
I don’t see the value in your contribution here. There is an objective truth I think everyone participating in the discussion agrees on: Trump lied in campaign speeches and the reality was clear to those in possession of all the facts. Events post election have indeed confirmed that he was lying.

So what is “my propaganda” you’re referring to? There’s just a truth that some people weren’t made aware of.
The scene has ways of getting the data without reencoding. Look for web dl.
> Saab 340 AEW&C and has offered Gripen fighter jet (but Gripen has been blocked by US/France).

US also blocked awacs, no Saab for Ukraine.
I suspect the moral of the story is devops and operations staff need to keep all payments, secret rotations, certificate expirations, etc. on a calendar so no one forgets to pay the bills. I hope the employee who forgot to pay the bill learns from this.
Would you agree that USA has benefited from being a super power?

And that flushing away that status is a bad idea?

In Vietnam many Americans fought and died, would you say the same about this war?
1. Seek to heal the underlying trauma / inflammation. Transpersonal work, psychedelics, somatic therapy.

2. Get into nature a few hours a week.

3. Write 14 gratitude letters.

4. Dance every day.

5. Be part of a community in which your competence is growing and you have a position of status and mentorship.

6. Tell the truth in your relationships.

7. Align your self with a solar / seasonal calendar.

8. Meaningful work in a healthy work environment

9. Get microbiome sorted out

10. Fast for a week, then reintroduce healthy non inflammatory foods. Have levels checked via blood panel.

—

If someone does all of these things and maintains it for 40+ days; they will feel much better.

Depression is the result of the compounding effects of a series of small, invisible daily choices and can be reversed by small daily choices.

I spent a decade in and out of suicidal depression, and am grateful to have followed an alt path and helped many others to do so.
This is so important to me on this day and age. Most new technology and OS seem to have an agenda. They want to "push" me to do things: buy an iPhone, buy an office subscription , etc. Using Linux is a breath of fresh air in that respect for me. I just want my toaster tu toast bread. I don't want it to tell me what bread should I buy.
Their web dev guides - especially for a11y - are high quality, and were taken offline this morning. I stood up a copy (slightly modified) at https://guides.18f.kmr.me/

Hopefully the GitHub repos stick around; I forked and cloned a few and suggest folks browse through them and grab anything that looks interesting in case they disappear.
find me what you'd want to remove from the protected system partition, and then don't look at Windows, which has one too ;)
It makes me curious what that bar is for suspension.
Our incident team has never been able to get any registrar to shut down any site for fraud or spam, even with copies of our investigations.
Crypto is currently one of the best ways to transfer wealth from desperate, lower income people to a lucky few while offering no value to the world except money laundering and buying illegal things.

I used to work in crypto analytics. Every thing is either a rug pull, unregistered security, sophisticated pump and dump, straight up scam, insider trading or all of the above.

Of course crypto has captured the government. They basically create money from thin air and then use that to buy politicians. Politicians get paid in cash or in the case of Trump, probably through his meme coin via pump and dump, or rug pull.
Chinese equivalent: 城门失火，殃及池鱼

(When the city gate burns, fish in the moat suffer disaster.)
As of Feb 18, WaPo says merely 14% of US adults overall support pardoning people convicted of violent crimes (and only 32% of Republicans).

For nonviolent pardons, 42% overall support it (and 76% of Republicans).

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-pol...
Every well can be poisoned. Linux relies on people's values and people's skills. Neither of which are immune to degradation over time.

Much like the post world war civil society, economic and diplomatic development was an exception in Human history.

Assuming the reality we have will remain forever without protection or constant maintenance effort is dangerous.
Hey! I got diagnosed with ADHD last year as an adult and getting diagnosed and medicated has been a massive improvement in my quality of life. If you have the energy to do it, I would strongly recommend it. The medication is great—I have far fewer "stare at the wall, bounce in my seat, get nothing done" days—but I also appreciate having a concrete diagnosis. Even after decades of assuming I had it, it felt good to actually hear it from a doctor for some reason.
That you think this solves it for me is exactly the problem. It's taking the one thing that was ever intuitive for me when it came to managing things in my life, mangles it into a dozen steps that aren't remotely intuitive to me and don't even have common characteristics that would give me a heuristic to remember them, and asks that I completely change the way I do things and think about things to suit some back end I don't want and don't need.

That's why I rejected using Notion. Using it requires forcing my mind to operate inside someone else's system.

Logseq finally felt like someone whose brain works like mine made software for people like me.

And now it's being systematically dismantled for the sake of the hordes of people who already have other tools serving them just fine.

Like I said, I get that it's not my call and people are going to do it anyway. I just hate it more than I've ever hated any software change I can remember.
Melody Visualization Experiment: Tetris Theme (Korobeiniki) in Blender [video]
Why shouldn't every other nation treat us the same way? Based on our criminal history of invasion, back-stabbing, and genocide should US citizens be banned around the world? Why should the racist "yellow peril" narrative be credible the 1000th time?
And that’s simply the part of the cosmos that is not obscured by our own galaxy. we are seemingly quite lucky to be positioned where we are in it
Until proven otherwise, I think of humanity as The Ancients in the universe, and we have just gotten started.
I remember installing FreeBSD in 1994. Ot was soooo cool to me as a 13 year old to startx and have a Unix like environment in my computer. I feel freebsd was superior to Linux,but as with other things, apps availability made the win
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> and chucking out a significant chunk of work they've done

It is unclear how much of the actual work they've done is being "chucked out".

18F did work for various federal agencies, and whatever code 18F wrote for its client agencies would still be in possession of those agencies.

What happens to that code going forward – whether it continues to be maintained by other resources, or whether it just gets archived – is going to be an agency-level decision. Probably some will be kept, others will be thrown out – keeping or abolishing 18F is a separate decision from keeping or abolishing the agency-level projects/initiatives 18F was working on. (And even if 18F had survived, probably some of that code would eventually have been thrown out anyway, since government IT projects frequently end up failing and being cancelled, and 18F involvement is no guarantee against that outcome.)

Obviously, if those projects are going to be kept, removing 18F resources is going to cause a delay to the project – but maybe other resources will be found. It also depends on what percentage of the project resources were from 18F. If a project was 18F-heavy, it may take a big hit, if 18F's contribution was smaller, the negative impact might be smaller.

18F was funded out of the Acquisition Services Fund (ASF), managed by the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) within GSA. FAS is legally obligated to spend ASF funds on federal technology modernization projects. Without 18F, FAS will have to find some other mechanism to spend those ASF funds on technology modernization. So, while of course there will be a delay, agencies which were relying on 18F may still end up getting help from GSA TTS for their modernization projects. I wouldn't be surprised if ASF funds were redirected towards DOGE, and DOGE was then tasked with working on those projects.
Fast is a single feature that a car has. The target market that values "very fast" over "fast enough" is much smaller than the opposite.
Trump also wants to annex Greenland, take over the Panama canal and make Gaza into a beach resort. Also let's not forget when he sent out his son in law for a school project (peace in Isreal) who came back with a detailed plan without ever talking and involving the Palestinians.

The problem with a ceasefire is that Russia has an endless history of accepting negotiations only to use them to get a tactical advantage. It is standard practice for them. So of course Ukraine is very wary unless that can be prevented.
The UK will neither confirm nor deny that it's killing encryption
I don't know why the publishers care. The scene has it all already.
Thank you for admitting the intent of replacing people with AI as that is the true definition of "AGI" and fits with the 2030 future of jobs report from the World Economic Forum. [0]

> What do you think about AI replacing human outsourcing?

We need more firms like this one to just admit it, instead of hiding their intentions.

After predicting that that there will be more widespread layoffs in 2025 [1] with the age of AI, this is just only going to accelerate.

[0] https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-repo...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42490692
I would love an AI coding assistant that doesn't respond until it's gone out and tested its answer in a sandbox to confirm it actually compiles.
I don't get it. Does Safari not support Zoom? Is per site zoom not the exact perfect concession to user preference? The font size settings are quite lethal unless you size EVERY THING on the page using ems -- your images, your icons, your padding, your margins: all have to be in ems if you want things to scale proportionally when font size changes. Nope. Not doing that.

If that's a horribly broken assumption on Safari, I'd be grateful if you could explain to me how it's broken.
This article also throws out a bunch of trends and then attributes them to Ozempic with no evidence.

> America's largest mall operator, Simon Property Group, is converting anchor stores into medical centers and wellness spaces.

Maybe that's because malls have been struggling for years and are trying new tactics in response to that?

> Whole Foods is shifting from endcap promotions to subscription services.

So many industries are shifting to subscription services, because it's so lucrative. What evidence do we have that this is triggered by Ozempic patients??

When will I get downvote privileges on this site...
> This “feature” accomplishes nothing of value for anyone, including the streaming services, but imposes a massive (and for most people, confusing and frustrating) hindrance on honest people simply trying to easily capture high-quality (as opposed to, say, using their damn phone to take a photograph of their reflective laptop display) screenshots of the shows and movies they’re watching.

Yeah what's the point?

If anything it's yet another reason to just download pirated content. You can screenshot that just fine. You can save it where you want without expiring, play it on every device you want, you're not bothered by trailers or ads or have to use a specific player app or a device with a particular wildvine level or whatever. It doesn't constantly monitor what you watch and when.

It's just so much better, and many of these restrictions are only for the benefit of the publisher. Doing that makes sense if users have nowhere else to go but now they're shooting themselves in the foot.

Especially with the latest 'pay more or watch ads' fad with the streaming services, do they really expect piracy not to massively increase?
If it's so easy, build it.

A portable runtime isn't that hard. An effective and approachable authoring tool is the real challenge.
> I personally wouldn't invest in increasing open source adoption of an Apple property like that, unless someone has a compelling new argument for that.

See here for his reasoning for picking Swift: https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822236888188498031

> Over the last few months, I've asked a bunch of folks to pick some little part of our project and try rewriting it in the different languages we were evaluating. The feedback was very clear: everyone preferred Swift!

> First off, Swift has both memory & data race safety (as of v6). It's also a modern language with solid ergonomics.

> Something that matters to us a lot is OO. Web specs & browser internals tend to be highly object-oriented, and life is easier when you can model specs closely in your code. Swift has first-class OO support, in many ways even nicer than C++.

> The Swift team is also investing heavily in C++ interop, which means there's a real path to incremental adoption, not just gigantic rewrites.
I would consider deterministic codegen to be a valid abstraction (or rather a valid implementation of some abstraction). It's not really any different from a regular library wrt ability to test & validate. The problem with any human- and LLM- handwritten code is that even the best coders make mistakes.
>What do you think about AI replacing human outsourcing?

You mean AI replacing humans.

I have to say the timing of this post is impeccable, given what was was just discussed and posted to HN a mere 14 hours ago. [0]

[0] https://substack.com/home/post/p-158101095
You answered that more graciously than many would.
Well, humans already produce "an innocuous, test-passing function that's catastrophically wrong" even without LLMs involved. So, the real question is, will LLM adoption result in a significant increase in such incidents? I don't know if anyone can really answer that.
Is it Wayland with capture enabled? That sounds like a fortuitous bug.
This was already posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221377 but I’m really surprised at the lack of attention this model is getting. The responsiveness and apparent personality are pretty mind blowing. It’s similar to what OpenAI had initially demoed for advanced voice mode, at least for the voice conversation portion.

The demo interactions are recorded, which is mentioned in their disclaimer under the demo UI. What isn't mentioned though is that they include past conversations in the context for the model on future interactions. It was pretty surprising to be greeted with something like "welcome back" and the model being able to reference what was said in previous interactions. The full disclaimer on the page for the demo is:

"
1. Microphone permission is required. 2. Calls are recorded for quality review but not used for ML training and are deleted within 30 days. 3. By using this demo, you are agreeing to our
"

edit: Actually this has been posted quite a few times already and had good visibility a couple days ago:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200400
Others: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=sesame.com
There is nothing you just said that contradicts what I wrote.
"a retro-style sidescroller". Wow, really? Are arcades also coming back? Just like in the movie.
Nice how you had a profound inner experience that you realized was meaningless

How did you handle meaning after that?
Its saved or extended 1000 lives for every one person whos gotten some GI stress from it.
Fun. I started using Linux at 0.98 (forgot the patch level), in 1992.

Had a modem and connected to a lot of bulletin boards. I felt very much a like "WarGames" hero, calling phone numbers and all :)

I still remember the day when I used ppp to connect to the actual Internet for the first time. After a lot of trial and error, I finally pinged www.linux.org, and it resolved the hostname and returned the ping. I was silent first, and all I could say then was "whoa".

Oh fun times. :)
Which part, the Alex Garland movie, or the things Trump has done the past 40 days?
I did my first ever AoC last year and I'm old. It was fun. Didn't get very far though. First thing that mucked me up was forgetting negative indices in Python arrays are valid.

I'm an admin/SRE and don't spend enough time programming, in too many languages. C++, C, Perl, Ruby, Python, Awk, etc.
Making the world worse one DRM at a time.
Most of the time these days I can’t actually find a search engine to give me links, so they have mostly won.