skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What internet points do you have to spare? What are these points that let your posts be on the top even though everyone is voting you down. I always had doubts that HN is taking some sort of bribe to force disliked and false posts into people's attention, I did not know they made it so obvious.

Just to be clear, "I have internet points to spare" refers specifically to the loss caused by downvoting. The point is that I don't care to be downvoted, I don't say things to be popular, I am far more interested in the fruits the discussions lead to.

> I will not respond to the rest of your post, your arguments have deteriorated from being simply false to being incomprehensible.

Sure, make up a conspiracy about why my comment is nearer to the top and disregard my actual points by claiming they are all false anyway. It's great to have these kinds of well structured discussions here on HN.
Both platforms have good bot APIs. Should be trivial to create a bridge through bots
Dhall seems stagnated

I'm all in on CUE

Starlark is another in the space
Does windows classic (open) shell not work on Windows 11? I use it all the time on 10 and have the task bar on the right side.
Interesting. I have no rust experience yet, so i wonder: while that sounds very cool, how does it look like in the wild? To me it seems like this could quickly turn into a nightmare, if the code is not very well organized / structured. In reality shouldn't this rather be two separate libs?

But maybe i should first learn rust before asking.
Yup, and “pale blue dot.” Knew I wanted to work in that field at ~7 and ~47, but somehow forgot at ~17. Guess I didn’t appreciate at the time how computers and internet would work their way into everything. Believe/thought I needed to become a physicist, an interesting subject but not as a career.
Prime Minister of Poland says country must pursue nuclear weapons
> then they have "too much muscle" as typically needed for their body mass

It's a leap to suggest that it's "good" to lose this muscle mass. If you're obese then it's good to lose fat. It's even better to do so while maintaining muscle mass.
Laser-based device can scan almost any sample of gas and tell you what's in it
>SpaceX: take a fundamentally bad business idea (there's plenty of private space launch attempts, but even the best go bankrupt), by ... getting the government to pay for space launches, in what is a very very bad deal (the government MUST have space launch capabilities. So it can never stop developing Boeing SLS. Therefore what is paid to SpaceX is paid ON TOP of what we pay to SLS, and is NOT a better alternative (as Musk screams), and so not any kind of saving.

Sorry to interrupt your nonsense, but Biden's NASA administrator Bill Nelson quoted a member of the Joint Chiefs as telling him that SpaceX had saved the US government $40 billion for just launching military payloads. <https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/06/05/did-spacex-really-...>.

On the civilian side, SpaceX saved NASA $2 billion for just one payload, Europa Clipper <https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/a-year-from-launch-the...>, so who knows how many billions more from other launches.

>Starlink: this has been tried, and tried and tried again. It just isn't profitable.

Two outside analysts estimate that Starlink became cash flow positive in 2024, with FCF hitting $2B in 2025. <https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/starlink-profit-growin...>
Ah, the HCF system call?
If the copper isn't in good enough condition, you can always try with wet string instead:

https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...
It's even more important if this finding [1] (press release [2]) turns out to be true, namely that the amount of carbon dioxide in the air is not just a proxy for air quality, but that having less of it actually actively destabilizes virus particles.

Also, portable air cleaners seem to work pretty well [3].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47777-5

[2] https://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2024/virus.html

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S295036202...
Ah, I see it now. Totally read over that.
Not the OP, but as a primarily-Apple-ecosystem dev who had interest in building native Windows apps, the main issue was WinUI missing important desktop widgets (no datagrid, really?) and for the widgets that did exist, it wasn’t unusual to find missing functionality and rough edges. Perhaps most discouragingly there was often no happy path for mimicking patterns seen in first-party Fluent apps.

Figuring out how to piece it all together was a nightmare, too with searches turning up documentation and blog posts for N similar but different C# UI frameworks, which compounded with my unfamiliarity with C# and where its stdlib ends and the UI framework begins. It’s all very confusing for someone coming from other platforms.

It was very frustrating. Even Android with its notoriously bad and idiosyncratic Android Framework was less of a hurdle to pick up and start using.
Oh the joys of watching terminal logs with SS7 data frames!
Unless I’m misreading the code, it looks like it’s running GA, but giving it an opt-out signal to harvest.
I know the answer because I've actually done this with real bolts (out of boredom — before I knew Martin Gardner had a puzzle about it).

Likewise I also know the answer to which direction the spool rolls if you set it on a table and slowly pull on the thread.
Sure, I'll follow those goalposts as they walk down the field.

At the time it becomes relevant, a person with a DNR is usually (always?) in no state to give informed consent to being killed by their doctor's inaction. Same thing for someone in a irrecoverable coma who's being kept alive by machines when a family member or friend instructs the doctor to pull the plug on them.

Relatedly, angels of mercy have been releasing suffering folks who are at the end of their life from that suffering for ages.

You might find these things unpalatable, but they do happen, will continue to happen, and we're better off because they do happen.

I sincerely hope that through to the end of your life you remain lucid and able to clearly and convincingly express your preferences. I very much hope that you're not locked in a metaphorical hell of suffering, but unable to express to (let alone convince) anyone that you're ready to end it early.
A Washington Post columnist has been tracking the media coverage of Hitler's first 100 days. It's interesting how much people viewed him as bumbling or harmless or or or.
https://www.instagram.com/petula_d/
Unrelated. Just finished watching the series 'The Young Pope'. What a visual spectacle it was.
What does actual preparation look like for me given the experience I gained 5 years ago?

* Ensure I have a stock of masks, disposable and washable.

* Re-organize and upgrade my home office / workspace.

* Proactively prepare myself mentally by strengthening social bonds, self-care routines, and overall mental health.

* Decide if I'm going to continue baking bread or explore a new hobby.
Have you read the article we're commenting on? Obviously mathematicians know that n! * k, with k the length of the code, would work. The idea is to superpose the end of a code with the start of the next, so you don't have to test nearly as many combinations.
Obscurity can be fantastic.

One of my favorite patterns for sending large files around is to drop them in a public blob storage bucket with a type 4 guid as the name. No consumer needs to authenticate or sign in. They just need to know the resource name. After a period of time the files can be automatically expired to minimize the impact of URL sharing/stealing.
>I started making videos about Starship because the project management approach to Starship is a crock of cheese.

The same project management approach resulted in Falcon 9, by far the world's most successful, reliable, and least-expensive launcher, even aside from the fact that it is reusable.
They are not programming. It's a bill that can be printed off and already is. Just make copies.

They are not editing it, they are reviewing it and making notes.

Laptop use is...fine, but I don't believe for a second they are reviewing the entire bill on their phone.

You don't take tests on your phone, nor should you legislate on your phone.
> A while back I took the time to upscale and hand correct all of the Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 Nature backgrounds and the Abstract backgrounds to 5k for use on your Mac /iOS device for free download. Enjoy!

Aw man, was really hoping those links would work. Loved the Snow Leopard era.
They're all playing a catchup game with each other on features. Some like GH Copilot is really falling behind as of right now.
I use cursor because i like how things are set up makes sense to me.

My recommendation: Try both. I mean really give them a fair chance, atleast 2 weeks. and see which one you like. Happy coding!
You could try issuing two prompts: one to "think", and another to "say to the group". Not as nice as having a model that can properly format its response, but you'll get more accurate results.
It’s just absolutely not the case though. These drugs are now rife in the bodybuilding community, combined with a high protein diet and resistance training muscle will be retained. There is no mechanistic action to suggest that muscle loss would be caused by these drugs, quite the opposite actually.
Does that work by comparing known cell sites to found cells sites? I know some StingRay detectors use that method and it's prone to false positives around large events where mobile carriers or 3rd parties bring in legitimate temporary cell sites to improve cell service at the venue and provide more capacity.
Since we're being pedantic:

Light isn't chemicals. Sound isn't chemicals, it's the vibration of chemicals. The billions of neutrinos passing through you right now aren't chemicals. Etc. All the matter we interact with in everyday life is chemicals, but lots of things aren't chemicals.
Good point!

I was thinking that if there are multiple goblins, asking a question that only relates to one of them doesn't give you enough information to determine which goblins are liars. But you don't actually need to know that. You just need the truth value of the final answer.
> I am using CloudFlare for my DNS.

Based on this it sounds like you exposed your resource and advertised it for others. Reverse dns, get IP, scan IP.

Probably simpler, you exposed resource on IPV4 publicly, if it exists, it'll be scanned. There's probably 100s of companies scanning entire 0.0.0.0/0 space at all times.
A Product Hunt for US-based crypto projects
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With the current administration leaning into crypto innovation, now’s the time for smaller teams to shine. toscrypto.com gives them the stage to showcase their projects, get discovered, and connect with the right audience.

I know—there are plenty of Product Hunt-style sites out there. But this one’s different:
US-based projects only (cutting through the noise of global launches)
No scams, no-nonsense (every submission is vetted)
Built for builders (not just hype, but actual innovation)

The goal? To help legit teams get the visibility they deserve while fostering a community that cares about real crypto progress.

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Nicely up-pedanted. Ultimately I meant that saying stuff like "I don't want food with chemicals in it" is sloppy, because food itself is made of chemicals.
Don’t you mean RFC-35140?

https://www.5snb.club/posts/2023/do-not-stab/
Your complaint doesn't make sense to me. The negative health impact of being obese isn't equalized by having a little more muscle mass.

Also, if this is your stance, then GLP-1 is a red herring because you have the same issue with weight loss in general. Weight loss, without increasing resistance training, leads to muscle loss.
MS broke search in vista and never fixed it.
You wouldn’t call a room behind a locked door “obscured.” Even if it’s technically correct in the most stretched definition (which I’m not convinced of), either way it’s not how people actually use the word.
You don't need to. There is a rotating cast of flunkies in charge of posting on his account and they say random stuff.
I'm still using my M1 MacBook Pro. The thing hasn't slowed down at all. It's a great device.
My read on past studies is that one area of muscle mass loss that is problematic is around the heart.

Obviously it’s not a problem if an obese person’s quads shrinks 2x because they lift 2x weight every day.
Employee at Multinational Charged with Stealing, Selling Pre-Release DVDs
Floatplane
Convenient misinformation? Well that's one way to put way too fine a point on it.

That or I must be a lot more LLM-accepting than most of HN.
Maserati kills electric version of MC20 supercar for lack of demand
https://blog.koehntopp.info/2023/05/15/50-years-in-filesyste...

https://blog.koehntopp.info/2023/05/17/50-years-in-filesyste...
Vibe Coding.
Use LLMs to do it for you. That's the easiest (and free) way of doing it!
> and leaves muscles alone

But might destroy your bone marrow's ability to create blood cells[1].

1. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/aplastic-anem...
Viagra is a famous example.
Wouldn't the marginal risk from the blood test be zero, since they do a little blood prick on their foot anyway?

Also, there's a second order effect you're ignoring: a mandated paternity test would change expectant mothers' behavior leading up to the birth. You wouldn't try to dupe someone if you knew you'd be found out. Or, if you weren't sure, you'd more likely be transparent.
the point of vibe "coding" is to be unmotivated
I strongly suspect some supernova or black hole jet somewhere has formed oganesson without human intervention. "In nature" usually gets restricted to "on Earth" implicitly, partly for this reason.
Obligatory Seinfeld reference...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bottle_Deposit
No, eIDAS 2.0 was an attempt to address the fact that the EU is not one market in ecommerce, because EU citizens don't like making cross-border orders. The approach to solving this was to attach identity information to sites, ala EV certificates. The idea for this model came from the trust model for digital document signatures in PDFs.

There are already plenty of CAs across the pond.
Stupid question: what about defining "lying" as "saying something that, if accepted, moves the believer away from the liar's worldmodel"? (Which I think matches general intuition.)

Then you do get information once you know someone always lies (and has a correct worldmodel) because you know to update the opposite direction. I don't know the impact on these puzzles.
I used to use remind and wyrd[0] along with remind-caldav[1] for calendaring. I believe I either used remind-caldav or a custom python script set in my mailcap file (I don't remember which it was now) that would open up calendar attachments on emails and save them in remind and remind was sync'd with google calendar.

The details of how I had it all wired up are now lost to memory, but it seemed to accomplish a similar goal to calendar.txt while supporting standard calendar file formats and sync with Google Calendar.

[0] https://wyrd-calendar.gitlab.io/wyrd/

[1] https://github.com/jspricke/remind-caldav
With a neutered EPA do we expect things to get better or worse with regard to things like this?
You are a dreamer.

I'd settle for having the real taskbar shown in Teams screen sharing instead of having the time rolled back to the time Teams started, or something.

When I dare I dream of proper renaming experience inside of a OneDrive folder, without overriding me while typing. But that must be too much for the developers nowadays, unbearable difficulty! Me the humble servant of MS might must shut up.
Yeah, wondering about that though. Can they really micro-manage where NASA's funding cut is to be applied? Because if left to NASA they may well keep the science projects, cut Artemis.
Is wheat natural? Aren't humans themselves part of nature?
Sleep mode is not a problem but I tend to use hibernate, which is difficult to get to work under Ubuntu. I think it requires a dedicated encrypted swap -- it's all manual steps and configuration.
5ire: AI Assistant and MCP Client
I use 5ire more than ChatGPT app or Claude app, as you can choose different models and install various MCP servers
Ross Ulbricht Advertising Silk Road on Shroomery.org (2011)
Launch: Call AI – Your 24/7 Virtual Call Assistant (iOS App)
There’s negative cardiovascular effects from excess muscle just as with excess fat.

Normally that’s offset by the health effects of the exercise required to gain and maintain them as well as the lack of medical conditions that prevent exercise etc. But a fat person losing weight should inherently lose muscle mass long term assuming no changes to lifestyle.
Had to look it up, so here some information for fellow non-insiders:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Ah, sorry ... when you scroll down the URL changes :/ I would delete / edit if I could.
The author makes some points debunking the "cheaters are only cheating themselves" position.

"One of the courses I teach is health ethics. Many of the students who enroll aspire to careers in medicine, in one form or another. Those who make it might become nurses, doctors, pharmacists, or emergency medical technicians. But whatever path they take, they will inevitably confront ethical dilemmas—some of them agonizing....

The ethical conundrums that health care workers encounter don’t arrive neatly packaged like an essay prompt. It won’t be anything you can google. Even if there were time to feed the dilemma into AI, the AI won’t help you figure out just which questions need to be asked and answered. And in real life, this is often the most difficult part. "
Anecdotally, the use cases I've had are all clearly in one category or the other: I'm either building firmware for an embedded device, or building a PC application. I'm curious about the overlap cases.
I like the idea of creating some kind of old-school text-based dungeon crawler to practise English. That way you are forced to at least write a bit of text, or alter suggestions of a certain story.
They could also just cut and tip both ends of the Ethernet cable I have running between my house and my outbuilding too. I probably wouldn't notice if I'm asleep.
interesting TIL too bad we don't have auto doc gen (fastapi what I'm working with atm)

edit: not saying it can't be done but our org isn't using auto docs
I agree that it's niche but also typical of us programmers to declare "my way is the only way" even when we're into a niche thing. Look at the number of people who setup home movie streaming servers vs pay for Netflix, for example.

To the platform victor go the spoils. I've had the greatest leaps recently with Cursor, which not only is a terrific RAG application but integrates several models. Does anyone want to write and maintain that who is not in that business? No. Hence, platforms.
[Edit: removed spoiler]

You can gain a bit of intuition about growing and shrinking circles by imagining them to be squares with _very_ rounded corners, or equivalently, imagining what happens if you lengthen them by inserting straight lengths in four places, turning them into squares with very rounded corners.

For example, the old question of: if you have a rope lying on the surface of the earth all the way around a great circle, and make it 10m longer, how high could it be above the surface?

Even though the square-with-corners thing helps me visualize it quite perfectly, I _still_ find it weird that that the answer is 1.5m!
There are no prescriptive dictionaries, at least not correct ones, for living languages.

IIRC both the OED and CED list figurative uses for the word, do you know any publications considered more authoritative than those for English? Webster too, for those who prefer simplified English.
Yeah, but whether you do resistance training while losing weight so that you have proportionally extra muscle mass than you had when you were overweight has nothing to do with the GLP-1 drug.

Every time GLP-1 drugs come up, the convo splinters off into topics that have nothing to do with anything unique to the drug. Now we're just talking about general weight loss and that it's good to exercise. Which is a trivial claim.
Great thank you. I've mulled around running separate reverse proxies for public and internal services instead.
I would like to see Canada arm itself with Nuclear Weapons. It is the only guarantee the USA/Russia will respect its territorial integrity.

North Korea has been the perfect example, and soon to be Iran, when it comes to securing yourself from invasion. Ukraine has been a lesson for the entire world, Nuclear Weapons are your only guarantee.
Went through a series of all the popes once, and man was there some bad ones:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Stephen_VI

”Stephen is chiefly remembered in connection with his conduct towards the remains of Pope Formosus. The rotting corpse of Formosus was exhumed and put on trial, before an unwilling synod of the Roman clergy, in the so-called Cadaver Synod in January 897. Pressure from the Spoleto contingent and Stephen's fury with Formosus probably precipitated this extraordinary event.[4] With the corpse propped up on a throne, a deacon was appointed to answer for the deceased pontiff. During the trial, Formosus's corpse was condemned for performing the functions of a bishop when he had been deposed and for accepting the papacy while he was the bishop of Porto, among other revived charges that had been levelled against him in the strife during the pontificate of John VIII. The corpse was found guilty, stripped of its sacred vestments, deprived of three fingers of its right hand (the blessing fingers), clad in the garb of a layman, and quickly buried; it was then re-exhumed and thrown in the Tiber. All ordinations performed by Formosus were annulled.”

The Papacy is lit.

Edit:

"... the scandal ended in Stephen's imprisonment and his death by strangulation that summer."

The Papacy is fucking lit.
So if a wolf "culls" the deer, it's good. But if a human does it, it's bad?
"must yield the temptation" would work, too.
TIL __doc__! Pretty nifty.
well that really depends on the metric right?

do you care about quality of life? literacy? about social justice? about women's rights?

or about who has the most richest billionaires or the strongest military?

or who has the best american football teams?

Not every people care about the same things. Some people would rather live in a country that treats others as shit, and take pride in that and absolutely don't see the point why other other countries have some better metrics on some they may consider useless stuff like education.

EDIT: I mean, I know it sounds silly, but failure to understand that there are so many people who literally don't give a shit about why education matters, or why empathy matters is the reason we are in this situation. We took for granted that there are universal values, and organized our societies around goals oriented towards those universal values and in the meantime we got this resentment brewing in part of the population that got exploited by populist forces
Great article.

A couple weeks ago, on a flight, I watched the movie Conclave (2024) which is about the process of selecting the Pope, in a modern context. I thought it was surprisingly good, but felt like a warning call for the next papal conclave as it illustrated how the power some of these individuals face can corrupt. Fascinating to think how this process would have played out in 16th Century Italy.
Email? You should've called, or sent a letter to them... Who answers to emails anyhow... </sarcasm>
"the article doesn’t cover the downsides of cowboys"

Yes it does. It matches both sides negatives and positives step for step from beginning to end.

This remark is sort of fascinating.