skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if that were truly (sustainably) possible, I'd support it, but imo that'd just be signing ff's death warrant

side note, thunderbird is already independent and democratically-managed by the community (as of a few years ago). the way I understand it is that they effectively just use mozilla's resources for legal, logistical stuff
Similar idea for a grill https://boxgrill.de/
“To do so, it need simply remove the barriers that stop the private sector from doing what it already wants to do.”

Which is fine if resources were infinite or distribution was equal, but neither are true and the private sector will not safe guard the public sphere of the environment.

In any case, plain as day, the big problem with the UK economy was and is the 2008 financial crisis that chopped 5% of GDP off the economy. Since then every government has been faced with either doing what would be needed to make things right, or doing what is needed to get reelected. They have all picked the second option apart from Boris Johnson's administration through to Truss, who picked electoral destruction through magical thinking (on Northern Ireland and then by raising spending without raising tax to pay for it, precipitating first a crisis of politics and second a crisis of finance).
Musings on Typicality (2020)
Will that initial footprint come down as recycled batteries become more ubiquitous?
Yes, let's not forget history ( your [1] )

Those captured by the US military were secretly given immunity. The United States helped cover up the human experimentations and handed stipends to the perpetrators. The US had co-opted the researchers' bioweapons information and experience for use in their own warfare program
That advice might not travel well: until recently I lived in a city where the bike rental service pulled out because too many were thrown in canals.
I’m currently building “Denorite” — A WebSocket server application built in Deno that enables real-time communication and event handling between Minecraft servers and TypeScript applications.

A realtime webOS interacting with it is also nearly ready to be released.

https://github.com/Denorite/Server
python 3.12
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At least for me it is working right now. Anyway, the full sections are

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It doesn't need to be lithium.

Nickel-Iron batteries are very good for this purpose: practically unlimited charge-discharge cycles and overcharging/overdischarging won't damage them. They should be dirt-cheap too, but almost there are very few manufacturers so there's not much competition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93iron_battery
I built a digital pet that evolves as you improve your focus habits
Hi HN,
I've been working on a solution to a problem I personally struggled with—maintaining focus in our hyper-connected digital environment. Rather than simply blocking apps or showing stats, I wanted to create something that would make the journey toward better digital habits engaging and rewarding.
EvoCat is the result: a digital companion that evolves visually as you build better focus habits. Think of it as a Tamagotchi with a purpose. Your cat grows stronger when you successfully complete focus sessions, and it provides increasingly sophisticated interventions (like guided breathing exercises) when you're tempted by distractions.
Technical highlights:

Uses on-device activity monitoring without sending data to servers
Implements progressive friction that adapts to your usage patterns
Gamifies focus with visual pet evolution that provides tangible progress markers
Combines scheduled focus sessions with real-time intervention

I'd love feedback from the HN community on both the concept and implementation. Has anyone else tried merging digital wellbeing with virtual pets? What other interaction patterns might make focus more engaging?
You can try it at [https://evocat.app]. There's a free tier to get started.
Doesn't mean they want macOS to go away though. Merging code-bases is a bad thing now?
> they are more performant and easier to understand.

They are more performant because Go decided to make them so. E.g. in Erlang crashing a process is an expected lightweight operation.

As for "easier to understand"... They are not when:

- your code is littered with `x, err = ...; if err != nil`

- it's not easier to understand when the code errors have to be dealt with on a higher/different level. The calling code isn't always the one that needs to deal with all the errors

Just a very random example (I literally just clicked through random files): https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/pkg/con...

Oh, look, you can't even see the logic behind all the `if err`s which do nothing but return the error to be handled elsewhere.
this isn't a video. I specifically asked for a video. so i'll make one, and you show me where the sluggishness is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx_t8SUwrEk

you'll note that, apparently, everything you said prior to your last paragraph is shown incorrect.
Writing docs for software is something that in theory LLMs should be great at. It's clear they are useful, and that developers generally do not like writing them, and that LLMs are good at condensing complex information into easier to understand text.
An unpopular opinion, but outsourcing abroad the industry, which wasn't working due to permanent strikes anyway, was probably net positive overall. Of course keeping the industry and fixing somehow the issue would have been better, but it's a bit though in a democratic country where unions exist - just take a look at train drivers now - they keep the whole country hostage, and even though they earn comparatively more than in other countries they demand relatively big pay rises every year.

Every British person would probably kill me for saying this.
Most of this narrative comes from Mike Benz who is a former State Department employee that has began trying to educate people on some of the shadier aspects of US Diplomacy. A major facet that he talks about is how the US combines NGOs and non-government investment in order to achieve diplomatic goals.

After the 2014 invasion, the US realized that breaking EU dependence on Russia natural gas would put a serious dent in Putin's wallet.

In response, various groups within the military industrial complex decided to invest into Burisma, where Hunter Biden was oddly a board member with little experience. Burisma's goal was to develop the mineral and natural gas deposits in the Donbas region. Ultimately, Burisma was prevented from this mission because of the 2022 war.

[1]: this interview on Joe Rogan is pretty eye-opening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrJhQpvlkLA&t=9675s&pp=ygUOa...
> why did no one explode about this when they added the sponsored links years ago?

There was a lot of discussion and consternation about this as well.
I made no such claim, I was only mentioning that in relation to the fact that population size of domestic birds is not impacted at all by the massive killing, while population size for wild birds might be dramatically impacted by a much smaller number of deaths.

I find the horrors of industrial animal farming horrendous, while not having a moral problem with the idea of raising an animal in decent conditions for slaughter.
I agree with the incentives for zonal pricing to encourage clean local
production. The downside however is that the grid becomes defunded and
a tragedy of commons ensues. We invest in common infrastructure
precisely because of variance, which in the long run we hope to
ameliorate.
> People actually have a completely skewed view of what a doctor is.

It could be but treating patients also requires continuous diagnostics, result comprehension, and final assessment so this is certainly the part where AI could play the crucial role.

I don't think anyone thinking of the AI consequences on medicine is arguing that it will replace manual labor such as procedure executions or psychological support. This is obviously not possible so when I see people talking about the "AI in medicine" I read that as mostly complementing the existing work with new technology.
Not everyone's expecting one.
She had time for that, before the lettuce wilted?
The incentive is to produce 99
Units at £1 and 1 unit at £100 and sell 100 for £10,000, rather than producing 100
Units at £1
I use recover when i'm unsure on how reliable some legacy code is so that we can emit our telemetry and then exit gracefully.
related:
Cloudflare takes legal action over LaLiga's "disproportionate blocking efforts" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157000

This entire saga is mind-blowing to watch. I firmly believe LaLiga is completely in the wrong here and are trying to scare pirating customers into paying by suing everyone even remotely connected to this. Their behavior actually makes the internet worse for their paying customers as well.

Any remotely competent judge would shut this behavior down immediately, but money talks in this case I guess. I'm interested in seeing how far they get in these court cases. Could anybody knowledgable in Spanish law take a guess as to how these cases will end?
Tensara: A platform for GPU programming challenges
Do you have a source for that? Because that's news to me...
I’m not sure this is a fossil fuel industry thing. I think there are just people who really dislike the appearance of windmills in the landscape. Onshore, it is often better to put windmills on hills where they will be more prominent and so any one windmill can be ‘local’ to many people. Offshore, wind farms may ‘spoil’ a view out to sea, though they are also harder to oppose.

P.s. I think you meant to write fomenting
Years After the Early Death of a Math Genius, Her Ideas Gain New Life
They (the GOP, Democrats, national and intl intelligence agencies) all have blackmail on each other. It hasn't made sense to think about these issues purely on national lines for a long time - try thinking in terms of a large international mafia with various families and factions; held together by unspeakable secrets.

Sarah Kendzior and Whitney Webb produce great writing about this, thoroughly sourced. For example, here's a piece from Sarah's latest newsletter Q and A:

> What is the hold that Trump has over the Republicans? It has to be more than simply the threat of a primary. Do you think it involves threats of violence? It's a mystery to me what could be so frightening that this large group of people would forsake their country.

> SK: Trump has leverage over the GOP due to 1) lifelong connections with organized crime and willingness to deploy violence 2) blackmail obtained long before 2016 via his mentor, mafia lawyer and GOP advisor Roy Cohn, and Cohn’s networks 3) blackmail and state secrets Trump obtained during his first term 4) court packing that creates the potential of legal consequences for anyone who challenges him 5) bribery and/or shared evil goals with the GOP, though for many this incentive fades over time when they realize they will never be more than a disposable hired hand. Many Republicans were lured by corrupt ambition, but they stay due to fear.

And lest you think this is a one-sided problem: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-of-the-mafia-s...
Certainly not all estimates, right? We can certainly suppose different scenarios, with a large specter from humanity total disappearance to discovery of star gates technology opening plenty of inhabitable world without any actual alien threat existing in the outerspace. Also there can be wide gap in evolution from one government influence zone to an other, even at very small region scale — think Haiti and The Dominican Republic.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1151971
Windows 7 with spinning rust microsoft did ReadyBoost, where something could have incredibly fast seek times but mediocre throughput.

Vista was the worst windows, other than 8 and ME.

Suffice to say if windows was actually slow when i used it, i would not use it. I didn't use ME, XP, Vista, or 8. There's a pattern here. I did use Xp x64 edition, but that came out ~2 years after XP, and did not have the pre-service-pack issues XP did.
I don't understand. Toasters go bad regularly? I am using a Krups toaster I bought in 1995. I guess I should get it a birthday cake.
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I imagine a typical interview with me goes something like this...

> Have you been CTO of an acquired company?

Yes.
https://www.archistar.ai/blog/archistar-raises-11m-to-expand...

> Been Head of Engineering of company building safe social experiences for kids?

That's a lot more niche. But sure.
https://joinender.com

> Ever reverse engineered a firmware flashing protocol for phones before?

Yeah.
https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/Heimdall

> Has your state Government ever ripped off your app and tried to buy your silence?

Yep.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/vline-offer-10k-t...

> Have you ever narrowly avoided a DMCA?

Just last month!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq4-mkBlu_4

> Ever flown 20 hours just to be stood up by some random company in the reverse logistics space?

I was 19. I was young and naive. I'm sorry!

> Ever written your own IDE?

You bet.
https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis

> Ever reverse engineered Steam's P2P protocol?

Well, yeah. But only because I wanted to add dedicated server support for a game that typically only supported P2P.
https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/steam-p2p-wireshark

> Been hired by a company after you reverse engineered their product?

Why, yes. I still consult for them!
https://github.com/tts-community/moonsharp-tts-debug

> Do you, like, have a normal life?

Sure. I've a wife and 3 kids. The eldest is a type 1 diabetics, we live in a semi-rural location and spend 50 minutes driving to school, we have a dog that resembles a luck dragon and I think my wife is writing a smut novel. OK. Fine. No.
This argument makes no sense - you have never been asked to pay a special "Kurdish" tax, or a special "Ukrainian" tax. You will still pay the same amount (or more) of taxes even if the US becomes completely isolationist.
Europe's reusable rocket stage demonstrator passes key integration fit-check
This is an inference based on a change in legal terms. No resolution yet if it reflects any deeper intent. (I suspect it's made by lawyers who default to 'make sure we control everything' when they write their terms, like every other corporate ToS we all supposedly agree to willingly.)

Still, I've seen that PyPI costs a lot to run, and just like ReadTheDocs I expect that a future PyPI will need a bigger income stream somehow.

I also well remember that PyPI mandated 2FA even for those who didn't want to switch, which is an ever-present reminder that they control distribution.

I stopped distributing on PyPI years ago, in favor of my own "simple index" package distribution.

I wish pip etc. had a good mechanism already for mitigating dependency confusion. I can see that people who download my package also try downloading other packages, like pybind11, from my index, even though it isn't even a dependency of mine.
I typically use a heavy cargo bike. I only use its built in front wheel lock, it's so heavy, it can't be easily stolen, so I never lock it against posts and such.

I always lock and secure my road bike against street furniture, though.
Well, I did say "a bit" - and it is obviously a brilliant non-boring film.

Actually, this has made me put "Pillars of Wisdom", which I never read before, on my Kindle to-read list.
> which actually only means "things aren't working as expected"

Exceptional circumstances, or exceptions for short, mean "things aren't working as expected due to programmer error". In other words, a situation that theoretically could have been avoided by a sufficiently advanced compiler but that wasn't caught until runtime.

"things aren't working as expected" is vague enough to include errors, which are decidedly not exceptions. One might say a hard drive crash or the network failing isn't working as expected, but those situations are not exceptional.

> to make clear that it shouldn't be used where you might use exceptions in other languages.

Other languages are starting to learn that you shouldn't use exception handlers where you wouldn't use panic/recover, so I'm not sure there is a practical difference here.
Same. When I boot my computer and reach the password prompt, whatever character I type first inputs two dots, I have to clear those two dots first and type the password again. It is very annoying.
Information war is already on, the classical way, with embarrassing tints:

# President Job Approval
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025

Poll: Daily Mail
Results: Approve 54 Disapprove 46
Spread: Approve +8

Poll: NPR/PBS/Marist
Results: Approve 45 Disapprove 51
Spread: Disapprove +6

From www.realclearpolitics.com
How to leak under the Trump administration
I don't think any startup in the past based their valuation on fundamentals. Not even the wildly successful ones like Facebook.

People can't seem to distinguish between promises, bets, and fraud.
60lbs aluminum, of which some portion will be in the right place, and in the right form to react with O³, ozone.Ozone itself is a kind of bad news
molecule, as it reacts with almost anything, and is always in flux, bieng created by some processes
and destroyed by others, all in all our ozone layer is on the mend.
What would be relevant to this, is to know the full mix of stratospheric reactions that are effecting ozone, like say, natural meteors, and reactions with dust, created by other human activities......it's going to be a complex set of factors, that may likely be impossible to nail down satesfactorily....so.....one more thing to keep an eye on, eh!
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Others have mentioned a few specific distros. There are also tools like https://github.com/RedBearAK/toshy or https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto which make the keyboard and other aspects of the OS behave more Mac-like.

For me, Toshy's out of the box config make it pretty painless to switch between MacOS and Asahi on the same machine.
>It’s not so much of a problem due to the average daily drive being a fraction of range

Most people who own a car in cities in Europe also use it for long commutes to visit family in weekends or on holidays, often crossing borders. Range is then a problem since most families can afford only one car so edge cases matter. Maybe the wealthy Benelux and Scandinavia have top EV charring infrastructure but a lot of central, eastern and southern Europe is lacking.
i replied to this person who ignored what i asked for, and i uploaded a video and linked it. I right clicked, clicked "rename" and then typed a name, pressed control-Z and then enter.

If we're talking about a transactional file sync service preventing you from editing a file while it's synchronizing; then i am not sure what to tell you. Both you and the person you replied to seem to merely like complaining.
Did Iron Age 'Begin' in India?
Swift does this with unknown default.
You could pretty much say the same for the Great Leap Forward, tbh. I think people, appalled at the human consequences, tend to miss that it was also a failure in its industrialisation goals; that came later.
Have a privileg toploader - happily doing its chores. Its all the years old.
Someone was coming to bail out France. I don't see a D day for Ukraine. If it is coming a European nation needs to step up right fuckin now and say it.

If they lost (or break even, or occasionally even gain) a few hundred feet a day, forever, all the while their young males all go into a meat shredder that is their choice to make. I'd rather let American families use their earnings on their own problems and let Ukraine make those choices for themselves.
Go 1.24 remote caching explained
Ukraine is huge and had a large army. Baltic states are small, have in total about the same amount of military as russia loses in a month.
Using executable scripts instead of shell aliases
Yeah, I subscribe to your theory too. It's odd how Putin and his defenders spout all sorts of theories about the evil of NATO and "the West", but if you (addressing the dictators here) have faith in your arguments, why suppress viewpoints that disagree with yours, with media company closures, network firewalls and threats of years in the gulag?
In the past several US financial crises, most notably 2007-8 and 1929, it wasn't loss of faith in currency which was instrumental, it was a lack of availability and flow of currency, largely due to debt structuring.

In both cases, what eventually resolved the matter was not banks spontaneously restoring solvency, but the central bank, that is, the financial entity capable of creating new money out of thin air, which reliquidated the banks, greatly assisted in the earlier instance by vast increases in government spending as a consequence of WWII.

There's a group who likes to preach loss of faith in the US dollar; their predictive record has proved quite poor. Despite this it remains an inexplicably popular trope.
But the quality of what was built was worse than what the commies built in the Eastern Europe. That's quite an achievement!