skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since we just asked you twice to stop posting political flamewar comments and you've instead done even more of it, I've banned this account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Note: following the rules doesn't just mean not posting flamewar comments—it also means not using HN primarily for political arguments (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). I mention that because your account has been badly on the wrong side of that rule too.

p.s. Btw, lest anyone is concerned that the mods are taking sides: no, we don't care what your politics are. We care about these flamewars and how unbelievably lame they are. Comments like what you posted here amount to vandalism, if not arson. Seriously not cool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_%28TV_series%29
In my jurisdiction it's literally illegal to make a right turn without ensuring the bike lane is entirely clear. Not to say that legality has ever dictated driver behavior, but what happened definitely wasn't just me impeding traffic.
Discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43257731
I initially downvoted this because it sounded ludicrous and couldn't be true, but indeed, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story

Always fun to see stuff written almost 2 thousand years ago about life on other planets.
Ouch. The only reason I use Windows is because as a consultant clients make me use a bazillion different VPNs which often works better/only in Windows.

Otherwise I would use something like Xubuntu.

So it's sad to know that my next Windows machine will require a Microsoft cloud account.
You're making same point as I.
Is there even anyone left to enforce the rulings though? What if the royal court just decided not to care? Congress took a vacation also.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43259182
Please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

I realize it is a hot moment, but this is not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not the least of which because the group implementing these programs might be called naive or misguided, but are in good faith trying to improve things.

That's the problem. This campaign is not being carried out in good faith. They do not believe in good faith, and do not believe that others can have it. They believe their own bad faith is justified by everybody else's bad faith.

Casting DEI programs as bad faith was fairly straightforward, since it plays into racist and ideological stereotypes. They're convinced that all of their own problems can be blamed on opportunities given to Those People. So that is where they are starting, with all the ferocity of people who firmly believe that they are being oppressed.

That's this month. Just wait until next month.
Does it always have to be for practical benefit? What about pure learning and intellectual enjoyment? Where are the true limits? In the end absolutely nothing we do matters :)

These dudes are living their best lives, and having done Quake-style asm texture mapping loops in the 90s (Mike Abrash, fastmap, Chris Hecker, PC Game Programming Encyclopedia, ...), I can definitely appreciate it <3
The lifetime _is_ changed; this lets you use the lifetime from the HRTB instead of the function generics. It’s not so much the pinning itself that does it, for the type system, but using the trait object enables referring to that HRTB to require true lifetime generic (and then pinning comes along for the ride).
The Epistemology of Resistance (2013)
Perhaps listen to Buffett and Charlie saying they didn't time markets: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=secMNCDsxBc ...

Spelling his name wrong will generally bias people against your financial opinions.

> I mean, you need to double your money to recover from a 50% downfall

Nonsensical argument if you already doubled your money by being in the market for a long time - which appears to be especially true for tech stocks. Buffett talks about "time in the market".

Timing the market is often regarded as gambling: maybe because the idea is so alluring.

Disclaimer: I like trying to time the market, even though I believe the experts that say I shouldn't. Sold all crypto related investments about a month ago (not just timing, also opinion from looking at how crypto is used while I was travelling in Argentina, and other reasons). I believe any investment should have multiple good reasons, and can maybe have one or two poor reasons too!!!
> Lately, I've built simple websites and small web apps in vanilla Javascript and CSS

Any public links?
Even so, this doesn't change the fact that anything that Maoists could take credit for was done better by the non-ideologue dictator next door.

But the fact that the martial law came to an end largely democratically is good evidence that both democratic reform was easier outside of the CCCP, and that the Taiwanese single party rule was probably not as totalitarian as some people claim.
"Germany's carbon dioxide emissions fell to their lowest in 70 years in 2023, touching levels last seen in the 1950s"

https://etn.news/buzz/germany-emissions-fall-re-dominates-en...
Yes, the ID is unique per-app+user BUT the ID would then be useless for tracking you across apps. It is no different from the app itself creating a random ID and saving it.
How it started / how it's going

https://bsky.app/profile/billybragg.bsky.social/post/3ljae3w...
This article and discussion seems relevant:
DON’T BUILD YOUR CASTLE IN OTHER PEOPLE’S KINGDOMS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712885
I was thinking about this lex friedman podcast with Marcus Hutter.
Also, Joshua Bach defined intelligence as the ability to accurately model reality.. is lossless compression itself intelligence or a best fit model- is there a difference?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1AxVXt2Gv4
Congrats on the launch!

As someone who is ignorant and not following all of the recent releases. Isn't Claude-code a proprietary version of https://aider.chat/ in the first place?
Sorry, I meant my comment to be taken sarcastically. I agree with everything you said.
We have not, but I feel we would run into many of the some problems that we had with Nix around version management and interaction with the non-Nix world. Guix looks great if you go all in, but on Railway we don't want our users to have to understand the specifics of how the package manager works, and that becomes difficult with pure solutions like Nix and Guix. That said I'm not too familiar with Guix so could be incorrect on a few things.
I realize now that the "Support" link is ambiguous. The price/free issue I'll think about how to make that clear, it's a good point. Going to wait for traffic to subside before making updates, but noted. Thanks
LCD projectors do better at contrast than DLP though.

For example the Epson 5050UB or LS12000 do about 5000:1 native contrast. Most DLPs around the same price level are in the 1000:1 to at most 2000:1 contrast level.

A DLP is nothing like an emissive display. The entire area of a projected image with any projector is always lit up by the light source. Any projector, including DLP is like a TV with a single backlight and no local array dimming.

Here are some simple photos of DLP projectors and here you will clearly see that the black parts, like the black bars above and below the cinemascope image, or even the spill over past the edges of the panel are not black at all.

https://i.redd.it/ak3lwsumvccc1.jpeg

https://preview.redd.it/eyc62402amnd1.jpg?width=4000&format=...

In that second photo, the odd shape of the black projected area is due to the user using keystone, so the image is not being displayed on that part of the imaging panel and it's just left black, but you can see then what the black level really is for projected "black" pixels.
Thank you for taking the time to report it. It has now been fixed.
The absolute irony of posting this on infrastructure that is powered on every level by free software and open source protocols.
Ya, China imported around $40b of American agriculture a year. It turns out they like soybeans and chicken feet while we produce a lot and don't need as many ourselves. But they found an alternate supplier in Brazil the last time this happened, so I guess they will just double down on getting these things from other countries.
Nut looks like a fork of Bolt, how does Nut differ?
You can play on vintage hardware with a decent refresh rate. It makes it more enjoyable.
Two reasons:

1. Kaspersky AV had the strongest heuristics analyzer and the largest signature base

2. If you write malware, you want to test it periodically (in sandbox) if AV engines detect it
2^64 work that is non-paralellizable isn't a threat. 64 bits of classical security is insufficient because computers can do thousands of operations in parallel, and you can combine the effort of millions of computers. Grover's algorithm gives you a sequential complexity of 2^64, so if you have a quantum comptuer with a clock speed of 20GHZ (current quantum computers are in the khz to low mhz range), and you pretend that the quantum computer can process 14 rounds of AES per clock cycle (in reality it would be hundreds of cycles), it will take a quantum computer running for 30 years continuously to crack a single key (and if the temperature ever rises 1 millionth of a degree or the computer loses power for a nanosecond, you have to start over).
The issue is that general intelligence is useless without vast knowledge. The pretraining is the knowledge, not the intelligence.
Could you clarify what this means? Is this some inside HackerNews reference I'm unaware of?
Canada proposes 100% tariffs on Tesla
Not really sure how to read this, but to state it how most international commentators would put it:

China wants Taiwan because they think it is part of China, and because China is building an empire.

America would defend Taiwan because it wants to contain China, TSMC is an extra incentive.

In the Trump administration, this calculus may change. Trump may well let China take Taiwan in the spirit of carving up the world between major powers. I believe this will now happen.

In terms of invasion, it is far more likely China blurs the lines and blockades Taiwan, extracting concessions and using Russian-style tactics to take control without a real “war”. This is one reason why Trump’s policy in Ukraine is a disaster for the Taiwanese, as it confirms the efficacy and acceptability of such tactics.
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Tailwind UI is now Tailwind Plus
Allow me to stress my total lack of support for motorist behavior. I rode a liter bike for a number of years and got so inured to motorist-induced near-death experiences that I wouldn't even comment to my coworkers on the days only a single driver tried to kill me on either my morning commute or when I left the office for lunch. I get it, but getting it doesn't change attitudes, aptitude, or attentiveness of the other folks on the road that have a weight advantage measured in tons. Full Disclosure: I loathe cyclists on the road. I find the act of intentionally putting oneself at risk for the privilege of presenting an impediment to normal traffic just insufferably self-absorbed and a troll of the first order. That said I give a full lane when passing or slow to match speed at a safe follow distance if passing isn't a safe option. Just because I find it to be nuisance behavior isn't grounds to hassle or threaten anyone, the roadway is a public resource after all.
And a `git push -f` on physically separated key switches that require two people to operate.
A network redirector interface (for 'redirecting' local resource access over a network) was added at least by DOS 3.1 in 1985, possibly earlier in 3.0 (1984)

[1] https://www.os2museum.com/wp/redirectors-and-dos-3-0/
It looks gorgeous and compact (https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61kHENeCK8L._AC_SL1000_....).
(2021). Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26573425

The top thread discusses how the claim that the L in FLOSS stands for "Liberal" is highly dubious.
Certainly Russia's economy has difficulties. It has inflation roughly 9-10% and (dangerously low) unemployment around 1%. Russia's Central Bank key rate needs to be extremely high to fight its inflation because it is not as primary a lender as the US Fed for example - there's way more private lending. The inflation is caused by raising labor costs (due to unemployment), supply chain disruptions from sanctions, and weakening of the ruble due to printing of money to fund the war.

Thus far Russia's economy has grown substantially due to the war - expansion of its industrial base. This is factoring inflation in. What's happening right now is that Russian economic growth due to military industry is slowing down, and Russia is not likely to continue growing its economy at near the same rate.

Russia is most likely heading into an era of stagflation (high inflation and low growth). This isn't a collapse of the economy. It's not great, but its not a way to end the war.

One option could be to tank oil prices (into the $40/barrel range, currently $70/barrel range) and keep that for years. Due to Russia's reliance on energy income this would disrupt the Russian budget and it would either need to cut social spending or go into debt (e.g. to China) to continue without shelving social programs.

The point is that the Russian economy isn't on the brink of collapse. Due to the national security nature of a hostile military alliance at its doorstep, it's likely to make hard choices if put into such a situation (e.g. go into debt).
I found this statement to be confusing (the bolded part):

> Moreover, because the two ground circuits are mutually independent, no single failure can cause both grounds to fail. *This lowers the probability of a ground failure*: If the probability of a single ground failure is P, the probability of both failing is P2.

If there are 2 independent systems with the same failure modes, the probability of a single failure goes up. The probability that both fail is lower -- but I'm not sure what they mean by "P2." I'm pretty sure it isn't "P squared", if that's what they're implying, since if one succumbs to a failure mode that's shared by both, then it's somewhat more likely that the second will also fail.

I think, though, that by "probability of a ground failure" they're not referring to any ground failure, which unfortunately still renders the system inoperable; they're referring to a complete lack of ground connection, such that the system would be unsafe.
So a "Git Bop It"?
> there is no way to "prompt" the AI on what a physician needs in a given scenario - eg. "only include medically relevant information in HPI", "don't give me a layman explanation of radiographic reports", "include direct patient quotes when a neurological symptom is being described" etc.

There is, it is called RLHF.
A POC should just be a happy path to prove a concept. I had a CTO who would routinely throw together code just to prove out an integration or another concept with hard coded values everywhere and drop the code in Dropbox for me to lead the effort of making it production ready as the architect. He would go back and forth with the vendor until things worked.

This helped me out by leaps and bounds. I was usually swamped with other research. I would then make it ready for production or lead the team to and take care of the edge cases, integration with our config system, logging and alerting, etc.

There is a huge difference between a POC and an MVP. An MVP should be properly designed and scaffolding that you can build on, a POC doesn’t take those things into account.
There was already relatively deep penetration of this stuff in the corporate world and universities way back in the early 1990s.

Where I want to school we had AFS. You could sit down at any Unix workstation and login and it looked like your personal machine. Your entire desktop & file environment was there and the environment automatically pointed all your paths at the correct binaries for that machine. (While we were there I remember using Sun, IBM, and SGI workstations in this environment.)

When Windows came on campus it felt like the stone ages as none of this stuff worked and SMB was horrible in comparison.

These days it feels like distributed file systems are used less and less in lieu of having to upload everything to various web based cloud systems.

In some ways it feels like everything has become less and less friendly with the loss of desktop apps in favor of everything in the browser.

I guess I do use OneDrive, but it doesn't seem particularly good, even compared to 1990s options.
I hear you, but I believe he publicly commented on psychedelics and visionary substances and their inspiration for Dune's spice. He studied the natives of North and South America which have many examples of these things.

I don't have a source handy, but can share what Paul Stamets recounted a personal conversation with Frank in his Mycelium Running book as reported on the Dune wikipedia page:

"Frank went on to tell me that much of the premise of Dune—the magic spice (spores) that allowed the bending of space (tripping), the giant sand worms (maggots digesting mushrooms), the eyes of the Freman (the cerulean blue of Psilocybe mushrooms), the mysticism of the female spiritual warriors, the Bene Gesserits (influenced by the tales of Maria Sabina and the sacred mushroom cults of Mexico)—came from his perception of the fungal life cycle, and his imagination was stimulated through his experiences with the use of magic mushrooms."

Totally agree with you on the invaders part. I think this is why Dune is so great, it blends A LOT of things together into a coherent narrative.
Show HN: Turning logos into liquid metal animations (real-time open source tool)
I built a free open source tool which turns logos into a liquid metal animations -- in real-time in the browser. Upload a photo, then use the controls to adjust the colors, speed, noise intensity, animation pattern, and more.

Click the dice button underneath the canvas (or use the [r] key) to randomize all input parameters, this can give interesting colour / movement styles. You can then open the controls at the top right of the screen to fine-tune the parameters one-by-one.

This program works best with input logo images in png format, with a transparent background (or with a solid white / black color background). Consider cropping your image or running a background removal before inputting into this tool -- this might help to pick out the key edges of your image.

How this works: this tool uses WebGL shaders / javascript to create a real-time animation that moves around the edges of the logo, creating a liquid-metal aesthetic.

You can export your creation as an image or video afterwards.

This tool is completely free, open source (MIT license), without any paywalls or premium options. You are welcome to use it for personal or commercial purposes.

Github repo: https://github.com/collidingScopes/liquid-logo

Credit to XorDev on Twitter, whose shader work served as my starting point for the animation style: https://x.com/XorDev/status/1894123951401378051
No, it is not.

Gold is, and has been, an exchange medium, in which national finances have been transacted, and a durable representation of wealth. It's useful in addressing balance-of-trade relations between state.

But the overwhelming wealth of states is in their internal and external production and international trade of goods and services.

Colonial-era Spain imported gold in vast quantities from the Americas, which did it little good as that didn't represent wealth but rather exchange capacity, and did little but bid up prices whilst reducing (in similar mechanisms to Dutch Disease and the Resource Curse) the real economic potential of the country (why raise grapes, cattle or other goods when you could get in on the gold exim trade instead)? Gold bankrupted Spain, ironically enough.

Britain's colonial trade focused far more on goods: spice, cotton, sugar, tea, grain, wool, lumber, saltpetre, slaves, and the like. Those are both directly useful and contribute to infrastructure. Two things Spains gold utterly failed to do.
Yes, this is a challenging issue in ATC. Also, some safety systems are turned off or diminished at critical phases of flight (near the ground) because of the noise problem (TCAS, for example).

ADS-B helps with this as it's self-reporting. And systems like ASDE-X are useful to track objects once they hit the ground. But low-altitude deconfliction is a big problem.
> We also do not have the miles of mined out defenses that Ukraine has had since 2014.

I'd say you guys should have started building yesterday. Like what the heck to wait for? This isn't some temporary blip but permanent course of direction.

Want to avoid having thousands of sleeper agents with double citizenship causing mayhem before invasion? Revoke it all for dual citizens that won't revoke their russian one, its time to pick side.
Apple takes legal action in UK data privacy row
I guarantee you that Russia could've been reasoned with if it was forced to face Ukraine with the full might of US support for another 4 years. Maybe there would need to be some concessions so Putin can look like he came out with a win to the Russian media, but Putin wouldn't have kept going as he was.
Yes, this is exactly what I've been dreaming about. It might finally be possible to beat the bullshit asymmetry law, i.e. Brandolini's law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

If LLMs can debunk bullshit as easily as it's generated, the world will instantly turn into a better place.

Bad ideas which sound good are the root of all evil.
I think the duration makes it different, the ECMO (blood + oxygen being pumped out of the body) record according to Google is something like 554 days. That's much much longer than the typical transplant.
This whole argument makes no sense and is contrived at best. Software being free as in freedom is a choice and there is no one out there forcing you to use or create free software.

> I would prefer software insurance to “software freedom”.

This is commonly referred to as an SLA and this is orthogonal to whether the software is free or not. You can have an SLA with both Microsoft and with SUSE, whether the software is free is completely unrelated to that fact.
> I worry that we'll get complacent and not check details like that when they are important, not just the medical field but everywhere.

The performance level goes up all the time, it won't be this bad for long.
It's a StarCraft reference.

https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Zerg

"The Zerg Swarm is a terrifying and ruthless amalgamation of biologically advanced, arthropodal aliens. [...] They are named "the Swarm" per their ability to rapidly create strains, and the relentless assaults they employ to overwhelm their foes."