skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd be surprised. Almost all government organizations have receptions you can call, and many private companies (who are not using client support to insulate themselves from feedback) will have executives you can speak to if you ask. There are also many activists you can talk to.

The change might not come from them doing something for you, too. They may teach you something you don't know, which can reduce your friction in some situations, too.

For example, people commonly complain about poor consumer protection around the world. But usually, there are already laws against mistreating consumers, and if they were to report the incident to the right organization/inspector, they would get the remedy they want.

The solution is often the two right people getting on a call or talking in a room. In the EU, there are even some summer camps for teens aged 14-18 to learn how to approach government decision-makers. It is doable.

I think you may have some learned helplessness everyone here talks about. But if you give it an earnest try and approach a problem you see from various angles, you'll make some progress on it. Usually, this will be done by talking to a decision-maker.
Ah, you are right, I found it (it was under the more menu on the UI).
There are bathroom bills in 13 US states. Trans people (especially those who pass well) need to make a rather difficult choice when out in public for more than a few hours. Do they use the bathroom that matches their gender identity and run risk of criminal punishment? Do they use the bathroom that matches their birth sex but the look completely out of place and make it likely that they will be harassed or have the cops called on them? Neither option is good. If you can't use public bathrooms safely then "being out of your home for more than a short period of time" is a denied right.

We've seen bills introduced to consider trans people "misrepresenting" their gender as different from their birth sex as criminal fraud. This isn't too far from the current administration's executive order banning trans people from the military for being "liars", according to the bigots in the administration.

There are also bills trying to make the public visibility of trans people something that is threatening to children based on the bigoted perception of trans people as child rapists. So you'll get things like "public performance" classified as sexualized drag performance so that trans people experience the same limitations on being in or around places with children as sex offenders.

Then, of course, there is all the basic healthcare stuff. The white house put out an executive order (currently delayed by courts) withholding federal funding for hospitals that provide gender affirming care for people age 18 and 19. These are legal adults. If this stands, we'll almost surely start seeing legislation banning gender affirming care for adults in various red states. Criminalizing hormone treatment is forced detransition.
> Would you allow an 8 year old to wander New York City unattended?

Many people do, in fact, do this:

https://reason.com/2021/06/11/free-range-kids-second-edition...
I would strongly recommend Vue3.

I am also an old timer. Hand rolled HTML and JavaScript since '97?

Came up with ASP (both VBScript and JSCript (it's like we're full circle with JS SSR)). Move to ASP.NET when it was in beta. jQuery, Prototype, Knockout.js.

Vue.js SFC is the thing that feels closest to HTML + JavaScript components done right. It's reactivity model is the same as that of JS whereas React's reactivity model is "inverted" [0]

The state model (Pinia or just composable reactive primitives) is simple, Just Works, and never gets in your way.

Lots of folks like JSX because they don't like HTML and CSS. I'm the opposite; I like Vue because I like HTML and CSS and I like JavaScript. Vue is HTML + JavaScript done right with a congruent reactivity model.

[0] https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2025/01/the-inverted-reactivity-mo...
Highly recommend Strongbox. The underlying DBs are KeePass DBs and can be stored anywhere as well as opened with any KeePass client, with a UI even better than 1Password (you can have columns for every field) as well as passkey support + export/import (even before the official method came out because they believe in you owning your own data).

I love it because Strongbox also has its own cloud feature (optional) that is just a hosted KeePass DB which makes it easy to have a shared DB with my partner.

The only downside for me: there isn’t a universal search that searches all DBs for credentials. So if you are in a browser and trying to autofill, you need to select the DB you want it to populate from.
Of course they should, having worked in London previously if you went about there insisting people call you whatever, you'd be mercilessly derided and heckled by colleagues. Here it's seen as legitimate to go about forcing your notions onto others. Elsewhere, the community forces it's notions onto you.
> so a bunch of people that have never been there flood the reviews.

quoting a definition:

The implication behind the use of the term is that instead of a "true" or "natural" grassroots effort behind the activity in question, there is a "fake" or "artificial" appearance of support. It is increasingly recognized as a problem in social media, e-commerce, and politics. Astroturfing can influence public opinion by flooding platforms like political blogs, news sites, and review websites with manipulated content. Some groups accused of astroturfing argue that they are legitimately helping citizen activists to make their voices heard.

even uses the same verbiage you did originally.
Not just trump but all republicans. They also used to criticize Obama for saying he’s willing to meet and talk to Putin.
Or for the US… There are two main winners: Russia and the American oligarchs. And China to a lesser extent.
I don't think this is the case. I think it's about wealth inequality and the resulting centralization of power. When you concentrate all the wealth to such a small number of people, the only thing they can do with it is to buy more property. They just can't consume that much. They buy property, which means it gets more expensive for the regular people, so they are no longer able to afford it. That then means they must pay rent for everything to the extremely wealthy. That causes regular people to have less money for consumption, and the rich will use the money to buy even more property.

This cycle continuously makes the rich richer and the poor poorer, and that's what's causing economic irrelevance of the masses. They can no longer afford to buy services from each other, because the rich are sucking all the wealth up and not using it to consume/buy services from regular people. Sure, they consume some luxury goods, but not enough to employ the masses. We need a huge wealth redistribution to enable regular people to buy services from each other again and make themselves relevant to each other.
Wipers have physical controls on the wheel/stalk.

You never need to touch the AC controls when driving thanks to auto mode. In the worst case you can use voice control, which you can again trigger from a physical control.

The 3D visualization is completely separate from the code that actually runs FSD, auto park, and other driver assist features, so just because it shows something wonky like a motorbike doesn't mean that it's what the car "thinks" it is.
My experience with anything declarative is that features are gradually bolted on until it eventually just becomes imperative (and ugly). For example HCL.

I believe declarative should stay purely declarative to describe data/documents in a static state (e.g. HTML, JSON) and an imperative “layer” can be used to generate or regenerate it, if needed.
I loved using Pug with Vue, but after coming across issues with tooling integration (e.g. eslint) too many times, I've returned to the default templates.
> (Would you allow an 8 year old to wander New York City unattended? Arguments can be made for more controlled spaces but...)

Sure, why shouldn't 8 year olds wander a city unattended, and eg use public transport?

I cycled to school way younger than that. And so did many people in the past.
Shame they trusted information they read in a web browser rather than verifying it on an independent offline device....

The average bitcoiner pleb with a single air-gapped signing device has better security.

It was a rookie error, helped by the overly complex nature of Ethereum.
I'm just your average Joe using RDS. The whole database itself is 3TB.
Historically, PU-238 was a byproduct of (fissile) Pu-238 production for nuclear weapons. That need kinda went away with arms reduction treaties beginning in the mid-to-late Cold War. IIRC the US nuclear weapons stockpile is about 10% of what it was at its peak. AFAIK there is no current Pu-239 production in the US.

The need for Pu-238 was recognized years ago as the stockpile of consumed by various space probes and I believe Oak Ridge now products Pu-238 fuel pellets. I'm not sure if this production could be ramped up.

But Plutonium use has various risks associated with it. Aside from the obvious security risks, you're strapped it to a rocket that may explode while launch and come back to Earth. This is effectively a dirty bomb if the RTG containment is breached.

Solar panels are really the right choice for anything out to at least mars. Here we had a probe fall over. Would that be recoverable with RTG? Maybe. Maybe not.
Years ago I had a Saab.

Everything was a button/knob.

Probably the best car instrument panel I've ever used/seen.

https://i0.wp.com/saabblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Sa...
> explaining why the US is busy dismantling every leverage of power

The same reason Gorbachev got busy dismantling every leverage of power that the Soviet Union exercised in its last days: because he realized it was overextended and needed to slow down or go bankrupt and collapse. It did anyway, despite his best efforts at reform.

Trump and Musk have long been proponents of the idea that the US is overextended and far too deeply in debt. Whether you agree with them or not, that doesn't make them "Russia controlled".
Hi, blog post author here (unrelated to paper authors).

> So in a laps of 15 years (2010-1025),

The paper was published in 2014, so the period is 2010-2014, not 2010-2025.

> they hand picked 20 bugs from 5 open source filesystem projects (198 total)

The bugs were randomly chosen; "hand picked" would imply that the authors investigated the contents of the bug reports deeply before deciding whether to include them (which would certainly fall under "bad science"). The paper states the following:

> We studied 198 randomly sampled, real world fail-
ures reported on five popular distributed data-analytic
and storage systems, including HDFS, a distributed file
system [27]; Hadoop MapReduce, a distributed data-
analytic framework [28]; HBase and Cassandra, two
NoSQL distributed databases [2, 3]; and Redis, an in-
memory key-value store supporting master/slave replica-
tion [54]

So only 1 out of 5 projects is a file system.

> and extrapolated this result. That is not science.

The authors also provide a measure of statistical confidence in the 'Limitations section'.

> (3) Size of our sample set. Modern statistics suggests that
a random sample set of size 30 or more is large enough
to represent the entire population [57]. More rigorously,
under standard assumptions, the Central Limit Theorem
predicts a 6.9% margin of error at the 95% confidence
level for our 198 random samples. Obviously, one can
study more samples to further reduce the margin of error

Do you believe that this is insufficient or that the reasoning in this section is wrong?
Most important was to have a under construction sign gif and a counter.
And maybe a guestbook.
Question must be, what's the point of uber large storage sites? Storage is essential, but where is the economy of scale of large sites, how are they more economic than small - say container-sized, a ~1 MWh - ones? Having smaller systems, closer to producer, must also save on transmission capacity, no? Not to mention, given the geopolitical situation, their safety.

I'm also convinced that separating generation and storage is simply an awfully, comically bad idea: generation that needs storage - solar and wind - is DC, storage is also DC. Transmission is usually AC or at least goes through AC/DC conversion at some point.

Why wasting a lot of additional energy to store it by doing an extra unneeded AC/DC conversion which happens if storage is separate from generation? Instead of storing DC energy as it is produced and discharging it - by converting to AC and feeding into the grid - as it is needed?
>Of which one (Canada) is openly engaging with the CCP, the US’s geopolitical rival.

This is amazing. You cannot be serious. Is this how the insanely ignorant far-right in the US convinces themselves that Canada is a "security threat", ala Russia? There is one country/party that is supercharging China, and has de facto ceded global leadership to them in the most amazing self-own in history, and that is the US under the Trump administration.

When American trade and relations collapse into a pile of ashes, and eventually nuclear proliferation gone wild due to your clown's actions leads to some American cities glassed, I hope you think "Boy, but it sure made me feel like a big man saying incredibly stupid things online"

The US is already teetering on the edge of dissolution -- if you don't realize this, you're living a fantasy -- and won't be invading anyone. I doubt the country will even survive the decade. Russia and China cannot believe how profoundly generous Trump and his outrageously ignorant movement could be for them.
Supermaven (which is owned by Cursor) in Intellij is fantastic - not perfect, but definitely speeds up boilerplate work. If you are e.g. doing a bunch of repetitive refactoring, after one or two iterations it will pick up the pattern and start suggesting it for you. Same goes for writing things like DAOs or resources, where you already have the pattern established for a different domain in your codebase.

I use Claude web to kickstart entirely new work or to attempt large refactors.
Sarkozy effected a major policy change by rejoining NATO's integrated command. Chirac was aligned on the more traditional policy of independence (including when he carried out nuclear tests).

Since then, the "independence" stance has regressed and weakened to the point that France does not do anything without a German or EU representative by it's side...
What do you mean NATO is effectively dead?
The 'web-forms' in the link does not look very promising, I wouldn't be surprised if it only supported legacy ASP.NET correctly.
Show HN: I built an AI tool that extracts insights from plain-text feedback
I got tired of endless survey forms that nobody wants to fill out. So I built Backsy, an AI-powered feedback tool where people can just type (or speak) their thoughts, and AI auto-scores the relevant product attributes—no need for structured forms or manual analysis.

Backsy also works with bulk feedback (think scraped Reddit threads, support emails, app reviews, etc.), making it easy to extract trends from raw user comments.

Would love to hear your thoughts—especially if you’ve struggled with feedback fatigue or collecting useful insights at scale!
ffupdater installs various mobile browsers; forks of Chrome and Firefox, some with built-in ad blocking on mobile: https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater

Chrome mobile won't support extensions.

Firefox mobile supports extensions.

The standard for browser plugins is called WebExtensions.
Astonishing. As if help() cannot be improved and this is not a 'fault'.
That's a great headline. Maybe not for a non-fiction article, but a great headline nonetheless.
I mean, WekKit started life as a fork of KDE's web engine so only makes sense they'd use it...
Eyy bot, you're broken, you're double-posting the same replies!
I am not sure if the author actually put any thought into the foundation of interactivity on the web, or if they just asked the AI to write a nice-sounding introduction to their article about new button capabilities.
I completely agree. It's one of many reasons I think becoming a multiplanetary species is important. There's also the unspoken issue. There is approximately a 100% chance that most of every major superpower has classified biological weapons programs, and those could easily end up even worse than nukes. And in the scenario of a 'conventional' WW3, they would likely be unleashed.

Basically, we're screwed if the world doesn't trend towards peace. And even times of peace will always be liminal, because people are people. So I think we should (1) aiming for positive relations, (2) aiming to minimize the scope and scale of the wars that do inevitably happen, and (3) aim to get setup on other planets.

Perhaps the first planet to nuke/virus itself to death can work as a more visible reminder of the dangers for the others. We always learn best by putting our fingers in the fire (and it's no surprise that games of nuclear chicken are arising only once Hiroshima/Nagasaki fall out of living memory), but this is pretty darn close to it at least.
To lose one lander, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness; to lose three must be enemy action :-o
In my world, that row has an 'esc' key (which I type every few seconds, as a longtime vi/etc user) and a fingerprint key. The keys in between are a mystery zone.

If apple move the 'control' key to the 'caps lock', well that would be sweet. The first thing I do on any computer is to remap those keys.

I'm betraying my age here. I long for an old-fashioned unix-style keyboard.
Yes, that is obvious, but the problem is that this requires some account to have permissions to start and stop services and to execute commands on the target host. Corporate IT departments are not too happy with that kind of approach nowadays.
Yes, I can see how if you view lifetime management as core to systems processing lisps might be unappealing to you.
While web browsers have become essential operating systems for modern computing, most, like Chrome and Safari, are outdated or limited, and innovative alternatives like Arc have struggled to succeed. Where does this leave us?
Moonshot business idea: robots on the moon that jumpstart, tow or flip other robots in distress.
The Concorde successor trying to crack the Achilles heel of supersonic travel
> He has given Russia everything they could ever want in return for nothing

Says someone who doesn't understand anything about Russia. If you actually watched Russian mainstream media you would understand how much they dislike Trump and disagree with him. This sudden overture over Ukraine has even caught them by surprise and they are suspicious, though welcome, of this new development.

To suggest that Trump is Russia-controlled is to expose your complete ignorance of how Russians think. The Russians hated Trump's first term and consider it to be a disaster.
If you’re using Octopus Deploy, then Azure DevOps has equivalent functionality for free. The complication in this post comes from avoiding the local agent install; an equivalent Octopus Deploy process without a Tentacle would require similar custom PowerShell.

(Not to mention Octopus Deploy is prohibitively expensive with large real estates. What used to be $3K per year, or even a reasonable $30K per year, would now be $100K+ per year to renew the license. Which is down from $300K a few years ago but we’d already decided to move away by that point.)
If you’re doing ASP.NET Core, you should be able to get away without restarting the IIS app pool. You can just create a `app_offline.htm` file, wait some time until the process fully shuts down, deploy the new code, and finally remove the .htm file.
Fylingdales is useless to the US because the US is no longer worried about Russian ICBMs. There's no need to rain nuclear hellfire on a country when you own its government.

Trump is clearly being steered towards leaving NATO altogether, so the idea that "severe reciprocal damage" is a consideration is naive.

Trump doesn't have the IQ or the rationality to operate in the best interests of the US, and his US handlers like Heritage are too busy hallucinating dollar signs to think geopolitically.

And even if none of that were true it's obvious the old WWII consensus is being - nuked.

So here we are. Without US support the UK's deterrent is a very expensive nothingburger. Presumably it still has some time before it expires - the actual time being [redacted], but no doubt known to Moscow.

I really can't see Starmer crash-starting a new independent deterrent program. And I also can't see him doing a deal with France. That would push the UK back towards the EU, and his handlers clearly don't want that.
If you saw what modern formal debate looked like in America, you’d be happy that we abandoned teaching it.

Here’s the beginning of the rabbit hole you need to go down to understand why so many former debaters not only hate the activity but specifically cite it as an example of post-modern neo Marxism:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreading_(debate)
I doubt they thought it would be better, it just cheaper because you can fix it later in the software.

The rest is just PR to sell inferiority as a feature.
> This is a uniquely North American neurosis; this happens every day in every other nation.

No. Eg Australia is also full of helicopter parents.

And even Germany has moved a lot in that direction in recent decades, even if they ain't nearly as bad as the US.
I wish it were easier to just send code to a chat and then get a diff back, and limit the files or lines that can be changed.

Too many of these tools seem to either give no diff, or make absolutely massive edits.
Well, a French nuclear umbrella that can only be used at the direct orders of the French president is quite useless.

If Warsaw is nuked, I do not believe the French would nuke back. DeGaulle believed the same about the US (and I agree), therefore France has nuclear weapons.

Macron makes grand speeches, but could not even keep the French presence in Niger (African country, in case someone misreads).
"good for Russia and disastrous for traditional allies" in your interpretation. In the interpretation of others, it is "good for America and better to be anti-globalist".
That’s the tricky part. There’s no stack anymore. Activation records of functions are heap-allocated and can stick around as long as necessary.
The point you are missing is that he presented what he knew to be norms and used language to indicate that they are norms (should vs must) and you are somehow confused into thinking that he presented them as inalienable facts. Commenters thought that if they pointed out the nuance of normative assertion vs enforcement you would see the distinction but you continue to fail to distinguish a normative assertion from a factual one.

I also disagree with you that widespread agreement on norms is some problematic slippery slope. Failure to distinguish between norms and objectivity as you are doing is what leads to widespread norms being enforced absurdly by a tyranny of the majority.
I am indeed running PostgreSQL on bare metal with a 20TB NVMe pool, the DB itself is around 18 TB :)

But that's the way to go, isn't it?
This is honestly the kind of mistake I'd expect a child to make. It shows a complete lack of understanding of how the web works. And this was put into production by a so-called security company? I think a name and shame is appropriate here. This isn't excusable, it's just straight up incompetence.
> Use git

This is honestly the only part of this that matters if you do it right. Use composer, but only on a clean git tree. Apply, then look at the git diff and correct anything you don't like. Test it and commit it, then repeat.

Composer and apply are only dangerous if you're not committing regularly. If you never run them while you have uncommitted changes, you can't lose working code.
ISDN was just completely phased out a year or two ago in the US, too.