skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are you getting ice from in 1500s Italy? You get an arrow pulled out of your skull, but what are you doing with the resulting infection? People bring you food from far away, but there's no refrigeration and it's hauled at 15 kilometers a day. You can pay someone a lot of money to bring avocados from 1000 kilometers away by foot today. But you won't want to eat those avocados. Get bit by the wrong mosquito? You're possibly dead from malaria, and no doctor can treat you. (People still die today, but you're much, much more likely to survive) Get syphilis? Your body is going to slowly rot away. Having a kid? Better have a few backups, because even the children of the rich dropped like flies.

Labor was cheap in the ancient world. But the reality is that machines and technology do a lot of work better than a human hand. No matter how many people you hire, nobody is cooling and preserving your food as well as a typical $500 refrigerator. And nobody is cooling your house as well as a $500 AC either. Air conditioning revolutionized the world because it made lots of places that were borderline inhabitable habitable. It doesn't matter how rich you were, life in Saudi Arabia wasn't as comfortable as it is today. Vaccination, antibiotics, windows, and AC made tropical areas much more habitable for everyone.
I think the point is they're often doing it on things that aren't strictly vectors by definition, as in the physics sense, rather just some sack of stuff organised like they might be a vector and assuming its valid to compare angles because its just something numerically without much bias that does the job.
A church which owns land, much land. Land on which houses have been built. Houses in which it is statistically probable that private acts of lesboid love have been committed![0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVRODdXVI3Q content warning: extensive presentation of lesbianism as some sort of crime. I do believe the sketch is however poking fun at people who do seem to think that way and not promoting it as a valid viewpoint itself.
> What still works in favor of the US is, at least here in Germany, our politicians.

> BY the way, I am much more mad at the Europeans, my own German government(s) especially, than at Trump.

I would go even as far as saying that a significant part of German elites indirectly work for Russians or more generally they are part of the world corruption elite (and I don't mean AfD and BSW, I mean businesspeople and parts of CDU and SPD). Since the end of nuclear plants was announced around 2000, it was quite clear they will have to be replaced, and at least since 2009 (the first Russian gas stop) it was very clear Russia can't be trusted with the one thing (or anything else). But at every turn they managed to delay or destroy effective solutions and instead pushed for Nordstream 2 and so on. And the public let them do that.

Of course it can be much worse (I'm from Slovakia) but the past doesn't give me high hopes for the future.
Unless you live in Indiana, Idaho, Oregon, or parts of Florida
Not knowing much economics, I'm struggling to parse this sentence. ELI5 please?
Not even necessary, just update the DNS record pointing to your home address
And yet it is so underdeveloped. I'm in a few second hand board groups where every listing is like 20 different games at different prices. They have to put a price, so some people put 0, some put $30 and some put $999,999.

I hate buying stuff on marketplace, it's so feature poor.
> This doesn't mean we should stop doing good things. But we should probably stop pretending that the law is some sort of invincible barrier to misbehavior. It lends very little credence to the robustness of the promise.

So we have common ground. I agree, laws by themselves have no power and they are certainly not an invincible barrier to anything! You need people and the will to uphold them. It requires eternal vigilance. And what I'm saying is that there are people and whole societies, in fact, wanting to and, in fact, upholding laws and the rule of law, e.g. Wirecard.

I may be naive, you may be cynic, that doesn't mean we can't pull on the same string. If you agree with me that the rule of law is desirable and that laws are uphold by people, I'd only ask you to not dismiss laws and the rule of law wholesale, just because there are bad actors and it is not perfect. I guess, that's not what you wanted to do anyway, but it came across as such.

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After looking more into our case of Ecosia I agree, their pledge has little legal binding power so far. As a GmbH they can put out press releases all day and rescind them just as easily. It does not fulfill the specific requirements of an "Auslobung" (a promise to do something), so, yeah, at the moment it's all talk. They may do the walk, but nobody can sue them, if they don't.

A foundation would be different, but also hard to do and not really suited for economic activity, a gGmbH is geared for economic activity in the public interest, which is different again, so they lobby for a new legal form (GmbV) that binds capital as a foundation would but is as easy as a GmbH to set up and run. Like I wrote earlier, there is activity in the legislative to create such a legal form, but Germany being a very thorough representative democracy there are many things to be taken into account and it will take time. Honestly, I'm not really invested in this initiative, so I'll wait and see and wish them all the best.
There's a fundamental tension here between scale and openness. Cloudflare's bot detection likely relies on statistical models[1] trained on mainstream browser behavior. When you operate at their scale, even a 0.1% false positive rate affects millions (billions?) of users, but the economic incentives push toward minimizing false negatives (actual bots getting through to prevent leaking) rather than false positives (real users getting blocked).

The real issue isn't just Cloudflare - it's the centralization of web infrastructure that creates these single points of failure for browser diversity. Alternative browsers aren't just about personal preference - they're essential for innovation and preventing technological monoculture. We should be demanding transparent criteria for what constitutes "suspicious" behavior rather than accepting black-box filtering.

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/plans/biz-and-ent/#he...
Can this also be used for bed sports? Asking for a friend.
If the US becomes isolationist, it's technological edge becomes irrelevant.

The US pulling out of the World Order it builds and which underpins its massive wealth won't hurt anyone more than the US.
India really needs to work on consciousness-raising regarding sanitation/cleanliness.

Modi made a start in 2014. I don't know why the momentum stopped. Some of the videos coming out of there (e.g. the recent video of the railway employee throwing a huge amount of used disposable plastic food trays off a moving train) are shocking.
It's nice for performance, but if that's not a bottleneck, Typescript is pretty convenient. It has better tooling for the web, and compiles almost instantly. Rust -> WASM can be frustratingly slow if you're exploring a new idea or prototyping.
Rs. 2700 per month ($32) is the poverty threshold for Urban dwellers? That does not sound right, seems like manipulation.
This usually means that average CS or EE university level students should be able to easily follow it even if they have never touched the topic. It's far below the level of math and physics degrees, but still somewhat above what you could expect from an average self taught programmer.
McCLIM 0.9.9 "Ostara"
Free porn transcends borders and geopolitics I guess.
Dual 300As overclocked to just over 500Mhz each on a BP6 with Geforce 256 here too! Fastest, smoothest machine I ever used until the M1 MacBook. Quake 3 multiplayer demo ran so fast it gave me motion sickness ^^ Years later I "upgraded" to a 1Ghz Athlon and it felt like a downgrade a lot of the time.
I was going to say something about modulating the wavelength, but OP wins.

(dingle-arm, he actually said dingle-arm!)
Pack: Portable Asset Compiler Kit by Google
Yeah the "free" stuff makes finding some items a bit annoying (e.g. sofas), and if you try to sell any Apple products you get inundated with scammers, but it's still fairly useful.
Interesting experiment.

Would love to see a multiplayer version of this game!
I came here to say this. TradeMe, New Zealand’s homegrown eBay, charges ridiculous amounts to sell items. And essentially zero customer service.

They have cornered the market in auto and housing (including rentals) but are losing out on general goods. I know a lot of people who don’t even bother looking at TradeMe anymore to buy, let alone sell.

I can’t remember when I last logged into my TradeMe account.
2017

Before that they even had offices in Kyiv.
Bengal famine.
>`zwarte bladzijden`

We have the same expression in Russian.
The mechanism for water toxicity is physically displacing ions in the brain, causing osmotic damage. (This also explains why lower amounts of water are safe.) A thumbprint dose of LSD is nowhere near high enough to do something like that.
They had all of Hollywood this year and quite a lot of nonpolitcal content creators came out for Harris in the last days.
> Nobody is asking for the “downfall” of Russia.

It's one of the likely outcomes of the war unless someone with a decent amount of influence in Russia takes Putin down.
Unless you bound compensation, a proclamation of "non-profit" rings hollow.
I hate FB and Meta properties so much. and they have captured so much of the web.
every little thing - requires login. if you don't have an account - you can't see shit.

I have accepted that i'm one of those now left behind. Books & internet forums is where I will catch up. even if I miss out, am I really missing out.
OMG, they created another:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nKk_-Lvhzo

(and he said transmogrified!)
> Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit...

What makes me sad is that if we go back a handful of years here in HN comments, there were tons of posts assuredly stating google would never do anything like this.

Even though it should have been obvious that a company who lives and dies by ad revenue will of course do everything to protect ad revenue and block users freedom.
It depends on how likely you are to succumb to burnout. Unless you get a very cushy day job, building an SaaS you can take to market on the side will definitely eat up any free time you think you might have.

People operate at different frequencies, though, and some can go go go while staying pretty grounded. Those people app are to be superhuman to the likes of me. I personally know I am not that person. I need a healthy work/life/hobby balance or I start to underperform in all areas as I pull away with mental and physical fatigue.

Your best answer will come from an honest conversation with yourself and what you _know_ you can handle.
Your whole thesis rests on assuming that the price will stay where it just so happened to be at stock market closing yesterday. It's a bit early to say that, don't you think?
They cut the power cable from the wrong server

(Referring to when Elon used bolt cutters in the datacenter)
Your first link says that it measures calories available and not calories consumed. It links to an undernourishment metric instead the world average for it has remained about the same for about a decade. I am not expert and I am probably cherry picking the page that matches my bias but I disagree that the progress has been tremendous.
The workflow goes like this -> R&D -> rl testing -> if broken with deaths -> law to prevent it from happening again

But.. it's a chicken-egg problem. Has there been a law for prevention before an incident happened or is the law formulated after something happens?

.. it's naive to think and say

> Okay, you can work on changing the law, and the rest of us can work on just building infrastructure now and not waiting for the law to catch up.

If it were like this, then no house would be destroyed by earth quake like in Turkey somewhen 2-3 years ago - and Turkey did pass a law some 10 years ago to prevent cheap buildings in earth quake areas.

No bridge would've collapse in Germany - the laws in Germany are one of the toughest making construction very expensive.

And there are much more examples in real world that opposes your "Okay, you can work on changing the law, and the rest of us can work on just building infrastructure now and not waiting for the law to catch up."

The problem is no one wants to pay much money for the better quality, if a little less in quality will do similar job. Compare housing and housw building costs in US and western Europe/Germany.

So, your engineers can do the best things and the market decides. .. yes, ma‘am!
Exactly why I just bought a Nikon.
Weight seems more or less in line with a 4S 5000mAh 100C battery

https://hobbyking.com/en_us/turnigy-rapid-5000mah-4s-14-8v-1...
Yeah, this is how Bending Spoons roll.
Sounds like an attempt at genocide. Something that has led to billions in reparations for some groups but not the Irish.
I can relate to many points. I made a lisp (a scheme) as a scripting language for my game dev purposes, and went through many of the same phases. I really wanted continuations in my scripts (super useful for sequencing things over time across multiple frames, which is mostly what games do). So I had to get comfortable with cps style. But oh, it blows up the stack. But what if I had my own stack?
What I have currently is very close to the stack interpreter described in the fantastic paper Three Implementation Models for Scheme, while initially it was built iteratively based on Lisp in Small Pieces. Though I don't use "real" continuations, just an "await", "race" etc. which is just syntactic sugar that is easy to implement once there is a cps conversion in place. There are some important optimizations that can't be done (or are really hard to prove) if there are real continuations. For example, who knows if a closure can be magically re-entered if the language basically supports goto? Better not put it on the stack, even if it seems like it won't escape the scope.
I think with the current monopolistic trajectory there will not be the next generation of US companies because current companies just buy up everything that shows any kind of potential. There's no benefit to society from trillion-dollar companies - they don't need to innovate and they have the power to stop any would-be competitors.
There is wide range between Atari 2600 and what is on Steam that doesn't require an RTX 5090.
Oof. Thanks, I must have been switching tabs too quickly.
History classes are propaganda
I spent almost 20 years moderating subjects written by others in an online community, and I finally got rid of subjects completely.

Instead, I offered users a text area and generated subjects from the first 80 characters of the body.

With a bit of rule-based cleanup, it worked wonders.

@dang, idea for your overworked self.
It is somewhat of a knee-jerk reaction. That said, European governments and media have been serving a relentless propaganda. It started with the invasion of Ukraine but has recently taken an even more sinister turn. This sort of thing does work and does change public opinion.
Yes, agreed, the agencies were put in place by executive order and they're being gutted. However, that doesn't mean the executive branch is being gutted. Gutted means "to destroy the essential power or effectiveness of". Maybe there's confusion about the word "gutted"?

Indeed the power and effective of agencies is being dramatically reduced. I believe this is the point that was trying to be made.

However, rulings like Trump v. United States vastly expand the power of the executive branch. Even if you're one of those people who believes in Unitary Executive Theory, prior to Trump v. United States, those powers were hypothetical. Hence the need for a ruling. It's to be seen whether a Unitary Executive would be more effective.
I didn’t say that.
That's very different from saying you shouldn't help people in a famine. Jesus also said, "blessed are the poor" full stop in Matthew. Also the KJV version is a pretty inaccurate translation and I don't know why people quote it in 2025 when there are translations that are both more accurate and more comprehensible.
Maybe you/we are a product here, ai needs to train. It's quite smart if you ask me to tailor conversation towards information extraction.
tl;dr whichever system using an ESP32 as a bluetooth adapter may also just run arbitrary code on the ESP32 itself over the same interface. Commands have to be issued from the host system, not from the air.

This sounds like... a good feature? There are indeed some scenarios where doing so poses a security risk. But most of the time I do want to be able to run arbitrary code on e.g. my WiFi dongle when I'm in control. I know FCC is not a fan of this idea though.
That would be impressive because there isn't a standard format for NOTAMs. They are intended for humans, not machines. It's a major problem that safety critical information is often not available in machine readable format, so you can't have a plane's navigation system automatically give warnings if you program it to fly into restricted air space or to a navigation beacon or runway that is announced as offline for maintenance by NOTAM.
Dmap: A C hashmap that's stupid simple and surprisingly fast
You might want to take a look at the piumarta branch of
https://github.com/attila-lendvai/maru/tree/piumarta

This is Attila's attempt at more formally evolving maru through several iterations, and includes gezeira etc.

Personally I find able forth's meta compilation to be more manageable (https://github.com/ablevm/able-forth/tree/current)

But your mileage may vary :)

Disappointingly, the able gui etc was not open sourced, and I fear lost to time.
Thanks for the link

Noteworthy percentage of Firefox users.
Imagine the disadvantage I am at by living in Australia, just about everything is posted while I am asleep. With that said this is a disadvantage across just about all social platforms, not just HN though.
> Espressif will document all Vendor-specific HCI commands to ensure transparancy of what functionality is available at the HCI layer

I'm very glad they're going to be more transparent rather than try to lock things down more. I've been impressed with Espressif over the years and I'm glad they're continuing to impress.
Show HN: WhisperType – Mac Dictation App
This is my take on Whisper-based dictation.

I wanted a simple, inexpensive solution, but still maintaining perfect quality.

Give it a try and let me know what you think.
In other words, this was a beatup for internet points, not, in any way, an actual security issue.
I fail to see how diversity in the country would change those metrics.
> Those were very preliminary ventures and not anything that commanded substantial developer resources, so I don't know what you're talking about.

Are you sure they intended them to be preliminary? Maybe they backed off when they saw their users' opinion about Web 3-4-5 or whatever number the blockchain "evangelists" picked out.

In 3-5 years if Firefox will still be around are you going to tell me their "AI" initiative was just preliminary too?

What I'm talking about is trust again. Easily lost, hard to gain back. As I said elsewhere, I want a guarantee that my money is only spent on the actual browser before I donate.

You're free to donate for "AI" of course.
Does anyone make one that also helps with knee movement?
China's Defense Budget Is Much Bigger Than It Looks (2023)
No offense, but you are in a bubble.
Can't you just check the journal logs?

Should also be using systemd timers at this point, but I guess if it's a lot of them to manage I'd still prefer cronjobs too.
It was always a small source of joy on Discord to see Americans getting on the server while East Asians would go to sleep, with us Europeans being in the middle. It always feels so cute for some reason I can't explain, but I do love that every time.
It would be great to see something more than a sign in page :/
>H1b Indians are on 30-50 yr queues for green card.

What do you mean by this? Surely they don't have to stay and work 30-40yrs before they can expect permanent residency?
maybe be real?
Ask HN: What's like to be an engineering manager?
The problem is you're deciding when other people have free time for them.

Maybe people spend time with friends/family in the evening :)
But how can the Federal government access that data re: parking tickets etc.? Given that (if I understand the USA right) such things would be held at a municipal or state level at best?

Does this foreshadow a massive Federal government data hoovering? Which, sigh, I'm sure DOGE will feed into an LLM.
India is on a steady path of improvement and has awareness campaigns running that adress these issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...

https://innovateindia.mygov.in/toilet-campaign/

https://siwi.org/latest/the-clean-india-mission-worlds-large...
But these laws need to be revamped. A better fine would be Tesla needed to correct their claims publicly, in the same media space with the same time/investment to correct their claim.

Else fines will just be part of the cost of the false ads.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2410820/Too_Many_Sheep/ both cooperative and competitive
Is there any other reason for this than protecting meat industries and/or cultural reasons?
Ah, America, the land of the free (enterprise prisons).
I would think policies should also be updated every X years in light of new regulations, new possibilities, new limitations... but who enjoys policies and even updating them? So here we are, everything done "by the book" and losing data because of that.
Yeah sure, Russia is the last vestige of the free internet. That's certainly a hot take
The fundamental gap in my opinion, is that k8s has no mechanism (that I am aware of) to notify the load balancing mechanism (whether that's a service, ingress or gateway) that it intends to remove a node - and for the load balancer to confirm this is complete.

This is how all pre-k8s rolling deployment systems I've used have worked.

So instead we move the logic to the application, and put a sleep in the shutdown phase to account for the time it takes for the load balancer to process/acknowledge the shutdown and stop routing new traffic to that node.
> No reason small online communities couldn’t operate in the same time zone

For example, Finland, Romania, Turkey and South Africa are on the same time zone.
Interesting idea.
Among my projects, there's a website blocker, and wasting time on social media is really one of the pain points for many people.
I’m curious to see the statistics of your approach over time.
It’s hard to believe that people would initially go on social media with restrictions, but who knows.
Keep updated!
As a layperson I go into this thinking that it sounds like "scientists make matter from light" but after reading it seems more like "scientists make fancy electric field with a laser".

I guess "solid" has a technical definition that allows for this sort of interesting interpretation.
Well, they fund their lifestyles by borrowing against their immense paper wealth. At this rate, they might have to live within their means and buy one less island!
The tonal shifts in that video gave me whiplash. Please tell me they didn't give that treatment to the Holocaust as well.
Depends of the country, it can be done correctly. I also wish we taught historiography alongside history itself, it's an important part of building critical thinking.
Let me tell you as a child of the summer of '81:

strong bodies are lackin' wisdom.

Or:

Who do not smoke, not drink, has never lived.
Plot twist: this actually serves as more positive advertising for Microsoft Excel.