skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks very smooth!

However, from my perspective, the extensive need to drag windows around and resize them is a habit of windows environment. So, perhaps, this is for the mouse what tmux and Neovim are for the keyboard.

In tmux, the window layouts I need are fixed sets of 2x2 panes, with some predefined ways of resizing them and toggling full-screen. With effective tools like telescope and nvim, the need to line all windows up disapears, because the switching is so efficient and I have more of a mental picture than a visual one of what's available. For example, no need for the file tree commonly to the left in most IDEs.
From the video linked:

> "You're convinced you should buy the one recommended in his video so you scroll down and find the affiliate link to that product"

Hold up, that's something people actually would do, click a link in a YouTube description instead of opening a new tab to search for it? Wild.
This has been disallowed on the App Store for a couple of years now; but of course is completely unenforced.
Car windows are probably harder to break than you think...lol. Also - consider the situation where the car is in, or partially in water, and pressure differentials.

(There was actually another HN thread about this recently - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691780).

I keep a Resqme in the car glovebox - my other half used to do a lot of interstate driving, and I was always worried she'd be trapped in the car. The Resqme has both a seat-belt cutter, and also a centre-punch for easily breaking the side windows.
I mean addressing the initial proposition - of course a work of satire/parody of the real world is going to be a better basis for thinking about the real world than a work of escapism!

The rest of it, I think, won't persuade anyone to read Discworld novels who's resisted them so far. Those who have and love them will find it a pleasant enough survey.

Oh and I personally think that Equal Rites is the best entry point to the series rather than Sourcery. But then I was reading them in publishing order anyway and eagerly waiting for each new one to come out. Damn I miss being able to look forward to a new Pratchett novel; he was a Wodehouse for my generation.
I think the Quantum Leap expression can also be understood as a "step" with no intermediate stages, i.e. very abrupt or transformative.
Can't resist posting this classic video from "yes minister" that discusses the "zeno's paradox" of MAD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg-UqIIvang (The general idea is that in a slowly escalating conflict may be no clear logical point where it makes sense to "push the button" first).
https://archive.is/20250307221215/https://www.wired.com/stor...
Crazy that an article with this title be posted at Bloomberg and be paywalled.
Um, the richest city on the planet gets pretty frosty. I can't be bothered but if you wanted to hit the university library for an afternoon, you could probably pretty quickly come up with the data. Or know someone in finance that has corporate access to like bloomberg data.
None of this makes their claim not misleading and not a lie.
I also find it pretty interesting! I recently thought of it while watching the upper stage losing stability and tumbling out of control. It made me realize that it was maintaining the video feed even as it tumbled / spun.

Is it just that the radio goes out in all directions and is thus received in sufficient quantities to build the video feed?
McDonald's Gives Its Restaurants an AI Makeover
IPTV free trials allow prospective users to explore a streaming service’s full channel lineup and on-demand content without any initial cost. Essentially, these trials provide temporary, unrestricted access to the service’s features. They are designed to let you test the quality, user interface, channel variety, and overall performance of the IPTV service—helping you decide if it fits your entertainment needs
> Using it outside of its intended distance will cause eye strain since your eyes won't be able to focus properly.

I don't find that at all, personally. I wear my computer glasses almost all the time in the house and just let myself not try to focus on things. If anything it seems to be better than my normal distance lenses for eye strain, for me, because my eyes do try to focus with my normal lenses since it's supposed to be perfectly clear, where I know there's a good reason they're not in focus when I'm not wearing them.

My distance glasses have progressive lenses, which may be part of that, as there's different strength depending on where you're looking at in the glasses. I've been tempted to remove progressive lenses from my next pair, as I tend to take them off to read anyway, and then I'd get a flat prescription like I have on my computer lenses.
I've remapped these like so:

Define keymaps you want to change: https://github.com/joeyagreco/dotfiles/blob/583ba45088239928...

Apply keymaps: https://github.com/joeyagreco/dotfiles/blob/583ba45088239928...

That's it!
I’m not sure I follow how establishing a strategic reserve out of a digital commodity confiscated from crime is a threat to “a highly indebted nation”.

Additionally they’re planning to use revenue neutral ways to add to the Bitcoin reserve.

The great part about Bitcoin is that it can be time-locked to avoid spending to prevent, say, changing political parties that may decide to liquidate the reserve.
People take drugs recreationally, but that doesn’t always translate into worse health outcomes. The term “substance abuse” is also unnecessarily judgmental in this case because it assumes lack of self-control. Someone can be in control and take drugs, and not worsen their physical or mental health. But a growing fetus will be impacted by whatever drugs are taken by its bearer, either mother or surrogate (we don’t know). So I get the point you’re making, but the law you’re citing doesn’t work as a good enough counter example to my point (at least I don’t think so) because this law isn’t about the individual’s health, but about the fetal health.

I think a better counter example to my “there’s no law which requires health” statement are anti-smoking stipulations against people born after a certain year. So essentially, anti-smoking laws do make an assumption that you’ll get unhealthy if you smoke, and therefore you shouldn’t. However, policymakers can say that you’re not obligated to healthcare as a right because there are different laws which are already protecting your health, and they would be right in their own place.

The reason I think universal healthcare makes policy sense is that health outcomes are dependent on randomness. Someone can have bad genetics, or be born into environmental conditions which impact their health, both things which are random and not under personal control. I don’t think it’s a good idea to leave national productivity up to randomness, especially when environmental factors like pollution can have deterministic effects, like worsening population-level health outcomes. For a country as big as the US, healthcare should be left to the states to decide, but most states will find that providing healthcare will result in better productivity (I think).
FAA workers threatened with firing if they 'impede' Musk's SpaceX federal deal
The entire situation is just so asinine. In addition to the clear pain and suffering this causes trans people, it also hurts cis people and doesn't even achieve the stated goal of making cis women feel safe in the bathroom (not that it would justify the bigoted policies, even if it did).

There are plenty of butch cis women who now get harassed in the bathroom for "looking like a man" because these policies have opened up the floodgates for bigots to transvestigate everybody they come across. And if everybody follows the law as written then there will be people using the women's restroom who are indistinguishable from cis men unless you inspect documentation (which nobody is obliged to carry in public) or inspect genitals.

The true outcome (and I believe the true goal, though not typically stated out loud) is that trans people (and people who don't fit rigid and traditional gender presentations) are simply not able to be in public safely.

The regression we've seen in legal rights has been so swift. In 2016 North Carolina tried to pass one of these bills and major organizations like the NCAA and Paypal took serious economic action in order to get it reversed. It felt like a society-wide rejection where it wasn't just left leaning activists pushing back but major organizations without a typical political agenda too.

In the past four years we've seen 13 states pass bathroom bills and more than half the states pass gender affirming care bans for minors largely without a peep from corporations.
When I went to check my sight after repeatedly getting blurry vision/eye strain after working (mostly reading on laptop) they said they couldn't find any issue with my sight. One of the eye were a bit worse than the other, with trouble with distant object, but not to the level of needing glasses.

But I insisted and made (very weak) glasses with blue-light filter included, and these days I use it when I need to read stuff on the screen (I get zero strain or blurry vision when I play games, in same setup, oddly enough). It helps a lot but they're not perfect, sometimes I still get blurry vision after a while.

Later on I experimented with lightning condition, and realized that my eyestrain often correlated with bad lightning (cafe, when remote work) and stress/bad sleep. Better lightning also help, but not perfectly. It's also odd because since childhood I've been sensitive to light. Walking outdoors in the summer, I can't keep my eyes fully open.
Yes, within the set of three speaker icons it makes perfect sense.

If it was a one-off it’s unintuitive, but on the keyboard where it’s used it’s fine.
As an artist, I would just setup a small/local AI to auto respond to the bullshit emails and sit back and collect the $50. That would be art in itself.
Same. I've driven short distances sometimes to pick up lunch or something 5-10 minutes away because I forgot to switch my glasses. It wasn't ideal but perfectly doable.

I've only done it a handful of times, though. And also I wouldn't do so at night.
What market did you have 1.5mbit dsl in, in 1999? GTE in LA county offered 768k/768k symmetric. In 1999. I can't remember when that was increased, but it was after GTE got bought out.
Struggling with Data Structures? I Built a Tool to Make Learning Easier
guaranteed to work 60% of the time every time.
This wouldn't be a problem if the U.S. had decent privacy laws that were enforceable against both private companies and the government, as well as some form of actual government issued ID.

The German constitution actually provides for a "right to informational self-determination", i.e. any individual has the right to decide what happens with their personal information, including what websites they visit.

We also have a standard governmen-issued ID. In combination that makes it possible for private companies to offer web-based age verification, that check you ID-number against a government-provided service, verifying the age but not providing additional information. And because of the privacy laws, it would be a criminal offense to store the identity of the person being verified or for that information to be connected with the website you visit.

The website in turn gets a legal record that they verified the age of the person, but not necessarily the actual identity of the person.

Ideally, in the end each party only gets a piece of the total picture but by confirming to each other that the piece they have checks out, you can confirm your age to a porn site without any single party being able to piece the entire picture together.
>With the way the Apple is going in the UK, I'd rather give 1Password the keys to the kingdom.

What should Apple have done? Defy the government's order? Shut down entirely? They're already fighting it in court.
When I read stories about people 10x’ing their productivity with AI, I interpret them as having the same vibe as these “solvers”.
And further, with this pg_mooncake extension allowing you to store the data in S3, is Postgres simply providing compute to run DuckDB? I suppose it's also providing a standardized interface and "data catalog."
am I imagining it, or were there more features in the original public demo?
Nicotine is subtly addictive. I was a chain smoker at a young age, getting off it took months of withdrawal.
> The whole paper is a statistical joke.

I have been guilty of such kind of comments and I have come to realize they do nothing to further my point. I would suggest to read the guidelines because they are very well written about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Agree, but isn't the project very low in activity?

https://github.com/pugjs/pug/activity

That is not necessarily a bad thing, sometime stability is what matters the most. But here the last commit was removal of a security and bugs branch...
windows are normaly tempered glass. You can't kick them out.
Where do the clothes go after we put them in a recycling bin?
There's a system option to map Caps Lock to Escape that I found very convenient.
Because it’s within a set of three speaker buttons.

The first has no sound, the second a less sound, the third more sound. They correspond to mute (no sound), lower volume (less), raise volume (more).

Within the set of three buttons it’s perfectly sensible and intuitive.

It wouldn’t make sense on its own, but on the keyboard it isn’t.
Sure, but it's as much a lie as "deals" ever are. The whole concept has always been in the business's favor, not consumers', and if something like Honey leads to a lot of people learning that truth, so much the better.
It's because it's easy to whip up an angry crowd.

Anger is a temporary motivator so bad actors use it as a way to increase the likelihood of swarm behavior like brigading.

There are also some people who enjoy being part of brigades because it makes them feel like they have a social group that does important things. That's why the same people often go from cause to cause without ever making a noticeable change beyond complaining.

It kind of sucks because they feel like they're special and march to their own tune but often they're being played by whichever piper is in town.
As someone who deeply loves LOTR - if you try to apply the rules of LOTR to this world, you will make this world worse. This is true. Inheritance and monarchy does not make for a good government, and we know this.

But LOTR is about vibes not facts. Friendship, loyalty, hope, doing the right thing with what power you have, appreciating what is good and green and gentle in the world, etc.

> the more seriously you take Middle Earth, the dumber you get about Roundworld

The more seriously you take the rules of LOTR, yes. But you can take LOTR seriously without taking the rules seriously - by taking the vibes seriously.
How good is the RAG though? Just throwing a vector db at it doesn't make it useful...
The Tesla exec has access to the actual figure for miles traveled and why should he lie about something like that?

And just from visual inspection, it is evident that there are numerous surprises with the iSeeCars study that are difficult to explain. For example, why is there such a huge difference between Model 3 and Y fatality rates even though the cars are similar in most respects?

Another thing to note is that the number of fatalities is only a handful, often under 10 in a year. The standard deviation of the Poisson distribution would already give error bars of 30% at least, making direct comparisons between models meaningless.

Finally, if you read the accident reports, most of the fatalities are head on collisions with drunk drivers and not wearing seatbelts. Having physical controls for hvac or whatever has absolutely nothing to do with it.
I actually think the AI is going to end up creating its own sort of machine code. Programming will be done entirely in natural language, the AI will translate to machine code and we tiny brained humans won’t even know or care what it’s doing under the hood. The idea of programming using a specific programming language is going to seem archaic and foolish.
If the heat was good for the economy then you'd have African countries pushing around Europe and not the other way around.
Chiang's Law of Science Fiction and Fantasy
This is one of the more major risks of chatbot style generative AI. People are very open to well argued answers to problems even if the answer is wrong. I was reading this article about how those with less educational attainment seem to use chatbots more[1].

On one hand this is amazing because it increases access to good enough writing and information. On the other hand it raises the chances that people, regardless of educational attainment, are convinced that falsehoods are true.

1: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/researchers-surprised-to-...
But you know, Apple is a struggling company that doesn't have enough money to pay devs for documentation. /s obviously.

Microsoft may produce some half-assed software but at least their documentation is generally pretty solid (and easy to find).
Close to zero. Archive is a different discipline. You need to have formats that are long lived and accessible over time. Paper is best, and it goes from there. Some electronic media archivists are fans of TIFF. It’s a field with controversy.

Pick the formats your storing and handle security at the container. This might be an encrypted system that is copied and updated over decades or a physical storage safe or box.
When I was a kid I worked in a double glazing factory. Some of the old timers demonstrated just how hard it is to break a piece of toughened glass to me by whacking one with a bit of wood right in the middle of the pane, really really hard. Nothing happened. Then the dude tapped it really quite gently with a glass breaker in the corner (where it can't flex as much he said) and the whole thing exploded into those little cubes you see on the ground in dodgy car parks.
tl;tr: get off my lawn.
Stack Traces Are Underrated
I think the dystopian Apple Intelligence commercials summed it up perfectly. It sure was a 10x improvement when AI generated the email for that lazy bum, but anyone who’s already bringing value will never see anywhere near those numbers.
Discussion on the Proposed Final Judgement yesterday:

DOJ asks for judgement requiring Google to divest Chrome [pdf] (31 points 30 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296045
same.

Something that also works for me is compressing.

Either by filtering: Of a bag of 100 tickets, or hard drives, keep the most important one.

Or reduction: Of a whole page of math doodles, cut everything except the most important part.
Calling your representative is as effective as my comment here.
Yes, what I want might be some better React, like JSX, but I don't like the complexity introduced by hooks and the binding of Next.js.
I expect most people are going to open the door right in front of them, rather than walk the long way to gain entry, even if they are aware the door is monitored by a security camera.
Full quote, showing that this is something the artist in question is talking about:

> Sanborn, a climate-conscious friend of the Earth who lives on a small island on the Chesapeake Bay, is also appalled by the amount of energy that it takes to produce generative AI, and AI’s fabricated answers. Adding to the annoyance is that some of the would-be codebreakers are touting their collaboration with Grok 3, which is made by Elon Musk’s xAI. The same Musk who, despite good deeds with Tesla, now works for an administration determined to reverse any progress on mitigating climate change. “That’s a little twist of the ice pick,” he says.

Nothing “stealth” or “ad copy” about it.
Many years back, I wanted to learn Arabic, but, the problem is, there isn't one "Arabic". It seems you have to decide, do you want to learn Moroccan Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Iraqi Arabic, Quranic Arabic, Modern Arabic...

When faced with this question, I just decided Farsi seemed a lot more interesting and accessible.
I do watch Russian mainstream media, and they're all gushing over Trump. They are explicitly saying Russia and the US share a common enemy, Europe.

Proof: https://youtu.be/54rl-Z8F62U
>Much the same way I benefit from Google indexing the internet, and summarizing news articles.

wow there. You do note the big difference between AI regurgitating someone's content and Google indexing it?

If I put effort into creating something digital and people find it through Google's massive index of the internet, at least they'll see who its by, enjoy it within its context and have the whole thing before them. This is way different from some algorithm mashing what it scraped from a creator's work into its own rehash of a bunch of content.

You can understand why someone might detest the one and appreciate the other?

If I create, I might want you to benefit from it, but I might also want you and others to know it came from me. Not just consume it as an undifferentiated part of some parasitic corporation's AI slurry.
good. ublock origin finally stopped working for me two days ago and for the first time in like 20 f'n years I got a popup yesterday.
Stanford scientists discover new Ozempic alternative with RegEx
> Perhaps the first planet to nuke/virus itself to death can work as a more visible reminder of the dangers for the others

There is no multi-planetary scenario in which a nuclear war on Earth doesn’t also target the country’s off-world settlements.
Ask HN: Why is React killing front-end innovation?
If you’re interested in that kind of stuff, I highly recommend the book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" as starting point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
It was sometimes mocked but I actually really like the 1st gen Porsche Panamera center console full of buttons as well

https://cdn.elferspot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/16/ABE8...
> attacking the ciphertext data would be infeasible

If insufficiently protected, any attack surface may be compromised. It’s just a matter of time, resources, and will.

“The only winning move is not to play.”
I would argue that there is no need to sync all accounts between all devices all the time.
> So if you're the owner of a platform, you can now fully control the appearance of what "people are saying" on the platform

There was a whole scandal at Twitter about this around 2020 or 21. People came forward and said there were secret departments that would suppress certain ideas or keep certain stories from trending.
Also the isolationist argument "it's cheaper for USA to exit the long-term commitments to enforce the world order and hide behind the beautiful 2 oceans" is akin to let's not pay the cops to patrol the streets and let people buy weapons to protect themselves.

So USA would get less security, less help from their NATO partners and less power projection over the world because they have limped NATO.

Idiocracy...
That is from five years ago. Today, they use Starlink, at least on Starship.

https://x.com/EvaFoxU/status/1798695001746289112
https://x.com/FutureJurvetson/status/1768282662710710639
I hope you don't take it as an offense, but this seems like learned hopelessness. Have you earnestly tried to speak to a decision-maker?

Not everyone in the EU will listen to you, either. There is a bit of a learning curve. Sometimes, you have to apply pressure through specific channels in specific ways, such as influencing stakeholders. Sometimes, you even have to form an organization for your cause. But not always. Sometimes, it just takes time to find someone who will listen. But effort it does take.