skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odd this. I have ublock on my chrome browser right now and it's running fine.
Have you ever heard some of the wiretap or hidden microphone recordings used to convict mafia bosses back in the 1980s? It was so bad I can't believe it was accepted. It could easily have been faked. The only thing that made it work was the sworn statements of authenticity from the people who did the recording, and the chain of custody thereafter.
Should Firefox really be counted as an "independent" browser, when it is dependent on Google for most of its revenue?
Windows build works fine (Windows 10 Professional x64 22H2).
I've heard they're programmable. Programmable!

That means you could attach wires to any device and simply overwrite the firmware on them, replacing it with your own. If that's not a severe security vulnerability, I don't know!
My guess is that they put it in some kind of rubbery enclosure before installing it, but who knows? Maybe it's not actually a problem to have hard edges.
It's the jury that ultimately decides whether the evidence is convincing, even if the judge allows it. The defense will try to cast doubt on the evidence when they make their arguments.

This also reminds me of one of Norm Macdonald's bits. He says (very seriously) that if he were on a jury he would not convict someone on the basis of DNA evidence. "What do I know about DNA?" he says.
Correct, integration is key for a seamless consumer experience.
How is it compared to HoloViz?[1]

I followed one of their online workshops, and it feels really powerful, although it is a bit confusing which part of it does what (it's basically 6 or 7 projects put together under an umbrella)

[1] https://holoviz.org/
"− (U+2212) is a minus sign instead of a dash"

This is technically true, but the character in the other version is a hyphen instead of a dash (though given the absences of dashes in ASCII, one, two, or three ASCII hyphens are often used in place of dashes in environments constrained to ASCII.)

And while AI watermarking and fingerprinting is real, using typographically-correct Unicode instead of base ASCII isn't really it (though I guess anything that transforms text in a way which reduces variety like this does will make some of it less effective.)
> Poor outcomes are not only limited to death. People who survive CPR suffer physical injuries. More than 70 percent of people who receive CPR experience rib fractures, with an average of 7.6 broken ribs.

What happens to the control group of people who don't receive CPR?
"Inference can generally be scaled along two dimensions: extending sequence length (in autoregressive models), and augmenting the number of refinement steps (in diffusion models)."

Does this mean that diffusion models for text could scale inference compute to improve quality for a fixed-length output?
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023
>The amount of issues I have seen in the last ~20 years caused by "off by one" type of errors in Excel is insane.

Generally those aren't a fault of excel, but a fault of someone doing something dumb in excel. People do dumb stuff in every problem and it's nearly impossible to prevent it.
Maybe we're overestimating average human brain capabilities
funny you bring up this analogy. tons of auto manufacturers these days will license other mfgs' engines and use them in your cars. e.g. a fair number of Ford's cars have had Mazda engines and a fair number of Mazdas have had Ford engines.
> train

Hah, there's my only lament about Chicago: no pet-friendly public transit if you have a large dog. I don't really have the stomach for the loopholes either: service dog lies or carrying her in a duffel bag NYC subway-style.
The alternative is doing a rev share with another search provider who will not be able to pay as much per user as Google. Or for Mozilla to buy or make their own search egnine which is a lot of work and risk.

Mozilla is trying to compete against Google's browser and not their search engine. I don't see why Google wouldn't be paying for their search traffic as opposed to just letting Microsoft buy it.
Noooo think of all those beautiful single family homes desecrated for less worthy uses
> your larger point which seems to be that all greenfield projects are necessarily best suited to low level language

That is not my intention. Perhaps you are reading absolutes and chasing after black and white statements. When I say "it makes me think I should ..." I am not saying: "Everyone everywhere should always under any circumstances ...". It is a call to question the assumption, not to make emphatic universal decisions on any possible project that could ever be conceived. That would be a bad faith interpretation of my post. If that is what you are arguing against, consider if you really believe that is what I meant.

So my point stands: I am going to consider this more deeply rather than default assuming that an interpreted scripting language is suitable.

> Low level languages tend to have a higher barrier to entry,

I almost think you aren't reading my post at this point and are just arguing with a strawman you invented in your head. But I am assuming good faith on your part here, so once again I'll just repeat myself again and again: LLMs have already changed the barrier to entry for low-level languages and they will continue to do so.
DuckDuckGo's AI beats Perplexity in one big way – and it's free to use
Its a private-ish (interview required) bittorrent tracker for ebooks.
Very different goals to IA/AA, who see the universality & ease of access as core to the mission. Its more like old-fashioned gated archives at universities & libraries that essentially tried to slow and limit access to their collections to avoid the issues that IA is coming against legally.
Super popular last year (989 points, 555 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37735801
Sounds kinda scary. So if the battery goes flat or gets disconnected you just immediately die?
C# is a decently-designed language, but its first principles are being microsoft-y and java-y, which are perhaps two of my least favorite principles. that aside, i've worked on C# backends deployed to lots of linux boxes and it's not really second-rate these days.
>Doesn't 100+ insurances mean more competition leading to better prices? OR so I'm told capitalism works.

I'm sure this was /s but capitalism doesn't work for things like insurance.
Then which organization is better positioned and able to push for copyright reform in your opinion?
In 2005, I could believe this complaint because offshoring was still pretty new. But 2025, still... really? I find it hard to believe. This sounds like very low effort on your part. India is the size of a continent, and AI tells me: "India is roughly the same size as Europe (excluding Russia)." Can you imagine someone from India saying the reverse? <<"European" accents (whatever the hell that means because there are 50 countries in Europe!) are very difficult for me...>>

What is your native language, and what makes your struggle unique?

Do you also struggle to understand the myriad of other strong English accents, such as: Oz/Kiwi English, or Singlish (Singaporean/Malaysian English) or South African English, or Hongkonger English, or (Los Angeles) Valley Girl English (I jest here)... or French English, or whatever else? Plus, there are so many incredible YouTube content creators speaking English as a second (or third!) language these days... hell, it is like language accent training watching YouTube these days (hats of to them for publishing in a non-native language!).
Not true. Bears, dogs, horses, are all faster. We can work together tho
I'm a fan of this blazingly fast radix sort implementation: https://github.com/b0nes164/GPUSorting

It's great since it easily works with the Cuda driver API, unlike CUB which is mostly exclusive for the runtime API. It also has Onesweep but I havent been able to make that one work.
Were the authors responsive to reports?
Exactly my thoughts even as a complete outsider. Democrats seem to became overconfident in their own internet agenda and forgot that most people at least don’t care and on average just tolerate. Through years it seems that tolerance (which we just learned is the normal mode of operation within diverse groups) turned into mandatory praising and hitler if you don’t.

The inconvenient thing is, average people are -phobic naturally or historically. That’s just the fact of life. Tolerance, the conscious inhibition of natural processes, is a good-enough contract that keeps them away from negativity, but you cannot tell everyone they are hitler if they feel otherwise, as opposed to act against. That’s bullshit and emotional hegemony. Some of the left figures (can’t name, just echoing some clips) even explicitly enjoyed disturbing these phobias. It all seemed like contrasting mockery rather than integration. I understand that most of it was addressed at far right, but you can’t target them with such negativity without affecting the rest as well.

How could you be so stupid? What did you think was going to happen?

I think they only gained more momentum. They would do so with or without Trump winning because they demonstrate levels of illusion far beyond all return points. They are de-platforming, de-employing people, ostracizing their own people who dare to speak any sort of reasonable thought, and they cheer after doing so. Do you really think they can pause and reflect? It almost feels like US needs a third force that isn’t hitler or hitler and cares about just normal society.
In a way mozilla is proving doj's point that mozilla isn't an independent company due to the fact that mozilla probably has oriented their business operations with this search revenue in mind.

Thus if Google falls so does mozilla.
That's not true. I'm sending money to my mother in Russia from time to time and the exchange rate is close to real.
HN is a very particular public digital garden and @dang is a gardener doing his gardening stuff, just wondering what is your purpose here if you don't mind sharing?
I imagine the slow link is that you have to actually test stuff in the real world, on people. Who in this case could very easily die if it doesn’t work. Isn’t like programming where you can just keep whacking it until it works.
What's root mean square voltage?
You don't need to be an expert in the technology to ask a few relevant questions like "where is the information stored?" and "what temperature and humidity does it prefer?" Of course WB is famously bad at storing film too so maybe I shouldn't be surprised.
They've presumably been good enough that their losses are less costly than better security.
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My bad – that figure was for the Foundation only. Foundation + Corporation was ~10 times higher (I suppose that’s the 90% from Google).

Though it’s mind-boggling in any case. I’m sure there’s thousands of brilliant developers who would gladly work for Mozilla for like $50k/yr if it was truly independent. That’s 750 full-time devs from investment income alone (which was Mozilla Corp’s total employee count in 2020, so I assume that should be about right).

(Investment here, I suppose, is what it says: they’re buying a bunch of stocks and use profits from these for their charitable goals. Kinda like endowment kind of thing.)
> Is there really anything more important than career progression?

In a particular company? Yes, most things are. In my professional life? Yes, but career progression ranks pretty darned high. However, my career progression is a layer of abstraction above whatever company I happen to be working for, and can really only be effectively managed at that level.

> your manager is there to help you get paid more.

That's not the most important thing I want from my manager. The important things I want from my manager are making sure I have what I need to do my job, making sure that I am not being unnecessarily hampered in doing my job, and making sure that I am working in sync with the rest of my team and other teams toward a common goal.

In other words, the most important thing a manager can do for me is to keep the skids greased.
I can't tell if this is a meme or not.
> The issue is US culture has been giving priority to anti-industrialists.

Perhaps "anti-industrialist" and more the forces of "fictionalization"? That can distort companies that aren't industrial too.
It's always been for show; a show that Google's been running ever since it spurred the increase of anti-IE propaganda[1] and eventually caused MS to cave in and end up creating a browser based on what Google controls.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28725293
i don't think this speaks to the general reasons someone would rewrite a mid- or low-level project in a high-level language, so much as to the special treatment JS/TS get. yes, your data model being the default supported, and everything else in the world having to serialize/deserialize to accommodate that, slows performance. in other words, this is just a reason to use the natively-supported JS/TS, still very much the favorite children of browser engines, over the still sort of hacked-in Rust.
The problem is that is usually costs more than they are willing to spend in a year to get a working system. It's hard to justify spending ~1 million to replace an existing working system. Even if it would pay for itself after a couple of years, business finances don't really work that way.
A better title: CPR is successful, just not as successful as people think it is.

Whoever thinks a 1/10 (or nearly 1/5!) shot at not dying otherwise is bad odds clearly doesn’t value their own life. I’ll take all my ribs being broken + being alive for even a week vs being dead and no broken ribs any day of the week. I’d also traumatize myself if I knew I was giving someone a 1/10 (or nearly 1/5!) shot at being alive and not dead. Absolutely none of the “downsides” they cite outweigh fucking dying.
Show HN: Ai.pw, a password manager for AI agents
Were you frustrated like me when using OpenAI's Operator because it would constantly ask for help to login or sign up?

I built ai.pw so that the Operator can handle more tasks on its own without being interrupted. You can now leave the Operator running on the background as it doesn't require your input for every task.

I do want to emphasize: ai.pw should not be used to store your sensitive/personal credentials and should only be used to store non-essential logins to share with the Operator.
That's correct but P(true) might empirically turn out to be some f(confidence)
I was quite amazed to learn that creditcard debt is such a plague in US... I mean you (not the one I'm replying to) are using money you don't own and hoping you will not only own it tomorrow but pay back the debt?

Don't buy things you cannot afford and won't have to live paycheck to paycheck.
My 3 legged heeler can still run laps around me. But if you can keep them busy, they are very loyal and can understand a crazy amount of words/signs. My previous heeler went deaf and still obeyed perfectly by watching signs and body language. Incredible dogs.
Very good article but what’s up with the snow on the page? Very distracting
How do you avoid electrocuting a linesman? Don't products like a powerwall have a disconnect relay to ensure there is no backfeed?

I can't see how this product can backfeed to the household circuit safety/legally unless there is some technology I'm not aware of?
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One thing that confuses me is how short-term Americans tend to think about certain issues. For example, how can you be so certain that a country like China cannot transition into a more democratized society? Are you basing that assumption solely on the developments of the past 20 years? Is that the extent of your perspective? Think about how much democracy existed when the United States transitioned from an agricultural society to an industrial powerhouse. How long did it take Western countries to evolve into democratic societies? And let’s not forget that democratic systems themselves can evolve over time.
Meh...AP and Comma are driver aids. They're only supposed to reduce the mental load of driving on the highway, not be complete autonomous driving systems.

They're nothing more than traffic aware cruise control with automatic lane keeping. They're not designed to be used on surface streets, and certainly not intended to allow you to read a book or something while driving.
Definitely - I've been surprised at some very complex pipelines built with pandas, etc. because someone didn't want to use SQL...
Meanwhile Microsoft Edge ships with an Ad Blocker both on desktop and on mobile!
Didn’t Firefox rise from the ashes during the years of Internet Explorer’s waning monopoly? How did Firefox “take back the web” pre- Google funding?
I really like this concept. Except I don’t know where / how to integrate it.

My kitchen is already built with a fridge integrated into cabinets. There’s no place to put the battery. And even if there were, it would be a $1k machine dedicated to the fridge. That somewhat makes sense in that food can spoil, and we still want to be able to use the fridge, but I wish more could be powered.

The next obvious thing is lights in the home. But this doesn’t allow me to do that outside of lamps; chandeliers and overheads do not apply.

I’d love this to power the garage door opener, but right now there’s power that goes to it on the ceiling. It’d be really difficult to find a way to mount this to also include the opener without being super janky or needing an electrician to totally rewire that circuit. At that point the price has gone considerably up.

I guess the last bit would be internet / networking gear, although I could get a cheaper UPS for that. I’m also not entirely certain I’d even have internet to connect to if the power was out given I have fiber.

If I were remodeling the house that feels like the right time to add such a thing.
Synthetic data will play I big role, yes. There's other challenges though, like how verbal descriptions of objects would affect their spatial behavior. Building a generalized simulator that combines those modalities is hard.

In this particular case with Factorio, I suspect generating the synthetic data would be easier, since the rules of the environment are relatively simple and well defined, with quantifiable outcomes.
Sony's content authenticity system isn't just for pro cameras anymore
>It's like super-modern with a few columns.

These people don't actually know what they want, they just know they want to go back to a time where rich old white men ran things.
Yes, although so far it seems the main advantage of text diffusion models is that they're really, really fast. Iterations reach an asymptote very quickly.
> Japan is famously anti-immigrant though.

These misinformation needs to end. I'm tired of it. More than 20 years ago, this was true, but today it is certainly not. There are all varieties of non-Japanese working in convenience stores, factories, farms, and hotels all over Japan. Plus there are more non-Japanese attending uni than ever before. Many will stay for work. Plus, getting a skilled work visa in Japan has never been easier. Sure, not as easy as Germany, Australia or Canada, but still light years ahead of 20+ years ago. They even have a special highly skilled visa now that allows people to get permanent residence in 1 or 3 years. Again: 20+ years ago this was impossible to imagine. Today, it is the reality.
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Show HN: Pawsible – Connecting pet parents nearby for mutual pet-sitting
Hi HN! We’re Jerry, Jenny, and Qifan, and we built Pawsible, an app that connects pet parents nearby for mutual pet-sitting. Here's a demo video (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CPXv48EzMmg). You can find us on App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pawsible-pets-friends/id671761...) and Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.pawsible.Pa...).

Finding reliable and affordable pet care is surprisingly hard, especially in cities like SF and NYC where sitters can cost $95/night or $1,000+ for a week. Even then, paying more doesn’t necessarily mean a better experience for your pet—-because at the end of the day, the sitter is still a stranger. We’ve found that many pet parents, ourselves included, prefer asking friends or neighbors instead. There’s already trust, and our pets feel more comfortable with familiar people.

The idea started when Jenny posted on a local forum looking for local “pet-sitting mates.” Dozens of people responded, and within days, a group chat formed with 70+ members. Because we all volunteer at animal shelters, we knew that people love to care for pets for free; some even pay to volunteer. It became clear that this wasn’t just a one-off request—-pet parents were actively looking for a better alternative to traditional pet-sitting services. So, an idea of building an app came to mind.

We discovered that most pet-sitting platforms follow a marketplace model, where pet owners hire sitters, which can be expensive and doesn’t necessarily ensure a good experience with the stranger sitter. We’re taking a peer-to-peer approach, where pet parents connect directly with others nearby to exchange pet-sitting help.

We built Pawsible using a React Native (Expo) frontend and a Firebase backend. Initially, we implemented a swipe-to-match system, but user feedback showed that it slowed down connections. We then switched to a grid-based discovery model, allowing users to browse all nearby profiles and send pet-sitting requests directly. This change reduced time-to-match and made coordination more straightforward.

For trust and safety, we’re introducing required background checks and optional facial recognition for identity verification. We also plan to roll out AI features to improve matching—such as an AI agent that recommends potential pet-sitting mates based on user profiles and needs.

If you’re a pet parent like us, or simply an animal lover, we’d love for you to give Pawsible a try! We look forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts, feedback and ideas!
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> But Mozilla is definitely wasting a lot of money on stuff that doesn't contribute to their mission.

Yes, I have noticed that too and every year they sink deeper with ads and shady choices

If they keep it lean and with a high standard the community wouldn't stop supporting it, but every 6 month or so they make a shady decision and lose more support
> The barcode scanners seem slower and more finicky than what the staff use. Plus the extra delay while the machine wants to ensure I put an item into the receiving zone.

The ones at my usual store have accent lights that turn green when it's willing to take the next scan. The machines register scans perfectly if I wait for the light and dont even try if I don't wait, which used to look like being flaky until I noticed what the lights did.

> Are the self-checkout isles busy taking pictures of me from every angle before they approve the swipe?

I'm pretty sure it recognized my bananas the second-most-recent time without me having to find them in the menus. But then the most recent time I had to look them up again...

There was also a time that another customer whose station happened to be facing towards the waiting line needed staff assistance with something, and it made the (clearly impatient) staff person watch a video of the person scanning things before letting them do whatever it was they needed to do.
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I just want to purchase software these days. Not another subscription.
I'm not sure how that's different from numerous similar products. And the issue is always the same, price.

One 5kWh Pylontech module would cost around 1K too, but that's 5kWh. Plus 500 for an inverter. That would require a couple of wires to be connected, but 5x more power for nearly the same money?

And yes, you can run a heat pump and/or a washing machine on pylontech. I doubt that's possible with these modules.