skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Directness is definitly part of both national characters indeed.

I asked the toasters, they said this about it:

Yes, Russian literature tends to translate well into Dutch, and there are a few reasons for that:

1. Linguistic Similarities in Syntax and Tone – While Dutch and Russian are from different language families, both can handle long, complex sentences without losing clarity. Dutch, like Russian, allows for a mix of formal and informal tones within a single text, which helps maintain the nuance of Russian literature.

2. Cultural Compatibility – Dutch readers appreciate introspective, philosophical, and existential themes, which are common in Russian literature. Authors like Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov resonate well with Dutch audiences because of their deep psychological exploration and social critique.

3. Strong Translation Tradition – The Netherlands has a long history of translating world literature with high quality. Dutch translators often work directly from Russian rather than relying on intermediary languages like English or French, preserving the original style and meaning.

4. Directness and Emotional Depth – Russian literature is known for its raw emotional depth and directness, qualities that align well with Dutch communication norms. This makes Russian novels feel more natural in Dutch than in some other languages that might soften or rephrase certain expressions.

Many Dutch readers have a strong appreciation for Russian classics, and some Dutch authors have even been influenced by them.
Just want to add that I both agree with you and parent. Your examples are readable and I see no issues there.

It might be a language thing as well. In Python often people take list-comprehensions too far and it becomes an undecipherable mess of nested iterators, casts and lists.

There are always exceptions :)
@TZubiri, Then if that is a risk you accept, you could have multiple VPS's and load balance back to your home network, eliminating the new SPOF.

(@'ing because we reached the maximum reply limit)
Curious, would you of 2 months ago waive away a French nuclear sub making a show of force visit against the USA at a Canada port?
And another one:

The Russia-Ukraine War makes it clear that
the electromagnetic signature emitted from the command posts of the past
20 years cannot survive against the pace and precision of an adversary
who possesses sensor-based technologies, electronic warfare, and unmanned
aerial systems or has access to satellite imagery; this includes nearly every
state or nonstate actor the United States might find itself fighting in the near
future. The Army must focus on developing command-and-control systems
and mobile command posts that enable continuous movement, allow distributed
collaboration, and synchronize across all warfighting functions to minimize
electronic signature. Ukrainian battalion command posts reportedly consist
of seven soldiers who dig in and jump twice daily; while that standard will
be hard for the US Army to achieve, it points in a very different direction than
the one we have been following for two decades of hardened command posts
... using Python... itself leveraging NumPy, C, the GPU...
I think the main thing is that they are porting, not re-writing. Current tsc is functional by nature and that's makes go better fit.
My observation is that there's likely a sweet spot. Though this is a multidimensional vector so it's not one sweet spot.

A programmer can find a niche where their skill has value for a long period of time, even if their situation (mental flexibility, willingness to learn, etc.) precludes exiting the niche. It can be a challenge to work with someone like that if you have to interface to them and their approach is to pull you all the way over to where they are.

... but sometimes that's how it is. And I've seen plenty of smart programmers smother their ability to provide value for real people under analysis paralysis while the "stupid" programmers bull-charge in with the first approach they can think of and write some ugly, stupid, spaghetti, working tools.
PCR is a basic tool. It amplifies, much like your car stereo. If you can hear music when tuning in an AM station, you don’t question the automatic gain correction the stereo is doing internally. PCR is the same way. If the target is present, it is detectable. If it isn’t then it isn’t. There are so many variables at play that the number of cycles isn’t very meaningful.
> ok, if you're American relying on Canadian electricity, you might have a right to be concerned

You don't have to go that far. Puerto Rico is a United States territory with a third-world tier power grid. Most Puerto Ricans rely on electric generators and battery backup systems to survive their day-to-day.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/31/nx-s1-5243984/puerto-rico-pow...

This is bordering a humanitarian crisis and I'm surprised it gets little attention in the mainland. These outages have a real human cost: the elderly struggle with maintaining their generators. Hospitals rely on generators. Roads and sidewalks are in the dark. The haves get diesel delivered; the have-nots struggle. Some, especially the elderly, die in fires or asphyxia due to their constant operation.

https://www.univision.com/local/puerto-rico-wlii/hombre-muer...

https://www.primerahora.com/noticias/policia-tribunales/nota...

A woman died on New Year's Eve due to a fire in her residence while trying to operate a transfer switch. The power was out all night across the island.

https://wapa.tv/noticias/locales/falla-en-planta-el-ctrica-p...

Apologies for derailing, but it bothers me how little attention this gets. The privatized power company has successfully externalized its costs--thousands of Puerto Ricans are going into debt to install solar panels. Half of the island lives under the poverty line.

People are desperate. A year ago, the Dept of Energy established federal incentives for solar panel installations in the island. These were the kilometric lines to get a voucher:

https://www.telemundopr.com/noticias/puerto-rico/cientos-de-...

In short:

a) This is a real problem. Puerto Rico has 3.5 million American citizens, more than some states.

b) Battery backup systems, solar panel installations and generators are a necessity in these areas.

I wish this product was targeted towards lower income families, but any innovation in the space is welcome.
> It'd be great if the app would only have read access to my files, not full disk permission.

I'm running it right now and macOS didn't ask for any permissions at all which afaik means that it cannot access most of my personal folders and definitely not the full disk. Am I missing something?
> I also think that there are a large number of people who ended up lost without direction or purpose.

People on welfare? I can imagine a lot of these people "accept" that the goal is to get themselves out of welfare, ASAP (especially if there's a deadline), but they can't see a way to that goal - e.g. applying for jobs but getting rejected left and right, and feeling dejected.

With utopian UBI, one would be free to do what they want.. even if it's just jagging off the whole day.
I really want wifi AV to start be a thing. With wifi7 there is such amazing MU-MIMO that'll do so much to boost reliable channel access.

Ideally it would all be standard AES67 or SMPTE 2110 equipment, used across studios everywhere (proprietary Dante and Ravenna protocols are compatible with it), be maybe less reliable (typically only done over wired ethernet) & lack PTP, but be compatible with the well known audio & digital transport specs (audio-video bridging) out there.

But of course it's Qualcomm, so it works with a half dozen $1000+ phones only, and no windows and certainly no Linux systems. Bother.
And Peter the great is just an amazing interesting chracter, must be said.
I still intend to collect a beardtax coin one day.
I assume GP meant as a legal instrument, rather than it's sociological effect. (Otherwise there would be little point to the comment? They mean to prevent the latter by raising awareness of the former.)
This is a SpaceX contract
Taiwan is a sovereign nation, and West Taiwan needs to accept that.
I agree, but: the technique of “singular spectrum analysis” is pretty much PCA applied to a covariance matrix resulting from time-lagging the original time series. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_spectrum_analysis)

So this is not unheard of for time series analysis.
A bit of context: NASA's Chief Scientist is Dr. Kate Calvin who has gone on record saying she thinks climate change is real. And the executive of the office is Tylar Greene who is an african-american woman.
For being production-ready?
I’m often working with a windows desktop and a remote Linux box on which I have my data & code. I’d like to plot “locally” on my desktop workstation from the remote host. This usually either means using X11 (slow) or some sort of web-based library like plotly. Does fastplotlib offer any easy solution here?
UA strings, just like any other client information forwarded to the server (see: android/iOS data accessible by JS & the server) only exists to build a profile to better filter who you want to serve ads to. It's always ads. Anything else is an excuse, period.

That's what'll trigger the CF captcha as well: if you don't give up client data. Run a site on Chrome bundled with your Anroid? Never going to get captcha, since Google will gladly serve any of your data when it's asked.
Yeah, OpenInterpreter does this (you are not limited to OpenAI only):
https://github.com/OpenInterpreter/open-interpreter

I wrote a wrapper around it that works in a web browser (you'll need an OpenAI API key):
https://github.com/uhsealevelcenter/IDEA
Popular in 2023 (452 points, 156 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37971795
Equal distribution of wealth is bad for the climate, expert argues
I was accosted with a request to join a mailing list shortly after the site loaded. Hard pass.
Usually I write scripts that use function memoization cache (to disk) for expensive operations. Recently I've also used Marimo sometimes, which has great support for modules (no reloading hacks), can memoize to disk and has deterministic state.
I'm doing my part, still keeping C++ systems alive so the next generation can see the horrors created by our predecessors. At least this particular program doesn't have the same problems as the last one I worked on, where some genius decided to make their own shared_ptr and did it wrong among many other bizarre choices.
The simple case I can think of is priority charging, with total load limiting. Since solar supply is variable you want to avoid drawing from the grid if possible, and you want batteries attached to things that will draw the most expensive power (by typical usage time) to fill first.
This is also how Erlang's Dialyzer works.
Thanks for bringing more details to the thread - We've just launched, and for folks who like what they see and want to be first to get Pila the (refundable, cancel anytime) $99 deposit will lock in $999. Once we start shipping and fulfilling through other distribution channels, price will increase to $1299

Also, spot on that the average home draws about 30kWh, and with an EV driven average daily ranges that'll jump to about 60kWh.
The foreign aid provided by the US does not live in a void; China has been doing well in providing financial aid and loans across the world recently.
AI Coding and Databases
Thread last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43293121
Do any of these languages have anything similar to Ruby's retry within error handling?
There's a really good thread on Twitter from the designer of the new APIs going into the background behind many of the design decisions: https://twitter.com/athyuttamre/status/1899541471532867821

Here's the alternative link for people who aren't signed in to Twitter: https://nitter.net/athyuttamre/status/1899541471532867821
Well, for fun, that's 2.25 ergs, over 30 years that's an average of -126dBm

That's not that low for signal processing these days, and it'd be much more practically useful to develop the ability to filter out noise to that level than attempting to suppress it over a very broad area. My understanding is that it's the sensitivity of the detectors that's the real issue: they get pushed into clipping since their dynamic range is not that high. A similar thing happens with optical transceivers.

[0]: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-abstract/47/1/59...
If facts don’t work, intelligent, rational discourse and compromise don’t work, and economic pain don’t work, well, you’re out of options (at least options that can be discussed here).
Interesting. You may be interested in a more modern search algorithm to replace Boyer Moore. I recently presented HashChain, a very fast sublinear search algorithm at the Symposium of Experimental Algorithms.

https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/00lipics/lipics-vol301-sea...

It's the fastest sublinear search algorithm around in almost all cases. I also have a guaranteed worst-case linear version (which is still sublinear and much faster than Boyer Moore in the average case).

Sample code is available here:

https://github.com/nishihatapalmer/HashChain

If you're interested, let me know.
Maybe I am reading this wrong - it feels like people want this to be a Steam Deck competitor? Like the whole 'I'm a PC, run me in two modes and tinker around' thing. Why? They just need to serve the existing user bases of their respective platform libraries.

Especially the implication that this may be running Windows - It'd make more sense for this to be running Xbox its system and not Windows, so people could play their library of existing Xbox games, including backwards compatible games. I have a Series X and that's what I would want it to do, as some of the best games are stuck on OG/360!

People who have an existing game library on PC would have it on Steam anyway - and not the Microsoft Store.
You don't want to give any reason as to why?
That’s how you’d expect it to work, but that’s not how pod deletion works.

The pod delete event is sent out, and the load balancer and the pod itself both receive and react to it at the same time.

So unless the LB switchover is very quick, or the pod shutdown is slow - you get dropped requests - usually 502s.

Try googling for graceful k8s deploys and every article will say you have to put a preStop sleep in
If we’re assuming an IDE that can arbitrarily change text layout and rendering I don’t see why it matters where the comment goes
Ask HN: Feedback on a Vulnerability Management Tool Idea
Hey HN,

I’m building a vulnerability management tool to tackle the mess of tracking findings from pen tests and security scanners. The idea is to fetch results, format them consistently, and keep them updated in one dashboard. It’ll also include asset management and reporting features for org-wide visibility.

It’s not ready yet—still in development—but I’d love your input. What’s your biggest pain point with vuln management today? Anything you’d want in a tool like this? Early thoughts appreciated as I shape it!
Or possibly a Julian date for a first-millennial.
This is exactly why we use jupyter-rfb, I often have large datasets on a remote cluster computer and we perform remote rendering.

see: https://fastplotlib.org/ver/dev/user_guide/faq.html#what-fra...
Every software-based appliance built in the last decade starts out with this promise but then inevitably rug-pulls with mandatory updates that introduce subscriptions, degraded functionality, etc.

This thing is way too "nice" and polished for its relatively low price tag, meaning it's likely being significantly subsidized by investors, who will eventually want a return on their investment and all these promises will go out the window.
Your last point is the basis of my argument. Humans are imperfect and reality is complicated.

Cutting and reintroducing programs has real implications in the short term for those individuals at the receiving end, even if it is ultimately reintroduced in the long term. People have monthly mortgages and have to eat daily.

This also goes for the second point. It is not a Faustian bargain as there is no such thing as a perfect market in the real world, primarily because of imperfect information. Humans are also a resource interacting in that market, leave it to the free market and people will literally die, as resources can be made redundant/obsolete in the market. This is simply untenable and no market can ever truly be laissez-faire.

Your comment on checks and balances is exactly my point, the government cannot willy nilly go in a different direction, the scale of government means there is inertia and displacement that can impact individuals.

Our governments ever since the enlightenment have been crafted with progressivism in mind. What point is a market in a democracy if it is cruel and serves only a select set of individuals, a lottery rather than there to improve the human condition.

I would never want someone to fail so long as they're acting in good faith and it doesn't screw me or others over. But in the same breath if it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck...
This is definitely a neat place to visit. No digital cameras are allowed past a specific point, even. I have snapshots from walking the main loop with my dog from a few years back posted here:

https://vgeek.net/gallery/index.php/category/103-green_bank_...
The off-grid detection is based on a combination of voltage and frequency measurement over different time windows, so I'm sorry that I won't be able to give you an exact answer on your situation. I've lived in apartments with bad high impedance neutral connections and it did all kinds of weird things to the loads... Hopefully something your apartment complex can look into!
You think someone is going to pretend to be Chris Peikert and submit a backdoored construction as him, and that's going to work?

This is the problem with all these modern NIST contest theories. They're not even movie plots. Your last bit, about them paying someone like Peikert off, isn't even coherent; they could do that with or without the contest.
Dragon lacks a Remote Manipulator System (Robot Arm) and a airlock. things that make servicing objects in space a lot easier. Im sure somewhere at NASA or SpaceX there is rough set of specs on what a shuttle like starship would look like complete with payload bay, robot arm, and eva airlock.
Schwab used to have an 8 character maximum on passwords (although at least they changed that). They have never been a paragon of good security practices.
Chain of custody isn't real as long as the judiciary gives the government a 'good faith' pass when chain of custody isn't maintained/documentable in court. Go into Lexus Nexus and look up 'good faith' related to 'chain of custody'. Any 'protections' that can be waived away at the judges whim when the standard isn't met by the government are not actually real but pure theater to lend legitimacy to the American judicial system that it doesn't deserve.
HN is increasingly a significant participant in current US politics. Attempting to pretend otherwise really doesn't work.

HN has a policy of moderating discussions of YC companies less than other threads (and yes, "less" != "not at all"). There's a strong argument that a similar policy should apply to HN-adjacent politics and political acts.

Posting to what was once called Twitter today is an increasingly political act. and a strongly anti-democratic one. Yang (as evidenced by his Wikipedia bio) is a political actor.
MCP is a protocol, and Anthropic has provided SDKs for implementing that protocol. In practice, I find the MCP protocol to be pretty great, but it leaves basically everything except the model parts out. I.e. MCP really only addresses how "agentic" systems interact with one another, nothing else.

This SDK is trying to provide a bunch of code for implementing specific agent codebases. There are a bunch of open source ones already, so this is OpenAI throwing their hat in the ring.

IMO this OpenAI release is kind of ecosystem-hostile in that they are directly competing with their users, in the same way that the GPT apps were.
Thanks!!

Hrm, re that error: What does “god --version” say?

The log might not show up until you get a successful connection. I’ll look into that.

Thanks for trying it out!
Seems rushed out in response to Manus?

The example just calls a single LLM what about that is agentic?
Can dragon launch to a polar orbit and safely deorbit from a polar orbit?
Yes, "fine" means not in Spam.

> Also works for Microsoft services?

No, Microsoft seems to have an allow-list for servers, and ban everything by default (the laziest of approaches).

But that's OK: Because Microsoft does it so poorly, Microsoft email users check their Spam folder all the time anyway.
Kary Mullis, inventor of PCR does not agree with your analogy.
1st of all yes, many people consider not only chroot to be virtualization (of the file system). Yes it is arguable as it is the birth of lightweight virtualization. But you were wrong in saying no one does.

https://papers.freebsd.org/2000/phk-jails/

https://youtu.be/hgN8pCMLI2U?si=CH-Fpyj16bEWDZzc

2nd containers go farther and virtualize network, and other resources.
Huge congrats - and when you look at the latency graphs as well it really shows the value of these specialised systems!
High cost of housing and rent is driven just as much by regulations preventing new housing from being built.
I'm not aware of any other species with a >10,000 word vocabulary, either.
"If only we knew how to create those conditions without having to fight a world war first."

Funnily enough, zero-sum thinking would provide a solution for this.

In order for your society to thrive, opportunity must be created. If nobody knows how to create sustainable (read, not based on subsidy) opportunity, it can always be manufactured at the cost of a target group. (Ethnic groups, 'the rich', other countries, etc. Pick your favorite.)

In terms of a housing shortage, you can create housing for your 'team' by taking existing houses from those who aren't on your 'team'.

In business or in academia, you can force hiring or admittance practices/rules/quotas that prioritize your 'team' over other 'teams'.

There lies the crux.
There is always gain to be had by those who simply choose to take it.
Even the promise of a world order where such choices are unthinkable isn't protected. All it takes is one group who chooses to prioritize themselves, and then if the remaining group is not strong or numerous enough to fight them off, a new order is established and equity is abolished in favor of a new dominance hierarchy.
Diobolgeldæ (The Devil's Money): The Early-Medieval Cult Site of Hezingen
> you're allowed access to full Linux-land

Yes, but there are strict SELinux policies forbidding you from accessing certain "dangerous" stuff like execve(), which may end up killing native terminal emulators like Termux (despite Android not forbidding dynamic code execution elsewhere, Play Store policies aside).

https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/1072

https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/2155
> civics are much harder than English

you can learn them all in your native language, and it really doesn't take a lot (done it).

by contrast, you then still need English competency to answer the questions.
I wonder when they will start selling them off. There might be some I might bid on.
I find it funny how some obtuse devs are unable to use abstraction in software of all things.