skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"guest workers" as a term completely excludes serfs. Serfs are attached to the land, guest workers on the other hand come from a completely different place. North Korea is not a monarchy, and what's happening there is forced labour, or slavery.

The original point I was refuting was that "serfdom is a relatively common feature under monarchy". People are so completely unable to provide evidence for that claim of it being common these days (500 years in the past being quite irrelevant here given numerous monarchies exist these days) that the closest you can get is by pointing to one single case, on the other side of the world from the monarchies we're talking about, that isn't serfdom and isn't a monarchy. Hardly a "relatively common feature".
Agreed – it’s a bit too early to publicize this. Lots of great alternatives discussed here though!

Maybe I should try to Show HN my Docker dashboard, https://lunni.dev/ :thinking:
> If AI can help spot obvious errors in published papers, it can do it as part of the review process.

If it could explain what's wrong, that would be awesome. Something tells me we don't have that kind of explainability yet. If we do, people could get advice on what's wrong with their research and improve it. So many scientists would lov3 a tool like that. So if ya got it, let's go!
That happens regardless in summer in Seattle, the sun rises very early. The sun also sets very late in summer to the point of being obnoxious and disturbing to sleep. Why does this not matter? No amount of fiddling with the clock changes the reality of how much sunlight there is.

Lifestyle preferences around sunlight should not dictate the clock.
One idea of Yuval Noah Harari is AI, robotics, etc will make the normal citizen irrelevant in the global economy. The ultimate barometer is if governments require less soldiers, the game is up, nobody will even care about common citizen.
'baroque "I checked threw times and wrote it twice" methods.'

Unintentional, but accurate.

Good enough for government work, at any rate
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And also that it gets used as censorship. Paypal did it to Wikileaks.
You can't just say the quiet part out loud like that!

Edit: On further reflection, it actually sounds rather banal when stated that way -- they just bought the election, so that they could increase their already-staggering fortunes.
It always baffles me when my highly paid engineering coworkers refuse to manage their own investment portfolios and insist that a professional needs to do it. All you have to do is buy a Vanguard index fund ETF at Interactive Brokers or something similar. They have such agency and competence in everything else, but think finances are unknowable. Even just a 0.5% fee adds up to a huge percentage of your net worth gone after a few decades.
Despite these headlines, there are reasons that someone may want to rebalance their portfolio. Performance over time is not everything -- for instance, it is often advisable for someone approaching retirement to rebalance into investments that are lower performing but more less volatile.

An S&P 500 index fund might give a reliable 20 year performance, but if you're cashing out next year, you're gambling on somewhere between a -40% and +60% return.

This is all to say, just because you have money in index funds doesn't necessarily mean they're the right index funds for your situation.
Neat, but not nearly responsive enough. When I was your age, we had to key at 5000 wpm or they wouldn't even let us look at a radio.
Mars ? now ?

Their Starship is barely going to the orbit and then blowing up, and people are seriously considering going to Mars now ? After all, people believed him when he said they solved FSD 10 YEARS ago.

We are several decades away from flying humans to Mars. Maybe if it's a one way trip and they don't need to arrive there alive, we could go within 10 years. Maybe.

The thing I really fear, is that Musk will manage to siphon effectively infinite amount of money from the US government for this project. Which is all this is about.
I always joke about that to my buddy when I'm driving in his M3. Be the sunniest nicest day out, the wipers will randomly turn on going crazy.
That could work, assuming your usual file backup methods are secure enough and it doesn't create a circular dependency.
What could possibly go wrong? There's precedent of software systems messing up and authorities ignoring problems because "the computer said so".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
I think the article creates a false dichotomy between top down and bottoms up approach to understanding a topic. In the end, looking at a project from multiple perspectives will give you clarity.

A quick top-down view provides scaffolding to latch onto. A follow up deep dive will poke holes in your assumptions or reinforce your current understanding.

As the article mentioned, always staying at a high level can provide a fake understanding but I think just doing a deep dive slows understanding higher level abstractions and purpose. Constantly undulating between the two or having reports who can provide the right details are the best approaches I've seen from mentors.
He says in the video that YouTube is the only exception to the exclusivity clause, meaning the couldn't also publish to Float Plane or other similar platforms.
This feels related to so-called Christians complaining about the "sin of empathy" recently: https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1/25/2299109/-Oh-noes-Ma...
> * No way to search across multiple repos within GitHub.
> * No way to easily see open and closed issues in the same view.

I don't quite understand, because searching issues across all of Github and also within orgs is already supported. Those searches show both open and closed issues by default.

For searches on a single repo, just removing the "state" filter entirely from the query also shows open and closed issues.

I do think that semantic search on issues is a cool idea and the semantic/fuzzy aspect is probably the biggest motivator for the project. It just felt funny to see stuff that Github can actually already do listed at the top of motivating issues.
I finished one bottle of Theanine for occasional use and went to order a different combo as it was unavailable. It is Theanine Serene with Relora which also includes Magnesium, GABA, Taurine, and Holy basil in two large tablets. Helps relax and ease falling asleep.

Another option may be a pain/stomach relief/sleep aid concoction we found :

1tsp ginger

1tsp turmeric

1tsp cinnamon

1tsp fine black pepper

500ml milk

Boil for 10 minutes.
Drink one cup warm and save the other for another day.
From the discussions I've seen about theanine, the real benefit supposedly came when it was taken alongside caffeine. The thinking being that theanine moderated some of the jittery effects of caffeine, allowing the user to take higher doses of caffeine, which itself has some benefit on task concentration and focus.

I wish the author had spent time addressing that theory specifically.
Can you share one or two anecdotes? I am curious.
The law says you can’t. You have a license for one copy of the movie, to be played via whatever medium you bought it on. You absolutely cannot legally copy it.

If your solution is “just break the law”, there are an enormous number of problems you could get past.
Glutamate is fascinating! The latest and greatest hypothesis for mood, learning, etc. hot off the press. Suddenly everything targets NMDA/AMPA receptors and increases plasticity
It's not that we pretend the other side doesn't exist. Rather, we recognize that it's a false flag recruitment effort.

And note that I haven't noticed anyone objecting to any client-side filtering approaches--I've even suggested one. We are objecting to mandated server-side verification because we know it's a camel's nose.
lol. I lived under the same monarch, QEII, who has ruled for seventy years, and I assure you that I and my compatriots feel far, far, freer in practice and guided more well than any single American ought to feel currently.
I just wish the stupid chatbots on customer service websites would show "Get human" as an option sooner. 99% of time there is a mistake and the bots don't have authority to correct it.
> Hard to tell what those people would report if we had a time machine and could go and ask them.

Yes. Which means it's impossible to use such reports to make general claims about what kind of government is better.

> if a system with a less extensive state that offers less of public services like schooling, infrastructure and health care is what is really better for people, why haven't people made it happen already?

Because "people" can't make it happen in societies where the government controls all those things. Governments have huge advantages over private providers in terms of protecting themselves from competition, without having to actually provide better service.

And even with all those advantages, people still do try to opt out. If government-run schools in the US, for example, were really so great, there wouldn't be so many people trying to get their kids into private schools, or home schooling. But because such people still have to pay taxes to support public schools, those options are only open to the affluent. And schemes like school vouchers to try to level the playing field somewhat never gain any real traction because politicians don't have to answer to the people as a whole, only to special interests--and teachers at government-run schools are a huge special interest.

> gradual steps towards such system should, if they are really an improvement for people, show up as higher scores in happiness surveys.

Only if they exist to be surveyed.
I am only doubtful about the exponential part. I am hopeful that yes all fields will ultimately subsumed by AI.
> Of course, there are tradeoffs. This works beautifully for personal tools and small-team scenarios. It doesn't scale to massive collaborative systems where you need rigid interfaces between components. But I suspect many of us are solving problems that don't actually need that complexity.

Spreadsheets. If you squint the right way, they embody the lisp principles for the non-programmers' world.
Google can probably bribe its way out of this problem. [1][2] Might not even take money. Just favorable search result positioning.

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/188271/trump-profit-presiden...

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-b...
Your the one that's grasping at straws and doesn't understand that 1P needs to store something in order to validate or generate your master password. The fact that this does happen, makes it less secure in comparison to not storing anything, as you can't hack something which does not exist.

> Given a sample set of passwords derived from a secret heuristic, it could be reversed. The secret heuristic isn't completely safe either.

Sure but this isn't the argument being made. As an analogy, not using any E2E is inherently less secure than using some E2E encryption, but using E2E encryption doesn't automatically mean you're more secure. Simply put, you had asked "What's the difference between a master password and a secret heuristic?" And that difference is a master password (or ways to generate it) must be stored outside your brain, and doing this is inherently less secure than not doing this.
Random: I tried posting this as ShowHN, but I am guessing I don't have enough reputation, because it was hidden.

So if you are here for MCP, I will use the opportunity to share what I've been working on the last few months.

I've hand curated hundreds of MCP servers, which people can access and browse via https://glama.ai/mcp/servers and made those servers available via API https://glama.ai/mcp/reference

The API allows to search for MCP servers, identify their capabilities via API attributes, and even access user hosted MCP servers.

However, you can also try these servers using an inspector (available under every server) and also in the chat (https://glama.ai/chat)

This is all part of a bigger ambition to create an all encompassing platform for authoring, discovering and hosting MCP servers.

I am also the author of https://github.com/punkpeye/fastmcp framework and several other supporting open-source tools, like https://github.com/punkpeye/mcp-proxy

If you are also interested in MCP and want to chat about the future of this technology, drop me a message.
Be very careful targeting NMDAr/AMPAr directly. I made this mistake. Those receptors are extremely prone to causing permanent damage due to excitotoxicity.
I think a neutral observer would find you so unpersuasive and so illogical that they would naturally take the opposite of whatever views you hold, just for fear of being associated with such tautological and childish rhetoric.
This feels similar to the experience you get when asking ChatGPT a programming question. The UI shifts to better display code and provides buttons to copy content.
Show HN: An app to instantly create mobile app mockups—no Figma needed
There's a lot of interesting points that, but you've totally bungled most of the things relating to Marxism, confusing the subject of alienation work it's main mechanism, and confusing Leninism/Maoism—a line of revisions of Marxist theory to attempt to provide a roadmap that bypasses private capitalist development—with “orthodox Marxism”.

Also, orthodox Marxism sees material relation to the capitalist economy as something of a continuum—the three main classes consist of variations of degree of relative importance of two (labor and capital) means of interacting with the economy—the capital-dominant group is the haut bourgeoisie, the labor-dominant group is the proletariat, and the middle class, the petit bourgeoisie, has significant dependence on both labor and capital (the textbook case being someone who applies their own labor, rather than rented labor, to their own capital to produce goods or services, though there are other mixes possible that are also petit bourgeois.) It is purely material, not mystical.
I believe there are semi-hidden PRND buttons in the headliner behind/around the rear view mirror for the stalkless Tesla.
1) inconsistent argument: Frodo is just as mediocre as Rincewind.

2) I don’t respect the bald claim that all chosen ones are bad, or the implicit claim that we can somehow avoid them. Universals always have exceptions. If we’re being “real” here about our agential change, we must admit that species evolve by natural selection we might say genetic chosen ones. And anyway I do think there are some special people so sue me.

3) consider the names of Peter Thiel’s companies: palantir, mithril. Thiel, I’m sure ironically, named his companies after objects possessing exactly that moral ambiguity that the author claims does not exist in Tolkien’s world. Thiel is telegraphing it straight to you via Tolkien: do not trust me, I will use these objects for my own gain.

4) Discworld can afford to be light and playful because it was written in easy times. In one preface, Tolkien wrote that all the world’s great powers would obviously have tried to turn the ring into a weapon if it really existed.
Yes! Night mode was great on long road trips. I've honestly thought of buying a gently used late-00s Saab instead of anything new.
Confluence. VSCode Readmes. Google docs.
I don't think it's shocking. People who are attracted to radically different approaches are often attracted to more than one.

Sometimes it feels like crypto is the only sector left with any optimism. If they end up doing anything useful it won't be because their tech is better, but just because they believed they could.

Whether it makes more sense to be shackled to investors looking for a return or to some tokenization scheme depends on the the problem that you're trying to solve. Best is to dispense with either, but that's hard unless you're starting from a hefty bank account.
You sure about noon mattering? I thought the evidence was that it is when sunrise happens that matters.
I am thankful that there are some challenges that providence has deemed fit to deny me.
If that's what I meant, I would have said it. Your basic facts are hopelessly, often hilariously out of whack.
And grep?
I guess it depends on what you see as the purpose of AI. If the purpose is to be smart, it’s not doing very well. (Yet?) If the purpose is to deflect responsibility, it’s working great.
The problem is that you're blaming the wrong targets. The porn companies aren't interested in kids, they don't have much money or ways to spend it on their content.
It is strange to discuss L-theanine with vitamin D as one has nothing much to do with the other. It could've been better to compare L-theanine with a placebo (cellulose) which is how research conventionally works.

L-theanine at 200-300 mg before bed is extremely useful for canceling excessive caffeine while trying to sleep at night. Add piperine to the mix for possible further cancelation of caffeine. [PMID 35684048]
I already told you what it needs to store and it isn’t the master password. No master password needs to be “validated” even when authenticating to 1P servers. You clearly have a fundamental misunderstanding of cryptography. Anyways this is all explained in the 1Password security whitepaper.
You think the death toll of the US government is below 500,000? I have some most unfortunate news for you...

The US government killed over 250,000 civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and remains the only government to ever deploy atomic weapons in combat, to say nothing of knowingly and intentionally deploying it against civilians.

The US is responsible for a substantial portion, though not outright majority, of the >1.5 million civilian deaths on the Northern side during the Korean War.

The US government killed over 180,000 civilians in Vietnam - miraculously few considering they dropped over 7 million tons (14 BILLION lbs) of ordnance on a force of only 860,000 troops occupying less than 110,000 km². For reference, that's about 63.5 tons / 127,000 lbs of high explosives per square kilometer of the entirety of Northern Vietnam. That's also over 8 tons / 16,000 pounds of high explosive per combatant.

These represent just the civilian deaths of just 3 of the 123 military conflicts that resulted in at least 1 civilian fatality (5 ongoing) that the US has been involved in - a microcosm of the all deaths that have ever been inflicted by the US government.

Remember, not all military combatants voluntarity chose to fight. Think about how many Russian and Ukranian men have been conscripted against their will (at gunpoint), never killed another person, and were killed in a war they didn't even want to be fighting, left with no alternative choice. Are those men's deaths morally justified simply because they were in uniform, or is it possible many of those, too, were innocent, good people forced to participate in an ugly tradition?

If you add even 10% of combat fatalities inflicted by the US government, that figure exceeds the combined total of all documented drug overdose deaths in American history, though it's worth noting that records on that don't go back very far, as the war on drugs that has destroyed millions of lives is a very, very recent thing in American history - it started less than 60 years ago as a plan to weaponize government against political opponents (anti-war activists who care more about preserving human life than about enforcing American political will around the globe).

Read a history book or two, you might learn something that your government-funded schools conveniently skipped over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_military_withdrawal_fro...

How did those military bases get there? And how did they remain? You are either very ignorant or you are intentionally mendacious to avoid the obvious reality that your prosperity and their poverty are deeply connected.
> throw out "we should add a caching layer" as their first instinct, without considering whether it's really appropriate or not

Could be worse: you could have met me! I used to laugh at caching and thought that if your website is so slow that you need a caching layer (Wordpress comes to mind), you're just doing it wrong: perhaps you're missing indexes on your database or you simply can't code properly and made it more complex than necessary (I was young, once). Most of my projects are PHP scripts invoked by Apache, so they have no state and compute everything fresh. This is fine (think <30ms typical page generation time) for 95% of the types of things I make, but in more recent years I had two projects where I really struggled with that non-pragmatic mentality and spent long hours experimenting with different writing strategies (so data wouldn't change as often and MariaDB's built-in optimizations better), indexes on low-cardinality columns, indexes on combined columns in specific orders, documenting with each query which index it requires and maps to, optimizing the query itself of course, in one experiment writing my own on-disk index file to search through some gigabytes of data much faster than the database seemed to be able to do for geospatial information, upgraded the physical hardware from HDD to SSD...

Long story short, I now run Redis and the website is no longer primarily bound by computation power but, instead, roughly equally by bandwidth

I'm still very wary of introducing Redis to projects lest I doom them: it'll inevitably outgrow RAM if I indiscriminately stick things in there, which means turning them off (so far, nearly no links or tools on my website ever turned 404 because they're all on a "keep it simple" WAMP/LAMP stack that can do its thing for many years, perhaps search-and-replacing something like mysql_query() with mysqli->query() every five years but that's about the extent of the maintenance)

So anyway I think we're in agreement about "apply where appropriate" but figured I'd share the counter-example of how one can also be counterproductive in the other direction and that there is something to be said for the pragmatic people that consider/try a cache, which often does help even if there's often a different underlying problem and my perfectionism wouldn't like it
'Edit Wars' on Middle East Page Raise Tensions on Wikipedia
Chrome Sync (i.e. saving your history + everything else to the cloud so it syncs to all your devices) is an optional setting. Microsoft Edge has the same thing under another name. Safari does too.
Children don't exactly have a lot of money, especially in a form they can spend online. Porn companies want customers who can actually afford to buy their products!
what about politician level models? i wonder if politicians aren't all copy pasting their stuff from chatgtp right now, at this stage (that would make a nice conspiracy theory, wouldn't it?)
Good design doesn’t need explanations or instructions.

A well designed user interface for an automobile should be discoverable and intuitive for anyone that’s driven a car previously.
The thing is, contrary to normal expectations, experts in financial investments don't come with expected increase in returns.

You surely don't normally expect people to be their own doctors, or electricians, or any sort of professional work themselves (other than their own field).

And yet, it is not the case for financial investment. This is counterintuitive, despite being absolutely true. But without decent exposure to the literature and education about it, it is very easy to not know or find it baffling that a low cost index fund is the optimal for the average person. Not to mention the myriad of tiktoks and finfluencers claiming otherwise!
I would recommend to use:

- Something that you don't have to spell out. Numbers are fine.

- Something that doesn't raise questions.

- A regular TLD, which doesn't suddenly increase the price or get abandoned. (and does not raise extra questions)

mail947.com
Peak UI design in cars hit around the 1980s. All that's needed are a small number of physical controls: headlights, turn signals, wipers, heat/AC, etc.

Anything more than that should work with voice command -- or it doesn't belong in a car.