skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that you probably went with Chromium based on the way your relationship with Mozilla ended, but man... I'll never have a Chromium based browser as my daily driver, I simply never trusted the ad company to not do what they ended up doing in the end (killing ad blockers). Brave will always be a no go for me for this reason. And now more than ever, we really need some company with real fire power to take the reins of the Firefox source code and create a real trustable fork.
Meta must defend claim it stripped copyright info from Llama's training fodder
I have the actual experience and knowledge to talk about this, having done my grunt work as the idiot analyst.

The American military is a massive source of employment for Americans, and has been the case for decades. It is the source of multiple careers, education opportunities and investment into core sectors for the economy.

Without looking at the numbers, I am going to bet the 35% increased hiring is not military forces. Given the spread I saw of government employment, I suspect its going to largely be nurses, doctors and grunts to do work in many of the understaffed government agencies.

Tariffs are a net negative for the Global Economy, and in this case tariffs are political in nature.

This means there is no economic cut off or action target countries can take to remedy the situation - only ‘vibe’ and ‘appearance’ related actions.

Counter tariffs are going to target Trump and Republican dominated regions. The cut offs here are extreme - they are a form of communication through mutually inflicted pain.

Since it’s America vs the world; Canada, Mexico, the UK, China, India - will coordinate to make trade between each other more efficient, so as to offset the costs imposed on their goods.

Since America has jettisoned its soft power, they have no tools to bring to the negotiating table, meaning that the only options for America are - endure / capitulate / escalate.

This is the emperor’s new clothes territory. The New Emperor is naked, but people believe that they must simply be unable to see the greater plan.
As the first link states:

Errol said his children grew up watching him sell emeralds all over the world, after he had them cut in Johannesburg. However, he always stuck to the rules of the trade: contact the potential buyer, meet in a neutral public place ("for obvious reasons"), and be subtle about exchanging money for gems.

Errol Musk had multiple lines of income, including NSRs from three emerald mines that made a return.
@China, sure they got a good thing going. We will see how long it lasts.

@Rare earths. That has been obvious from the start. There are always massive potential resources everywhere. Trillions in Afghanistan, Ukraine....and if you don't have an ambiguous enough surveying report you can always postulate a pipeline is going to be build there, like with Syria. It seemed to me that was always some kind of intentional face saving exercise to please Trumps electorate, but I might be overestimating him. That extortionist act of him is doing so much damage, it is not rational.
Well of course. They saved Europe from tyranny. It would be the definition of historical revisionism to claim they could do anything wrong after that.

Also I wouldn’t say that Waterloo was more important than Leipzig or Napoleon’s trip to Moscow.
Did you check the prices, or did you look at a photo of a menu board? I checked the McDonald’s app for a pickup order in my city of 100k in a lcol area just now.

Quarter pounder with Cheese: $5.09
Large Fry: $4.29

Total+Tax $10.34
Did you ever launch it, or was it just a fun weekend project?
Your statement was “The US founding fathers included everyone in their vision”

It isn’t true. And the idolisation some people have for wealthy white landowners from 250 years ago is just weird. Judge the world on today
> inefficiently looking after plants

Might be a better life than smelling exhaust gas and looking at screens for 3/4 of our existence. Then wake up and worry about AI eventually eating our jobs.
You claim Russia invaded because Ukraine said they were going to acquire nukes.

I'm asking for a reference and a date when they said that. And obviously, it must be before the Russo-Ukrainian war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War
"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ive been in EOM places. It's a helpful tool.

Usually these kind of messages go better in chats though, so I haven't found myself missing the format.
Care to elaborate? The European military industry is getting stronger and stronger, and given the current situation basically all European countries prefer European military supplies to American ones.
You’re right, my point is for most software it doesn’t matter. I can envision some software not even checking code in to source control, just prompts, in essence jumping to a higher level of abstraction, just like we don’t analyze what the v8 jit does to js when it emits machine code. (There are some who do, and no doubt there will be people who will look and/or care, just like there will be software that needs to be written in an exact way in assembly today.)
Ah, back in the day I really wanted a Voodoo and being able to play with Glide, instead I was forced to return it to the shop, and get it replaced with a Riva TNT, because the PCI version on the motherboard could talk to the Voodoo.

Quite sad day for me, even if in hindsight it was for the better, given how everything went afterwards.

It felt that I got the lesser product, only because of a little motherboard issue.
>With just a little bit of effort, shell scripting really isn’t that arcane.

It isn't, but at least bash and posix shell don't really have scoping, structured variables, or reliable error handling (too many ways an error code can be invisibly dropped)

To get them, you need to use a
less used shell like hush or powershell. And one reason those haven't taken over, is that if you have to add a dependency you might as well use a full language anyway. But I agree that YAML isn't a good option for scripting either
> So yeah, the current window wouldn't work for me, but that's fine. Everything doesn't have to be for everyone. We all live in our bubbles anyway; creating artificial rules could actually be ways of creating new, unexpected interactions.

I like the idea that something like this could be open for 3 hours in the evening local time. Like, you'd get totally different communities coming on at different times, and having completely separate experiences together. But some other people would bridge the gap.

While you're online, every hour some people would be forced to leave and some other people could join.
Bantu Expansion
> Unsurprisingly, I don't think the Irish or Bengal famines were mentioned. In fact the whole British imperial project was largely glossed over. But lots of coverge of the Romans, Vikings, Normans, the black death and the two World Wars.

I read a ton of Usborne and Dorling Kindersley books and these were exactly the sorts or subjects they fixated on. I suppose it's probably part of some long-established national curriculum.

Where I live, people often (conspiratorially) complain that more serious subjects were not covered in school, but the only things I can't ever really remember covering involved South-and-4th-of-July-American history. We didn't really cover Africa outside of the 20th century, either.

To be honest I think American schools are the only ones who really give colonial history the attention it deserves because it's the basis of their entire country and then goes on to fill out the comparatively boring eighty or so years between the end of the Civil War and the start of World War II. I find most people I talk to from the UK who are aware of some aspect of colonial history are either apologists for the British Empire or have this imported view common in North American (and especially Canadian) universities that the British were this uniquely nefarious force of evil. I suppose the historically curious ones just spend their time studying the Norman conquests.
This is a tool for receiving a lot of 433MHz stuff: https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433
This is why no one should take capitalist true believers seriously.

It’s not an efficient (let alone moral) distribution system if one of its outcomes is spiraling prices that are irreflective of genuine market demand.

The whole problem highlighted here is that the people who want to sell cannot sell because the buyers don’t want to eat their consequences and man up to the loss on their gambling.
This is the key point.

We can look back on people who were royalty in their time, but by modern standards, they would've been living a poor life. No AC in the summer, no proper medical care and the possibility of dying from a mild tooth problem, only having access to food that's in-season, zero running water, needing to have your poop hauled away in buckets, needing to spend all day just to travel 15 km, being blamed for a random crime and executed days later with no real evidence.

Being a rich person in the renaissance period seems like it'd be nice if you only look at paintings glorifying the lifestyle. But when you sit down and think about the nitty gritty daily life, it would suck compared to an average modern lifestyle. Yet the rich back then were surely quite comfortable, just like the rich today are. And the rich centuries from now will look at the mega rich today and be amazed that they lived such quaint lives without food teleporters and instant cancer zappers and weekend trips to the balmy shores of Ganymede.

Saying the poor can't be dissatisfied with the inequality in society today because "things were worse in the past for the poor" can really be extended to anyone and anything. There's always something in the past that was worse than a typical bad experience today. But the past is full of horrors that we should learn from and not repeat.
What you're doing is plainly political battle. If you keep using HN primarily for this, we will ban you, regardless of how right you are or feel you are.
If you're mentioning Haiti, it's only fair to add that they were saddled with a crippling debt to France (later to the US - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_independence_debt) from the very beginning of their existence, and many of their current problems can be traced back to that. It's important to see both sides, especially now that it's clear how corrosive this narrative is if you're looking at Musk's attitude toward USAID...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/29/winston-church...

"Mukerjee and others also point to Britain’s “denial policy” in the region, in which huge supplies of rice and thousands of boats were confiscated from coastal areas of Bengal in order to deny resources to the Japanese army in case of a future invasion."

On the topic of brahmins, they were the elite, but mostly not the rulers. All castes discriminated against castes lower to them, even within scheduled castes. Blaming just brahmins for all ills of the society is an uninformed position.
The parallels to modern crises are unsettling, especially the idea that -the market must be obeyed at all costs-
It sounds pretentious, but I think it comes from having multiple ways to compare things for similarity. Using the word similarity says what you are using the angle for. Angle similarity might work just as well until someone comes up with another angle based calculation. Cosine Similarity becomes a specific meaning indicating how it's caclulated and why it's calculated.

If you really wanted to be pretentious you could invent a Dimension Insensitive Euclidean Metric and call it DIEM to make it sound like you are putting some Latin into your papers.
Thousands of engineers grinding leetcode so they can work on a Craigslist clone.
dredmorbius pointed it out already, but I think there was a misunderstanding here. I don't know what did or didn't cause the famine (that's why I said "maybe so" above). I just know that your GP comment took the form of an internet snark post, rather than a thoughtful informative comment. We want the latter, not the former, on HN.

That's the difference, btw, between your GP comment and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43326908, which I agree was a good post. Your post and that one are taking more or less the same position but one is snarky and lacks information, while the other is snark-free and provides plenty of information.
I’ve used ddns to deliver service to millions, it’s a helpful tool. There’s no “taste” in a professional world, there are results.
It's wild how the same empire could produce such different outcomes
According to https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate... the message is this:

June 2025: Chrome MV2 deprecation enterprise rollout
That's correct but my point is what kind of poverty is the poverty line measuring if it does not take into account how much people are getting to eat. This access to PPP adjusted dollar amount is clearly not a good heuristic for it because somehow extreme poverty has been alleviated while having a hunger index worse than North Korea.
I think a good alternative would be it's open twice, 7:39am and 7:39pm.

Makes it available for other regions but also the same (silly) idea.
Festool sells an upper body exoskeleton for painters and sanders: https://www.festoolusa.com/products/exoskeleton/exoactive-ex...
I’m not sure what you’re implying?

> tell me again

I never told you any such thing. Nor did I defend or express support for Hezbollah or other islamist terrorist organization. That does not mean that during the civil war the Christian side were the good guys.

> Much easier as in otherwise

No, much as easier as in it was historically easier for them to get asylum in western countries.
The fact that food was still being exported while people starved is just staggering. No wonder it left such deep scars and fueled the push for independence
I thought the notation in Usenet was to end the title in (nt) for no text
True. And I try to avoid it. Gladly it's not as addictive as others.
Its a sign of task saturation present even when not in combat.

Also why get all proud and defensive? Its a dead program now. Europe and other regions will buy homespun.
So you're saying it's like ULA's Vulkan. Got it.
> Are they not up in arms internally because of how awful the web is without ad blocker?

Chrome still has many ad blockers. While I use chrome/chromium fairly little, ublock origin lite has worked well for me when I do. I'm aware older manifest V2 extensions are theoretically superior at blocking a wide variety of undesired content but if your main concern is not seeing ads, that is absolutely doable.
Depends who "we" are in this context of course, but there's a middle eastern country whom the USA shower with military aid, that is committing a genocide and using starvation as a weapon, and the US is absolutely letting, even encouraging that to happen.
This is what I use them for exactly. The HFSPlus driver is three years old now, and seems to not get updated anymore. Does anyone know if it is the same one as in Linux kernel? https://github.com/acidanthera/OcBinaryData/blob/master/Driv...
Well they got half of the voters voting against their interest for a guy who by that point had history of incredible moral and legal shortcomings.

Of course that emboldens greedy billionaires, the little good they did was just a fig leaf. Now they realized that they got the permission to even leave that out.

Ironically "free speech" was kind a talking point on the right for decades, only to crumble the instance they are in power. But to people who know their history it was clear before that "free speech" when used by the far right does only include their choice of what they see as free speech. And if I pointed that out a year ago on this very website, people would have told me I was wrong — hope you're not a government researcher in electrical engineering trying to use the word "bias" then.

Good luck to the US and good luck to the world.
The reality with people is that most of them don't come close to Einstein level intelligence. A lot of the stuff I ask perplexity or chatgpt is way beyond what I could reasonably ask from the vast majority of people I know. I love my relatives. But they are kind of useless for the vast majority of stuff that bounces around in my head.

AIs are at this point a useful tool for knowledge workers. They don't replace them but enhance their productivity. For scientific work, having an LLM that is trained on essentially all of the scientific work published, ever (until the cutoff date) is probably useful.

You can now have conversations with an AI about cross referencing your ideas with existing work. You might analyze a paper you are writing and ask it to summarize key claims, criticize those, and your methodology, cross reference claims with literature, etc. Find counter points to your claims, etc. And you could probably use it to come up with interesting follow up questions, let it formulate hypotheses and ways to verify those, etc. Most scientific work isn't Archimedes going Eureka while taking a bath but undergraduates, post docs, and other under paid research stuff grinding through piles and piles of existing work and filling their heads with enough information until finally something new and original pops out.

I got my Ph. D. in 2003. I'm part of the first generation of researchers that was able to use Google. At the time that was a huge enabler for tracking down obscure references and authors. Getting a paper published involves an enormous amount of what I just outlined. And LLMs can assist you with that. Will it hallucinate. Absolutely. But it will also dig out valid points, references, etc. Sorting that out is still work that you need to do. But it probably saves a lot of time. Will it propose original new theories. Maybe, maybe not. But it will speed up the process of zooming in on unanswered ones.

Science isn't necessarily about coming up with answers but coming up with interesting questions. That's what Einstein did: ask interesting questions. Researchers are still trying to answer some of them and verifying some of the answers he predicted.
Diversity isn't just nice to have, it's a survival mechanism
I have a different viewpoint. Trump likes to paint himself as a businessman who is a master of a deal and delivers. All these sudden moves with tariffs etc., even if they make no sense, show that he is active and "doing something", including fulfilling some promises he made during the elections.

Now, one of the major promises was that he would end the war in Ukraine. The problem is, this is a very heavy issue and can't be solved just because he wants. Russia is not interested in the slightest in stopping the war, and for sure they don't want to show they were stopped by an American president. So Trump's only chance to deliver is to push on Ukrainians to surrender. And this is what he is currently doing, day by day. Once he breaks them, he will be able to say "I introduced peace".

Neither Ukraine nor the EU wants this because the capitulation of Ukraine would only mean giving Putin more time to stock up supplies and attack again later (he doesn't need a good reason for that).
The UK is infamous for housing illegal immigrants in hotels, and they don't just get free food but free money, too. Oh, and free healthcare.

Free money, housing, and healthcare for everyone is also the law here in Germany, which is why we get flooded by illegal immigrants too..

..and that's why these Western European welfare states are collapsing. You can only afford something like this if your population overwhelmingly consists of educated, skilled people with a strong work ethic who would never voluntarily sign up for welfare. Once you allow millions of foreigners into the country who are neither educated nor skilled nor have a work ethic such systems start to collapse.
Probably he is not a newbie entirelly since he was able to run kebernetes.

Anyway I agree that there no point in using k8s for home stuff. Single instance of anything should be sufficient for any needs like that.

On the other hand maybe someone just like to tinker with technology.
Further proof to me that slack + a daily digest for each department is the perfect medium for professional communications inside technical organization.
To add evidence: also had it.

I wonder if there something like this today you will have in college? Some low cost graphic card rigs? Or is it more like some cloudflare set-ups today?

I am starting to feel old.
Ask HN: Would you use auto agent that builds and runs marketing campaigns?
I built a prototype that:
- Takes campaign goals (e.g., "Generate 10 booked calls per day")
- Uses AI for strategy, channel selection + and budget allocation
- creates all the marketing assets from ads, targeting to actual content (depends on channels)
- Executes via Meta/Google/LinkedIn + other APIs and does everything on your behalf
- Optimizes based on data and results - loop

Q's:
- How would you test real demand and PMF? Waitlists and demo video or else?

* not selling anything here, just validating ca ouple of things
Luckily we have Asahi Linux. https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m3/
I clicked it and went, oh this is actually fun. It feels very early iPhone days mobile game.
> I'm talking about the inconvenience of potentially having to get up at 3am to see what your dad posted.

Maybe if your dad posts something on a website that is only opened at 3am in your own time zone, it’s that their post is not intended for you.

I can’t access op’s website because of my location and I have no fomo at all : I’m just not the target. It’s ok. I still find the idea to be funny.
That's amazing, thank you very much for sharing!

I had no idea about crunchbase. Hmm, so I guess the idea here is that I would be building crunchbase for poor people. It looks like they are charging 99$ per month or 588$ per year, for 4M entries (with far more info that I would have, and far more features). So the question is, could I steal some of their customers by offering much smaller amount of data with much smaller price?

I am wondering, if I would have 50 000 entries looking similar to what I already have in my demo (but with better search capabilities), would it be worth, let's say 5$ per month (x searches per day or something) and/or maybe 50$/100$ for a whole database dump in a .csv format?

My demo looks like that currently - https://lazarustest.eu.pythonanywhere.com/
Those lefties playing sorcerer's apprentice at CERN are going to end up swallowing the world, I'm telling you !
Don't apologise. Programming is about the process not the person.
Here's a DVB-S2 receiver: https://github.com/igorauad/gr-dvbs2rx
"Reality" is an alien concept to an LLM. All they have is sequences of words that they can complete.
It is not really a kill switch, just the ability to reprogram the jamming device to adapt to changing Russian radar frequencies. Not really something Ukrainians couldn't do themselves if given opportunity.
Could you actually explain what fascist regimes did US establish in Europe?

Greek Junta perhaps, but it was anything but stable and it collapsed because of a war in Cyprus with another NATO member..

Or are you claiming that Americans put Putin in power in Russia? Slightly far fetched but you might have a point..

Because I can’t think of anything else.