skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you know what's going on with their suggested spelling/pronunciation?

"Cwtch" was/is more common in casual conversation in South Wales (where fluent spoken Welsh is less common, but Welsh words are still used in both English and mixed language contexts). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cwtch for a summary of the cross-language context.
Can I have a bunch of shortcuts arranged in a directory structure that is reflected in the launch button in the lower left?

It's something I could do with Windows back in the day and I've always missed it
First time encountering the phrase “gravitationally lumpy”. I can imagine what that is. But why? I suppose it would naturally occur if the moon were not more or less consistent density. But how would that be possible given the moon’s age and shape. (Roughly spherical I am assuming)
Thank you very much! Did you start with separate databases or wait until you needed to scale workloads separately before breaking things up?
Yes, I sleep so much better now when the dogebags and Musky protect us all from evil. Musk will never never abuse. Forever and ever, Amen.

Especially nobody won't abuse Medicare because there won't be any. If they want food they can beg in the streets or work at a plantation.
Predictive Data Selection: The Data That Predicts Is the Data That Teaches
I remain mixed as to how much I think the platforms actually affect discourse and how much I think the discourse on the platforms are just artifacts of the originating culture. Japanese interaction, for example, also happens en masse on Twitter but is much more polite than the IoBs of both the US and India. And while Indian discourse has a lot of beefs, it's less bipolar than the US one is (probably because India has a slew of different political parties and regional differences even if India is grappling with its own populist party at the moment.) I also wonder how much English acts as the contagion vector since this form of highly polarizing, self-righteous discourse can spread through folks who read/write in English while the language barrier to Japanese stops it from taking root.
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” ― Marcus Aurelius
Exactly. Flying the airplane is the first 90% of flying, managing the engine is the other 90%. So it helps to set one aside while you work on the other.
Found Bitcoin Whitepaper Watermark
Steganographic techniques were used to hide the initials and last name of the author of the Bitcoin White Paper. The analysis document details how to check the proof yourself. In short, the initials are revealed by an intentional mistake in the order of references. 16 years, and Satoshi is finally revealed.
For the new grads, it should be “build your network”. Learning skills for promoting oneself is imperative in the early career stage. Start a blog. Connect with a community. Find a meetup or user group. It pays off long term. the unfortunate part is that it doesn’t necessarily lead to a job immediately.

If you’re starting in tech right now, and can go back to live with parents after graduation, then do that while building up your presence. Just don’t take your foot off the gas until you have that solid network. The stigma about moving back home doesn’t make sense to me, unless all you do is play WOW (or whatever people are wasting time on these days).

If that doesn’t work, find some roommates. Be willing to slum it a bit while establishing yourself. It might not be glamorous like Instagram or Tiktok says it should be, but the flexibility you have while keeping costs down opens more opportunities. You can take more risks if you don’t have to worry so much about making rent or paying bills.
24% of US GDP divided by US GDP is a larger number than 24% of US GDP divided by non-US GDP. Any changes to US foreign trade affect the US more than the rest of the world.
In this domain, Signal lag seems to be an insurmountable problem, when using remote control. 2.7s delay will be hard to mitigate in a dynamic system.

Unless I am misunderstanding something.
Is this actually feasible for some decent percentage of cars nowadays? If so, where did you research?
Funny how everyone eventually hits this point and thinks they're inventing fire - but then again, pushing your trusty old tools way past comfort is where cool engineering actually happens.
Yup, I can’t wait to have a nice LLM capability on my Alexa devices! Maybe I’m the only one on this thread :)
This is a private bank hoarding government (tax payer) dollars for seemingly no reason. The money sure as heck wasn't being used for "climate action". As an environmentalist and just someone who thinks the gov shouldn't be offshoring billions of dollars I fully support gov orgs looking into this...

It's easy to let politics color the perception of this but I for one although I dislike the current president support this effort.
What else do they do with the user data besides ads targeting? Serious question.
The author should redact the face of the woman whose photos were stolen
That probably won't work. Blue would have an incentive to prove red failed, so if red initiated a big long term project (say, building a new high speed rail network, or a new dam, or incentives to build auto factories or whatever that cannot be done in the every X years switches happen), blue will do their best to sabotage it. This happens in politics already (e.g. public transit projects started by previous governments get sabotaged), let alone if there's an adversarial relationship by the people supposed to be directly directing and overseeing this stuff.
How is that diffusion? What noise is it denoising there?
Money is people too, or something?
Ask HN: Everyone building these agentic/LLM workflows, what are you using?
What tools? Do you like it? Is it working for your use case? What is it?
I explored few, like smolagents, but all seems very immature and full of bugs.
The key is to call in and ask how to put your device in airplane mode ;)
Related, I was thinking earlier today about at what probabilities and timelines of regime collapse it makes sense to start seriously planning a move to another country under. A 10% chance over a 10-year timeline feels about accurate to me - low probability, but not so low it feels safe to gamble with.
> If you're underclass and beat up on by society above you, stoicism is a very rational philosophy to adopt.

Will that help your situation?
Is there any sort of international body with regulatory power over the moon, or is it completely lawless and unrestricted?

This startup has already crashed two pieces of space junk onto the lunar surface. Can any startup able to get there do whatever they want?
The gall to describe a group counting habitat for humanity and united way as members as “a new nonprofit”…

It’d be funny if it wasn’t so serious
This is a risky clause:

> R5-32-5 An RCS client having E2EE enabled shall implement techniques to detect suspicious messages or conversations.
Reflections on Standard ML (2005) [pdf]
Isn't that billion given only for a specific project? Doesn't it come with mandatory audits? And isn't that fully public information?

Contrast with something like the Pentagon which has billions entirely unaccounted for, even after paying tens of thousands of dollars for common items such as a bathroom soap dispenser.
> I'm interested in examining the idea of a programming language that eschews the notion of a callstack

Chicken Scheme fits the bill. While it doesn't eschew the notation of a call stack, it turns it on its ear.

In Chicken Scheme

1. All objects are allocated on the stack. Strings, conses, symbols, lexical environments, ...

2. Functions do not return. Everything is compiled to C which uses continuation passing style. What looks like returning in the Scheme source code is a continuation call: the parent function passes a continuation, and so the function return invokes that and runs that lambda.

3. Because functions do not return and everything is allocated from the stack, the stack grows voraciously. When it hits a certain limit, a kind of ephemeral garbage collection takes place: all objects that have been allocated on the stack which are still live are transferred to the heap. Then ... the stack pointer is rewound.

Essentially, the C stack has become a bump allocator in a kind of generational GC.
Thoughts are very powerful, that's why visualization is such a big deal in elite sports etc.

Some stoics teach that you should imagine the worst possible outcomes to shift your perception of the current (not quite as terrible) situation.

Feels like a very bad idea to me.
>Mozilla has always been collecting donations and nobody had a problem with it.

There are a ton of people who complain about Mozilla taking donations. It shows up in most HN threads about the mismanagement of Firefox.
That seems rather uncharitable. I looked through the comments as soon as I saw there wasn't a Celsius figure in the headline or first paragraph.

One conversion comment is on-topic, even though any replies to it are most likely to be off-topic.
Disclosing YouTube Creator Emails for a $20k Bounty
It still forces you to download a model regardless
J&J's Skin360 app faces scrutiny for biometric data collection
LISC and ECP too. Like 1.5m affordable units developed between them
Much appreciated, thank you and congratulations on the bike business
This email was sitting in my inbox. Luckily don't use Coinbase anymore, but they brought this on themselves and their users.

Leaking all of our emails then doing crap like making everyone migrate to their wallet etc.

They should be held liable for all hacks since the leaks.

Please let the bubble burst...
Copyright is a restriction on making unauthorized, full copies under almost all circumstances. Default deny. There's only one documented exception on the books right now which is electronic media. None of these are opinions.

The idea that photocopying a book for archival purposes is potentially fair use is an untested opinion. I'm not denigrating that opinion. I just think it's likely to fail as an legal argument in the unlikely event that it comes up. I'm not a copyright apologist.

I myself believed the "fair use for archival"/"format shifting" thing applied to all works for most of my life. I only learned there was no law or precedent like 10 days ago.
Sneaky Bits: Advanced Data Smuggling Techniques
YMMV. At 41, I’ve been in tech for about 25 years, and my network is still hugely beneficial to me. They help me keep an eye on new trends, the overall job market, and potential new positions. I focus on keeping in touch with a lot of people, though, even if it’s not constant contact.
Then it should be pretty easy to demonstrate fraud and abuse, hmmm?
You are just dismissing my question without addressing it.

I think free will can be attributed only to actions people are doing. But not everything can be attributed to people (or other animals).
What does switching from paper to screens mean for how we read?
Ahh yes, America uses tarrifs to force a new trade agreement and then says that trade agreement is bad.

The US just isn't planning things anymore and trying to justify it makes people look silly.
> S3 launched as the first public AWS service.

Didn't SQS launch publicly earlier than S3?
I am implying that America doesn't spread its values, because that isn't a thing that any country does. Nations don't have values, they have interests, and any premise to the contrary is just propaganda meant to manufacture consent for military adventurism and imperialism.

People will support the premise of going to war in the Middle East to "spread democracy" far more than to "defend the petrodollar and distract the public from Saudi Arabia's complicity in 9/11," for instance.
> And a great way to give permission to read and modify all websites you visit to something that should really better be an isolated application.

Then don't do that. Give them permission to only read specific sites, or even no access if they don't need it.
Or it could be they found his hypothesis completely without merit.

Although I found his paper interesting, he handwaved Confucianism away as the explanation for East Asian personality traits.

No matter the origins of Confucianism, it was the Chinese state religion for almost two thousand years and heavily influenced Korea, Japan, Vietnam etc.
It's redundant by now, but performative cruelty is the whole point.
Hahaha I bullseye’d that.
Is God a Mushroom?
The reliability speaks to the technology immaturity. I agree with the inevitability of the EV drivetrain + charging off the existing distribution network being more reliable than competing technologies.
That text seems more a reflection of the fact that only Messages supported it, when the document was written

If they seriously wanted random third parties to implement it, anyhow, they'd have published a specification, not an "overview"
Hmm. I guess the “public transit projects of previous governments being sabotaged” is by design. Regardless of two-party politics, if the people vote into power a new representative who disagrees with the previous one, then they’ll kill those projects. And they’ll spend their time campaigning on the basis of that. This results in “slow government” which – at least IMO – is a Very Good Thing.

But for agencies, you want the opposite – you want fast reaction to changing environment. So in that sense, career bureaucrats are an advantage as long as they remain relatively politically independent and prioritize based on requirements more than perception. The problems arise when they become affixed to one of the parties, but without the checks and balances.

I think this is maybe okay as long as the “fast reaction” has a “fast undo.” Otherwise a new executive (and their predecessor) actually has less power than the agencies within the executive branch.
I figured the USB-C connector would be the most controversial of the idea list. Certainly there might be better options, but I was interested in trying to harmonize on something that could radically cut connector diversity and drive up fungibility and flexibility. I was imagining that the power half of it would be USB-PD PPS+EPR from the motherboard to the peripheral.

The idea is that USB-C would be the "small widget" connector for things like large form factor disks (not m.2), optical drives (as much as those still exist), etc. Heavy iron things would use the bladed connector for power and the twinax ribbon for data. PCIe is great.

It would also not sadden me tremendously to have CPU+RAM be a single device, be it on the CPU substrate or as a system-on-module. That flavor of upgradeability isn't worth losing a ton of performance. I'm sure tons of folks would hate it.
Hello friend,

I'm one of the maintainers of tremor, happy to get together and talk about rust event processing if you ever want to :)
WhatsApp and Telegram are hardly replacements for Tor access. A government can block them easily.

The onion service's days were numbered after they fired Runa Sandvik. I'm surprised it lasted this long. Looking at the pay and current labor disputes, it seems like the New York Times isn't a good place for a skilled software engineer to work these days.

They'll keep running SecureDrop over an onion service, right...?
> Doesn't Language itself encode multimodal experiences?

When communicating between two entities with similar brains who have both had many thousands of hours of similar types of sensory experiences, yeah. When I read text I have a lot more than other text to relate it to in my mind; I bring to bear my experiences as a human in the world. The author is typically aware of this and effectively exploits this fact.
The problem with America is that it’s too good at big projects and getting them done quickly. We can improve this by adding a bureaucracy that is incentivized to stall everything. I see. Wise.
I'll dig deeper into your code, but scanning your post does look like your are addressing this. That's great.

If I do find anything, I'll share with you for comments before I publish the post.
Ah that dialog is very ambiguous. I hope they changed it...
How is hungry children, because of it's parents, relevant to my question?

If someone gets cancer as toddler who's fault is that? If someone is born with disability, with caused by new mutation, who's fault is that? Are these part of free will? Do you thing that it is good that it is happening?
Notion wrote about their experience before:

https://www.notion.com/blog/sharding-postgres-at-notion

https://www.notion.com/blog/the-great-re-shard
Journalists speak truth to power, meanwhile the NYT aligns itself with power at every opportunity. For example, they knew the NSA was spying on us but never ran the story to protect GW's chances at reelection. Presumably they didn't want to be seen as anti-establishment with the new powers and are reverting to their time-proven behavior. NYT will lick the boot when presented, same as ever.
Pressure is not the right metaphor for me because the hunger comes in waves and you can just ignore it forever. You can kill yourself on a hunger strike for example.
That makes absolute sense. And I think it's quite deliberate to not talk about the law. And I have no objections to a policy that 'we expect you to report concerning things' and disqualifying you if they learned you didn't.

All of this is of course on top of any moral or ethical imperatives about reporting suspected abuse, mandated or otherwise.
Of course as is typical this comment comes with no evidence.

Meanwhile we're supposed to believe that Trump supporters care about corruption when he did this?

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/10/g-s1-47817/trump-pardon-rod-b...
In all of human history, you think the US gov is the most corrupt? Time to crack open a history book.
> Doesn't Language itself encode multimodal experiences

Of course it does. We immediately encode pictures/words/everything into vectors anyway. In practice we don't have great text datasets to describe many things in enough detail, but there isn't any reason we couldn't.
Well, there's a natural barrier to entry, i.e. it costs millions on dollars and years of time to be able to "crash" your "junk" onto the surface. So it's not like a bunch of hobby rocketeers are throwing away their McDonald's garbage.

By the way, in comparison to the cost and complexity of said "junk", everything you own is cluttering up the Earth. You should really do something about that.
Bringing "Hollywood-style explosions" into it is a little much. If you slam the breaks on in your car, your tires hit some debris in the road, and you spin around and end up somewhere you didn't intend to be, but the car wasn't meaningfully damaged (i.e. you didn't hit other cars or manmade structures), you made a dangerous uncontrolled maneuver, but you didn't crash. That seems more like how they're describing this "skid."

Relevantly, it sounds like this lunar spacecraft was still functioning after the hard (non-)landing. The only reason it died after that was because of debris settling on the solar panels, which made it run out of power.
If they sell you a defective product, and the support is also defective, then you need to take a different route.
Siri did basically not change since it was released, it can barely create timers and dictate really really basic text, but still fails 50% of the time.

Their fake AI promises are just embarrassing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43368471
You are correct in that there are conflicting views, which is why I used the 'although' connector.

I don't have it all figured out and I might use these posts to think aloud rather than espouse a consistent message
America fucks itself as much as others. Some countries do resist against all odds, examples: Afghanistan fought both Russia and USA and won; Vietnam had wars with both USA and China (1979) and also won. Some countries prefer a side because of inherent affinities.

I find the idea of "superpowers" (or very specific values) more of a Hollywood invention to make people afraid and docile. Yes, some countries do have resources and influence, but lots of times things don't go the way they plan it (values or otherwise).
Also, little atmosphere means the sun doesn't heat up the area like in your house. Once you're out of the sunlight, it's darn cold.
GDP fell 29% during the Great Depression. 80% of the way to the Great Depression is not a "mild" recession!

I agree that it would be less severe for the US than for other countries. It's essentially saying, economically, "Do what I want or I'll kill you." It's a mafia-style negotiation. I despise it when others do it, and I despise that the US is doing it.
Today:

- I go to the supermarket: the screen calling the next customer at the register and running Windows 11 (sic) crash all the time, so chaos.

- I can't make a bank transfer online because the transfer system is unavailable

- I walk in my street: the lights are turned on during the day and turned off at night (and I usually don't even notice the government related stuff anymore, it is hopeless)

I see computer related things in need of a serious fix everywhere, all the time. Most of those are "local" systems. But those companies won't recruit and empower anybody to fix it, because everybody got used to things not working.

In the meanwhile, engineers are told there is no more jobs for them "because of AI". But it seems the AI they were sold can't figure out lights need to be turned on at night and not during the day...
> Since SimpleX requires that users place some trust in the SimpleX servers

Do you know what they mean by this? I could not understand from the explanation given. My understanding is that the message contents are still not known in any case, so I'm curious what it is they are worried about.
Choosing which political candidates one supports is democracy.
Yep. The US is not a signatory to the UN Conventions on Statelessness: the https://www.unhcr.org/us/what-we-do/protect-human-rights/end...

A US citizen can also just renounce their citizenship, and the US won't care if they have another citizenship.

Other countries are more restrictive. For example, Russia (a signatory of that convention) requires people to prove that they have another citizenship ready before they allow the renunciation to proceed.
The main issue with trolleybuses is that they are subject to a lot of NIMBYism, so you'll run into issues siting trolley hubs.
Maybe buying up all the water rights so nobody can use it to cool their own server farm is the literal moat that would serve them best.
Yeah, I thought it'd be a cold day in hell before I saw the FBI going after Habitat for Humanity and the United Way.
Can you please make your substantive points without fulminating? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

(This is not a comment on your substantive views, just a request to express them more thoughtfully, in the intended spirit of this site.)
As a Brit, I thought "are they just describing the 'stiff upper lip' or something?".

Which is doubly odd, because here that is more associated with upper-middle-classes. That cold stoicism that causes people to act 'gentlemanly' regardless of circumstance, or parents to pressure their children to be upwardly mobile, generals to describe an unwinnable position as "a bit of a pickle" etc. etc.

In Britain this is definitely seen as a class characteristic rather than a climatic one (we all live in a similarly temperate environment).