skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the "static system" actually is the way to get the Russian military (and the Ukrainian military) to work

Well, yes. They've been unable to launch combined-arms maneouvres. They failed to establish even air supremacy against decades-old NATO air defence kit. Russia has to fight the way it does because it's unable to fight more effectively.

The author's core point stands: we didn't outlaw chemical weapons because of any moral reasons, we outlawed them because the world's leading militaries don't need them. In cases where they have tactical value, lo and behold, they get used.
> Free Software isn't for hackers. It's for users. Hackers are also users, but they're not special.

This is exactly the dated attitude that I think the author is talking about.

Free software is for programmers. Once upon a time that was a distinction without a difference. Today, the fraction of users who can take advantage of source code rounds to zero.

Yet, FOSS advocates keep beating this drum to “users” while entirely ignoring the reality that today’s users are interested an entirely different value proposition than they’re offering.

Computers aren’t professional tools anymore. They are commodities. Computer users want source code like grocery store shoppers want a tractor and a plot of land.
Big tech has no respect for licenses, or the law itself with Uber and the like.

People talking about licenses like they have some courtroom legitimacy is hilarious. Licenses are like patents, they are weapons of the large corporation to be used against other large corporations or the people.

Of course you can try to litigate for ten years against a big corporation with lawyers on retainer, good luck. Might even get an "Erin Brockovich" movie script out of it, but we're seeing the rule of law and legitimacy of the courts degrade rapidly and become increasingly corrupt, once over the years, but now by the day
> I guess the question is "why generate a QR code rather than just connect?"

Exactly. Why not use the API directly?
Why encode a string into an image for the sole purpose of displaying that image to then basically do a screenshot to then read from the screen, to run an algorithm on that to detect & decode to get the string you already had after doing the OCR on the wifi credentials.

Btw: i didn't even open the link. My comment was based solely on this post. Now i see that it's an expo / react project... so the amount of wasteful energy spent is even higher.

I have looked at the code. This here stands out to me:

>>>
if (Platform.OS === "android") {
// On Android, we use system built-in WiFi connection dialog via qr code
return false;
} else if (Platform.OS === "ios") {
// On iOS, we need to use a different method
await WiFiManager.connectToProtectedSSIDPrefix(
ssid,
password,
!isWPA // iOS only
);
<<<

Aside from the fact that the comments indeed look very llm-esque to me, the way they're phrased also implies that the ios way of directly connecting is the "different" method. Like that one is the workaround of both approaches– and the wasteful way is the desired one– for no apparent reason.
This sounds like the kind of dream KVM hardware I've been searching out for 20 years but isn't a quad core 1.6ghz CPU a little excessive to forward USB and HDMI signals?

The security implications of trusting some random Linux distro produced by anyone, to put unfettered access to your stuff on the Internet seems iffy.

Also this doesn't actually seem to be a kvm because it requires a separate cpu to access the video and USB. It seems to me more like a vnc / remote desktop kind of thing. Is there something I'm missing?
Yes, exactly. If WiFi QR codes were provided in the first place, we could just use the built-in QR code reader to instantly connect. This app targets situations where WiFi credentials are displayed only as printed text.
This is a better taxonomy of what a language is rather than the dated concept of “High-level” vs. “Low-level”.
> You don't just decide move away from your family, friends, support structure, and entire way of life, because you want easier access to a pharmacy.

That’s how those people got there a few generations ago in the first place.
The NS records and the WHOIS should be the same usually. One comes from the registrar's configs and the other from your next level upstream resolver (which should, unless it's cached and a recent change happened, be the same). But the thing that is used is whatever your next level upstream resolver is, which is the `dig` output unless you did `dig @someoneelse`.

The SOA nameserver is pretty much only significant for DNSSEC these days. In the AWS case there, I don't think it does anything unique. Pretty much there just to meet the standard.
Yes, and I’m pointing out that phrasing it that way makes the whole statement meaningless. Eg: I don’t eat foods except some that I consider edible. I don’t kill kittens, except those I think are evil. See how it works? Adding a vague “except” to an absolute-sounding sentence destroys its very meaning
Interestingly, when discussing WHOIS with my networking students, I discovered .edu WHOIS is not (cannot?) hidden. I suppose EDUCAUSE either requires WHOIS to remain open or they do not offer information hiding.

Doing some WHOIS lookups, we found a point of contact at a university, called the network admin said hello and launched into an impromptu network admin interview. It was cool stuff. I emailed him later in the day to apologize to and thank him for being a good sport about the whole thing. He (fortunately) found it all rather enjoyable.
AI was not there, not trained properly. Let it go back to writing code.
I'm most familiar with them for off label ocular injections. Avastin is a common medication for colorectal cancer, but has an extremely similar biologic to Lucentis, used of ocular injections. Compounding pharmacies will breakdown Avastin because it is cheaper than Lucentis, and pre-fill disposable syringes.
Leave out the word "insiders" and I think you've got it.

Trump's trade policies are a way to strong arm whole industries for bribes. Deregulating cryptocurrency is the other half of the story.
This administration has already told a court that they are above the law. A lawsuit would be meaningless.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/16/trump-white-house-defy-judg...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384730
> we now have 3 countries with the ability to erase entire cities or make the world functionally uninhabitable by humans

If we're talking the Russia, the US and China then they certainly have the largest arsenals, but there's an order of magnitude difference between the stockpiles of the first two and the third. China doesn't have that many more nukes than France, and only has about double the number of warheads of the UK (though it is questionable how independent from the US the UK's capability is).

And then there's Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea.

(https://www.icanw.org/nuclear_arsenals)
It's Business Source License

https://github.com/outline/outline/blob/main/LICENSE
Yeah. That sounds a bit right. But from what I read they were limited in what they could implement due to missing git features. For example phases.

https://ahal.ca/blog/2024/jujutsu-mercurial-haven/ was a post on that.

But, it looks like they are trying, and at least they imposed some sanity like in the base commit ID. I wonder if they have anything like hg grep --all, hg absorb and hg fa --deleted yet.

They do have revsets ♥
If you give me a specific quote from the book I'll be able to understand what you mean a bit better.

I know there's a quote floating around which gives the figure of $2000/km^2 for conventional weapons, $800 for sarin etc., $600 for nuclear, and $1 for biological. I'll respond to that.

The problem is, those numbers are for attacking civilians. You can of course make the argument that Russian military doctrine includes massacring civilians, but I would respond that not only is sarin more expensive against modern military targets, it's outright ineffective against them if they're prepared.
> Well, "frontend development" means a million different things, but LLMs are very good at flexbox and grid (and I'm not).

This is my #1 complaint about how people talk about LLM productivity

If you aren't good at something you are not qualified to say that LLMs are good at it
The very well-compensated early employees, leaders, and executives, working together as a team to create something that was greater than the sum of the parts. The average Googler in 2025 wasn't even on the team that created the initial system, they're a cog in a machine that someone else designed years ago. A very well paid cog.
Free software is definitely not for programmers
People say WHOIS is useless these days due to WHOIS privacy, but it's useful for at least one thing: checking when a domain was registered/transferred. Fishy stuff tend to be registered/transferred recently. Also older and larger companies tend to not hide their organizational identity.

Btw, I tried the icann-rdap CLI tool and the default rendered-markdown output mode is atrocious. Sea of output, each nameserver has one or more standalone tables taking up 15x$repetition lines, almost impossible to fish out useful info. The retro gtld-whois mode is so much cleaner. Their web tool https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup is fine too, don't know why the rendered markdown mode isn't like that. WTF.
When I've had mercurial issues, I went to the mercurial channel on libera, or to their manual. But then, haven't ended up with a stack trace yet.
It's crazy how many people just read the headline and choose to comment or upvote these links.

Also, why the title is not same as the article? It makes no sense.
Wait. My theory was that they were so popular making a solution like this, that they were overwhelmed with orders. Kinda like how Framework have a 3-6 month wait from order to delivery.

I'm guessing they're getting through the kickstarter batch and then they're going to launch a store, particularly once they get all the bugs worked out of the manufacturing process.

I kinda would like to see a DP over USB-C version so keyboard, mouse, video, and power all go over one cable.
I live in the American suburbs (New England). In the summer its lawn mowers every day and in autumn its leaf blowers every day. All for these vanity patches of grass that serve no real function. From comments on the internet it seems like it bothers some people but most just think of it as funny.
> You say shenanigans don't really happen, [...]

Where did I say that? There are definitely people who straight up break the relevant laws and don't pay their taxes.

Of course, whether someone breaks a law or not, is an issue independent of 'fairness'. But I don't know what you mean by 'fair'.
It /could/ be but we also all know how great remote call centers do actually caring about the people they're supposed to serve. The real outcome will be fewer people servicing more customers for less money.
> but it's absurd to claim it's "never" possible.

I've never made such a claim. I use self driving features in my car a good bit. They use more than just cameras though.

> Are deaf people allowed to drive cars?

Sure, but I'd say someone unable to hear things would be disadvanted at driving and potentially less safe. But you've also completely ignored the sense of feeling, understanding the feedback you're feeling on the wheel. Ignoring the feeling of the wheels on the road. Ignoring the feeling of the g forces as the car moves. Ignoring the feeling of body sway when it's windy.

You're also ignoring as others have mentioned the theory of mind of how other things actually behave around the streets. We're still not 100% sure these automated systems can actually comprehend these things.

All things a computer could sense, no doubt. But it's far more than just a few cameras.
What Happened to the Capacitors in 2002? [video]
> No. They do not prefer tax cuts over eating, for example.

They turned out in droves to cut food stamps to fund large tax cuts. So yes, they do.
Yes. The only exceptions I can think of are intrusions in their enclosure and surprising events (fireworks etc), in which case it's probably justified.

Now, "day break" can mean 5AM during the summer for instance. It can be tough at times.
I keep wondering this too.

I’ve been tempted to try it because I tend to view HN as an organic place, and I’ve seen it pop up on the front page so many times.

But I have ultimately hesitated to try it because it feels like a suite of targeted ads.
I don't use either application, and haven't for decades. Weird choice.
> The timing for this is deliberately set to be very conservative in terms of the wakeup window (at the cost of higher power)

Yes, the minimum interval of when to start listening is determined by both radios clock accuracy budget, one of which can be known and the other assumed.

> so the radio is probably powered up for a good 5ms before the beacon arrives.

No, not anywhere near that long. I don't have a board wired out for current measurements, but for reference, 5ms/101ms beacon with DTIM=1 would be a 5% duty cycle without any useful data, unacceptably high for many battery powered devices.
It's like how people tend to evangelize Anki. Is it hyped? Yes. Is it actually worth the hype? Also yes.
Ah, I didn't know that. Other resources are talked about in terms of proven reserves and stockpile.
You asked the wrong person. I would rather that people ditched pepper spray for defensive uses altogether and carried guns instead.
I'm not relying on anything in particular my current versions of Excel and Word. I'm just sticking with them through sheer inertia.

By default they don't allow macros (or editing/saving) documents downloaded from the Internet, which means I have to enable editing on documents I download. The few times a year I get a document from an untrusted source and don't want to open it on my computer, I open it with Google Docs.

If I'm ever forced to upgrade, I'll likely go with LibreOffice. But so far it ain't broke.
Their competitors don’t have the restriction of keeping nearly everything on device that Apple does and is a selling point for them.
I understand your point and initially wanted to avoid the overhead of generating and scanning a QR code just to connect to WiFi. The reason for this approach is that the Android API doesn’t allow non-system or non-rooted apps to directly manage WiFi connections. In other words, it’s not possible to create a simple app that directly connects to WiFi with known network name and password.

Generating and scanning a QR code is a workaround to minimize steps—avoiding the need to manually select the network from a long list and type the password.

Android does provide a WiFi suggestion API [1], but it has several limitations and doesn’t behave quite as expected. I initially tried using that, but eventually settled on the QR code solution.

Hope this clarifies things!

[1] https://developer.android.com/develop/connectivity/wifi/wifi...
I remember in the past I've managed to screw up my setup so that the name servers on WHOIS and name servers on DNS NS records mismatched. I can't remember which record won during name resolution.

I guess I still don't understand why the name servers need to be both in WHOIS records and DNS NS records. Does the name resolution use the name server data in WHOIS records in any form or manner?
My rural (then) hometown was rearranged out of existence. They even changed the name.

I visited 5 years back and it was weirder than I imagined. Most of the roads don't go in the same direction any more. A massive 100year old prison complex was erased.

The woods were cleared for roads, parks and housing. Meanwhile, the prison fields had grown into woods. Taken together, it was right out of my 7yo Kafka-dreams.
For what it's worth, I've tried and I loved it. It feels a bit like grinding Anki flashcards - nearly 100% of your time is used productively.
If you just want to chat with other devs about tech stuff, this is as good a place as any.

But if you specifically need programming help and advice, honestly the chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude are more helpful than most programmers. They're trained on all the open source code and Stackoverflow answers, etc., and can easily help you debug any beginner issue.
The way I see it, when I carry cash and use it for transactions, there's at most a a few dozen people physically close enough to me to even try to exploit the transaction, and the most they could capture is the cash I have on hand. Chances are, if I dropped a wad of cash, they'd pick it up and hand it to me. Sure, it's easy to rob someone, but the chances of me being around someone that would even want to try is near zero, and the repercussions are significant.

When I make an electronic transaction, there's tens to hundreds of millions, if not billions of people that could attempt to exploit the transaction. Despite it being significantly more difficult, the chances of one of them trying and succeeding are still much greater, and they can take far more.
No it's not.

People make grand statements all the time and appeal to values they claim are universal. Then when you hold them accountable for the fact that they value they are claiming is not the same as the values they have supported, you get the "whataboutism" canard thrown at you.

If you support "Freedom of Speech" and support prosecution for speech, then you do not support freedom of speech. Even in a steel-manned case, you support freedom of speech "a" and I might support freedom of speech "b"; by pointing out inconsistencies, we are helping each other understand the real argument being made, not just the thought terminating cliche.

Just because one finds it tiring to have people expose their sophistic arguments doesn't mean that the rest of us don't see value in it.
That's peak power at 1 meter for a large LRAD, not what someone 75 or 100 meters away experiences.
Our Samsung TV was blasted by this. Service man came out and repaired on site. Four bad capacitors.
vouched, seems like an original news item.

Source of article (full article behind pay wall) is https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202414899
Darker Than a Dark Pool? Welcome to Wall Street's 'Private Rooms'
I know. The simple answer is that Android doesn’t allow apps to directly manage WiFi connections. I’ve provided a more detailed explanation here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384670
just being left wing doesn't save a place from being a toxic cesspit [0]

0: https://bsky.app/profile/jdaw0.com/post/3ljyl6kbeys2a
> But it's often a monumental endeavour to cross the gap between 70% and 90% accurcacy; 90%-95% even more.

That sounds exactly what we went through in the late 90's with voice recognition (remember dragon naturally speaking and via voice?).
As an Australian, I can look up the ownership of random properties in the US for free. But if I want to do the same for a building on my own street, I have to pay a US$11 fee per a property searched.

The US has a reputation of being a hypercapitalist society, yet they seem to be behind Australia in the descent into hypercapitalism by not (yet) privatising the registration of land titles. [0]

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-12/$2.6-billion-price-ta...
Same with registry.in in India (for .in domains), where WHOIS privacy is not allowed as per the terms and conditions. [1]

[1]: https://www.registry.in/system/files/Terms_and_Conditions_fo...
From the same industry that brought you automation that deletes your account with no explanation and no appeal until/unless you can get a post about it to go viral: all of your health care.
On a related note, I don’t know how Apple has managed to mess up so badly the idea of storing your own information like address, phone number, etc.

Every time I’ve moved, for months afterwards I keep having to fix my address when using Apple Pay or setting directions to home, etc. because it seems like they keep multiple copies of that information all over the place, instead of referring to a single piece of information.

Places I can think of where I’ve had to update my address one by one: each credit card I have associated with Apple Pay; Maps; my own contact that I can share with others; subscription information; shipping address for Apple Pay.

I get it that some people use separate billing and shipping addresses, but for the vast majority of people the use case is “I have a single home address where I want to direct Maps to, be billed at, and ship stuff to, please update it all at once when I update my address.”
> What’s your product? Who is your customer and where do they spend their time?

This is critical. Go where the people who might buy your product are.

Where are they?

You can ask.

* ask google: "where do <X> business users hang out"

* ask potential customers you've talked to (you talked to some prospects before you built, right?)

* ask google again by searching for answers to questions that your audience might ask

The right place for you could be generic social media, forums, slacks, discords, mailing lists, conferences, meetups or something else.

But having focus will help you get the most return for your time.
Source code is not useful unless someone is capable of using it.
Web hosts competing based on who had the prettiest cPanel theme. The number of email accounts were allowed was something that mattered. If you were lucky enough to get SSH access, it was jailed and only really allowed you to move files around easier or edit something with vim/nano.

Oh, I have unintentionally become a GoDaddy customer (a company I have spent ample time hating and shitting on over the years) because I was a legacy Media Temple customer going back to like 2006 and I still just can't be bothered to clear out everything on those sites/domains and they eventually got acquired
Did you use it in a goal oriented way or just for fun?

I’m hoping to solidifying some previously learned ML maths skills (mostly LA & calc), but also want to expand my stats knowledge. I’m thinking of trying it to see if it piques enough of a passion to shift into a more ML oriented role.
First question to ask yourself, are those identifications copyrightable?

Sounds like they are simply facts about the data, so probably not copyrightable. You could require a contract containing forced disclosure in order to download and use the software, but this would be very non-free and GPL incompatible.

If they were copyrightable, then they would be owned not by you, but by the person using your software to create the identifications. You could require copyright assignment for anyone who uses your software, but that would be very non-free and GPL incompatible.

You might also like to read this:

https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/ml-policy
If you see the VOA broadcast sites like NE Thailand, with large numbers of towers, including receivers, redundant power transformers, well maintained dead straight roads you could land an aircraft on, on the Laos border in the middle of nowhere, then you can't help but think it is not only broadcasting propaganda to a chunk of China but also listening in.
Mastering ChatGPT: Personalise Your AI Conversations with a Schema
Next generation LEDs are cheap and sustainable
Article covers this; injunctive relief comes too late when the damage to trust in payment finality is already done by the act.

When the bad actors own the enforcement mechanisms against acting badly, a slap on the wrist injunction probably feels good, not bad. Like it's proof what they're doing is having the intended effect, so they should continue doing it
Qownnotes. Syncs with cloud for multi device.
> This site already was pretty anti-US

No.
Somewhere in the middle IMO. If the domain name is desirable it looks more like a building, because people generally care about who owns the land when it is not getting put to good use.

Websites are more like books when they have a domain no else else cares about.
> causes me to frequently invert pairs of letters when typing fast

I am a Dvorak user and this happens to me too. I thought it happens when I'm stressed out.