skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work as a Data Protection Officer, which is a legal role under GDPR, and am rather unimpressed by GPC. I could whine for a day, but among the most problematic issues: It's not clear if "Sec-GPC: 0" should be interpreted as:

1. "no" to collect personal data under GDPR consent; or
2. "objection" to collect personal data under GDPR legitimate interest or;
3. "no" to retrieving and storing data on a user device (e.g. cookies, localStorage); or
4. A linear combination of the above.

Personally, I think we should simply fine the heck out of all websites until they all feature a "Reject all" button. No need for browser vendors to propose standard which at least one browser vendor can't be bothered to implement.
// In this example, I’d rather the comment didn’t exist and the method was named appropriately. //

Well-named functions and identifiers are great.

But what should happen, if, say, the user passes in a number which is below absolute zero, kelvin?

Whatever the function does in that case, it is not converting celsiusToFahrenheit. So what is it doing? What should it be doing?
Surely, this is as inevitable as not being able to use Wechat as an American.

The models aren't what worry me anyway. China is going to kick our ass when it comes to AI integration into society and the economy.

Imagine the difficulties faced by America vs China in integrating AI into healthcare.

We are just too worried about winning this AI model sporting event even though the entire concept is flawed and doomed to failure. We actually have to figure out how to use these models for more than how many Rs are in strawberry. That appears to be the actual hard part.

Of course, none of this is helped by having wasted an entire generation of some of America's best minds on javascript programming for obscene profit.
All this is very true. And to add one more thing that is the most problematic: many many people are horrible at determining if they're a type of person who works well from home or not.
How I got 100% off my train travel
> The citizenship part is the easiest part. You can never loose your citizenship, and it is in no way tied to your residency or your income/money.

If you are a citizen of a country that taxes your worldwide income - like the US it does affect your income. You want to be a citizen somewhere and not end up “stateless”
I don't think this is really true. History mostly just shows that hegemonic powers rarely end well for other countries, and ultimately even for the people under said hegemony. The same will obviously be written of the US in the history books. We've invaded, overthrown, or tried to overthrow so many countries that you'd have a far easier time counting the countries we haven't tried to dominate in one way or the other.

And historically many of the greatest eras under Ancient Greece and Rome were under autocratic systems that advanced humanity by essentially every single metric. For that matter China has been among the most powerful countries in the world countless times - yet I think relatively few would ever know this because it's always been a quite insular nation, and never pursued hegemony in the same way as Western empires. Of course that could change but it seems extremely unlikely. Pursuing the perpetuation of global hegemony has been anything but fruitful for the US, and it should be a great lesson for the rest of the world. Those times, not just of the US - but of any global hegemon, are probably behind us.
> In this day and age, you can find stats to support any possible claim you can imagine ;)

Can you support that claim with stats?
Given the framing of "most people" and "patriotic": China's got 1bn+ people.
That's not the argument they were making. What they're stating is that the Trump administration is directly facilitating the slow death of American intellectualism, and that this will have downstream consequences for what advances come out of the US in the future.
I'm curious: more satisfying how exactly?

Because from what I can see it's been quite a downhill ride since Y2k. To the extent that many who used to love the work just can't do it anymore.
Tell HN: SaaS Is the New SEO
With advent of modern web and it's centralization, many niche platforms died.

Those that are still alive are almost undiscoverable due to google being gamed to death by SEO companies.

Reddit, once source of authentic content, is bots talking to bots and people trying to sell and promote. Most of youtube videos are part of someone's sales funnel.

With a new wave of AI, it's even harder to discover authentic content. ProductHunt, IndieHacker and Show HN communities are being gamed with cheap to produce SaaS prototypes following MVP concept. Almost all of them are getting very little to no traction.

Digital products of high craftsmanship with attention to detail are aliens in modern web.

As a result, traditinal startup advice becoming irrelevant as people develop SaaS blindness and don't want to waste their time giving feedback in exchange for nothing.

Please, prove me wrong, but major AI companies are operating at a loss, creating (OpenAI, Anthropic) and reselling (Cursor, Lovable) tokens at a loss on each stage, with a hope to recoupe it with IPO from pension funds and other holders of someone else's money.

Are there any products worth attention created on platforms like Lovable, Bolt? Any code worth reading generated by Cursor, Windsurf?
Yeah, thanks. I ought to know by now. It's a double problem, the editor corrects to 'or' and my work colleague is also a 'Connor'.

Right, perhaps the name ought to be Data Terminator. :-)
Airflow allows you to run node/bun/whatever from your python step. Unless you're really hurting with performance, do you need to port those things at all?
Cheap means small, small means low Q&A scores. I know that this isn't that important for the majority of applications, but I feel that over-reliance on RAG whenever Q&A performance is discussed is quite misleading.

Being able to clearly and correctly discuss science topics, to write about art, to understand nuances in (previously unseen) literature, etc. is impossible simply through powerful-reasoning + RAG, and so many advanced use cases would be enabled by this. Sonnet 3.5+ and GPT 4.5 are still unparalleled here, and it's not even close.
Right?

It’s really hard to muster up any sympathy for people falling victim to the exact thing they were promised by the person they overwhelmingly voted for and which they ignored because they were entirely driven by animus for “the other team”.

But I don’t like that it will probably result in even more small farms being sold out to the bigger corporate groups. It seems not ideal to basically centralize (or create circumstances to centralize) all of the country’s farm production.
That is described in the link, in section 36.18, albeit for C. If you have another language, i assume you get to figure out how to make it work.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/extend-pgxs.html
If you buy in bulk, the rolls come in a big cardboard shipping box and not a shrink wrapped pack like the supermarket. The wrappers prevent stuff from getting on the rolls. Who Gives a Crap does the red wrapper thing.

Also common in commercial environments where you want to leave rolls out in the open, like a couple extra in every stall.

Wrapping with some tissue paper is probably more environmentally friendly than people buying 4-packs with non recyclable plastic.

Incidentally I've also worked somewhere with a little flag indicator on the milk cooler to let the kitchen staff know it's out and needs refilling (and to warn other users).
There is nothing to contest here. This is HN forum and there is wide held belief that capital markets tech work is somehow below what the folks are doing in SV.
That has been falsely taught to you but the real fight has never been about the type of rule. But rather on the type of economy US and the west hate China not because of how its dictatorship but rather because its economy is not private capital economy that is showing it can succeed without private citizens completely taking over the country.

As in the last 40-50 years is has been the US and western countries that have been involved in bringing down democracies that had slightest socialist tendencies and propped up dictatorships that allowed the companies to exploit the countries resources. So it is not about the type of government rather the type of economy.
I really appreciate that. I just really enjoy being a part of this community, and I'm glad we can represent the younger generation.
Didn't know. Will check it out. [edit: nothing on imdb for that year. Are you sure?]
To me the most impressive statistic is the second-most number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, behind Paul McCartney (32).

Really puts it into perspective if you’re already familiar with McCartney’s work.
Wow this thread deteriorated quickly. I had to double check I wasn't on Reddit.
The moment I realized this was going to be the truth was when the Chinese government essentially purged a bunch of unicorn social media companies overnight, erasing billions of wealth on paper. It seemed like the motive was to value and encourage actual economic value over worshipping whatever makes the line go up. When I saw they had the guts and wisdom to do that I realized that they may have a better grasp on philosophy.

Previously I always thought democracy was a slow but eventually correct system of producing wisdom. And to a degree there’s been truth to this. However the missing ingredient has been what do we do with that success once we’ve had it.

The west would never have the guts to delete a billion dollar industry even if they realized it was a net negative. We simply don’t know how to guard against our passions, pleasures, and handle success in a responsible way. I think cccp has many flaws but taking bold action against this kind of problem isn’t one of them.

I do hope that I’m wrong about this though and that a democratic system can see its way out of a local maximum built upon an unsustainable way of doing things. I think the belief in the market as some kind of oracle that knows value and price is its language has a lot to do with this track we’re on.
Working at larger companies during zirp seemed high risk because the odds of getting stuck on a company side project were high. I was always wondering "is my team actually doing enough to not get fired?"

That seems to be happening less now. It's easier to know where you stand.
Images and other media were supported from the start, they just opened in separate windows instead of being inline.

The first browser ran on NeXT, graphically. It did not grow out of the terminal. And the very first publicly formalized definition of HTML in 1993 did already include the img tag:

https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/draft-ietf-iiir-html-01.txt
I was thinking you can strip out the retarded signature protocol in SAML (replace that with libsodium) and leave the actual payload intact, or even switch from XML to a simpler wire format like JSON for the payload. But maybe even the payload part of the standard isn't worth saving, I can't tell after reading a single article about it.
His escalating political ambitions were a significant distraction from music as well.
I don’t see “adjust colors” in mobile safari. Still, thanks, I’ll check it out on desktop later then.
Why would you expect it to do that? There is nothing on the keys to suggest they should have that feature and the actual arrow keys are about 5cm away.
If only folding phones weren't prohibitively expensive, fragile, and most notably completely pointless...
No i'm not use chatGPT!
> Like it or not but YouTube is almost entirely funded by ads. You don’t have a right to use the service without paying.

I see your point, bit it isn't just the ads. I object to being stalked throughout my life online, they don't have the right to do that IMO.

Separate the ads from the stalking and maybe I'll just block or otherwise avoid the stalking and not the ads, but right now that is not remotely possible. I don't use sponsorblock for instance, the main extra stuff that circumvents can't be stalky, though I do manually skip when I've heard the same scripted-by-the-advertiser-to-try-sound-natural part already (wow, so your favourite part of the service is exactly the same as the other two podcasters I've listened to this day? In exactly the same words? That really sounds like a recommendation from you personally as a genuine user… (actually, this can sometimes be a useful signal of how little trust I should put in their other opinions!)).
Just the fact that you ask that question as though it makes sense is an indictment.

The implication is that nothing matters more than being “most powerful”. What a sad, sad way to view life.
I guess the majority in here would agree that without strong market intervention OpenAI will soon implode. They urgently need:

- WIPO copyright exemption

- Anti-China protectionist measures

- Hard-line hardware export control

- Multi-billion dollar government contracts
I think bubbles form and pop all the time. I would add (in the US) home price bubble, biotech bubble (of mid 2010s), cybersecurity bubble and more.

Pops are less noticeable when a lot of money is sloshing around so deflating one bubble immediately start inflating something else. Worker bees can switch to the next thing in the same "building next great thing, work is plentiful, money no object" environment.

So the bubbliness, IMO, is a function of the macroeconomic state, specifically the amount of money in the economy. Things get sober (and very ugly) when the money printing cycle ends, as it eventually must to avoid sliding into hyperinflation. My 2c.
Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd fame) was pushing 80 when I saw him perform a few years ago (he’s 81 now) and his show was absolutely incredible. He played one new song which I’ve totally forgotten, and of course all of the old songs, but wow that show is refined to a perfected science. Pigs literally flying, a literal wall coming up, laser lights, projectors, fake machine guns. Comfortably Numb was a standout, but he’s been doing this songs for over 40 years now to arenas. It’s astonishing. So many moving parts (literally and figuratively) and I’ll fondly remember it for the rest of my life.
I’m more concerned about the silence from congress and other similar government entities., to be honest. Are they complicit?
Like 95% of the planet, I'm not American. Like 82% of the planet, I'm not Chinese.

BYD being better than Tesla isn't a matter of patriotism in most of the world. DeepSeek and Baidu can spend as long as they want playing musical chairs/rap battles with Anthropic and OpenAI, it makes no odds to me which wins.

America and China both have politics that have no reason to care for people like me, nor people like my friends, that they are for different reasons and differ in penalties for being an out-group doesn't matter when I'm a foreigner to both, when my antecedent are who the 13 Colonies rebelled against and more recent antecedent forced unwanted opium sales on China.
Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub
How do you know whether a sunset is beautiful?
>its economy is not private capital economy that is showing it can succeed without private citizens completely taking over the country.

Its economy absolutely is private capital. What it has shown is the dictator is still stronger than the private capital and will react to any threats to the dictator with violence (see: Jack Ma)

> As in the last 40-50 years is has been the US and western countries that have been involved in bringing down democracies that had slightest socialist tendencies and propped up dictatorships that allowed the companies to exploit the countries resources. So it is not about the type of government rather the type of economy.

Ahhh, yes, the Great War of 2021 when the US invaded Sweden, Finland, and Norway for having governments in power that have far more than “even the slightest socialist tendencies”.
They found out that most of us are just plumbers, most of the time. And on top of that LLMs can do soft plumbing just fine.
I'm really grateful for the kindness. That sort of attitude is great to hear, and I'll keep you in the loop about money ;)
Ask HN: Best Way to Build MS-DOS-Style Text UI in the Browser?
I'm working on a web app that mimics the look and feel of an old MS-DOS program—think Turbo Pascal IDE or Norton Commander.

The goal* is a keyboard-only, text-based UI running inside a browser, with windowed UI elements and ASCII graphics.

I've looked into Xterm.js, React TUI libraries, and vanilla JS canvas solutions, but I'd love input from those who've built something similar.

Are there any existing projects or libraries I should check out?

Would appreciate any insights, cheers!

(*And the ultimate end goal is to have an LLM create interfaces on the fly from user prompts)
I installed "link-to-text-fragment", but: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=43376342&goto=threads%... does not seem to work. :(

It only highlights once I copied link to selected text, but if I click on the link, it does not seem to work, yours did.
I don't get the appeal of using gopher. Is it just a nostalgic way of looking at the early days of the web or do you really think gopher was better than web? Might wanna read this if it's the latter: https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm
I'm an engineer at a large tech company. I am by all means considered a successful engineer. I am actively looking for a way to exit the field, and am assuming that in a few years my career options will be vastly diminished. I am worried about ageism, and can already feel it in my early 30s. Its certainly become more up or out

A friend of mine, with a STEM PhD, and 8+ years of experience between Amazon and Google was laid off, is struggling to find a job paying over 200k, they were making 500k previously. Obviously 150-200k is still decent money, but it really doesnt go far in major metro areas, and for someone with such a premium resume, is a bellwether of whats to come
It’s been 1.5 months, how on earth are you measuring these claims..?
A copyright exemption would just put them at the level of deepseek officially, but they've been working around that anyway in practice. I'm not sure that change would make any difference.
What, in your opinion, has been going downhill? Is it all the agile stuff, or something else? Serious question, quite curious.
I think part of it is that Y2K was 25 years ago now, and a lot of the devs working at that time are now 50-60-70 years old.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that my state passed a law requiring businesses that serve 50k or more residents here respect this setting and opt me out of tracking by default.
Jevons paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Good advice -> but is an error or blindness
> * Steer away from skills like web development that are clearly getting eaten by LLMs.

funny enough all the hyped YC / Bay area startups don't make as much as your typical CRUD webapp.
Devs we tend to be attracted to tech. but what makes good tech doesn't mean it's a good business. That's why your typical bay area startup depends on vc funding & will likely spend 10 years without being cash flow positive.
SWE created billions of dollars of value for $300k/yr paychecks.
Somehow the technology "stack" seems to have way more sharp edges, from hydrogen diffusing out of the storage tanks up to inefficient generation. However I think a lot of those have been solved and cars are already in the 3rd generation.

IMHO hydrogen is the most foolproof way to store cheap solar energy.
Donation go to the foundation, not to Mozilla Corporation which does all the browser engineering work. If you donate you give money to the team that does open web advocacy and related programs.
It makes sense that there was a flood of folks coming in as they saw that it look like the place to be if you wanted to be in the good times... then you layer in interest rates. Good Times Never Last Forever
Some pressure to ship and to work on the things your customers actually need keeps you honest. It's satisfying to work on things which make a short term difference to the bottom line because you know at least someone cares. In contrast to working on a speculative side project which may never see the light of day.
How to translate JavaScript to Python is a bike shed.

The thing that really matters is how are you going to ship this?

You should figure out if there is a way it can be delivered incrementally.

Make sure it's easy yo roll back from new to old on as small a chunk as possible.

Make sure rollbacks and deploys don't require manual futzing.

Make sure it's easy for outside people to KNOW the status of things without asking you.

Make sure you have a way to coordinate with feature devs on when it's OK to work on a specific chunk.

Make sure you can test if things are working after you deploy a change.

After that you'll probably come up with like 30 ways to translate the code and use all of them until you find one that's actually tollerable.
Immigration proceedings are usually administrative, this is why people often proclaim that visa violations are as same as parking violations. So there is no need to charge as there is no trial and there is administrative detention among the punishments. On the same note, "immigration judge" is not a member of the Judiciary but an officer of the Executive branch and "immigration court" is an Executive office as same as DMV.

There are criminal charges possible but are not necessary to indefinitely detain and/or deport any non-citizen who appeared on the border.
We can agree to disagree on hegemonic power being a bigger deal than dictators. But regardless, saying China is insular is ridiculous. They have a very public plan to expand their hegemony by taking over the infrastructure of other nations by way of “developmental loans”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
That one weird trick. x4.
> The entitlement was and probably still is crazy.

Google pays SWEs around $300k average total comp and gets $1.5 MILLION per employee (SWE or not) per year in revenue. With a profit margin of over 20%.

A single project can increase revenue by $100m/year so not sure if "I made the company $500m over the last five years" is entitlement. Tech companies should be paying more and not less.
”What is beautiful and moving about this story is its understanding of its lack of understanding. It’s reflection on its limits.”

And

”AI reads us. Now it’s time for us to read AI.”
my reply to you would’ve been: “oh, not much, we just made the founder the richest most powerful man on this planet. Right now he’s probably on a giant island in hawaii which he wholly owns, in a €200mm mansion, having an orgy with 25 escorts, while on lsd. Oh, right now he just took the jet, one of 6 €50mm jets he owns, to fly to the coast of italy. there, he will fly his giant helicopter to land on his giant 3 floor yatch with 3 pools where he will fuck 30 more chicks at once. But yeah, we get extra free food for having contributed to that”.
I can't speak for my whole team, but as the programmer/electrical guy/writer I have spent a few years teaching myself skills using the internet. I used YouTube tutorials to learn to code, and use blender, and that sort of thing.

Also, to be fair, we didn't quite build the rocket, we just built the probe.
This is all protectionistic measures. Just let it implode, and let companies with better technology take over.

Why should people involved in some hyped company deserve all this "socialism for the rich" from the state?
10 years ago I was at an “innovation lab” of a big HR tech company that gave out free lunches and snacks. The best explanation I heard was a coworker originally from the big boring corporate HQ who said basically this is a software petting zoo for big investors to look at. “Good code monkey, here’s a banana!”
How interesting a question is OpenAI's corporate fate in the context of future of AI now that it's just another for-profit?