skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, they voted for all this too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes. It doesn't make it right.

Last term it was, "He is your president you have to support him". Now it is, "The American people voted for this"

All the same meaningless phrases that do nothing to discuss issues, just an appeal to the masses.

Political sentiment has never been static. We'll see what people think when inflation sky rockets, they max out their credit, etc, and they have fewer social programs to reach out to for help.

You can follow along here:

https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls
I have no issue with the simple niceties of life. It's nice to do the nice things for those around and helps create a high trust society.

But I don't think this is a good system of caring for our environment. If we cared properly, rather than half-arsing it we'd have a proper industrial system with known outputs that we could improve upon. Instead we seem to have a "feel good you did your part, now forget about it" process. I guess it is shambling it's way to something more but it doesn't seem like it's in a rush - kinda the same way the world agrees on acting on climate change but no one is in a rush.
"Politics aside for a moment" and then following up with politics is at the very least a logically inconsistent statement.

Logical inconsistencies aside for a moment, the comment would've carried a little more weight if cited any sources for their claims.
That stuff would run under Windows, not the mouse/keyboard firmware right?
If you are unable to obtain a satisfactory replacement position after that time, it might be very desirable to have the option to get your old job back.

Some businesses are seasonal, so it might make sense there as well.

"Originally, layoff referred exclusively to a temporary interruption in work, or employment"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layoff
> Numerous former employees have publicly disputed Wynn-Williams’ account of events that transpired while she worked at Facebook.

As usual, the most important information is buried deep in the article to ensure the outrage bait title brings in the clicks.
So, is anyone here sending off a request for the info DOGE has on them?
SQL, Lisp.
What is the simplest way to do mechanical logic? Without all those fancy looking gears. I wonder how far it can go if you actually optimize it.
They don't because they don't take a 30% cut of everything purchased on your MacBook.
How are the concepts of a state and a business the same?
Lip-Bu Tan would fit that criteria.

Cadence is a successful hardware company - they have an IP catalog available for licensing and sell design services.
Looks like a good spot to practice my moves...

If you google "Shenmue locations in real life" there's a lot of cool stuff. They really did do a great job on that and the ERA as well.
There no way to find out about anything if people don't advertise. Make a website? Advertising. Wear a band T-Shirt? Advertising. Make a website called Hacker News as VC firm? Advertising.
I'm not an expert in the silicon business, but I'm pretty sure the lead time is long enough that an incoming CEO has little impact on whether or not they are shipping a new architecture in less than 12 months.

Intel's valuation might hinge on it, but evaluating the CEOs success or not... that doesn't strike me as a great idea.
Good work.

Recently I tried rork.app to generate mobile games for my kids. It is really amazing. They also give published URL which we can directly use in the mobile.

Is there any significant difference in code generation?
I am in the habit of flagging anything related to American politics. It never leads anywhere and seems orthogonal to HN.
Government secrecy when it comes to vulnerably research for foreign produced hardware is entirely understandable. I don’t need to know. You don’t want your adversaries to know how much you figured out.
Corporations are never truly your friends and should be treated accordingly. For some reason, we once believed that tech companies were different, but in reality, it was always just a more sophisticated facade. It’s good to see that facade being torn down—this should be obvious to everyone. You wouldn’t expect good behavior from BP Oil, so why expect it from Meta or any other tech giant? They all operate under the same logic: profit first, everything else is just a convenient disguise. Hope Streisand effects work fully for her!
You might want to reconsider use of rust-analyzer, it isn't safe to use on code you haven't written yourself.

https://rust-analyzer.github.io/book/security.html
The reasons this article cites are likely why so many of my peers, myself included I have switched to "home servers" to gain any sort of freedom. It's sad that it had to come to this, but for any device that's meant to fit into pocket or move around it's simply not efficient for our kind of consumer to have any control over the design process
Not really, no. Governments aren’t businesses. There isn’t much of a market for governance, people mostly become citizens by birth instead of by shopping around.

Governments have natural “monopoly” over their territory (if there is competition for governing inside a territory, you have a civil war going on).

Or, there is no monopoly, since you can “shop around” by moving to other countries. It depends on how you want to line up the analogy. (There’s room to line up the analogy in multiple ways because it is an analogy, and not a description of what countries actually are).

Governments don’t innovate much on governance. They might enable innovation in other sectors. But the process of governance itself should generally be pretty slow-and-steady because the stakes are higher than an individual business. The goal of a government is not to create new and interesting governance-products and then sell those products, but to rule over an area in a way that doesn’t annoy the populace too much.
Apple Ships iOS 18.3.2 to Fix Already-Exploited WebKit Flaw
Crypto AG confirmed this sort of thing to be possible.
I don't think "All of them and everything" is really a serious attempt at a response. But a non-serious question demands an unserious answer! Trump hasn't been impeached this time round, for example, so that is check and balance that is being adhered to. And he gave the State of the Union speech which is an action unambiguously in line with the constitution. So there you go, there are checks that are holding and actions taken that are constitutional.
Just because the board made mistakes doesn't mean you have to go full altman on them.
Why does this keep happening? It seems like every month there's a new leak from an open S3 bucket?
So if it's government as usual they won't mind adhering to the Privacy Act of 1974 like every other agency, right?
And they are nowhere close to have a shippable browser.
"enshitification" suggests otherwise
> You have to remember that half, possibly more than half, of the country is more than okay with what the NSA was doing and is doing.

I doubt this. I'd also be interested to see if those people actually know, on any real level, what the NSA was actually doing.

> If we don't like it, we could consider, maybe not voting the same people into that Congress. Over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And over.

They so reliably do the opposite of what people want and yet continue to win. You don't find this at all odd and you put it down to lack of consideration on the part of the electorate.

> That's not what you'd expect of a citizenship that was actually upset about being spied upon by their government.

The joys of being old enough to remember the Church Committee, The House Select Committee on Assassinations, The JFK Records Review Board. PEOPLE ARE CLEARLY NOT OKAY WITH THIS. Yet those who carry water for the deep state are unimpeded by this. Please see this, or at least, don't repeat simple falsehoods about the electorate.

It's like coming across a drowning man and laughing in his face about his predicament.
the madness of cutting hundreds of gears by hand, many with a 45 degree bevel, I couldn't even imagine.

madness!
Not of companies. Of the people who choose to work for them (or, rather, choose not to stop working for them after they build these "features").
I assume they're cool with it. Why wouldn't they be? Musk + Trump probably don't care, it isn't data on them. Hire a bunch of interns and get them on the job.
No that is not the sales pitch to enterprise customers. They are pitching that sys admins are stupid and that security nowadays is too complicated, hence cloud is the only safe solution.

Yet every month I see a story here about an huge data leak from an unrestricted bucket.
Works just fine here. There was a time when there was something wrong with the graphics stack and it crashed on start, but it runs just fine now. NixOS 24.11, launching it from getty with

environment.loginShellInit = ''
if [ "$(tty)" == /dev/tty1 -a "$USER" != "root" ]; then
exec systemd-cat -t niri niri --session
fi
'';
I wish private data was more independently audited.
I love HN. Random comments about some service out there and replies are like "I am the founder" or "I wrote that".
This Person Does Not Exist (Dot Com)
LLMSEC 2025
Agreed, and to the sibling comment who ponders if the new CEO is too late to influence this... He may be. But he needs to decide if he thinks it can be solved, and if not immediately push the fab business out. Even if it gets pushed out to bankruptcy or sold for $1.
I own some Intel stock so I sure hope it works, but they need to take urgent action if it's not...
As a person who just entered the latter ecosystem as a matter of peer compatibility, after 10 years of Linux, it's miserable and I wish I could go back to what you have. Even with how blighted X86 feels, it feels even worse to have a computer that couldn't do what you wanted to and has the audacity to complain at you that it knows better and you shouldn't be able to alter certain parts of it
The gimmick appears to be in some sort of spyware that wants to sniff all keyboard input and record the screen, bundled as a mouse driver.
I think NSA has hacked the van (without the van operators realizing) and so it’s both a sewer inspection van and an NSA surveillance van at the same time.
Big companies aren’t usually that good at design (with some notable exceptions like Apple) because they don’t really have to be. They don’t need to impress anyone or prove their credibility, and they almost by definition have a product that people have a strong need or desire for, otherwise they wouldn’t be a big company.

When you have that, it probably doesn’t make much difference if you add some extra friction to your sign up flows or your UI is a bit janky.

When you’re the new guy who no one has heard of: that’s when you need design. You need to catch people’s attention, win their trust, and make it as easy as possible for them to get to the aha moment, because any minor inconvenience can be an excuse to close the tab of yet another random app and move on.

All that to say, startups often lean heavily on design to stand out from the crowd, so if I’m looking for good design and UX to emulate, I look for startups that are still small but gaining in popularity, whether bootstrapped or seed/series A. That’s typically where you find the best practices being implemented to a high bar. Once they get too successful, complacency and other priorities start to kick in and they are no longer the best examples to follow.
That line jumped out to me as well. It's simplistic extrapolation of data without any physical basis. We're at 430ppm now. 500ppm by 2032 would be a climate disaster. 1200ppm would be a mass extinction. But hey, good news, we'll probably only need to deal with a disaster.

Getting to 1200ppm would mean burning thousands of gigatons of carbon in the next 7 years. We currently burn 12 GtC annual - we'd need to increase our fossil fuel consumption by 30x starting today. I'm not sure we even have the petroleum and coal reserves or infrastructure to do that, even if we wanted to. Unless there's some yet-unknown natural feedback loop waiting to release massive amounts of carbon, 1200ppm by 2032 isn't possible.
How important is fast progression in your career, and what are your ultimate goals?
That's not obvious at all.

People refresh all day here and often on the new post and new and comment feeds specifically, and many earnest users who take pride in maintaining a certain character to the site are quick to flag anything that's likely to devolve into noise and vitriol, like most political topics.

It can be frustrating to have them do that when you really wish you could to commiserate, explore, or debate the community on these topics, but bots aren't at play. Many people just don't see this as the right place to have these discussions and work to keep it that way.

While almost all of are political in some way, and most of us are tracking all these same events, we don't all want talk about it here.
The reason they are flagged is precisely because there isn’t much hope for discourse, not the other way around. Also, I think per the guidelines, these types of discussions are also not welcome:

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

The guidelines also say the following, so I’ll just stop here:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
Discussions that go in this direction remind me of the short story "Sort By Controversial" [1], about 'Scissor statements':

"If you just read a Scissor statement off a list, it’s harmless. It just seems like a trivially true or trivially false thing. It doesn’t activate until you start discussing it with somebody. At first you just think they’re an imbecile. Then they call you an imbecile, and you want to defend yourself. Crescit eundo. You notice all the little ways they’re lying to you and themselves and their audience every time they open their mouth to defend their imbecilic opinion. Then you notice how all the lies are connected, that in order to keep getting the little things like the Scissor statement wrong, they have to drag in everything else. Eventually even that doesn’t work, they’ve just got to make everybody hate you so that nobody will even listen to your argument no matter how obviously true it is. Finally, they don’t care about the Scissor statement anymore. They’ve just dug themselves so deep basing their whole existence around hating you and wanting you to fail that they can’t walk it back. You’ve got to prove them wrong, not because you care about the Scissor statement either, but because otherwise they’ll do anything to poison people against you, make it impossible for them to even understand the argument for why you deserve to exist. You know this is true. Your mind becomes a constant loop of arguments you can use to defend yourself, and rehearsals of arguments for why their attacks are cruel and unfair, and the one burning question: how can you thwart them? How can you convince people not to listen to them, before they find those people and exploit their biases and turn them against you? How can you combat the superficial arguments they’re deploying, before otherwise good people get convinced, so convinced their mind will be made up and they can never be unconvinced again? How can you keep yourself safe?"

1. https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/
Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion
As a guy who follows industrial mishaps, this is a mind-blower.
It's really a fundamental design limitation of iOS/iPadOS (same thing, let's face it).

It's ground-up a super efficient, wonderful media consumption platform. It's really good for media consumption, like so much so it's kind of a problem. So I think the metaphor still fits, in that sure the ebike has a crazy engine but the tires don't have the contact patch to make the engine nearly as useful.

The problem is the UI is absolute trash for real work. I'm sorry, I know you can bolt stuff onto it to make it kinda usable, brilliant minds are doing their best, but I absolutely want to chuck the device across the room doing the most trivial work on it.

They could make it into MacOS, they don't, and they won't because they make way more money on these devices when they're used for media consumption.
An unmaintainable mess in 10 to 20 years.
Yea, I got tired of people attempting to make comments like this and wrote a script to quickly analyze past comment history to see if they were truly being honest.

You have consistently and reliably posted your political views here. Please don't try to pretend that you hate the political discourse now that people are critical of your guy.
Brian Acton ensures I'll never use Whatsapp. Clear antitrust case
More than just a blockchain, you need a decentralized set of oracles to mutually corroborate information. https://polykey.com/blog/ai-detection-versus-cryptographic-p...
creative use of Generative AI. There will be more games powered by AI.
Not really. That doesn't disprove anything. "Company defends itself" is not the real story
In case its not clear its a blueprint to build the thing not the implementation for the actual thing.

For example, to see how it works or if it works, you can directly use the post in a prompt itself, check the results for yourself, here is an example of it

https://chatgpt.com/share/67d24dc5-8c24-8006-8a0d-392aa8263b...
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Design must flow from customer demand/desires.

And 90% of design is just "correctly assigning priority" to elements and actions.

If you know what is important (and what is less important) you use...

- white space (more whitespacce = more important)

- dimension (larger = more important)

- contrast (higher = more distinct)

- color (brighter = more important)

... to practically implement the decided priority.

How to validate you have implemented priority correctly?

Just ask a few people what do they see first, second, third, etc in a page.

If you designed it right - their eyes will see things exactly in the order you expected them to.

In short - "design is guiding user's senses in the most prioritized manner to the user in achieving their goals"

In our startup - we call this the "PNDCC" system (priority, negative space, dimension, contrast, color).

There are a few more tricks to make it even more powerful - but as I said - just getting these right puts you in the top 10%
People will always be interested in why things work. At least one will as long as I'm alive, but I really don't think I'm that special. Wondering why things are the way they are is really at the core of science. Sure, there are plenty of physicists, mathematicians, neuroscientists, biologists, and others who just want answers, but this is a very narrow part of science.

I would really encourage others to read works that go through the history of the topic they are studying. If you're interested in quantum mechanics, the one I'd recommend is "The Quantum Physicists" by William Cropper[0]. It won't replace Griffiths[1] but it is a good addition.

The reason that getting information like this is VERY helpful is that it teaches you how to solve problems and actually go into the unknown. It is easy to learn things from a book because someone is there telling you all the answers, but texts like these instead put yourself in the shoes of the people in those times, and focus on seeing what and why certain questions are being asked. This is the hard thing when you're at the "end". When you can't just read new knowledge from a book, because there is no one that knows! Or the issue Thomas Wolf describes here[2] and why he struggled.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Physicists-Introduction-Their...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Quantum-Mechanics-David-...

[2] https://thomwolf.io/blog/scientific-ai.html
There are massive numbers of people who simply don't work at all today. There are plenty of people with inherited wealth doing nothing, just like royalty before.

A child of a movie star today is living a much more exciting and relaxmaxxed life than a typical prince 500 years ago. And they don't have to march out to battlefields sometimes, get massacred by their cousins or constituents, or die of being inbred. Guarantee you that you could take any prince from centuries ago, show them first class on an airplane and beach resorts in French Polynesia and they'd 100% prefer "settling" for that over slow carriage rides between cities.
Popular previously:

2020 (321 points, 179 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22264164

2019 (872 points, 242 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144280
The problem with recycling is not sorting, it's that plastic being recyclable is a myth.[1]

1. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/plastic-wars/
Pricing will be key for that Framework 12. I hope it's competitive. Like ~$600.
> Maybe I installed some other things for some reason lost in the sands of time.

FWIW, I was able to confirm that the listed primary dependencies account for everything in the `pip freeze` list. (Initially, `userpath` and `pyrsistent` were missing, but they appeared after pinning back the versions of other dependencies. The only project for which I couldn't get a wheel was `python-hglib`, which turned out to be pure Python with a relatively straightforward `setup.py`.)
My sense is they're going to shred any requests like this or just send back a "No Responsive Records" response for every one and dare someone to try to call them on it. But I envy your trusting nature.
Does it mean you can give it Finance and get rid of the IT Operations team?
Yes, and also 0x.
I'd say they are equally likely.
2x or 0.5x seem most likely to me.
I own shares at about $20. It's my gamble since I don't casino or sports gamble :-)
US relies on rare foreign policy provision to try to deport Mahmoud Khalil
I’m buying the book, but definitely not from AMZN.

Found it on back order at a local shop and ordered there.

Bookshop.org is a pretty good alternative to AMZN.
New companies with immature systems, old companies hiring young developers doing side stuff off in their own world, bad default configurations etc

Most importantly there's a large amount of highly incentivized people probing constantly at mass scale. These days it's very easy to scan the internet (github, IPs, domains, etc) for information and "bad S3 configuration" detection is just a script anyone can use. No advanced programming skills required.
Apple experimented with the iPad head to head with was also experimenting with the 12” MacBook retina which was only 12 lb.

If you want something iPad size with a first class keyboard and mouse experience there might not be a better remote terminal than the 12” MacBook (sans touch screen) compared to the iPad
if meta is trying to stop it then it must be true! Data be damned.
They certainly need to make chips for others to retain the scale needed to make chips.
As far as x86 goes, it's not as sexy as GPUs or mobile chips but they're still selling a ton of x86.
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

Given your comment history, trying to call out others on this rule is interesting. But we all can improve, I guess!