skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I believe it was President George HW Bush who advanced the federal policy of "faith-based charity" initiatives in order to fill gaps in entitlements and State-administered welfare programs.

I'm pretty sure that later Obama had to take it to court to defend it, because it obviously weakens the boundaries between church and state in the service of letting private entities provide services that the government is at a better scale to provide. Most people would be upset if the money were going to Scientologists, because it's not one of the right religions. Or if you sent the money to me, I'd both be able to distribute food and make myself a billionaire; it's obviously a subsidy.

> the government cannot provide the volunteers or trained staff who are necessary to actually sustain operations, keep unemployment low, and foster organizational growth.

Of course they can.
Well, I'm pretty blown away. Especially when you realize that this release will probably get blown out of the water in less than a years time.
>now that even a basic car can cost $40000

where does it come from? Equinox EV is $35K MSRP and with $7.5K tax credit you get under $30K. Of course if $5K extra is not that expensive for you then i guess your "basic car" is a bit less basic than one may think :)
We've seen a musician being detained and deported for reasons the immigration officer wouldn't share. https://dorseteye.com/im-so-proud-to-be-deported-from-the-us...

Is the company you have to travel for affected by the tariffs or retaliatory tariffs, or is a company with the same or very similar name in such a position?
> pop-up dialog no one will read

The said popup isn’t to be read but visually inform the visitor they trespass in an advertisement intensive area. The wise one will go back to their steps and find another source of information.
Crazy how this feels like finding a dead man’s hard drive full of gold—thousands of shots while today’s “street photographers” beg for likes. Honestly, part of me hopes no one claims it. Feels cleaner that way—art for the sake of it, not some guy dropping a Netflix doc later.
Symfony is there as well, a framework fit for large enterprise applications, and it works surprisingly well.

Despite that, php has its limits, and it's important to know them, and the workarounds for most of them. What is also tricky is a total lack of support from Azure for example.
I am back at a python shop and (again) pushing, successfully, Go. Python is molasses for teams for all the reasons you state and more.
Let‘s say you have an UI pattern that styles some element and defines possible interactions with it. You do not want business code to do that job, so it’s easier to have a decorator that detects certain elements on the page.

(This is a purely theoretical example coming from someone with lots of architectural experience, I didn’t use it before).
Mainly a mix of Gemini Flash 1.5 and Flash 2.0, depending on the task.
We make future open source software; it becomes open source when we recouped our investments. It's the only way I found that works. If we never recoup them, then ok, we open source them too but that we don't tell anyone. And yes, we donate what we can to projects we use. But that's not a plan; unfortunately it doesn't work outside a few coffees for them if the project is substantial.
Wondering why this is flagged. Sure, it's politics, but it's also a serious issue on one of the major internet SDOs. It's certainly relevant for "good hackers"?
Deploys blocked on Fly.io's LHR region, as it is out of capacity
Deploys are blocked for us, as our deploy needs to run a release_command. It really seems that this issue should have been foreseen and prevented, and is making my question the choice to rely on fly.io for a production environment.
Clickbait comment - the headline correctly states that guidance has been tightened.
What if you point light into solar panel and use the power for LED..?

Or point the light to space for a space cooler (IIRC I've read about something like this before).
GraphQL is such an exciting addition to the front end stack. Imagine, an entire new system you need to learn that cargo cult proponents love and also sucks ass to use.
> Software engineering is one of the ways of playing life in "easy mode"

...if you are born in US, maybe, but "somebody else has it worse" is pure whataboutism.
> Amounts are too much to consume at once and not enough to consume for longer periods.

This depends on what you grow. Squashes and root vegetables can last for months in a cool dark location at home.
Isn't this what CouchDB/PouchDB solves in quite a nice way?
Also the past of webapps. We don't have that because doing this properly, in a way that's maximally useful and ergonomic for the users, pretty much kills the entire business of the web. If you give direct SQL access to the underlying data, you can no longer seek rent by putting a bloated, barely-functional app in front of the database, nor can you use it to funnel users or upsell them stuff. Most of the money in this industry is made from rent-seeking.
Yeah there are a couple big property portals. Zoopla mentioned above is the number 2 player, Rightmove is far and away #1
A good enough service and smart enough marketing can solve the bootstrap problem. Companies do it all the time!
Yes, the issue is one of rhetoric but it’s also the fact that border officers in most countries are afforded a ridiculous amount of power relative to their education/training/ability, and for a certain personality type in that job (I think we all know who I’m talking about) it becomes an interaction with a mini-Stalin.

This isn’t a new problem, and I don’t know how to solve it other than replace border agents with computers.

The US media’s love of hysterical rhetoric (on both sides) doesn’t help either, since constantly pushing these wild narratives in media emboldens these mini-dictator personality types to do really dumb things.
Will this work for people using Claude through other services like OpenRouter?
That 'wow factor' is a thing of the past, very firmly. When I put next to each other say Iphone 16 pro max and Samsung S25 ultra, none sticks out, none has anything 'wow' for regular users. Just different styles of working with device and small + and - all over the place. Same for tablets, notebooks, and so on. Vision pro seems like a failed product even according to Apple.

Its doesn't mean that each product doesn't have something a bit special but competition caught up long time ago, sometimes went ahead (better batteries, bigger cameras etc). These days there is much more 'yawn factor', and its across whole industry.
If sync really is the future, do you think devs will finally stop pretending local-first apps are some niche thing and start building around sync as the core instead of the afterthought? Or are we doomed to another decade of shitty conflict resolution hacks?
The ones recorded in the US probably are legal to listen to and the ones in the UK probably are not. I think I remember reading somewhere that it’s not legal to record ATC in the UK. IANAL SIUKRTCL
The study appears to be this one from Jan 2024:

Hoffmann, M., Nagle, F. and Zhou, Y., 2024. The value of open source software. Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper, (24-038).

link to HBR summary (published March 2024): https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/open-source-so...

link to the 2024 working paper [pdf]: https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-...
The Home Office's Response to my questions about the removal of Apple's ADP
I am a British citizen, and an academic. I wrote to my local MP, highlighting the problems associated with the removal of Apple's Advanced Data Protection, how it was previously recommended by the security services themselves as an example of good practice, and how E2EE can mitigate many cybersecurity risks that have historically caused huge amounts of harm thorough bulk data breaches.

Much to my surprise, my MP agreed with me and forwarded my letter on to the home office, probably because it was lengthy and filled with citations.

I thought the audience of Hacker News would be interested to read their response below, which is, unfortunately, as expected, and frankly indicates that they did not engage substantively with what I had to say.
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20 March 2025
Dan Jarvis MBE MP Security Minister
2 Marsham Street London SW1P 4DF
www.gov.uk/home-office

Rt Hon Anneliese Dodds MP

Dear Anneliese,

Thank you for your letter of 28 February to the Minister of State for Data Protection and Telecoms on behalf of your constituent, Mr Miller [NB: that is not my title!] about media reporting concerning access to data. Your letter was transferred to the Home Office, and I am replying as the Security Minister.

As I know you will understand, I cannot comment on operational security matters, including confirming or denying the existence of any such notices. This has been the longstanding position of successive UK Governments for reasons of national security.

Successive UK governments have also been clear on the issue of online safety. We need to ensure that action can be taken against child sexual abusers and terrorists at the same time as ensuring there are safeguards for people’s privacy. The UK Government takes privacy very seriously and has a strong international reputation for protecting human rights. We know data access is invasive, and access to data only happens in particular circumstances and under strict safeguards.

On the wider and longstanding debate about end-to-end encryption, governments of different parties have concluded that tech companies need to make sure that end-to-end encryption still has safeguards to protect children from sexual predators, and to protect the country from terrorists. This concern is also shared by other governments around the world. The suggestion that cybersecurity and access to data by law enforcement are at odds is false.

It is possible for online platforms to have strong cybersecurity measures whilst also ensuring child sexual abuse and other criminal activities can be detected.

I hope that this response will reassure Mr Miller of the Government’s commitment to the protection of privacy whilst also ensuring action can be taken against serious threats and criminality online.

Thank you again for your letter.

Dan Jarvis MBE MP
Security Minister
In general C++17 is the common standard most C++ projects refer to.

Additionally between C++11 and C++14, it is a mistake to use C++11 instead of C++14, as the later is basically the set of features that missed C++11, especially relevant in smart pointers machinery.
I used to think that letting my foreign affairs ministry know I was travelling was BS. But 100% I will be doing that for my next trip to the USA.
CashApp did nothing wrong in the original story, you have a complaint against the seller, and the seller has a complaint against their agent, who failed to deliver correctly.

With a debit card, chargebacks are not a legal right, but often platforms will do them for you. Not sure exactly why CashApp weren't happy with you for asking, but maybe they felt like you hadn't tried hard enough with the seller, or that you were trying it on.

That said, my understanding from general opinions about CashApp is that them terminating your account is probably a net benefit for you in the long term, rather than something to rue.
Maybe? But the US is a weird two-bubble system in which "you're either with us or against us" is held to be true by most people. Which is why a sane 3rd option isn't available on the voting card. And it's why "being pro-Trump" is not the only reason one might flag that post.

Outside the US, where a completely polarisation hatred between just two parties is not the norm, there are people who can agree with their opponents on some issues. MANY people outside the US hate Trump and think that he's screwing up America, the global economy, world peace, their pension etc, but they might still be able to agree with him on some things.
Did they only switch recently? I remember seeing Auth0 a few months ago.
didn't know that about roam research. I was a user, but also that app convinced me that front-end went in the wrong direction for a decade...

Rocicorp Zero Sync, instantdb, linear app like trend is great -- sync will be big. I hope a lot of the spa slop gets fixed!
Is there a newsletter for the games you release?
Thanks for the feedback. We're still working out the ideal way to manage the search, lots of trade-offs depending on what route you go. But there's definitely room for improvement.
If it was the "light of the sun" you wouldn't have to "think" and there would be stats.
Sorry for a noob question, but aren't the tourists from western european countries exactly who the country WANT to let in? Or is the USA against allowing even the Germans in?
What if you make them nanometer thin and roll into cylinder with a solar cell (a bit like battery)
To be fair, most of those are news, not hacker news. But I suspect the hacker relevant ones also got that treatment.
What is meant by "returning green card holder" exactly? Return from a holiday abroad outside of the USA, or leaving the USA to live elsewhere for some time with no obvious intent to return?
I can read pretty fast, but prefer videos for introductions to any new tech.

Then if I decide I like it I read the manual.
Israel uses threats to reveal sexual orientation in order to gain and control informants in Palestine, which increases distrust of and threatens gay people in Palestine, in adition to regular homophobia.

Special targeting and persecution, due to their position in society, is not something a gay friendly country would do to gay people.

Eg. this is a statement about what one Palestinian civilian organization that deals with sexual diversity in Palestine has to say about the topic of sexual diversity:

http://www.alqaws.org/news/Reflecting-on-Queerness-in-Times-...

> The footage that we have been witnessing regularly, of Israeli soldiers posing with their rainbow flags and other Western gay symbols atop the ruins of our society, alongside genocidaires boasting about their sexual abuse, torture, and rape of Palestinian men, women, and children, only affirms what the Palestinian queer movement has been saying for decades: the Zionist colonial enterprise is predicated on the sexual abuse of Palestinians. Adopting an anticolonial, anticapitalist queer framework in understanding our reality is not merely an option, but a necessity.

http://www.alqaws.org/articles/URGENT-APPEAL-to-ILGA-World-R...

> The Israeli state would not have been able to pinkwash its crimes without the aid of Israeli LGBTQ groups. These groups work closely with the Israeli government, army, intelligence institutions, and local municipalities. They have co-developed pinkwashing as a colonial tool by promoting racist myths about Palestinian society, framing Palestinian queers as victims of our “supposedly homophobic” society, and participating actively in destroying and erasing our queer movement.

Nowhere in there is any admiration of or inspiration by supposedly "gay-friendly" Israel, which is strange given that it would be the closest gay friendly country to Palestine, right?

And also a friendly reminder that Israel killed at least ~2400 gays incl. ~1000 gay children since Oct 7 and continues to kill them daily.
I'm the original commenter, and quite simply you're right and I slipped up. It's not really using the terminology correctly for me to say "natural gas is ~75% hydrogen on a molar basis".

Whenever talking about hydrogen's physical properties etc on a molar basis, we'd be talking about H2. So if you had a mole of methane (CH4) we'd say you could make two moles of hydrogen (H2) out of it.

My point was really just that the gas companies' reserves of natural gas mean that they'll do anything to try to stimulate demand for blue/grey hydrogen, because their reserves of natural gas are reserves of hydrogen.
Might be weird-colored glasses, but I've been here slightly longer and no, I don't think it changed much either.

(Or it could be that I changed along with it, so I don't notice.)
Thing is, touching it (the enclosure not the led bulbs) with my bare hands it's just slightly warm. I wash my hands with water much hotter than that.

Edit: and I just realized, the mac mini i'm mostly typing code/emails/comms on idles at less than the 2 x 12 W bulbs above it...
> it must be cheaper to just deny entry than arresting people.

The cruelty is the point.

The real story is that Europeans and Canadians have been downgraded from "white country" immigration treatment to the "barely human scum" treatment previously reserved for the southern border. Note that that was bipartisan, as well.

> Unfortunately I need to travel to the US soon for a company (on?)off-site

Double-check the rules for working under an ESTA.
Even if you cannot prove it doesn't mean it is necessarily perception. Just because one cannot prove something, doesn't mean it's not real. Can you prove the numbers haven't risen? The main issue is the arbitrary detention. Getting turned away at the border and taking the next flight home is one thing, but getting locked up seems scary.
I mean sure it's expensive, but economic harm (unless it's intentional and large-scale) is not really seen as a national security issue in the UK.
Interesting you've omitted buses. My math says they cost more than an uber.

But otherwise - just like sibling said - roads are already built for trucks... I guess then we should give discounts to light cars?
We don't have the drop coordinates part, but you can ask it '...within 1 hour commute by [transport] of [location]' and then it will create a polygon of all the places that match that.
> which sounds more like a slang description of the person

Pretty sure that's the intent, since it's a play on the name "vtuber", which is used as you describe.
It really depends on what you call "long distance". Anyway, transportation loss for entsoe is public data [1]. You'd need to cross it with production/consumption data [2] in order to get relative numbers.

For instance, France consumed 442 TWh and reported 1.07TWh of losses in 2022, which would be about 2.5% transportation losses.

[1]: https://eepublicdownloads.blob.core.windows.net/public-cdn-c...
[2]: https://eepublicdownloads.blob.core.windows.net/public-cdn-c...
Oh yes, the Guidelines:

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."

and

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."
> the work pressure that leads to burnout in SWEs is largely self-imposed

Nothing happens in a vacuum and this "self-imposed" work pressure often happens within the a company culture that is either intentionally or accidentally highly demanding of individuals. The "self-imposed" is a false front for enforced expectations from colleagues, managers and clients.

We're all in unique situations and you can say if you don't like it then don't work there. However the hustle and start up cultures are viral and spread throughout the industry. Just look at all the talk of Elon Musk & his Twitter and Doge employees working 100 hours weeks and sleeping at the office. Regardless of politics, there are many people who talk about this insane, unhealthy and inefficient level of work as a good and worthy thing. It's the Puritan work ethic myth. In reality the majority of the benefit of this work does not go to the individual doing the work, instead they pay a heavy cost with their quality of life.
UK, Italy and Japan are building a 6th gen fighter right now [1], with UK acting as the de facto most senior partner.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Combat_Air_Programme
your last note that adds not-invented-here abominations… if chasing endless frameworks of the month is bad, and building stuff in house is bad, then what do you propose to avoid making this mess?
It is wise to show at least a little deference to the field a term comes from. If you are not already deeply familiar with the subject matter, it is going to be hard to appreciate why particular names have caught on and why your own ideas might not be better. Immediate comprehensibility by outsiders with no prior familiarity is usually not the most important criterion.
True. I would love to have less features in MacOS actually. We are approaching Windows start menu level of crap being installed by default.
I mean, I can scroll through the hacker news history to 2016 when I started reading, and the comment quality and submission quality is much higher IMO.

As I've said before, there's a reason why my entire social group of programmers (and a lot of programmers I've met from outside it) refers to this pejoratively as The Orange Site.
IKEA has, at least in Sweden, started publishing how much their lights flicker. I found that it is actually an upper limit for their lights. The dimmable ones flicker less for most of their dimmable range for example.

Now, I only measured two bulbs, but I am pretty darn happy with those results. I also opened one of their chargers and haven't looked elsewhere for chargers since. The thing was even more well built than my apple charger (the 45w sjöss is actually quite crazy. The 30w had some issues)
Countercitation: use of humans as literal shields is a fairly old tactic employed e.g. by the Mongol Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_Mongol_Empire#...
That's more Windows 10 being annoying- but you can manually change file/app associations after the fact under Settings/Apps/Default-Apps!
What do you mean by sunny war? All wars seem cloudy at best to me
Human rights - none are ignorent.
Because that's how language works. vtuber/pngtuber describe a specific form of avatar, and people aren't gonna say 'they're a streamer that uses a 2D reactively animated animator' when they can say 'they're a pngtuber' and be perfectly well understood by the audience that is actually going to watch them instead of telling them to get off their lawn.
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My sarcasm radar was malfunctioning after reading the parent comment describing our economy as "blooming", my bad.

>Such as?

Gender ideology.
Half Life 2 predicted this more than 20 years ago. Next step is to make the rotors razor sharp.
I believe the original point was that McLaren had an easier time winning the constructors because they had two drivers collecting points, while Red Bull — due to Checo not performing — only had one
The word makes perfect sense, somebody just used it wrong. Don't let's go down the post-modernist "nothing means anything" route just because some people are too partisan to use words properly.

What the person should have said is "a Nazi made that car".
This is a gold cage opportunity

I've known a couple of people who worked as COBOL/mainframe developers in Europe at huge companies and their pay was definitely worse than what they could have gotten as a "a data engineer maintaining Spark" or anything else even similarly modern. The cage works both ways, on the one hand they might be hard to replace, but equally they'll have at least as hard a time finding a new job if they quit. Depending on where you live, the company you're working at might literally be the only company in that city using that particular tech stack.
If we’re being technically correct, yes, but I was just trying to give an analogy to someone who I figured was pretty new to web tech.
> web dev influencers

The fact that there's influencers for everything nowadays made me realize I'm old.

It's super useful that everyone is sharing their opinions and expertise to get that sweet 5 minutes of fame - I just learned how to tile my bathroom after watching a slew of TikToks on the subject, some with millions of views.
At least my irritation comes from the increasing amount of "consents" and "agreements" that are obviously not designed to be read, let alone understood. Not only cookie nags, but things like EULAs and ToS and privacy policies. And they are often not even legally valid.

It's all a performative sharade of "voluntary contracts", which are in practice just forced down people's throats due to power inbalances.