skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, we're not. I was out at a protest this evening with ordinary Americans who have far less wealth and power than Bezos, and they're out there doing what they can. There's a lot he could still be doing.

What's the worst that can happen to him? He flees the country and never has to work a day for the rest of his life that he could live in luxury?
I think you're taking the analogy too far with that, although it's my fault for using an analogy that makes it so easy.

My point was simply that the US had complete dominion over the area for 20 years and left voluntarily, not due to any pressure from the enemy. If you don't want to call that a victory, fine, whatever, but it doesn't seem like a surrender or loss to me.
Where are the ai features
Thanks for sharing!

> Here, the premise was very much on how to design interfaces in such a way that the user can intuitively operate a system with minimal error.

Yes, that's a good default goal for most software, but not always appropriate.

Eg for safety critical equipment to be used only by trained professionals (think airplane controls or nuclear power plant controls) you'd put a lot more emphasis on 'minimal error' than on 'intuitive'.

We can also learn a lot from how games interact with their users. Most games want their interface to be a joy to use and easy to learn. So they are good example for what you normally want to do!

But for some select few having a clunky interface is part of the point. 'Her Story' might be an interesting example of that: the game has you searching through a video database, and it's only a game, because that search feature is horribly broken.
As a user you should be fine with the ability to restrict access to iMessage. Not locked out of it with hardware you own and interoperability dictated by the vendor who also wants you to buy their watch.
Yes but people invest money based on these type of announcements. Maybe not a direct scam though
Energy and health are personal. Age correlation with health is just statisical. I had a 75 year old come and drive miles and fix my air conditioning. Fit as a fiddle.
Ask HN: Would you use a product to draft contracts for SMBs and solopreneurs?
Hi,

A little background about me: I’m a lawyer with 11 years of experience in drafting contracts for my clients who come from various industries, from tech to boring businesses.

Over the years, I have polished my contracts based on newer regulations, industry specific provisions, ironclad IP and Confidentiality clauses, and etc.

I want to use my experience to build an affordable SaaS legal tech platform that helps solopreneurs, freelancers, and SMBs create lawyer level contracts with the help of AI and the pre-drafted templates, at a fraction of cost. It will also include 30 mins consultation with me and other paralegals/lawyers for free.

Would you use such product for your business?
No clue. I have never needed it nor wanted it to. All my music streams from Spotify or Apple Music.
You can get education for free on Kahn Academy ... but not the networking or confirmation of credentials.
This isn't a backdoor, just moving to a country where they are sold¿
But if I copyright the prompt to the input of the AI, does that not also become a derivative work?

I do believe in the US (I could be wrong) that copyright does exist without registering it with the US government.
what a fascinating and fucked up way to look at the world.

people are inspired by people like themselves. when it's rare to see someone like yourself succeed in a field and when there aren't many folks like yourself in a field, it can be inspiring to see others who have succeeded and who may have come from similar circumstances.
"That was not easy"
I'm building mentions.us. It's a simple idea - alerts for keyword mentions on Hacker News, Reddit, Bluesky, etc., but has been a fun project. I wanted to build something that had broader coverage than F5Bot (which is excellent) and supported sending notifications to Slack.

Right now I'm working on adding LinkedIn support now (trawling through private APIs).
I used Gentoo for a while, but the temptation to endlessly fiddle with everything always let me to eventually break the system. (It's not Gentoo's fault, it's mine.)

Afterwards I moved to ArchLinux, and that has been mostly fine for me.

If you are using a fairly standard processor, then Gentoo shouldn't give you that much of an advantage?
J6 wasn't the first protest Washington D.C. has ever seen, but it was somehow the first they allowed to get out of hand.
Sometimes comes to mind:

Can’t one recompile the same exact Ubuntu packages you already have on your system with optimal flags for your specific hardware?

Plus, the configuration could be automated - just push a button to (lazy, in background) recompile.

Priority for the ones profiled to be performance critical.
I can’t even view the comments without signing in. Probably a good thing.
MicroUSB is fine, and Apple should've just used that (like every other phone manufacturer did, with great success). But Apple also has the world's biggest NIH complex, so they decided to invent a proprietary standard rather than go with something interoperable.
I somewhat agree. For me Dune: Part One (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024) had the visual, sound and acting talent, but felt like it was missing something. I'd almost say it was soulless. I think the problem was in the dialogue or how scenes we acted, I don't know. I didn't think Dune (1984) was any good, but I think that had a lot to do with the technology and film making techniques at that time.

I think the only good Dune media besides the books was the video game Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty by Westwood Studios (RIP). Without it, I think there would be no Command & Conquer and no heyday for the real-time strategy (RTS) genre.
I would, and there is no shame in it, as far as I'm concerned.

I don't need to outrun the bear. I just need to outrun you.
There are also many flags that should be enabled by default for non-debug builds like ubsan, stack protection, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35758898
I just wish that they didn't feel the need to block out competitors to compete on an even playing field - I agree that their hardware is great, but if it's so great it should be able to dominate the market without hobbling competitors on iOS.
probably adding a confirmation message the first time the alias is used for each command would be good, it would be nice to know when i'm invoking git and when i'm invoking a third party binary regardless of any exploit attempts!
So this means the same for code??

Code written by a llm is not copyrightable?
The name SheepShaver is a play on ShapeShifter, which was a Mac II emulator for Amiga. I remember running an Amiga Emulator (UAE) AND Shapeshifter on top of that since it was the best Macintosh Emulation at one point in the late 90s.
Why? You could advertise publicly what your flags are.
It comes down to convention. When talking about proportional differences, we can fix the unitary example to be the smaller, larger, earlier, or later, object or subject.

I think, generally, we fix on the earlier when talking about the change over time of a characteristic. "This stock went up 100%, this stock went down 50%". In both cases it's the earlier measurement that is taken as the unit. That makes this a 45% reduction in time to do the work, and that's actually what they measured.

When talking about comparisons between two things that aren't time dependent it depends on if we talk in multiples or percents I think. A twin bed is half as big as a king bed. A king bed is twice as big as a twin bed. Both are idiomatic. A king bed is 100% bigger than a twin bed. Yes, you could talk like this. A twin bed is 100% smaller than a king bed. Right away you say wait, a twin bed isn't 0 size! Because we don't talk in terms of the smaller thing when talking about decreasing percents, only increasing. A twin bed is 50% smaller than a king bed (iffy). A twin bed is 50% as big as a king bed. There, that's idiomatic again.
I think this is an excellent addition to the perspective of the article! Why do you not think so?
Focusing on the work and the people:

The silent majority appreciate each of you, Asahi Lina, Alyssa Rosenzweig, and Hector Martin. You don’t hear from them because it’s not in their nature, for better or worse.

Your generosity and hard work have made possible things that previously seemed impossible. Wonderful things exist because you worked to make them. Thank you.
Sure. I build Shopify apps and maintain an open-source .NET library for the Shopify API, so naturally I get a lot of emails (solicited and unsolicited) from people regarding their Shopify apps. Just this morning I got an unsolicited (spam) email from someone offering to sell me their Shopify apps. These are the descriptions they gave me, with app names redacted:

- App A: AI Virtual Try-On. Lets customers try products virtually, reducing returns.

- App B: WhatsApp Chat Button. Seamless WhatsApp integration for instant support.

- App C: AI Product Blocks. AI-generated insights to boost trust and conversions.

App B doesn't have AI, but Apps A and C are products that have existed in various forms on the Shopify App Store for years before AI became a buzzword. AI doesn't add anything here – especially in the case of Product Blocks, if you're familiar with what a block is in a Shopify theme, or the privacy restrictions enforced on them. And AI virtual try-on? What is AI going to add to a virtual try-on?
There's companies like Unilever, P&G, etc that are rich and organized but they don't need to play this game. Everything on the shelves is theirs.

The game is played for things that are not on shelves. Those players, compared to Unilever, appear to be many and poor as well.
FPGAs are widely available. They are not the cheapest hardware, but they allow you to have something similar to custom silicon, but quickly and in quantities starting from 1.
Show HN: I made a worldwide sexual life dashboard
The idea is to share data-based insights about sexual life

I’ve worked in SexEd startups, and it’s wild that humanity doesn’t have this data. Most major academic studies have focused on sex primarily from a health and reproduction perspective, leaving many important and interesting questions unexplored (for many reasons)

To promote transparency, the anonymous data will be open-sourced, allowing researchers, students and anyone interested to analyze it
There are arrows on the numeric keys on most old and modern US keyboards with numpads. That's why I expect them to do that.
Every single “experience” brought my an opportunity for growth given the circumstances around said “experience”, where foregoing the “new experience” was, imo, getting stuck. I don’t regret having my experiences, but I would regret if I got married young
> And especially especially not when the founders have previously shown their colors when they rugpulled all their customers and effectively bricked all the devices they'd sold.

As a Pebble user for a long time, I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about here. If you're talking about Fitbit halting services, I can't exactly blame the founder of Pebble for that. Can I blame him for the poor business decisions that led to needing to sell to Fitbit? I guess, but I'm not a business person nor a CEO and have no idea what transpired to lead up to that. But I'm reasonably sure it wasn't malice as you seem to imply.
I'm a bootstrapped solopreneur at the moment. I would maybe use this, but I generally DIY everything. For contracts, for example, I'd probably just dust off the YC template, make a few tweaks, and not sweat it. For my T&Cs I took another company's terms and made edits where I thought it was important. Definitely not legally watertight, but good enough for my purposes.

Solopreneurs are amongst the most resourceful folks out there, and also the most price sensitive, so we're a tricky market to go after.
On top of that "level of effort" is obviously very subjective.
Right. But you have to admit this sounds a bit like labelling Cereal "arsenic free". Really helpful to know but the sudden announcement hides that it's always been that way and implies others aren't. In truth this is probably how they all work and always have, but such a headline wouldn't ding Amazon sales.
The more fundamental question is why a degree should be necessary to run for President. US does not require one for example.
Literally any modern social media, YouTube comments, anything using client-side rendering frameworks
Dark matter is a symptom of the grant system
> Can’t one recompile the same exact Ubuntu packages you already have on your system with optimal flags for your specific hardware?

Well, in principle yes. But you'd also need to figure out what you mean by 'optimal' flags? The flags might differ between different packages, and not all packages will be compatible with all the flags.

Even worse, in the example in the article they got most of their speedup out of moving to a different allocator, and that's not necessarily compatible with all packages (nor an improvement for all packages).

However, if you still want to do all these things, then Gentoo Linux is the distribution for you. It supports this tinkering directly and you'll have a much happier time than trying to bend Ubuntu to your will.
Cafeteria constitutionalists -- they take the parts they like and dismiss the rest.

The other thing about "those people" and the Constitution is that they like to play the "originalism" game. I'm guessing theres a really high correlation between those folk and those that believe the bible is the literal word of god (i.e., those of an authoritarian bent).

Jefferson expected it to be molded by future generations (as it should). Case in point: that's why amendments exist. The current Republican party has made no secret they'd be happy to roll it all back to just the original doc, to make america great again by annointing white men as above all.
You can only check them with an x-ray machine. The only way to rework them is with hot air. They suck, suck, suck for (DFM), design for manufacturing. Always try to design with leaded parts if you can. They can be fixed with a soldering iron.

Board space isn't the only consideration, by far. You don't need .4mm pitch BGAs on a giant pcb with acres of empty space either.

PCBs are not built at the north pole by little magic elves.
I think the main calculus is around estimating future profits. Do they make a profit? Is it a crowded space? Is the market space growing? What assets do they have? People, land, factories, or intellectual IP? Etc etc.

I don’t know the details of either deal but it’s easy to imagine a case where Craftsman tools is just a brand in a crowded market with no special sauce. For example Sears never even made the tools, they outsourced it. Also it sold for 900m, 500m was the initial payment.
Ah - so you mean “crying” then :D

#irony
The problem is that we're in a duopoly on the most important metaphorical ecosystem on the planet. If the market were competitive and efficient, I'd agree, but it isn't.

The upshot of this is that Apple can unfairly compete in all sorts of verticals just by owning that platform. A lot of companies could make a good Airpod competitor, but without access to the same functions as Apple's they're hamstrung. Watches have this problem even worse.

Say what you want about Microsoft at their zenith, you COULD compete with their browser, in fact, people did. You just can't with iOS. That's more important than some users having poor security. (And really, how are we going to worry about phone security when there's a system as stupid as passwordless social security numbers being the key to your financial life?)

The natural duopoly needs to be regulated such that it doesn't spill over into every tangential market.
I would definitely pay for something like this if it was accurate. I go through plenty of bad headphones, and I once even paid for a piece of software that makes the headphones less bad (couldn't fix the battery life though).

But how do I know the reviews are reliable and not being manipulated by the brands in some way?
> This is crap

I appreciate you sharing your experience, I just wish you could have done it without this bit.
> a central indexing server.

Then can we drop the pretense that ATProto is actually usable without Bluesky's AppView? [0]

> posts on the Bluesky app itself have valid dates

Who's to say what is a "valid date" in a decentralized system that (in theory) does not have a central authority nor depends on a consensus mechanism?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42634786
It will be interesting if Gentoo supported Fuchsia next.
VW Beetles were not produced until 1938, but I get your point.

What don't get is your idea that things would have been worse. Worse how? Within a few years the nazis were beheading people for distributing postcards critical of the regime. It's equally arguable that they might not have got as far as they did if people had been more willing to stand up to them in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_and_Elise_Hampel
At this point it's completely uninteresting for the price point.

It only has 276 GB/s memory bandwidth.
In my book, if anything was disrespectful it's the flippant attitude of dismissing sabotage of the opposition candidate as just one more step towards the death of democracy in Turkey. (And I'm not claiming that was necessarily out of line. Seems basically well-intentioned to me.)

The comparison is pretty apt, and extremely current. More or less the whole world is watching with horror (or glee, depending on political values), as the US is on a fast track to repressive autocracy.
Some prior discussion prompted by "Why LLMs Suck at OCR": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42966958
Tesla is not a car company ;)
There was a post someone made, some time ago, where they took a picture of a rabbit, with its head turned away from the photographer, so its eyes were not visible, and their iPhone painted an eye on it, because the profile was the same as if the rabbit had its head facing forward.

It was in the discussion about the fake Samsung moon photos.
> No, the usual trio of culprits are to blame:

Or just one: humans
love the story! i took a stab at translating it: https://pscoleman.me/blog/axolotl
Thanks for the explanations - was not aware.

…vertically stack a slab of SRAM above or beneath the CPU die, does come to mind ;)
I see. Droll.
> It won't work, but at least you could say you tried to apply the law. That's worth something.

What is that worth?
Well fair, but I do think you should give this article a read. It’s the genesis of kotlin’s coroutines, and other implementations of “structured concurrency” or nurseries as the author conceives of them.
It was the first CPU on my desk! 80386SX 25MHz.

(this one, only 32bit internally)
Oh no, how will he continue to "test" new vaccines in Africa?
From the title, I can't be sure if Affirm replaced Klarna or Klarna replaced Affirm.
Some offer discounts and gifts and such for a review. They don't even say you have to give them a good review, and so they'll justify it as an anti-bias thing. But you have to show them the review, and it's a little odd to give someone a bad review right after they offer a free gift.

The big hint is that they'll have an overwhelming number of 5 star reviews compared to the competition and often average around 4.95. Some are actually quite mediocre. So I'll usually avoid anything above a 4.8.
Do “you choose” to angle the phone slightly up 5 degrees to capture a bit of the sky? Or do “you choose” the moment to take the photo when the timing is right? There is always some creative decision involved by the person who presses the shutter
Yes, -O3 is seldom an improvement for most C compilers.
Ottawa Treaty
Know plenty of communities that abuse social security benefits, is it worth fixing? I’m fortunate enough to pay the median house hold income in just taxes to the government. Take my money, no.

These are poor people struggling to get by, they are going to cheat the system, who wouldn’t when you live on the edge. It’s a drop in the bucket all for a PR attempt.
I loved that game!
You are right.

The company is a toy for a cashed up entrepreneur !
;-)
Something better than making everyone take context as the first arg in every function? It’s go’s own brute force way of function coloring, except you have to write it yourself and drag this arbitrary bag of data through every function, what a horrible stapled-on mess.
Exactly. It's amazing how often the nuance between may and must is missed by Apple fans.

Apple should be able to lock down their ecosystem as a default -- plenty of people will be happy to use that default experience.

But Apple should absolutely be prohibited from not allowing users the choice of unlocking their own device, for additional functionality, if they choose.

It's also glaringly obvious that many of the "freedoms" Apple affords its users (freedom from iMessage spam!) help drive its revenue...
I don't really think reports of fireworks in cabinet meetings are very significant. My yardstick is less how much camera time Musk gets vs whether the activities of his DOGE group are curtailed. My impression is that they're still running at close to full tilt.
But don’t these people worship Steve Jobs, the agitator and disruptor extraordinaire?

What ever happened to ‘Think Different’?
Show HN: We made a VS Code extension that reveals React component usage insights
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> I tend to agree with this, but if you look at the PC ecosystem, you'll see that 'leave users to figure out their own security' is a shit show.

I do not in fact see that. PCs work pretty damn well, security-wise, even with clueless users. I'll grant you it isn't as secure as phones, but it's by no means horrible.
…and the corresponding price.
Given the no. of divorces, I think it is better to marry young, only if you have the commitment for marriage of course. Getting married at, say 40, divorced at 42 (let's say without kids) and starting another relationship at 45 meana you'll be over sixty when your child is in college. Thats a lot of responsibility on old shoulders. The same cycle is much more manageable if you get married at, say 26.
Indeed, but you are not answering the question: how can you reconcile the idea that ATProto is meant to be decentralized (i.e, no single authority) and at the same time have rules that are enforced (purely by software, I'm not arguing that rules could be enforced socially) by any particular server?

You would need some form of distributed consensus mechanism, but then you either end up with some exclusive club to implement Paxos or you will need some blockchain-y solution, no?
My experience has been the opposite: my emotions have gotten deeper as I've grown older, and I feel more bonded to the people I'm close to now than I did when I was younger. Part of it is probably that I'm better at relationships than I was when I was younger. But even that is a sign of emotions not getting blunted.
It's the blast processing that enables clipped to say "It look like you are writing a letter"
That's a bit sloppy.

The undefined behaviour is already in the C standard.

But you are right that enabling -O3 is generally going to make your compiler more aggressive about exploiting the undefined behaviour in the pursuit of speed.

In general, if you want to avoid being the guy to run into new and exciting bugs, you want to run with options that are as close as possible to what everyone else is using.
> network for future jobs if company fails

This is also a thing you get when bootstrapping, if you're bootstrapping correctly.
It looks as though they specifically disabled the comments for this article (or moved the thread to an subforum which isn't visible to the public).

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoron...
Oh the irony of how your comment could change a few words and sound like a trump/musk post