skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading material (backlight vs. reflective screen) differs in my experience. Also typing and writing are very different neurologically, but people don't want to acknowledge that, AFAICS.
I just wish they could run Windows games. Many games could comfortably run on this hardware, they just don't for software nonsense reasons. For example Octopath Traveler 2 - a game which isn't graphics intensive at all. It runs on Windows and Linux via SteamOS, so why can't I have it on my MacBook.
> as you can see nobody accepts being tariffed without retaliating

I'm not defending our tariff strategy, but afaik this is actually the point being made that the US imports with low/no tariffs while US exports are tariffed in many countries.
Sci-fi and fantasy suited me when I was young as they stretched my mind to possibility.

The older and more cynical I have become, they're kind of just bullshit. I'd love to say their escapist but they fail even there as I my escapism increasingly requires a modicum of plausibility. I think there are still some books out there that might ring true in terms of seeing people and society for the way they are, but then there is a lot of Harry Potter.
My takeaway from this is that laws and rules don't matter if the officials on the ground are incompetent, ignorant, and have contempt for you.

There is a lot of unnecessary cruelty and lack of due process in this story.
For comparison:

"Write a set of alternative lyrics to the theme for Gilligan's Island based on the two astronauts that went up in the Boeing Starliner and were supposed to spend about 8 days in the ISS but ended up spending about 9 months. It's important to follow the meter and rhyme pattern."

ChatGPT (emojis are the LLM's):

Here’s a set of alternative lyrics to the Gilligan’s Island theme, capturing the Boeing Starliner astronauts’ unexpectedly extended stay on the ISS:

---

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful flight,
That started from a launchpad base,
And soared into the night.

The crew was only set to stay
For just a week or two,
But Boeing’s ship had other plans,
And stretched it out to new!

(And stretched it out to new!)

The docking worked, they made it there,
The mission seemed on track,
But then they found some little leaks,
And couldn’t make it back!

And couldn’t make it back!

The calendar kept flipping by,
With patches, tests, and checks,
While Houston said, "Just wait a bit,"
"We’re working out the specs!"

So here they stay on the orbiting lab,
For months, not days but more!
With coffee, jokes, and floating sleep,
In zero-g galore!

In zero-g galore!

They’ll one day ride the Starliner home,
If Boeing gets it right,
And finally end this long delay,
From what was just a flight!

(From what was just a flight!)

---

This keeps the original tune and humor while capturing the unexpected (and slightly ridiculous) nature of their extended stay.
> No offense but I don’t understand why people with such limited knowledge of Bitcoin feel compelled to comment in these threads.

You and me both, buddy.
Genuinely I cannot remember the last time I read a book. I read absolute crap-tons of interesting stuff online, but books? Those out-of-date, read-only, closed-perspectives from people with their ideas/thoughts/biases/prejudices they're trying to implant into your brain? Nope.

I think there is a lot of elitism about reading and the intellectualism around it. "What books are you reading right now?" is a sort of shibboleth or even one-upmanship ("Oh yes I read that last year - you should read this other thing that I think is better/more clever" etc).

Don't play the game. If you don't like reading books and don't get much out of it, don't do it.

I get a secret glee when I have mentees and younger folks asking me about what books to read to achieve success or get hired etc, and I tell them "don't waste your time reading books - learn <thing> instead." It ruffles feathers, and I am sure I'll get roasted on here too, but there you go! :)
The book that really got me hooked was The rise and fall of the Third Reich, by William Shirer. He was a journalist in Berlin before WWII, and you can see the journalistic background shine through in his narrative. A lot of what I've read since then has been in trying to trace back the references he gives to how the events of WWII recapitulated older conflicts, which I then went and found references in which to learn about.

Barbara Tuchman is a delightful mostly medieval historian, and Mary Beard is a wonderful Roman historian. Both have a decidedly personal voice, which happened to click well with me; your milage may vary.

Someone else in the thread mentioned Simon Sebag Montefiore, and I've enjoyed most of what he's written. It feels a little less scholarly than some other popular historical sources, but that's just an informal impression from a tyro.

Lots of people enjoy Yuval Harari, but I do not enjoy him at all.
but all 'ELSE' is, is functionally adding ": GOTO <line after end of else block>" on the end of your IF THEN
All rules are totally arbitrary and commanded by those holding the power to their benefit.
If you’re operating an honest judicial board and you’re receiving high profile threats from the US government backed by huge funding cuts to the University, you have a choice. (1) Comply or simply appear to comply, by rendering a favorable ruling immediately, (2) Establish that your ruling is not the result of government pressure. You’d do the latter by (for example) showing your work and proving that the results were already determined before the pressure campaign began; or you’d change the timing so that it doesn’t look like cause and effect; you could even suspend your ruling on the grounds that maintaining the appearance of the University and Board’s independence is a higher priority than punishing a few protestors.

Columbia did none of the things in category (2). I know it’s 2025 and we have to pretend that this apparently corrupt thing is innocent, even while the folks involved make no effort to defend it. But it isn’t innocent, and everyone involved knows what’s going on.
true, i saw a thread recently on reddit where guy hand-tuned compilation flags and did pgo profiling for a video encoder app that he uses on video encode farm.

In his case, even a gain of ~20% was significant. It calculated into extra bandwidth to encode a few thousand more video files per year.
I suspect they are under pressure to juke their stats and they could get a gold star for "deporting" her.

Ergo "you aren't a criminal. Come with me. You're being deported."
Show HN: Listen to PDFs in Any Language
Hey, I built this tool last year to listen to machine learning books and papers. The first version was very simple, but I saw some interest from users and found myself using it regularly whenever a new machine learning paper was published.

Now, after a year and over 3,000 signups and some paying users, I've invested more time into it, with the help of AI programming :) During that year I've switched to the newest models, which made the app smarter over time. I’m curious what you’d use it for.

Do you like the AI explantions? This is my favorite feature, but most users prefer listening to the original text. Sometimes the AI explanations are a bit repetitive, and I'm working on improving that.

Currently, I’m creating RSS podcasts so I can listen to the episodes on my phone using AntennaPod. But I think the next step is to make an app.

Google Gemini now offers Audio Overviews, which are quite good. However, my app is different because it breaks the document into semantic sections and you can listen to each section independently. A whole paper will be a multi-hour audio, like an audio book. The audio experience is the product.

I would love your feedback (I even made a form for that on the website).

https://www.pdftomp3.com/
Yea that's scary. I was in a similar situation, but thankfully they just interrogated me for 5 hours and then sent me back to Canada.

My name was marked from that point, so everytime I re-entered US I had to get pulled into secondary.
Because I didn't buy a watch? Wtf lol
So why does it take to weeks to deport a Canadian to Canada?

Are those detainment cells privately owned?
This country is sick in the head. We actively eschew healthcare for temporary satisfaction that we are locking some minority group up. Then the defense spend lobby comes back around riling people up so that they can make money and people can have temporary satisfaction that they are safe.
Code is the new no code
I also had a Pebble Time in high school. That was an incredible watch. Beautiful, polished, functional, but still had a nerdy charm from the display. I miss it so much and this announcement is so exciting.
This article sums up precisely why I don't mind being a "forever GM".

I'm constantly researching new things to flesh out game ideas for my groups to add flavor, immersion & a sense of "reality" to my players' worlds & I love doing it. It almost makes running the actual games for them, an afterthought to tide me over to the new thing to learn about & implement. Great article!
> Are those detainment cells privately owned?

Yes; it's a billion dollar business.
> A woman asked me for the name of someone they could contact on my behalf. In moments like this, you realize you don’t actually know anyone’s phone number anymore. By some miracle, I had recently memorized my best friend Britt’s number because I had been putting my grocery points on her account.

I definitely would be screwed in this situation. Time to remember by sibling’s number
>Only idiots and novices let themselves be ensnared by mental bondage.

/r/iamverysmart is leaking.
> No WiFi 7. I am guessing it will come next year when Apple have their own WIFi Chip going in this year iPhone 17. Hopefully with 320Mhz instead of a crippled 160Mhz.

What are you transferring such that 320 channels solve a problem that 160 ones do not?

At least 6E gives access to 6 Ghz bands, which tend to be more less congested (and have more available channels).
The DoJ can sue over whatever they want. They also lose suits all the time. So now it's up to a court decision to make the determination, and it may very well be that Apple is not, contrary to the DoJ's assertion.
Nvidia Blackwell Delivers World-Record DeepSeek-R1 Inference Performance
I traveled to the US (from my country -France- and many others) for 12 years. About a trip every month. The last time was 10 years ago.

I never had any problems (outside the horrible behaviour of border officers who show you that you are not welcome). I was stopped once by a policeman when I did an illegal car maneuver (which is tolerated in France), and when he realized I was a tourist with family, he just said, "Be careful, have a nice trip."

Today I am seriously considering never going to the US anymore because it looks like it is not a good destination anymore. I may be wrong though, I hope.
> I think there is a lot of elitism about reading and the intellectualism around it. … Don't play the game. If you don't like reading books and don't get much out of it, don't do it.

I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment that it's good to get your knowledge wherever you enjoy getting it, as long as it's from a reliable source and you're checking them when possible for any claims you intend to rely on. With that said, I think that:

> Genuinely I cannot remember the last time I read a book. I read absolute crap-tons of interesting stuff online, but books? Those out-of-date, read-only, closed-perspectives from people with something they're trying to say? Nope.

may go too far the other direction in implying that books have nothing valuable to offer, which I think isn't true. (I'm also curious about the "from people with something they're trying to say" line, which, coming after the others, sounds like it's meant to be criticism. Surely that's true of wherever else you get your information, too? I can't imagine wanting to read the writing, in any form, or watch the videos or listen to the podcasts or whatever, of someone who isn't trying to say something.)
The AMD Radeon VII has 16GB HBM2 and sold for $700 in 2019. I don't know how that would translate to today's HBM2E's pricing like if its price change follows that of GDDR's.
If it runs on Linux, it should be fairly easy to run it on MacOS through the Game Porting Toolkit. Crossover (or Porting Kit if you don't want to pay for Crossover) should handle it.
Governments need to start putting out travel warnings on the US. It’s becoming an increasingly dangerous place to visit.
Demotivation is a feature, not a bug. For some things you do need discipline, but bear in mind it's a safety switch to keep humans from wasting their time.

Personally I've always done it for the fans. The people who take the time to fill out the surveys with lots of thanks or write articles about how much they loved my app. Or the people who drive to the next city to transfer money (because we didn't support card payments then) and then tell us to keep the change.

It's more than just "signups and revenues", it's more about not letting people down.
Would you ever say, a "stinking distance to travel", as in TFA?
> Currently, private (both American and Chinese) social media platforms have become mouthpieces of authoritarian propaganda and misinformation.

Which is an orthogonal issue. Private social media doing it does not mean government-owned social media wouldn’t. In fact, it is precisely because authoritarians already can see it working that they would salivate at the though.

> And I agree that outlawing all non-ID media would open the floodgates for government censorship. But that is not the proposal here

You’re agreeing with and rebutting things I haven’t said. I don’t think the proposal was to outlaw other forms of social media. I still think the proposal is bad on its own.

> which guarantees that the opinion you read is, in fact, the opinion of a real (European) person, not the output of an LLM trained on the hateful ramblings of the Yarvins and Dugins of this world.

It guarantees no such thing. There’s nothing stopping that real person from asking an LLM and posting the reply directly. That already happens today. Heck, people confidently post screenshots of LLM conversations as if they were fact even when they’re provably wrong.

> If that's not what you want, you're free to go back to TikTok, X or Facebook.

I personally don’t use any of those, and neither would I defend them. Again, my argument is those are already bad and OP’s proposal is just as bad and then adds worse things on top.
Windows and Linux are running OT2 in the application's native instruction set, for one.

But if you want to try, you can use Whiskey.

https://getwhisky.app/
A people's history of the united states is a good one. Most history is written by the generals and leaders. This account is colored by the oft ignored people.
Dutch government urged to stop using "unsafe" US cloud services
The mice aren't being studied for their mice-ness, they've been industrialised for their ease-of-production and easy-to-slaughter mammalian analog attributes.

Wheras Axoloti and co., are still being studied for their unique characteristics.
Reminds me of doing civil disobedience -- you write your attorney's phone number on your arm beforehand.
Is this what is meant with "Make America great again"?
I think you mean: If anybody anywhere decided to invoke a wait() until the state "my COMMIT; has been durably committed", then that means all previous commits must also be in durably committed state before we can continue.

Sure. But this doesn't affect other code that is merely wait()ing for 'logically committed'. Not in the past, and usefully, not in the future either. The 'logical system' can be far ahead of the 'durable' system, it doesn't have to wait.

Where it would go wrong is if code A needs to wait around for code B to do a thing (such as provide a value), and B's code for some reason contains a wait() on durable. Possibly because B was written before the split in commit behaviour was around, and for backwards compatibility reasons, for them COMMIT; means: "wait for durable commit".

Given that `SET synchronous_commit = off;` works per transaction, I'm kinda inspired here. I can think of a few places where we commit for various logical reasons but I don't need the fsync guarantee.
Related: "The case for boycotting the United States" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/us-tru...
With my own moderating experience, I would agree. The system would need to be based around moderation, not just posting and commenting.

It just seems that one of the most valuable uses of the internet could be in the area of politics, and with the high value, the high difficulty is worth tackling.
> That would be the response to nearly every question I would ask over the next two weeks: “I don’t know.”

If you don't understand the threat of an authoritarian dictatorship for its inhabitants, this is it; a state apparatus that is completely opaque, offers no explanation for its actions (other than jingoistic rhetoric), and provides no recourse and certainly no remedy.

people okay with this (and there are many on hn that are as bas been made evident in the last months) simply do not understand that none of their privilege (education/money/status) has any effect on the implacable "I don't know"; if you get snapped up for whatever reason, whatever small innocuous infraction or perceived grievance (or manipulation of the system by someone that doesn't like you), you will go into the same blackhole. they will be telling your lawyers, your family, the (remaining) press "I don't know" and you will be rotting until some whim sets you free (or not).
These chips are a generation and a half ahead of what is shipping now from other vendors (including the barely shipping AMD Ryzen 9 AI Max+ H395). They will sell every one they can produce to money that otherwise would have been spent on legacy hardware like M3 Ultra desktops and M4Max laptops. NVDA reportedly gave a forecast of $1T in revenue from all of its products by 2027.

That said, these chips are not quite shipping and their stability has yet to be proven. nVidia is also unlikely to DISRUPT its AI Cloud customers too much.
It's all very stupid and dangerous.

The prospect of the USA invading Canada is so spectacularly insane that people wrongly assume it can't happen.
This is what America did in the Middle East after 9/11. Just collect up some random people. Claim they are terrorists and send them to Guantanamo bay where they are tortured and raped for a few years for no reason other than to claim they are solving terrorism.
Pure ideological drivel. Anti technology.
True, I also believed it for a second. But it's also easy to blame Ubuntu for errors. IMHO they are doing a quite decent job with assembling their packages. In fact they are also compiled with Stack fortifications. On the other hand I'm glad they are not compiled with the possibly buggy -O3. It can be nice for something performance critical but I definitely don't want a whole system compiled with -O3.
I did some leisure research on how the Nazca Lines align with mountain shadows and made a publication. That was a nice weekend.
https://zenodo.org/records/11422308
When Trump said

>They got left in space

And Musk
>They were left up there for political reasons

There was the line already crossed, because those statements are untrue and they know.

In other words they lied.
For comparison,

"Write a set of alternative lyrics to the theme for Gilligan's Island based on the two astronauts that went up in the Boeing Starliner and were supposed to spend about 8 days in the ISS but ended up spending about 9 months. It's important to follow the meter and rhyme pattern."

Claude:

The Ballad of Starliner

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip,
That started from Cape Canaveral
Aboard this spaceship.

The crew was two brave astronauts,
The mission just eight days long.
Then several systems failed that day,
The timeline was all wrong, the timeline was all wrong.

The thrusters started leaking fuel,
The schedule lost its way.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew,
They'd be lost in space today, they'd be lost in space today.

They settled in the station then,
For a much extended stay,
With two astronauts, and some cosmonauts too,
Research night and day,
The engineers,
Mission Control,
NASA chiefs,
And Boeing's team, all working hard,
Here on Starliner Isle!
Absolutely terrifying. I'm sure it doesn't technically class as "kidnapping" since the law must have some loophole saying they can detain you indefinitely for any reason (or none at all in this case) but it's what I'd call it.
I do think the suggestion was pretty bad. Segregation is always bad. But traditions not continuing to adulthood sounds like a load of nonsense, especially considering the issue of head scarves or hijabs which are things women of certain upbringing are supposed to wear to adulthood. It is not comparable to santa claus and they won't disavow you for not eating brisket with family.
This is a personal take. I agree if you are actively participating and grappling with the material in your mind. One reason I like reading is that, if I don't understand I cannot move on to next step. So, it forces me to actively participate, argue and understand the text.

In audio and visual medium, it is somewhat easier to trick myself into following the flow without actually understanding. I heard, that is why Feynman lectures are bad for some people. It is very easy to understand, but doing physics require active problem solving.

Consuming audio is the most human way and if it works for you, it works for you.
Yes. This is the reality of how it is. It’s unfair that this woman was caught in this but CBP have ultimate power crossing the border can be scary.

My friend got her visa stripped and given a 10 year ban under Obama because of jokes in her text messages about a GC marriage. She didn’t get thrown in jail but she was refused entry back into the US and had to get someone to sell all her stuff while she flew back to her home country.

Most of you have no idea about how life is because you’re probably citizens but this is the reality at the border. It’s even worse in other countries.

Someone I know is from Australia and she said if you overstay your visa they track you down, arrest you and send you to jails outside of Australia mainland until you are eventually deported. Every country treats their border extremely strictly.

CORRECTION: I pinged my friend and I was wrong. They arrest them but don’t send to offshore jails. Those are for illegal immgrants that arrive on boats.
I agree. But regarding this specific game, it seems to work through Crossover (emulation) and Parallels (virtualization). You can also try Whisky and VMware Fusion as free alternatives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iysOgfeWz1M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZzzPtHcw6k
I am not sure I understand you. It's true, I generally prefer not to preorder as it means I'm essentially offering an interest-free loan to a company.

Sometimes I'll do it anyway for one of two reasons: to lock in a price that may increase later, or to receive an item earlier than I would otherwise, due to excessive demand.
Are you taking upon yourself to do this for all uBO users that need it without knowing?

If you do, you acknowledge that "Chrome disabling uBlock Origin is a serious security threat."

If you don't, then "Chrome disabling uBlock Origin is a serious security threat" seems even more true.

Either way, I'm curious on the size of your bet here. Talk is cheap, and you've only given OP the laziest and most obvious solution. Do you believe what you said is profound and/or an interesting argument?
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