skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What RSS feeds do you subscribe to?
> Did you know you need to have a bank account to be eligible to become president of France?

In combination with Europe’s PSD2 directive [0], that effectively means you need to have a Google or Apple account to become President of France.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive
Exactly. See this for details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43162995
I am very informed. It’s clear that the Romanian courts succumbed to pressure from the EU, as confirmed by an EU commissioner. The courts fabricated a justification that is weak in order to get the result they wanted. It’s why they slowly stepped from a recount to cancelling the election to banning candidates.
I know that the diabetic community are extremely interested on these watches. 30 days of battery life, already working support for Android APS and xDrip with these watches. What is there not to like. Put one of these to your child's wrist and they can get alerts on the glucose level easily.
USE flags. You can build packages with specific features enabled or disabled, which can further reduce your dependency tree.
Why? Not all crimes with the same name is of the same severity.
Eric Berger has a good summary on the narrative:

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/can-nasa-remain-nonpar...
He is still missing profile guided optimizations (with his testcase), and bolt.

And in some/most cases -Os is faster than -O3

Boehm GC is usually slower than glibc with lots of allocs. MPS would be better, but needs lots of rewriting. https://github.com/Ravenbrook/mps
Human nature goes deep and doesnt change much across generations
You're not allowed to benchmark if you're not allowed to benchmark:

> You will not perform Benchmarks against any products or services provided

> under terms that restrict performing and disclosing the results of benchmarks

> of such products or services, unless You have the lawful right to waive such

> terms. If You perform or disclose, or direct or permit any third party to

> perform or disclose, any Benchmark, You will include in any disclosure and

> will disclose to Licensor all information necessary to replicate such

> Benchmark, and You agree that Licensor may perform and disclose the results

> of benchmarks of Your products or services, irrespective of any restrictions

> on benchmarks in the terms governing Your products or services.

A benchmark is a benchmark:

> Benchmark: Any benchmark, comparative test or evaluation of the Software.
Metaverse is changing the world. Just as you could see in this presentation - Data centers are first being built as digital twins in Omniverse and later in real world.

It is a profound change, but it will take time for significant number of digital twins being build. However digital twin is a CAPEX in a way. You build 3D model of your warehouse only once and then use it for years to manage operations, robots and everything else.
Show HN: I made a 2D SLAM simulator for mobile robots
For a low-tech version of this, I have long had an alias (which I call "nerdwars") to "git shortlog -ns --no-merges" which just gives the number of commits by contributor from most to least. It's a good way to get a sense for who the major contributors in a project are.
The switch to CockroachDB Software License was 6 months ago.. discussion at the time (389 points, 461 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41256222
They still use the build system. Woof.
Docker is slow on Macs. That’s why there are multiple packages to try and solve it. And still it’s slow. And that is a massive amount of people.

Plenty of people play games on
Macs. It may not be the purpose they bought it does they bought it for general use and that’s part of the general use for many.

For general uses they aren’t better. They cost more. You’re unable to upgrade them. They have less ports and require dongles. The list goes on.

I’ve not had any issues with Linux Bluetooth drivers is so long I can’t even remember when.

You may buy macs now because you’re used to them and you think they’re better. But really you got into macs because of the brand. Because there are very few areas where it is truly better than the others.
Getting 404, archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250318031523/https://reflector...
There is a possible play being put together.

• China -> Taiwan (eventually)

• Russia -> Ukraine

• US -> Greenland

I keeping hearing this from DC circles.
Mass transfer?
> The sentiment in Romania is that we do not want a Russian puppet as president, this seems to differ in USA.

The “constitutional court” is a joke. They made a decision under pressure form the EU. They made a completely unprincipled decision to deny the people of Romania their right to vote. They realized at the last minute that a redo of the election would result in the same outcome according to polls, which is why they kept making up new excuses and ended up banning the candidate. This is obviously a situation where the outcome is artificially manipulated and there’s no real democracy left there. It’s too bad because for about 10-15 years, it really looked like Romania was headed in the right direction, towards democracy and freedom and away from its past.
'Beyond what we'd hoped': SKA-Low's first glimpse of the Universe
He added it of course
You probably got served an Anubis challenge first, doing some computations to block (LLM) scraper bots, which does slow down loading by a second or so
How else do you make people like you if not to make up nonsense and claim to be the savior of everything?

Being a savior is fine, just do it fucking quietly please.
Surely there's a sampling bias here.

The most likely people to respond on a thread like this are those spending the most time on HN, and thus least likely to be spending it elsewhere. The user sharing time between 5 communities might not even see the thread.
The funny thing is degrowth will almost definitely result in us burning lignite which is essentially super dirty coal. It’s freely available all over the surface of the earth, while the cleaner burning fuels are more difficult to get. We’ve seen Germany turning to lignite to heat homes due to the Russia Ukraine conflict. Very good chance there’s a huge spike in global emissions if population decreases.

Not to mention evolution will route around the antibiotic of neo-globalism and whatever creed promotes having kids will inevitably win out in 100 years when all the liberal atheists don’t have kids for a few generations. It’s gonna be all Mormons and Muslims as they’re praising Allah for giving them the bountiful peninsula of Hanbando after the previous inhabitants disappeared due to their “sinful ways”.

This future is far more likely than people think.
Actual WMDs?
The idea that device pairing can and must only be secured at hardware level is a fallacy whose goal is to ensure that only apple products work well with apple products.

For the spam example, nothing prevents apple from offering a ble api with auth that ensures that only devices manually paired by the user access it.

As for automating spam... when we’re discussing ble, we’re talking about a device a few meters away from your phone. What are spammers going to do, send a jogger right behind you that spams you after somehow hacking apple’s auth system?!
There's HN's favourite function for this.
Hahahahaha, the users on popular websites nowadays are usually younger
> This is advanced material, which assumes that you have fully understood earlier
courses. If not, then go back to those earlier texts and find out what you didn’t get.

Is this PDF part of a course series? Or the 'earlier texts' mean prerequisites gotten elsewhere?
I believe 3 buffers is the minimum you need for the CPU and GPU to be able to work independently and never wait for each other. Sure, one could queue up a bunch of extra frames and you'd have more margin in case of a multiple frames long stutter (at the cost of a lot of input latency), but you're typically better served avoiding multiple frames long stutters if possible. Triple buffering is, I believe, more about squeezing out all the performance you can from the hardware, not about just queuing up some number of frames which happens to be 3.
Bluetooth does not inspire trust, but neither does Apple closed source software; iMessage has failed pretty badly for me, in that it I can’t send a SMS to a previously registered with iMessage phone number.
It's easy to negotiate with the Russians. Just give them everything they want!

More seriously, I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop - i.e. that Ukraine will not accept the Russian insane demands so Donald can say tell his domestic audience "they want war!!" and "Russia good* actually."
(2011) Popular in:

2023 (229 points, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37304870

2017 (280 points, 20 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14609321

~2014 (64 points, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8685889
Okay, I'm one among the many users who experienced this exact same thing, and Gumroad seems to indicate this variant is 'Sold Out' and doesn't let me get anything by typing $0 (or any other number for that matter).

The book is available on Z-Library by cursorily searching for the Title of the book. Sigh. Hope the author fixes this by putting it on GitHub (or) removing the link to the Gumroad site that doesn't work.
> 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.

Losing money, troops and public support in the field and back at home is a very real definition of losing.

It sure as hell wasn’t winning.
earth is cool but people are not
Isn't it obvious that the party holding the advantage in war and with unmet strategic goals would not be eager for a ceasefire?

of course putin is not serious
Natural birth is not a defense against that.
Spammers sending spam through ble ?!

They might just as well beat you up and take your wallet.
Insidious perhaps. There is no middle ground of neutral advertising to be had. It's all just pressing upon the pain points of one social sect or another, undermining mental acuity to make 'em feel inadequate or falsely adequate.

I run an adblock app as well so it's hard to begrudge anyone trying to gain undeserved significance for their thing - when some invention is new who is to say what is deserved unless the right people know about it?

Whilst you might be able to block the ads for now you can't block the downslide of polite society that largely accepts the techniques into their lives and keeps them in their back pocket.
Both RU and USA are signatories to https://treaties.unoda.org/t/outer_space

I would say that under the current government of the USA, that signature isn't worth the paper it's written on.

The critical sentences being (according to Wiki) from Articles 1 and 2:

"The exploration and use of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries, irrespective of their degree of economic or scientific development, and shall be the province of all mankind."

"Outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means."
Tourism in Turkey is essentially one dude owning the land/establishment and 10 dudes running around serving tourists. Nothing wrong with that if that's a small part of your economy but if you have most of your people doing that, then it's definitively a mismanagement of your country talent.
https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xht...
Could you give a concrete example concerning what sort of notation caused you difficulty in the past? Asking because it seems odd to me that you feel you need to learn „all“ the notation to get started.

Starting in elementary school you slowly build up topics, mathematical intuition and notation more or less in unity. E.g. starting with whole numbers, plus and minus signs before multiplication, then fractions and decimal notation. By the end of high school you may have reached integrals and matrices to work with concepts from calculus and linear algebra…

It makes little sense to confront people with notation before the corresponding concepts are being taught. So it feels like you may have a different perspective on notation as a layperson that are no longer obvious to more advanced learners.
> If your goal is to "free access to everyone except people I don't like but I can't ask people if they are people who I don't like", well, I suppose it isn't a good mitigation for you, sorry.

Ah. Yes, the part in quotes here is what I think would count as a solution -- I've been assuming that simply steering anonymous users towards logging in would be the obvious thing to do otherwise, and that doing this is unacceptable for some reason. I was hoping that, despite attackers dispersing themselves across IP addresses, there would either be (a) some signal that nevertheless identifies them with reasonable probability (perhaps Referer headers, or their absence in deeply nested URL requests), or (b) some blanket policy that can be enforced which will hurt everyone a little but hurt attackers more (think chemotherapy).

> It will start rate-limiting (not blocking) anonymous users (not everyone).

If some entities (attackers) are making requests at 1000x the rate that others (legitimate users) are, the effect in practice of rate-limiting will be to block the latter nearly all the time.

> Scaling this up to an industrial-scale scraping operation

My understanding was that the PoW would be done in-browser, in which case this doesn't hold -- the attackers would simply use the multitudes of residential browsers they already control to do the PoW prior to making the requests, thus perfectly distributing that workload to other people's computers. What kind of PoW cannot be done in this way?
GitHub Copilot and Cursor: How Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents
> - who is owner of this method (some guy refactored it or reformatted, but who is the REAL owner, or what was the history of this method)

It doesn't work perfectly, but with magit you can jump to the revision before the refactor/reformat, then do another blame from there. I chased a line of code through several layers of refactors that way before and while the original author was long gone it did help explain why things were initially done that way.

I heavily depend on git-blame to understand code. It's one reason why I generally dislike "cleanup" changes that just change formatting/naming for the sake of it.
Very cool demo
I highly doubt Google would be capable of building something like this from the ground up. Just take a look at one of their recent efforts Stadia.
There are many times I really wished to use voice interface but in private. Some notes - both personal and professional - I feel I can voice better than type them out. Sometimes I can't type - it's actually a frequent occurrence when you have small kids. For all those scenarios, I wish for some kind of microphone/device that could read from subvocalizations or lip movement.

In a similar fashion, many times I dreamed about contact lenses with screens built-in, because there are many times I'd like to pull up a screen and read or write something, but I can't, because it would be disturbing to people around me, or because the content is not for their eyes.
The UK's recent prime minister Boris Johnson was born in the US two British parents who happened to be studying in Manhatten at the time. They all moved back here a few months later. The idea that he could be some sort of US sleeper agent is hilarious, though.
> I wonder to myself: these articles, are they really written by open source software contributors who regret their contributions? Or someone on the outside looking in, wondering how they can "fix" things?

yeah, same. I understand the regret, but how naive do you have to be when you start contributing to OSS to not understand that your work may be used in ways you do not like, or want?

But there's also the industry recruitment idiocy around OSS - that not having a Github profile with a bunch of OSS on it is somehow indicative of less programming skill, rather than being indicative of a more jaundiced view of the world. New developers get pushed into contributing hundreds or thousands of hours into OSS in the belief that it will help get them a high-paying job in tech.

Which, to be fair, it might. But they then can't complain that all their work is subsequently used to commit genocide, or make vast amounts of money for someone else completely unconnected with the project.

I have real doubts that FOSS is viable, long-term. It's hard to get into a rational debate about this, though.
Bluesky and a couple discord channels related to entomology and botany. I really like each at the moment. My usage is pretty limited, and the quality of time spent is really high. I feel like HN is the same. Since dropping Reddit and Twitter my internet usage has been a lot more positive.

I found the discord channels somewhat by chance. When you’re into specific things and ask a lot of questions, inevitably you’ll wind up meeting similar people.

As for Bluesky, I was just too burned out on Twitter and was willing to give something else a shot. My feed was initially a bunch of mycological photography, birding photography, far more moderate and constructive politics, and some lists of people in tech that I seeded my following list with. It was so much easier to read and engage with, and the transition was very natural. I’m glad I made the change.

Bluesky has led to discovering a few substacks that I enjoy a lot too. I definitely wouldn’t have found them on Twitter.
People who believe that will natural selection themselves out of existence and nobody will think such silly things in a few hundred years. Modern liberal sensibilities are a disease that can only be sustained on the back of a healthy host. It’s funny that the people most likely to believe in evolution are the least evolutionarily fit.
I'm using both for several years. Fedora is lightyears ahead in quality and ease of use, but you need to install a lot of missing packages by yourself. No big deal though.

Ubuntu became a huge clusterfuck
Show HN: TikTok Downloader Android App
TikTok Video Downloader :https://download-tik.com/
Indeed, I discovered Reallusion was not a good direction early on, but we didn't need to double-down on something like the rokoko solutions either. Even after unproductive discussions with their developers asking for a key feature, it was clear it still wouldn't meet the project goals. The 9 seat studio license cost for FaceIt was inexpensive, has shown reasonable results, and I like supporting that kind of FOSS compatible work.

Did you actually have any insights, observations, or questions?

They make medications for mind "Boggles" I hear. Best of luck =3
> A bit of a joke here:

> It solves 100% cases where some manager requests dashboard never to look at it again after one day.

Better than having engineers build it for days (for the same result).
I'm very much looking forward to giving Embassy on the RP2350 a go. I've been using it for a while with the RP2040, and it's a joy to use.
File C-Corp taxes for a new startup using TurboTax Business Desktop on Mac?
We're a bootstrapped Delaware C-Corp. In 2024, we made less than $1k in revenue and didn't pay ourselves or contractors. Our only expenses are infrastructure, tools and... the biggest expense was the tax prep costs for 2023 with a CPA.

We'd love to file taxes ourselves this year. I see that we can file Form 1120 for a C-Corp with TurboTax Business Desktop software but it's only available for Windows.

The problem is that we don't have Windows laptops in our company or even family. I'd like to know if it'll work using Parallels before I buy TurboTax ($190) and Parallels (~$90).

Has anyone tried using TurboTax Business Desktop for DIY C-Corp taxes on a Mac with a Windows emulator?

Thank you!
With clang. GCC is known to do better with march=native, or at least it was.
It means that Disney, company which is a CGI/movie/cartoon producing company(Pixar created OpenUSD format) can use the same tools and make physical robot walk on stage.

If the venue, where the presentation took place also has readily available 3D model made with OpenUSD in SimReady level of details, Pixar could just download this model to their cartoon tools and start training virtual model of the robot in the virtual model of the venue before the event and troubleshoot any issues with the program.

Isn't it mindblowing?
Weaponizing language is old news in politics. The US have been doing it since before I was born and so have everyone else. It's pretty much what politics is.

If you find you're suddenly offended by the words of the clown class you're likely to have been massively partisan to the last in-charge circus-troupe
Trump appears to have put the substantial amount work done by the Biden administration in the toilet.

In 2021, Mr. Biden issued an executive order imposing sanctions on individuals and companies engaged in the illicit opioid trade. His Treasury Department put sanctions on more than 300 individuals and entities, freezing entire networks of fentanyl suppliers and traffickers out of the international financial system.

In 2023 and 2024 he identified China as a major illicit drug-producing country for its role in the synthetic opioid trade — a blow to the reputation of China’s chemical industry.

Simultaneously, the Biden administration pushed U.S. law enforcement agencies to conduct aggressive investigations and build indictments against dozens of Chinese citizens and companies that were trafficking fentanyl precursor chemicals into the United States.

[..] Biden secured a personal commitment from President Xi Jinping to restart counternarcotics cooperation in November 2023

[..] And we made progress. International fentanyl supply chains showed signs of disruption, forcing traffickers to change sources and tactics.

Together with other diplomatic initiatives and an expansive public health campaign, the number of lethal fentanyl overdoses in the United States has dropped.

In the 12 months ending September 2024, overdose deaths were down an estimated 24 percent from the year prior.

Thousands of American lives have been saved.

Now, of course, China no longer wants to play ball with the US chasing down the traffickers thanks to Trump and his tariffs.

~ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/trump-china-trade...
It is, in the sense that, if there's a way to display a dynamic label on individual keys, some UI/UX designers will make use of that to create interfaces that can't be learned, as they change depending on tasks, environments, and from version to version.

Consider that touchscreen is very much this, and ever since phones got them, you can no longer do anything without looking at the screen. Interfaces are not stable enough to learn (and not reliable enough to operate without looking).
Mostly lobste.rs, since it's more programming focussed than HN.
Chinese scientists build first AI chip made of carbon and its super fast
> I don't want to devalue the CVE system

You could, though. It's 99.9% stuff like this!
the 1s limit is too restrictive for somebody who used to be the second best in the world :)
That kid is damn proud of you. Good shit man.