skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although this isn't foreign related, I started a regional freelance software company to help build websites or software for local government and businesses or other kinds of software/IT help. It sucks to know that there are state funded organizations that just impede any sort of locally homegrown software development. And it made me realize that software is one of the strange fields where competition both feels like its extremely lacking or flourishing, depending on which sect your in.
Vivian Jenna Wilson (Musk's Estranged Daughter) Interviewed in Teen Vogue
Meanwhile, my team has been trying to upgrade a large app from vue2/nuxt2 to vue3/nuxt3, which has no real upgrade path at all.

Oh, and the time between nuxt3's prod release and vue2's EOL was like 9 months.

Vue 3 IS better than 2, but at what cost?
I wouldn’t fear guns but the political climate. If you have said anything critical about the Trump government or of about a tiny country’s conduct in the ME, your fears are not baseless. In the past there were reports about having to hand out laptop / other electronic devices and handing over your pin/password, if you refused, you wouldn’t be allowed to enter the US. I also know a christian arab who regularly was taken to the secondary by tsa agents. And was interrogated.
React's been around long enough and is dug in deep enough to have decent ROI on knowing fairly well, but the recent obsession with Next.js and SSR...maybe not. Privately I think this might be their undoing.
My mistake. More than one a day on average: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081

We don't need to debate over "what is a mass shooting" in Canada or Europe.

Also, please don't discount my stated number one reason: daily threats to the sovereignty of my country. Too many Americans don't seem to even notice or care about how serious that is.
In the world, the richest wins, not the nicest (cf. Sam Altman)
Is it even possible to confiscate passports of other countries citizens? How do they even know what is on your birth certificate.
I have given this a lot of thought, and I haven't been able to come up with any reasonable long-term solution that avoids major refactors or swapping out libraries and tools. I am leaning toward pairing React with React Router for creating server-side rendered web apps. My thinking is that React has "won" the JavaScript wars, maintaining its popularity consistently over the past decade, and React Router is one of the most downloaded libraries for React. (At this point, I’ve come to terms with the fact that React Router will likely introduce breaking changes in its next major update, as it has done many times in the past.)
At some point it's easier to geoblock a whole country at the firewall level and loginwall the rest of the world, rather than trying to explain that in your jurisdiction, which is not their jurisdiction, what they are doing is a crime — which they don't give a single fuck about.
Finally, a reason for bitcoins!
This is a Reuters story, and if you doubt it for some reason you can find the actual NHTSA notice in 10 seconds.
Very cool! This is exactly the topic I will probably be working in my Masters thesis. I am curious if you done anything about linearity and concurrency in the type system. Can one send files across threads for example?
The only hope we have is that Trump is a true circus ring master. He cancels the previous admin things and reinstates them with his name and a republican spin.
I'm curious what data you have that shows carrying a gun decreases your risk, as opposed to increasing it.
Shifting work from the people selling something (i.e. parking) to those buying it is not progress from the POV of the buyers.

How a particular change impacts you will, of course, strongly color your perception of it.

If you're someone who always has coinage readily available, forcing you to install an app and create an account on a device you may not have, or be familiar with, plus feeding said app an up-to-date payment method (accompanied by concerns of financial loss) and eating the cost of transaction fees is not going to be seen as progress.

If you never use currency and having coinage on hand is an extra effort, and don't mind installing and using yet-another-app on your current smartphone, then doing away with coins seems much less hostile.

And, of course, if you own/operate parking meters, reducing your own overhead is a win for you, as long as the meters keep getting used enough that your profits go up.

Which ends up actually benefiting the public more, I don't know.
They'll terrorize someone who does the chores typical of a houseguest (doing one's own bedding, taking part in the chore rotation), but they never seem to give this treatment to tech bro "digital nomads" who enter on tourist visas in impoverished countries like Thailand or Vietnam and do remote work in the exact same fields that could enrich the populace.

Nobody was going to do that housework except the household, wheras someone coding from a cafe in Bangkok is arguably absolutely stealing local jobs.
The "cant rail" in question here is the exterior cladding of the A pillar and along the panoramic roof, adjacent to the windshield.

Noting that sharp-edged, robust stainless steel trim pieces falling of cars can be a pretty significant safety risk to the traffic around the affected car.
Thanks for the heads up! Sounds great
I predict strong Federal resistance to the Los Angeles Olympics taking place without individual incentives. The President making surprise appearances in dressing rooms for gender inspection, etc. Likewise, if the 2028 election is cancelled, I expect the only nations participating will be Russia and a newly-minted Gazan resort team.
LibreOffice works for 99.99% of the cases where Microsoft Office is being used. Moreover, NextCloud offers a free "LibreOffice on the web" capability if you prefer.

Oh, BTW. Nextcloud is also nice. Very nice.

Edit: Looks like Owncloud guys have arrived (just joking, I like them equally).
that's a disingenuous argument, ignoring emotions is not a rational way to make decisions

if one will be too afraid of gun violence to enjoy a US vacation, the rational choice is to go somewhere else

that said, the rational choice for, say, an agoraphobe is not "never go outside"
> there will be no Dutch expertise left

I'm curious about the kind of existing expertise they are referring to
I enjoy a good heckling probably more than most people, but this is just mean and thoughtless.
Your point exactly - why didn't he do the same to the EU?
They're very much not "best practices", and will be deprecated soon (if they're not already).
How Many Other Oceans Exist in Our Solar System?
Meanwhile, I had to do some backend thing yesterday, and ended up using the LD_LIBRARY_PATH trick, which was introduced in 1988.

I'm grateful that LLMs are great at writing frontend code for me, though the broader implications are a bit scary.
Why are we using business expenses to argue cultural impact of games to begin with? And how does this relate to unions?
garmin watch works like this at the moment on android and subpar on ios
You don't need javascript at all to render.

Oh for a version of the WWW that never allowed javascript at all.... money destroys absolutely everything it touches.
it was in the top 20 for the day

on https://hckrnews.com/
> filters, non-destructive editing

It just isn't the foundation you'd build on if you valued these things, they only added non-destructive recently it's not like it was core from the start, there's many other projects you could build upon that have this at their core.

Krita or honestly even Blenders shader graph would be a better and more modern starting point if that's what you wanted and you'd have a more active base where you're going to get value downstream in optimizations and more filters on a timeline that isn't multiple decades.
When you say it’s “just politics”, you’re removing a sense of proportion which serves the interests of the biggest offenders. Nixon and Obama both broke laws, but stating it like that obscures the fact that one of them threatened the American system of government and the latter deprived the city of Somerville of parking ticket revenue.
Genuinely curious. Can you elaborate?
I would expand that to a general risk of being hassled, physically intimidated, or even threatened. I've personally seen (either as the target or as a bystander) a steady rise over the past decade of total strangers out in public jumping from a minor mistake or a bit of carelessness straight to political accusations, slurs, etc. Occasionally it even happens without any inciting event (e.g. based only on appearance).
It is not clear to me if people who are not CMU students can get their assignments/quizes checked by the autograder.
Europe actually has put a bunch of money into open source software. Things like Mastodon come from the EU. Look up the projects funded by NLnet: https://nlnet.nl/project/index.html

But European open source projects tend to be, you know, open source, so they don't get nearly as much marketing attention as things which have a billion dollars spent on marketing.
Tulip computers, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_Computers
Huh?

Kagi was founded in 2018, and I just gave you an example of a shared reality between those two search engines. For your information, the first result of both searches was the same as well.

Obviously given I'm paying for Kagi I believe it has some value over Google, but there's still a pretty significant core of searches that it doesn't really matter which engine you're using.
That's what I've been doing! It works shockingly well. https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
they are mostly "software recalls"
AI tarpits && lim (human curated contant/mediocre AI answers -> 0) = AI's crumbling into dust by themselves.
Data and cloud sovereignty has been a theme in Europe for many years. Most efforts to develop European 'clones' of popular US services have had mixed successes (compared to China for example).

Number of declared meetings with EU officials since 2014: Google (381), Airbus (318), the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (241), and Meta (235)

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/24/big-tech-banki...

The documents from Uber released a few years ago revealed a lobbying effort by some EU officials. In that context growing homegrown options will be difficult:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62057321
The checks and balance system has been compromised a little bit. Hope has dropped on congress to check the executive. SCOTUS should be checking next, but people believe they cannot be relied on because they are too conservative. Except CJ Roberts is now concerned about the executive branch assault on justice side. His stance is changing due to the need for C&B.
Because the recalls on 95% of the cars Tesla has sold (Model 3 and Y) are basically all software updates that users never notice, and evidently don’t cause tons of car crashes.

When millions of people use a car day in and day out and don’t even notice a recall, I wouldn’t expect them to care.

As an example of why recalls are not the end all-be all either, Subaru lost a phantom power draw class action lawsuit due to faulty design of their Starlink head unit, and they didn’t even have to do a recall, even though it cost me thousands to fix.

And because I fixed it myself before the lawsuit, I’m not eligible for any compensation, even though Subaru knows every VIN with the faulty design.

https://www.subarubatterysettlement.com/
Main difference between all of them is speed. There’s some differences in how npm, yarn, pnpm or bun handle workspaces and hoisting (and stuff like dependency overrides) but if one of them works for you, you rarely have to switch between them.

Edit: also npx is just an alias for npm exec, allowing you to run scripts in npm packages
Across my sites -- mostly open data sites -- the top 10 referrers are all bots. That doesn't include the long tail of randomized user agents that we get from the Alibaba netblocks.

At this point, I think we're well under 1% actual users on a good day.
> Indeed a “CSS rule” is already a thing and it has nothing to do with lines.

Shouldn't make a difference; we had the element `<hr>` (horizontal rule) since before CSS, after all.
Perhaps time to start a central community ban pool for IP ranges?
These are shameful, and shouldn't happen.

But, if you run the numbers, they're also rare enough that they're not worth worrying about at the individual level. The kind people usually mean by "school shooting" are especially rare.
Ignoring its engineering faults (and those of its current CEO), I appreciate that a car company went way off script and designed something that's really out there, design-wise.
> countries with the cheapest costs which led to a decrease in quality and the destruction of smaller, more local businesses.

So, you alone declare that it has led to these things so everyone should isolate and drive up costs and share less? I get that we can't let the free market go unchecked, but free trade seems fundamental to competition and innovation.
A fair point, but it should be said that a scale also only measures a some sort of an EM-based proxy for gravity, typically the compression of a spring either mechanically moving a needle or being electronically detected with strain gauges[1].

I guess my point was that when we peer to the skies and detect EM radiation at various bands, that's also just a proxy for something else that we're actually interested in. The photons aren't interesting in themselves, it's what we can infer about them by following the causal chain backwards. In that sense, it doesn't matter whether the photons are produced on Earth or a billion parsecs away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain_gauge
https://www.legaldive.com/news/tesla-twitter-mass-arbitratio...

Tesla is using customer as guinea pigs. They don't care if you die, the paperwork says they are not liable for whatever happens. Rest assured they'll learn from your demise and they'll update their software with another experiment that might be less lethal this time, who knows!
Teach Claude how to play Solitaire or Candy Crush at work and we will have come full circle.
We need to create a type of visa that has some kind of court-enforceable rights attached to it. Currently there seems to be no middle ground between citizen-with-full-rights and foreign-scum-with-no-rights. Travel for legitimate business and tourism just isn’t worth the risk right now.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that many were given away at deep discounts or for free to help grow "awareness" and make it look more popular than it is.
My current firm is still on 16 and just trying to make it to 18 because of the deprecations.

All of the WYSIWYG editors that work on 16 are no longer supported. it's a "cross your fingers" in case someone found a security issue (or don't use them)

React 16 is still supported, but it's definitely obsolete.
Ford Pino is just thought of that because it had a very famous book written singling it out.

The unsafe practices were just common for the time and it wasn't Ford being uniquely dumb.
Technologies that could power the future of energy
It's going to get to the point where everything will be put behind a login to prevent LLM scrapers scanning a site. Annoying but the only option I can think of. If they use an account for scraping you just ban the account.
This is about 2^n, not n^2. 2^0 is 1, which does not fit "all digits are even".
In the past month, I've had to block LLM bots attacking my poor little VPSs — not once, but twice.

First, it was Facebook https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23490367 and now it's these other companies.

What's worse? They completely ignore a simple HTTP 429 status.
I like Estonia, but if their approach was valid it not can only be judged after the Russians tried to disable all those shiny new digital services or the American decide to invalidate all IT contracts or the Chinese’s mandate Chinese’s products don’t work in Estonia.

Paper works even if the electricity goes away and we have to live in caves again … or bunkers.
Oh, yeah, I should have said 2^k mod 100 has no odd digits.
The link is about 2^n not n^2.
> Surely if a lack of open phone OS and feature access was the problem, we’d see a rich ecosystem of integrations that exist on Android devices that are just impossible to achieve on iOS right?

...yes, and that's exactly what has happened. Android has a thriving ecosystem of excellent smartwatches (Garmin, Pebble, Fitbit, Samsung & Pixel watches, etc) with lots of features (particularly around notifications and interactions with apps on the device) that are impossible to support on iOS. https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-... has some concrete details.
ICE detainees are big business, at least for the private companies paid to keep them locked up.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-det...
The Extraordinary, Imperiled Science at the End of the Earth
or just not go? ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯
>the US Government could disrupt “business as usual” or turn into a hostile state actor a la China

You typed this on hardware made by a hostile state actor: China.

As long as the hardware side of digital civilization is completely dependent on the Chinese communist regime, I certainly don't worry about American tech companies dominating the software side.

There are alternatives on the software side if you want them, meanwhile try to build a computer system without hardware made in China..
Most trucks have ‘body on frame’ construction. Not clear on Cybertruck stuff, but for normal ICE trucks, the towing and payload requirements, plus large engines just make it easier. They tend to be less sensitive to the need for optimizing strength-weight ratio like modern emission controlled cars too, or precisely engineered crumple zones, which is a large part of why modern cars are unibody construction.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/report-cybertru...

> An analysis published Thursday by the auto news website FuelArc found that, in their one year of existence, the approximately 34,000 Cybertrucks on the roads had five fire fatalities, giving them a fatality rate of 14.5 per 100,000 units. That’s 17 times the fatality rate of the Ford Pintos, whose famously flawed gas tank design on the car’s rear end led to 27 reported fire fatalities in its nine years on the road, resulting in a fatality rate of 0.85 per 100,000 units, according to FuelArc.
Overexplaining things you don't have a good grasp on is not the best idea idea out there. Asking questions can help piecing together some understanding which when when communicated and has some kind of feedback, does have a good effect on further learning. I used the word communicated instead of overexplaining which I find a bit overbearing. Overexplaining... If the point gets across the first time why repeat it ad nauseum?
as long as you can detect the bot is an ai crawler.
> To their credit, I think the React code itself has maintained reverse compatibility pretty well (it's not React's fault), but the build systems I was using 5 years ago have all changed and broken reverse compatibility.

That's a problem with your build system then, not React. There is (or was) indeed a lot of churn in build systems, but you wouldn't have been spared unless you had chosen to not use a build system - which is still possible with React, but not with Svelte, Vue or Angular.

My current position on build systems is that if it doesn't work out of the box with esbuild, I'm not using it. If it does work out of the box with esbuild, then it's likely also going to work with whatever comes after.
There is one already and it’s called green card.

It’s not like current administration cares about it.
Yes... almost like 16 years ago is when game sales weren't depending on how long games were on shelves. Shocking that Minecraft can still sell today because it's been on a digial storefront for almost 20 years.

>Modern AAA stuff is just simply pretty bad

1. your conclusion doesnt match your premise. what does sales have to do with quality?

2. this whole argument is just a useless tangent. If you want to look for games not on a conveyor belt, don't look at best selling lists. Especially for networked games continually updated for decades vs. hand crafted releases
> Humans are not good at measuring risk.

True in general, but in the specific case of gun homicides, the data do seem to support their concern. As per [1] and [2] the US gun homicide rate is more than 4 per 100k whereas countries like Switzerland, Sweden, France, Japan, UK, Denmark, and many others seem to have between one and two orders of magnitude fewer gun deaths.

If someone from one of those countries above expressed concern about gun homicides when visiting the United States it would seem no more irrational than a fellow American expressing concern about visiting Jamaica or Honduras because they have an order-of-magnitude higher gun homicide rate compared to the United States.

(I doubt the overall gun homicide numbers tell the whole story with regard to tourist safety, just that there exists a rational basis for this concern.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
[2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-death...
I mean ... it could be pretty easily. Just try to invade the U.S.A. See what happens. :shrug: :grin:
So I mostly agree with you, but I think there's some real dissatisfaction with React and Remix/React-Router's emphasis on SSR. If you don't care about SEO, there's really not that much SSR gives you that CSR doesn't. React and Remix seem to have gone all-in on SSR, and I just don't quite understand why.
Collabora: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collabora_Online
If you code mindfully, Python stdlib can do tons and tons of things (I love logging and argparse, for example). But I have seen the other end of the spectrum, too. Somebody imported whole Pandas just to read a couple of columns from an Excel file, to create a simple URL list, and some folders.

To download the free Springer books during COVID.

I mean, ouch.

P.S.: If you like your eyes, please don't look at AI stacks.
This problem will likely only get worse, so I'd be interested to see how people adapt. I was thinking about sending data through the mail like the old days. Maybe we go back to the original Tim Berners-Lee Xanadu setup charging users small amounts for access but working out ISP or VPN deals to give subscribers enough credit to browse without issues.
Unless I am missing something, the result of that generated work has no monetary value though.
It was this: [1], posted here yesterday I think.

[1]: https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externali...
TSLA honestly feels like the next Enron.

Stock is overvalued to hell. Leadership continues to sell (AI, self driving vehicles, tesla pays for itself via taxi service, …) investors on new projects but ultimately failing to deliver to market.

The “Cybertruck” flop is just the most recent example.

Did you also catch the gaudy sales pitch Elon and Orange Man had on the _White House_ lawn? This company is a failure. Its leadership is clueless. It’s all built on a house of cards.
I think this is kind of a tangent - surely we all understand that "I want zero risk" is technically an exaggeration. I think we can talk about the difference between "low" and "virtually zero" without getting into "there's always meteors" territory.

E.g. I'm an American, and I don't want to go anywhere (inside or outside my country) where my risk of being killed by malice or incompetence is "low", for most colloquial definitions of "low". I would like something lower than that. Feeling safe is a really big deal, especially when you have no agency. E.g. I'm happy to go on a, relatively speaking, "dangerous" hike.
Does GitHub have this problem?
Saturn had polyurethane body panels that were mounted using bolts and washers similarly to steel bodywork.