skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have previous administrations been as aggressive against other countries due to their policies?
For example with South Africa

Yes! And in fact, funny your example is South Africa because in the past there was action against South Africa when it was run by the apartheid government! Including but not limited to Congress passing the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, which called for an end to apartheid and placed economic sanctions on South Africa. The bill prohibited the import of South African goods, the sale of arms and military equipment to the nation, and any new investment.

I believe Europe wasn’t as activist against the South African apartheid government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-apartheid_movement_in_the...
Although my company is a small, private firm, we maintain systems that are considered important public infrastructure and as such we are eligible to work with CISA. They have provided red team pen-testing for us in the past, though my understanding is that that team has now been let go by DOGE. They also provide weekly vulnerability scans and reports as well as supplemental scans when new threats are found. We literally got a notice from them today about a PHP vulnerability and rectified it within a few hours of the alert. They been a good resource for us and I hope that they are able to continue.
Your first argument makes no sense. People from totally different cultures don't suddenly integrate. In the US, Jews originally ran the mafia when they came over, then Irish/Italians. Was that an indicator that America's model failed? And that jews/irish/italians would never integrate into it and never have high trust neighborhoods? Or that integration is a process (that you aren't allowing for in your argument)?

Not having moms working multiple zero hour jobs to try and barely survive would be a huge plus for high trust society. They would better socialize their children (which would reinforce a high trust society). They would better account for their children because they would be present (a plus to high trust). Under your current system they aren't home to instill high trust, when they are around they are too tired, and they have way less time/ability to engage in socializing activities with their children resulting in a non-parented, non-socialized society.

The majority of high trust societies are ones where peoples' basic needs are met. El Salvador has a very short history of some improvement from militarized policing but hardly enough data to start extrapolating from other than high enforcement police states are police states.
It talked about digitization but that could mean a lot of things. Are they just putting pictures of the fragments up? Is there a transcription of the fragments. Can the algorithm transcribe a fragment or does someone have to do that and then feed it to the algorithm? I don't know as much about cuneiform tablets but people get PhDs just to be able to recognize what letters are on a papyrus fragment. I'd be surprised if a computer could do that already.
Cue the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater music.
This to me is hilarious. I live in the rural south-east and find myself surrounded by the people that cheered this administration on. Sampling the opinions around me, they are about as unhappy with this admin as the left.

Yet when I go on the internet, I see these right-wing Trump supporters making arguments in support of stuff like this with the most hollow and rabid nature.

Have any of you considered that the US Gov just does whatever it wants and manufactures at least a large percentage of the consent we see in digital media?
Tell HN: An update on your Google Maps Timeline
Got an email letting me know G lost over 10 years of trip data for me in the move from 'storing on our servers to storing on your personal device' or whatever's been in the works for months. Brutal. I mean, the backup was there on my device but seems incomplete or part of the botched data. Lovely. What I don't understand is it was on their servers for years so isn't there a backup of like....6 months ago? And they're like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> We briefly experienced a technical issue that caused the deletion of Timeline data for some people. We're reaching out as your account may have been impacted.

> If you have encrypted backups enabled, you may be able to restore your data. Make sure you have the latest version of Google Maps, then go to your Timeline. Tap the cloud icon ( ) near the top of your screen, and choose a backup to import your data. If you did not have backups turned on, unfortunately you will not be able to recover lost data.

> We understand that this can be frustrating if you use Timeline to remember places you've visited, and we are taking steps to improve our systems for the future.
--The Timeline Team
Tech companies aren't the only big businesses in the US.
I was speaking in general about the law, individual contracts nonwithstanding.
That's more of a meme though in fairness multiple things can be simultaneously true.

The original purpose was to gather data from people and map who is friends with who. A live diary so to speak. It's original name was LifeLog. Think tanks said it was too on the nose so they cancelled it and shortly thereafter Zuk was on the news announcing TheFaceBook. [1] Most of these platforms came out of and were indirectly funded by the dark side of Stanford SRI.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3Xxi0b9trY [video][44 mins][documentary]
I pronounce it as a portmanteau of regular and expression, and will continue to do so despite any corrections ;)
Database Protocols Are Underwhelming
I’ve lived and worked in France for three years. There are many things I’ve learned about it, some good some bad, but certainly one of them is that France is a country that can show real leadership.
Even though it was already known, more proof is good.
I always said "vee-aye" for vi, but I just say "vim" like it looks like it should be said. If it actually stood for "VI Improved" it should be "viim" (pronounced veem?).
I hate to helk, it’s a G-noo. https://youtu.be/j53z6RfFb7U
the controversy isnt `ck` vs `x`, it's LAH-tek vs LAY-tek vs lah-TEK vs lay-TEK
Rural Siberia? There's the famous Lykov family, and probably some others
Once you get beyond the stock content, the Quest version and Quest controllers hold you back.
China's authority reaches deep down to the community and office level. They have party members embedded everywhere keeping an eye on their neighbors and co-workers. I'd be surprised if they left any big rural areas un-surveilled.
Really cool! I haven’t peered into the internals yet, so forgive the ignorant question: are the calculations spectral?
For a road trip we put on the Ramona Quimby audiobooks and I was shocked at how much better they were than I remembered, and how similar of a feeling they gave me to Bluey.

It comes from the minutiae and details of childhood psychology. To a small child, a pair of new red boots is so much more than a pair of red boots.

It's not only relatable to kids, but the magic is that it reminds me what it's like to be a kid, and helps me relate to them.
> we'd be going to the tangi at our marae in Herekino. Uncle Ted and my cousin Nate picked me up in his silver Holden Rodeo ute

Been some time since reading Jeff Noon's Pollen, or somewhere words pull to a familiar new.
That’s a fair point about personal agency, but it sidesteps the meat of the parent's comment: modern systems are engineered to obscure accountability. Many "personal" deaths - addiction, poor health, lack of care - aren't just random or self-inflicted. They emerge from structures built to deflect blame: lobbying, regulatory capture, and alegal negative externalities[1]. The issue isn't agency vs. violence - it's that our bureaucracies are designed to make harm invisible and responsibility untraceable.

Or as Stafford Beer wrote "the purpose of a system is what it does." The system we've built reliably produces death and violence - intentions or agency aside.

[1] https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2022/12/behind-the-scenes-...
And again, a case where the creator could have done everyone a favor and not given it an obscure name that only an academic (and probably not many of those) would be able to pronounce correctly.
That does not make sense... In November, her visa was revoked at the border, when trying to enter the US. At that point, she was obviously turned around back into Canada. Then later, she was detained when trying to enter the US from Mexico in 2025.

So, how do you suggest she managed to enter the US after November in order to have remained there illegally? Did the CBP, who have just revoked her visa a few days/weeks prior, just let her in on a tourist visa? That does not sound very believable, even for the previous US administration.

And what do you suggest her plan was? Previously she was on TN work visa. You seem to think that after having her TN visa revoked, she managed to get into the US on a 90-day tourist visa instead (thus working there illegally), which is why she needed to run for the border after 3 months, and why she was detained when trying to re-enter. But what kind of plan is that – to run for the border every 90 days after having your TN visa revoked. That is such an obvious recipe for failure, nobody who employs an immigration lawyer – like that lady – would have gone ahead with it.

I've definitely seen other headlines overselling similar detention stories for rage bait, but I don't see much wiggle room in this case.
I've always admired the work that the team behind https://www.greenarraychips.com/ does, and the GA144 chip seems like a great parallel computing innovation.
> Backup TOTP are put in .txt files for each service and in a folder encrypted by Cryptomator

I do something similar but instead use KeePassXC to securely store copies of totp secrets.
Buying a canoe with the company credit card is peanuts vs the waste of something like a multi-year ‘AI’ project which delivers zero useful results.

Maybe they should have kept the canoe guy instead of hiring grown up bean-counters who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
I'm 66, and when I myself was 10 or 11 my friends on my street and I were completely obsessed with the Estes rocket and Cox .049 U-control scenes. Most of us were lucky enough to have engaged fathers and once the standard craft were assembled and flown, we all browbeat them mercilessly for more information for mods, shortcuts, hacks etc. My dad grew very wary of the 'Why can't we' type questions. I had modified a C-type engine Big Bertha rocket with an extra long transparent payload module which set the stage for various kidnappings of lizards, frogs, praying-mantises, eggs, multiple 1 and a quarter inch sockets, etc (all returned to earth unharmed, if not un-rattled). The nichrome wire igniters were troublesome for most of the kids. Bulky and expensive (for 4th graders) lantern batteries were hard to come by. We found we could steal D-cells from flashlights, hack cardboard tubes from paper towel rolls, reinforce with electrical tape, and make passable energy sources from that, etc. But all of that required questions from the closest available parent about voltage and series/parallel connections, as well as other questions about CG when modding the rockets themselves, etc. I think your STEM comment is very much on-point. None of my friends thought we were learning anything at the time. We were mostly just jazzed about doing fun stuff that had the potential for tearing itself apart in mid-air. I know the advent digital everything makes modeling systems for kids [Kerbal,etc] probably pretty trivial now, but actually crashing things in spectacular fashion IRL had/has it's own visceral rewards.
Valve's new HMD is literally in developer hands as we speak.
What is pdfblobby?
Are the Percona folks a bunch of core MySQL/MariaDB engineers?
I don't follow the distinction you're making. The number line is ordered and contains a 0....

The GP's explanation seems more fitting for the year 2000 ambiguity. Are you measuring completed years (celebrate millenium on NYE 2001) or are years the things happening between 0 and 1, 1 and 2, etc (celebrate on 2000, because we're already in the 2000th "gap")?
While we're doing wacky units for energy instead of the joule, I'd personally prefer roughly 360 DeLorean's per day (assuming the 1.21 gigawatts are required for roughly 10 seconds)
While acknowledging that it's theoretically possible other approaches might succeed, it seems quite clear the author agrees with you.
Only 30% of F-35 fleet are "mission ready", software suite is full of bugs, and the airframe cracks if you use the cannon, but sure, it's just "moving the goal posts" and has nothing to do with anything. Let's spend another couple trillion on another half-baked heap of bugs, except this time around let's spend it with the company that forgot how to build reliable planes or spacecraft.
It continues to astound me that Apple seems not only reluctant – but actively disinterested – in bringing general purpose computing to touchscreen devices.

I want whole-ass macOS on the iPad, and not only are they not doing it, they're doing the reverse: massive adoption beyond early apple's technical/creative userbase is leading to the iOS-ification of macOS. Lower level controls are increasingly locked behind padded walls. I'm old enough to remember when the radio button for "allow apps from unidentified developers" was just... there. I didn't need to hunt stackoverflow for wacky CLI workarounds just to install indie software on my own computer.

It's uniquely unfortunate for apple too, because it's apple. Surely bringing desktop computing patterns to finger/pencil interfaces has a lot of hard problems in need of novel solutions, but there was a time when apple was an HCI powerhouse, and would have been as good a candidate as anyone to try and tackle such things. Could ~2013 apple have done windows 8 better than windows 8? In their sleep, IMO.

Anyway, do people have favorite takes on the actual motivations behind this? Does it truly come down to a desire to own the platform e2e and keep raking in that sweet sweet app store tax? Or is there some kind of more nuanced incentive structure at work?
> idempotency

Even with the ability to detect that something is a retry, there are more wrinkles, like a query that involves NOW() which would be correct to run now-now [0], but would not accomplish the desired result if run 15 seconds later. Or uses of RAND(), unless there's some control over the seed.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRGCZh5A8T4&t=1m17s
> "I don't need a full XML parser, I just need this little piece of data! Let's keep things lightweight. This can just be a regex..."

relevant:

> ruby-saml was using two different XML parsers during the code path of signature verification. Namely, REXML and Nokogiri

where "REXML" does exactly what you described, and hilarity ensued

Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43374519 - March 2025 (126 comments)
>Right wing international police apparatus will stop at nothing.

What's this have to do with right wing? Can't we have a civil discussion about tech impact in society without making it all about how only one political affiliation is always evil wile the other is always righteous?

Abuse on freedom of speech, spying and censorship is bad no matter which political side does it, and they all do it, so leave your political grumbles at home, this aint the place, hence flagged.
> repo: "REE-poh", not "REH-poh"

This is just aus vs us English.
This is an equally unsupportable claim, though. This requires enumeration of the entire state of the universe, an impossibility. This is just the standard swan problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory). What you have is a model you're very confident in without the deductively-rational basis your diction implies.

People should really read more hume if they're going to weigh in on philosophy of science.
I'd say it's e-dem-po-tent. Not eye, but eagle.
US Could Join British Commonwealth
Hume is deeply disappointed in you.
Boat Race sinks to academic snobbery lows amid 'slimy' eligibility row
This was killed by the HN community. I’ve vouched for it. Killing posts you disagree with isn’t the point of the flag feature.

With that being said, I understand your perspective. I’ve grappled with this myself. Please note that having RSS does not mandate that there’s content attached to each entry. It can “just” be a title, date, stable id like your slug, and a link. That way, if you insist on directing visitors to your own site, that can be done, while still allowing the reader to get updates in their reader.

I can assure you that if you add an RSS feed, I will regularly consume your content. If you don’t, I won’t even know it exists. For all the faults of legacy media, attaining readership is not one of them. They’d all remove RSS feeds in an instant if they could without loosing readers.
It is completely possible to have a PHP application written 3+ years ago that is well maintained, continues to promote best practices, has excellent test coverage, that isn’t a nightmare to deal with. It’s also possible for the opposite, but that’s the case with every language. In my 20+ years of professional experience, the biggest factor come down to what values a team sets as priorities.
> He also normalizes farting in your kids’ faces.

ALLEGABLY!
Discussed at the time:

Pen and paper exercises in machine learning (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31913057 - June 2022 (55 comments)
Effectively supporting the workflows people have on an OS necessarily involves significant OS updates given enough users and enough workflows.
I'm not sure what to tell you. That words can have different meanings given the context? And this version of fair is using a specific one that you're unwilling to accept.

It seems you wish the author used "market rate" and not "fair". But you're annoyed at the wrong thing because that usage is completely valid. That society has allowed "fair" to mean what the market is willing to pay regardless of its equality to fellow man.

Because if that's the case - nothing is fair.
https://archive.md/fHrTo
Is this a real thing for small companies?

I have no experience with this, and the only time I've gone and tried to get quoted for things like cyber liability, etc, the costs are incredible relative to the value of the business and revenues.
Thanks!

And yeah MCP is super promising. We announced this on X and LinkedIn yesterday and the response has been really good. A lot of people with a bunch of use cases.

One surprising thing is there’s also a bunch of semi/non-technical people using our MCP server and the installation experience for them rn just absolutely sucks.

I think once auth and 1-click install are solved, MCP could become the standard way to integrate tools with LLMs
Not as far as I know but here is a brief history. [1] They will commercially support all the databases including MariaDB. Their goal was to collectively update MySQL to take advantage of modern hardware. They are also useful for companies that have complex replication and backup requirements. They have also created a lot of tools for DBA's to manage data. The DBA's I worked with had a great relationship and great experiences with them.

[1] - https://www.percona.com/sites/default/files/The-Story-of-Per...
He seems to have forgotten that El Salvador is for those who are not US citizens.

He either doesn't understand why that matters, or he doesn't care. He just wants to punish people that he wants punished, and it doesn't matter how. Rules? Why should they apply to him?

His actions, his arrogance, and his disregard for the rule of law disgust me multiple times a day.

And he seems to think Tesla dealerships deserve more protection than the Congress building does.

But at least this time he said "if convicted". That's a start...
Got the same. Unbelievable.
Frustratingly problematic headline, I'd expect better from Popular Mechanics.

The title "Oops, Scientists May Have Severely Miscalculated How Many Humans Are on Earth" is entirely misleading- it's not "scientists" who have miscalculated this, it's government bureaucrats in various countries who are responsible for collecting and reporting census information in their region.

This matters, because we live in a world where many people get much of their information only from headlines, and a recurring narrative of "Scientists make mistakes" or "Scientists can't be trusted" has real impact to policy on climate change, vaccine hesitancy, and other areas where distrust of scientific knowledge or expertise causes uninformed people to make decisions harmful to their own well-being or harmful to those around them on everything from nutrition to pollution to evacuations before hurricanes.
> Is there an example, at a very large company, of an individual who “failed up” actually creating a hit in their next act?

If someone is successful their past is viewed differently. I doubt you’d “failed up” success stories because anyone who had great success would have their previous failures lost to history.
Probablility and statistics are models that produce something we call certainty. This has no relation to actual certainty, aka knowledge. If you're making an abductive claim, you should state it as an abductive claim. Otherwise you're simply claiming true knowledge that is literally impossible to have.
REJ-exs
There are a few disadvantages, in sunshine/moonlight such as you still have monitor output, so you are stuck to the resolutions supported by your monitor and someone can see what you are doing. Of course there are workarounds like dummy monitors.

I do not have clipboard sharing working (I’m not sure if it is even supported) and there is a bug where some specific keys (including \) do not work on some keyboard layouts (Japanese for example), although there is already a pull request that supposedly fix that.

Still it is an amazing solution. The snappiness of having full 3D acceleration is amazing, and as another plus it works in the home edition of Windows.
> In NY the roads are 60% funded by use taxes like fuel taxes, not majority property tax.

Even by your own primary source, calling this out as fuel taxes is disingenuous. In New York, fuel taxes are 21% of infrastructure revenue. Tolls and charges—the usage fees you claim to be such a fan of–account for 59% of infrastructure revenues.

Further, you are grossly misreading and misinterpreting this data. These percentages are out of state infrastructure revenue. This definitionally excludes property taxes, which are not infrastructure revenue. You will note that every single state with the exception of Tennessee has a greater amount of highway spending than infrastructure revenue.

Further, your primary source is only considering all infrastructure revenue vs. only highway spending. Infrastructure revenue is allocated to other places than roads, as states have a variety of other transportation-related expenses. California (my state) for example collected $12.0bn in infrastructure revenue for 2021. They spent $12.0bn on highways. Both of these figures are from your primary source. However, the total California transportation budget for that year was $26.5bn[1]. Your claims are tantamount to asserting that 100% of infrastructure revenues collected went to pay roads, which isn't remotely the case.

[1] https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4458