skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of people never use the internet, just as lots of people don't have a smartphone. Both are minorities, but they happily get along and fully participate in society anyway.
Try to live in a country where "," is the decimal point. Of course this causes numerous interoperability issues or hidden mistakes in various data sets.

There would have been many better separators... but good idea to bring formatting into it as well...
Someone up thread mentioned that there's a WinXP image available that has a ton of back ported drivers and things baked in for NVME support and modern chipsets. So...pretty darn modern I think!
Thinner Films Conduct Better Than Copper
Yes, perhaps the computer needs information on which pixels belong to which buildings in order to apply perspective-per-object, rather than perspective-to-the-entire-image?
>Even taking your complaints at their maximum impact: would you rather be delayed by a thousand confused robots or run over by one certain human?

Depending on the relative rates and costs of each type of mishap it could go either way. There is a crossover point somewhere.

The fact that you're coming right out the gate with a false dichotomy and appeal to emotion on top tells me that deep down you know this.
If by "we", you mean a few dozen billionaires, then yes. Yes we did.

But also, no government really wants to admit it's a recession until they can no longer deny that even their fake numbers (GDP, "unemployment") are falling.
I don't think that's a fair characterization of what happened. See e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WowVQ4rhbt8 .
Panini projection is built into Unity and Unreal. From the documentation from the latter [0] you can see how it's essentially a cropped fisheye-ish projection. That doc also has (in my opinion) a clearer comparison on how the two projections differ, especially looking at the layout of the square tiles on the floor in the first set of pictures.

[0] https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/...
I don’t do much development anymore, but this is always how I felt when ORM’s like Hibernate came out. At first they were amazing and were used for everything. Eventually it became obvious that as the complexity of the code went up linearly, the difficulty of troubleshooting and optimizing the code went up exponentially.

I learned to only used ORM’s for basic stuff, which they are very much useful, but when things got a little bit complicated to drop back to hand coding SQL.
Swift is underrated, I wish it had more traction outside Apples ecosystem.

Easy to learn, fast and memory safe without a GC.
> A few months ago, I used Claude to "one-shot" a genuinely useful web app. It was fully featured and surprisingly polished. Alone, I think it would've taken a couple weeks or weekends to build. But, when I asked it to update the favicon using a provided file, it spun uselessly for an hour (I eventually did it myself in a couple minutes).

This reminds me of when cross-platform was becoming big for mobile apps and all of us new app developers would put up templates on GitHub which gave a great base to start on, but you really quickly realized you'd have to change a lot of it for your use case anyways.
Online 'Pedophile Hunters' Are Growing More Violent – and Going Viral
AI Governance: Where are we headed
> Big complex 6-figure e-discovery system? Apparently written by someone who has never heard of quoting...

It's because about a certain size, system projects are captured by the large consultancy shops, who eat the majority of the price in profit and management overhead...

... and then send the coding work to a lowest-cost someone who has never heard of quoting, etc.

And it's a vicious cycle, because the developers in those shops that do learn and mature quickly leave for better pay and management.

(Yes, there's usually a shit hot tiger team somewhere in these orgs, but they spend all their time bailing out dumpster fires or landing T10 customers. The average customer isn't getting them.)
If it was strongly influenced by southern states having transplants, I feel like NC would be much lonelier, but we actually did pretty good. That surprises me, because culturally and economically, our closest peer is Georgia, and they didn't do as well. The biggest difference between us and Georgia is that the a huge portion of Georgia's population is centered around Atlanta, while NC has two major metros (Charlotte / The Triangle) and lots of mid-sized cities spread all over. Would be interesting to see this data on a per-county or per-metro level.
What about S-expressions? Where do they break?
Anyone know if it's possible to update the Linux kernel so that namespaces are hard security boundaries? I wonder what that would entail.
Any visualization that represents variation around a baseline value should use the baseline value as its axis, whether the baseline is zero or not.
The misconception here is that technology just magically runs on its own.

No, it’s created by and maintained by humans. You’re shifting the cost of a driver to software engineers, data analysis, people mapping out roads, etc.

This is why Uber doesn’t make any money, despite being more expensive for the customer as compared to traditional taxi services. Coordinating Ubers across the country costs a lot of servers and a lot of engineers. Sure, the system is automatic - maintaining it isn’t.

So you end up with a lose-lose-lose scenario. The ride is more expensive for the customer. The driver makes less money. And Uber bleeds hundreds of millions a year.

Technology is neat, yes, but often we don’t stop and think “wait… does this make sense?”

We don’t know if autonomous cars make any economic sense. They could end up not. It doesn’t help that 99% of tech companies in the transportation space are just making trains with extra steps. Like, guys - have we even done feasibility analysis?
It is such an iconic album from the 90s. I highly recommend it if you haven't listened to it. It won't be everyone's thing, but there are a lot of great songs on it. I listen to Dead regularly.
Listened to Flood continuously in high school. In many ways, I felt it empowered me to embrace my own weirdness.
It is a 1-to-1 mapping of keywords. It's not the only choice of German words one could have used for those concepts, but neither are the English ones. For some people the particular choices made in German here will make more sense, for others the English ones. What's so bad about being more inclusive?
How does that work with timestamps?
Non-paywall link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/26/us/pedophile-...
That sentence is the follow up analysis. The effect disappears if you adjust for age.
Curvature maybe — "skew" seems more likely.
At this point, you can just show the entire histogram.
Bash script (without -e) continue merrily even if the last command's exit status is non-null.

PHP also ignored errors out of the box (even has @ to suppress error output), but error_reporting(-1); is basically how every sane framework starts, and PHP 8 set the default level to E_ALL [1](in 5.3 accessing undefined variable was also ignored (notices - as far as I remember)[2])

Python and NodeJS by default aborts on error. (Python had exceptions before user-defined classes in the last millennia. [3])

...

Rob Pike said in 2015 "don't just check errors, handle them gracefully." [4]

I think Scala/ZIO has the most powerful and comprehensive and compact [5] error handling machinery that I have experience with, that's where it's the easiest to live up to Mr Pike's admonition.

...

All are fine. I hope/predict Go will pull a Bash or PHP and will introduce flags to turn some/most unchecked errors into aborts. (Or perhaps people will build tooling and alternative stdlib eventually.)

Result types are nice because it allows library developers to encode a shitton of really useful semantic information into them, and it's really easy to handle them however the downstream user wishes. (Rust offers .unwrap(), TypeScript ! (assume non-null), and JS itself has the ? optional chaining operator.)

[1] https://php.watch/versions/8.0/error-display-E_ALL

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/69291454/44166

[3] https://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-exceptions-c...

[4] https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/406347

[5] https://zio.dev/overview/handling-errors/
Tldr: government boondoggle with no accountability
Hi All, I'm not aware hot to share demo videos on hacker news. Request you to please ignore that line.

You can visit factovar.com, to get more info on how this works.

Thanks.
Yeah but Google goes out of their way to kill jpeg-xl, they really deserve to lose chrome
10k Federal Health Dept. Workers to Be Laid Off
Yeah, I thought better (cleaner?) examples would have helped.
Pascal's Rule
She was a police informant, and surely any looming indictment would happen in the ~5 years since this started.
How then do you explain DF being HN's #3 personal blog from 2007-2021, but #72 from 2021-2025? Do you recall HN announcing a major algorithm change?
If you are caught driving above the legal limit of 0.05% you are fined roughly $570, are prohibited from driving for 1 month, and receive 2 “points”. Points accumulate and once you reach 8 you lose your drivers license. In this case you would keep the points for five years. Many different driving offences give you points.

For comparison, to get a similar penalty by speeding you would have to exceed the speed limit by 51 km/h (32 mph).

There are many additional related offences you could commit, with different consequences. Repeat offences to the above, for example, are punished more severely: you get 3 months instead of 1 and the fine is doubled and tripled for the second and third offence, respectively. Already with a blood alcohol level of 0.03% you risk legal consequences, e.g. if you make an error while driving. If you endanger someone else (or property) with that level you are committing a crime, will lose your license, and can go to prison. If you are in your probationary period (two years after acquiring your license), any nonzero level is an offence.

Losing your license is generally temporary. You are blocked from re-acquiring it for some time, depending on the offence (at least 6 months, but can be multiple years). You have to complete an MPU, which certifies your ability to safely drive. For alcohol based offences, this would include demonstrating that you have reduced your consumption significantly. This can be quite harsh; you may, for example, be required to show complete abstinence for a period of one year. Of course, you are also looking at costs close to $1000 for the MPU alone. It is possible to get permanently blocked from driving, but it's quite difficult, I believe.
I am Polish; I didn't grew up during period of Communist occupation, but I've certainly heard of stories of people risking their wellbeing via trying to listen to VoA. It was very much a big crime.
Worth pointing out Apple always had a dedicated Retail Chief. Deirdre O’Brien was the only one that mixes HR / People and Retail and the rationale at the time was because Retail has the most Apple employees which was such a stupid idea. ( And dare I guess it came from Tim )

And this was after Ron Johnson left Apple and the following disastrous 15 years of Apple Retail. IIRC Apple had about 250 Stores in 2009. And that was before iPhone was shipping in any volume by today's comparison. In my original model and thesis when I was analysing Apple in 2011 I was expecting them to reach 1 billion iPhone user in 2020, and at least 1000 Retails store world wide.

When you think about it, Apple had 250 Store before iPhone took over and less than 50M of Mac user. Having 1000 or 4x number of Store when you have billions of user isn't that impressive. But my thought at the time was the 1000 Apple Store would be big to make up for the users.

Not only do we now have 1.3B or may be even higher for iPhone and iPad, Mac users. They still only have less than 600 store worldwide. And they are not as well run. When you think of Apple retail as a cost centre, but not as an experience, marketing and customer engaging front end, that is when things go wrong.
> But we can, for example, click down below Google’s AI offerings to look at actual links. And we can generally go about living our lives in our sad old way without the benefit of AI “personal assistants”

I don't think this will be possible for much longer. Google is getting so unusable, I am actually starting to believe that they are intentionally screwing their traditional search product to force users to "onboard" on to their AI results instead.
Curious why when they mention Instanbul (Not Constantinople) it's quiet when all of the other songs have little audio snippets. Is that a rights issue?

https://youtu.be/C-tQSFQ-ESY?si=9Ujs3-1nVjjeoncO&t=71

They toured for the Flood album a year or 2 ago and I missed it. It sold out real fast. They are on tour again, probably for new stuff. Reading everyone's comments here about how good their shows are, I think I'm going to check them out (if they are not sold out again)
Completely incorrect as in an entry being completely incorrect, not all the entries.
Well my Job is in games so I can't really answer here unbiased. I definitely game less as I job seek but I consider most of my gaming to still be passive research in a way. Like any other craft you simply approach, critique, and sympathize with games in a different way if you spent years professionally developing them.
No because big companies see far more value from actually innovating and producing better technology (see Bytedance with their new cross-platform mobile framework Lynx) that speeds up things and provides better User Experience at their scale than they save in developer salaries by just using what an AI is most familiar with
This is dumb circular logic though.

Sure, the current system won't make those bad drivers pay up for that behavior, but dumping a bunch of them onto the roads is a net negative overall.
Or just we could forget about code and have model act directly :) That's my bet.
I just tried it in Serato and it says stems are not available for streaming music. Their wiki says so also(0).

0: https://support.serato.com/hc/en-us/articles/12188545880719-...

Real bummer, I still have to pipe stuff through Ableton, record it, then import it..
I've been thinking about this for a long time, and I don't think it's unique to DF. As someone who values design, I've noticing for a long time that it's become harder and harder for design-related content to gain traction on HN (e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26901208).

I think the explanation here is that HN has taken a hard turn towards Linux/OSS. Not to say those weren't always popular topics, but HN used to be a place for software and hardware generally, with an emphasis on making things, OSS being an obviously important component of that. Now OSS is emphasized more. To illustrate, let's do a thought experiment: Let's say someone in the industry does a detailed explanation of the VFX pipeline for a blockbuster movie, and compare that with an someone doing the same for an indie side-project using Blender. There was a time both of those would have been popular on HN, today I'd only bet on the second making it to the front page. Note I'm not making a value judgment here, just something I've observed.
Found @USGovFeed on X, posts real-time updates on executive orders, Congress (bills, resolutions), and nominations, sourced directly from the government with references.

No opinions, just the raw facts as they emerge.
Useful for tracking government activity - thoughts?

https://x.com/USGovFeed
National / Financial post has a bit. It's a network
If you follow Utilitarian ethics, just ask yourself: how much (negative) utility do you assign to...

* a crash with a fatality

* a crash with an injury

* any crash at all

* a driverless car going around a roundabout constantly

for me, the answer is pretty clear: crashes per distance traveled remains the most important metric.
Soundslice has a fairly new feature for scanning PDF or image into a music score, with export to MusicXML and MIDI.

https://www.soundslice.com/sheet-music-scanner/
In hardware, you regularly see behavior change when you probe the system. Your oscilloscope or LA probes affect the system just enough to make a marginal circuit work. It's absolutely maddening.
I posted a reply to another user here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43493740

I don’t want to retype everything I posted in that reply but it kind of applies to your comment as well.

In 2015 if we were having this discussion I could easily pull out dozens of groundbreaking innovating games from 2010 to 2015.

In 2005 if we were having this discussion I could have easily pulled out dozens of groundbreaking innovating games from 2000 to 2005.

But we are having this discussion in 2025 and I know both you and I would struggle to pull out a dozen high quality new innovating games that have come out in the past 5 years.

Clearly things have gone worse.
No, I'm considering footprint as well. The interior volume of a 3.5mm jack is substanial compared to the total volume of a phone.
> One thing I hope for is that we'll see more emphasis on thorough and precisely worded documentation.

Being on this planet long enough, I've learned this won't happen and in fact the quality of such will degrade making the AI using them degrade and we'll all have to just accept these flaws and work around them like so many myriad technical flaws in our current systems today
Satoshi's Ghost: Marx, Rand, and Monty Python Debate Bitcoin Through AI
For Entertainment Only:
The Great Bitcoin Debate: A Synthetic Dialogue Across Time - a website where Karl Marx debates Ludwig von Mises on decentralised digital money, Adam Smith analyzes Bitcoin markets, and Ayn Rand frames Bitcoin as the virtual "John Galt Line"
Attention is what makes us human
She does when she writes books (e.g. https://rachelbythebay.gumroad.com/l/bozo-loop-epub). She doesn't have her full name in the name of her blog because, well, whyever should she?

(You are writing here under the name "Niten" which I am going to guess is not your full name. I am writing under the name "gjm11" which is also not my full name, though as it happens my full name is readily discoverable via my HN profile while yours is not. Obviously neither of us actually believes that there is something wrong with not stating your full name explicitly every time you write something.)
Google's version of MCP?
How is it hypocritical to hold the view that some places are intended to be open forums for comments from anyone, and others are not?

Also, by not hosting my own comments, all public commentary on my writing is thus out of my control. I don't get to block comments I don't like here, or on Mastodon, or Twitter/X, or Bluesky. I think that's actually for the better.
Definitely not people staring blankly at low quality drivel alone for hours
Yeah! This site is about building awesome startups and we need to focus on building awesome startups :). Keep your head down and don't pay attention to the negativity :) :). Probably just Trump Derangement Syndrome :) :). Lots of vibrant innovation happens under autocratic authoritarianism. Right? :) :)
Here's video of a gorilla that is famous for its ability and propensity for walking upright. If you want to tell me you would find this "barely distinguishable" from homo habilis, I don't think I'd be doing you a service by believing you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVYzogbTs0w
I applaud both Darktable's and Ansel's efforts, but they both have a looooong way to go with their UI. Spacing, contrast, fonts, it looks like they never received contributions from people with design skills. Blender looks way more polished in comparison.
I'll never know what influenced that decision.
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> Good luck with spreadsheets which have formulas in anothe language.

Excel always shows the formula names in your system language. If happen to be on a computer set to Japanese and prefer English, just set it to that. Why does the whole world need to assimilate to English to save you the - rare - inconvenience of two clicks?
In addition, humans have a lot of senses. Not just 5 - but dozens. A lot of them working in the background, subconsciously. It’s why I can feel someone staring at me, even if I never explicitly saw them.
My brother is a wifi expert at a hw manufacturer. He once had a case where the customer had issues setting the transmit power to like 100 times the legal limit. They happened to be an offshore drilling platform and had an exemption for the transmission power as their antenna was basically on a buoy on the ocean. He had to convince the developer to fix that very specific bug.
Why did you stop practicing?
Pedantically pointing out the difference between doing some exploratory testing "testing outside the test cases" and QA which is setting up processes/procedures part of which should be "do exploratory testing as well as running the test cases" but the Testing is not QA distinction has been fought over for decades...

But, love the story and I collect tales like this all the time so thanks for sharing
> Sometimes I have the feeling that the ordinary Americans don't have a clue about the impact VoA had in the countries like ours.

It's not a feeling. They don't know because domestic broadcasts of VoA were prohibited by federal law.
Ah, good ol' Quirks Mode.

Memories...
You would not have been killed in Khrustchev times for expressing a dissatisfaction with the space programme, even though it certainly deviated from the party line. Perhaps it's worth considering that what people find inspiring does not necessarily reflect their material condition: humans are complex creatures.
I had expected to see a more programming language theory flavored formal specification, but it's actually just prose describing the language for industrial conformance purposes. I guess something is better than nothing, but still.
NOTHING is very binding about the CSV spec and that's the biggest problem with CSV.
Big fan of Inngest! Most of http://glama.ai/mcp logic is built on top of Inngest.
Wonder is a WordPress alternative that works on Notion
Thanks to Lunar: https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20241119
Hi neighbor! We don't get quite as much sea breeze here in the swamp.
Depends on the game and habits. An MMO is very different from a singe player platformer. Which are both different from a casual mobile game with some async competitive modes (words with friends).

As for school, keep in mind the rage of Gen Z these days goes from high school to nearly 30 years old (many people cutoff at 1997-2010). The midpoint of this generation is just starting to get out of school these days and "enter" the workforce. To a rude awakening that nothing is in fact working.
Windows Longhorn Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer [video]
I strongly agree.

> The distinctive feature of Piranesi’s perspective trick is that when you have a series of similar objects receding into the distance, such as houses or arches in a bridge, the nearer versions are just drawn as larger versions of those in the distance

This makes so much sense. When nature presents me with a series of identical arches, that is how I'm going to interpret them. Not as the geometric shapes that are actually projected onto the backs of my eyes.
"Considering how the UK treated Alan Turing while he was alive, he deserved a better institute to honour his memory."

Ouch. Almost certainly nothing like the insult his memory endured from "The imitation game" film though. Everyone associated with that film should feel a bit ashamed.[1]

I'm a UK based software engineer, but I almost never heard anything about this organization. Has anything useful come out of it?

[1] I could only bear to watch the first 20 minutes. But I can't imagine it got any better.