skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assistant to Thomas "if the ladies will open their parts to where the gentleman come in" Beecham?

Seems hardly surprising, although "

following a tip-off by informants in London; his bags were searched by Customs officials, who found a large amount of what was then considered pornographic material, which included photographs, prints, books, a spool of film, some rubber masks, and sticks of incense.

" sounds as if it'd all be rather tame by modern standards.

I must admit I did think you may have confused a musician with the designer, .. although I'd pegged someone more in the vein of Percy Grainger (who's a bit too early in history and an Australian citizen so .. not) than Eugene.

Who hasn't been tripped up by an ex partner with an interest in the occult?
I love how this subthread devolved into arguing about Europe's attached bottlecap regulations and that the GDPR has resulted in lots of very annoying cookie banners.

So in the US you have a corrupt, authoritarian takeover of a society – and in Europe you have well-meaning, but somewhat annoying, regulations that still need some work to function perfectly.
And they don't even care if it hurts them too, as long as the out-group suffers more.
I laughed.

(And by the time we're 45, the bar will have moved up to 50+)
I was a bit angry and wrote a longer post, most of which I thought better of. Apologies if I didn't formally address your concern.

It is my opinion, having travelled a little in Africa and India, that the slums in some of your cities are directly comparable to slums in those places.

I don't have high hopes that this is a productive conversation. Please just know that it's not a uniquely American thing to view conditions on the ground in your country as "third world".
It seems more like "privacy, in search of a viable business model" (or possibly "security").

If Let's Encrypt starts charging for a certificate, how many web sites will switch to http-only?
What exactly is the problem with moving the goalposts? Who is trying to win arguments over this stuff?

Yes, Z is indeed a big advance over Y was a big advance over X. Also yes, Z is just as underwhelming.

Are customers hurting the AI companies' feelings?
Right. So the problem is not that everyone in the chat was using an unsanctioned app to exchange classified information, but these insidious Ruskies who tricked Witkoff and hacked his personal Signal account.
> Heavy use of symbolic operators has thankfully fallen out of style.

I assume this refers to operator overloading.
I think `a + b - c` looks way more readable than `a.add(b).sub(c)` and I'm happy when a language lets me define my own operators for vectors/matrices but I also have a side-curiosity: do they ever have a good use case outside of a math context? I never heard anyone praise `<<` `>>` in C++ for ex.
While that feels good for you, this does not constitute the evidence that "going barefoot is good for you." A sibling posted some studies that would be more interesting (I'll admit I've not read them).

What "good for you" would look like to me would be longer life expectancy, better health outcomes at different stages of life, etc. "Strong feet," for example, doesn't meet that standard for me. I'd want to see a link that work to actively strengthen one's feet creates those better life outcomes.
It if wasn't that important no one would buy it. Doesn't matter how good your sales people are if the product doesn't solve a real problem, it's very unlikely you will sell it in a sustainable way.
Here you go: https://chatgpt.com/share/67e3d3dc-b234-8004-b992-b559fc5038...
The extreme upper range of YouTube channels sometimes use a RED camera. I've not seen a lot of ARRI for YouTuber behind-the-scenes. Usually they go with high-end prosumer full-frame mirrorless Sony, Canon or equivalent. Those are probably below what the Cyanview's stuff is intended for or just on the edge of what gets used.

I suppose FX30, FX3 and FX6 is in Sony's cinema line and may have all the color stuff that these systems want to tweak but I'm not sure. These cameras do get a fair bit of play on YouTube.
fish suggests commands as you type, shown as faded text after the cursor. But suggestions aren't replacements for history search. Only one suggestion is shown at a time, and you don't have much control over what is shown.

It's popular though, so it's also available in zsh through the autosuggestions plugin.
How is trump staff using signal for classified military actions different from Clinton use of private email account ?

Back then he said she should be put in jail but now he is downplaying it. How can Americans take this guy seriously is beyond my mind.
The Matrix setting their simulated society in the late Nineties as the optimum time seems prescient now.
> World War I was long and devastating but there would be an end to it; wars don't continue forever by default. WWII was potentially cataclysmic but we were fighting coherently with a unified front, throwing everything we had towards beating it. You could buy war bonds, grow a victory garden, ration your use of gasoline/rubber/steel; do your part and we'll get through this.

This is a very American view. In Europe/China/Japan/USSR, you could do all those things, and you and your family could still die tomorrow in an aerial bombing or get rounded up by the Gestapo/Kempeitai/KGB and sent to a concentration camp/human experiment lab/gulag.
In Dutch: https://www.politie.nl/informatie/mag-ik-met-mijn-vrienden-r...

Legally it’s still the exception, the municipality has to make it illegal (although I imagine it happens far too often). But hanging in front of one’s house is legal and actually quite common, at least in Amsterdam, much more so than in for ex. Belgium.

Like you see people put benches or even picknick tables in front of their house, which has no garden or clear separation with the pavement. The houses in this street have a back yard, so if you sit down in the front it’s also to be able to hang out in a social space, do people watching and say hi to your neighbours:

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.351001,5.0003965,3a,57.6y,52...
My uncle does thirsty Thursday every week on his porch in his small town. People bring beer from all around.

It definitely works.
You jest but I think it can happen. Grok could be responsible for tagging the output of all the other AI's as "Potential Misinformation, Disinformation per the Ministry of Truth".
Thanks a ton - this was really helpful for me.
The cookie banners were never mandated by GDPR, that's entirely the industry's fault and intent - dark UX patterns to try and annoy the user into agreeing, or a silent protest to the perceived overbearing nature of the GDPR.

They could've just respected a browser's do-not-track header but chose not to. The EU legislators should've done that too, that is, dictate a standardized method for people to opt in.
is your show from the AI Notetaking app (first google result)? in your linked page is no link to the show or tiktok/instagram or anything.
was interested to watch the show but cant find it without having to actively try to find it...
How far is Java 24 from catching up to Scala though?
Investing all money in your friends has n=1 and strong hindsight bias, that was a weird one also unrelated to author unless all his friends worked with him at the startups he did?
Admittedly not my kids, but my experience of how "tablet/phone banned" kids actually act in that case is "why are these other kids being so boring"

But these kids are pretty well looked after, 24/7 parent available, high engagement parenting. The kids just find stuff in the real world to do. They get 30 minutes of "group" screen time a day, as in the family sits down together and watches something.

I have the same feeling when I see adults on their phones to be honest, and I'm quite introverted. Just feels like a sterile community to be in.
now imagine how bad things are for black people
Hi HN, OP here

JetScript came out of a frustration I had while prototyping — JSX, hooks, configs, and bundlers felt like too much when I just wanted to build fast.

So I asked myself:
What if there were a UI language you could read out loud?
What if routing, state, and UI were unified in a poetic flow, like how we think?

That led me to JetScript.

I’m not trying to replace JavaScript. But maybe there’s space for a DSL that’s not meant to scale — just to start.

Would love to hear what you think:
- Is JSX fatigue real?
- Would you use a scripting DSL for hackathons or MVPs?
- What’s missing to make this actually useful?

All feedback — technical, philosophical, brutal — is welcome
The whiteboard image is insane. Even if it took more than 8 to find it, it's really impressive.

To think that a few years ago we had dreamy pictures with eyes everywhere. And not long ago we were always identifying the AI images by the 6 fingered people.

I wonder how well the physics is modeled internally. E.g. if you prompt it to model some difficult ray tracing scenario (a box with a separating wall and a light in one of the chambers which leaks through to the other chamber etc)?

Or if you have a reflective chrome ball in your scene, how well does it understand that the image reflected must be an exact projection of the visible environment?
Stop buying disposable bottles then. They are part of a solution to a waste problem, but by continuing to buy disposablle bottles you're contributing to the issue.
It's mainly about libraries implementing their own symbols e.g. ~>, ~>>, >->, λ

Each of which was specific to that library and would confuse new developers beyond belief.
Yes, but the difference is that the term "scraping" also targets things like automatically generating RSS feeds from HTML pages, which is not covered by robots.txt.
A traditional school exam is not the only way to test knowledge. Project work, for example. At work, your knowledge is tested by the output you produce.
Still sounds like a lot of programming that's not useful for programming but rather just adds extra complexity to proving by pretending it is programming. I don't need a function that returns undefined if I pass it an object that's 0 mod 2 and 1 mod 4 at the same time.
They still can't generate a watch that shows arbitrary times I believe, so it could be the case?
It’s yet to be proven that AI will increase economic output. Some might argue that reducing the economic benefits for the many in order to maximize the output of the whole may backfire horribly over the long-term.
Google Play is the worst developer experience of my career (tweet)
I don't quite understand this comment. Why would adding another preprocessing step using another tool make it easier? I always found it nice that you can use 'gcc -E' and inspect the output. Of yours, 10 levels of macro expansion are a problem, but simple X macros would not usually do this.
Another alternative is anticonsumption; stop or reduce use of disposable packaging if possible.
Depending on how they're used. That's a pretty big caveat. You can't replace sleep with them and expect the same performance. They're still quite useful though.
People who use Cloudflare typically don't even have concrete reasons why they are using Cloudflare. Some do, but the typical one doesn't.
https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat says 2 for free, but also 5, which might be the rpm when they start charging.
Ha, me too. I have a terrible mental block with human names but for some reason I can hold the names of 100 dogs in my head.
I'm surprised Chris left out a big reason: cable is cheap, and labor is expensive. And there are a lot of fixed costs that don't depend on the number of cables or their thickness.

You might save a little bit going with 4 pairs instead of 24. But that goes out the window as soon as you need to run a single new cable. If you want to be stingy, pull the cables but leave them unterminated.
It definitely heavily implies that creators are - or should be - trying to benefit the wider world.
that's the one.
and yeah , fair questions!
didn't want to be super in your face w self promo here.
this isn't about our tool, it's about getting the best stories (we've got 100+ submissions but still looking for stand out gossip)

As to why the show isn't linked- first ep is in an hour or so, on linkedin- the link to our LinkedIn is on the submission text for the form ;)

appreciate your feedback!
How to Outline and Plan a Novel
You shouldn't ever tell anyone here to fuck off. It's not polite. You may get penalized.

That said, your examples are indeed corruption. But the parent did not make any equivalency. He gave purported examples of corruption. One can say that they're unsubstantiated, but that's a different argument.
Have you considered that they must be training on images of pelicans driving bicycle's at this point ;-). At least given how often that comes up in your reviews, a smart LLM engineer might put their fingers on the scales a bit and optimize for those things that come up in reviews of their work a lot.
SF Coalition on Homelessness loses funding as mayor changes residency defintion
Caring about people in a far away country is not a winning strategy. Showing that this admin is harming national security and risking American lives is what gets voter attention.
> Isn't this what sensible parents should be doing?

yes _parents_, but we are speaking about state actions (which could require companies to give parents tools to help them handle this this (:1))

and that affects parents, and teachers, and what is tough, and how society in general treats such things, and which things get which age rating etc. We need to convince society that this dopamine cycles are similar bad as drugs, only forcing it down their throat is not going to end well

and I was also focusing a lot in the comment on from which angle states approach that actions

> targeted online advertising

while that is a problem, it isn't the core problem here

the core problem is dark patterns intentionally designed to make apps/sites maximally addictive

even if we didn't had any ads at all many apps(and co) would likely still do that, so that they can e.g. sell more micro transaction (like think 0.2ct per short watched, small enough to seem nothing but if you doom scroll for two+ hours every day adds up (~120$/€ a year). Heck even without micro transactions it still does make "statistics look good" some it probably still would be applied quite often.
Lag by what measure? Cities are just better as cities, laws are annoyingly bureaucratic but actually work, your neighbour isn't likely to shoot you dead... The US does better on abstract statistics like GDP, but... GDP is biased in favour of whoever issues the global reserve currency, so that doesn't actually mean a lot unless you are specifically trying to accumulate units of global reserve currency.
If they land enough military contracts, I'm sure they can afford some commercial losses. But also in military the Europe has some serious catch-up to do, so... we'll see.
Functionally the same as pleading guilty
Because it doesn't convey anything to anyone who doesn't already agree with you, especially when you just drop the name and treat that as if you've proven something. It's not a way of progressing a discussion, it's a way of stopping one.

I'd also note that mentioning George Soros being involved in anything gets condemnation here, so the same thing applies to both sides to at least some extent.
In other words, personal responsibility doesn't apply to business owners.
Agoda generally better in Asia, including Vietnam.

I have seen the same thing — fake and misleading listings on Agoda for Hanoi and HCMC, then the trick of taking you to an inferior “partner” hotel. I have also experienced aggressive requests to post good reviews.

Vietnam tourism booming right now and enforcement weak. I suggest double-checking with Google hotels and even visiting the hotel before booking, ask to see a room. If you can’t do that consider staying one or two nights at a reputable brand name hotel while you look for a cheaper place.

Currently in Da Nang and have not seen this problem on Agoda here.
Great post. There is no need to hide the fact that Scala is not the most popular language or that it ever will be.

And Kudos to VirtusLabs for maintenance.

Huge Kudos to Daniel for his courses. If you think Scala is difficult, check his course, these will change your mind.

When building Wide Angle Analytics backend I chose Scala. Sometimes I miss the convenience of Spring Boot of having all integrations at the fingertips. But then I implement same thing in Scala and it is much leaner, boils down to couple of functions and it just fits nicely.

My only personal pet peeve with Scala is painful upgrade path between libraries (Cats 2 -> Cats 3). Oh well.
What kind of applications have you built in it? GUIs, or web? Mobile perhaps? AI? Does Scala have strong/weak areas here?
> cratering Chinese birthrate is a pretty strong argument that what China's doing isn't working out well for young people.

yes but that is partially unrelated and has a lot to do with

- one child politics lead to abrupt fall of new young unemployed people

- so the reaming people have to work more

- and as they need to pay rent for the old people even more more more
I think you are arguing a moot point. It's not really about what happened, the law is mainly about the intent. He did not immediately leave because he did not believe this to be a genuine group. So he has no intend to do harm at this point. But once he becomes convinced this is real he now _intentionally_ receives classified information he's not authorised to have. So now it is _necessarily_ also a legal problem for him.

So in your case: Getting added to a random signal chat where you are not exposed to anything? You should be fine. At least it will be very hard to show any intent to violate anything. Though that isn't necessarily true either. E.g. one could imagine Signal usernames belonging to operatives being in that group. And starting to post or investigate those could still get you in legitimate trouble.

And yes, ignorance of the law does not necessarily save one either. But a central point in all prosecutions is some portion of criminal intent
Great approach, when your shoddy installation burns down half the neighborhood and kills 7 people you may not feel so heroic and braggish. Thats not courage but arrogance.

Regulations came into effect as they are now due to a very long line of horrible disasters & regulatory reactions to them.
The "documentary" was a crude hit piece. The "journalists" did very poor work.

https://www.tiktok.com/@iamlijingjing/video/7483537868292476...
if it makes you feel any better, it's not much better as a user
The Ford Executive Who Kept Score of Colleagues' Verbal Flubs
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ford-motor-mike-obrien-malapro...
For ref this is the UK's largest equivalent (focussed on physical making), is fully operational and highly recommended https://bloqslondon.com/
Both are bad. One is much, much worse than the other.
I wonder how long until we'll see DNS blocklists to blackhole IP addresses associated with scrapers. It seems like the logical evolution.
I'm no longer willing to be quiet or polite on these topics. Luckily, HN accounts are cheap.

And yes, saying "If you want to look at corruption in the US" and then avoiding mentioning the extremely large and very apparent corruption actively happening right now in the Trump admin - that is intentionally creating a false equivalency by implicitly saying "what's happening right now doesn't matter it's the same old same old."
The majority of code is not math. I prefer if languages have a math dsl, only in which, the math operators become available.

I actually do like symbols as opposed to words (+ instead of append, : instead of as, < instead of extends, -> instead of function etc). They just need to have stable meaning, which conflicts with operator overloading/math.
“My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.”

- J.D. Vance

“People listen to what their political leaders are telling them, and my view is both that Trump is tapping into some racially ugly attitudes, but also that he is leading people to racially ugly attitudes.”

- J.D. Vance

“I’m a Never Trump guy”

- J.D. Vance

“My god what an idiot”

- J.D. Vance (on Trump)

“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”

- J.D. Vance

“I can’t stomach Trump.”

- J.D. Vance

“I think there’s a chance, if I feel like Trump has a
really good chance of winning, that I might have to
hold my nose and vote for Hillary Clinton.”

- J.D. Vance

“Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.”

- J.D. Vance
it also doesn't work for a single student case if you only start talking to them after they are already highly already at a point where you can say they have developed a sever attention deficit due to addictive dopamine loops

like you know the station most teachers are exposed to as the problem can already have takes deep root before the child goes to school
There is no such a thing like "plastic". The article is about PET - polyethylene terephthalate, there are hundreds other "plastics", which different chemical propensities. The problem is not actual act of recycling, but figuring out what a given piece is made of. PET is popular - 70% of all bottles are made of it, but there are those 30%, so the most expensive part - sorting - has to be carried anyway. Plus we target only bottles.

Recycling is a great example of the rule "Privatizing Profits and Socializing Losses". Business is packing their stuff in whatever they want and then citizens, authorities has to deal with the wastes business produced.

Why we can't force to use for bottles/packaging a single type of plastic? Why we can't force easily removable labels on the bottles (the glue that is used to stick half plastic/half paper labels is a deal breaker for simple recycling), I think only in Japan this is mandatory. Why we allow making packages (especially for take-away food from pseudo-paper (which is a paper with plastic coating), which is not recyclable at all and, in fact, is much worst than plastic, but business claims that "now we are eco, see, we use paper for packaging)?

Why we allow to use for packaging whatever business wants? Why the cost and effort of the recycling has to be on people and local governments?
And Trump reverted the ban on plastic straws. One step forward, three steps backwards...
Oh hey it's that unserious person I interacted with recently in a different thread.

So you're OK with the Trump admin's rampant corruption?
It can be as little as 10 minutes for smaller projects, partly because I have so much practice writing them up now.

Here are two recent examples where I mostly just quoted my release notes and added a tiny bit of extra flavor:

- https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/28/strip-tags/

- https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/19/files-to-prompt/
But the very comment you answered explains how to do it: a page forbidden in robots.txt. Does this method need explanation why it's ideal for sorting humans and google, from malicious crawlers?
Well, we have many examples where in the past technology (and to a lesser extent trade) have let to some sectors of the economy using fewer people than before.

The situation you describe isn't all that special.

Yes, losing your job (or your career) is not fun, and can be painful. Massive salary reduction can happen.

No, that hasn't lead to widespread unemployment in the past. At least not widespread enough to be visible in aggregate statistics, especially over the noise of the 'normal' business cycle. However, individuals can obviously have pretty long spells in unemployment, but that can also happen without a shift in technology.
> and is there any specific Elixir features were essential that couldn't be replicated in other languages?

From the article:

> “Yes. We’ve seen what the Erlang VM can do, and it has been very well-suited to our needs. You don’t appreciate all the things Elixir offers out of the box until you have to try to implement them yourself.