skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was expecting another song, which is more likely to elicit an emotional response.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
https://canarymission.org/individual/Rumeysa_Ozturk
How then do you explain DF being #3 from 2007-2021 and #72 from 2021-2025? It’s clearly not blacklisted, but clearly is shitlisted, no?
someone try to make an open source version of it.
I need to know the inner workings of this cool thing.
The median lethal dose of Polonium-210 is about 50 nanograms. (1 twenty millionth of a gram)

30 mg of plutonium administered properly is fatal. Much less will give you a significant increased risk for cancer.

These things are dangerous in any quantity and no amount of enthusiasm overrides the risk when it comes to writing laws.
I am Canadian. I used to collect my boarding passes and had a stack that was around 3 inches thick. Most of those were to the U.S. for leisure, conferences, etc.

With the way things are going, I don't anticipate ever entering the U.S. again.
AS/400 was definitely peak reliability.
Frankly those people are by and large not people who have the right qualifications to get a TN VISA to do so, or they would have already done it, likely.
The price of a delivery is going to be proportional to the distance, not the cost of the food. The delivery is the same overhead whether it's three tacos or a five course gourmet dinner for eight people.
> there is a LOT of apps out there, and really, humans don't need that much to be happy.

There’s more music out there than there’s ever been. More tv shows and movies than I could possibly watch, but I still find new things to watch and listen to.

But tech? Maybe other than my Robot vacuum, I don’t think there’s anything in the last 5 years I’ve seen that I’ve felt is going to make my life easier or better. Which seems odd because the pace that technology seems to be improving only seems to be accelerating. We can do more than we ever could before, but it feels like the appetite to improve things is no longer there.
But the president said he wasn't involved but Waltz and Vance are.
> The downranking is particularly weird since HN's professed norms go extremely hard on something along the lines of "you should take atypical opinions seriously since they're more likely to contain new information than opinions that are conventional-wisdom-with-a-few-little-sprinkles-on-top."

HN's "professed norms" (i.e., the guidelines) do not state that, and opinions, atypical or otherwise, have zero information content beyond the information that so-and-so holds such-and-such opinion.

Atypical opinions may be, on average, more likely to be accompanied by intellectually interesting arguments, but that's, at best, a loose correlation, not an iron law that where one thing occurs the other will also.
agreed. this sounds useless at the moment unless you’re sand boxing it in a throw-away VM lol. Scary!
Except we have all these low ASCII characters specifically for this purpose that don't turn up in the data at all. But there is, of course, also an escape character specifically for escaping them if necessary.
Would be an absolute bumper feature for bedroom DJs. Good excuse to dust off the decks :)
It’s much more simple and depraved. They are taking tips from doxxing websites like this:
https://canarymission.org/individual/Rumeysa_Ozturk
Y'all didn't notice who posted this article to HN? Lots of talking about John as if he isn't here.
Love the quote from reed:
“My hack to-do list is empty because I built everything. I keep thinking of new things and knocking them out while watching a movie or something.”

Reminds me of the time when I discovered GTD. Don’t worry, we will find a way to become overwhelmed again.
Actually I did not! That's so great then -- maybe I'll just fork it and add skim support :)

Thanks
All I know is more often than not, when I travel by air, I am more than likely going to be in a Boeing aircraft. I also know more planes fly today than ever. So it is no surprise that in a hyper connected world where everyone with a phone and a camera can document every single failure in any service or product, that it would be perceived that things are going backwards. If we had this in the 80's or 90's it wouldn't be much different.

Did our quality and capability get worse or did everyone become a journalist that can document every flaw and distribute it globally in minutes?

Hmmm....
Ask HN: Has anyone moved away from Mac?
I've been on a mac for 20 years, but recently I've been eyeing going Linux + Ryzen Mobile. Steam for gaming.

For those of you that have moved, what has been your experience?
I don’t disagree. I fought this battle for a long time — ran a company where I tried to simplify SDK development by making every endpoint POST and JSON params; sorta like SOAP / just simple RPC. Why do you need all the HTTP methods when most SDKs simplify everything to .retrieve etc, why not name the endpoints that?

What I realized was that these specs are valuable because they’re stable over long periods of time and handle many sorts of edge cases. Also from a systems integration perspective, everybody already knows and is trained in them. Over many years I accepted the wisdom of commons.

A lot of tooling already exists to make development of these sorts of systems easy to implement and debug. Hence why I think for Remote MCP servers, HTTP as it exists is a great choice.
I can tell YandexArt's human faces are AI right away. They have the "shine" on their faces. They look too flawless.
We've had TV for decades. Postman wrote "Amusing Ourselves to Death" in the 80s.

We've always been addicted to dopamine and we were always getting it in the easiest way possible.
I wonder how many Racks would there be after the total Cloud Exit from Basecamp. It is a nice way to think about scale.

The whole business that used to be 1/5 of the size 10 years ago were running on 100s of racks. And today it could be less than 10.
I did this once years ago (on Mac OS classic). I had an mp3 player I liked for its low CPU usage, but didn't like the UI. I figured out the entry points for the mp3 decoding routines and turned it basically into a library to call from my own UI.

Virtual machines/emulators are one extreme, recreating the environment it ran in so no human examination of the particular program is necessary. The approach you describe is at the other end, using bits of programs directly in other code to do basically black-box functions that aren't worth figuring out and coding properly.
The current zeitgeist according to chatgpt in the west:

Right-wing coded:
Practical education, Hard skills/trades, having children, personal responsibility, entrepreneurship, exurban community orientation, traditional morality/religion, decentralization (less elite control), bad aesthetic taste, low emotional intelligence, etc.

Left-wing coded:
Aspirational education, Universities, staying single into your 30s, personal irresponsibility (victimhood), artistic ego pursuit, urban orientation, performative morality/religion (climate doomerism, veganism, social justice-ism), centralization (more elite control), good aesthetic taste, high emotional intelligence, etc
The dialog on the American right already includes open claims about our apparently-communist regime and the outright oppression that supposedly happens here because of what happened in Ottawa in 2022. (We were supposed to let the convoy types overthrow our gov't, I guess)

I see comments on here from very smart educated "libertarian" types about this all the time. Canada is anti-freedom, etc. etc.

So in some respects the ideological justification has already begun. Both inside and outside of Canada. If the Liberals win next months election, expect it to go into overdrive both in the US but also in Alberta/Saskatchewan.

When they take Alberta it will because they're saving it from oppression. Or something.
...and excel macros
So it'll just continue ...
The Pixar division, at least, is extraordinary and continues to push for more.
Good thing there aren't phones and social media in the East (or whatever you want to call non-West these days).
I once found some old price catalogues (early 20c) for shoes etc. and estimated the items there are barely any cheaper today in real terms. Now obviously that's partly because we have cheaper substitutes today, so we've lost economies of scale when building things the old-fashioned way and the modern equivalent has to be made bespoke... but it's still pretty alarming given we should be ~10x richer.

But consider an example which can't be blamed on that. My city (Melbourne) has a big century-old tram network. The network used to cover the city, now it covers only the inner city because it hasn't ever been expanded. We can't expand it because it's too expensive. Why could we afford to cover the whole city a century ago when we were 10x poorer? With increasing density it should be even more affordable to build mass-transit.

Obviously people blame the latter example on declining state capacity, but I'm not sure state capacity is doing any worse than Google capacity or General Electric capacity.
If only they could transplant some of the swag here to the (hopefully) upcoming 50th anniversary Mac
Not sure why we'd believe whatever this administration accuses someone of. They have very little connection with truth and a lot of connection with unconstitutional and fascist behaviors. They have not earned trust or good faith.

They're testing the waters with green card holders now, but it's certain they'll eventually try this with citizens if they can get away with this (see both Project 2025 and their ongoing anti-trans policies).
That would be cool but I don't think this is going to help a ton until I can throw my own mix or something I got off soundcloud into my apple music library and actually have it work.
I think it mostly goes “I’m going to sell, it goes up to market on day <X>, unless you meet my ask.”
I would urge you to not think this way: https://www.osmos.io/fabric
Plus the stuff in those emails weren't even really dangerous to the well being of th country or military unlike if the Russians/iranians go their hand on notice of an imminent attack on the Houthis with lots of details on the attack and strikes
It's not baffling. He just thinks that laws don't apply to him.
> Looking back, I think this started well before Trump anyway, probably with Obama.

In said essay, I make the argument that the original inflection point was the rejection of Jimmy Carter's policies of self-sacrifice today for a brighter future tomorrow, in favor of Reagan and that hot new girl at the party, Neoliberalism. From there it was a cancer that just ate away at institutions, traditions, policies, decorum, and every level of government as voters time, after time, after time, adopted a position of "F*k you, got mine". Everything after - Bill Clinton's welfare reform and Lewinsky scandal, the Bush-Iraq double-features, Obama's and the Dem's non-punishment of the finance sector post-'08, and the failure to properly hold accountable Trump et al after Jan 6, all contributed to the decline in their own ways.

That's why I'm so confident that it's over: it's been in progress for decades.
I thought the modelling workflow at least, has been fundamentally unchanged. The common hotkeys like G for Grab, S for scale, X for extrude, etc.

Not sure about the more advanced features like sculpting
Hmmm... OK, Airbus calls to say hi, too.
Even "From Text / CSV" sucks:

It inserts an extra row at the top for its pivot table, with entries "Column1, Column2, ...".

So if you export to CSV again, you now have 2 header rows.

So Excel can't roundtrip CSVs, and the more often you roundtrip, the more header rows you get.

You need to remember to manually delete the added header row each time, otherwise software you export back to can't read it.
To be fair the Supreme Court just gave him an out to all but the most heinous crimes conducted as "official acts". He can do almost anything he wants and not worry about going to prison, and he can pardon all of his underlings.
Canada Spends: Get the Facts About Government Spending
Their leaders. I'm Canadian :-)

But you're right.
> Unless the object is immutable, like String, Integer, Long, ImmutableCollections, etc. Or your own immutable objects.

Exactly.
You can have immutable primitives.
You can have immutable classes.
And you can combine them to form thread-safe immutable classes.
like hydrogen or bitcoin, or at a larger scale aluminum
ASLR means that the pointers from malloc (which may come from mmap) are not predictable.

Sometimes programs have hash tables which use object identity as key (i.e. pointer).

ASLR can cause corresponding objects in different runs of the program to have different pointers, and be ordered differently in an identity hash table.

A program producing some output which depends on this is not necessarily a bug, but becomes a reproducibility issue.

E.g. a compiler might output some object in which a symbol table is ordered by a pointer hash. The difference in order doesn't change the meaning/validity of the object file, but is is seen as the build not having reproduced exactly.
I've been a broken record about the implications of sending DNA to a corporation for 20 years... it's hard not to have seen this coming.
https://www.tabtab.xyz
An idea evaluator so that you don't waste your life building a garbage product
CSV's actual problem is that there's no single CSV, and you don't know what type you have (or even if you have single consistent type through the whole file) without trying to parse the whole file and seeing what breaks. Is there quoting? Is that quoting used consistently? Do you have five-digit ZIP codes, or have the East Coast ones been truncated to four digits because they began with zero? Spin the wheel!
Sure, I won't disagree that there exist plenty of unqualified people doing things wrong while pretending that they know what they're doing. That seems obvious enough in the general sense.

I'll also agree that there are systems which exist that for whatever reason can't realistically be simplified.

However, on what basis do you claim that email - or rather email anti-abuse - qualifies as such?

> The alternative, having no requirements is having no messaging at all. You literally can't have it both ways.

You seem to be implying that the usefulness of the system derives from or otherwise depends on the difficulty of configuring it. However it doesn't seem to me that you've provided evidence of that. On the contrary, isn't the entire point of a reputation system that it avoids such gatekeeping by depending on historical behavior rather than some arbitrary barrier to entry?

I would make my own claim. That there exist software implementations that are far more complex than they realistically need to be, often because the thing being implemented has evolved over time and the resources or motivation or whatever needed to re-engineer and rewrite the implementation aren't available.

I would also claim that sometimes software has shitty UX for no better reason than the person developing it doesn't understand the needs of (some subset of) the people using it.

When configuring a network node to exchange messages in a really quite primitive protocol requires professional expertise to do correctly I'd say that's a clear indication that something is very wrong somewhere in the stack. Where exactly is certainly up for debate but a well behaved entity should not find it difficult to self host such basic functionality.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/165042/stop-excel-from-a...
Well, if I'd been upset and depressed experiencing these things spread out over time, seeing them all in one place has certainly amped that up.

Perhaps a good resource to send to family members who don't pay as much attention? I'm not sure, people seem unwilling to believe anything that doesn't fit with their narrative.
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A lot, but I do take your point.

It is not our only space venture. Our universities are churning out aerospace engineers. It annoys STEM academics that the space industries keeps "poaching" the best grad students.

To the best of my knowledge, the company is not a strategic priority for New Zealand, we do not absolutely need to launch our own satellites. It is purely a commercial venture. They had no choice but to make it a joint effort.

If it was not a joint effort they would have far fewer customers and a extremely limited supply chain.

Quite a while ago when I met an MP who seemed interested in space. I asked if anything could be done to keep/inceltivize future space ventures fully on-shore. They shrugged their shoulders and said no.
May not be a well known feature however npm can unpack tarballs as part of the install process, as that’s how they’re served from the CDN.

If you vendor and tar your dependencies correctly you could functionally build a system around trust layers by inspecting hashes before allowing unpacking for instance.

It’s a thought exercise certainly but there might be legs to this idea
It is interesting to see a world wide phenomenon on government spending transparency. Although I will have to say from experience it is exceptionally rare for anyone to be able to understand or value spendings both in terms of private sector and public sectors. Their lens are very different.

A lot of Financial Reporting like to use GDP and Marketcap which I think are bogus. But on numbers, Canada has ~$450B of annual revenue. Amazon has $630B annual revenue.

Just Food for thought.
I sometimes see types in TS with complex generics like [1], but instead of being general like in this example, they're more specific to the type of their values.

Couldn't find a proper example on the spot in an open source project.

[1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/type-fest/blob/main/source/g...
Is there a trick to making it work well? I tried Goose briefly but it seemed very flaky compared to Open Web UI with hand-configured tool calling.
This is genius.

https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/doc/de...
> Have you ever tried to migrate anything non-trivial on one cloud to another? Vendor lock-in is very real.

Yep! It's very real if you use vendor-exclusive tooling, and it's why I was the perpetual wet blanket in meetings where leaders would push for said tooling over, say, Terraform or Kubernetes.

Still, it's easier than you think for most LOB applications out there. It's really just the in-house custom stuff or products that will take longer to move, but make no mistake - the smart players have already started said moves elsewhere in some form. Maybe it's tasking the architects with identifying gaps between cloud vendors, or adding new sprint backlog items to remove proprietary dependencies on AWS/Azure/GCP over the coming FY, or tasking Engineering with a POC for a major application component "just to weigh our options".

It's in motion.
I just don’t understand takes like this at all. No tech scales without bottlenecks. Shopify built an empire on Rails, a framework frequently criticized for scalability issues, yet they thrived because they knew how to navigate its limitations. Great engineering teams turn bottlenecks into solved problems, not dealbreakers.
After sleeping on the above and watching some videos about Gemini 2.5 (especially Sam Witteveen’s at [1]), I decided to ask Gemini for an enhanced version of the synthesizer. Here it is:

https://www.gally.net/temp/202540327geminisynthesizer-v2/ind...

This was the prompt I gave to it (through a spoken interface, thus the length and repetition):

“Attached is a website I had you create for me yesterday based on the prompt that appears in another attached file. In that latter file I've also included your thinking process in response to my prompt as well as your explanation to me of how this synthesizer is supposed to work. I am basically happy with the synthesizer you created for me. It works very well, and the output is fascinating to listen to. But I would like the music produced by it to be more melodical and contrapuntal, that is, with more distinct notes that can be perceived forming melodies while still having the random and unexpected and creative generation of those melodies. I would also like to have a broader frequency range of tones that are being produced. For example it would be nice to have something like a bass line. Continue to make the music unexpected and creative and generative. That was one aspect of the music that was very positive for the first result: the fact that I could keep listening to the produced music for a long period of time and not get bored by it. So try to make the tone soundscape richer, more complex and with more sense of melody and counterpoint. Also add any more controls you can think of to make the, to give the user even more ways in which to affect the output, such as more fine tuning on the degree of tonality vs. atonality, conventional harmonic structures vs. unconventional harmonic structures, clear rhythmic patterns vs. unconventional rhythmic patterns, etc.”

The first result had a lot of digital clipping in the output on my M1 Mac mini. After some back and forth with Gemini about possible causes and solutions, it added a limiter and some more controls. The problem persists on the Mac mini. On my M4 iPad with Safari, the sound is clean. I kind of like it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3wLYDl2SmQ
Canary Mission, that was the narc group mentioned in the other article. Thank you.
Even worse is the entitlement spending imbalance along racial lines.
It's just a gut feeling instead of a proper evaluation of different apps, but I always feel Blender and Houdini are made by developers who care, while other 3D packages are, well, not.
Yea lets take that flight with airplanes from 30 years ago shall we
I steer clear of Apple products, but I've still had a lot of fun in this space thanks to DJ Studio (https://dj.studio/), a desktop app that helps make offline (rather than real-time) mixes. I use it to make a monthly personal mixtape, which is a nice way to remember what I used to listen to. They call it a "DAW for DJs," which is accurate.

I especially admire the team that makes it. The CEO records demo videos that are so filled with enthusiasm and accessible expertise that you can't help but appreciate the product more each time you watch them, and the COO sends out email announcements that are actually useful and not spammy.

It's a niche product, but they fill that niche well.
Some countries have alternatives. For example, Finland has institutes that call themselves polytechnics, universities of applied sciences, or something similar. ~60% of higher education takes place in them, with the remaining 40% in research universities.

However, when similar fields of study are available in both types of institutes, employers almost universally prefer graduates from research universities.
https://www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.1.14?lang=bi

"He used to say, if I am not for myself, who will be for me?"
Do we know what's included in the Google releases. I'm assuming it's for notifications and some related packages.