skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll agree generally with those who say it's OK as it is. I have to increase the size by quite a lot to make it readable for me but other than that, it's OK. It could be improved by someone with good typographical taste but those are not generally the people designing the (self-described) "modern" web style. So my guess is that changing it would most likely make it worse.
I'd argue that many zealots aren't true believers of what they show outwardly, and that doesn't make them not zealots.
> and making EVs about the same cost as a gas car

At first I was like, isn't that great EVs are the more expensive car but then I realized you meant that the electricity costs as much as the equivalent gas. Oof. Yikes. That's really bad.
I just don’t understand why anyone would ever have used this. I’m not a very private person but this always seemed like giving up so much in return for so little. Not to mention the people that found out negative things like great grandad had three families.

I imagine if you try to delete your data now it’s conveniently too late/no staff around.
The incentives are not aligned with the class action members: sweetening the pot to get HP to accept the settlement means the lawyers can move on to another case, instead of this one dragging out.
Definitely a good tip to unfollow everyone.

I'd guess that LinkedIn Lunatics are only there because LinkedIn incentivizes that behavior by boosting that type of slop. I heard an anecdote that clicking the "show more" would count as engagement on a post, causing linkedin to show it to more people. Thus began the single-line-separated-by-spaces trend. Comments probably count as engagement too, which would explain why influencers end everything with "thoughts?" or "agree?" lmao

Somewhat related: the worst linkedin post I've ever seen was a woman, who I'll call Kelsey R, sharing an image with a caption like "So inspirational, just what I needed to get through the day!" The image was a screenshot of a poem, signed by Kelsey R.
Thanks for trying it out, will look into that character encoding issue!

Edit: fixed :-)
the blog does not load to me, but is this really "Delphi 5"?

As in Borland Delphi 5 "Argus" released in August 1999 which introduced XML support and ADO databases?
a lot of value of software engineers is talking to users (end users, clients etc)
And this is the case for most scholars of ancient languages besides Latin and Ancient Greek. While those two big ones get the occasional translation of a modern work like Harry Potter or The Hobbit, nobody is writing new works in Sumerian or Middle Egyptian, although reading existing works is what these scholars do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law says (almost) exactly this.
A Pragmatic Analysis of an Overconnected Society
Is it? I mean, compared to some laptops where I explicitly was not interested in paying extra for audio, sure. Especially with them being older than "standard" presence of audio coprocessor on board.

Compared to the two new-ish AMD laptops? For the rare use case that warrants using built in speakers and mic, I see no real difference. Maybe latest macs are better, but... Usually the only use of built in speakers and mic are as last chance backup, or watching movies in bad conditions. Otherwise it's always a proper headset or standalone speakers
As someone who made the mistake of putting a webcam cover over the tiny little microphone hole above the screen (it picks up very little besides impact noises now), it wouldn't be hard to have a mic hole facing in both directions to solve that problem
I know several coworkers/ex-coworkers that are bad at their job who followed your advice and publish at least once a week on their personal technical blog.

Except that it's 100% AI generated.

So it's only a matter a time before having a personal technical blog is seen as average as having a LinkedIn & GitHub account...
Sigh.... I'm not sure what the audience for this book is. Anyone looking to learn the math behind Machine Learning would be much better served learning just what they need and expand their horizon as the need arises. I'm not sure anyone really learns this stuff by just reading a 1000 page book, learning happens nonlinearly, you learn a bit of A, then a bit of C, then a bit of B, and try and connect them together. It always reminds me about the story how Heisenberg didn't know what matrix multiplication once when he came up with his version of quantum mechanics. You don't need to know everything to make an impact.
FBI warnings are true–fake file converters do push malware
This seemed familiar and it's because HN chatted this in 2019. Plenty of good theories. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20770284
I don't think most servers are that dishonest, especially when their income almost entirely relies on tips.
The Texas grid was deregulated in an era where solar and wind were not price competitive.

The price competitive producers were all stable fossil fuels, natural gas and coal.

They failed to take into account unreliable low cost producers forcing reliable but marginally more expensive producers out of the market.

If solar/wind producers had to guarantee power 24x7 at fixed rates the cost would vastly exceed natural gas costs.

They just need to change the contract requirements to match reality.
The way the headline is written reminds me of a popular theory in Mexico that Thomas Alva Edison was born in Zacatecas State in Mexico.
Go debate creationists for a while then come tell me I'm being abrasive. Believe me this is the easiest way when we disagree on basic facts.

US culture (especially among white men) has a lot of internalized individualist, anti-union, and anti-government views, despite the incredible success of the New Deal (combined socialism+capitalism) in creating their entire world. The bot is really the best way to counter these attitudes. It beats spending hours on google.
I think this is just wishful thinking. The world is much more complicated and chaotic, so things like “just write better docs” don’t hold up. Especially in the unpaid roles that open source software relies on.

LLMs may be the only chance many people have at writing good docs, or creating those macros to parse one-offs.

“You want it one way. But it’s the other way.” - Marlo Stanfield, The Wire
I find it interesting that the Episocopal Chirch in the United States has both old conservative members and young liberal members, and they all seem to get along as far as I can tell (many of them also believe in Theistic Evolution and don't shun science like others seem to think). I think it's a flavor of conservatism that is more libertarian. The Episcopal Church also has openly-gay priests and women priests, all of which whom can marry.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-a...
I certainly care - they are human being - and I support asylum claims just like support them from other oppressive areas of the world.
one of the greatest ai idea on 2025, although the product has its own issues
Yes, it's incredibly stupid, there is already EuroLinux (RHEL) and now EU OS (Fedora), Fedora and RHEL are not community distros. Is this some kind of testbed for ChatControl2.0?

From the Site:

Sovereign

OS built to the requirements for the EU public sector

Sleek

OS that is fast and eco-friendly on new and old hardware

Yes...no. Fedora is not sovereign, nor is KDE "sleek". Must be a troll distribution, I trust HannaMontana Linux 10x more.
> The compiler says anything you declare though needs to be defined.

No it doesn’t. If that were true dynamic linking would not be a thing, but it’s not even true in the most basic way either.

> Basically defined before use.

Also not true. But this is “not even wrong” since “before use” isn’t defined here, however if it is meant to be appears before in the input, then that is wrong.

> The one rule the linker needs is hey is this declared before you use it. That way the linker can eventually find the right code to call.

Because of the way C++ is defined this is somewhat true (not so much for incomplete types), but also a tortured avoidance of the compiler role (Translation phase 7) in the process, and really the meat of what is going on. I’d recommend someone just read cppreference first.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1410563/what-is-the-diff...
The issue seems to be that the platforms optimize before showing — presumably because they get paid for click-throughs.

Couldn’t they offer an unbiased randomization option with a different payment model (eg based on showings, not clicks)? Would preserve their revenue and researchers get a good tool.
I'm generally intolerant of the intolerant, religion doesn't get a pass for being religion.
> You're confusing tactics for strategy

No, you're confusing wishful thinking fantasy justifications with concrete reality of actions and material effects.

> if you think the US can upend 70 years of foreign policy in the blink of an eye and without a fight, you can believe anything.

If you think it can't do that at the whim of the President (with or without a fight, since no opponent can win that fight), especially after a massive purge of the military leadership, you have an even more exaggerated fantasy view of the power of the "deep state" than even the paranoid fantasies -- that those presenting them don't even believe -- used as a pretext for the purge.

Yes, radical breaks in policy are possible, and the Trump Administration has been doing them in virtually every domain.
>post content at least every other day, use AI to help you produce it

"Everyone's a content producer, but no one actually reads anymore" is the worst trend happening.

The most annoying people on every platform are the "content producers".
Startups That Set Out to Fix the Climate Are Now Talking About Jet Fighters
Windows doesn't break backwards compatibility unless it is absolutely worse to keep it around. Think about old SMB protocol that caused security issues. The old Delphi programs continue to work since both the API design is more future-proof and Microsoft did a mind-boggling amount of work to keep ABI stable.
Should. Visual Studio 6 / Visual Basic 6.0 keeps running on Windows 10/11
Story also covered in a BBC podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002883z
We call a partner that spends the majority on an alliance, a partner. Just like Germany is a partner to italy, France, Spain and vice versa
Due to some unfortunate circumstances I had a customer call on Google Meet once while walking across Paris. I ware barely understandable while holding the earphones' mic in front of my mouth...

Good hardware definitely beats software trying to make something out of nothing: can't make directionality out of 1 mic, so Google Meet couldn't filter out background noise in that situation. Though it didn't help that these USB-C DACs seem to all be terrible (I tried several with the best findable reviews) compared to any old headphone jack where the device's internal DAC just worked
The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
it was a lot simpler in capabilities. much of the complexity is because of feature creep.
nothing wrong = nothing I want out there. not talking about security through obfuscation
I'm confused too. These days, "spatial audio" on speakers (different from on headphones) and beamforming mics is starting to feel standard, at least on premium hardware.

Dumb, noisy, cramped, unbalanced audio just doesn't cut it anymore.
Introduction to Library of Congress Subject Headings [pdf]
If code does not have all the information, what processes the features?
The money system is owned by the Central Banking cartel (BIS club). The major holder of German debt is the ECB. This is not owned by states. It’s very enlightening to learn how it came to be.

Next big buyers of German debt are individual European banks (members of the cartel) and pension funds
(also known in Wall Street as “Dumb money”).
You want me to do a Google search for a parser for the language that I just invented?

If you have a parser generator tool that can go from zero to parser based on a few examples rather than a grammar, I’d love to hear about it.
There's a conflict of interest for a CEO to take the company private. They have a incentive to lower the share price as much as possible so they can purchase shares. Looking at you, Dell.
I might be misunderstanding, but are you talking solely about the most here? I'm mostly curious about the chorded "keyboard"(?) as an input device - have you spent time with it as a daily driver? How does it compare to a traditional keyboard? I would guess a keyboard would be easier for a beginner, because ~1 key per symbol, and the keycaps are all printed (though I'm sure many of us remember our untrained selves scanning the entire keyboard intently, looking for whatever letter had eluded us) - so chorded input would be more of a learning wall than a learning curve, but once that's achieved... is chorded input ~100% speed of a QWERTY kb, or 10%, or 150%? Is it more or less tiring, physically and mentally? Very interested in your experience.
First, the credit card company I use for dining will notify me via email if they think there has been an exorbitant tip outside of 45% or so.

Second, this would involve me taking a photograph of the receipt at the table, which doesn't seem like a lot as a solo diner, but let's just say that it's a weird gesture at the end of a romantic dinner or a gathering of friends, which are the situations where I'm going out to eat. It's especially weird so long as it's clear via either my credit card issuer's notifications or via a scan of my charges at the end of the month that something is up.

At the end of the day, I would expect to lose time and recoup zero dollars via this app.
You can actually formally do just that, HN maintains a highlights list which you can email them nominations for:

https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
>>What would you suggest?

EVERY other Community distro:

Debian

Gentoo

Guix

Nix

FreeBSD

etc....
The “that would previously have run Linux on bare metal” part of that sentence was important. Try reading it again. It never compared seL4 as a hypervisor to another hypervisor. It compared using seL4 as a hypervisor to not using a hypervisor at all on a machine that does not need a hypervisor. The addition of seL4 there is not only pointless, but possibly harmful if you consider the increased TCB size.

By the way, seL4 as a hypervisor uses components that are not verified to a specification, so saying that it is verified to a specification is not quite correct. They also seem to be proof of concept examples rather than a production solution when I look at their documentation:

https://docs.sel4.systems/projects/camkes-vm/

https://docs.sel4.systems/projects/camkes-vm/centos

Why is it that everyone on the “seL4 makes everything secure” bandwagon seems to have a tunnel vision that ignores that seL4 is useless without a large amount of unverified software that runs on top and that security will typically depend on that software, rather than seL4?
> We could have had a steam engine during the Roman Empire and thus an Industrial Revolution thousands of years earlier, but no one did it. It was just a toy. Imagine having the vision.

No, we couldn't. The Romans were missing several other critical technologies that were necessary to make steam engines more than a toy.

https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...
Nice work. Great to see more companies building in the Obsidian ecosystem!

Some feedback -- your engineering development seems focused on the pipeline for getting your notes onto IPFS. Your site highlights the "how" but not the "what".

When I go to your site, the first thing I want to see is a screenshot of what my site will look like. The second thing I want to see is how easy it will be to set up.

Conceptually I know that you support jekyll or hugo or whatever, and I could go browse themes for those, but at that point I've left your site and I'm technical enough to just set up the static site generator myself and not look back.

Use your pixel real-estate at the top of your marketing page to show succinctly:

your vault + $ + 3 clicks => blog-that-looks-like-this + IPFS
Deregulating a basic human need and leaving it to the 'market' to solve this. This sounds a lot like other privatization efforts of the past decades.

In my country healthcare, child support, energy, national railway, postal services, public housing, banking and more have all been privatized.

I worry about this. Not for now, but for 20 years in the future, where all energy is managed by companies and the government can no longer control the market due to being 'too big too fail' and because it gave all control away.
Incidentally I remember my history teacher commenting that even if Marx didn't exist at that time, communism would still be born around that time in history.
A series of "just-so" sentences revealing more about the convoluted manner in which iammjm thinks than anything about the world. Sad.
How likely are you to overcome a failed launch?
I don’t think anybody thinks or thought it was.
>Looks like "extern" is used to bring global symbols into function scope.

a better way to think of extern is, "this symbol is not declared/defined/allocated here, it is declared/defined/allocated someplace else"

"this is its type so your code can reference it properly, and the linker will match up your references with the declared/defined/allocated storage later"

(i'm using reference in the generic english sense, not pointer or anything. it's "that which can give you not only an r-value but an l-value")
Articles that try to compare Texas with California almost always miss that California is not it's own grid.

Power in California is from the Western Interconnect, which is regulated by WECC.

Power on the Western Interconnect is only 8.7% solar and 10.4% wind.[0]

Texas in the same year was 7% solar and 24% wind.[1]

[0] https://wecc-spdp-weccgeo.hub.arcgis.com/pages/power-generat...

[1] Annoyingly the data is in an excel spreadsheet in a zip file https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2021/03/10/FuelMixReport_Pr...
"I want to make 4-6x the average american salary without taking on any risk, but don't tell me to work hard"
wow I loved Triplebyte. The startup scene in Seattle was so small compared to the Bay area, so finding interesting companies was tough. I also loved skipping some of these places' horrible phone screens. The triplebyte backpack is STILL my daily driver. I was very sad to see it had been acquired and shuttered by honestly a company selling a horrible way to interview.
https://archive.is/JEYep
I don't really know, the details of measuring energy consumption, emissions, and price is a fairly convoluted concept as far as I know.

Asking google AI:

"California emmisions rate" gave:

"California has seen a decline in greenhouse gas emissions, with a 20% reduction since 2000, while its economy has grown significantly. The state aims to reduce emissions to 85% below 1990 levels by 2045 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2045"

Then asking "Texas emissions rate" gave:

"Texas is a major emitter of carbon dioxide in the United States, producing 13.4% of the nation's total in 2022, with transportation being a significant source of emissions"

followed by:

"Emissions Leader:
In 2022, Texas produced 663 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, more than double that of California, the second-largest producer"
My guess (without value judgement) is he was referring to the fact that they don't really work without such software
I feel like Delphi, along with maybe VB6 and WinForms, have been the pinnacle of easy UI development, and things have gone significantly downhill since then. Especially on the web side, where even a single view sometimes requires having multiple unrelated dependencies (packers, builders, transpilers, etc.), often implicitly-configured to produce output, in head-space. And due to this dependency hell, when porting a project like this to a new platform, or just getting it to run, a slight change in the environment silently breaks the build.
A lot of dialogue in movies is dubbed for this very reason, it’s very hard to not pick up noise. What you can deal with is how close the mic is to you (which is why news reporters rely on hand held mics, not just the boom mike) and the pattern of the mic: a cardoid, hypercardoid or shotgun mic facing the opposite direction of the noise source would pick up less than an omnidirectional one (which is why the mics you see in studios are not used on a loud stage—not only are they fragile and expensive, they also tend to be omnidirectional).
Whataboutism aside, claiming that collecting tens of thousands of artifacts for a museum operated in Washington DC, is a hobbyist endeavor, is clearly wrong.
I think you underestimate those who are both technically brilliant and empathetic. I sense you're at least brilliant
>In tech, I have found the best way to stand out is a personal technical blog.

5 years ago maybe.

Now every tech/recruiting "influencer" suggests the same tactic, and the vast majority of it is pure slop, checking a box.
When you say "The point is whether a LLM has any feelings..." are you thinking specifically about an LLM, or AI in general?
I've seen nothing to indicate that Project Aardvark is using an LLM for weather prediction.
a thermometer will tell me if it's going to freeze in 2 days?

here's the scenario. I have started a bunch of seeds inside my house. I am waiting for the "last frost" as per the instructions on the seed packets. Now, how do i use a thermometer to tell if the last frost has passed? You need prediction models that can be accurate out at least a few days with temperature, and a 10% error "at freezing" means my plants either live or die, based on that error.

there's no counterargument, here. "oh just cover the new plants" or "just wait longer" don't work, especially with larger gardens or "farms" or "homesteads". Most of us home-gamers just use environmental clues - number of bugs, buds on dogwood or pecan trees (native ones), when other trees flower. But this year i got a lesson that pecan trees get it wrong, too. They are in the process of leafing out and there was an unpredicted, non-forecast cold snap that took the temperature so close to 32.0F (0.00006C) that i think any plant not equipped for that would have died that night. Now, now i'm fairly certain there's no more frost chance, but it's just a guess.

Now imagine i lived anywhere outside of the subtropics, like nebraska or montana and needed to plant food for livestock or whatever.
This was a handpicked board too. She could've veered harder into picking cronies.
This is also the fundament of Pastafarianism.
Having an MCP server for this would be super cool.

You can definitely add styles and instruct on colors.
Well if it's that simple go ahead and start a company, generate $1M per employee and pay everybody their fair share.
If you're right you'll get the top 0.1% talent in that market, no question.

Let's see how you do, best of luck.
I’ve read it as “Slashdot founder…”
It's used widely in fancy videoconferencing setups.

The mic array for the room figures out who's talking and isolates the audio from them.

(Videoconferencing in large rooms has long picked the loudest microphone to use at any time, to avoid mixing in noise from other mics, but then the beamforming makes it that much better.)
> Parsing isn't too bad compared to, say, Perl.

This is damning with faint praise. Perl is undecidable to parse! Even if C isn't as bad as Perl, it's still bad enough that there's an entire Wikipedia article devoted to how bad it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexer_hack
Okay, I wasted a few minutes in The Judge. It's too damn hilarious giving it a passage that insults the reader's mother in fine detail and then having the AI explain very politely and patiently why someone might take offense to that.