skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're in agreement on that point. I'm just trying to understand the rationale of the commenter who seems to be claiming that Clinton won the popular vote in 2016 and Trump lost the popular vote in 2024. Setting a threshold of a majority would at least be consistent, but I don't see any way to hold both of those positions while accepting the results as correct.

>And winning a plurality is winning the vote, in almost all electoral systems

I'd argue that there are many electoral systems that realize the potential problems this causes, and either use runoffs, or IRV/STV, to avoid it. The US (and UK...) just have very antiquated electoral processes that, especially in the US, have not benefited from the last two centuries of research on voting systems.
> People forget iPhone could lose out to Android like how Mac lost to Windows.

Global smartphone sales are 74% Android and 22% iOS. They were only "winning" in this regard until 2012
We have an EV6 and love it.

So, ... house project? Also starting a house project. Is there some forum other than youtube for self builders?
It works perfectly fine if you install docker but just the CLI (e.g. on debian docker provides a package for that in their deb repository).

Then you can use docker contexts to make the default context your podman socket. Then you just use `docker compose` as you normally would. I usually use this with rootless podman installs.
I don't care for their cars, but I feel bad for the victims who were just trying to buy a vehicle with a better drivetrain or save the environment.
They'd like to have CUDA, period, but are legally barred from it.
Because eventuality Xorg will be gone, so once that happens xmahjongg will not longer work. And to me, xmahjongg is the the best of these type games.

Yes I know wayland as a X emulation, but that will probably be removed once wayland is fully adopted.
bug: when playing back an Nx16 pattern, and switching, then when rolling to the next pattern the very first beat is played from the previously played pattern instead of the current one.
How Software Engineers Actually Use AI
Show HN: Basketball Shoe Finder Tool – Quiz
I built a basketball shoe finder based on my database including the most relevant basketball performance shoes to help players find the best match. It would be awesome to get some feedback. I hope you like it.
Their safeguards are all over the place. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t.

I once tried to create a new account with my real name in order to maintain Facebook Business Manager without using my private account. The new account was immediately locked until I added a phone number. I added my business number, which was immediately rejected. I added my personal number which immediately resulted in my private account being locked instead.

So I gave up and don’t use Facebook for my business.

I have an alternate profile that’s also under my real name which is 10+ years old, previously used to keep a distinction between friends and family, and it works just fine.
Using Claude to parse screen-scrapes of a server's boot status is certainly novel. I did not expect a mention of AI usage in an article like this.

With that said, I wonder why they used AI at all here. Could they not have keyed off certain keywords or other information present in a screen scrape, rather than rely on Claude to parse it?
"one way or another"

He wants to buy it, but what happens when Denmark refuses. He also asked the Pentagon to draw up plans for Panama.
Taiwan should say thank you more often!
> So, anyone who helps someone else, is getting zero recognition for it.

Where I've worked, this is what 360 peer review during performance reviews is.

If your colleagues all say you're super-helpful, that's part of what it takes to get promoted.

If your colleagues all say you're selfish and never help out, this is something that needs to be addressed immediately.

It's a metric like any other, it's just collected twice a year rather than bimonthly, and it's qualitative rather than quantitative. But it's analyzed at the same time and given lots of weight when it comes to promotions.
How to avoid fingerprinting? In general, and is there anything for Safari?
Apparently Tesla got caught cooking their books to the tune of 1.4B [1], so the numbers reported on the earnings call might not be as precise as one would expect.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-1-4-billion-seems-11130...
Tesla's non-truck vehicles all look the same and the design is dated. They have yet to prove they can do a car redesign successfully to my knowledge. It takes a lot of effort for a car company to redesign and re-tool their factories to produce a quality new version of a vehicle. They had massive problems when initially launching and until proven otherwise they could repeat those problems if/when they do a re-design.

If Musk would step aside as CEO, they do a successful re-design of each model, offer an affordable bare bones EV (200mi range, slow 0-60, FWD), then I think the company would be rock-solid as an investment and sales would go through the roof and they would break past the 5% of total car sales barrier.
Tell Etsy, Reddit, Tinder and Duolingo: Stop Feeding Surveillance Tech
The big risk is that the outcome would be a lot like that of the USSR / Russia, meaning both dysfunctional and harmful, rather than successful.
Thanks, Gemma is fantastic and that it supports function calling is great.
>this is a bizarre model where one programmer does no individual work and does all the helping.

Sounds like a lead or manager. He definitely works like a lead in spirit. Cheaper for the company to delineate it like this.

>Surely there are easier stories for those who need the most help, and Tim should be taking on the hardest stories by himself?

difficulties don't signify priorities. Maybe all the hard stories are low priority. Maybe the energy is focused on onboarding newer hires. Maybe there was a semi-looming headline and getting others' tasks done was more important than his individual module (or perhaps he was ahead of pace already).

I can see a dozen of scenarios this comes up in organically. I experienced a few of these firsthand.
So is this like a "better FFI", in some sense of the term?
I use proton pass (SAAS). I just figure I should be paying for core internet services like email, storage, passwords, calendars, etc. so that ideally my interests are aligned with my provider. I use the services on windows, android and linux regularly. So I can confirm that proton pass, email and vpn all work on those three operating systems. I cannot imagine they wouldn't work on MacOS.

Yes, you pay, but I see that as acceptable and expected for the service offered.
It looks like it was invented by a satirical 'news' site: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elon-musk-bud-light-tweets...
I want capability-based addressing like in the Plessy 250...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessey_System_250
It may shock some to learn that there are literally billions of people who aren’t on social media sites.
My printer has worked really well and for whichever reason I haven’t been hit by any of those HP shenanigans. Maybe it’s because I haven't installed any HP drivers or software? Not needed on Linux or ios which is what I have. Works great, network-enabled and supports AirPrint so we can print from our phones (95% of our printing needs). Toner is expensive and I’ve only ever used HP toner; third-party toner requires cannibalizing the chip from original cartridges which I’m too lazy to do. Color Laserjet pro m255dw. I still probably wouldn’t buy another HP given all the user hostility :)
That’s a map, not an indexed array, and it’s slower than Vec across the board per its own benchmarks.
We Ended Up Homeschooling
This syntax looks much more friendly than Lean! Could be really great. Complaint about their Live Code environment. I tried running the code on their front-page in the live environment and it gave me `input.pf:2.9-2.12: undefined variable: Nat` which immediately makes me bounce off.
I think it might be a trick to get more people to use 4.5
"Conscientiousness is the ability to perceive and abstract the world outside yourself"

It sounds like you've confused consciousness with conscientiousness?
First paragraph sounds like it's about consciousness. And second is about conscientiousness. Third is like a synthesis of both meanings?

EDIT
Sorry, your comment actually makes a lot of sense, it's just that "Conscientiousness is the ability to perceive and abstract the world outside yourself" is a very weird definition, see [0] [1] - nothing about perception or abstraction.

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/conscien...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientiousness
Would that it were possible, it's been sold out for years and it's $485 on Amazon for a used copy as of this writing.

If you know a cheaper way to get a hold if it please let me know!
But why would you ever buy a second one? I can see people buying an HP printer because it's a good deal, on the surface, but when it's clearly not, then why replace it with a new HP?
99.9999 pct sure it's different
> "reporters" take their “emerging and growing problem” list from
Netflix?

Your point was actually the authors point too. Quite a truculent
critique from Guardian's Martha Gill:

"It probably shouldn’t work like this. Policy decisions would ideally
not hinge on the quality of an actor’s performance (Adolescence had
some spectacular ones, which explains its success), and whether
politicians manage to catch the latest Netflix series. It makes us
look a little emotionally incontinent, as a country, when the
decisions of TV drama commissioners weigh quite so heavily in our
politics. But the fickle spotlight of political attention has landed
here, for now."

However, it's always worked like this since Plato feared the Poets and
Shakespeare shaped Elizabethan England. I think politics by artists is
much preferable to politics by "engineers", though the latter get the
ears of the engine the former speak directly to the hearts of the
people. Both are needed.

Smartphones and social media have destroyed society and TV series
"Adolescence" is only a tepid glimpse of the mental-health and
cultural epidemic that we've been avoiding talking about for decades
now. Whether you trust the "data" or people's "emotions", the picture
looks the same now.
And Konrad Zuse invented the computer.
No, but if it's not a difference of "Musk(programmer) vs Bezos(businessman)" I would like to know why other companies or leaders with a lot of money didn't have such success. Is it only a size of bank account? To me it looks like a ceo or a leader of company has more correlation with success than "just a lot of money".

My take - a CEO that is technical enough to decide on technical matters in inevitable arguments over what direction to choose is better for tech company than a business CEO that only looks for "what is cheaper in the short term".
I think, at the end of the day, the root cause comes down to whether the judiciary is truly independent. In theory, Turkey is governed by the rule of law, with a separation of powers and secularism. In practice, however, there’s a deep divide between various subcultures and a significant lack of trust.
Google mysteriously not mentioned here
Confronted with the deaths of millions under Hitler and Stalin, his response is: "you can’t separate Hitler and Stalin from the global democratic revolution that they’re a part of". So the rise of democracy is to blame for the 100s of millions of deaths under Stalin and Hitler, not the autocracies of Stalin and Hitler.

Now I get how people can argue that Ukraine got invaded by the USSR because they wanted to join NATO. You just go back in the causal tree until you hit the thing you don't like and blame it.
Yay.

WFH autonomy isn’t trivial, it’s about reclaiming control of your time, environment, and productivity. If collective action focuses narrowly yet powerfully on securing that benefit, the leverage is clear. Companies resisting WFH often rely on isolated dissent; collective solidarity flips that script. Risky? Sure. But meaningful rights rarely arrive quietly. Worth the fight.
You actually do seem to want to argue.

Militaries exist expressly to destroy (enemy) societies. Even if you agree with the reason for a war, that fact doesn't change. So "preservation" of one society (if becoming beholden to a MIC doesn't change that society) versus the destruction of another. Questionable value.

>GNH is cope from the Dragon King of Bhutan to justify the poverty and ethnic cleansing of his nation in the international community.

The commencement of measuring GNH coincided with marked increases in Bhutanese living standards by traditional measures. Nordic countries have roughly the same GDP per capita as the US. Countries like Japan and France feature lower GDP per capita and, while not traditionally considered social democracies, feature comparable approaches to social welfare, income equality, etc.

Free-Market Capitalism as the only way, or even best way, to prosperity is indeed a myth. Even at its best or most successful, it has to be tempered with robust social policy and economic controls, lest people fall to excess and the economy itself burn out. That's called, "Late-Stage Capitalism", and you'd best start believing, because we're in it.
That's such a good analogy!
Space in the US has always been extremely political. SpaceX is a more recent kind of politicisation which happens to be palatable to the current neoliberal orthodoxy, which follows the usual cycle of "break something the government runs by defunding it and interfering in its management, privatise it, then crow about how inefficient big government is."

If it had been left to the engineers in 1970s NASA and not to anti-science Republican cranks and crooks like Nixon and Proxmire, we would absolutely would have had a moon base and Mars landings long before now.
I think the fact you had to re-consider it shows you're not thinking in patterns. Rust is a language which always had pattern matching so in Rust it feels natural to, for example:

while let Some(work) = inbox.pop() { /* ... */ }

[edited: thanks HN, of course since this is code I don't need to escape the asterisks, unless I do]
There is a good interview with Quentin Adam, Clever Cloud, explaining what and why is not working with EU and French cloud in particular.
https://youtu.be/z9y5eiNYhD8 ( in French )

My main takeaways: governments sabotage Fr cloud by giving huge contacts to US companies + lack of understanding of the software development by EU and Fr decision makers.
Did it wait for someone to invent it, or for it to make economical sense to put this tech in that particular application?
Anecdote probably not. But i learned how a compiler works from it and reconstructed the B compiler based on it (found here: https://github.com/aap/b, warning: repo is messy, will clean up more soon hopefully).
Almost all automobile manufacturers are valued with P/Es around 4-15. This is true for GM, Ford, Stellantis, VW, BMW, Toyota, Hyundai, SAIC, Nissan, Honda, Suzuki, etc. Why? Because no-one expect them to grow much.

Right now, after losing almost half of its value, Tesla's stock still has a whooping 122 P/E; Tesla is still valued as a growth company while their sales are collapsing in the US, in Europe and in China, and with no other obvious market to compensate. Tesla hasn't launched a new mass market vehicle since March 2019, when Model Y was presented. That's 6 years ago! What other car manufacturer would survive so little innovation for so long? There are no new mass market vehicles in sight, just some robot taxis and robots and dreams of somehow generating a trillion dollar market on that in the very urban markets in the US and Europe where politicians and consumers despise Musk. Good luck with that. Already in 2024 - long before Musk went full throttle MAGA - Tesla stopped growing.

By now, European and Asian competitors have caught up with Tesla. Yes, Tesla is among the best on some measures, like price and range, but notby much, and it's also far down on the list on other aspects; the market is saturated with its 2 main models, it's not very luxorious, it's not of very good quality, etc. It's one good choice out of many good choices. The growth is gone, the moat is gone, and the Musk brand is now a liability.

Tesla shareholders are in for a rough ride.
well, eu still has to deliver. given the social and economic status quo, i am not sure they will be able to.
Yes, I think there are software producers (there's a new title to throw in there :D ) that over-complicate solutions maybe naturally because of how they are wired or intentionally because of some need to be better than others or they see complicated things in the industry and feel like using them.
Fascism. Just rebrand.
I suspect that lawyers that fish for clients to represent in class action lawsuits intend to settle for a quick payout (to themselves) rather than actually represent the interests of those they represent.

If that is not the case, HP’s lawyers are fantastic.
Show HN: drovi Plan, Promote, Connect
I'm one of the founders of drovi, a networking platform designed to help people build meaningful, long-lasting professional connections — both online and in-person.

We've seen how current networking platforms can feel overwhelming, superficial, or disconnected from real-world experiences. So we built drovi to change that.

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We’re actively building with feedback from users and communities in the UK and MENA region. I'd love for you to try it out and let us know your thoughts — especially if you’ve ever hosted or attended a professional networking event.
> There is no denying that most applications are shipped today as a Docker container and most developers have some experience with them

Author and I move in quite different circles. This is not my experience of applications or of software developers.
I'm guessing what Trump is doing is not the most efficient way to do it, but isn't he trying to get rid of the "permanent bureaucracy" - the people responsible for creating policies and spend money, that are not elected and don't have a term limit?
The Executive does not control what money is spent. That is for Congress to decide, no? I think this is described in a document called the Constitution.
When I was a kid I was a big Wilber and Orville fan, but then read a story about Gustav Whitehead, and was flabbergasted that I'd been lied to. I've never quite trusted teachers or historians since ... so it was an excellent lesson.
Show HN: I made a web app that let's you convert your SVG's into 3D models
So, one day, I was bored and decided to open Blender. I loaded up a logo that I designed and then started playing around with the different tools to make it 3D. I knew that you could convert any SVG to 3D models in Blender or web tools like Spline, but I wanted to make it easier and faster.

Then, I checked the web and found a few tools, but they were pretty much paid or had no 3D model export feature. So I thought why not make a tool that can do this easily and quickly :)

Features:

- Multiple customization options, which include Geometry, Materials, Environment and Background, with a simple, intuitive UI.
- Preview your 3D models in different enviroments and can also add your own custom environment using any image you want.
- Download the 3D model in STL, GLB and GLTF formats.
- Export images of the preview in PNG in low, medium or high resolution.

The Vibe Mode

Since vibe coding is in trend right now, I thought, why not add a vibe mode to this app? So I added a button to toggle the vibe mode. This mode allows you to add a dreamy effect with bloom and soft shadows to your preview panel.

P.S.

This tool is 100% free, open source and has been featured by Guillermo Rauch (CEO Vercel) on his X account (https://x.com/rauchg/status/1902597046567162040)

Thanks and let me know what you think :)
You aren't going to use a password manager to access your password manager is basically the point I was getting at. So you are always going to have some access managed via passwords or biometrics if that is available to you (finger print readers are instead unreliable for me). The fundamental access to password management isn't going to be managed by a password manager.
Ok. That's good to know. If you don't mind some follow-up questions:

- What services are you/your company relying on and you'd like to switch to an open alternative?

- How much are you/your company spending on these services?

- What is the threshold of pain (retraining, missing features, known issues) would you/your company be willing to accept for solutions that are not 1:1 replacements for the current systems?
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
> HP has massive marketing budgets and gets to package and discount their printers.

No wonder they need to get the money back from ink.
Neither. Farnsworth did. Maybe you're asking about the radio, was it Marconi or Tesla?
Isnt it objectively true that China is the only country to lift 500m people from poverty? The debate is whether the power to do that needs to come from a single party so powerful it can starve 50m without repercussion.
> (actually gets confusing to look)

As someone who grew up with a Swedish keyboard layout, switched to US when I got a job as a programmer but live in Spain so most keyboards have Spanish physical layouts while I use US software layouts: yes, this is very true for a lot of us :)
10-Ks are one of the last places to find actual honesty in business. We partially have SOX to thank for that.
> Whatever high-level abstraction we end up with it cannot be something that results in the wrong implementation because the agent incorrectly read the tone of the exchange.

That can easily be said of most Product Manager > SWE relationships too though
I'm not sure how legislating the razor and blade business model would help with the bit about e-waste. The basic idea is simply that the product is sold at a loss but the consumables (ink, blades, vape cartridges) are sold with high markup. My gut reaction is that making the consumables cheaper would increase the waste because people would be buying more of those consumables.
Looks like Linkedin with a new CSS
Just to clarify: In this case PGP stands for “Personal Genome Project”.
Every Flop Counts: Scaling a 300B LLM Without Premium GPUs
same people who are convinced russia is going to lose the ukraine war and go bankrupt while at the same time endangering europe.

it's all about rhetorics being used to manipulate for personal gains of a small elite. the kind of elite who makes billion dollar contracts via sms and then accidentally loses such sms.
Kia EV6 and Wolkswagen id5 are both really nice cars.
> But why in that order?

Well, it's in the alphabetical order.
Added to todo, i'll be rolling out fixes and improvements in a 8-10 hours.
My objection is not towards “advocating for more information”, my objection is towards “so focused on making those scores go up it’s becoming a bit of a perverse incentive”. That type of comment might apply in some other thread about some other release, but it doesn’t belong in this one.