skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ll accept the idea that a person might believe that trans/cross dressing is a fad, but your argument is that it’s a fad that explicitly follows the possession of the White House? That Biden was a gender-bending taste-maker and there’s a large group of people who went “Wow, now that Trump is in office, I see how cool gender-normativity is.”
What’s the security bug?
But adding fluoride WAS everybody coming together to solve a problem (poor dental health). We could have a reasonable argument about whether or not fluorine in the water continues to serve that goal. Instead we’ve got this weird quasi-debate about types of freedoms.
> The number two mistake people make is being aware of the number one mistake so they go write yet another Monad tutorial in Javascript (or Java or whatever...). Which is why there are so many damn Monad tutorials, all saying pretty much the same thing.

I was lucky seeing this before hitting submit button. Phew that was close.
PortfolioSlice. It’s a website where you can share your investment portfolio and its asset allocations. Then other people can just follow that with an easy to use cash divider.

https://portfolioslice.com/

It currently just has my portfolio that I use (Innovation and Global Growth) and some other generated ones. I wanted to try out SvelteKit and Svelte to replace my Google Sheet into something cooler. Not sure if I want to monetize this.
I actually think it's becoming fairly common these days—IIRC Ruby and Rust both prioritize expressions over statements.
I've been working on an app that records RAW video on Android devices [1].

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.motioncam....
It should be enforced by the schools: put the phones in a tub in home group and hand them back out at the end of the day. If there’s an emergency call the office or the office calls you. Use exercise books for note taking, etc.
Continuing to build on my programmable server for Server-Sent Events. Built in Rust/Tokio, programmable with Lua.

https://tinysse.com/

https://github.com/benwilber/tinysse
https://github.com/Tombert/swanbar

https://blog.tombert.com/posts/2025-03-22-swaybar/

I wanted some extra functionality for the Swaybar in the Sway Window Manager. I got a basic thing working with Bash, but I wanted more stuff, and so I rewrote it in Clojure with GraalVM.

I think it's kind of cool, I ended up with a fairly elaborate async framework with multimethods and lots of configuration, and the entire thing has almost no "real" blocking, and can persist state so that it can survive restarts.

The reason for async support was so that I can easily have my Swaybar ping HTTP endpoints and display stuff, without it affecting the synchronous data in the bar. I have TTLs in order to rate-limit stuff, and also have click-event support.

Right now, I have it ping OpenAI to generate a stupid inspirational quote based on something from a list of about two-hundred topics. Right now on the top of my bar it says:

> "Let the flame-grilled passion of life's challenges be your fuel for success" - Patty Royale

I think it's kind of cool, it's building with Nix so it should be reproducible, and with GraalVM, it hovers at around 12-15 megs of RAM on my machine.
What terrorist beliefs in particular?
From my own standpoint, it's an even simpler proposition. I program, but I don't develop software. I'd like to know if the AI changes the way we answer the question of when a project will be done.
Wind power is mostly due to solar energy. Earth's rotation contributes a very small amount and even that smaller effect is more located in the upper atmosphere where we don't collect wind power versus solar caused pressure gradients
It is still being litigated and I am confident the evidence will come out. And if there isn't any, there are procedures for dealing with that too.
What’s listed below is too much – ok we’re being analogue and curating more naturalistic play, but restricting play like this is getting a bit draconian. Kids occasionally need to hit each other. Many great artists sometimes have to “destroy” books to get them into a different form where they can be inspired by them. Musicians smash and otherwise derange their instruments. Asking gross questions, even as a way of challenging rules and boundaries, isn’t going to kill anyone. Basquiat, for example, drew on the walls of a small cupboard in his home, a practice that stretched out onto the walls of the city streets, and then onto canvases that now sell for $150,000,000.

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The playroom itself, in contrast, has only a couple of rules:

If the playroom gets too messy to the point it is a tripping hazard, everything stops and they have to clean it up (which really only occurs a few times a week since they are pretty good about managing the space).
They cannot destroy or harm their books, they must show them respect,
They cannot mark on the walls or furniture,
They cannot run in the house or jump off of furniture or towers they build,
They cannot hit each other, and
They cannot speak harshly to one another, which includes requiring them to say, “Thank you,” “Please”, etc. Throughout your life, your family should be the one rock you depend upon and that you know will always have your back if times get tough. We support each other, we don’t fight or say things in frustration.
They cannot talk about gross topics at the dinner table. They have to wait until they are finished eating and allowed to get up, then it’s fair game, again. That way, they are being considerate of other people.

P.S. for portfolio sizes between $500,000 and £10,000,000 how is there better advice than “invest in an S&P500 ETF”?

P.P.S. What’s wrong with the emotion of frustration? It’s as valid as any other emotion even if you don’t like the way it might manifest.
I am sure his other two tattoos are just as harmless, but why doesn't the article describe them? Telling me what one of the tattoos is but not the other two leaves me wondering if the article is trying to deceive me by omitting context. At the very least it is disrespectful to the reader for a journalist to only tell me the most sympathetic detail while presumably leaving out harmless but less emotive details, as though they think my tiny brain would be overloaded by that much detail.
This article says that the communities are having a hard time figuring out which 48 people were arrested, which is a very different problem than having a specific person you're looking for and not knowing where they went to.

Again: still bad, still inexcusable, but not the same thing as what would have to be happening here.
The house looks like it was staged for sale, not a place anyone lives.

If you want grounded kids, and can afford it, get them into horses and ponies.
The kids I see around barns all have smartphones, but don't use them for timepass.
Interesting. Yes could we put power into a similar system and accelerate the rotation?
The article claims his status is unknown ("Their resident status (e.g. US citizens or green card holders) is currently unknown."), but I doubt a non-citizen could be "Director of NSF Center for Distributed Confidential Computing".
You’re right. The book I most recently read on the subject talked about them disassembling the rail down the hillside that the glider used and then later putting it up on flat ground. I don’t know how I missed that part, especially since the pictures of early flights clearly show the Flyer taking off from that very rail.
Doesn't the sequence of events read more like the University found something grave enough to put him on leave and contact the FBI, and for both the teacher and school to keep it quiet?
Maybe, maybe not. It does follow a pattern of how FBI handles espionage though. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/spy/spies/fou....
Does he have a lawyer? It wasn’t clear who retained council, it sounded like it was just a woman living at the Carmel house, which could have been a rental tenant…
Even though I love 3rd party tools (SDL my beloved) I still find novel uses in the C library. Especially for string-related problems people say "just do it from first principles". Sometimes snprintf is enough for my debugging!
Yes, run power to wind turbines to use them as giant fans
Working on some starter templates for going from plain English requirements to a ready-to-use applications in a few minutes. Are you a small team looking to go from Excel to something a bit more streamlined but would like to avoid a time-consuming and costly process? Schedule a live demo today. https://genatron.ai
I don't know the nature of what's going on in El Salvador on behalf of the US. But sending a non-gang member there among gang members seems reprehensible and they need to do better to ensure this doesn't happen.

But I'm sure the people who live in the neighborhoods terrorized by those Venezuelan gangs are happy they are gone.
a tool to make software more user-friendly by hiding advanced features for new users:

[1] https://vykee.co
> The great fantasies, myths, and tales are indeed like dreams: they speak
from the unconscious to the unconscious, in the language of the unconscious
– symbol and archetype.

The bookend narration of 2011 film Sucker Punch mentions such a thing.

> Though they use words, they work the way music
does: they short-circuit verbal reasoning, and go straight to the thoughts that
lie too deep to utter.

I appreciated music more after someone pointed out that music is the most evocative art form. Paintings can look realistic, movies can be based on real stories, video games can feel immersive, but music is almost never _like_ anything. I like that.
When I'm using Office, the files come from a shared directory accessible as Z:

I use scripts to automate everything - including allowing wine to use Xwayland (because until I start the application I want, its userid is not allowed to show content on my display)

If you want to try using wine with different user ids, try to start with a directory in /tmp like /tmp/wine which is group writable, with your windows app and your user belonging to the same group.
You can see it on this story. It was in the top 3 on HN as of a few minutes ago and now is already down to #20 on the front page. Although this could also be potentially blamed on the flamewar detector, but I'm not sure if the specific cause matters in this instance since the primary complaint is the lack of visibility these stories get.

It also seems like perihelions's comment likely received some flags as it went from being the top comment to being buried down at the bottom near a bunch of fully flagged comments.
American zionists, particularly in the Trump government, seem to think that anything other than complete loyalty to Israel is terrorism.
> I just don't like his arguments about it must be fast to recompile everything.

C isn't necessarily fast to recompile everything. Too much preprocessor magic and the compilation can slow down a lot.

And a lot of the reason for that, is that C's preprocessor is inherently weak – e.g. it doesn't explicitly have support for basic stuff like conditionals inside macros – but you can emulate it with deeply nested recursion – which blows up compilation times enormously. If C's preprocessor was a bit stronger and natively had support for conditionals/etc, one wouldn't need these expensive hacks and it would be a lot faster.

Example of real world project where C preprocessor slowed things down a lot is the Linux kernel: https://lwn.net/Articles/983965/
If your monthly cloud bill is < $100K, you don’t need $5MM worth of hardware. That cloud spend equates to, at best, a couple of beefy servers, which (modulo AI cards) could almost certainly be had for <= $50K/ea. So for $200K, you could have a two-zone setup.

Where it does make sense in the short-term for this scenario is the experience and knowledge necessary to reliably run your own servers. If you don’t have that, you may not want to invest the time and effort to do so. But on pure cost, unless your bill is on the order of a few thousand per month, cloud will never win. It can’t; they have to make money.
Question for parents:

Is this era, where parents create an entire world for their children, unprecedented in history? I know that parents have sheltered their children to varying degrees throughout history but now it seems way more extreme than it's ever been before.

What is going on here? Are we totally rejecting the society we've built for ourselves? Where do we go from here?
The "social pariah" thing is FUD. It's just people repeating what other people claim to be afraid of, and then becoming afraid of it themselves. Kids can be shitty--if they want to exclude someone or bully them, they're going to do it whether or not the victim has a cell phone. Conversely, if people will only be friends with you if you have a cell phone, then I have some bad news for you: They're probably not genuine friends.
Not very impressive to have an exposed public token with full write credentials...
> The Chinese govt also has a pretty nasty track record of pressuring erstwhile Chinese citizens to engage in espionage by making life hard for family back in china

China also has a history of establishing "police" stations in foreign countries with the mandate to harass and control expats. They did this in Canada at least, surely they did in the US too.
There's a much simpler explanation. At some point, the UI becomes about as good as it can be. It can't really be improved any further without changing the whole paradigm, and just needs to be maintained.

But product managers inside the large corporations can't get promoted for merely maintaining the status quo. So they push for "reimagining" projects, like Google's "Material Screw You" UI.

And we get a constant treadmill of UI updates that don't really make anything better.
Working on getting my life back together.

I've been more or less sick for the most of Q1/25. Always some cold, coughing, sometimes worse. Went to work nevertheless most of the time (stupid, I know), because... I don't know. Guess I think work is more important because it gives me the feeling of being good at something and worth it.

Didn't take much care about eathing healthy, getting my gym routine done or even enough sleep. Lots of other stress, too.

Not sure how much I can change from Q2/2025 on but I'll have to start optimistic. Some clouds are clearing up, some problems and issues are gone or being taken care of, can only go up from here.

All the best for everyone.
Working on a tool to remember things I read.

You select some text with your phone and share it with my app, then the shared text is reformulated to a flashcard (with the help of a llm).

You can then browse your flashcards in the app, but I’m also working on ways to show the cards to you with less friction: Like on the phone lock screen or on the face of your watch.

https://komihag.com
Believing that Palestinians shouldn't be slowly exterminated probably.
What kinds of text?
A simple and concrete example is, go to Japan, find yourself in need of using any Japanese-only app, be extremely frustrated in not even being able to select text to translate it.

At least in recent versions of Android there is that OCR (?) powered functionality to select text when you're in switch-app view.
Trying my best not to break the no snark rule [1], but I'm sure your code is 100% bullet proof against all current and future-yet-invented-attacks.

[1] _and failing_.
How do you really know you're top students? Maybe you just got a pass.
Polio, Bloatware and Vibe Coding
> Things popping up

This is one of my biggest frustrations with modern GUI computing. It's especially bad with Windows and Office, but it happens on iOS and macOS too to an extent. Even though I've had Office installed for weeks I still get a "look over here at this new button!" pop-up while I'm in the middle of some Excel task. Pop-up here, pop-up there. It's insane the number of little bubbles and pop-ups and noise we experience in modern computing.
- "panicking themselves so hard they're going to behave completely irrationally (like attempting to rip open the emergency doors which IS possible at low enough altitudes)"

The Denver airport fire this month was an object lesson. A panicking mob apparently ignored instructions and went out the wrong emergency exit door, onto the airplane wing, where they stood over the flaming jet-fuel smoke with no way down.

(The other doors had slides).
In theory, if all you do is implement algorithms, this sounds fine. But most apps implement horrible business processes, so what would one do with missing stacktraces? Maybe in languages that can mark functions as pure.
Negligibly so. The Sun delivers more energy to Earth in about 5 seconds than the magnetic field loses in 1,000 years.
The most subversive of all the hors d'oeuvres.

/jk
I used to buy into all the talk about "disrupting markets" until I saw companies actually succeed in really disrupting markets.

It's usually said in a way that suggests or even outright claims to be to the benefit of society as a whole but ultimately it ends up just meaning redistributing market shares or outright draining more money from consumers (e.g. by "disrupting" public or shared infrastructure). And more often than not a huge value proposition relies on abusing externalities (i.e. the "public good" or commons) without paying back into them because the social contract that used to maintain them is not actually legally binding.
They won’t.

Remember the bipartisan bill to end/reform the H1-B program and that died after Musk tweeted about it?

Tech giants make too much money off of H1-Bs
Indian English isn't "challenging" because "being challenging" isn't an inherent aspect of a language or variety. Indian English can be challenging for individual people based on their prior exposure (or lack thereof). The video doesn't make that distinction - it flatly has her refer to her own variety of English as a "challenging accent".

"Accent training" is indeed more dehumanizing but its framing usually relies on the same premise (i.e. that your native variety is deficient and needs to be "fixed" rather than that you're literally learning a foreign accent to play the role of an American) and it exists for the same reason (i.e. American companies trying to cut costs without making it too readily apparent to their US customers). It's not about "more efficient communication" as the video has her say, it's about play-acting an American to mask the fact the company outsourced the work (or at least not make it obvious enough that customers are actively reminded of that fact).

This isn't jingoism - I'm not even American myself. But the framing of what this is for and why it exists is not just dishonest. You can argue that of course when they have her say her "accent" is "challenging" it's implied that she means "challenging to US customers" but that's not what she says and it's not just an "accent" the way a non-native speaker may carry over an accent from their native language so you may equally say it's implied that the way she speaks English is inherently deficient because it's a foreign variety.

This is a product to help American companies reduce friction from their customers when outsourcing call centers to lower wage countries - not even India and the Phillipines likely but other countries where those or similar varieties of English are widespread, especially as poverty in those two countries decreases. This technology wasn't created to help Indian English speakers or immigrants overcome language barriers in the US. This won't be used to allow call center workers to avoid "accent training". This was created to allow these companies to outsource to even cheaper call centers.

Sure, "accent training" may have cut into the already meagre paycheck but if those call centers were able to offload those costs onto their workers before that means they can now justify simply paying them less - and after all, someone will likely argue that that's still a good thing because maybe those workers still end up with less money than if they hadn't "needed" the "accent training" to begin with but at least now they don't actually have to spend the time and energy on those "trainings" as well.
Things get interesting when you reverse.
I just launched ‘The Phonics App’ to teach kids phonics.

I made a v1 about 5 years ago just for my daughter because I didn’t like any of the apps available. They were just games with a sprinkling of learning on top. She’d spend hours on there and learn F all except how to be addicted to dopamine.

So I made something very clean and very simple that we’d do together for 3 minutes a day. She learned to read really fast!

But… then I forgot all about it for 4 years, only remembering it when my second daughter needed to learn to read. She’s 3 and I taught her the first 26 sounds already.

At this point I wondered if it’d be good for other people so I contacted a phonics expert and they liked it too, so we spent the last 6 months making it into a proper app.

https://apps.apple.com/app/the-phonics-app/id6742649576

It’s going well so far. Lots of lovely messages from parents! If you have a 3-6 y old please let me know what you think of it!
Sunset on the Lunar Surface [video]
Isn't that more of the sun+rotation?
Its a bit more complex and varied: Christian universalists believe everyone is saved, some (albeit small) churches believe only a few people are.

A lot of people are not Christian, nor belong to any other religion, but have a vague belief in a God and many of those do believe good people go to heaven. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moralistic_therapeutic_deism
As a senior in high school, I have wanted the latter for most of my time here. I can program and fool around with computers on my own time (and more efficiently than in class). After taking (and being bored in) AP CS A freshman year, I have just dedicated more time to high level math classes instead.
Language designers could keep taking ideas from Haskell, and allow functions to opt in to appearing in stack traces. Give the programmer control, and all.
Read books. Read a great variety of books both fiction and non-fiction. After nearly a hundred books your level of education will increase in ways you cannot imagine.

Case in point. I am a military guy. I used to not read books very much. The first time I was in Afghanistan I started reading aggressively. I was constantly traveling around the country and while traveling could not rely on electronics for entertainment, so I read books. During that year I taught myself to program, I read probably 3 dozen novels, and towards the end of the deployment I read the CISSP CBK cover to cover. I took the CISSP exam and passed it the first time back when it was 250 questions and on paper.

Of the novels I read they were mostly thrillers, action stories, science fiction. It was mostly guy and nerd stuff. There were a tremendous number of donated novels in Afghanistan to keep military people entertained. Occasionally you get to a place and the only books available were romance novels, clearly the female soldiers were reading more than the males. I tried reading a science fiction/fantasy/romance novel once, but the one picked was porn written in words, and it was weird. Most of the investigative novels I read were written by female authors, I am not sure why that was, and they were really good. I read several non-fiction books as well.

Just read and build stuff.