skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free speech doesn't give you the right to a megaphone on every platform you see fit. It just protects you from government prosecution. As a moderator, I also ban people who are just obnoxious and loud without any substance.

Right now, the government is suppressing free speech according to the very definition of that term.

How can you not see the difference.
Also in the 80s we (by which I mean other people), downloaded software from the television by sticking an LDR to the screen whilst a dot flashed black and white during the duration of a programme. A program from a programme.

I remember see the dot a few times, but it was probably very short lived.
I'm just talking about felons in the US who have served their time in incarceration and finished parole/probation/supervised release being denied multiple rights for the rest of their lives.
Thank you means a lot :)
It’s incredible to see what can be achieved with very few lines of code to produce visuals and sound. It’s often pretty easy to know who the demoscene is made by because of the artistic style. Similar to more traditional art forms.
I got my state ID card because I had a 6 month tourist visa, and the state considered me a resident.

They won’t give a state ID if a tourist is on the I94 90 day visa waiver.
I didn't say letting someone of, a crime has been committed and the person should be punished. But forbidding someone from running from office? I don't think that should be the power of the judiciary. That should be the power and responsibility of the electorate (to not vote for them).
Have they ever applied?
I was able to use nv (nvALT was a fork) before the development stopped and people slowly figured out it stopped. The website is still up https://notational.net and the last binary is still up for download. It worked for a crazy long time as it was. I am not sure but iirc there were some "stability" patches, in the original nv, or not. Then nvALT also stopped and then Brett started on something else and that kinda took a lot of time, really a long time (might have been released now but not sure). That is when I lost track of that lineage of note apps - the nvX - - the ones I started on. That was the reason my next was Simplenote and I stuck with it for really long.

After leaving Simplenote I could never really find a successor. Kept jumping from one app to another - UpNote (very electron), FS Notes (very unstable; come across a bug every other day that it's tiring), then Bear (might move to it, maybe), Joplin (no sadly) etc and what not. Now I just try to use something that lets me keep notes in a folder and use it but then iOS becomes a mess unless I use iCloud. I could never find another simple note taking app. I wish Automattic took privacy seriously and kept the development of Simplenote afresh and maybe charged for it.

Maybe I am not supposed to find that one note taking app for me. Maybe it doesn't exist. That makes sense. I think it's about notes and not the note apps? Keep the notes and apps are a-changin'.
I've been looking for something simple that I can use cross platform (I don't care about mobile, so just across macOS and Linux really). So far I found nb, which is nice, but it tried to do to much and locating notes isn't great. I've also tried Bear, which is macOS only, but it also doesn't organize notes in a great way in my opinion.

Is there anything simple, which doesn't require you to be an organizational genius already? Notes.app is sort of okay, but no cross platform.
I've always been of the opinion that a power shouldn't be granted if it can be abused so easily.

Its unreasonable to say powers should never be abusable, but it isn't hard for a political system to become politicized. That shouldn't be all it takes.
I wonder if it’s already April’s Fools Day in some parts of the world. The hands of a clock move clockwise if seen from the front, but counterclockwise if seen from the back.
Oh wow that's cool! How do you use this since I presume the tab will forget everything once its closed? Just temporary notes?
To clarify, the use of gloves depends a lot on the item. Books are made to be handled by people and are usually resilient to contact with clean human hands. However there are other museum pieces that are far more sensitive to oil which still merit the use of gloves. For example, here is a video [0] of Adam Savage discussing a piece from the Met Museum which is handled using gloves because they want to preserve it.

[0] https://youtu.be/u_-oUvv28dE
> criminals tend to be from one end of the spectrum

At best, that trait is highly localized.

And compared to (say) "1900's standard" levels of corruption in Democrat-controlled big American cities - Le Pen's crimes were nickle-and-dime stuff.
Some of that is a semantic thing about how one defines "distant", but this is not really required by GR. In fact the insight behind the emerging "timescape" theories is that the universe isn't flat or homogenous on large scales and that different regions have expanded at different rates. Their "edges" are equally old, but may not be not equally "distant".
You'd think so, but other elections have proven this to be false.
> If you’re willing to lie, the headline could be whatever you want.

I see you're au fait with contemporary journalism.
It just occured to me that "rotation direction" is a pretty coarse measurement. Actually, you could look at the angle of a galaxy relative to ours, where (let's say) 0° is viewed exactly from "above" (rotating clockwise), 180° is viewed exactly from "below" (rotating counterclockwise), 90°/270° is viewed side-on etc. How about some stats based on this parameter?
As old Schop said: "Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other."

People look to religion and metaphysics for justice and salvation. This poor "Egg" guy is trapped in a trillion-year cycle of pain and injustice. I guess it's Buddhist hell, too...
I seem to remember that when asked about immigration to their local area, majorities almost everywhere in the UK thought it was at the right level, but the same people thought it was too high UK-wide. The difference implies that the voters didn't have a coherent opinion about what the right level is/was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcXMhwF4EtQ
Maintaining an entirely separate mass transit system for the educational system is a relatively large chunk of property taxes, costing an average of ~$500/student.
For better or for worse we've received substantially less international scam attempts due to the seemingly intractable problem of writing them in our language and the relatively small pool of viable targets, but the ones we do get are usually well-crafted and targeted. We run loads of internal email scams ourselves trying to see why people trip, and try to improve our practices based on those findings.

Currently there has been negligible impact on any of the products I've looked over because of traditional human scams. Conversely there have been significant troubles from real exploits being found and abused in the wild with dire consequences for legal and financial, but maybe my experience just happens to heavily skew the opposite of norm?. I expect things to change in the medium-term future as LLMs and such improve so that they can generate coherent text above a single sentence
Maybe this will work on the weekends, but in general V2X (or the older V2G ideas) are just a dumb concept. No driver wants to go out to their car and find that it has no charge because they didn't plan their trip ahead of time. The value of a vehicle is that you can use it whenever it's needed
BBS had been available from late 70's - initially using acoustic couplers rather than modems. The internet (as distinct from ARPANET) wasn't created until early 80's, and what most people today think of as the internet - the WWW - wasn't publicly available until the early 90's.
Those are backup tools, which have little to nothing to do with what I'm talking about.
Others note the bleaching, which is relatively low cost, but the (purely cosmetic) straightening is probably the more interesting example.

People in the US pay a lot of money to have very straight teeth. You can see this clearly with American celebrities and actors (versus European counterparts), but the culture of cosmetically modifying teeth is very strong all across "middle class" and up America as well.
Done. https://faye.health/period-tracker
But after this appeal and when any upper courts finish their procedures and all possibilities of appeal, can one finally drop the "alleged"? (I also wonder why the downvoting but yeah that's HN)
This is something the Daoists have talked about for 3000 years.

The "easier and faster" is only facilitated by an unseen debt. You cannot have "easier" without a "harder". The harder will always follow, as sure as the night follows the day. The simplicity of technology is a facade.

So yes, I agree; "You don’t win by keeping up. You win by stepping out."

I am happy to see the Dao making itself visible again.
Maybe “work camp” suggests something radically different to you than it does to me. To me, it indicates that there is nothing to do in London besides work, and that more or less everything in London is work related.

Tourists visit London because there are lots of interesting things to see and do. People who live in London also get to see and do those things.
Maybe the Unladen Swallow devs ended up on the Gemini team.
I know that, I'm just saying that if you can "put pressure on the judiciary" (which is a ridiculous statement in most western countries but especially France) to find someone not guilty, you can certainly do it to find them guilty.

The information the jury hears in the US in criminal cases, especially high profile ones, is extremely tightly controlled. They're not in the room when lawyers are making evidentiary arguments to include or exclude evidence. I've served on a couple juries and the most high-stakes one carried potentially decades of jail time for the defendant. We were shuffled in and out of that room dozens of times each day for lawyers to make arguments about what we could or could not hear. Several of our questions during deliberation were answered with a section of the transcript and nothing more.

Juries are wrong all the time.
I wish HN readers were not so afraid to openly discuss this more, but it is a much bigger issue than even what that article lets on (which is a good article, I might add). Cuts to critical agencies like this aren't about efficiency at all; it's about ham-stringing roadblocks that might be in your way. That means we can expect one of two things in the near future of the US;

1. Enemies of the US gov't exploit the weakness, possibly conspiring with the people who created the weakness to do so.

2. A near or complete collapse of the government as, lo and behold, it is discovered that none of them actually knew what they were doing, regardless of the confidence in which they said otherwise.

Either way, we, the people trying to keep industries moving and bring home food to put on the table, will suffer.
They haven't yet had their sudden change of heart on the subject.
I see, it still seems like the kind of project that would be much better suited to a DE packge-group style release. I think very few people will want to reinstall their OS just to try it.
She committed crimes, and having the potential for a felon to achieve power over the government doesn't seem to be conducive for them to be punished under the law.

Allowing a populist criminal to run for office is not great for democracy.
I'm building an AI DJ for Spotify called Listen to Luther. It's open source here: https://github.com/jacobheric/luther. Currently it responds to prompts with a list of songs that can be queued, played or added to playlists on Spotify. Next I'll give it proper memory and the ability to adjust and remix on the fly. I built it because I was frustrated by the mostly passive experience of Spotify's own AI DJ. There is no path to commercialization here as Spotify's TOS does not permit it (I asked them). So I host it for myself and a few friends and made it open source for anyone who's handy enough to run it themselves.
Camera set up to catch Loch Ness Monster unearthed
This 'looks' fantastic. I'd normally just try it, but the pricing doesn't feel competitive as I'm guessing they are in USD. Also, it is unfortunate your corporate headquarters is in the US. Many of us are on an American services cleanse. You could have jumped on that bandwagon!
False, it's simply a requirement.

French law explicitly states that a candidate for an election must not be ineligible by reason of criminal conviction or judicial decision.

Should have thought about messing with EU funds before, I suppose.
Coming from a place of complete ignorance, are there indicators in galaxies that determine a top/bottom for lack of better words?

I can’t think of any that would make much sense as top/bottom would mean that there needs to be a relative universal point to reference and as far as I know, that doesn’t exist.
WhatsApp is a mandatory app in India
Counterpoint: USA's presidential elections 2024.
For the most part, if the system is working, you'd have to pay them a living daily wage regardless of what you're paying them hourly for 4 hours or 8 hours. (Which is such an obvious concern in the US that it's the first thing I thought of) But that doesn't address the inconvenience to their lives.

Let's say schools are 7-14, 8-15, and 9-16 for high-middle-elementary. Routes start at 6, and end at 17, which is an 11 hour day with two shifts of 3 hours plus a 5 hour break in the middle.
On the antipodal side of the universe they mostly rotate counterclockwise. ;-)
WG21 is well down the path of actively being hostile to the implementers of C++. There was a recent proposal where all 4 implementers [1] stood up and said "no", and the committee still voted it in, ignoring their feedback.

[1] C++ has only 4 implementations these days, Clang, EDG, GCC, and MSVC; everything keeping up with the standard is a fork of one of these projects.
Just as in Romania ( and hopefully someday in Hungary ) these people "against the EU" are the ones channeling millions from the EU into their pockets.

And after all that they even become "martyrs" because everyone is corrupt and against them.
> Banning phones won't help, phones are just a surface level symptom of the fact that humanities courses at minimum have become completely fake and professors don't care enough to stop it.

It's not just humanities courses and it also affects "elite" universities.

For the graduate NLP course my advisor taught at UMass Amherst, despite allowing ChatGPT for a take home test (this was a couple years ago), 60% of the students broke into two separate collusion rings (one Chinese group and another South Asian) and copied off of each other. They got caught when the answers were wrong, but in a different way than ChatGPT. Despite the seriousness of the rampant cheating, students were not failed out of the course, mainly because it reflects badly on the University if they fail. My advisor had to go through a lot of unnecessary bureaucracy in the process.

Jump forward to Cornell University where I'm currently a postdoc and grade inflation is real. They had to get rid of reporting course-wide median grade beside a student's grade on their transcript [1] to help combat it.

That hasn't prevented the pressure to pass students with high marks despite abysmal performance. I supervised an undergrad's research one semester as an independent study course. That student did very little work and despite multiple promptings over several weeks, would fail to provide their code for me to help debug and provide code review. I ended up giving them a B+, which is somehow considered "failing". The student even reached out after grades were assigned to beg me to reconsider. None of the students I've worked with so far have had the skills I'm pretty sure I mastered by that time (this includes work with undergrads, master's students, and PhD students). I'm continually shocked by the caliber of students here compared to what I assumed before joining.

I trust professors who've been teaching for decades when they say something has qualitatively changed.

[1]: https://registrar.cornell.edu/grades-transcripts/median-grad...
Were you also trying to edit the same code base as the GP or did you evaluate it on some other criteria where it also failed?
I've always liked the story but if I was presented with that revelation I'd be questioning to what extent these other me's are really me and how really everything else (genetics, environment) is shaping behaviour and I'm what? A vessel that gets all the memories at the end?

>“Every time you victimized someone,” I said, “you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you.”

I mean, not really, since I wouldn't do quite all those things as I am now. In this framework I'm just forced into doing those things by the factors going into those particular lives.
Regarding the cost, just a quick note, when you buy the hard copy directly from No Starch Press you get perpetual access to the ebook as well. That's maybe cooler than it sounds: at any given time you've got access to the newest (or close to it) printing of the book via ebook, and it's nice to get the little updates and errata that accumulate over the years in a big book like for example, The Linux Programming Interface.

(at least that's the way they used to do business - I'm pretty sure they still do)
That's like asking how to make money on the internet. The answer is to integrate it into something you already know how to monetize -- an area where you already have expertise.

If you work in software, this would be figuring out how to include AI in the kind of software you make (for the user; RAG) and in your process (agents).
Working on an interactive SQL tutorial for intermediate+ SQL developers, introducing you to and showing the power of such concepts as JOINs, pivoting (flipping rows to columns & vice versa), subqueries and common table expressions, including recursion, UNIONs, row locks, and some other small things.

The thing will be browser-based and, hopefully, both entertatining and educational.
Eternal afterlife is a incoherent concept.

The Horror of Eternal Life | Isaac Asimov’s The Last Answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9R16NV9Imo
What improved, specifically?
>Gemini is the only model which tells me when it's a good time to stop chatting because either it can't find a solution or because it dislikes my solution

Claude used to also do that. Only ChatGPT starts falling apart when I start to question it then gives in and starting to give me mistakes as answers just to please me.
I'm building modular home audio speakers. Wireless, self-powered, upgradeable, repairable. Think Sonos meets the Framework laptop. Check out my prelaunch page here:

https://prelaunch.com/projects/audioblocs-audioblocs
I take the same prompt and give it to 3.7, o1 pro, and gemini. I do this for almost everything, and these are large 50k+ context prompts. Gemini is almost always behind
In the Rubic's cube example, to solve the cube gemini2.5 just uses the memorized scrambling sequence:

// --- Solve Function ---

function solveCube() {
if (isAnimating || scrambleSequence.length === 0) return;

// Reverse the scramble sequence
const solveSequence = scrambleSequence
.slice()
.reverse()
.map((move) => {
if (move.endsWith("'")) return move.slice(0, 1); // U' -> U
if (move.endsWith("2")) return move; // U2 -> U2
return move + "'"; // U -> U'
});

let promiseChain = Promise.resolve();
solveSequence.forEach((move) => {
promiseChain = promiseChain.then(() => applyMove(move));
});

// Clear scramble sequence and disable solve button after solving
promiseChain.then(() => {
scrambleSequence = []; // Cube is now solved (theoretically)
solveBtn.disabled = true;
console.log("Solve complete.");
});
}
I am writing a newsletter, https://www.clientserver.dev, which started with the writing prompt “what if someone tried to make Money Stuff for software engineering?” I’m still iterating on the format a bit, but I just crossed 100 subscribers and made the Hacker News front page, so I feel like I’m on the right track.

I had a daughter almost 2 years ago, and for a while I didn’t have any free time. But once I started getting a few hours in the evening, I wanted to start up side projects again. I found it frustrating to work on coding projects in 1-2 hour windows. But writing is a little easier; I feel like progress is a little more linear with writing, and having the Monday/Thursday deadline has helped me just ship.
> The challenge is to think of another model for creating apps and content — one that retains most of the innovation without the harm

This is impossible! You missed the whole point of the article! Like sugar is addictive because it is extracted from the fruit that carries all the nutrients, the apps are addictive because they are extracted from the challenge of imagination and boredom.

The last line of that essay: "You don’t win by keeping up. You win by stepping out."
That's not how it should work though. The post should get encrypted only once with a symmetric key i.e. AES, and then this gets encrypted with each of the followers' public keys. So it's not the post itself but the encryption key that must be scaled. This is how PGP-encrypted E-mail works.