skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of things! I'm in a gap year.

To start with, there's https://nuenki.app. It's a browser extension that selectively translates sentences into the language you're learning, so you're constantly immersing yourself in text at your knowledge level.

I've also been working with a friend on a device to help blind people without light perception. I'm quite new to electronics. It's pretty simple, conceptually - a coin-sized device on the forehead that takes in the light intensity in a ~15 degree cone, then translates it into high resolution haptic feedback to the forehead.

The idea being that it means people without light perception can gain a sixth sense through neuroplasticity, with helps them navigate the room and understand their surroundings. We're planning on open sourcing the files. My mum used to teach blind kids, and there's been quite a lot of interest!

As for Nuenki, I'm pretty bad at marketing, so I'm doing a final lot of work to see if I can make it work financially - seeing if an exceptionally generous affiliate program will do the trick - before putting it on maintenance mode, since I have a small group of users who really like it. I'm burning through my gap year fast, and really want to focus on the electronics project, tutoring, and practicing maths for my physics degree.
Just make a benchmark which would measure quality of included references ;)
Yeah, I used to be asked to price out a move to AWS every year at one position. After several years Hetzner finally got cheaper than operating our own colo's, but only basically because we were in London and London real-estate is expensive, and so colo space is accordingly expensive, while Hetzner's DC space is dirt cheap.

AWS, however, remained 2x-3x as expensive, with the devops time factored in.

> The perception seems to be "Cloud exists, therefore it must be cheaper, because if it wasn't cheaper why would it exist?

People are also blithely unaware that large customers get significant discounts, and so I regularly has to explain that BigCo X being hosted in AWS means at most that it is cost-effective for them because their spend means they're getting a significant discount over the already highest volume published pricing, and my clients usually are nowhere close to spend enough to be able to get those discounts.
I've been learning Russian off and on for 15 years and was having trouble keeping up in the group chat texting my Russian friends

Most language apps make you select whole words rather than type, so I made an app that focuses on text first

It's helped me find the letters on the keyboard much quicker and rattle off common responses

Check it out! Would love your feedback

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/texttutor/id6741771741
> Luigi Mangione as martyr figure makes me extremely uncomfortable

Mangione is viewed sympathetically by like 20% of Americans [1] and about double that fraction among 18 to 29-year olds. You can find similar stats for flat Eartherism (10% yes, 19% including unsure [2]) or Nazism (10 and 17%, respectively) [3]. Essentially, there is no evidence he is a martyr beyond the baseline fraction of crazy beliefs in society. (Note: I am not suggesting he’s viewed favourably by Nazis. Just that everyone has some niche beliefs, some more, some fewer, and they have a weird tendency of distributing such that about a fifth of the population entertains one of the popular ones.)

In this case, the Mangione connection will help get the initiative on the ballot before promptly guaranteeing its failure.

[1] https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabRepor...

[2] https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conspiracy-vs-science-sur...

[3] https://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1190a1Trum...
And just like that, the justification.
Executive order phases out U.S. Treasury paper checks
>Having said the above though, I am surprised that with so many denied health care and — facing essentially a death sentence — why do we not see more of them going postal?

Did Mangione's even have personal beef with UNH, or even with the insurance industry? I thought he wasn't covered by UNH, and although he had a botched back surgery, he wasn't denied coverage?
>For a sense of scale, Mathematica Policy Research’s best evidence on the effectiveness of the highly touted KIPP charter school network finds that after three years at KIPP there is significant improvement on three out of four test metrics — up 0.25 standard deviations on one English test, 0.22 standard deviations on another, and 0.28 standard deviations on one of two math tests.

I wasn't sure what .22 std deviations meant, so I looked stuff up a bit. For a normal distribution, going from the average to 1 standard deviation above is going from the 50th percentile to the 84th percentile. Going up .22 standard deviations from the average is going from the 50th percentile to about the 55th percentile.
Every year, this ancient topic creaks out of its grave: the young turn old and grumble about the kids. I bet it’s been whining since the Stone Age.

As for "the kids don't read", I doubt it. This was perhaps only true when the movies got sound.
For anyone interested in the tabletop Star Wars RPG by Fantasy Flight Games / Edge Studio - a friend and I have been working on some small typescript libraries starting with dice rolling and monte carlo simulations that we can eventually use with web apps.

Open source tools and art assets: https://github.com/swrpg-online

A quick repl.it one-shot UI using the monte carlo library: https://dice-pool-simulator-chrispan5.replit.app/

SWRPG Combat Simulator: https://swrpg-combat-sim.com/

Working on a frontend dice roller that utilizes the open source dice SVG files and rolling utility.

We could also stand to fill a slot in our online play group if you want to reach out! :)
The world needs a new rating like IPX rating for battery fire hazard.
It amazes me that devices with Intel Puma chipsets are still sold new and are still in use in 2025. That's another story, though.

The number of wifi networks that're running around us has gotten so crazy that it's no wonder we all need wifi-6 to even get reasonable speeds. I'm the kind of person who goes around and disables wifi absolutely everywhere possible, so this is good to know, but what'd be even better is if devices stopped running wifi networks behind our backs. Sigh.
Vint Cerf has been wearing three-piece suits for how many decades now?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-piece_suit
Thank you for this. You are correct.

My thinking aligns here, insofar that it's not apparent to me that the current situation is somehow less bad than any historical scenario.

In some sense it all comes down to what we're measuring. What are we measuring here exactly?
Partly because AWS give out a lot of free credit for start ups, and basically allow them to grow without planning any infrastructure. VCs who are invested into Amazon also wants to push the cloud narrative. Starts up who dont want to deal with servers, want massive scale when they think the website and later an app went viral.

That was in the late 00s and early 10s. PHP, Python, Ruby and even Java were slow. Every single language and framework has had massive performance improvements in the past 15 to 20 years. Anywhere from Java 2x to Ruby 3 - 10x.

When a server max out at 6 - 8 with Xeon core, compare to today at 192 Core. Every Core is at leats 2 - 3x faster per clock, with higher clock speed we are talking about 100x difference. Especially when IO used to be on HDD, SSD is easily 1000x faster. What used to wait for I/O is no longer an issue, the aggregate difference when all things added together including software could be 300x to 500x.

What you would need 500 2U server in 2010, you could now do it in one.

Modern web developers are so abstracted with hardware I dont think many realise what sort of difference in hardware improvements. I remember someone posted before 2016 Basecamp had dozens of Racks before moving to cloud. Now they have grown a lot bigger with Hey and they are only doing it with 8 racks and room to spare.

AWS on the other hand is trying to move more workload to ARM Graviton where they have a cost advantage. Given Amazon's stock price are now dependent on AWS, I dont think they will lower their price by much in the future. And we desperately need some competition in that area.
Nice introduction. Still not entirely sold that dictionaries are pure functions, though.

Will you be covering common dictionary operations like adding/removing elements and iterating over the dictionary keys?

I have some ideas on how one might frame it in a pure function setting but they all seem quite contorted in a similar way to your incrementDict, ie you'd never actually do that, so curious if there are better ways. Then maybe you'll sell me on the premise.
All members of the political spectrum have or have known people that have had serious issues with insurance and saw the resulting fallout, such as denied coverage or bankruptcy due to insurance not covering something etc.

There’s enough of that happen that it is in the majority of people’s living memories across age spectrums too.

A true issue that unites all political leanings it seems
Self-hosting breezewiki -- even on the same machine that you browse from -- gets neatly around the way fandom wikis block the breezewiki public nodes. I've got it self-hosted and now I never see that damn fandom interface.
That’s like saying that dreams don’t do anything to test drive what if scenarios because you will need a realistic model of behavior … or alphago’s self-play didnt improve anything because the opponent was at every moment equally good LOL.
Most country that can invest a few hundred million can build their own solar panels that will be significantly cheaper than existing and future fossil fuel prices. It's just those panels will be 2x+ the price of those produced in China. So can't compete in the free market.
"If you find your child talking to a can of tomato paste, don't worry". I don't think anyone's ever been worried about kids having imaginary friends. So long as the furniture doesn't start moving by itself.
PDF of the book Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants:

https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd...

Snippet:

Came the day of the first trial. The propellants were hydrazine and WENA. We were all gathered around waiting for the balloon to go up, when Uncle Milty warned, "Hold it- the acid valve is leaking!"

"Go ahead - fire anyway!" Paul ordered.

I looked around and signaled to my own gang, and we started backing gently away, like so many cats with wet feet.

Howard Streim opened his mouth to protest, but as he said later, "I saw that dog-eating grin on Doc's face and shut it again," and somebody pushed the button. There was a little flicker of yellow flame, and then a brilliant blue-white flash and an ear-splitting crack. The lid to the chamber went through the ceiling (we found it in the attic some weeks later), the viewports vanished, and some forty pounds of high-grade optical glass was reduced to a fine powder before I could blink.

I clasped both hands over my mouth and staggered out of the lab, lo collapse on the lawn and laugh myself sick, and Paul stalked out in a huff.

When I tottered weakly back into the lab some hours later I found that my gang had sawed out, carried away, and carefully lost, some four feet from the middle of the table on which the gadget had rested, so that Paul's STIDA could never, never, never be reassembled, in our lab.
This week I got back into Zig. I wanted to build a Zig library from end to end to find out all the wrinkles in publishing it as a package. Ended up building a topological sorting library that does the followings:

- Build dependency graph from dependency pairs.

- Generate the topological sort from the graph.

- Ordered parallel task sets (i.e. subsets of nodes that can run in parallel, within the overall topological order).

- Cycle detection and reporting the cyclical nodes.

https://github.com/williamw520/toposort

It's feature complete, but I still have problem publishing it as a library. Kept getting "unable to find module 'toposort'" error when importing it in a separate project.

Edit: Alright, finally figured out why the module was not published. The default project creation template in Zig 15 uses createModule() in the generated build.zig, which creates a private module. Switched to use addModule() to create a public module and my library can be imported and used by other projects.
I have been working on a bash only static site generator. I don’t think that I’ll share it, but its nice to know I own the tool chain and that I should be able to replicate it forever.
Of course we can ignore it. We do it all the time.

Maybe those traits are good for working better in tribes, but irrelevant, or worse, harmful in the modern age?
It’s been interesting watching feathers get ruffled over this justification, while the justification of the healthcare industry sees no push back.

Humans are so interesting when you put them in groups.
I think you’re writing off David Hume and his is-ought distinction too readily hehe

Besides, isn’t evolutionary psychology too full of unfalsifiable just-so stories LOL
No clue what you're on about unless you seriously couldn't get the irony of my comment, in which case I'm not sure it's worth trying to discuss anything more nuanced than a sledgehammer in the current company.
If they target someone unsymathetic, they won't get plaudits. Simple.
> This kind of violence is just the beginning. It's what happens when societies start to collapse

Well, no. It’s what forms popular pretext for expanding police powers. If we get a second or third Mangione, search and arrest powers will have to be expanded.
Reduced crime is the most obvious. People will eat. Wether they have to steal it or get it via a social safety net is up to society.
No, that doesn't address the incentives that cause all those things: maximizing engagement to maximize ad impressions for money. You have to choke the money supply off at the source or the big corporations will just find other engagement mechanisms to hook users to get at more profits.

Instead, tax ad impressions per day per user on a sliding scale that makes it quickly unprofitable to display more than a handful of ads and use the money to fund media literacy classes in schools. Restrict the number and types of advertising that can be shown to children and adolescents, like forbidding animated ads.
> We always envied the non-engineers who had more freedom to choose classes they were fascinated by.

Personally, I kind of pitied the non-STEM students.

My own problem was there were not enough slots in the schedule for all the classes I wanted to take. I figured the university knew what it was doing with the required classes, and they were right.
In what now seems like test runs, we can look back to the summer of 2020 in the Northwest US where there were armed people in camouflage and armor putting people into unmarked vans and taking them somewhere else for a non-zero amount of time. (not charged with anything nor the masked people's government identities revealed.)

I am not saying there is a conspiracy going on, simply pointing out a case that appears to have been forgotten and perpetrated by the 1.0 version of the current administration.
It'd be funny if the answer was Brave, what with its monetization from clicks model.
I used winaero tweaker [1] to disable web search, the search is infinitely better now.

You can do the same tweak by editing the registry [2] if you don't want to download an app for it (though the app includes a lot of additional useful tweaks).

[1] https://winaerotweaker.com/

[2] https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/disable-windows-web-sear...
Yes, I agree with that. My point was just that stimulating a rudimentary model of reality is hard work, but reality is way more complex than even that.
If Chrome was versioned 0.whatever I would agree.

Since it is not, you are factually wrong.
Ballot initiative, informally named....

I think the article might be trying to be a little too edgy with its title.
> Whether popular or not makes no difference. The guy murdered.

The people who tried to blow up Hitler in the 20 July plot were trying to commit murder.

Hitler’s concentration camps weren’t murder under German law at the time.

“Unlawful” and “immoral” are often the same, but not always.
The C program converts Markdown (written by the author) to HTML and is run by the author (and therefore no attack surface). Actual hosting uses GitHub Pages so there is nothing to worry about there. Simple; job done.

"The only work I needed to do was to write a C script (which turned out to be ~250 LOC) to call md4c functions and parse my md files, and then chuck those converted files into the GitHub Pages repo."
Better access for Hittie texts? I'm already deluged with nešili texts of the "Triple your barley yields with this one weird trick" type or, "Phrygian raiders don't want you to know this secret". Lately they've been trying to get me into some kind of currency scheme. I'll stick with bartering, thank you very much.

I'm thinking of just blocking all cuneiform texts.
Interesting. I liked how "Dictionaries are Pure Functions" set up currying as JSON nested dictionaries.

Curiously, I've a backburnered esolang idea of gathering up the rich variety of dict-associated tooling one never gets to have all in one place, and then making everything dict-like. Permitting say xpath sets across function compositions.
I'm not talking about income, I'm talking about CO2 generation [1].

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/there-are-huge-ineq...
Isn’t this what Trump was found guilty of? Inflating asset value at loan time and deflating their values at tax time?
Ask HN: Need Help with Go to Market Strategy
We have built a powerful platform for businesses to build custom software using AI. The product is somewhat similar to Monday and Airtable but it produces powerful systems instead of basic boards and tables. The value proposition is to put an end to subscription hell - use one platform to easily implement dozens of services (CRM, HRIS, Application Tracking System, Project Management etc.) replacing dozens of subscriptions. It also greatly minimizes tool hopping.

We already have a few clients piloting it and they love it.

What is the best go to market strategy for a powerful platform like this? Should we focus on a limited set of use cases in the beginning?
Steelman as much as you like, the fact is that health insurance companies really are evil, and the "great replacement" is wingding nonsense. We can't have a standard applies to both real political grievances and fake lunatic ones.
> don't understand why so many people consider this one incident so existentially threatening

Nobody, perhaps other than his supporters, does because it wasn’t particularly important. Just visible because of where it happened and that the shooter is hot.
The IATA rules are actually quite permissive (Delta for example) for checked luggage:

> Lithium cells or batteries power many consumer electronic devices and medical devices, like watches, laptop batteries, calculators, cell phones, hearing aids and much more. You can bring lithium-battery powered devices as carry-on items or in checked baggage. Spare lithium batteries are allowed as carry-on items only with batteries individually protected to prevent short circuit.

FAA general rules are similar. The concern nowadays is that someone will drop a device into a seat mechanism and it could crush the battery.
Tidal effects mostly transfers it to the moon, the sun has almost no tidal effects.
I've done something like this with the windows 2000 look from time to time, but something I found frustrating with theming xfwm4 window decorations is the non existent ability to create a horizontal gradient across the top of the window like in Windows 2000.

I believe this is the reason you cannot find a proper windows 2000 theme for xfce.
Having read the article, I somehow know why they chose C.

C satisfies all their priorities, and there are not many, or even any other languages that do as well, and none actually better.
These are simply tiger parents with some fashionable, lightweight Luddite-ism. Tiger parenting is popular among upper-middle class society. I.E. this is an aspect of society, not a rejection of it.
The minecraft wiki has moved off of fandom, fandom just overtakes it in SEO.

Linking to the fandom wiki like you do on this site probably helps fandom more than you're hurting it. Just help wiki maintainers move to better platforms.
> While this version only supports host memory as that was the initial target, other memory types are planned as well, with notably GPU memory coming next.

Awhhh yeah. Return to PacketShader (2010)!

Honestly not sure if there are use cases for GPU routing.

More likely use case would probably be feeding LLMs data over the network with lower overhead. I'm not sure what's possible today with PCIe p2p dma, how much this io_uring capability could potentially improve those direct-to-GPU scenarios. https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.html
And unfortunately for y'all they are currently criming up a storm with no end in sight, making it easier for corporations to poison and murder us, and packed the courts to make sure there's no response possible.

What is the next step in your mind?
In a European public university ~10 years ago, I did a class in discrete mathematics in my first year as a student and it was hard. The professor was going fast, not following any book or notes but writing everything on the blackboard. During that hour I needed to pay constant attention to the lesson, take notes, going home to find explanations in books or online about what I didn't understand. At the exam, there was a quick pre-test to filter out some of the students. I think there were maybe around 150 students if not more, that tried and only 30 that went to the final exam. I was one of them and passed it with a good mark. It was my first exam in my first year, and I still remember it to be enjoyable because I appreciated the hard work required.

Two years later, I heard that some students didn't pass the exam and wrote a letter to the faculty director, demanding an easy way. The professor was replaced with another one and they passed the class.

Even in reputable public universities, professors have to adjust their teaching to make sure enough students are satisfied with their facutly choice so they can continue receiving government funding.
In my late twenties and quit drinking late last year. My life satisfaction has gone up significantly, and most importantly, the brain fog I was struggling with for years now is almost completely gone. I still go out late, and sadly haven’t managed to quit the nicotine habit, but for alcohol I highly recommend.
Not just YouTube. MIT has an open course system that is available to anyone, for free, from actually employed MIT professors, lecturing real courses [1]. I went to a state university that basically copied Pearson slides and books into a course with minimal adjustments.

Rather than sitting through a 50 minute lecture, I found a similar lecture on the same topic (c debugging, I think it was), and pointed out that the MIT instructor covered the same topic, in more depth, in real-time, with a live demo, in overall less time than it took the State University professor to explain. It was concise, wasted no time, and gave me clear information on what I needed to know with minimal extra examples.

And my course instructor hated me pointing that out.

[1]: https://ocw.mit.edu/