skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Staying on some windows 10 lite-repack for about 8 years now. Automatically activated. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Paint. Windows-7-like start menu. No UWP apps, cortana, onenote, onedrive, even no freaking microsoft Edge. No app store. Not a single moving pixel, ad or notification , or another jumpscaring layout when system starts. Everything installs/works perfectly, perfect system.

I have no idea why people even consider updating, must be some really weird case.

There is zero new value in the latest Windows versions, just plain nothing new, there is really no reason to switch.
maybe if we consumed less processed sugars and had normal diets, putting fluoride in the water would serve no purpose.
There is this guy who tests every new image generation model by asking it for a pelican riding a bicycle. I found some of the results interesting, because they broke down the subjects to their basic shapes and reordered them geometrically instead of physically. It was a new perspective on how to think about a bicycle, and perhaps the AI's most authentic voice.

And I'm sure the AI was punished for it and trained towards more photorealism, because pastiche is supposed to be the default. But that, too, is a conscious choice made by the trainers and prompters.
If not mistaken, the person behind the post, is a former colleague of mine. He might not have been aware of this.

The post is now flagged.

Note: In this case, the label "Show HN:" might also not have been OK.
My dislike of tipping isn't to help the "poor servers" (and other employees partially compensated via tips). You're correct that I've never been a server, but I've had several friends and roommates who have been, and I'm aware of how it works. The good ones make (relatively) a lot of money; the bad ones sometimes don't, and usually find a different job pretty quickly. (I totally see how mentioning the lower minimum wage muddled my point, though.)

The reason I wish we didn't tip is because I think the list price should reflect the true cost of whatever I'm buying. I think that is more honest, encourages healthy competition, and is a pleasant consumer experience.

I was really glad when the DOT forced airlines to include taxes and fees in ticket prices in 2012, and wish there were a similar law/regulation that applied to all commerce. (And yes, I realize this is hard, given the incredible complexity of U.S. tax laws in a bazillion different—and often overlapping—jurisdictions.)
I don't get that at all. I've been doing something like this since before the iPhone ever existed because I like having a logfile of all of my inputs and outputs, and I like being extremely mobile. Immutability means that if my phone gets smashed or stolen, I can just go buy a new one and not lose my shit. What's the thorn?

These days I think do something very similar to your friend. I pack an external keyboard and mouse I like, and a chromecast (just in case) and that's it. Not packing a big screen and a battery is just a huge bonus.
NIST/U.S. Department of Commerce: Role-Based Access Controls (1992) [pdf]
The lesson is, time when you speak out exactly right, and you can get rid of the socialists and the trade unionists.
Runno: The Web Component for Code
Reminds me of this guy who had TTP revoked next day after he posted how US is becoming similar to PRC: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHwEjGazRKx

I thought why do you care, this is just a fast lane but your comment was enlightening... (I am sure based on other recent cases they would totally revoke his visa if he was not a citizen already)
It's slowing down mostly because of drag induced by tides, which involve the sun and the moon. The total system including the earth, moon, sun and everything else does conserve angular momentum.

But this paper seems to imply that Earth, isolated from evening else in the solar system, could be made to slow down. This does seem like a violation of conservation of angular momentum...
We know why ancient Roman concrete was so durable
Kalua: An OpenWrt extension for building large mesh-networks
Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball
This is really interesting.

I thought it was impossible to run newer versions of Office on Linux.

Myself I often prefer LibreOffice, but more options are more options!
Let’s face it, America can’t do it for corruption reasons.

The current healthcare system is working perfectly (and by that I mean lucratively) for the 0.01% in control of the political system.
> uint32_t const *const foo;

That's just silly. I like C++ for its legacy and contributions but my god is it a confusing AF language for no reason. It can easily have syntax for each of these cases instead of reusing keywords and symbols in the most confusing way.
First-class support for Windows applications might just become doable, if Wine continues to progress and Win32 doesn't accelerate. There were a handful of quality of life improvements in previous Windows releases, but the biggest Win32 changes feel like they happened quite a while ago by now, and for good reason: Win32 is stable and mature. It's still a moving target, but not by nearly as much, and even if Microsoft wanted to move it for the sake of moving it, they might find more resistance than they can completely overcome. For now, I think Wine is still not good enough to recommend people just use for everything, though. It's incredible, but incredible doesn't make Photoshop install.

However, I also think that we could "solve" a lot of the compatibility problems.

There are tons of old Linux binaries that don't work anymore. But... They could. A lot of old binaries, surely the vast majority, could absolutely run on a modern kernel. The problem is the userspace. The binaries themselves contain oodles of information that could be used to figure out what they need to run, it's just that there's nothing in place to try to make sure that stuff is available.

I really believe we could make it possible for a distro, out of the box, to make old binaries "just work", double-click and run. Want to install an old game from an .rpm or .deb you have? The system could identify what base OS that is and install it into it's own chroot with its dependencies, then create desktop icons for it. Execution failures? Missing libraries? Xlib errors? Let's have a graphical error message with actionable help.

Well, it could be done, anyway. If you wanted to follow the spirit of Windows here, it would be the right thing to do, and it'd help users who found a thing that says it supports "Linux" run that thing the way they would hope and expect it to run. Will it actually happen? Not unless someone makes it happen, and convinces distros, desktops and all other stakeholders it's worth shipping, then maintains and improves it going forward. It's a bit depressing when you realize that the technical part of implementing this is basically the least challenging part, at least for a proof of concept.
The Windows MSIX also does sandboxing.
I had to scroll a very long way to get to the most important bit:

> Running rr record/replay without access to CPU HW performance counters is accomplished using lightweight dynamic (and static) instrumentation. The Software Counters mode rr wiki has more details in case you're curious about some more of the internals.

You should move that to the top.
Sort of. They have a list of apps you've bought/installed through app store, and they can figure out what you've deleted based on what your phone is pinging for update checks on.

If they went beyond that, or disclosed that knowledge, or allowed an app to get that manifest without your permission, it would destroy their brand image built around privacy, in a way that would cause long-term irreparable damage.

They decided to not comply with laws compelling them to add back doors to optional encryption on iCloud storage, rather than tarnish that image, because they know how valuable that trust is.

You can dump on Apple all you want, but compared to Google who plead with people to use their browser and phones to improve adtech surveillance they can monetize, I think they're doing OK and are a lot more trustworthy.
The title should read: "Everyone knows all the apps on your Android phone"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_economy

Becoming the middle man is the default model that supports scale. No one has come up with anything else to support a world where avg disposable income is close to 0
Using a prospective Canadian birth cohort, we found that estimated maternal exposure to higher fluoride levels during pregnancy was associated with lower IQ scores in children. This association was supported by converging findings from 2 measures of fluoride exposure during pregnancy. A difference in MUFSG spanning the interquartile range for the entire sample (ie, 0.33 mg/L), which is roughly the difference in MUFSG concentration for pregnant women living in a fluoridated vs a nonfluoridated community, was associated with a 1.5-point IQ decrement among boys. An increment of 0.70 mg/L in MUFSG concentration was associated with a 3-point IQ decrement in boys; about half of the women living in a fluoridated community have a MUFSG equal to or greater than 0.70 mg/L. These results did not change appreciably after controlling for other key exposures such as lead, arsenic, and mercury.

To our knowledge, this study is the first to estimate fluoride exposure in a large birth cohort receiving optimally fluoridated water. These findings are consistent with that of a Mexican birth cohort study that reported a 6.3 decrement in IQ in preschool-aged children compared with a 4.5 decrement for boys in our study for every 1 mg/L of MUF.10 The findings of the current study are also concordant with ecologic studies that have shown an association between higher levels of fluoride exposure and lower intellectual abilities in children.7,8,26 Collectively, these findings support that fluoride exposure during pregnancy may be associated with neurocognitive deficits.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...
Pardon the rapists, murderers and jail the Tesla vandals! Sigh
In the case of termux, by far my favorite app, I have more than 2GB of locally installed packages. How would that work with a browser?
Adding fluoride to water was revolutionary in the 1940s, but its benefits have significantly declined since fluoride toothpaste became common in the 1970s. While fluoridation made sense when products containing fluoride weren't widely available, it is much less effective and necessary now. Sure, some countries and communities may still see benefits from it, but widespread fluoridation doesn't seem necessary in many parts of the world.
The number of Wal-Mart employees I know who can't get their managers to schedule them for the thirty hours a week required to be eligible for dental care far exceeds the number of Wal-Mart employees I know who can.
> I still, will never understand the need for native "Apps". To this day, I have never seen an "App" that couldn't simply have been a website/webapp.

In cases where a native app and web app are both available on iOS, there’s often a huge difference in battery usage and sluggishness. Also, as a sibling poster mentioned, I like having fully “offline” apps as well, for example for maps and notes.

I’m not saying that I like how Apple and Google have done this in practice, but I don’t think going webapp-only is the future. For the same reason I won’t replace my real computer with a Chromebook for the foreseeable future.
I bought a Philips many years ago, and it was perfect until an update suddenly gave me a lot of crap (ads) on the home screen.

Ironically they also provided a button where I could "adjust what you see on the home screen", but it turned out I could only add more crap. Not take anything away.

It's annoying, because it is not the same product I bought. It's worse.
> "I want to avoid a single extra click once every other month, so I guess I better irrevocably open my data/phone/life up completely to megacorp forever"

Nah, it's super annoying when I click on a link and don't get redirected to the native app. This happens way more then once a month. Web experiences are much worse for many things.
This reminds me of the early days of Google, when people who knew how to phrase a query got dramatically better results than those who basically just entered what they were looking for as if asking a human.
And indeed, phrasing your prompts is important here too, but I mean more that by having a bit of an understanding of how it works and how it differs from a human, you can avoid getting sucked in by most of these gaps in its abilities, while benefitting from what it's good at. I would ask it the question about the capital gains rules (and would verify the response probably with a link I'd ask it to provide), but I definitely wouldn't expect it to correctly provide a comparison like that. (I might still ask, but would expect to have to check its work.)
No it isn't - OP didn't say everyone who promotes that idea wants to weaken the government, but rather those who wish to weaken the government are promoting that idea.
Currently, there is a very effective push by people who want to weaken the government enough to supplant it. They are giving themselves ideological coverage by claiming they protecting people from interference.

Is that a rephrasing you could live with?
The main study I can find referenced to this was based in China where levels of flouride in water appear to be much higher than in the US.

Even the study itself calls out 'low-flouride' vs 'high-flouride.' Not 'no flouride.'

Utah is going to have a dental crisis in a few years, as there already too few dentists.
It's not like England in that respect at all. Yes, there is a mix of usage in the UK but it is very limited. People use metric for everything except miles in cars, pints in pubs, and height and weight of people.
I‘ve been doing sth similar by tracking my time for the last 3 weeks and change. I havent done the full analysis yet but it‘s already clear that how I think I spend my time is completely different from how I actually spend it.

Perception/„feeling“ vs physical reality. The gap is huge.

Trivial example, I was convinced that the „time toll“ i have to pay around training was very high. Like I was spending an hour or more just to change into sportswear, shower afterwards, and switch back. This perceived deadweight loss always presented an additional psychological hurdle to get off my ass and train. Now that I know that it‘s much less than I thought, it‘s gone.

Similar for cooking.

Like I said, havent done the full analysis yet but I can already highly recommend this practice of recording time at least for a while.
I think it’s completely justifiable, since it illustrates the core of the idea. Also, HN users, unlike voters, can see through the framing. If anything, it’s a great way to spark a debate.
Or even crazier, hear me out, maybe we can just let people have healthcare without cost-gating it? Like oh idk, every other even semi-wealthy nation in the world except the one where measles is making a comeback?
The worst one is the UK's NHS app, which is only available as an app, despite being just a webview wrapper! I have no idea what they were thinking.
Tbf moving off of dating apps fast is the go to strategy for scammers. From a (straight) male perspective all matches that wanted to move to Snapchat/Signal/WhatsApp before a first date turned out to be either scammers trying to get incriminating photos or trying to peddle investment/crypto advice.
We do, since 2023 (627 points, 270 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34280239
Additionally, if the market participants are few in number there is no need for explicit or direct cooperation.
Nature magazine had a good article on this, which is a quicker read https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00847-0
Cool project! Love the OpenAPI 3 support
More to the point… at what point do the countries of Europe ask the US to remove its military bases from the continent?
A vendor that has to write a news item on their front page that their product is not dead? Maybe not the most attractive look.
Paper said "earth.however". Because it's missing a space after the period, it appears as an invalid link.
The trouble with slippery slopes is that they carry you away from productive discussion.
> Who actually runs unmaintained abandonware?

Personal computers are for persons. They don't view their use of their own systems through the lens of an imputed purity test.

> I would rather prefer OS devs not wasting time maintaining legacy cruft and evolve with the times.

Then don't support those who do with your dollars. I wouldn't be terribly surprised if the market shows it disagrees with you.
The thing is, you sound hopeful, which I think you should find worrying by itself.

To be explicit: You feel the chilling effect.

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect) says:

> [...] a chilling effect is the inhibition or discouragement of the legitimate exercise of natural and legal rights by the threat of legal sanction. A chilling effect may be caused by legal actions such as the passing of a law, the decision of a court, or the threat of a lawsuit; any legal action that would cause people to hesitate to exercise a legitimate right (freedom of speech or otherwise) for fear of legal repercussions.

In other words:

A chilling effect is when people are scared to use their rights because they fear legal trouble. This can happen because of new laws, court rulings, or threats of lawsuits. It makes people hesitate to do something they’re normally allowed to do.

You are wondering whether to go abroad. BOOM.
It's not "some c library on top of them", it's glibc. You can use another libc, but that means you're going to be incompatible with the distro expectations in terms of configuration, because that's handled by glibc, so you just push off the instability to a different part of your system.
That’s obviously casus belli — a legitimate justification for war under international law.
Note taking apps generally do formatting, markdown like stuff or at least linking to urls in the text etc.

You cant slap a plain text field and assume that emulates the actual experience in any way.
> So everything is properly designed but somehow there's a lot of general incompetence preventing it from working.

But it is working, actually:

* If you update your distro with binaries from apt, yum, zypper etc. - they work.

* If you download statically-linked binaries - they work.

* If you download Snaps/Flatpak, they work.

> it means that you have to build on the oldest bistro you can find so that the built binaries actually work on arbitrary machines you try to run it on.

Only if you want to distribute a dynamically-linked binary without its dependencies. And even then - you have to build with a toolchain for that distro, not with that distro itself.
Its a lot easier and idiomatic to write. I would try it first before knocking it off.
You're doing it again!

> I can very easily imagine what could have happened in those buildings if a badge was required to leave a conference room.

The facilities team and fire marshal are also easily capable of imagining this, already have, and you can ask them about it.

In this case the doors would fail open, or are made of glass and can be broken down. It's not a /really/ secure location. It's just a tech company that likes to seem secure during work hours. After hours of course the janitors get to see everything.
He made a great move in the game, but completely mis-analyzed the reason it works during the post-game interview [1]. Several GMs found that suspicious, especially given revelations that he'd previously admitted to cheating.

Specifically, move 19. Qd3! [2], appears to hang the knight. When asked how he'd respond if his opponent simply took the knight (19... dxc4), he says he is "completely winning", then proceeds to give some moves that lead to a flat-out losing position. (Eg: Any GM or sufficiently strong engine agrees that r2q1rk1/1pbn1p2/2p1b1pB/p3P3/P1p2P2/2P3QP/1P4P1/3RRBK1 b - - 0 1 is lost for White.)

To be fair, he's been playing incredibly well recently, and no other evidence of cheating came out, so I'm inclined to believe it was just a "bad interview."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI9jAU0jhJU

[2] https://www.chess.com/events/2022-sinquefield-cup/04/Niemann...
turns out you can Google it.
I would say SQL still is that! My wife had to learn some SQL to pull reports in some non-tech finance job 10 years ago. (I think she still believes this is what I do all day…)

I suppose this could be useful in that it prevents everyone in the company having to learn even the basics of SQL which is some barrier, however minimal.

Also the LLM will presumably be able to see all the tables/fields and ‘understand’ them (with the big assumption that they are even remotely reasonably named) so English language queries will be much more feasible now. Basically what LLMs have over all those older attempts is REALLY good fuzziness.

I see this being useful for some subset of questions.
ML/AI Coding Interview Problems
Open Source Laptop project*

* Requires commercial EDA package that will cost you more than a laptop
The US dictated the rules of the modern world and have seemingly been happy with them for the last 80 years.

Everyone is fine if you want a change, go back to your own country, stop trying to be World Police and focus on domestic issues for a few years. What we aren't happy about is the constant threats of invasion and subjugation.
This is too funny not to be true
reality check: europe never had fluoride in the water. still looking for the dental crisis.
The rumor was not only that, but also peering through neighbors devices from the same company.
Google is typically developing Captchas, but you can develop your own if you like.
The main things that made MCP hard for me to understand at first is that it’s both transport agnostic (so no leveraging semantic HTTP) and is an async task management protocol as well as a tool use protocol. The name itself is also poorly chosen. I would call it Tool Use Protocol.

Think about each MCP implementer like an agent’s input/output device.
The government can give out toothpaste in school, it doesn't need to add things to water.

The inviolability or integrity of one's own body to me is more important than any of this. You have the right to decide what medication to be given to you with informed consent always, or you have no freedom. Otherwise the freedom argument collapses and you stop having reasons to allow abortions, or a bunch of other informed consent situations.

And "knowing better" than poor people "for their own good" usually doesn't go well (for the people).
You're misattributing: the U.S. has a perfect white teeth culture that doesn't exist elsewhere. Many people outside of the U.S. have healthier but uglier teeth. Fluoride isn't the reason for good/bad teeth inside/outside of the U.S, it's cultural. Many places outside of the U.S. do put fluoride in their water (nationally or regionally) and have "bad" teeth (e.g: England).
New data show that the class divide in Britain may not be so wide
https://archive.ph/fIh34
that's brilliant, thank you for sharing!
That's untrue
This is really cool. Question for EEs / Material Scientists reading the paper - they mention you could shrink the cylinders and get the same voltage provided a "suitable material" could be found. Any back of the envelope or explanation of materials needed to make these cylinders say 1/1000th their current size? That'd be an extremely useful amount of energy when put into say a 1000x parallel array.

It seems hard to imagine that this kind of shrink-down could go on forever, but on the other hand, the earth is just sort of hurtling us around with great energy while it rotates.
They're doing both tipping and untipping.
I connect my TV because the remote doesn't have a button for changing brightness, but there's a PC app for that