skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These days, whenever i read "headet only" i immediately get scared about compile times. Does using this library make compilation expensive in the way that eg protobuf or nlohmann_json do?
Hi, I vouched your comment since it was dead, presumably because yours is a new account. I'm looking to use it in a Flutter app, possibly with flutter_rust_bridge FFI if needed, so I was wondering how to do that, as well as where to get the models and how to use them. I didn't see any end to end example in the docs.
Cuba is doing much better than its neighbors
> as we transition from orality to literacy to digital-literacy and beyond

Really we're going backwards here

Digital literacy in the younger generations is dropping, and even language literacy is not where it used to be

It's kind of shocking to see these stats regress in my lifetime but they are
very funny, needed this laugh tonite
Automated review of camera data differs from the classic panopticon, though, in that it's possible for the system to observe every person, every time.
Except for the Cybertruck the cars are pretty good. The overvaluation is because Musk wants everybody to think Tesla is an AI company that makes self-driving cars, which by now everybody realizes is bullshit.

Tesla makes pretty nice cars if you're willing to drive them yourself and you only occasionally use autopilot as a kind of smarter cruise control. Never use FSD unless you're willing to pay through the nose for a system that only works in select locations and otherwise tries to kill you every few minutes.
Microsoft Office was ok when I last used it 25 years ago. I think it came preinstalled. But LibreOffice is the real thing and that its going to become the standard is good news.
Is there a reasonable scenario where enough people vote "no" here? It seems unlikely, so a nuanced discussion where pros and cons are considered seems more productive. Seems like a yes/no vote makes more sense if there is actual contention or disagreement among internal factions.

If you vote no, you'll basically be seen as the stickler person without a good reason.

18 people are missing (abstained?), so could that be interpreted as an ambiguous "no"?
I'll grant you that these militias are well-armed and have sketchy loyalties, but if the US military decided they were honor-bound to defend the Constitution, against Trump, they'd crush the Oath Keepers and their ilk.
You're just using buzzwords. How is this analogous to robber barons at all?
> I will say that you do not need to explicitly say something for your line of argumentation to imply it as a logical consequence.

Maybe you should read my actual comments instead of jumping to conclusions. In my first comment I made it clear that protests are useless until the government fears you. If I can ignore you easily, so can the government. Nobody gives a shit about you holding a sign. Until you can make the government scared of you as far as I'm concerned you may as well sit your ass at home.

I'm not here to validate your feelings or cheer you on. I'm pointing out why you're failing and you're snapping back like I give a shit. You're welcome to ignore me just as easily as it is for me to ignore the current protests.
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Cool thanks for stopping by, I'm happy for you really, not sure what point you're trying to make.
neither is owned by a man deciding who can say what on the platform :)
I believe that's exactly what the GP was saying.
> The technique leverages honey pots and Canarytokens used to bait attackers to interact with token-embedded files (Excel, Word, PDF, ZIP) and URLs (QR codes, DNS tokens, HTTP requests). If an attacker falls for the trap the method generates an HTTP request containing metadata such as IP addresses, user-agent strings, timestamps and geographic data.

> “When the attacker tries to access or load the honey file, this will cause the payload to start looking for information such as the real IP address and user agent (data tied to the hacker’s browser, operating system, and device),” the authors wrote.

> This, in turn, triggers a process in which the incriminating attacker’s data is sent back to a cyber-defender’s server.

Paper (pdf) Unmasking the True Identity: Unveiling the Secrets of Virtual Private Networks and Proxies [0]

[0] https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/16/2/126
You do not want a U.S. military that isn't willing to subordinate itself to civilian control, even if the civilians are stupid. No matter how terminally online or terminally partisan you are, you absolutely, positively do not want that.
Right up near the top of the front page: "Plain is a fork of Django, bringing new ideas to established patterns in the Python landscape. Build a new business, an internal tool, or something for yourself."

It's clearly a minimal readme, a tiny bit of frontmatter and a feature list. I see no reason to tar them for not including that everywhere.
Sorry, I did not mean to be disingenuous. My skepticism came through in my tone. I think LLMs are a valuable tool, and will continue to grow in different ways. I can even imagine a scenario where the right series of prompts gives someone a eureka moment in a big, new way.

I don’t see how an LLM could produce anything novel without being prompted. At which point, is the LLM just a tool for a brilliant mind, or is the LLM the brilliant mind? I prefer the former, because I just can’t wrap my head around the latter.
Awesome, I hope this work continues. I got to put my hands on a One a few weeks ago at SCaLE 22x[0], where the Software Freedom Conservancy was the "Network Sponsor"[1] and the WiFi was being provided by a bunch of Ones.

[0] https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x

[1] https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/sponsor/software-fr...
As opposed to code in e.g. Java that uses the built-in XML APIs and some third party PDF output lib.
These companies don't deserve the benefit of doubt. Not after spending decades consistently screwing over users.
I hope they continue to work on Vision Pro 2-3. It is clear the potential are there. But I need Rec2020 screen, higher PPI, 2-4x refresh rate. Half latency response time. All of that requires 10X GPU driving it while reducing energy usage and makes it much lighter weight.

Basically I think they are 3-5 years too early for first version. But that is OK I guess with current Apple. They could afford to continue to work on this project until 2030.
In the Netherlands 3 panopticon-style prisons were built from 1882 to 1886. This is the one that stands in Breda:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koepelgevangenis_(Breda)
BFS with priority queue isn't BFS it's called Dijkstra's algorithm.

Are you sure it works correctly for shortest path to all points in set not just "we need one of them" case? When running in reverse I would expect closest point to be priotized first, which would potentially mark all the area around target as visited thus blocking paths from other points in set from reaching it. It's equivalent to introducing one more point in graph and connecting it to all the points in set. Unless it works for one to all in set it's a weaker result than what Dijkstra or BFS answers. If your problem doesn't need it, don't use it. But that's my point use the weakest algorithm which directly answers required query, and be aware that building more powerful algorithm by repeatedly calling more specialized but weaker one won't always be optimal.
Yes but the owners of X are all elon sycophants so I doubt they will have an issue with this (and honestly xAI stock is better than x stock)
If you’re looking for sinners and saints I don’t think you’re going to find it.

If I were to summarize the disagreement in the most neutral terms, it’s the risk vs benefit of vaccines.

And like all risk vs benefit choices, it comes down to a choice - there is no one right answer, it’s a value judgement. I work in the industry so see this all the time - someone makes the call “we have enough data to confidently say X”. People disagree all the time over this. You can always get more data to be more sure, but at some point you start wasting your time.

I’d say the argument from the RFK side is we don’t know enough about the safety of certain vaccines to make the risk vs benefit argument of mandatory vaccination. The same argument for food additives like red dye.

Marks likely disagrees - as is evident from him overruling 3 different teams on Elevidys - a drug that failed phase 3 yet Mark’s decided the risk vs benefit was good enough for FDA approval.

And before anyone says “yeah but look at the kooky things that side says”, you can do that for any argument. Even the pro-vaccine side says untrue things but that doesn’t mean the core argument doesn’t have validity.
I'm seeing 10/10 though, with a custom iCloud domain ("Your hostname outbound.mr.icloud.com is assigned to a server.").

What's different?
At this point, seems like the server is mostly a data access layer spitting out JSON for JavaScript, Java and Swift clients.
Yeah, exactly this. Django is just brilliant and sometimes I'd like to use it with typing.
Yeah it is more profitable but revenues are way down.

In 2021, the last full year before Musk's acquisition, Twitter generated $5.08 billion in revenue.

Under Musk's ownership, X's revenue has declined significantly. In 2024, X reported $2.7 billion in revenue, which is nearly half of its pre-acquisition level. For 2025, global ad revenue is projected to grow to $2.26 billion, marking its first annual increase since the acquisition.

So yes on paper, X is more profitable than Twitter was before the acquisition. Its 2024 adjusted EBITDA nearly doubled Twitter’s best year, despite a much smaller revenue base. But whether that profitability is sustainable or comes at too high a cost—strategically, reputationally, and culturally—remains an open question.
OK, I'm coming from Linux, but I have to say my experience has been the opposite.

I have a semi-complex app I've decided to port to Windows (it's so far on Linux and MacOS and configures/debugs/tests servo motors on serial and CAN busses), and after a couple of days I've been unable to make any sane workflow work without installing three seperate half-assed copies of Linux userspace (Git for Windows w/ its bash install, cygwin and wsl2) and choco on top to install more Linux/Unix-originated stuff. It's a lot like MacOS and needing to fiddle with homebrew, except worse and you need four of them.

Let me give you an example: I have a serial device connected to an SBC mini computer that I want to interface with from my dev PC, so I want to proxy that serial port over tcp to Windows and make it available as a COM port. On Linux this is trivial to do using socat, or ser2net+socat.

On Windows, plenty of similar tools exist. Usually you need two of them, one to make a virtual pair of COM ports, and another one to pipe a TCP socket connection into one end of the pair. So far, so good.

Except all of the utilities, drivers, etc. I've tried have just plain not worked, and I've tried a good half dozen. Often their last version is from somewhere in the 2007-2012 time frame, and something no longer works on Windows 11. I think a lot of devs of tools like this just nope'd out when Microsoft started enforcing signing and pushed the Store model harder, and moved to Linux or Mac.

In the end I had to write my own thing for the COM pair and run socat in cygwin.

And I've jumped through a few hoops like this.

I'm sure if all you do is need a place to run npm from and the rest of your stuff is all in the browser, the OS barely matters. But for native dev, Windows feels dead and barren, and fully reliant on the Linux ecosystem to be productive at this point. It's where all the reliable and well-maintained stuff comes from, whereas Windows-native tools are a ghost town of abandoned, frequently closed-source binaries.

The many years Windows couldn't make their minds up between the managed code .NET stack and native C/C++ APIs, and one was incomplete while the other bitrotted away, have really taken their toll, I think.
link is broken.
should be https://nnethercote.github.io/2025/03/19/how-to-speed-up-the...
How about having the AI keep talking until you say a specific word like "stop".

Background noise will rarely produce a false positive for that word.
Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in April 2025
Government officials are required to record their communications. Signal is also not approved for secure communications. And while Signal the protocol and company might be secure, the phones it runs are not.
the true victory is to move to linux. unfortunately, that's been harder than it needed to be, and it's mostly due to inertia of old software and network effect of windows.
oh lol, thanks for reminding me.
yeah, i just try to make the title dramatic lol
But you get to brag about how much more free you are than some poor schmuck in the EU as you die.
> What mechanism is capable of driving such a societal paradigm shift?

I don’t know, if we had experienced it, we wouldn’t be in this conundrum…
Trump was criminally prosecuted on both state (New York and Georgia) and federal charges, and convicted on New York state charges, before being re-elected. Because prosecution is an executive power exercised by the President, his re-election made it so that he would be President and thus unprosecutable by the time of trial on the federal charges for which there were still active prosecutions, resulting in them being dismissed without prejudice. (Technically, they could be refiled after he leaves office again.)

Concerns about Constitutional issues with state penalties interfering with federal duties also led the judge in the New York state case, where he was convicted of 34 felony charges, to sentence him to "unconditional discharge" -- essentially, he remains a convict, but faced no penalty beyond the fact of officially being a felony convict.

Issues relating to prosecutorial behavior have stalled Trump's prosecution on state criminal charges in Georgia, but those charges remain active (whether the prosecutor's office that was handling the case can continue to do so is an issue currently subject to appeal, and may not be decided for several months.)
I had to give up trying to use iCloud for email. So many inbound emails would be silently dropped. I've also sent emails to @icloud.com addresses that the recipient never received.

The deliverability issues also apply to their Hide My Email feature. I frequently miss confirmation or verification emails after signing up with a @privaterelay.appleid.com address, so much so that I don't even bother with it anymore.
What in god's name?

There's a photo of the inside of one which just shows glue and wires, which backs up parent poster's conspiracy theory thinking about companies just making nonsense cables:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/618Us-meOFL.jpg

There are dozens of these things. All the positive reviews look fake, too.

I can't find any reference to any legitimate product ever that had some sort of passive USB/Firewire adapter.

One review points out that Firewire uses 12V power, and a few others get power warnings from their devices potentially indicating that the pins are just being shorted somewhere.
I'm not a lawyer by any means, but I don't see how it wouldn't be.

But realistically, how worth it would it be for this graphic designer to battle a narcissistic, petty billionaire in court?

US civil court is truly fucked. Criminal as well, for that matter. Ok, the entire judicial branch really. And the executive branch, and legislative, law enforcement, public health, education....

As an aside, what's the easiest country in the EU for immigration?
That may be right. Unfortunately, while I have seen Wikipedia articles on HN, my memory is not sharp enough to recall for how long they stuck around on the front page.
Ah. I think you're right. I did confuse it with the PS Classic. I thought they had done an actual PSX port that lowered rendering to compensate. I must've been mistaken.
> everyone runs so goddamn, incredibly lean

Yeah. This is why major automotive innovations are hard to come by without massive scale. When they started out, no supplier wanted to work with Tesla because they simply did not have the scale. How exactly do you think Tesla still managed to innovate and build the best automotive supply chain in the world?

Answer: it was decades of (Democratic) government subsidies. Tesla was exclusively backed by the US government and it's promise towards climate goals. That's why they didn't go under. Despite all the naysayers and massive short interests.

> Tesla is in a good position to be an almost entire domestic manufacturer

Literally my point.

And also, they are now backed up by the anti-science, anti-climate, anti-ev, pro-coal Republican government. How the tables have turned.

I do not fuss over Elon Musk. I admire him. He is arguably the best, most genius con man of our time.
Very fun idea, I had not considered training on existing work (IP is so sensitive I just couldn't think of a way to get enough)

My approach is slightly different for building the dataset. I think we should bootstrap an absolutely massive synthetic dataset full of heuristically autorouted PCBs to allow the AI to learn the visual token system and basic DRC compliance. We then use RL to reward improvements on the existing designs. Over time the datasets will get better similar to how synthetic datasets are produced whenever a new LLM model is released that make training subsequent LLMs easier.

I think people are underestimating the number of PCBs that are needed to train a system like this. My guess is it is well over 10m PCBs with perfect fidelity. It will make sense to have a large synthetic data strategy.
More discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43511340
Django's origins in content probably made it hopelessly "thick" in today's world which on the server is mostly just taking in a spitting out JSON.
I don't know if Plain has a chance to succeed but I understand why it is a fork. Django leadership haven't been able to move Django forward outside of its old paradigms and every attempt, be it a fork or third-party app, counts.
What happens if you collateral a stock for loan and the stock somehow becomes worthless?
The lovable favicon makes me trust it less. It means the code is not done by an accountable human that can do something if my documents get leaked or your site hacked.

For a prototype it's ok.
> automating some administrative tasks?

on x? like... for marketers? do we really need ai to schedule tweets or auto-reply with “thanks for the follow”? feels like we’ve had that stuff for a decade already. just because it’s ai now doesn’t make it new or useful.

> gauging sentiment across swathes of the population on a given topic?

you mean gauging sentiment from a user base that’s gotten increasingly loud, extreme, and way less representative of the general public? that’s not insight, that’s just noise with extra steps.

> providing stuff like the “reader context” but attempt to pre-empt it so better info is shared to begin with?

in theory, sure. but that’s assuming the platform actually cares about curating good info and not just maximizing engagement. reader context is cool when it works, but it’s super inconsistent and often buried. ai preemptively “fixing” info sounds nice until you remember who’s training it and what incentives are driving it.

> twitter bots for different things / automated customer support / product recommendations etc.

yeah i mean, bots have been a thing on twitter forever—some useful, most annoying. ai-powered ones could be better, but the platform’s current vibe isn’t exactly welcoming for brands trying to do legit support or sales. good luck pitching your socks in a thread full of people arguing about conspiracy theories.
No one is upset.
True, but I don't think you're really arguing against what GP and above said. Sure, he's taking those actions, but it's far from clear whether or not he'll succeed. Those judges are so far standing up to him. Even Chief Justice Roberts publicly pushed back, something highly unusual.

The attacks members of Congress are troubling, but in a way don't matter too much: the deciders for control of the Senate or House are swing voters in swing states and districts. Whether or not the Republicans in Congress are MAGA adherents or older-school reasonable Republicans matters less than you'd think (and less than I'd like).

The one wrinkle in that is the Senate filibuster: if Democrats regain control there, depending on their margin, they could need up to 10 reasonable Republicans in order to make progress on most things. 60 Democratic Senators is unlikely.
Calvino is amazing. His short story collection Marcovaldo is just brilliant, it's my personal favorite. Cosmicomics is great too. Well actually, all his work.

It would be worth learning the language to read Calvino in original Italian. And maybe even Umberto Eco.
Both Ocarina of time and Majoras Mask are able to run on PC.
For Ocarina of Time, it was done through manual de compiling. For Majoras Mask, a static analyzer was used.

The codename for Ocarina of Time was Ship of Harkinian.
The one for Majoras Mask is 2Ship2Harkinian.

Both can result in the same outcome, but the readability of underlying source differs
AI spotted those comments on reddit- note: those were not my words about Eve(which i'm unfamiliar with!)

Point taken though , the commenters who said that were ...obviously..anecdotal, -though possibly still more the norm...)
In October when Windows 10 support ends it'll finally be the year of desktop linux.
when we catch up with the french
I personally like lack of typing which makes things MUCH easier. I'm curious the benefits of typing?
In some respects it is similar to the student loan industry: when the system makes money readily "available" but it's hard to actually increase the supply, prices rise radically; since this is a loan rather than a handout that means making people actually worse off. Or in other words, it mainly just steals (the industry term is "extracts value from") the productivity gains from other parts of the economy, rather than actually adding productivity.

I'm not trying to make a philosophical point really - just pointing out that you can't get a honest picture of economic concerns if you think from the perspective of the finance industry.
Can you elaborate on this? What paradigms do you think are outdated?

Generally speaking, I think Django has lagged a bit behind other frameworks. However, the continued advantage of being Python driven has left it useful in my book when working with Python data utilities in the back end. What’s your perspective here?
If the internet is to be believed silvered mirrors also came after the 17th century. Wikipedia has silvered mirrors as being from 1835.
There are some things available, and people are working on it. Coincidentally, one of those people is Russell Keith-Magee of Django fame, who founded the BeeWare project.

https://beeware.org/

https://beeware.org/about/team/freakboy3742/

https://kivy.org/
The main difference between the US and Russia in this regard is that the US federal government has very little say or control over what are state-run elections.

Solidly red states don't need election interference; they're going to vote red. Solidly blue states aren't going to tolerate interference. The handful or so of swing states will be watched incredibly closely by everyone else for even a hint of interference.

> and then a smarter Republican comes along and its a repeat again in 2032.

I mean, this is just how American politics works now, and has worked since extreme political polarization took root. That's what happens when you have FPTP voting and a two-party system, where members of each party show complete disdain (justified or not) of members of the other party.
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