skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
macOS is not an alternative to Windows in many industries due to lack of available industry-specific applications/hardware; this even applies to Excel, which there is no practical alternative for.

And certainly not for gaming, where Windows remains more popular than ever thanks to Sony 'seeing the light' and starting to port games to Windows. According to the Steam survey, Windows, all versions, make up 97% of users.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
Pretty sure kernel doesn't have to fsync on close. In fact, you don't want it to, otherwise you're limiting the performance of your page cache. So fsync on install for dpkg makes perfect sense.
I am Groot. I am Groot? I am Groot.
TV is watching you – Companies inventing new ways to make money off your data
> Its funny because I'm younger than you by a couple of years

I'm 33 and also grew up with computers that only had PS/2 ports! Granted, USB existed, but the PCs I had as a youngster were old PCs.

I'm quite sure I literally used the adapter mentioned in the submission, as one of the first mouses I bought myself was a Microsoft mouse that came with a PS/2<>USB adapter!
I wasn't deferring to any marketing departments. But the fact remains, I still do not know how to pronounce it.
Nice. Signal to global investors that financial fraud can be excused with the right connections and undermine the trust and legal integrity that made U.S. markets a global safe haven.
This is true, but there are escape hatches to this, so it's not a true paradox.

A few examples:
If we could get a glass that melts at a lower temperature and is more impact resistant, we'd be halfway there.

Also, if we could easily melt down the plastic without degradation, that would be nice as well.

Also, if we could easily dissolve the plastic in a solvent that wasn't highly toxic. That would be great too.

Basically if we could make the containers out something that makes it easy to reshape and reuse, we could convince more people to collect most of the waste. It would be more valuable as an input to many different crafting or manufacturing processes.

But also, wood is kind of polymer, and chemical is pretty similar to plastic, and there are a lot of different kind of plastics out there, they are all pretty different, so it's a bit hard to generalize in this area.
Running the built-in "strings" command to extract a few file names from a binary is hardly hacking/cracking.

Ironically, though, getting the source code of Gemini perhaps wouln't be valuable at all; but if you had found/obtained access to the corpus that the model was pre-trained with, that would have been kind of interesting (many folks have many questions about that...).
We were selling arms to Iran to fund the contras in Niaragua, and we (they, from where I sit) negotiated the hostages held by Iran to be held for an extra 100 days or so in order to make Jimmy Carter look bad. Also maybe flubbed the rescue mission to undermine him. We've not ever been too keen on lines.
it was the intrinsics, sometime ago zig "imported" compiler-rt and wrote pure-zig variants that are lacking machine level optimizations and a lot of vectorization and so on. SQLite performance is highly dependent on them.
Debian Testing/Trixie removes systemd-resolved
Debian's systemd maintainer today removed both systemd-resolved and systemd-nspawn packages [0] from Testing/Trixie/Debian 13 - soon to be in feature freeze - due to disagreements with the Technical Committee [1].

For operators already using Testing/Trixie/Debian 13 this will lead to dependency version conflicts and/or loss of existing service; for upgrades from Stable/Bookworm/Debian 12 likewise.

systemd-resolved package depends on the exact same version of other systemd packages. When they try to upgrade to newer versions the installed-but-orphaned systemd-resolved package will prevent it unless it is removed.

New installs can use resolvconf.

[0] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1632477/accepted-systemd-2574-4-source-into-unstable/

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1098914
Come on. You don’t need to be a bully. This person worked hard on their thing.
The most interesting content I found through HN had no pictures or illustrations.
> Modern debuggers have specialized capabilities way beyond the reach of REPLs.

Only if you are running on a machine with a full OS.

Embedded debugging is so bad that Microsoft forcing everybody to use DAP (Debug Adapter Protocol) was a step up.

It also doesn't help that compiler writers never met an optimization that they didn't like. It's often really hard to unwind optimized code back to something useful to probe. Sure, you can turn on debug optimizations but then your code runs an order of magnitude slower.
Missing from this is the follow-on path of attack. If people enable 2FA for their Google account the attack will move from Google / GMail to the cell phone and this will increase the risk of SIM jacking. The article should also suggest that everyone log into their wireless provider and enable Number Lock not to be confused with a SIM lock to reduce the risks of their SIM being hijacked. This won't stop malicious employees at wireless providers however and that is still a real problem.
This is really cool. 60% is no joke and as a 7900XTX owner I would love the performance boost.

Well done!
They still manufacture 6502s (and some periph chips) and you can license the core IP for your FPGA/ASIC [1]. There are dev boards (I have a W65C02SXB and it's kinda nifty) [2]. You can buy them from Mouser. There's apparently still demand in the embedded space that justifies keeping them in production.

[1] https://www.westerndesigncenter.com/
[2] https://wdc65xx.com/Single-Board-Computers
Sounds like we've met. I'd take God in this position over one man or many any day of the week

"Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. For thou art the God of my strength..."

"...but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel."
OAN, Real America News at least. Maybe Breitbart, though that's old enough to be in high school now.
The definition of hacking is getting pretty loose. This looks like the sandbox is doing exactly what it's supposed to do and nothing sensitive was exfiltrated...
DNA is the instruction set for protein composition- not thinking.
The HN version of that is that the top comment is often an analogy and then a massive thread of people just talking about the analogy rather than the actual point.
That's true to an extent, and overall I agree that things should be simplified, but I think there's a special case when the "complication" is something like "if you are bigger and more able to navigate this, you must therefore pay more". Create a feedback loop where increasing resources automatically result in higher fees and fines.
That's exactly why I didn't use Republicans as an example; because I know there's lots of people on the Democrat side who consider that perfectly acceptable rhetoric as long as it's not targeting them.

I maintain that this sort of vitriolic language is unacceptable no matter what group it's targeting, unless your goal is to start a flame war (or a real war) rather than actually solve problems.
Attempting to admit something to key customers but they don't do it on letterhead!

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/oracle-is-mum-on-re...

Look for them to sue any messengers shortly.
It's still bad journalism. Given the inherent nature of variances in garment manufacturing, individual fitment, and item cost, they should've at least done a sample size of 3.

Please also don't use The Wirecutter as an example of good journalism. It's the worst of a bad lot of Consumer Reports clones with all the disincentives of rapid-fire constant publication and ad-driven revenue. It was bad prior to the NYT acquisition, but it's "bottom of the barrel" atm.

Much akin to CNBC for securities, it's now just a source of noise and, occasionally, even negative signal.
That would only show that people are ignorant of the past and influenced by what is called the national myth [0], not necessarily that their definition of fascism has changed.

To return your argument, if you poll people who call current events fascists and ask them if that 1923 Supreme court decision is fascist, would you be as confident that 95% would say it's not?

That people's view of fascism has changed after world war 2 is obvious and not particularity insightful. So has their view of antisemitism for instance.

I also should add that I agree with you on the great danger of labeling too many things fascists, including the current events. It is entirely possible to oppose Trump's second term and even think that it is a threat to democracy without resorting to calling it fascist. It is also possible to compare it with the rise of fascist regimes if one provides appropriate arguments.

I just don't think that your example with 1920s America illustrates that point particularly well.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_myth
One of the authors worked on Apache Flink but is too modest to include that interesting detail! So I'm adding it here. Hopefully he won't mind.
Nick checks out.

Have you seen: https://wdc65xx.com/Single-Board-Computers
Russia seems to have designs of the rest of the planet, pretty much.
No, it's more like swapping pages to disk when RAM is full, or like using RAM when the L2 cache is full.

Linux page cache exists to speed up access to the durable store which is the underlying block device (NVMe, SSD, HDD, etc).

The RAM-backed block device in question here is more like tmpfs, but with an ability to use the disk if, and only if, it overflows. There's no intention or need to store its whole contents on the durable "disk" device.

Hence you can do things entirely in RAM as long as your CI/CD job can fit all the data there, but if it can't fit, the job just gets slower instead of failing.
Show HN: Modex — Clojure MCP Library
Hi HN. I built Modex, a Clojure MCP library to augment your AI models with new Tools, Resources (WIP) and Prompts (WIP).

Modex implements the MCP stdio transport and JSON-RPC wire format, which means it does not need an MCP proxy or any Anthropic Java SDK dependencies to be called from most MCP clients.

At work I am using Modex to build simple tools like datomic-mcp[^1] that lets MCP clients like Claude Desktop diagnose support issues against our production Datomic databases.

For example, when a customer opens a support ticket about their VM being unreachable, Claude will inspect our Datomic schema, figure out which queries to run to check server state, try to reach the VM using an MCP ping tool and check the state of the host and VM in our cluster. Over time we hope to automate the bulk of recurring support queries using Modex and other MCP tools.

[^1]: https://github.com/theronic/datomic-mcp
Do you wear them anyway, or return or tailor them or what?
Since bypassnro.cmd is a two line batch script and it isn't clear from the release notes, is this going to also prevent the reg edit from working, or is this simply removing the script? If it is just removing the script, a Shift + F10 should get you going with a cmd prompt where you can edit the registry from there and reboot.
> OOP without the boilerplate

Agreed. Dr. Samek says as much too and presents an object-oriented version of C, C+, in Practical Statecharts in C/C++.

Thank-you for your replies. If you happen to see this comment, I wanted to ask about reification.

The pattern is the idea, the design reifies--"makes real"--the pattern. Something else--whether code, constellation of programs, or pigeons--implements the design.

There can be many reifications of a pattern, and there can be many implementations of a design.

Do those ideas ring true?

> compile your company

I've seen this done. Human-readable instructions coexist with SQL snippets and scripts. However, once it becomes tribal knowledge, folks may not understand it.

If manual approvals had also been processed through a pipeline instead of emails and "stop and start," it may have still been in use.
The first section about "The Incredible Shrinking Man" reminded me of "Life At Low Reynolds Number", with the concept of "scaling".

>It helps to imagine under what conditions a man would be swimming at, say, the same Reynolds number as his own sperm. Well, you put him in a swimming pool that is full of molasses, and then you forbid him to move any part of his body faster than 1 cm/min. Now imagine yourself in that condition: you're under the swimming pool in molasses, and now you can only move like the hands of a clock. If under these ground rules you are able to move a few meters in a couple of weeks, you may qualify as a low Reynolds number swimmer.[0]

[0]https://cooperlab.wustl.edu/PracticalAdvice/Purcell%201977.p...
New College fires Chinese professor under controversial Florida law
What issues do the lisp and smalltalk repls make easier to debug ?
Until they get Pioneer DJ to cooperate (iI doubt it as they have their own platform) it will be hard to reach mass implementation. Pioneer has become the de facto standard for pro DJ equipment.
Don't forget to count all the doctors moving out the US to Canada and the EU.
> It’s not clear why the superellipse would be common and the superhyperbola obscure

I think the explanation is pretty obvious: The hyperbola itself is way more obscure than the ellipse to begin with, so it’s not surprising that hyperbola variations are also obscure.
There's no ambiguity. The first element is a symbol that's the name of a tag. If the second element is a list of two element symbol + string lists, it's the attributes. If it's one of the other recognized types, it's part of the contents of the tag.

See a grammar for the representation at https://docs.racket-lang.org/xml/index.html#%28def._%28%28li...

Most Scheme tools for working with XML use a different layout where a list starting with the symbol @ indicates attributes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SXML for it.
The US Constitution’s preamble now starts with "We the Highest Bidder."

"Trump says Skadden, Arps law firm will provide $100 million in pro bono legal services, avoiding executive order" -
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/trump-skadden-law-firm-execu...

"Legal community shaken by a powerful law firm's decision to give in to Trump's demands" -
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/legal-...
What's confusing about the word bullish?
I’ve come to believe a more depressing take: they _want_ to believe it, and therefore do.

No disclaimer is gonna change that.
How safe is your DNA in a bankruptcy?
Cursor Under the Hood
https://archive.ph/VK1ep
There has been discussion about piloting something like that in london
Read depth / structural variants as well.
> Keep in mind that a mismanaged government can be a lot more predatory than any private actor.

What's the basis for this claim? What is a "mismanaged government" but one that is controlled by narrow private interests? Or is this coming from a "all tax is exploitation" angle?
Yes. A thermostat involves a change of state from A to B. A computer is the same: its state at t causes its state at t+1, which causes its state at t+2, and so on. Nothing else is going on. An LLM is no different: an LLM is simply a computer that is going through particular states.

Thought is not the same as a change of (brain) state. Thought is certainly associated with change of state, but can't be reduced to it. If thought could be reduced to change of state, then the validity/correctness/truth of a thought could be judged with reference to its associated brain state. Since this is impossible (you don't judge whether someone is right about a math problem or an empirical question by referring to the state of his neurology at a given point in time), it follows that an LLM can't think.
I didn't say it synced. The file is simply "written" and available at that point.

It makes no sense to trust that fsync() does what it promises but not that close() does what it promises. close() promises that when close() returns, the data is stored and some other process may open() and find all of it verbatim. And that's all you care about or have any business caring about unless you are the kernel yourself.
It felt like back then everything was a bodge and computers were somehow made without any thought to gaming or mice even after they became common. Wasn't the game port really a MIDI port and gamepads pretended to be MIDI devices?
Apartments are banned in about 70% of seattle residential land. Here are the things you are allowed to build: https://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/SDCI/Codes/Nei...
Kingdom Come 2 with 0 kills
Is it actually that much of a problem if you're trying to clone/steal one plate for one car? Go to some major stores with huge parking lots during busy times. Find one car which is the same model and color.

Maybe it's hard if you have a classic car with an unusual paint job. Not so hard if you have a white Toyota.
I suspect that thinking in trie terms is the way to go, where each node chooses its preferred representation.

The top level should usually use a grid, though uniform-density children can also use one. The grid scale should be chosen to maximize low-density children while minimizing empty children.

For low-density children, just store an unsorted bunch of items, or maybe sort them on just one axis (preferably the outermost axis used for rendering). If your outer level is actually uniform, all of its children will be this (or empty).

For high-density children, use a quadtree/octree ... or just treat them as opaque objects to be handled recursively. These still suck for all the memory-walking they do, but since you've handled the outer part using the grid, the overhead is smaller. These can do "nearby" queries if your implementation is good, but many implementations suck. Making them mutable just means you need to either implement rebalancing or just stick to fixed planes.
Someone just did half a job interview in advance here on HN in the last ~24h (LED solar light box).
Mine is two years, three months and has recently started trying to loid the magnetic child safety cabinet locks in the kitchen with any piece of strong cardboard she finds. I do not know how she came to the realization that that should work, but it definitely feels like we underestimated her.

Luckily she's only succeeded once so far, but nevertheless we're trying to figure out how to make sure the knives are safely out of reach (because she's also figured out how to climb the counter with a chair, obviously) without it becoming too inconvenient for us as well.
Though that depends quite a lot on who gets to define what is "good" and "bad".
In my head, I hear Marvin the Martian saying it. Especially if it’s made of Illudium Q-36.
Please, take the pencil and draw the line between thinking and non-thinking systems. Hell I'll even take a line drawn between thinking and non-thinking organisms if you have some kind of bias towards sodium channel logic over silicon trace logic. Good luck.
Since the authors are communists, What they left out was that Kerala, especially the southern half of it preserved its independence (though only nominally under the British) from foreign occupations, something most other states in india couldn't.
FDIC says banks can engage in crypto activities without prior approval
To highlight how bad it is, I read this article as a Brit and was genuinely confused. I kept wondering what I was missing because it seemed so obvious to me that if you drove around your neighbourhood the police would be taking photos of your movements regularly on any major road.

But I guess this isn't a thing in some places?

While I'm not fond of the cameras monitoring my movements honestly the worst part of driving in the UK is the constant anxiety that if you do anything wrong you're going to be fined. And sometimes you arguably don't even do anything wrong they just change the rules without telling you.

The updated the road near me recently from 30 to 20, they did this on the patch of road by an existing speed camera and only put one small sign up. Because most people know the road is 30 thousands and thousands of people have been fined for not realising someone updated the speed limit overnight.

Similarly, in my city they're constantly making roads one way, restricting car access on certain roads, adding restrictions for diesel cars, and adding bus lanes. All have cameras so if you don't realise you're immediately fined.

I even know someone who was recently fine because they were caught on camera going through a red light to get out of the way of an ambulance (they insist they did so safely).

The tracking our movements is really the least of our problems.
> having to remove shirt tags

I simply cannot understand why producers of shirts (anything you wear, actually) feel the need to stretch a tak which is rough and creates physical pain for me.

And for one of my sons, but not to the other
We are using capidi audio only monitoring system. Works over large distance.
Were more than happy. Very reliable solution.

At times we thought that we need video too, but we managed without it just fine.
Not that this is a good idea, but how do you suppose a window manager could be modified so that it's not useful for "bad" purposes?

It seems difficult to do for general-purpose software.
> Only Americans

I was raised and educated in Africa, specifically the GCSE curriculum. I was taught to use etc.
my answers are in a p informal tone and lowercase makes it look just right. (also, i'm not applying to yc but this thing they have called summer fellows grants)
One of my favorite fictional characters is Sam Becker from Far Cry 3. He is the son of a US Navy SEAL who was stationed in Germany, which is circumstantially why he speaks German fluently and English with a very heavy German accent while still being a True American Patriot.

Playing through the story, the player will get a mission to burn a farm (for reasons I don't remember) with Sam's help. This culminates in a large explosion that sets most of the farm ablaze, with Sam Becker yelling in his thick, German accent, "Fuck yeah! America!" while the player character drives away from the scene. (This particular moment was hilarious to me, hence why I like the character.)

This administration really puts a spotlight on that character. But not in a funny way.
> This is hard to explain on non-technical terms though, and it's a hard sell for business and marketing oriented people, mostly because they can't immediately connect the dots

I think managers are usually capable pf connecting the dots. I guess the problem is that for managerial roles it is very hard to distinguish between engineers who are slow because they are careful and methodical (thus enabling future growth) and engineers who are slow because they are bad or lazy or prone to bikeshedding (thus enabling nothing). Since the cost of error here is very high, they tend to err on the side of caution,and discourage slowness altogether.
What damages are the courts referring to?
Ha fun to see this on HN! Love the approach she outlined here, though I’ve tried doing similarly but don’t have the time or incentive to invest in it just to play on my decks in my living room once a month haha.
You are not alone. many on the standard committee are trying to get rid of it. std::print is the new way to do io instead of cout in part so you don't have to abuse shift for io. This is new in c++23 though so few people know about it.

Bjarne appears to prefer cout though, so it isn't universal.
that makes sense. i wonder if i should go ahead with this.
Yes, and reducing the variation would increase costs. There are likely acceptability standards in play, but they are probably very lax standards.
"Hey, what if we marketed a little narc doll that we sold to kids" was probably when I should have realized that the surveillance state will always win