skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about this quote:

> Perhaps that’s because most of British academia still can’t get its head around the idea that the US is now an enemy, not an ally, and that the “special relationship” is yesterday’s story.

That's a bold statement. John is using language in a manipulative way. By moving the word "enemy" into a context where it is not justified (is it really war, rather than typical negotiations?), he aims to create a dramatic perspective on a thing that is not obviously dramatic. Drama is the basis of the argument. The cases he bring up do not seem to justify the conclusive dramatic language.
Any kind of offline cryptography. Imagine Apple Pay being an app. So all sort of digital signatures, documents, checks, payment codes and vouchers, tickets etc.

IMO this is in the range of „why we use machines to transport if we all have legs”. Technically true, but applications do more than only UI.

I've heard this argument for the past 30 years (we won’t be using apps, everything will be remote console/terminal/webpage/web). Chromebooks were meant for web-first access, and yet native apps are still alive and kicking.
I now find Vibe coding an apt name (because I find it horrible) for something that usually has nothing to do with coding. Like prompt engineering usually has nothing to do with engineering. While non-coders or bad coders can create things that look and act passible if not too large, it turns out it doesn't actually go all the way, even with patience. People who change/build/release large production systems using AI, are actually programmers and use LLMs to whip up swats of boilerplate (which, for us, means only frontend; our backend system has been good enough to just type what you want in terse format code which is far faster than English and of course very precise as no LLMs there), but we read the code after and when LLMs get stuck, we fix it. The new 'vibe coders' cannot really do that as they don't understand what went wrong and the LLM, helpfully, tells them every iteration that YES now it knows and fixes it; change a massive part of your app, but nope, doesn't work. Loop around until sanity gives out or just delete and start over (I see people do that with good results; LLMs are just better at one shot than with changes).
The knowledge about the supplements we need also cheap and highly available and yet lots of people don't have it. I myself don't know all the supplements I need.

I feel like for better or worse we are being forced into an era of individual responsibilities where the safeguards that we used to rely on without having to think are being actively dismantled.
My parents had to do something similar, so I'm not too unfamiliar with the concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Pioneers_of_Yugoslavi...

But even that was once-in-a-lifetime event to emphasise the importance of the first day at school at age 7, it did not happen every Monday.

Needless to say, it wasn't very effective. As evidenced by history, some of our parents definitely broke that pledge later in their life.
Push notification is the big one. Yes, there is web push, but that's hardly scratching the surface of feature completeness. And incentives to change that aren't really there.
Hi! Endor co-founder here. You can easily run MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis and many other server software, all within your browser. You can mix and match generic Linux containers with browser-native Wasm components to create your custom stack. We are just getting started, but it is already quite useful for quickly creating a sandbox for testing. Please give it a try and let us know what you think!
Mum and dads are going to lose a lot of money. The vast majority of decision makers will get advance notice of anything problematic, and move out.
What’s “FAFO”?
I've often wondered about a similar issue with wind power. Would enough wind turbines dampen the force of wind?
People in the U.S. don't have perfect white teeth, they have are cosmetic procedures on their teeth equivalent to liposuction, silicone, botox, hair plugs and/or laminated face.
Related Collapse OS (221 points, 4 days ago, 196 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43482705
How many countries has the U.S. annexed in the last 80 years?

You’re completely wrong.

But even if you were right that the U.S. was simply applying its foreign policy to its “sphere of influence”, surely even you can see the immense foolishness of applying the same policies you have towards countries that are your enemies or even neutral to you, to countries that are your allies?

Finally, even if we accept that it’s actually really smart to treat your allies as your enemies, in all those other cases the U.S. responded because of attacks by those countries on America, American Allies or American companies. In the current situation there’s no such excuse.
Not having a CLA prevents relicensing but open source licenses aren't revokable anyways.
Have you seen the game Teardown?
> 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.

Yeah, like single native instagram draining battery faster than combination of multiple websites that I visit in Safari.

> For the same reason I won’t replace my real computer with a Chromebook for the foreseeable future.

> real computer

Where most of the modern applications are either web wrappers or Electron apps.
US will withdraw from NATO, Trump has wanted this since '87
PWAs can be fully offline. Are you sure you understand what you criticize?
To be fair, browser apps do have their advantages:

- text is selectable

- content is zoomable

- you can have an ad/nuisance blocker

- page source is open

While native apps have their own advantages:

- much smoother experience esp. navigation, scrolling, animations, etc.

- better overall performance (JavaScript will always lose to the native binary)

- access to hardware opens new possibilities; audio, video accelerators etc.; there's a ton of things you can't do in the browser with audio for example

- widgets, some of them are nice and useful too

- for publishers: an app icon on the home screen is a reminder, a "hook" of sorts; this is the main reason they push apps over web versions
I attended training at Andersen Consulting's (now Accenture's) global training center in St. Charles, IL in the '90s and their campus-wide schedule displays were driven by an Atari 800.
Right... Synergy, not just presence...
> people’s teeth in europe do not look great

What an offensive statement. Based on what? N=5 observation?
IQ points is just an indicator that could be measured consistently. Who knows what else is going on.. and statistically (especially depending on the distribution) 2 IQ points is quite a lot. After all 50% of the population fall into the 20 point range in the middle..

Of course it comes down to whether the relationship actually exists. But picking a slightly higher risk of cavities when the other option is potential mental impairment (however mild) seems like a no-brainer..
He’s watched too much simpsons.
As opposed to the morally superior actions of ... the other party so gleefully dismantling your country for a fire sale to the oligarchs.
What’s the difference between body doubling and looking over someone’s shoulder? Looking over someone’s shoulder slows me down. Whereas someone I trust and like being nearby can be a big boost.
> If you look at history, Americans do seem to have a bizarre habit of turning everything into a great controversy.

It sure is bizarre for the parts of the world where people are born to do as they're told and shut up.
US people wear facades to hide their teeth.
Sometimes it’s a compliance thing, e.g we can only show health data if your device passes some security controls first.
Then Americans who drink tea get a double dose of fluoride without knowing it. How does that work with the studies?
I've been playing tournament chess for 20 years. Not every game is created equal. Some losses are more upsetting than others. Carlsen has some narcissistic traits, which is unsurprising given that he's been showered in adulation from the chess world and general public since he was a small child(and this is common in these chess virtuosos. See Kasparov, Fischer, Kramnik, Nakamura). He might be able to handle losing to someone he considers his peer, but there are plenty of things about Niemann's personality rumours circulating about his online cheating during the game, and his rating at the time that made this loss particularly hard to handle.

And GMs have had plenty of bad reactions to losses throughout the history of chess. It definitely happens. Chess is an emotionally taxing game. You spend many hours of exhausting effort at the board only to lose due to a momentary brainfart. It's infuriating. GMs are humans too. Hell, fairly recently there was an incident when GM Christopher Yoo punched a photographer after losing a game at a tournament in St Louis.
Being actively not a lawyer.
> The browsers are controlled and manipulated by the likes of Apple and Google.

Who do you think controls Android and iOS native APIs?

Web standards at least have public forums and specs, with multiple parties involved. And all the major browser engines are open source and apps built for them are relatively cross-compatible.
Virtualization works far better than wine. Just copy the window frame buffer to the linux host.
Not really when it comes to government initiatives. They'd like the water plants to stop adding fluoride, so they make a policy that the plants should not add fluoride.
I feel like this always comes up in these sorts of arguments, that the US is so unique that solutions that work elsewhere can't work here. And yet this point is always hand-waved in, without and specifics discussed, and is just presented as a given.

I really don't buy it, at least not as a general statement.
May I ask what you are using to track your time?

Late edit: Especially offline time tracking.
What happens when you visit whatever URL is being wrapped?
> Did Brazil start with a Byzantine kluge of private and public providers and intermediaries? Genuine question, not snark.

That's what it still has.
> When’s the last time you tried booking a flight on mobile web?

A week ago, via TravelPerk which is literally a web wrapper.

> And how do you deal with all of the real estate the browser steals?

What?

> Having to log in every time when the app can just cache my authentication and FaceID me?

I literally use the same FaceID for my passwords/proton pass. Also, this depends on a website.
guy forgot what he was told to never forget
> Every single medical provider today relies on Oracle.

All over the world? If not, then there's the replacements, although I'm sure they're not FOSS.
Canada does the opposite of America even if it hurts Canada - it’s a part of its identity.

Redefining freedom as “forcing something on people for their own good” is not how anyone actually defines freedom.

It’s like saying children have the most freedom because their parents force them to do things that will benefit them.
That’s a feature.
Right, but we're not talking about "Europe", we're talking about each individual country. I don't think it's reasonable to say that France, for example, is more culturally diverse than the US.

And the various countries in Europe do have different healthcare systems, sometimes significantly different.
I think I'm more interested to know if the fluoride also helps keeps bacteria down in the water. That is, if it's doing anything useful other than dealing with teeth.

A quick search didn't seem to turn up anything related, so maybe not (the concentrations might be too low to be relevant)?
My understanding: Denmark would face the US without NATO support in this scenario, though likely with NATO allies but outside of the NATO framework. Won’t happen, but such rhetoric constitutes legal justification for war. Just highlighting the severity - any other world leader making similar threats would trigger international crisis. Trump’s statements continue to be normalized despite their gravity.
even despite the white house showroom ad, no less
It’s all downhill from here.
Sounds like this might make for an excellent general SQL lint tool. I thought sqlint[0] was this, but it’s more for syntax than semantics, it looks like.

[0]: https://github.com/purcell/sqlint
XPrivactLua and other XposedMod/Magisk extensions break open the app sandbox. It is better to restrict running those on usereng/eng builds (test devices). For prod builds (user devices), I'd recommend using Work Profiles (GrapheneOS supports upto 31 in parallel) or Private Spaces (on Android 15+) to truly isolate apps from one another.
As a new HN user, I find it is saturated with political interests, and it is distracting... Well ignore it then... Yes, that's why I avoid Reddit etc. I try to ignore not just political discussions, but the atmosphere that inevitably seem to form in such a space.

Doesn't matter what side,... An echo chamber is bad regardless. If I want one, I would go elsewhere. Perhaps there's an idea in this community that "we are better than the rest, and can carry out political discussions, because, after all, we are right in our opinions, and we only do it when 'necessary'".

Aren't there a solution, like create HN/pol... Or create a separate TLD for it.

If you are going to have political content, can't there be a way to filter it out?

I limit myself to analyze the political stuff for the sport of pointing out bad rethorics and such, not because I care about either side or any side, but for the sake of analysis.
Water treatment is usually done at the municipal or regional level. The state government is declaring that towns and cities may not do this. The alternative would be each and every municipal water authority deciding on its own.
> You stepped into my conversation with someone else

This is hacker news, that's the point of threaded conversation. I presented fine counterpoints to your arguments, and you failed to effectively engage them, instead moving to straw man arguments. There is a reason your post was flagged to death. This is the end of our conversation.
That depends on who "you" is. Quite a few people in Congress are ok with doing that, but not anywhere near enough to get anything passed. Look at the GOP side of the aisle and you'll essentially find no one willing to do that. Not to mention they are just simply ideologically opposed to the concept of government-provided universal health care.

And that, is the difficulty. Sure, I agree that it wouldn't be too logistically difficult to implement universal healthcare in the US. But that doesn't matter when more than half the country has been propaganda'd into not even wanting it in the first place.

Hell, I expect that there are a ton of Medicaid and Medicare recipients in the US who would tell you that they think government-provided, single-payer healthcare is a bad idea, when that's essentially what they have, to some degree.
> poor people aren't guaranteed to have a toothbrush, toothpaste

There is no person in the world who cannot have a toothbrush and toothpaste if they want to. And if you find one such person, they won't have access to any centrally treated water.
You're free to get your water straight from the ground, then.
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Stay at home. Don't by us. This is what me as a german will do.

I can't ditch goog or WhatsApp. The other apps I do not use. So, alternatives are less, but Europe will regulate it soon with TERIFFS tariffs so fearsome that you can't call them tariffs anymore, but rather terror-ifs. Tariffs on digital goods. Thank you Europe.
Agreed! If we went full latex, it could be make a two way like arxiv recently did with html5 rendering of latex
Raising Kids to Have an Analogue Childhood in a Digital World
without vulkan-capable gpu you still get 3D acceleration via wined3d. Unless you meant, without any gpu at all :s
The US has made itself an enemy of open research and the scientific community, and the article prior to the point you quoted actually does a good job in outlining why people feel that way.

Typical negotiations don't look anything like the policies they're inacting, not like retracting research or cancelling funding on the basis of including keywords that the party deems problematic (regardless of actual content), and certainly not like threats of annexation or extra-judicial disappearances if students writing political pieces in their college magazines.

It is a bold statement and it does sound dramatic, but it's still probably an understatement if you look at what has been happening. It's honestly dumbfounding to continue to see people defending this as in any way normal.
How is fluoridating water better than giving out free toothpaste and toothbrushes? Has the latter been tried?

"Not keeping people trapped in poverty" would be nice too but for some reason that one seems off the table.
> It is pretty baffling that Apple would create a PR vehicle that impugns its products like this.

I'm struggling to see any of this, frankly. Of course apple uses non-apple software. It'd be pretty weird if they didn't.

All this marketing bullshit reinforces the value of refusing to engage with marketing. What a massive waste of time and effort for all societies and cultures involved.
"xAI is a privately held company and is not publicly traded, therefore investing in xAI pre-IPO is only available to accredited investors."

Source: https://forgeglobal.com/xai_ipo/
Sidenote : i found this code quite readable. I'm usually reading Rust code here on HN that's full of weird lifetime annotations or Dyn or super long generic types. As a non-rust dev this freaked me out.

How common is this kind of code in practice ?
Seems fine by me
What hardware isn't compatible?
I suppose this is a new project. I am always turned off by projects, of this sort, that on day one start to push monetization, and this blatantly. If you are here for the long run why not build some goodwill first instead of immediately going for a quick buck?
This was as I remember under development at the time. However, if working on bounded memory on communication buffers it, without remembering all the details, it was a pain not because of XSLT but mostly its interactions with XPATH. I was at the time formally looking into hedge grammars and visibly pushdown automata as formal basis, but to me it seemed at the time, that formal complexity was unnecessarily pushed beyond what was straightforward feasible. As I said it was about transforming binary (intermediate) representations of XML. Use case was actually to build message middlewares/routers for IoT stuff at the time. IMHO also the picked binary XML standards where mostly the wrong choice for small embedded systems (interestingly MPEG 7 is btw one of the few standards that supports rather nice streaming binary XML. I think however it is only used in digital broadcasting)
A list of references for both sides of arguments.

Calgary removed fluoride from its water supply. A decade later, it's adding it back https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/nx-s1-5224138/calgary-removed...

Toxic Treatment: Fluoride's Transformation from Industrial Waste to Public Health Miracle https://origins.osu.edu/article/toxic-treatment-fluorides-tr...

Portland has a divisive relationship with water fluoridation https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-oregon-water-fluor...

Fluoride Exposure: Neurodevelopment and Cognition https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/assessments/noncancer/...

Effect of fluoridated water on intelligence in 10-12-year-old school children https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5285601/

A tale of two cities finds that community water fluoridation prevents caries https://adanews.ada.org/ada-news/2021/august/community-water...

Children exposed to higher fluoride levels have lower IQs, a government study finds https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/06/health/children-higher-fl...

DRAFT NTP Monograph on the State of the Science Concerning Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects: A Systematic Review https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/sites/default/files/ntp/about_ntp/...

The finding’s of the NTP’s 6-year fluoride neurotoxicity evaluation https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/sites/default/files/ntp/about_ntp/...

Fluoridation cessation and children's dental caries: A 7-year follow-up evaluation of Grade 2 schoolchildren in Calgary and Edmonton, Canada https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34309045/#:%7E:text=Results:....

Toxicity of fluoride: critical evaluation of evidence for human developmental neurotoxicity in epidemiological studies, animal experiments and in vitro analyses https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7261729/

Low-to-moderate fluoride exposure in relation to overweight and obesity among school-age children in China https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31509932/

What happens when you remove fluoride from tap water? https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324086

Buffalo poised to resume fluoridation of city’s water supply https://adanews.ada.org/ada-news/2024/january/buffalo-poised...
> Regarding #3, you can already do this with Jinja2 template functions perfectly well. You can also do it with template tags, but it isnt as nice.

This is exactly the problem tho. Every Django solution is "install this thing that replaces or adds a component that should be standard". People adopt frameworks to help them stay on track, not because they want to immediately install 5-10 packages just to correct the framework. Not to mention this just creates a big split when every project will be very different.
That is a disturbing length of time to spend on LinkedIn.
Next time that happens, search "vcredist aio". I can't endorse any of the scripts that are out there but there are many scripts that will pull them from Microsoft and install them all with the unattended flag.
WSL1, WSL2 is Hyper-V virtualization.
These are however the same on Linux - mesa may change, but what the app uses is OpenGL and GLX. A more modern app might use EGL instead of GLX, or have switched to Vulkan, but that doesn't break old code.

You can also run an old mesa from the time the app was built if it supports your newer hardware, but I'd rather consider that to be part of the platform the same way you'd consider the DirectX libraries to be part of windows.
> I hope that picture of reality stays in Black Mirror.

Hasn't the Secretary of State said that several hundred people have already been targeted this way? This picture of reality is already real life for many people, their colleagues and their families.
A problem for RISC-V is going to be that there's currently no way for user code to detect the presence of RVV. I have no idea how you can do multiversioning with that limitation.
This is a wonderful idea. I have some doubts, though. It might not provide a seamless experience.

Just transforming Windows syscalls into Linux syscalls is not enough. There should be some form of emulation involved.

Many apps, like games are using hardware, that means some additional layers of emulation.

>Imagine we made a new Linux distro. This distro would provide a desktop environment that looks close enough to Windows that a Windows user could use it without training. You could install and run Windows applications exactly as you do on Windows; no extra work needed.

I a rough user experience, some loss of performance and many bugs.

But I hope I am wrong, because the idea sounds really promising.
Should we not treat water at all? Should we instead all like off ground water or rivers and lakes?
This is just an ontological issue. Is it a standard because it is designed to be one, or is it only a standard once it actually fulfills its role and is recognized as a standard? That's something we could debate all night. :)
Do you use CD drive emulation with wine?
I dunno, I haven't reverse engineered it to find the URL. But I would imagine it gets confused about authentication.