skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed specifically with undergraduate physics courses that the textbook will usually get bundled with the online homework service that the school is using, and that part you're required to purchase if you want to do your homework.

Nowadays though, if a professor states that a textbook is required and there's no online service involved, 80% of the time the professor is exaggerating and probably hasn't even read the book themselves. The other 20% of the time, students will generally just find the pdf for free online somewhere (As a CS student, I tend to find my books on GitHub).

I know I'm digressing from what you asked a bit here, but I just really need to take a moment to highlight that the textbooks that are "required" today are not nearly as good as the textbooks you likely went to school with (I'm making a bit of an assumption about the era of your schooling here, so correct me if you only just recently graduated). There are way to many instances of some no-name authors getting the shot at publishing with O'Reilly or Pearson. The content will be mostly correct, but they're never truly illuminating.
Dang's comment was rebuking the comment rebuking yours..
United Healthcare had a 6% profit margin last year. They spend something like 85% of revenue on medical care. Health insurance is one of the most regulated industries in the country. What is your proposed change to fix healthcare in the US?

A lot of people's understanding of the American health insurance system is closer to one of the "lunatic ones".
I'm a big fan of air filters and have many in my own home that have made a big difference in quality of life as I live in a high pollen area. They can help with a lot more irritants as well that some students may be sensitive to (i.e., some students may study better if their immune system isn't in overdrive for half the school year like mine was). I'm not sure how these would help with natural gas though. I can't read the article due to paywall. Some VOCs can be filtered out (at least I think) with a baking soda filter ...those have to be changed more often than the HEPA filters (at least on my model that has one). Again, that should help with some scents (a major issue for me - even the dishwasher running can cause problems for me), but it isn't going to help if there is a gas leak (not sure if that is what the article is suggesting).
I've been polishing up an old project that allows people to play games on Discord, e.g. Pokemon, via text chat

I'd love to make this a free/break-even service at some point!

https://github.com/shepherdjerred/discord-plays-pokemon
This would be solved with encrypted messages. I'm sure dansup can figure this one out, we just need keypairs at the user level.
This is how Proton from Steam works
Executive order vs. legislation is a meaningless distinction to most people. What most people care about is what they or someone else can get in trouble for and what consequences they will face, and more generally just how good they perceive their life to be. It's like trying to distinguish between two diseases with long latinate names; what matters is how sick you feel and what treatment will stop it.

Insofar as people do care, I think many people actually prefer executive order-style action because they perceive it as swifter, more direct, and less tied up in debate, dithering, and red tape.

But mostly what people care about is just "are things happening the way I want them to happen". If yes, they won't care about the mechanism that produced that; if no, they will blame whoever they perceive to be responsible, whether or not they actually are.
I know the URLs are long compared to what people are used to. Part of the rationale for putting this out there in the current state is I'm curious if people in practise will share long URLs or not.

At some point I'd like to add shortlinks but at the moment everything is clientside, there's no persistence at all (beyond localStorage). I think that's a nice feature from a security perspective.
I made an RSS reader. I have an idea for an infinite canvas dashboard that I meant to use for various things other than RSS because I wanted something to put on my touchscreen portable monitor and projector.

I tried to make the dashboard experience really seamless and even used a physics engine in there. I think I did achieve this though, but I ended up spending more time on the UI than the dashboard contents. IMO infinite canvas UIs are not utilized enough.

Try it out and tell me what you think. Currently, it only shows what I put up there.

https://nitbit.dev/zoopboard
only ycombinator would have a hard time with the concept of 'open the window' and instead expect a capital installment of $2B to retrofit classrooms
You really want 6e or 7 these days so you can shift to 6GHz. There are many more channels available, adoption is limited so there's less congestion and the signal attenuates more quickly and has higher free-space path loss as well. Sounds like you may already know all that but for anyone thinking about investing in an upgrade, the reasons listed above are why you'd want to invest in the latest tech.
Working on Blockchain Node Infrastructure as a Service. Launched the MVP a few days ago: https://www.bithub.com
He was already ineligible this election based on the 14th amendment, but SCOTUS bailed him out.
I don't understand. This is literally what people voted for, isn't it?
For me, it was the assertion of presidential immunity that lost my trust.
It's all pretty cooked. It's honestly stunning to see how these cult-like followers have allowed themselves to be completely oblivious to what's going on.

From an outsiders perspective, it's wild. But at the same time, there were many warnings.
The "official" packages seems derived from the Nix build for Obsidian, which is using binary caches to get the Obsidian binary is what I could understand.
Are there settings you can apply to Signal that make them compatible with record retention laws?
But why use AI? Why not just write your own response?
Pick any thread that features discussion of moderation on Twitter or Facebook and peruse at your leisure. To summarize: HN has a very vocal cohort that cosplay Thurgood Marshal whenever content moderation on major social media platforms comes up for discussion. The dual irony that these are entirely privately owned non-public spaces and that moderation isn't being performed by government agents is generally lost on these champions of the First Amendment.
He was ineligible this time based on the 14th amendment, but SCOTUS told Colorado they couldn't keep him off the ballot.
Thankfully elections in the US are not run by the federal government, they're run separately in every state. Trump may be able to illegally get on the ballot in some states with the support of friendly state governments but he definitely won't get on all of them.

Even seemingly-friendly southern states may have state governments that will take a dim view of Trump attempting to get on the ballot. Kentucky, for example, has a Democrat as governor who is very popular. Kentucky has also had its bourbon industry devastated by Trump's senseless trade war. I would be shocked if Trump managed to illegally get on the ballot in Kentucky in 2028.
Microsoft turns 50: Four employees recall their early years
I didn't see any "online outrage" from Brian here, just a sadly sober listing of all the direct attacks on the first amendment, with sources and explanation.

Heck, it's not even political despite the screeching to the contrary.

You're right that action must be taken too, but action does require an understanding of the battlefield one is entering.
wait so if you have 10k followers you’re proposing to encrypt every post 10k times? (we’re talking about posts not DMs)
We’re a long way from that:

1. He’ll have to change some rules to run again. There will be a lot of resistance.

2. Midterm elections (November of 2026) could take away majorities in the house and the senate, and hopefully bring impeachment back into the picture.

3. There are special elections next Tuesday - 2 house seats in Florida and a Supreme Court justice in Wisconsin. It’s encouraging that Republicans are worried about these, the apartheid billionaire is spraying money all over Wisconsin.

Yes it’s dark and depressing, but things can be changed long before the next Presidential election.
Fix for Missing custom models bug in Open WebUI
Read more in the blog post, it is applicable if you use OpenRouter.
Some insurance claims get denied, but plenty of them are approved. It might surprise you to learn that most Americans are satisfied with their health insurance: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/us/elections/health-insur...

If health insurance is as bad as you say, why aren't people just cancelling their plans and paying for everything out of pocket?
Yes but we've also had ten years of flooding the zone. I am inclined to believe this is the latter. He will get everything he needs from this term - primarily an escape from his Jan 6 and classified documents charges.
Correct me if I'm wrong but zipping it would mean it would be encoded in a way that wouldn't be usable as a URL. The state is currently compressed and URL encoded via lz-string fwiw/in case you're curious.
Can you share more info on the LoRa hardware you've chosen and why?
Introducing the 2025 cast of LTYM Boulder!
Oh! This is about posts! Sure, otherwise it's not private really.
I'm not really convinced more than a vanishingly small percentage of people who self identify as "free speech absolutists" are using that term in good faith. Freedom of speech is just the easiest way to have plausible deniability when directly or indirectly defending otherwise indefensible positions.

Anecdotally I've noticed these sorts of people much less often, at least on here as of late. Methinks their deniability isn't so plausible any more.
Nothing in this article actually makes a case for infringing upon the first amendment.

"...But barely two months into his second term, the president has waged an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment rights of journalists, students, universities, government workers, lawyers and judges."

Should journalists who make a career destroying lives with false narratives not have consequences?

Should students who hate America be allowed to study here?

Should employees who don't work be fired?

Should we hinder innovation and progress with frivolous lawsuits?

If it is within the legal framework to impeach a judge, why can't the president call for it, but other elected officials can call for his impeachment?

You can't deny this has been the most effective first 100 days in decades. That upsets you. This is what we voted for.

The winning will continue.

-2008: Obama
-2012: Obama
-2016: Hillary
-2020: Biden
-2024: Trump
Not as much as their immune systems haven't been around very long and seen as many diseases.
Let's accept everything you just said as true on its face. Your now presenting masked thugs shoving people in the back of unmarked vans for their Facebook posts as an acceptable response to getting banned from Facebook.

One of these things is not like the other.
This is exactly what Comcast does with their Xfinity service if you use one of their devices.
"Trump claims they selectively edited an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris prior to the 2024 election"

Wasn't the full video released and it established that they did edit the video? The article is making it sound like they are being forced to settle a false allegation?

edit: the response was edited, not just the video. details: https://x.com/i/grok/share/KODjBWCrzF8oPmKyPCFuVj1c7
Yes I think many Americans don’t our government is what makes us special and would rather put their religious interests ahead of congressional law.
Good job, you found one. Here’s a hint: you’ll find the same not only for heather other publicly-traded media companies, but almost every publicly-traded company. (If you want to go full lunatic, look up Cede & Co.)

The problem with the original assertion is that most media outlets, including an overwhelming majority of newspapers, are privately owned. Notoriously, among the biggest ones, by billionaires.
They could pull a Trump v. Anderson, and say neither courts nor states can't keep him off the ballot - only the people, the College, or the Congress can stop it.
> to differentiate between crash and normal shutdown

> Any resource shared between programs might have a protocol that needs to be followed which the operating system might not do for you.

Run far and quickly from any software that attempts to do this. It’s a sure fire indication of fragile code. At best such things should be restricted to optimizing performance maybe if it doesn’t risk correctness. But it’s better to just not make any assumptions about reliable delivery indicating graceful shutdown or lack of signal indicating crash.

> In short, until there is a model that can reasonably explain why memory and other resources can be homogenized into one model without issue, I believe it's best to accept the special treatment.

C++ and Rust do provide compelling reasons why memory is no different from other resources. I think the counter is the better position - you have to prove that a memory resource is really different for the purposes of resource management than anything else. You can easily demonstrate why network and files probably should have different APIs (drastically different latencies, different properties to configure etc). That’s why network file systems generally have such poor performance - the as-if pretension sacrifices a lot of performance.

The main argument tracing GC basically makes is that it’s ok to be geeedy and wasteful with RAM because there’s so much of it that retaining it extra is a better tradeoff. Similarly it argues that the cycles taken by GC and random variable length pauses it often generates don’t matter most of the time. The counter is that while it probably doesn’t matter in the P90 case, it does matter when everyone takes this attitude and P95+ latencies (depending on how many services are between you and the user you’d be surprised how many 9s of good latency your services have to achieve for the eyeball user to observe an overall good P90 score).

> For example, it is reasonable to assume that a file has a limited size. Imagine you're doing a "read_all" on some video-feed because /dev/camera was the handle you've been given. I'm sure that would blow up the program.

Right, which is one of many reasons why you shouldn’t ever assume files you’re given are finite length. You could be passed stdin too. Of course you can make simplifications in cases, but that requires domain-specific knowledge, something tracing GCs do not have because they’re agnostic to use case.
For a long time I used an app called Slowtube to practice guitar.
I recently built my own version with features I always wanted like the ability to save sections of songs for future practice, search YouTube (instead of copying links), and provide cross device synchronization.
I’m using it daily for practice now and after a bit of polish I plan to put it up on my website
SCOTUS didn't allow Colorado to remove him from the ballot this time, what makes you think they won't do the same next time?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43465278

This may be fake, but as somebody who went to a school that took academic rigor very seriously, I'm confident that my degree is the most valuable thing I own. Recruiters from both startups and entrenched companies are constantly reinforcing that belief.

The market for degrees may be pretty skewed, but that doesn't mean it's not a real market with supply/demand dynamics
Was reminded of that too (currently re-reading another classic Heinlein) but if they were going for that, you'd think they would have stuck with "of" rather than "on"

Podkayne of Mars is often taken to be one of Heinlein's juvenile novels (based on the story) but that was not his intent, and he said the "moral" was aimed at adults.
Yeah it's compressed and encoded with `lz-string` but I know it's hideous - I'm curious if that will prove a practical problem for adoption, even if a technical crowd isn't fond of the choice. Surprisingly most messaging apps you paste urls into these days don't show the whole thing anyway - when you paste it'll transform the link into a small preview card with just the domain portion of the URL visible.
in my opinion the actual solution is mastodon should stop pretending that private accounts are a thing when it is just UI fairy dust
Thanks for the feedback, a notes section is a great idea!
Even if the editors are objective, doesn't mean that their work doesn't create bias.

Say StdA and StdB are competing for wider adoption. A Corp. can pay for an editor to create a comprehensive article on their standard which, even if it's objective, can influence more people into adopting the better documented option.

Of course, this can happen even without paid editors being involved, and there's nothing stopping B Corp. from doing the same, but I just wanted to point out that avoiding bias might not be always easy.
There’s 3 soldiers arrested this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LOP645eW-M
Even “friendly” and “allied” nations spy on each other.
> A bunch of papers related to the JFK assassination that say Lee Harvey Oswald did it and acted alone. Who cares?

That's not what people are concluding in the information spaces I'm in at all. Many of the CIA documents show highly suspicious travel, activities, and statements, particularly for James Angleton, William King Harvey, and a few others who's names escape me. They lend credence to the theory that Allen Dulles possibly conspired to kill JFK, putting into action henchmen of his still at the CIA after he was fired. You should care if the unelected bureaucrats that run our global intelligence agency can act with such impunity that they can murder a sitting President and cover it up for decades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1bbdOgIzrI

We had a Senator say on mainstream news "the intelligence community has 6 ways to get back at you" (in reference to Trump having an antagonistic relationship with the intel community) and nobody batted an eye. Why the fuck would it ever be ok for the CIA to have ways to "get back at" the Commander-in-Chief? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OYyXv2l4-I
I wouldn't call it an entirely new distro. It's just an Fedora image bundled with the necessary changes to create the UX. It doesn't provide its own software repositories. It's more like an unofficial Fedora Spin.
Haha thank you, I was amazed the domain was available! And yeah jumping through hoops just to get to the invoice generator is something that frustrated me with existing alternatives, so dumping the user straight into it was one of the foremost decisions the design centered around.
It started with the Free Palestine protesters. Tesla protesters are next. Citizens will be shipped to El Salvador, non-citizens to where they came from.
One should remain curious and improve.
It's a great point. But then the other side of the equation is, when the providers charge too much and the insurance won't approve, or later (months later) decided they weren't paying and now there's a bill, then guess who gets the surprise in the mail. It's the customer, the patient, who has to mediate between these kafkaesque entities.

If insurance fought behind the scenes with each provider instead of blaming the patient, maybe they wouldn't be viewed as the bad guys so much.

The health care system - insurance and provider - needs a centralized perspective rather than attacking this or that piece of it. That's also how reform should happen - no one wants to hear it, but it has to be planned centrally or at least a central authority should expand the legal guard rails. It already exists with Medicare, why not expand on that idea and cover more ages?
Anecdote: Our daycare was a plague ship right after covid 'ended'. None of the kids had any immunities, and they made up for it in a hurry. Man, what a terrible year.

As a result, the daycare got a grant to get N-95 air filters installed and those UV lights that Chinese restaurants tend to have in the bathrooms. One per room.

What. A. Difference.

The infants and kids coming up are not nearly as sick, and when they do get sick, it's not nearly as terrible. The RSV vaccine has also been a godsend.

I can't really tell/feel what what the silver bullet here, but the combinations have been amazing. So much so that we got them for the house.
The US Government has checks and balances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers#Checks_an...
The "nothing ever changes" heuristic fails catastrophically on occasion. It's better to be prepared.
I'm building v2 of MyNixOS, which is an experimental platform to help users navigate, create, and run software configurations using Nix/NixOS.

Just shipped the first phase of v2 which lets you navigate Nix store objects.

Give it a spin here: https://v2.mynixos.com/nix/store/16s8kjwv6zz7xyv3hjr890n7v0d...

(Adjust settings in the upper right corner menu to control what is streamed).

More info here and in FAQ on front page: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/mynixos-v2-release-updates/622...
I'm working on a calorie & macro tracker called FitBee. Tracking my food has been tremendously helpful in terms of improving my health, but it's always been kind of a PITA. These past couple of months have been really exciting as I'm leaning into using AI to make it less of a hassle to track & provide more insights.

https://fitbee.app
Science succeeds when people lean towards the side of cynicism instead of optimism. Scientific research should be read critically.
how do you feel about Talespire? it allows pretty fast on-the-fly map-making as long you’re not dealing with significant vertical distances, although it’s got very little in common with LambdaMOO. but MUDs generally seem to be MMRPG precursors at this point, unless there’s an underground community I’m unaware of.
If we wanted to digitize all ancient texts, what would it take? How many are there? Starting at the beginning of written history ~5,200 years ago to ~2,000 years ago, how many texts do we have from each millenia or century? Are they accessible to be digitized?

What about earlier symbols and similar potential communication? For example, caves sometimes have marks that seems to have some symbolic meaning, such as slashes that seem like counts. How many are there to digitize?

I'm curious about the scale of it.
> Similarly, expanding executive powers benefits whoever has the position, not just the guy who is in there right now.

That is why they are doing their level best to make sure there is no chance they will ever lose the position.

The attacks on freedom of speech are part of it. So are the attacks on voting rights, and the attacks on the legitimacy of voting results.
Some discussion (57 points, 1 day ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43519379

Related:

Oracle customers confirm data stolen in alleged cloud breach is valid (337 points, 4 days ago, 81 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43486945

Hack: 6M Records for Sale Exfiltrated from Oracle Cloud Affecting 140k+ Tenants (39 points, 8 days ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43449721
It looks nice at a glance, but there's just no way I can justify $15/mth for the few times a year I need to send an invoice. If https://bestfreeinvoice.com gains some amount of traction I'd love to extend the feature set to justify a paid tier, but the basic experience (i.e. what's currently live) will always be free and genuinely useful.
Show HN: Cache for S3
What a great idea, I will soon be a paying customer. This solves a problem of an app I'm using that I was hesitant to try to develop myself.
Au contraire, the vast majority of normies are married to the internet via TikTok and Instagram, the difference is the schizo knows it. The divisive hyperbole is my own dramatic flair bc of my own frustration with the issue, not a conspiracy to divide.