skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All texts combined for one of my courses is between $35-$100 and they still don’t buy them

I don't think I understand. Are students expected to pay north of $100 per course for textbooks?

If this is the cheap one, how much are the expensive ones? Why is this not bundled up with the tuition fees or why are the textbooks not borrowed from a common library that all students can use?
We basically look for this: https://docs.flutter.dev/app-architecture/guide

It's similar across all mobile platforms. People call it MVVM, Bloc, MVP, etc. But we want to see the pattern of UI-repo-service and unidirectional data flow. This is three layers and it can be as little as 3 files. If someone can grasp that, it's good enough.

There's not a lot of ways you can screw up hiring mobile devs; most skills are trainable. But this is what costs months. One guy once looped the viewmodel inside another viewmodel because he was using them as the data store and observable. He was let go but it took 2 years to remove everything he did from production even though he worked there for 3 months and most of it was via rewriting entire blocks of code.

We watch for overengineering and perfectionism. Some people insist on more blocks or splitting it into modules. But can they do that in 4 hours?

AI can write all of it easy enough, but it's just a 2-3x multiplier. Some assume it's an infinite multiplier and they can just subscribe to Cursor on the spot and it'll be done in a blink. But do the parts connect in the order given above?

Also Wordle is not ideal for architecture, but it's good enough. It requires a solid understanding of the top level of things, and connection to the data layer. What if we switched the word source from the dictionary to the API? That's a bit more of an advanced test.

An even more advanced test would be structuring it for TDD, which would need understanding of DI, factories, tests and gotchas, etc. I don't think this is doable even with AI yet though.

As a UI test, Wordle is pretty good because you have all your logic and variables on one layer and display it via a different, more complex layer.
I've been working since November on an integration between a Quest VR app called Fluid, and MacOS and Windows hosts. The app itself is called Fluid Link, launched just after new years, and has been rolled into official Fluid offerings. It supports full desktop and individual window streaming into the Quest app, shared keyboard and mouse control, and unlike competitor apps also supports multiple hosts and cross platform clipboard sync.

Fluid's website is https://fluid.so and Fluid Link is available for download at https://fluid.so/fluid-link

Fluid is currently free (until tomorrow?) and Fluid Link is free to try up to 15 minutes at a time, with no restrictions on functionality. There's a discord server and in-app support chat for support questions, and videos demonstrating Installation and usage on YouTube.
A revolutionary product to disrupt sustainable agriculture.
I need to buckle down and watch a YouTube video on this that gives examples. It obviously comes up in computer engineering all the time, but it's something I've been able to skate by without fully understanding; from time to time I see comments like this one that seem perfectly clear, but I'm sure there's still quite a lot of nuance that I could benefit from learning.
Sure, they "disappeared" him, then forced the University to take down his profile, email address, and office phone. Having scrubbed him from the faculty listing index, he has effectively been removed from history. He's a ghost. Never mind this Ars Technica article, or all of the other information about him on the web. I mean, I get all my news from university phone directories, how about you?
I've been working on a decentralized group chat called River[1], which will be the first truly decentralized group chat and the flagship application on Freenet[1], a general purpose platform for decentralized apps.

Just 2 or 3 bugs remaining before people can start playing with both River and Freenet which hopefully means we're days away (touch wood).

[1] https://github.com/freenet/river
[2] https://freenet.org/
Politics is, to a great extent, a consequence of social interactions such as on HN. HN is a community of relatively wealthy, well-educated, and influential people - not often the most influential, but people who are hardly powerless.
Committed some heresy last week while testing OpenBSD 7.7-beta snapshots on an Apple M1 MacBook Air.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brynet_openbsd-activity-73074...

https://bsky.app/profile/brynet.ca/post/3lklnbwihpk2d
As a college student, feel like I haven’t met any college student with “all the time in the world” as the people say we have lol. Most of my friends who graduated feel like they have more free time after graduating than in college
On xss.is they have a whole forum for Delphi, I guess for this reason. But I say that's not obscure enough. For awhile, my cr3w wrote our malware in Hoon to avoid detection, but that's too mainstream now. So we mostly use Sire, the assembly language for Plunder (this one: https://gist.github.com/wicrum-wicrun/b308b298721ccbe0de9c6c...)

/s
Just shipped my first film for a client's auction gala that was received with high praise! Now itching for more video production. We overproduced it with 4k drone footage, multiple multicam interviews, and I got some incredible b-roll.

So fun!
Popular diabetes medication significantly slows down aging
April Fools joke/release for my test prep business https://crucialexams.com/.

Hoping it will get some viral sharing and lead to some good quality backlinks.
I find that this is always easy to say from the perspective of the security team. Sure, it would be more secure to develop like that, but also tons more painful for both dev and user.
> Students never get a 20/20. A good grade is a 16/20!

This right here I think is a huge factor. Pretty much every top student in my college classes and highschool were essentially just testbots optimizing for maxing out quiz and exams grades. They barely even grasped the material, they just pestered the teachers into telling the class what types of questions would be on the exams, memorized the formulas, and bitched incessantly when it wasn't 1:1 with what they were given. Professors also have to be super careful about what is on the exam because top grade being a 16/20 means the entire class is failing. The whole education system needs to be reworked to punish this kind of optimization that doesn't even reward knowing the material.
So you teach something that doesn’t involve any writing? Or you have absurdly high-performing students.

Kids are absolutely illiterate, now, and it has nothing to do with “transactional” anything (witness the fact that the article says they’ve been transactional for this professor’s entire career and you didn’t notice).

You can argue it doesn’t matter and reading is dumb now that we have TikTok, but there’s no objective way to say that kids are currently reading and writing at grade standards at any level of school.
I personally find it nicer than that obtuse Chrome approach that is now versioned in the hundreds.

Perhaps it is nostalgia, but things were nicer when they had sane release numbers.
So there was no warning on how destructive that command was?

This is exactly why LLMs can easily generate absolutely plausible looking outputs and without checking exactly what it is doing it can lead to costly problems.

Imagine all the mess the "vibe-coding" movement is about to create when they start to deploy their code into production without caring for robustness and the quality of their software, because an LLM spat out unchecked rubbish code.

This won't be the last time this happens.
Yes. We're _already_ launching nuclear waste into space, in the form of RTGs with Pu-238. So there's been a lot of work towards making them passively safe, although the weight constraints for deep-space craft necessarily limit the amount of achievable safety.

> Even if a capsule could survive reentry, surely it wouldn't survive impact.

It'll be moving at a terminal velocity, and can be engineered to not fragment on impact.

For example, I remember reading about a proposal to alloy the nuclear waste elements with a carrier metal like iron or nickel, and then cover them in an ablative graphite shell.
Another great reason to derisk from US-based products
A molecular viewer and docking tool.
Two weeks isn't much. The government could have been working on this issue and talking to the university for much longer than two weeks.
One would hope that a protocol designed in 2018 would have more security than email.
The idea that something is "supposed to" happen is a normative statement. But the idea that we aren't "supposed to" do anything is also normative, and is therefore self-contradictory. Any proposition that we are supposed to do one thing or another is not necessarily correct, but at least it is self consistent.
Yeah, it does! You probably need Rosetta 2 installed first though.
Could bankrolling cryptocoin and AI businesses ever cause people to lose their freedom?

Asking for a friend
> Nor would it be surprising if he was a "spy" or even a double agent.

It would be very surprising. How many spies and 'double agents' are there?
How do you know? Do we have a complete list of the people shipped to Guatemala? Or Gitmo?

The government is blowing off judicial orders. Thats a crime. One you start down that path, you tend to keep going.
Smartphones are easy to blame, but they aren't the core of the problem. They're not just a thing used in the US, but across the world and we don't see the same problems in say, European school systems. The actual issue is multifaceted:

1) Parents in the US are overworked, underpaid and (increasingly) unable to participate in the lives of their children. It should come as zero surprise then that phones are used as a way to get kids out of their hair. If you don't fix this problem then banning phones entirely won't matter, because parents will yell, scream and quite literally assault your schools for taking away phones from their kids.

2) Our K-12 educational system is broken. Kids are graduating with lower literacy rates than ever. College is functioning less as higher education and more like remedial programs, having to teach basic topics that should've been covered as part of the core curriculum.

3) Teachers are also underpaid, overworked and having to deal with the deficiencies in parenting as well as the advent of AI making cheating significantly easier and harder to detect.

These three factors all compound to create a whole generation that we're effectively failing. And given the attacks/teardown of college as an institution, I fear we're going to have our own version of the 'lost generation' until people get angry enough to fix it or our business capabilities collapse.
> Even the most egregious cases, which are very bad, have left a paper trail for lawyers and journalists to follow

From what I've seen, it mainly comes to public attention through family, or in a few cases, bystanders recording videos of the incident. It seems like families ask the authorities where their loved ones have gone and they don't get answers. There have been reports of people only knowing based on press photos of people sent to Guantanamo or El Salvador.

If someone doesn't have a lot of local family it seems easy for it not to be reported anywhere.
Then don't put "upload your Amazon order history zip file" under the button?

I'm not going to take the time to test if the instructions on your website are actually lies, but it's good to know that they are, I guess.
> My money is on it being related to BL32s and not to FP8s. But we’ll see.

Googling gave me an idea of what FP8 might mean (8-bit floating point format?), but didn't immediately help with BL32 (unless it is a reference to an air blower, which seems unlikely). Could you explain?
I mean, solar day is 24h, it's the sidereal day that's 23.9344696h
I tried a factory reset, and was able to configure bridge mode via ethernet.
In the logic of empire, the overlord just needs to pick someone and eliminate the competitors. It's best if they have some popular support but not necessary. I am sure there are some networks with titular heads that can be utilized.
Paper: https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(24)00914-0 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.08.021
Since you know it's not ai written, and very unlikely AI influenced, you are saying you can't distinguish the two. Im not claiming I can.
>EARLY ACCESS Ebook, $79.99

Oh, come on now! Or all these NoStarch books ludicrously over-priced?
>He’s a tenured professor and already has permanent residency at the very least. He is most likely a US citizen.

The current administration have proven they do not care about any of these things. Even natural born citizens are now under threat.
A team of researchers and I are building a data visualization tool to help understand the impact of proposed NIH cuts:

https://scienceimpacts.org/

Pretty fun to see how easy it is to put together a decent website on a shoestring budget (R2 hosting, all react frontend)
Oka.wiki
The Wikimedia Foundation (which runs Wikipedia) does not directly pay editors for content. oka.wiki is a non-profit organization that funds editors, mostly to translate articles.

Their top 3 articles in English:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsala_of_Wala_in_the_Nsongo_Di...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril_Society

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_and_anime_fandom_in_Pola...
On the contrary, there ended up being not much continuity between pre-Meiji Japan and Meiji Japan--the daimyo's domains were replaced with prefectures and the daimyo themselves were largely forcibly retired. This was intentional on the part of the Meiji oligarchy, in order to prevent the daimyo from retaining enough power to be able to rebel [1]. The Meiji Restoration was an enormous change in Japan's government, really from top to bottom.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_the_han_system
The Pu-238 in Rtgs is produced for the purpose, it isn't isolated from waste.

Of course it is more or less equivalent when it comes to handling.
Dunno. On the relatively clean Windows 11 on my laptop, on which I'd never run Teams before, I typed "tea" into the search box (no ENTER) and while it also offered to look up on the web about "Tea" it did show "Microsoft Teams (personal) (app) at the top right with a large, clickable icon.
The order of doing things while flying…

Arranging a reroute with ATC, explaining everything, adjusting the autopilot for the new route etc. Assessment time on what to do. Those in the back don’t need to know anything until those decisions are made and executed. It’s not like there’s a negotiation to be had!
> Maybe use "Load" and "Save" ...

Nowadays, perhaps "Open" is a better choice than "Load"
https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/recur
I have a TEFL certificate (Teacher of English as a Second Language) and I'm a native speaker and avid reader -- and this was the first time I ever encountered "rubber" as a synonym for "eraser". The benefit of the latter term is it's unambiguous and easily understood.
This. The rules got tightened right up when this happened, because regulators basically looked at it and went 'holy shit, what if that had been a passenger aircraft?'
Thanks! Yeah I'm very aware of Pyodide and interested in adopting some of their techniques.

A big difference between my approach and their approach is that Runno is generic across programming languages. Pyodide only works for Python (and can only work for Python).

Big interesting development in this space is the announcement of Endor at WASM IO which I'd like to try out: https://endor.dev/
Yeah, good example of the maximum entropy principle, [0] in which "the selected distribution is the one that makes the least claim to being informed beyond the stated prior data, that is to say the one that admits the most ignorance beyond the stated prior data", a.k.a. the most entropy. Occam's Razor must still be constrained to known facts, and you cannot construct a "simplest answer" out of data you simply do not have.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_maximum_entropy
Related:

What is metformin's secret sauce? (93 points, 3 months ago, 64 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42454934

Metformin decelerates aging clock in male monkeys (205 points, 7 months ago, 209 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41522931

Metformin shown to prevent long Covid (307 points, 2023, 177 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36350280

Metformin Promises to Extend Life for a Nickel a Pill (63 points, 2017, 48 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15098928
>Public healthcare is cost-gated though.

Ok, I see where the misunderstanding arose. Cost-gating in this context meant, to me, preventing access to healthcare based on if the individual can pay at point of service, not if the state program can pay to see people quickly or whatever. Apologies for not giving the best faith interpretation to your comment, but you can hopefully see why I misunderstood your use of the term.

Sure, as a byproduct of systematically underfunded social health programs, you see a similar effect in countries with social healthcare, but I refuted the importance of that point pretty completely by explaining the m.o of austerity politicians and worse than gilded-age levels of wealth inequality[0] as the sources of social healthcare systems' ails and the clear fact that it's still a much better system by any measure.

The outcomes are still better, cheaper, and more have access to healthcare. So, not really relevant to the point that public healthcare > privatized healthcare? The rest is semantic word games. We're talking about which system provides better outcomes to more people for less money. And there is no question as to the answer of that.

>Disinformation about the measles

Sure, I was unaware how severe the anti vaccination rhetoric has taken root in europe too. My tongue in cheek dig at measles being back in the US was not meant to be taken that seriously, but more like a "point and laugh at the us" addendum.

But you are right, though it's besides the point completely. That we're the only country suffering from anti vax idiots is incorrect, sure. But it is not even really part of the argument here, more just a dig on the US. Idk why that tiny part of the discussion was fixated on. Probably because it's the only point I wasn't correct about.

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/02/trump-musk...
likely yes?

I've never had problems with make versions specifically. Usually the project requires distro at most X years old because of gcc/clang version or shared library version. By the time you solve those, your make is new enough as well.
> What's your point equating welfare spending to healthcare spending?

I'm not equating the spending, only the costs.

> To suggest that we fund welfare more instead of putting more money in to healthcare?

I'm not suggesting that, I'm explaining what the cost of healthcare is in terms of another enormous government programe.

> Why??? Are you simply stating that giving x money to one social program is the same as giving x money to another?

No.

> What is your point, your policy proscription?

To try to give you some perspective about the enormous cost of universal healthcare.

> Giving $x to healthcare is almost always better than giving $x to welfare, as well funded universal healthcare reduces OOP costs for citizens, which reduces their need to consume other welfare services.[0,1]

Calm down and take a breath and try re-reading what I wrote in my first comment. It's extremely simple, maybe the fact I pointed out you were wrong about measles set you off badly. I'm not saying healthcare expenditure is bad or worse than other welfare or that America has a good healthcare system. I said that healthcare is cost gated in countries with universal healthcare systems. Which it is. In your hypothetical fairy land of unicorns and pixies where corporations and billionaires pay for everything, sure it's not cost gated, and neither is your government issued pony. But that is not an answer to my point that healthcare in countries with universal healthcare systems (and America, if it were to adopt one), is cost gated. Cost gated meaning people who need or want treatment will not be able to receive it in a timely manner in all cases.
> but then why did his students not know about it?

But the students do know. They are saying they can’t contact him, which is not the same as not knowing he’s on leave
This is a very Californian solution to the problem. Prediction: we’re going to see a lot more MRIs.
Fascism tends to pervert every institution it touches. What the FBI was before 2025 is no longer valid.
A lot of people live in countries that won't deport someone to the US for documenting a list of crimes against humanity performed by the US government.
I was "vibe coding" a rust project the other day and, working on tests, the LLM removed the safety function added to keep the thing from accidently nuking my system. The the test case was confidently resolved.
Except Jean Carroll? I feel like she'd disagree, being raped and him still being free and what-not.

Also, he has literally said he will ignore the courts. His administration already has with the deportations now. He has said that he will invade other countries. He has taken over power of the purse and nobody has stopped it. And he has congress, like Mike Johnson, saying they should dissolve the federal courts. He wields all enforcement arms of the government - what are they gonna do? Write another stern letter as his gestapo send them to El Salvador?
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/china-allegedly-has-two-...
I thought I'd never get addicted to my phone but here I am
the best use case for AI seems to be snapchat filters. great stuff
Nice work! Would totally have used this when I was freelancing. Honestly love the serif'd fonts, would love to see everything serif'd tbh.

Also back when I had to do these (I used Wave) having a notes section was very useful to include a few things (i.e. I used to include conversion rates). Would probably be pretty easy.
I think Windows is really best served by Microsoft technologies and Microsoft languages. If you want C, there is WSL.
There are plenty of historical exceptions if you're going to nitpick, quakerism didn't adopt its antislavery stance at its inception.
"We need to explain..."

From my own experience and that of fellow parents that I talked to, explanations will be dismissed outright by the all-knowing teenagers, and any attempt to have a rational conversation on the topic will fail. Just like any addict, kids will deny that they are addicted. I had to act once the smartphone addiction reached a disaster level. What worked the best for me was "no you cannot bring your phone to school or use it before the homework is done, that's my decision and I don't have to provide you with any explanation." Did this generate some resentment and a few tantrums? You bet, but I got the result I wanted, peace of mind and homework done on time.
I disagree with you.
Spare non-rechargeable lithium batteries are also forbidden in checked luggage[0]. AirTags are allowed because the battery is installed in a device, though Lufthansa briefly tried to argue otherwise after some bad press involving passengers finding their own lost bags[1].

[0] https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/lithium-batteries

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/lufthansa-awkwardly-...
I don’t see pricing on the website but the iOS app shows “In App purchases”. Is there a reason why you wouldn’t mention pricing on the website you linked?
This note has horrifying implications. Did the tooth fairy go spelunking in your stomach and/or intestine? Are they sieving your sewer pipes for teeth just in case?

They must really want those teeth bad.
Reminiscent of 'The Gods Themselves' by Isaac Asimov
Lots of blanks left in this story.

Hopefully in half a year this crops back up with more available then

And of course hoping everyone is safe and doing legal stuff