skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need to distinguish between classes of users, e.g. home consumers needing some basic editing features vs. a hollywood studio, and the spectrum in between.

I use KDENLive a lot and I find it to be an excellent product. Not perfect, but well thought out and powerful. Documentation I give a C grade too. It's awesome that some exists, but it tends to be outdated and frequently omits details about the specific thing needed. On Linux I do recommend using the App Image or Flatpak though as I have run into dependency issues (mainly codecs) when using system packages such as Fedora's.

For a typical user/consumer who just needs a video editor that can do more than just trivial cuts, I think it's an excellent option and it's the one I use and recommend to others. Unless you're looking to do advanced or highly complex products, it can do it all and in a fairly intuitive way. There are also youtube videos and such that demonstrate nearly everything you might need to do so there are plenty of available resources.
A suboptimal amount of would be engineers works for spyware companies I guess. And the mind share is with top of the pyramid financial engineering fluff not actually doing stuff.

When I worked with machine engineering there was this gloomy prospect of all these "lifers" who would reach retirement age some day and be replaced by an consultants burning out every 6 months.
You aren’t keeping up then. Remittances is a much smaller % of economy these days.
There's a difference between living with your family because you choose to, and being unable to afford to live on your own without your family's assistance.
No question, though I don't think I'm anywhere near ambitious enough to do that.

I might compile OpenOffice and see how well that stacks up nowadays.
It's pretty crazy how many new billionaires have been minted in Kerala.

https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/money/malayalis-make-in...
23andMe customers? This may be your last chance to protect your data
So... it winds up being good for the trees?
Your last sentence reminds me of the scene in Rick & Morty where Rick topples an alien galactic empire by devaluing its currency to nothing.
Really it can be whatever deal you work out. We don't really have laws preventing any sort of arrangement you might want to make.

>In the system I described, the person buying the property pays the seller an ongoing fee, and the seller continues to live there.

That's called a reverse mortgage in the US.
yes. currently covers the following
- C (.c)
- C++ (.cpp, .cc, .cxx, .h, .hpp, cpp)
- C# (.cs, cs)
- CSS (.css, .scss)
- Fortran (.f, .f90, .f95, .f03, f, f90, f95, f03)
- Go (.go, golang)
- HTML (.html, .htm)
- Java (.java)
- JavaScript (.js, js)
- JSON (.json)
- Markdown (.md, .mdx, md)
- Pascal (.pas, pas, .dpr, dpr, Delphi)
- PHP (.php)
- Python (.py)
- R (.r)
- Ruby (.rb)
- Rust (.rs, rs)
- Scala (.scala)
- SQL (.sql)
- Swift (.swift)
- TOML (.toml)
- TSX (.tsx)
- TypeScript (.ts, ts)
- XML (.xml)
- DTD (.dtd)
- YAML (.yaml, .yml)

you can see the code here
https://github.com/cocoindex-io/cocoindex/blob/ab9f286633e54...
dupes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43490371

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43494853
Ironically I opened the post, read the headlines, deemed it uninteresting and went along with other HN headlines.

edit: I think I read HN comments more than HN articles. Interesting
If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born
A dark space object can be seen when it passes between the observer and stars or other objects, so you need to match the spectrum behind you, which makes it a much harder problem!

Being very cold is good for long range stealth, but in low orbit the speeds are high enough that it doesn't help against a savvy adversary.
https://archive.is/h0XCM
<<After glowing reviews, I spent $200 to try it out for my research. It hallucinated 8 of 10 references on a couple of different engineeribg topics. For topics that are well established (literature search), it is useful, although o3-mini-high with web search worked even better for me. For truly frontier stuff, it is still a waste of time.>>

<<I've had the hallucination problem too, which renders it less than useful on any complex research project as far as I'm concerned.>>

These quotes are from the link you posted. There are a lot more.
There's a lot to this article, but one interpretation of it is that it is a story somewhat similar to China's— a history with communism and gradual opening-up to private capital and the global market. In the case of China, capital has entered due to its huge export market. In Kerala there seems to have been an important capital injection from remittances, and a growing tourism industry. The article summarizes it as such:

> In short ways, four forces of change – Kerala’s reintegration with the global economy, remittances from the Persian Gulf, strong welfare policies from a legacy of Leftist government, and private investment from individuals and businesses who shared the remittance flows – have combined to form the structure of Kerala’s miracle of human wellbeing with economic growth.
While I was working on this piece about using LLMs to migrate code https://glennengstrand.info/software/llm/migration/java/type... I experienced a first hand encounter of review fatigue. One of the lines of code in the middle of a LLM generated block was gibberish but not gibberish enough to be caught by the compiler. I study the code before accepting the change but just had a complete blind spot on that line. It was the linter that eventually caught it.
Nice !
I've a scrapper using XPath/XSLT extensively and 90% of the XPath selectors work like for years without a change.
With CSS selectors I've had more problems...
Getting police to act ethically is a non-trivial problem. In fact, it's been a society-defining problem since the beginning of society.
Ask HN: How do non-famous developers get invited to Lobsters?
Based on my experience so far with lobste.rs, its goal is to limit aggressively who can post there. Also, it seems that a lot of posters there are more or less famous software engineers.

That said, I'm wondering how people get invited if you don't personally know any of the members
A few months ago, for quite a few years, Siri (in the car) would respond correctly to "Play playlist <playlist name>". Now it interprets that as of about two months ago that it should play some songs of the genre (I have a playlist named "modern").

No idea what changed, but it sucks.
It's time to leave Substack (2024)
'What the hell is this stuff?': French people on the culture shock of flossing
I feel like the dems in the US (and many like them elsewhere in current times) struggle with purity politics whereby they either ditch those who could provide them vital support in their quest for purity on some fronts and espouse a pure stance on other fronts but drastically undermine that image.

It's hard to be the party that is aligned with opposing large capital in the public consciousness whilst at the same time bending over and pushing these purists out of the way for donations from said wealth.
A party with a subset of oppose police or wants to see it's role redefined with a kamala as a frontrunner.
A party that on occasion tries to make itself seen as having the stance and solution regarding things like housing but then not adequately doing so where they have an uncontested stronghold.

etc,etc
a neoliberal neoclassical puff piece on the only region in india ruled by the communist party? that's fresh
I recently had the pleasure of using XSLT after never having seen it before. I used it to transform a huge 130K line XML manifest with MAPI property metadata into C# source code. It was so simple, readable, and intuitive to use.
Uniqlo's selvedge jeans I've found are pretty good, although not button fly.
The largest coronal hole in years was streaming to Earth while the earthquake occurred. Link up of coronal hole with Earth’s geomagnetic system is associated with earthquakes. The storm was caused by charged particles from that stream.
You can probably use a BPF return override on fsync and fdatasync and sync_file_range, considering that the main use case of that feature is syscall-level error injection.

edit: Or, even easier, just use the pre-built fail_function infrastructure (with retval = 0 instead of an error): https://docs.kernel.org/fault-injection/fault-injection.html
If it doesn't already exist, it should be pretty simple to build the software so that a hobbyist can point a cheap camera at the road outside his window and record every license plate passing by.

You can ban cops from doing it, I guess, but I think someone will record all public spaces quite soon. I don't love it either...
...and this is why i always check the comments before clicking on the link to the article. thanks for taking one for the team!
Another factor is the apartment maintenance fees can be steep.
> while on USB-C the durable part is in the phone

the problem is, it can snap or be sheared off under unfortunate circumstances - say, someone laying their phone on their belly in bed, putting strain on the connector, a chonky cat deciding to jump down right onto the charger cable while the phone is plugged in, or someone dropping their phone while it's attached to a power bank.

With Lightning, it's a matter of removing the broken connector of the cable and that's it. With USB-C, you gotta replace the socket, tough luck on that given that these things generally don't come as single spare parts.

(IMHO, that is the next thing the EU should tackle - parts that often need to be replaced such as sockets and buttons should be mandated to be on a dedicated flex cable that can be easily replaced)
The Leyden team are looking to do exactly what you're looking for. There will be further JEPs.
In the Java sense, if you properly utilize JPMS, JLink can cut dead modules and reduce your image size drastically. This obviously of course like you said depends on how "open" your runtime model is. If you're not dynamically loading jars it works really well.
Can you even copyright an artistic style like that?

Man, no wonder no one trusts news anymore. Quality journalism is hard to find now a days :(
>I didn't say they needed violins of sympathy, but the majority of them are not the wealthy upper crust they are often perceived to be.

Sure early in their careers, just like every other well paid profession isn't "rich" early in their career. After a decade or so into their career though, they are either rich or really dumb with how they spent their money.
To paraphrase the Simpsons: "'tis a nice press release, but sure 'tis no journalism, English."
As they say, ex-communists make the best capitalists.
There are way more AI researchers/engineers graduating than there are jobs at top AI companies, so I fully expect xAI to have really competent people.
That's what the ruling implies, yeah. The response to the Uvalde school shooting bears that out. Police get all the power and none of the responsibility.
Looking forward! Feature request: would it be possible to add obfuscation? This is not a solution to my issue ( it is more social), but could be… interesting
I can't agree with this. I've also lived in SF for the last 30 years and by my lights a simpler, more effective policy would be to roll up the red carpet that was rolled out to tech companies. I don't consider the problem to be one of inadequate supply. I consider the problem to be one of excessive demand from one class of higher-compensation workers more-insulated from market forces (tech workers) out-competing another class of lower-compensation workers less-insulated from market forces (everyone else).
The definition of literally rate is the ratio of population over 7 that can read, write and do arithmetic and apply it in their lives. These numbers are over inflated tbh because the standards to measure them are pretty debatable. Kerala may have 90% literacy rate, but the average literacy rate of India is supposed to be 80%+.
Yes. I agree. It could still be a net benefit. But it does have cost.
I'm the author. I'm married but don't have kids. I distinctly remember when I first visited Hilo, Hawaii when I was 15, thinking that if I had to be homeless there, it would be better than having a job I hated. For years I lived in a tiny 21' RV behind a gas station in SF.

Now I'm married, and I would certainly sacrifice a lot for my wife. I don't have kids, but I would also sacrifice a lot for my nieces and nephews.

What I should have said is that I'd rather live a very materially basic life than do work I hate. If I couldn't afford clothing/food/housing/etc. I'd do whatever I needed to.
If you can work at Subway you are a sandwich artist... so, art is in the eye of the beholder I guess.
Hyphens - I'm normal, breaking up thoughts.
En / Em - I'm an AI or I'm using AP style guide to write articles.
Long live the parenthetical!

I wish it was more popular, it neatly indicates meaning so very well.
How are dupes possible? I thought you couldn't submit a recent link more than once, it would redirect to the old submission. Do some accounts have superpowers that override this?
Signal had this ability in Android, but removed it a couple of years ago. To handle phone calls and SMS messages the app must handle the normal (GSM) ones too, and Signal said it could lead to confusion on whether the call/message was encrypted.
They aren’t really scientists though, they are social “scientists”. I.E. someone that feels the need to validate their pseudo science as actual science in order to fake credibility.
See also https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-...

https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

See also: https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/113867412641585520
Agreed. I was taught (and forced to) balance my checkbook as a youth, but starting around 2006 when I switched to a bank with a website/portal it became essentially busy work. I would still probably recommend doing it (or an equivalent personal tracking) if you run balances near zero so you don't overdraw/overdraft, but for most people it's only a 30 second exercise to pull up the website or app and check your balance. If you're worried about bank errors then maybe self-balancing might be worth it, but that's not something I worry about and even if I did I don't expect my personal balance to be accepted as any sort of evidence.
New supernova data could help reveal how fast the universe is expanding (2023)
The AI-Generated Studio Ghibli Trend
What's next, deporting student visa holders who listen to music in their free time? That's got nothing to do with their education!
I made extensive use of XPath and XSL(T) back in their heyday and in general was fine with them but the architect astronauts who love showing off how clever they are with artificial complexity had a tendency to make use of XML tech to complicate things unnecessarily. Think that might be where many people's dislike of it came from, especially those whose first exposure wasn't learning through simple structures when XML was new but were thrown into the type of morass that develops when a tech is climbing the maturity curve.
This has been my experience in working with any kind of dogmatic structure or pattern in any language. It seems that the architecture astronauts have missed the point: making the code easier to understand for future developers without context, and provide some certainty that modifications behave as expected.

Here's an example of how things can go off the rails very quickly:
Rule 1: Functions should be short (no longer than 50 lines).
Rule 2: Public functions should be implemented with an interface (so they can be mocked).

Now as a developer who wants to follow the logic of the program, you have to constantly "go to definition" on function calls on interfaces, then "go to implementation" to find the behavior. This breaks your train of thought / flow state very quickly.

Now let's amp it up to another level of suck: replace the interface with a microservice API (gRPC). Now you have to tab between multiple completely different repos to follow the logic of the program. And when opening a new repo, which has its own architectural layers, you have to browse around just to find the implementation of the function you're looking for.

These aren't strawmen either... I've seen these patterns in place at multiple companies, and at this point I yearn for a 1000 line function with all of the behavior in 1 place.
Ask HN: Beyond YC Match Making: How Do We Find a US CEO Co-Founder?
We’re building Plexicus—an AI-powered ASPM platform that integrates open-source and commercial security tools with an agent that cuts remediation time by 95%. We’ve secured funding and have paying customers, but we’re based in Madrid, which sometimes limits our visibility in the US.

We’re looking for a US-based CEO co-founder to lead sales, fundraising, and our go-to-market strategy. Beyond YC matchmaking, what strategies or channels have worked for you to connect with high-growth CEO candidates in the US despite geographical filters?
We’re offering 20% equity (around a $700K value) with a 1-year cliff, then 5% per year (up to 15% after 3 years), plus an additional 5% based on performance.

If you’ve got ideas on alternative strategies or platforms to tap into, please share your insights!

Website: plexicus.com
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Paragraph after paragraph restating the question, then:

> In short ways, four forces of change – Kerala’s reintegration with the global economy, remittances from the Persian Gulf, strong welfare policies from a legacy of Leftist government, and private investment from individuals and businesses who shared the remittance flows – have combined to form the structure of Kerala’s miracle of human wellbeing with economic growth.
If Kerala can do it why can't other states like Bihar do it too? (Not asking rhetorically)

From what I see from the article the major gains were from investment in health and education which should be a no brainer.
"`dpkg` calls `fsync()` on all the unpacked files"

Why in the world does it do that ????

Ok I googled (kagi). Same reason anyone ever does: pure voodoo.

If you can't trust the kernel to close() then you can't trust it to fsync() or anything else either.

Kernel-level crashes, the only kind of crash that risks half-written files, are no more likely during dpkg than any other time. A bad update is the same bad update regardless, no better, no worse.
That is a very good point. All I have is a few PDFs and some xml to make it feel official.
>Democratic politicians do prioritize "housing, infrastructure and government services supporting people's economic activity of all kinds."

Have they (notably and visibly in the public consciousness) managed to get results regarding such issues such as housing in areas where they are uncontested?

As an outsider looking in i'd say if i had to imagine a democrat voting area i'd imagine an urbanised area, more progressive but also consistently more expensive.
The "inverted pyramid" first described a visual pyramid, not a conceptual pyramid. I found an 1887 article in Time magazine on journalism, describing the inverted pyramid structure.
Specifically, the top of a newspaper article (the display, summarizing the article) consisted of not just the title, but multiple lines of different sizes. First, the title in large capitals. Next, a line of small capitals. Finally, three, four, or more rows of smaller type arranged in the form of an inverted pyramid.

That is, the lines in the heading got progressively shorter, making a visual inverted pyramid, with the most important information first.

Later, the "inverted pyramid" term described the structure of the entire article with the most important parts first, but the metaphor does seem backward.

https://books.google.com/books?id=rNaEw8DwatwC&pg=PA154&dq=%...
I will definitely try this out!

I have a service that extracts <meta> tags in webpages and to do that I'm currently using (and need) three different dependencies: html5ever, markup5ever_rcdom, markup5ever. I don't like those to be honest, the documentation is quite bad and it was difficult to understand how I should have used the libraries to achieve such a simple task.

XPath on the other hand makes this extremely easy in comparison, I wonder how this will perform compared to my current solution.
The Global Reach of Colombia's Private Security Firms
Ezekiel bread is one exception, but they are also (at my local big box store) 3x the price (by kcal) of the white-label whole wheat bread AND less shelf-stable (thus will incur more process losses and expenses).
Somehow I had a better view of Jack Dorsey than the other tech-bro CEOs. I was wrong.
> I already know that China bans ye ol' Tank Man of Tiananmen square. It's the first thing everyone brings up when they want to point out how much more morally superior we are in the West.

The difference is that in China the government is the party doing the censoring, but in the west it's the corporations that have our government in their pockets who are doing the censoring.
It’s the “slope of enlightenment” phase of the Gartner hype cycle, where people are able to make sober assessments of technologies without undue influence from hype or its backlash. We’re long past the days where XML is used for everything, even when it’s inappropriate, and we’re also past the “trough of disillusionment” phase where people sought alternatives to XML.

I think XML is good for expressing document formats and for configuration settings. I prefer JSON for data serialization, though.
Since 1950, the scientific consensus has been that there is no biological basis for race. Trump's refusal to accept this well-established fact reveals his deep-seated racism and unwillingness to embrace modern scientific understanding.
My team loved to ship fast and sink later
I feel like what trips people up is the abstraction layer.

Viruses are abstracted on top of other living things in the same way that animals are abstracted on top of plants, in that they both require the lower layer of abstraction for their basic survival.
India has a vast variation of cultures. A few states in India look like they are quite detached from mainstream India, in terms of issues, economy, norms, politics etc. This is true for north-eastern states as well and probably J&K too. It's like a colorful patch-work of different cultures.

However, there is nothing good or bad with these variations. Tourism also adds to its economy. Higher per-capita doesn't always mean a good thing. Sometimes it comes at a cost of family separation etc. Kerala is also known for high levels of alcoholic consumption and unhappiness rates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_effect

Of course it has.

HN is filled with hundreds of links to individual blogs rediscovering Econ 101 and Econ 201 concepts every week.
There’s a culture war about heat pumps?

I know that the taxation on renewables is always touchy because the technology and how electricity gets routed and used changed faster than tax law.
The only pair of Darn Tough socks I've had trouble with, I bought on Amazon. I'd bought others on there, and they were fine, but these looked and felt odd and developed holes in strange places after like five wears. That'd have been poor performance for a $2 pair of cotton socks, let alone a $20ish pair of supposedly tough-wearing socks. Normally, Darn Tough wear well for so long that the high prices aren't actually high on a per-wear basis, but these? Yeah, I stopped buying stuff on Amazon in general after that (I still buy Darn Tough, but straight from their site)
Why would you replace DocuSign? Have you had any problem with it overall?
> there are two kinds of people who use AI

You hit the nail on this one. Around me I noticed that the bashing of LLMs come from the smart people that want others to know they are smart.
may I ask how you're mocking Celery to test?

the two main methods I've seen are to run tasks eagerly, or test the underlying function and avoid test Celery .delay/etc at all
In that case, I guess I must be an AI—I use em-dashes all the time in casual text.