skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We live with consequences of failures of the Democratic party for the last decade.

While that's not completely wrong, I find it fascinating that everyone seems to treat the Republican party as having no culpability. We have a Republican party that's had a policy goal of blowing up the government for a half century with varying levels of how far they were willing to take it, but it's the Democratic party's fault for not saving us from them and the voters that support them.
I mean, yes?. Also no Playstation or Xbox. If Linux/steam is your deal breaker nothing Nintendo did would change your mind.
I am curious as a non game developer, are these types of games deterministic? If so if I send to the server that I moved huge units to attack another huge units, can the server determine what the end will be? Why do we face a network issue?
Perhaps the last government, but not this one.
People familiar with exotic RNNs and improvements to LSTMs know this problem all too well. The moment your lstm isnt a bog standard lstm, it loses all the speed-ups from cuDNN and it becomes borderline unusable for anything but toy models.
I feel like it is important to point out that Steam does not require games to have any DRM. Not even Steam's DRM. It's entirely up to the game developer and/or publisher. Many games on Steam are already DRM-free where you can just back up the files and play without Steam.
The X220 touchpad and fan were pretty mediocre. The rest was outstanding, unless you didn't upgrade the panel. I hate nothing similar can be bought brand new.
ThinkPads back when were certainly good, sturdy machines, though I could never get along with the nipple. Another great older machine for me was the purple Sony Vaio - magnesium alloy, came with Win2K installed. I bought one, and then immediately bought another - the first I repurposed as a Linux server and I carried them both (easily) around for demoing this and that.

My latest, which I think is going to be in the ThinkPad and Vaio class is my new Asus Zenbook - brilliant light chassis and great performance.
The menu bar is a useful pattern, but a lot of applications don't need it. Especially if the focus is on a single task. In this case it's preferable to have a few buttons that are always useful, a handful of options tucked away, and a settings dialog for configuring the behavior of the software. And for the software that don't fit in this category (LibreOffice, GIMP, Audacity,...), they can still have the menu bar.

The menu bar isn't obtrusive, but for a lot of software, it's just quick access to common settings (VLC).
In a situation where everyone (including me) was acting reasonably, sure. But I was slightly gruntled from being pushed out for filing a safety report, and keeping it in my possession would have technically violated my new contract. Giving it to the police was clearly not stealing it and didn't require going out of my way to help them solve a problem of their own creation.
The law spells out exactly what can be done. Your issue is you don't like the law and want more leniency for the alien, which is a fine position to argue, but that is not the law that has been on the books for 30+ years.

I don't want to debate my opinion on the merits of the current law; clearly we can agree/disagree on some of the points on how it should be written, but I will respond your questions with a different one: do you really believe that there are absolutely zero foreign actors/implants on student visas? If not, you should at least give some deference to the US government intelligence apparatus to know what they are doing. They have reportedly cancelled 300 visas? If it were 10x more, I would start to worry, but 300 sounds like security apparatus functioning properly.
By definition, reason can only take you so far in politics, as it’s the arena in which decisions must be made without complete information. No matter how well reasoned your arguments, no matter how well informed you are, you’re still going to resist switching allegiances. So, imo, politics is just about 99% loyalty.
Anybody tried Simplex? - https://simplex.chat/
Reverse engineering of the formula used to generate the "reciprocal tariffs"
There isn't a system in the universe that can be resilient against a compromised executive, legislature, and judiciary. Of the three, the judiciary is the least compromised, and it is currently the only one pushing back, but it can only do so much.

At the end of the day, you have to not keep voting in criminals.
Just go open source already. Good grief Hyperion has no idea how to actually make money.
You should supply links to whatever accounts you had that were banned, so readers can make up their own minds about what happened and how fair or unfair we were.

When someone makes claims about how they were unfairly treated, but won't let people look at the actual situation, that's sort of a tell. If the mods had actually treated them so badly, you can be sure that it would be pointed to with neon hypertext.
There was a very nice article yesterday titled "The case against conversational interfaces" What do you have to say about that https://julian.digital/2025/03/27/the-case-against-conversat...
Four decades not sleeping well – until a doctor took my insomnia seriously
> But software engineers are tasked with solving business problems.

i would imagine that a business owner may want to hire a business analyst to undertake such a task, rather than a software engineer. Someone ideally with domain expertise in such business problems.

A software engineer is trained to produce software, given a set of requirements. If this software engineer is also tasked with gathering these requirements, which somehow, is increasingly the case now-a-days, then he's doing more than the job of a software engineer - he's also doing the role of BA.
I read that I think he means it is tribal thinking if you have a desire to convince instead of search for truth in a curious way.

I didnt read that people on the left or the right are always tribal. But yeah, its easy to go that way when you are not able to see the truth in opposite viewpoints.
You can chuck it into Cursor as a .mdc file so it knows how to write code for it, I assume.
> How can you prioritize limited resources with deadly consequences without understanding utilitarianism vs deontology (i.e. the trolly problem)?

Can you explain this to me?
Its not like immigrants have had
wonderful, controllable and predictable paths to residency in the past. For those who arent Einstein or belong to the over rated HN crowd, the system has always be exploitative. Anyone who isnt born rich and has been through the process has had to live with constant fear, doubt and uncertainty.
In general the people making appeals to freedom of speech as a traditionally held cultural value are the same ones who not long ago espoused that freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences.

It was a bad idea then, it’s a bad idea now, but I would have much more sympathy for the left had they maintained a tradition of freedom of speech as a cultural value throughout and not only when its convenient for them.
I play a fair amount of breakout with a Kensington Expert trackball, works fairly well and a considerable improvement over a mouse or trackpad. I do not see the ergonomic track balls working well here but never tried, the small trackball means control drops quickly as speed goes up.
I believe that features like variadic friends, advanced template metaprogramming techniques (including concepts and ranges), and even constructs like coroutines and lambdas with auto return type add layers of complexity to C++. While these modern features can be powerful, they often contribute to an increasingly steep learning curve and may sometimes obfuscate rather than clarify the code. Instead of chasing developers away with such intricate additions, the language would benefit from focusing on practical enhancements that address everyday challenges. For instance, incorporating built-in package management or native support for common data formats like XML and JSON would provide real, tangible benefits. These kinds of improvements could help modernize C++ without overwhelming developers with complexity.
Well if the adults don't put up a toddler gate, who's fault is it when the toddler falls down the stairs?
> Headscale seems to have nailed down the part of bypassing the firewall and doing fancy NAT-traversal

Did they really roll-their-own for those functions? I thought this was just a control layer on top of Tailscale’s stock services on the backend, are they facilitating connections with novel methods? Apologies if I’m asking obvious questions, I use ZeroTier pretty regularly, but I am not too familiar with Tailscale.
I thought ast (Andrew Tanenbaum) would cycle past and kick you in the water and say "This is Minix territory".
I think you're right, it is harder to discuss politics as widely as we once did.

That said, what do you think of money changing what is left/right and group/individual? The outcome of Citizens United to allow obscured spending to create seeming grass roots efforts on any topic that the monied want very effectively moving opinions.
That's easy. It's false dichotomy.
Yeah, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_intent

> Persons with H-1B visas (for specialty workers and their spouses and minor children with H-4 visas), K visas (for fiancees or foreign spouses of US citizens and their minor children), L visas (for corporate transferees and their spouses and minor children), and V visas (spouses and minor children of lawful permanent residents) are permitted to have dual intent under the Immigration and Nationality Act.[1]

> Most other foreign visitors and workers, like those on H-2B worker, H-3 trainee/worker, B-1 business, B-2 tourist, Visa Waiver Program visitor, F-1 student, J-1 exchange visitor, M-1 student, journalism, and entertainer visas should not have immigrant intent. Such visa holders can be denied admission if the consular or port official reasonably believes that they have interest in permanently remaining in the United States (i.e., in pursuing a green card).
This is pretty neat
I would be much happier to learn i could use tbird on my iphone.
The main reason we are at a point we are is that it is possible to build very complex software systems cheaply: both the tools and building blocks are abundant and available to everyone.

If an engineer tried to build a skyscraper or a bridge, they'd meet challenges other than them having knowledge or professional certification.

And to your point, if anyone ever asked an engineer to insert another floor between 8th and 9th floor of a 15 story building, they'd laugh at them. In software engineering, this is possible even if hard.

And finally, because of software living a much different life, it will be hard to define criteria for good software.
Assuming they let you back in.
Fair point, I probably should have provided more context in the post.

MatterRank uses LLMs to rank pages based on criteria you provide it with, not SEO tricks. It’s not meant to replace Google, but helps when you're looking for something specific and don't want to wade through tons of results that you don't care about. Still early, but useful for deeper searches.
"own your domain" is technobabble to 99.999+% of email users. Most people understand emails addresses are <something> "@gmail.com" or "@yahoo.com" or "@<somebigcompany>.com". They don't understand the parts of an email address, nor how or why they are constructed that way.

I have been using a personal domain for my email address for decades and when I have to give it out verbally to someone, it is about a 50% chance that the conversation is:

"My email is <name@myname.tld>"

"uuhhh... at gmail.com?"

"No it's just <@myname.tld>"

"Yeah, but is it gmail or yahoo?"
I've definitely wanted them on photo galleries with large numbers of thumbnails, and I appreciate them when they are implemented well, especially if I'm on a slow connection.
Doesn't a lot of it come down to having to choose between only two parties?

It's unlikely that most people will agree with all the positions of a party, so they choose the one who most closely aligns with their highest priority issues.

Perhaps trans policy is just a lower priority issue for your dad. His voting may be illogical based on your priorities, but may be the rational choice based on his ranking of issues.
The origin of the whole idea, I believe, was to have _prepared_ statements, ie not to have to pay the price of parsing the query and determining the query plan.
Yes I know all this sounds like "premature optimization" in this day and age when we are used to casual conversation in natural language with the computer and forgot how hard of a task it is already just to parse a formal language like sql, compared to finding the customer which id is 123 in a btree.
Game-changer... how? There are at least two players in email space that provide encrypted email and various auxiliary suites (Protonmail and Tuta), plus at least one well-trusted well-respected email service (Fastmail), and of course people can always self-host if they dare. What revolutionary they could possibly realistically bring in areas privacy and security to be an actual "game-changer"?

Not saying it cannot possibly be - just that I cannot think of any novel way how it would deserve a title like this in such a particularly tricky niche as email suite service.
https://x.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1907536257476903047 first picture clearly shows "Heard and McDonald Island: Tariff charged to the USA including currency manipulation and trade barriers: 10% USA Discounted Reciprocal Tariffs: 10%" and the same for the next line below it, Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

That same picture also shows the British Indian Ocean Territory, which as of a few weeks ago is literally just the US Military base at Diego Garcia. They also are listed as charging a 10% tariff including currency manipulation and trade barriers.

They specifically called out all of these locations in the papers they handed out to journalists.
>Kensington Slime Blade pro

The Kensington Expert holds its ball much better and uses the same size ball. I found the Slim Blade Pro to be awkward in general, the ball sticks up too high above the buttons/body.
People communicated via unencrypted phone calls and SMS and other unencrypted mediums for decades so you might just be massively overstating the importance of E2E message encryption for an average person.
As an Australian I'm pretty keen to start seeing a higher tier of people choosing Australia over the US to move to now.
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Right, right, I'd put MS into my Blind Spot because there has got to be a much cheaper, more reliable, more scaleable/generalizable, less prone to over-engineering/misinterpretation option for detecting trace compounds, yes? (Our noses do it, at a speed faster than n per decade!!*)

[Seems JPL are more courageous^W patient^W adaptive than MMAANG!]

Follows (p3) the actually interesting phrase: what'd they mean by that? What provoked the peer reviewers?

"It is INTERNALLY ACCEPTED by the SAM team that a signal can be
assessed from a S/N of 2 and the quantification is tentatively made
from any detected m/z"

On reflection on the list I gave of DARPA-likes..

[Where might our intuitions diverge?]

Couple clues for it not being simply nostalgia:

1. The right question is closer to : why do breakthroughs announced by/awarded to MAANG these past decades not pass the optimal curiosity-agency smell test? Too teleological? Cheap conspiratorial answer is that they focused on investigations too expensive for academics to disprove/replicate. Less cheap answer is SV unwittingly replicated the structural issues of pre-lost-decade Japan (shareholder-supremacy? Overoptimistic metrics?)

2. Which brings me to: cultural premiums being nolonger affordable by gradstudents/good faith middle managers across the board

(Is it related to "supervision debt"? Or "moderation-technik debt")

*Related to the information bottleneck worked upon by my undersung hero Bialek?
I have a T43, slowly working on a VESA driver for NeXTSTEP 3.3 (Yes there is a driver for OpenStep 4.2).

Using Ghidra and the source that Apple released. Final set up will be, NeXTSTEP3.3, DOS6.22 (AutoCAD R12, Matlab), WinXP (For Encarta 95 and Mindmaze) and NetBSD.
That's not the problem. The US now effectively has a system where you don't prosecute presidents for any crime. You should note that the ongoing criminal investigations against Trump were mostly cancelled when it became obvious that he'll be the next president.

If this system had been in place when Nixon did his crimes, he would've just shrugged and kept going.

You are indeed not Europe now, not even close. Well, except for Hungary and Belarus.
It is. I had a meeting this past week where we discussed a novel workflow and I was able to generate an initial based on the transcription of our discussion so far, then two quick revisions based on realtime feedback.

Though, I’ve used it to generate visuals of pipelines too and find it often takes coaching similar to any output that requires very high precision.

Another bit is that gpt4o and sonnet both seem to want to put syntax breaking parentheses in and struggle to avoid continuing to do so.

Once it’s right, though it is a valuable new context artifact to include in further problem solving on a domain.
About 14 months after purchase, screen bezel of my MacBook cracked. Apparently there was a tiny food crumb jammed between the screen bezel and the keyboard bezel. It was then that I found out that the screen bezel is made of glass. And that Apple recommends to wipe the keyboard before closing the lid.
Welcome Tom! And thanks Dang for tirelessly looking after the community. HN is one of the last few sane places on the internet :)
Your point in hypocrisy of appeal to Freedom of Speech (cultural, not constitutional) is well-taken, but I would argue it is a red-herring: unless you have studied their intelligence files, it is not at all clear to the general public whether the deportees are merely selected because of a speech concern or some more nefarious intent or association.
neat how you always have to dig in yourself in order to find out whether or not "sex-dependent" means chromosomal or endocrine differences. good thing those are in perfect lockstep or else we'd have to worry that we habitually gloss over such salient aspects.
I was watching a trial the other day and the prosecutor asks "And did you often see your nephews at your mothers house when you video called her?", and the defendant, a dentists, says "Yep, watching TV, brushing their teeth.[5 second silence] Don't forget to brush your teeth. Really important." The prosecutor smiles, laughs, and says "A little dull humor never hurt, eh?"

I'm not sure your average adult would find "don't be afraid" to be "advice", or some deeply meaningful advice that only a cynic would think was anything less than excellent.
Both, but much more chat-focused. I've created 20 or so images for various little home projects.
Agreed.

I use it mostly for sequence diagrams, but never hit a case where Mermaid felt better than PlantUML. It has been more of a forced transition as SaaS like Notion don't have a PlantUML integration or it's not available at the organization level.
The exuberance and self-assuredness that your plans are going to work out leads to overreach and I think the lag in accounting practices helps make that more acute.

I have had too many experiences where I thought my current employer was about to start circling the drain, and I've ended up some place that was circling faster. At a guess I'm about 50:50, which I suppose I should count as 'lucky' but has never felt that way.

Fish-tailing is a common flame-out mode for startups. VCs are partly to blame. They don't like to discourage you in case you come up with a miracle, but neither do they want to put good money and time after bad if it turns out you're going to be a break-even play or a loss.
Many (not all) RTS games use a networking method called lockstep synchronization that requires the gameplay to be deterministic, but has its own downsides. One of those being that if one player lags, everyone lags. I know AOE 1 and 2 use it, and I assume 3 as well
I have both, kinda tend to forget about the Expert one. I like the slim Blade for normal stuff.
We do, but the sociopaths outcompete them.
kingsener batteries from aliexpress have been highly recommended in the past, but I haven't bought any yet.
I don't think the controversy is about deporting people who are no longer wanted in the country. It's about the use of unnecessary force. The principle of minimum necessary force is pretty integral to Western societies. It includes the idea that the authorities are not allowed to arrest anyone until more reasonable options have been exhausted.
I no longer compute on a couch, but if you like trackballs, I don't see why you wouldn't like trackballs while sitting on a couch. I used to be able to find somewhere to set it, and it was better than using the trackpad.

But if you like trackpads, you might like them more than trackballs. And if you dislike trackballs, you might dislike them more than trackpads.

Trackballs never disappeared, although they're not mainstream anymore; you used to be able to get a trackball to clip to the side of your laptop, or get a laptop with a built in trackball... But times have changed.
Having run some hardware for about 20 years (recently deceased), the problem that eventually happens is that newer OSes drop support for old hardware. If you hit some weird bug on your setup on a new OS release, there won't be anyone to help you fix it[1]. So then you're stuck on an old OS. In time, that means you can't run the latest userland software either, which relies on more modern OS features (eg: your Firefox will get increasingly out-of-date). That means the set of things you can do will eventually narrow and narrow.

If you're only running programs that you have full control of, and can compile/fix locally, or where receiving security fixes &etc. don't matter, then you're good. But things are a bit more interconnected, these days.

I do still enjoy running my hardware into the ground rather than tossing out perfectly good components every few years though (:

[1] In my case, the boot loader stopped working for my hardware on FreeBSD 11.4
Why Does Microsoft HQ Use SAP Instead of Microsoft Dynamics ERP? (2012)
Agreed, they just create needless visual activity. How about a page specify where the images appear, and leave it up to the browser to decide how to show them and load them? Is that too simple and workable?
Related discussion: <https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1jo08m3/til_t...>
> Fed started raising rates in Apr 2022, at which point leaders started freaking out because they know what higher rates mean, and by Jun 2022 the Fed was raising them in 0.75% increments, which was unheard of in modern economics.

You're basically making the case that it happened fast, and went up high, but everyone who paid attention to interest rates understood it was only a matter of time till it had to at least revert back to pre-covid rates (whether you think that's 1.5 or 2.3 or something, depending on how you measure), and that obviously there would need to be real layoffs after.

The excuse is really saying "it turned out more extreme than we thought", but was the behavior take responsible assuming non-extreme rate changes?
I made my home fossil-fuel-free. Why did my utility bills nearly double?