skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it's all the mandatory fees that you must pay to then make a purchase that I think are being banned.

The mandatory booking fee, the mandatory service fee, mandatory transaction fee, mandatory technology fee etc just so you can checkout. Optional upsells are something else.
It's just a ban on buying and selling fake reviews, so the same way they regulate buying and selling anything.
Are we going to find out that Meta pirated libgen again, with zero recognition to the authors?

“Open-sourcing it” doesn’t magically absolve you of the irreparable damages you’ve caused society. You stole their life’s work so your company could profit off of rage-slop.
As I remember it, all these mobile browsers for Windows Mobile were not exactly the same code and rendering engine / javascript engine that on desktop. They were ports

As the iPhone OS was Mac OS at its core, Safari was exactly the same engines, and that was a quite novel and enticing promise: the real web in your pocket (minus proprietary plugins like Flash)
More precisely, not nearly as effective. The fire retardant is effective hours or days after being applied. Water would have long since evaporated and had almost no effect. Even on very short timescales, the retardant is still much more effective than water alone.
RTFM

No tool can protect you from your own assumptions about how said tool works.
Except that doesn't tell you what it's doing, that tells you what it _might_ do, if you (re)start the server.

sshd -T reads the configuration file and prints information. It doesn't print what the server's currently-running configuration is: https://joshua.hu/sshd-backdoor-and-configuration-parsing
Insanely Long Proofs (2012)
> So they'll only ban non-political advertising

That's likely to be the case anyway, because politicians are rarely willing to restrict themselves. The US Do Not Call list has an exception for political spam.

(See also: why the two biggest political parties are unlikely to support better voting systems.)
Just understanding how negotiations work removes the frustration.

I read a book about negotiating. It had the usual breakdown of strategies, tactics and scenarios, and a lot of filler, but it was entertaining to read. Today I'm still not a good negotiator. Normally I just don't want to waste my time and just want to get something, or I don't want to "squeeze" the other side for little profit.

But I know that on big key deals, like buying a house, a car, or getting a job, there it is well worth to apply some pressure. And if I don't get to my goal, or if a deal fails, now I understand why and don't feel so much frustration as before.
Quick Proofs of Hard Theorems
It's not. It's just that their immunity is very tolerant to other members of their specie so having a cancer of the face in a specie that frequently bites each other in the face is transmissible. Afaik there is no pathogen involved.
I am the same exact way.

When I visit my parents it's eye opening how much advertising they're bombarded with daily.
good well done EU
If you have psychological safety and develop a bond of trust with the person it is far less draining. Those things need to be developed and the working environment needs to make them possible, though.

I find that the fact that I rarely get stuck for long and the mistakes I make tend to get caught more quickly makes pairing vastly more productive in practice.

The productivity isnt directly in the speed of code output but the compounded effect over time of it being higher quality - meaning vastly less time doing post hoc debugging, bugfixing, reworking code, etc. It is invisible over the space of one or two tickets, visible over weeks and overwhelming over months.

At one company my pairing team routinely (and quietly) worked 9-3:30pm or 4pm while the surrounding nonpairing teams worked overtime and still delivered way less. If you can nail it it really is almost unreasonably effective.
How is it that sneaky fees were ever legal? Surely the legal principle is very well established that the price shown is 'the price'? And that sneaky fees were already illegal?

I can't help but wonder whether a blind eye was turned, in order to then require new legislation that includes onerous clauses. Such as requiring photo id/verification etc, as others say. Ie that whatever this legislation is, it may be an open ended expansion of legal powers.
I had to look up the crab migration bridges.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/11/18/red-crab-migrati...
A Problem About Pigeons Powers Complexity Theory
Car rental companies are the worst because they actually act like the mafia. "It would be a nightmare if something happened to the vehicle...we are forced to charge £1500 for each and every separate piece of damage". Actual quote from an employee of Enterprise while trying to upsell me extra insurance
I thought the second and third books were also great, but different flavours, he didn’t just repeat.

The second goes for more of a horror angle and has some incredible moments. The third is one of the most ambitious books SF novels I’ve read. Blurry and confusing on purpose, which is a fine line to tread (reminiscent of the latter Jeff Vandermeer Southern Reach books).

Recently went to a book reading and Q&A for his new one Shroud, really smart and humble chap. Deeply into his research.

Also, notably, he wrote a book a year for 17 (one seven) years before being published. And then it took 12? more novel before he had a hit with Children Of Time. He didn’t seem to have a shred of resentment about that which felt remarkable and and incredible example of perseverance and enjoyment of process over result.

A fourth Children Of book is imminent.
And yet TypeScript doesn't fail with a cryptic nonsensical error just because you have the impossible component with an unfathomable number of two nested lists, like in SwiftUI.
It sounds great but how do you prevent it? The sellers are all based abroad.

If I look at any product on Amazon now, say a USB C cable, it’s full of fake reviews. Take this one as an example which came up as a sponsored link - 4.3/5 rated - https://amzn.eu/d/bHCXNQG - 7% of reviews are 1* and variously say that the description is misleading in capabilities of the cable, the cable broke, etc.

If you look at the 5* reviews and click through to any profile writing them, they’re giving out all 5* reviews on a totally random array of cheap Chinese products. On top of that they’re always on products that no real person would buy since they’re always a mixture of things aimed at young/old and male/female, and yet the reviews are all written in the first person. If you’re not at least skeptical you will end up wasting money on rubbish. You have to now look at the distribution of reviews rather than the overall average since fake ones at 4 and 5 star swamp all else.

Here in the U.K. I prefer Argos for small purchases I used to make from Amazon, but it’s not got the full range of items you might want to buy online unfortunately.
> Any position is a bias. A flat earther would consider a round-earther biased.

That is not what a religion is.

> Secular Americans are annoying because they believe they don't have one

Why is that a problem to you?

> and instead think they're just "good people", calling those who break their core values "bad people".

No, not really. Someone is not good or bad because you agree with them. Even a religious person can recognise that an atheist doing charitable work is being good, regardless of whether they share a specific set of belief.

The attitude you describe is wrong, and from my experience much more common in religious fundamentalists than radical atheists (the vast majority of people in western democracies do not care whether you have a religion). I have never seen an atheist saying that. But I’ve had priests telling me that I had not "rejected Satan" because I was not baptised.
I think this is just a loyalty statement, to be honest. Just like when a large corporation pretended to care a lot about pronouns, they didn't actually, they just wanted to flag allegiance to a certain interest coalition/patronage network.

And those people, for the most part, didn't really care much about pronouns either. And they knew no one else really did either. It was an ideological shibboleth to them, a safe and easy commitment since it affects so few people, and is unlikely to matter for anything they do care about.

Now Meta is shopping around for new markers. "Liberal bias" is a classic, that's still popular with the Trump-right. I don't think they mean much by that either.
Many of the levels are well above the levels required for drinking water.

That isn't much to go on, however.
You're 100% right to raise these questions! Firstly,thank you for taking the time to write them out, i expected this to just blow off into the ether so I hope I can clarify my drunk rant above.

You're right that most crashes today are due to software bugs, not DRAM decay. But the idea behind VaiOS isn’t just to detect bit rot. It’s to *rethink how failure is handled*, whether it’s a segfault, a use-after-free, or yes, even memory-level degradation on long-running devices.

I agree that cryptographic checksums won’t help with invalid pointer dereference in user space. That’s why the recovery model I’m exploring would:

- Run integrity checks on critical kernel regions and runtime-managed page zones
- Use snapshot logic to roll back entire page frames, not just single writes
- Map temporal fault clusters, so if a use-after-free corrupts 50 words, the rollback would address the whole block—not just the final straw that crashed it

You're absolutely right that Linux has great crash introspection tooling. Serial console, kdump, pstore, they’re battle-tested and I've been studying them.

This OS, isn't trying to compete, it’s just asking a different question:

What if the OS could not just tell you why it crashed, but actually recover from it in real time?

Imagine if a use-after-free doesn’t crash the kernel, it just triggers a “revert page region X to last valid hash” and continues execution. Maybe it logs it. Maybe it isolates the faulty process. But it survives.

PhantomOS is a fascinating reference, I appreciate you pointing me toward it.

As for compressed memory: it’s not about AI (assisted and not artificial) per se. It’s about *efficiency as resilience*.

If you can store more data with less bandwidth and thermal cost, you enable low-end devices, offline zones, and yes... agents like AI that need to work on constrained hardware in remote environments.

Inexperience? Maybe. Naivete? A little. But not ignorance. I’m not trying to prove Linux wrong, I’m trying to prove it’s possible to go further.

This isn’t about marketing. It’s about curiosity, chaos, and the refusal to accept that silence is the only way a machine can die.
I’ve never really understood the hype around pair programming. In practice, it’s usually just sitting with a coworker who wants to chat and crack jokes while working. That’s fine socially, but I don’t see any productivity gains.

What I find actually useful is a short, focused meeting with the relevant people before coding. That way, we align on what’s being built, resolve confusion, and then I can just go write the code.

Once I'm typing, I don’t see how having someone else there helps. It mostly just gets in the way — we keep having to stop and explain what we're thinking, which slows things down. And usually the other person gets confused at some point, so I have to stop and explain things again to get them back on track.
"Third, there are often large costs to users from
switching technologies, which leads to lock-in.
Such markets may remain very profitable, even
where (incompatible) competitors are very cheap
to produce. In fact, one of the main results of
network economic theory is that the net present
value of the customer base should equal the total
costs of their switching their business to a com-
petitor [19]."
4.8b words on English Wikipedia. Knowledge cutoff of 6 months. A valid use case is to search across Wikipedia and ground your
answers.
Trivially proves that RAG is still needed.
My favorite part about your game is the A B testing with your mom liking it and not liking it.

Your mom liked the game I played with her too.

Got em.
Yes. Run this as a validation step during base os image creation, if such image is intended to start system with sshd. That way you can verify that distro you use did not pull the carpet from under your feet by changing something with base sshd config that you implicitly rely on.
It's a common question about new legislation that appears to overlap with existing. AIUI it helps regulators/police etc with charging, as the new legislation can require less burden of proof etc. Happy to be corrected

But there is of course plenty of other political motivation for legislation and I can see what you're saying.
The problem is, how do you value one book? £10? Or are we saying £10 every time someone uses the AI?

Should Taylor swift be liable to pay commission for every piece of music she listened to while training? They will have influenced her work in some way.

I’d rather go the other way and say that the companies have to freely release their data sets, if the data is derived from other people’s work. It would put everyone on a level playing field.
Economic network theory:

"Economists who have studied the software industry concluded that the value of a software business is about equal to the total costs of its customers switching out to the competition; both are equal to the net present value of future payments from the customers to the software vendor. This means that an incumbent in a maturing market, such as Microsoft with its Office product, can grow faster than the market only if it can find ways to lock in its customers more tightly. There are some ifs and buts that hedge this theory around, but the basic idea is well known to software industry executives. This explains Bill G's comment that `We came at this thinking about music, but then we realized that e-mail and documents were far more interesting domains'."
The chainsaw will have the same end result. Can't read shredded drives.
My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers
So not FOSS?
It is not just “according to some research”, it is also according to the overwhelming scientific consensus at the time. Sources are good but it should not appear as if it is one opinion among possibly many others equally valid.
> If you ban that, suddenly it'll all be astroturf campaigns and product placement.

Advertising already makes extensive use of astroturf campaigns and product placement.

Cable TV started out with no ads, as a major selling point over broadcast TV. Then they started advertising because they figured they could make more money that way. There's no reason to believe that advertisers will ever refrain from introducing ads when there's money to be made by doing so.
if what a dollar can purchase in the US changes, Eurodollars also change. tell me you don't know what "=" means without telling me you don't know what "=" means
This is not an EU thing, but I'd like it if it is proposed here as well.
I'm not sure how much I can say about it, but it is temporal solution and not about closing the source code. The new commits should be available in the coming days unless it would be decided to postpone further.
The non-buggy sleep (S3) isn't even supported in the BIOS in many new laptops now (in the Dell I'm using for example). So MS probably decided to kill that option off for everyone. To be honest it's a very confusing situation since there are so many hardware configurations under Windows and if you search online I think some people are still able to disable S0 on their new laptop/latest Windows, but some (myself) definitely cannot.
The most annoying crap with modern sleep is that it doesn't lock the computer, only after some time has elapsed in sleep. I want the computer be locked immediately. Also Keepass cannot hook the sleep event, and lock the database. This is a security nightmare for me, really inconvenient.

Other is that the slightest mouse movement wakes the computer. Disabling wake devices does not work anymore. Guides say disable it in your bios. If there is a configuration option... I don't have (neither on a Lenovo, nor on a Beelink) such option. (Yes, I did the powercfg -wake-armed/device manager rain-dance, to no avail, it worked reliably to configure wake sources on S3)

S3 sleep was good enough for me, and S0 is a large step back in reliability and usability, for no perceived benefit.
Unfortunately my newer machine does not support S3 anymore.

With MS copying all the bad ideas from MacOS it is getting ever worse, slowly Windows (being my get stuff done desktop) becoming as unusable my Mac. (ps. I'm was a long time, 10+ years, Linux desktop user, but constant flux of the platform made me move away)
I could read it using the reader view
If you think the global population is left-wing and tolerant then we can scrap the asylum system.
This guy seems to be both very positive about Rust and unfairly cynical about it at the same time...

Rust is a really fantastic language but having worked on a mixed C++/Rust codebase I can see why they had so many issues. Rust just wasn't really designed with C++ interop in mind so it's kind of painful to use them together. Impressive that they made it work.
Mutha?ucka charge a two buck transaction fee
Makes my payment short, my rent comes back to me
Minus a twenty-five dollar penalty
So, you'll feed me 'cause of your mutha?uckin? fee
On the South Bank in London, physical advertising (posters/billboards etc) is banned and it makes it a much nicer place to hang out
This is where remote work goes off the rails, but then it’s wild how intentionally isolating the implementation of RTO that many large corporations are doing now.

They line people up in rows, put headphones on their heads and wire them up to Teams and Jira to spend the whole day in isolation. Because taking a walk to another floor of building to talk to someone like a normal human being is too wasteful, but somehow forcing everyone to spend hours commuting isn’t.

It’s the worst of both worlds.
Russia did it.

I’m sure EU could, if they wanted to.
Same, it was using the high quality openai voice until my account ran out of funds.. Now it's using edge-tts which is free. So far it seems like the best option in terms of price/performance, but I'm happy to switch it up if something better comes along.
Sure and the voters who did not participate in the election would all have voted the democratic party. I think the election showed that there are real people who apparently don't agree with the democratic party and it would probably be good to listen to these people instead of telling them what to do. (I see the same phenomenon in the Netherlands by the way. The government seems to have decided that they know better than the general public because voters who disagree are "uninformed" or "uneducated". This is absolutely the opposite of democracy. You do not just brush whole swats of the population to the side when they don't agree. It breaks the feedback loop that democracies should have.)
True, but this is about adults in a professional context.
That sounds awful. I go to the office to chat with everyone, it's incredible how much work gets done when you can just walk over to someone and debug or rubbery ducky in real time.
DeepSeek introduced novel experts training technique which increased experts specialization. For particular given domain their implementation tends to activate same experts between different tokens, which is kinda what you’re asking for!
Collected Quotes from Jeff Bezos
Just the info I needed, you are awesome.

I am creating a bank currently, and I was asking this with double payments in mind.
The .d directories make management via tools such as ansible much much easier.

You don't have weird file patching going on with the potential to mess things up in super creative ways if someone has applied a hand edit.

With .d directories you have a file, you drop in that file, you manage that file, if that file changes then you change it back.
Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
> Do you have a good enough understanding of the lineage(s) in question to know whether the setlist.fm parser does justice per the thread topic (and related important edge cases)?

Oh, geez, you want rock notes? ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYVO0OakllY )

I have a rich inner grasp of lineages I've followed .. it's a tough domain to expand into uniform generic meta data form.

WRT The Saints I'm less a fan of Chris Bailey (one co-founder) more a fan of Ed Kuepper (another founder).

The Saints are arguably (let's not do that now) the progenitor punk band (well, ok, one of them .. not first to record as such)

With their debut single "(I'm) Stranded", released in September 1976, they became the first punk band outside the US to release a record, ahead of the first UK punk releases from the Damned, the Sex Pistols and the Clash.

Stranded (OG THe Saints): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3H4U6P9KUI

The Aints and Laughing Clowns, et al are the follow on arc of guitarist-songwriter Ed Kuepper who is worthy of following in his own right.

The Way I Made You Feel (solo album Honey Steels Gold (1991)): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhuxY30nbDE

Eternally Yours (Laughing Clowns from the album Law Of Nature (1983))

The setlist.fm for The Aint's is really reflecting Ed Kuepper's musical history featuring works and reworkings of anything he's ever touched.

Here's Ed Kuepper and the Kowalski Collective closing out a set in Sept. 2020 with a 10 minute extended encore of Electrical Storm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zekVdws3020

( better version from a 2008 liveset: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p9xCfk3F4s )

> Are they good? What a crazy perfect name though.

I'm pretty fond of his work .. it's your call as to whether you like this music or not though - no judgement.
Show HN: OS Automation Is Here
I'm not sure if anyone has tried doing it already. Maybe did. But here is my prototype of the OS automation tool. It reads tasks given by the user in natural language, uses gemini to generate commands to carry out the task, then gets executed as user proceeds.

Problems faced:
1. It didn't have context about the system/file-folder structures. So had to implement the indexing. Though it doesn't do the work fully rn.
2. Improper commands. Sometimes it generates commands that don't make sense. It can be tackled with search through predefined commands and feeding to the AI I guess.
3. Combining all this, I want to make it more intelligent so it can take actions even with vague commands.

I'm not sure if it works well with macos/linux. Please let me know. I'll continue this project. And give a star :)
Llama-4 Model-Based Agentic AI System HuggingFace Released
I just went through the job hunting (labour selling!) process for a tech role in a HCOL city in US and every point in the article matched with my experience. As another commenter mentioned, the difference is these days you have bands on job listings and then levels.fyi and blind (for larger tech companies) balances out some of the information asymmetry.
Your comment inspired me to seek out some research on the topic of transgender identity and brain structure. Pretty fascinating stuff, but hard for a layman like me to absorb.

Seems to be quite a lot of studies finding notable differences in brain “readings” (for want of a better word, sorry not a scientist) between transgender people and others sharing their biological sex.

The first study I read highlights the findings of many studies that the insula of transgender individuals is very different to cisgender individuals, with the insula being “associated with body and self-perception.” [0]

Gosh our brains are truly something else and are not so easily categorised! Now if only I could find a way to learn all this stuff a little bit faster…

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-020-0666-3

A collection of many other studies:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_gender_incongruenc...