skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am far from a historian, but my understanding is that the protestant reformation birthed the enlightenment by shifting people's idea of god as something to be interpreted by an authority structure (the church) to something that is interpreted internally. Is your relationship with god mediated by a church or a direct relationship with god? The reformation is more closely related to "westenrism" than the Greeks or Romans who laid some of the philosophical groundwork.

Out of the enlightenment we get John Locke who provided much of America's founding philosophy:

Locke argued that a government's legitimacy comes from the citizens' delegation to the government of their absolute right of violence (reserving the inalienable right of self-defense or "self-preservation"), along with elements of other rights (e.g. property will be liable to taxation) as necessary to achieve the goal of security through granting the state a monopoly of violence, whereby the government, as an impartial judge, may use the collective force of the populace to administer and enforce the law, rather than each man acting as his own judge, jury, and executioner—the condition in the state of nature.

My claim is that this is isomorphic to solidarity via collective bargaining when you account for the idea that the government being an impartial judge is not black and white but grey.

I think it's fair not to say that it is not the core founding principle. I think it's probably more correct to say that it's the theory of power that must be true to support human rights or ideas of freedom.
we the people don't want change.
Seems like it's at least a plausible possibility for Paul Krugman

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/will-careless-stupidity-k...
This line of reasoning doesn't make sense for retroactive lengthening of copyright though, as the author is not gaining anything from that anymore.
Good luck in that case ;)
Of course they do, if someone below them break the rules and make more money, they profit. And if that same person then breaks the rules again but makes a mistake or loses money, they will use the rule breaking as an excuse to shed both inter-political and legal liability from themselves onto the lower employee with the excuse that they broke the rules.
Thanks for proving his point...
Philosophers were waaaay ahead of this game.
Yep exactly, LLMs blunder over the most simple nonsense and just leaves a mess in their wake. This isn't a mistake you could make if you actually understood what the library is doing / is returning.

It's so funny how these AI bros make excuse after excuse for glaring issues rather than just accept AI doesn't actually understand what it's doing (not even considering it's faster to just write good quality code on the first try).
One of the things that blew my mind in my early career was seeing my mentor open the side of a VMS machine (I can’t remember the hardware model sorry) and slide out a giant board of RAM, and then slide in another board the same physical size but it had a CPU on it, and then enable the CPU

The daughter board in that machine could have RAM or CPUs in the same slot and it was changeable without reboots!
It's a MacBook 5,1, not a MacBook pro. Its firmware only sees 3.5GB out of the 4GB installed, apparently it requires a BootROM upgrade to support more.
Text editing CRDTs fall in the category of things that are technically possible, in an incredibly useless way - just like it's possible to automatically "resolve" every Git merge conflict by randomly splatting the conflicting lines around in the file.
Ah, weak typing, a.k.a. implicit type conversions.
> "We will not accept students from politicians that support anti-education policies"

Given how many stories there are about children seriously at odds with their parents about political issues, I don't think that is a good idea. At all.

Do you want to be judged by how your parents think or behave, or think that is acceptable?
To be clear, I'm not claiming any universality. Quite the contrary, I'm saying that there is no silver bullet.
> to a raciness in load_json where it's checked for file existence with an if and then carrying on as if the file is certainly there...

It's not a race. It's just redundant. If the file does not exist at the time you actually try to access it you get the same error with slightly better error message.
I think most like the vibes, not the fact it took ages to make.
Because I can pay a painter to paint me a picture of Harrison Ford, I just can't then use that to sell things.
Perfection is just a bugfix away /s
I was on Ghostwheel! I'm even still friends with somebody I met there.
People doing layoffs have no idea of who works and who's warming the chair.
Europe seeks to capitalize on America's Trump-driven brain drain
Germany bans pro-Palestine protests (officially they're still legal, but they've been arresting people since it began and they've just started deporting people for participating in completely legal protests) but I think that's a slightly different criterion than the one you asked for.
Human brains do way more things than language. And non-human animals (with no language) also reason, and we cannot understand those either, barely even the very simplest ones.
Build an image gallery with Astro and React
How are you doing MFA, or don't you need it?
Its the quality or level of detail.

Which might indicate an environment were quality is above quantity
The sheer majority of media has always opposed Trump though.
Weren't you the guy who only writes HTML? Maybe let domain experts comment on their domain of expertise.
Telling your employer you were a dick is extremism?
Is Elon really that stupid?

Just because doesn't lie doesn't mean we understand it correctly.
What is an Ethernet cable? Here's how to connect to the internet without Wi-Fi (2022)
I agree that at-will employment is a problem. So is a lack of safety nets. Do you know who supports at-will employment and a lack of safety nets?
Crossness Pumping Station enters the conversation

https://crossness.org.uk/gallery/
When Economics and the Natural Sciences Harmonize
I’m just upset they don’t make small phones anymore, but I don’t think that’s relevant to their revenue.
Hello everyone.

Recently, I rewrote the image gallery on my website and took notes on the most important and interesting parts of the process, which I then turned into a blog article.

It's a step-by-step guide based on a practical example that shows how to manage images on a static website, including how to load images, where to use server and client components, how to optimize and handle responsive images, add CSS transitions on load, implement infinite scroll pagination, and include a lightbox preview.

https://nemanjamitic.com/blog/2025-04-02-astro-react-gallery

Have you done something similar yourself, did you take a different approach? I would love to hear your feedback.
Allen had to write the loader in machine code, which was toggled in on the Altair console. The BASIC interpreter itself was loaded from paper tape via the loader and a tape reader. The first BASIC program Allen ran on the Altair was apparently "2 + 2", which worked - i.e. it printed "4" I'd like to have such confidence in my own code, particularly the I/O, which must have been tricky to emulate on the Dec10.
Maybe after all the whole story is not that fascinating?

Bill was coming from the wealthy family, his mum was IBM VP and gave his son a contract to sell operating system, even though there were better alternatives on the market. Ye good ol' story about corporate corruption that gave us such amazing products like Internet Explorer 6, Windows 98 Millenium Edition or Windows Vista.

We could've lived in a so much better World if we didn't have to deal for years with crappy Microsoft operating system and other MS products.
Yeah, I've found it great at XML too. All sorts of boilerplate stuff works so well. As it the project gets bigger Ive had to think for longer about things and step in more, but as you said, that's usually the fun, meaty bit that you want to work on anyway. My app is about 15k lines of code now, and it's a bit more work than at the beginning.
It's nice to be against something, but incomplete to uselessness if you are leaving out your alternative suggestion(s). They will always be dependent on someone.

If you were to go the most direct route, you might want to let the actual "customers", the students, pay for it all, delayed until they have a job of course?

A different version of student loans, it's the university itself that lets them study for free to collect later. I have no idea how that would turn out, I'm sure there would be so many different cases, impossible for me to tell what this would mean and look like.

The biggest problem I can see right away is that it's probably going to increase inequality between institutions. Ever more sorting of the rich and the poor into different places, with huge disparity of funding. So, probably a terrible idea unless the goal is dystopia.

Which leads me back to my question: What is your alternative? I think the government is better than pretty much all others. Private donors are quite problematic to rely on, and you only get the 1% to have even more power over education.
Show HN: HTTP API Test Iframe – Embed Live API Testing in Your Documentation
I'm excited to share HTTP API Test Iframe, an open-source tool designed to empower API documentation. Instead of just testing APIs as a developer, this lightweight component enables you to embed a live testing interface directly into your API docs.

Key Highlights:

- Live API Testing: Allow users to interact with your API from within the documentation.
- Customizable Interface: Configure endpoints, methods, headers, and payloads using simple URL parameters.
- Responsive Design: The iframe automatically adjusts its height based on content, ensuring a seamless experience.
- Easy Integration: Simply drop the provided code snippet into your HTML, and you’re ready to offer interactive documentation.

This project aims to bridge the gap between static documentation and hands-on experimentation, helping API consumers understand and explore your API effortlessly. Check it out on GitHub and let me know your thoughts!

Happy testing!
And suppression of curiosity and engagement counts for infinity on HN, and all the interest in the world has no leverage, by the moderation system's rules.
It's not meant as a workstation/tinkering system, the card without networking is not the main aim. If you're willing to pay 4k for 96GB, just get 3 with networking.

That said, it missed the boat on MoE. The future is two tiered memory systems, NVIDIA has already announced they are doing that. Ideally these cards should have 4-8 DIMM slots for a couple channels of DDR5.

That would also make them far more useful for workstations/tinkering.
Tenstorrent's Wormhole was garbage for anything other than development.

Blackhole is actually usable. They cost slightly more than a used 3090 Ti with 24 GB VRAM, but they come with 32GB GDDR6 and 4x 800G networking (apparently only blackholes to other blackholes).

Nvidia's datacenter GPUs are at least 4x faster, but they also cost 20 times as much. There's also the fact that they have as much SRAM as Groq LPUs.

There is also another present. You get 16 Ascalon cores per Blackhole card. Yes, you've heard that right. You are getting 16 of the fastest RISC-V cores ever developed for a measily $999 to $1,299.

My only complaint is that they have these insane 300W TDPs.
> Politicians won't tax gas because they'll get voted out.

Have you seen gas tax rates in the EU?

> We know that Trump is not captured by corporations because his trade policies are terrible.

Unless you think it's a long con for some rich people to be able to time the market by getting him to crash it.

> The EU is saying the elections in Romania was manipulated through manipulation of TikTok accounts and media.

More importantly, Romanian courts say that too. And it was all out in the open, so not exactly a secret
Basically why open source everything is increasingly more important and imo already making “AI” safer.

If the many have access to the latest AI then there is less chance the masses are blindsided by some rogue tech.
It's a very clear difference between a cheap animation and Ghibli. Anyone can see it.

In the first case, there's only one static image for an entire scene, scrolled and zoomed, and if they feel generous, there would be an overlay with another static image that slides over the first at a constant speed and direction. It feels dead.

In the second case, each frame is different. There's chaotic motions such as wind and there's character movement with a purpose, even in the background, there's always something happening in the animation, there's life.
We need modules so that my search results aren't cluttered with contamination from code that is optimised to be found rather than designed to solve my specific problem.

We need then so that we can find all functions that are core to a given purpose, and have been written with consideration of their performance and a unified purpose rather than also finding a grab bag of everybody's crappy utilities that weren't designed to scale for my use case.

We need them so that people don't have to have 80 character long function names prefixed with Hungarian notation for every distinct domain that shares the same words with different meanings.
To me the question of what activity/method is more "valuable" in the context of art is kind of missing the point of art.
Meta: this needs "(2011)" in the title, please.
Timothy Snyder would encapsulate this idea as "Democracy is not something you are, but something you do."

Which makes a lot of sense if you say the same thing about Christianity. Christian isn't something you are, Christianity is something you do.

Both have hallowed dogmas that are poorly understood by their followers, the constitution and the bible/teachings of jesus respectively.
When people have more money, they tend to buy larger cars that they drive further. Flying is also a luxury.

So corporations are involved in the sense that they pay people more than a living wage.
Everything is a flip side of the same coin if you abstract away from all the important details.

Oh the right say that some things are bad? Well the left say that some things are bad too!

These lazy equivalencies only breed cynicism and give intellectual cover to the Trump
administration’s executive power grab. By all means criticize the left as much as you like. But the specifics are important. The current administration’s deportation of green card holders without due process isn’t somehow a mirror image of whatever excesses of left wing ‘cancel culture’ you may be upset about.
Sure, but in those days spellcheckers were separate apps - the most popular at the time being CorrectStar from MicroPro.

They weren't integrated into programming-oriented editors, and it would have been unusual to run them against code.
> And again we all assume SCOTUS has an inclination to lean to Trumps world view in this.

Given they've bent over backwards for him in the last few years, that's a safe assumption.
give them 10y of subsidies. Its a chance for EU.

also, dictate that there needs clouds and infrastructure be built up in EU without data connection to US, otherwise big taxes or tariffs on data (each MB transfered, 1 euro LOL). We need the scientists and technology.

USA just minimized their negotiation position. If they want to be in 1930's again - no problem.
RE "....Cutting and laying out wires are some of the most tedious and frustrating process....." I would be investigating to use wire wrap. I built some circuits using wire wrap, back in late 70s ,early 80s. I designed and built a circuit on a wire wrap prototype board to put a 68008 DIL chip on the Apple II bus. I'm not sure of the cost of wire wrap parts now - may be quite expensive , the special wire wrap sockets etc .....
This dying "of Covid" vs "with Covid" debate has long been debunked: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-check-94-of-indiv...

TLDR: Those comorbidities are often complications caused by Covid in the first place – like pneumonia or respiratory failure. Sometimes they also include risk factors that could never be treated as a direct cause of death on their own, like obesity (which also happens to be extremely widespread in the US so it gets reported on many death certificates for many illnesses, not just Covid).
> If that asset generates revenue for 120 years, then it’s slightly more valuable than an asset that generates revenue for 119 years

Movies for instance make most of their revenue in the 2 week following their release in theater. Beyond, peoole who wanted to see it had already seen it and the others don't care.

I'd argue it's similar for other art form, even for music. The gain at the very end of the copyright lifetime is extremely marginal and doesn't influence spending decision, which is mostly measured on a return basis of at most 10 years.
For the last paragraph, it already exists: Stable Attribution.

It doesn't work. If you put your handmade drawing inside, it'll also tell you what images were mixed to make it, even though it was entirely human-made.
10 minutes tops, once you have the idea and you've thought it through a bit just spamming out the code isn't that hard nor does it take that long. If there's anything surprising (e.g. function call returns something a bit different than expected) it's fast enough to just read the docs and change your mental model slightly.
Despite people's ridicule this is normal practice, prevents loopholes being exploited.
Details of the submitted are part of the worst nightmares of some of the population. As in: "Europe has given America Einstein, Von Neumann, Gödel - a list of shocking value too long to write in full: which profiles would a reverse wave at this time bring?".

Certain tones in the content reveal the deep connivance, facilitation and responsibilities that some parts have in having kindled the current historic waves.
First paragraph.

"Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic molecule that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria — even strains resistant to commercial drugs — and is not toxic to human cells. [1]"

"[1] Jangra, M. et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08723-7 (2025)."
What will AI find fulfilling itself? I find that to be quite a deep question.

I feel the limitations of humans are quite a feature when you think about what the experience of life would be like if you couldn’t forget or experienced things for the first time. If you already knew everything and you could achieve almost anything with zero effort. It actually sounds…insufferable.
This sounds similar to how piracy actually increases sales in the long run, even though IP holders hate it.
Depending on the layoff they may look into yearly reviews... or not.
Thanks for the read. One could think that the answer is to simply stop being a part of it, but then again you're from the genus that outcompeted everyone else in staying alive. Nature is such a shitty joke by design, not sure how one is supposed to look at the hypothetical designer with warmth in their heart.
The math does not work for UBI to exist at all, and all I see are wishful unrealistic thinking that might work in a more mature civilization we do not live within.
Sure. I'm not going to perform the computation, but my physical intuition tells me that it's completely negligible. The amount of thermal energy the earth absorbs or emits per year must be dwarfed by several orders of magnitudes compared to the rotational energy or the energy lost via tidal friction.
I think "users are not paying attention" is a friendlier way to describe it.

A while back, I was supporting an e-sports event. We had professionals, competing for an awful lot of money who were deeply familiar with the game. We had taken mobile phones, etc from them so no distractions.

They were briefed before hand that all they had to do was wait until they were given the green light, and click the big OK button on their screen to enter the game. We added a giant modal with the OK that explained "press this button when you are told to". This was a last minute workaround for the fact that we could only tell how many people were in the queue for something, but not which of our expected players were not in the queue. Our telemetry tells us one person is missing, so we have to go walking around to find them. Found the guy, sitting in front of a giant modal saying "Click this when you are told to", and his response was "I didn't know I was supposed to click it".

Now add mobile phones, children, doorbells, cooking, neighbours, and this becomes widespread.
It's interesting that this antibacterial molecule is created by a bacteria. So there's one bacteria that's resistant I guess. But maybe that's not a concerning type of bacteria but I hear that bacteria can transfer traits from one species to another...
Many companies now engage in serial waterfalling.
RE .... See the Gigatron.
Google link https://www.google.com/search?q=Gigatron+CPU&oq=Gigatron+CPU gives lots of good explanatory links . (I had never heard of it , it looks quite interesting .... )
Show HN: I built a tool to automate social media success
You want opportunities to come to you on autopilot, right? I know I do.

A personal brand and nothing else is the way to go, but...

I hate writing a post, formatting for LinkedIn, Twitter (X), generating images for Instagram, etc.

This was born out of my own personal flow of braindumping into a fine-tuned chat in ChatGPT that knew my style. Then, I ask it to write the LinkedIn post and X thread.

I then post the X thread
I go to Taplio carousel to convert the thread to images and a carousel pdf
I download those images and post on insta
I posted the longform and pdf to LinkedIn
I post the longform to redditt

I hated doing this every day, but I wanted the benefits of having a personal brand. I wanted opportunities to come to me out of the blue. So do I keep suffering the mental torture and the waste of my time instead of building cool stuff?

Wait, I can build cool stuff, so I built Yapwriter. Sound like typewriter

Yap = Talk

The idea is that you just talk, and your brain dump is converted into a long-form post, a Twitter thread, carousel images, and pdfs. This is the MVP.

The next stage is to add all social platforms, blogging platforms, newsletters, etc.

So that you can just talk, and in a matter of minutes, you're in front of at least 1,000 eyeballs.

If you want this, try out the product today. Thanks everyone.
For movies in particular the tail is very thin. Only very few 50 year old movies are ever watched. Was any commercial movie ever financed without a view to making a profit in the box office/initial release?
Show HN: My Self-Hosted Open Source WeTransfer Alternative Erugo
Erugo is a totally free, powerful, self-hosted file-sharing platform that puts you in control of your files and data.

I've been working on this project since January this year and i've just released 0.1.1

Features:
- Really easy file upload interface with drag and drop support, single file select and folder select.

- Maintains folder structure when you upload nested folders. (As far as I can figure out its the only open source tool that does this)

- Optionally password protect shares.

- Allow users to create "reverse share" requests.

- Set expiry times when creating shares.

- Add recipients to shares and Erugo will send them an email with a link to the share after upload.

- Direct or chunked upload modes available to adapt to network conditions.

- External auth provide support (Google, Microsoft, Authentik, OIDC)

Customisation:
- Change UI colours with either the built in themes or create your own.

- Add your own logo and background.

- Add multiple backgrounds and let them display as a slideshow - change the time between slides easily.

- Remove "Powered by Erugo" easily, enabling a fully white-labeled interface.

- Control maximum share size, maximum expiry time, allowed upload modes, and more.

I'm working hard to add features and improve the product. I'd love to read what the HN community thinks to my Project :)