skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flagging isn’t done by moderators, it’s done by regular HN users.
Your project looks great.
Have you looked at the "services" route?

Instead of companies or individuals paying you to build your software, that they may find useful, (and some companies may not feel comformatble funding a bit of software that their competitors could otherwise take for free), you instead provide - through a services company - integration support, customisation, hosted versions, or other tertiary elements of value (such as premium documentation) that keep you focused on your project (albeit via some diversification)

If the software is free (as in beer) then what else might potential users need, that you can monitise.

E.g. Documentation, installation scripts, advanced models don't "have" to be free alongside the code. Just a thought.
One of the reasons being that more people had mono systems so the stereo mixdown was just kind of a "for fun" afterthought. They didn't take it as seriously.
Now install candy crush
This is a bit topical for me. Game performance seems to be a real problem as of late... It’s not uncommon for me to play “retro” games that run poorly on my 4-series Nvidia gpu. Not a game developer myself but this is definitely still a problem in 2025.
the author of that email has been having a very public breakdown for months now, mostly consisting of being a prick and trying to harm the community and a competitor.
>I regret that now.

I, on the other hand, am thankful for it. I love watching Anton Petrov, PBS Space Time, and various other experts and communicators in anything space-related. This looks like a great podcast that slipped me by, so I appreciate the link.
Called the demo number, sounds smooth! Good luck.
Not sure which diagonal line you mean but I expect some creases are added for structural reasons, so the large areas of the metal are rigid, not floppy.
What's After Evals? Code Quality in LLM Applications: Beyond Model Performance
The whole western world is different and not for the better since 2015.
Erosion of public trust since then is tremendous and regrettable so it is not surprising that we miss the communities that once were.
I respect those who use and enjoy TS, but I have less respect for the argument that it should be used in place of JS everywhere.

You’re replacing runtime trust with compile-time trust, but at the cost of flexibility and speed. That’s not always worth it.

TypeScript solves problems I stopped having 20 years ago.
This is an April fools joke.
I hate to say it but choosing to name something sl in the first place is about as arrogant as you can get. I just can’t understand the world in which sl was an acceptable name to use much less an acceptable executable to have a dependency on.
I follow the HN subreddit and routinely see very active threads that aren’t in the feed.
Nope. Positec.
> I've not run into anyone who says AI is useless.

There's a front page post on HN at least once a week about how AI is useless. And in the threads that aren't about AI being useless, at least one person who will comment that they are.
> This restructuring will result in an approximately 16% workforce reduction

Probably the most salient detail for non-Automattic employees. Everything else was generic fluff.
Why not though? Seems like relatively little amount of work was missing since clearly no one seriously done something like this before :)
dang, by all means, point out and detail the "political" content of this article.
The most I've done, is sneak a mouse dongle into a neighbor/cube's computer... throughout the day I'd just move the mouse in one direction, frustrating the user across the partition.
Searched hn.algolia.com to see if this had been posted yet, and was presented with a confusing of dropdown of non-TWP conformant “date ranges”- hope they can fix that soon.
I am hoping they paid a bounty for this (> 20k). Otherwise doing the right thing isn't right in my opinion. Their MBAs will not see a lesson to be learned, but something that is to be swept under the rug
a lot of companies ask for equipment to be returned due to security concerns, or just on principle
That's a really good question.

In my head, I'm imagining someone early in the morning posting a flyer up on a bulletin board downtown.

Throughout the day many folks walked by and took photos of the flyer with their cell phone.

At the end of the day, the original person came back and removed the flyer.

IMO, at the time that the folks took the photo of the flyer, that flyer was public information. It remains public information even after the flyer is removed[0].

This isn't a great analogy of mine, and has plenty of holes, but was interesting to me after I read your comment. I know it was in the context of doxxing, but I think it's pretty interesting philosophically.

I think something similar applies to photos taken of other people in public spaces. Both the person who took the photo and the subject of the photo are no longer in that physical public space, but the actions took place within that space.

I think something similar applies to digital "public spaces". But what does a public space even mean in the context of walled gardens[1], etc.

[0] you then run into the question of what happens if someone posts non-public information, publicly?
[1] are digital walled garden communities that different from physical communities that gate access, whether free or paid. Whether information shared within those contexts are public or private is an interesting thread as well.
There is inherent inefficiency in government accountability efforts. I'm ok with that.
Maybe. But if the current efforts keep up at this pace, the majority of citizens are going to be very broke pretty fast.
I totally get where you're coming from. But regardless of their reason for voting for a candidate, if the net effect is that 150m+ women lost rights and other horrible outcomes, it's the same as endorsing it.
This feels like you'd say that just because apples fall from trees and a bowling ball falls in much the same way when tossed off a building, that grouping those things together implies a common cause and that we should call that cause a theory because we aren't 100% certain that they are caused by the same effect.

They could be two different reasons.

I do prefer Occom's razor for these things. We've seen a bunch extremely large celestial objects move in ways that our models cannot account for with the things that we can see. Sure, there could be more than one thing out there causing all of those extremely similar effects. But that's far less likely than there just being one reason.
Should have been Tesla instead.
Mastering diverse control tasks through world models
if (!user || typeof user.nam !== 'string') {
throw new Error("Missing or invalid 'nam' on user");
}

Contemporary JavaScript has optional chaining, default values, and reflective tools like Object.hasOwn, which are all web standards. You just have to know how to use them.
Before even the "has a mission of its own" part, an independent non-profit needs to pay its bills. I suspect that dang & Co. aren't working for free. Similar for servers & internet connections & etc.

And I'd bet that few people here want to see ads, or start paying for their accounts.
We shouldn't use that term. "Vibe coding". Nope. Brainless coding. That is what it is. It's what beginners do: programming without understanding what they--or their programs--are doing. The additional use of a computer program that brainlessly generates brainless code to complement their own brainless code doesn't mean we should call what they are doing by a new name.
dang is Canadian.
The "What [the political spectrum] Actually Is" graph shows more independent thinkers to be unintentional moderates. The chart is a claim that independence leads to moderation. I deny that. The most independently minded thinkers I know frequently drift off into extremes where most tribes dare not tread. The tribalists are so moderate in comparison that I would turn that christmas tree upside down.
This does look like a large relative increase in score, but it seems like it comes from getting zero correct out of 6 to getting 1 and 1/2 correct. I think it's fair to say the sample size here is relatively small. Still, a record is a record! Congrats to the team for a new record!
>A lot of their videos look like CGI but apparently the product is real.

I bought their robot dog as part of a project to build embodied AI models back in 2022.

Their SDK was far more open than anything else on the market and the stock firmware was on par with competitors, this includes products that were x10 the price.

The robot itself scared dogs in the park, but kids loved it. At $3k it's on par with a mid range drone and quite fun to hack on.
DeepMind RL-based approach can mine diamonds in Minecraft
If it were going to be exposed to the elements, I would pick a pine and waterseal it or a marine ply and waterseal it.

It would fail eventually anyway, but either of those two options, depending on price, would be good and cheap enough to last.
This is what happens when Zuck really starts to dislike you.

When you contact Facebook they will either simply say "Whoops, probably a bug" or nothing at all

Happened earlier to a long term internet friend of mine.
I think the sensory load idea is productive, but I'd add a related idea of drawing attention to key things only.

I don't care if my kettle looks "professional"; one is pink, another is orange.

But I prefer walls around me to be white or very lightly colored, not, say, intensively red. That would constantly distract me.

Code in my editor is colorful like a Christmas tree, bur most of the interface is muted beige and green. This is about certain things requiring my attention, and others sparing it.

When everything is loud, nothing is, nothing stands out. Bold colors often work better as accents.

(Sometimes it's about non-aesthetic considerations. I prefer my car to be approximately white to soak in less of the hot summer summer sun.)
I also remember the Personification of Science who funded virus creation at a lab in the city where the virus first spread spending February 2020 saying that Covid probably wasn’t going to be a problem. This raises a whole lot of questions BUT no one here wants to talk about that. And besides he’s been pardoned.

It’s funny how fast the Hn crowd can go back and forth between asking “what radicalized you?” and looking away from the answer.
I set up a couple ‘bedrock’ servers on a NUC. Without a doubt, one of the best uses of that computer.

One world is pretty much wide open-
Cheats and creative mode allowed. Extended family also allowed to play, build, explore. The other server is survival mode only with no cheats and just me and my son allowed to play.

It’s been so much fun switching between the worlds and getting different experiences in the same game. We have strict rules about screen time, but even off-hours it’s a great bonding experience talking about plans for next time we play. I say this as someone who used to be really into gaming growing up but cannot seem to ‘get into’ any game anymore. It’s the bonding that makes the difference.

One more note, it’s not all about screen time. The other day we went on a short hike at a park. ‘Went exploring’, kids aren’t interested in hikes. Anyway, it started sprinkling and had potential to go negative. But instead: ‘Dad, this is just like exploring in Minecraft!’. <3
And yet only one company I've ever worked for went this way.

I wish more did; it really is such a small goodwill gesture to departing employees.
White House close to approving sale of TikTok's US unit to investors
I didn't say it was done by moderators, I said it was a tool for moderation. Flagging is the means by which regular HN users perform moderation activities, in addition to the actions available to the moderators.
Andreessen Horowitz in talks to help buy out TikTok's Chinese owners
https://archive.is/oQ1tM
What a beautiful scene. Something about Discreet Music just says.... things aren't perfect, sometimes they're scary or confusing, but it's going to be okay. It's like the repeating motif acts as a constant reassurance, but from many different perspectives over the length of the record. Hope the pup's doing okay now :)
Well, you can call it that, but there is not a singular will or policy behind what is getting flagged, and the HN “community” isn’t homogeneous. HN users can also “vouch” to counteract flagging. It only takes a single vouch to un-kill a comment.
I do remember that. Sorry I can't find a better website but this is a similar joke.

https://www.reddit.com/r/restofthefuckingowl/comments/6f71jm...
Tangent: I would love to see the US gov and military take coding seriously internally. It's nearly all outsourced to contractors, and the software is usually slow and buggy. I built some tools while in, but it was all bro-level.
Love this idea.

Rightly or wrongly, people judge based on first impressions, and your landing page can cause frustration. First, your floating nav bar is huge on mobile, but nothing a zoom out can't fix. Second, the animated "Learn" hero isn't a constant size, causing the entire page to jump around while trying to read it. Again, can be fixed with zoom... but only with a lot of zoom, so that everything else is almost unreadable.
> Voting for Donald Trump is unarguably an evil action in my book.

I'm not sure why I'm bothering, but I'll bite.

I didn't vote for the guy, don't like the guy, never have.

Trying to understand _why_ people _did_ vote for him is much more important than declaring half the country (really like 30-35% of the country, more people didn't vote than did vote for a specific candidate) evil.

If we need to assign blame, Biden should have dropped out long before he did so the democrats could have found their next Obama, or something.

Or maybe, just maybe, people were desperate for a change and they were manipulated into a false sense of illogical hope.

The question is, why did they need hope? What was so wrong, in their mind, that we all ended up here?

Or, just declare them evil and hold a useless sense of moral superiority. This solves nothing, but I suppose it makes you feel better.
Analyzing open-source bootloaders: Finding vulnerabilities faster with AI
As adults that is true, but in high school perceived peer pressure is important and so most kids act like their peers. (there are a number of different groups in most schools and they are not a like, but you pick yours and belong to it)
There aren't really union filesystems per se, the plan 9 kernel provides unions through its namespace model. In my opinion part of the reason why the userspace tools can be as nice as they are, are due to the use of file system interfaces and the simplistic syscall API. Could you elaborate more on the issues you see with the use of these?

In regards to using it for a "cloud native" stack, the issue is that people want to run code that isn't designed for Plan 9. You could build whatever backplane type thing you want out of plan 9 but the end goal is still likely to be to run some web app or REST api server. Unless someone does a great deal of effort to port all of those environments that people want (nodejs, modern python, etc) you're going to be stuck using a VM and losing a lot of the benefit.

This feels similar to what Joyent did with lxzones in SmartOS, where the backplane was solaris based but the apps they were running for clients were using Linux. It's hard to make the plan 9 backplane better enough to warrant dealing with integrating the guest and host environment.
Username astoundingly appropriate
My guess is the idea that folks are waiting for a redesigned Model Y will be blown apart by April figures showing that this is brand destruction, not demand deferral.

We also haven’t seen anyone ban or put a special tariff on Teslas, or take the nuclear option, ban cameras-only self-driving cars. (The idea that Musk stepping away will politically neutralise him is nuts.)
I hope dang and tomhow get rich doing this job. I'd happily pay for HN too.
> How does the government know, the one've written what they dislike is you, in case they find a peace on the street and read the tracking code?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43557589
Where would the "paper" part come in? Is that just based on the word "bench" in general?
So been here slightly longer and the only shift I can recall is a shift away from business to tech.

Early days had a lot more discussion about the business side of startups and vc. Then it started shifting more towards tech too the point now where startup/business discussion is mostly limited to Show/Ask posts.
Many KVM Updates Merged for Linux 6.15
klarna allowed us to buy our work phone and macbook paying only the tax value. We had to give them the devices so they would be wiped out by a third party, then they mailed them to my home.
In my time off, every business has made it annoyingly difficult to do this with any official capacity. I want to blame the fiefdom crafting...

The 'subtext' here is that I haven't found it particularly ~~profitable~~ sustainable by itself
It's the first line of the thirty-three dog whistle defense. The followers accept that answer as King Krasnov having simply declared that any such information isn't classified, just like he did for those boxes of files exfiltrated to his bathroom-turned-guest-library. It's the adult version of a kid going "I'm not hitting my brother I'm just swinging my arms and walking forward". And then of course if the courts actually start to disagree, the neofascists ramp up the threats for stochastic violence.
Jungles are actually a great example. They are mostly neutral browns and dark greens that form a pretty neutral background... with the occasional beautiful bright accent colors from a bird or flower or something. But if you trek through the jungle, it's pretty boring color-wise most of the time. Which is why spotting a colorful bird is such a joy.

But can you please take the personal attacks elsewhere? HN is not the place for those.
Ace is actually uniquely designed to support that. Our training staff simply record their screens and mouse+keyboard events. We transform that into behavior cloning data to train the model. It's quite easy for us to do custom agents for enterprise or other lesser-known software and workflows. Reach out to us at contact@generalagents.com if you're interested.
> 3. Most people don't want to graduate from tribes to views

I checked out of political conversations when I noticed I was teaching remedial civics over drinks and none of us were having fun. So I just sit back and watch people who just want to engage in reality tv style yelling confrontation.
I stopped after a few classes but I was amazed at how good I got in a short amount of time after learning how to break stuff down which isn't something I really thought about before. By all metrics I'm still a pretty terrible drawer but prior to that stick figures would have been challenging.
If you buy new and drive for live you are a minority and so manufacturers (and banks via loans) won't make that type of thing that sell you but don't have perceived resale. If you buy newish used and keep for life you are stuck with what they think you will buy.
Did the same voyage in a similarly sized boat, solo. Departed Berkeley then out under the bridge to half moon bay, then off the deep end for Honolulu. Took a bit longer than expected and was nearly hit by a passing vessel, but smooth sailing otherwise!
I can't really relate to the mindset of people who use downvoting as a 'I disagree' button.

That's a valid use of the button by design, HN is literally made to allow for that use. Plus it mimics real life interactions - there is a social cost/friction to saying things people disagree with or think are outright wrong. Most online chitchat places deteriorate because they remove such social frictions.
I have the opposite experience. Being able to write stuff like this is refreshing:

public record Name(string First, string? Last = null);
public record Register(Name[] Members);
...
var register = new Register([new("John", "Doe"), new("Neo")])

It probably depends on what you're writing. I'm not using async much at all so I don't feel the pain of it.
I haven't thought about trying to earn from OSS myself, but I'm curious to see how Jimmy Bogard - who recently announced this intention - is going to handle it.

- https://www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-and-mediatr-going-com...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558316
I would argue that this isn't a good forum to discuss the relative merits of outsourcing one's morality to a corporation, nor the merits of closing oneself off to examination of belief in light of conflicting reality, hence the respectful circumspect language earlier.

Regarding your comment here, it would be accurate to say it is currently enshrined by a small group of Utah-based religions and metacultures as divine and potentially even protective, and no one else really cares if said adherents drink or don't drink coffee. What isn't in doubt is that coffee and tea are healthier than soda, and that said Utah-based religious schisms allow Koreans and other East Asian areas to drink tea (along with South Americans to drink Yerba Mate) in contravention to their doctrine, so any alleged health benefits from adherence clearly isn't the focus and outward manifestation of obedience is the goal for the malleable rule.

Other groups that have health codes that have a good physical basis:

- Seventh-day Adventism, ~22 million, Vegetarianism encouraged, no alcohol, tobacco, or caffeine

- Islam, ~2 billion (Sunni + Shia), No pork or alcohol; fasting during Ramadan; ritual slaughter

- Judaism, ~15 million, No pork or shellfish; no mixing meat/dairy; specific slaughter methods Holiness, cultural cohesion, obedience to God’s law

- Sikhism, ~26 million, No alcohol, tobacco, or drugs; vegetarianism in some sects; uncut hair (kesh)

- Rastafarianism, ~1 million, Vegetarian or vegan, no alcohol, processed foods, or salt; often no caffeine

- Jainism, ~4–5 million, Strict vegetarianism, often no root vegetables, no alcohol

- Hare Krishna (ISKCON), ~1 million+, No meat, eggs, fish, onions, garlic, or caffeine; food must be offered to Krishna

- Baháʼí Faith, ~5–8 million, Abstain from alcohol; annual 19-day fast (sunrise to sunset)

- Brighamite Mormonism (LDS), ~3-5 million (regular attending), abstain from coffee, tea, alcohol, tobacco; no longer adhering to low meat consumption or beer (encouraged, not considered a strong drink, circa 1825 liquors like whiskey were considered ills, wasn't until Prohibition in the 1930s that Brighamites added alcohol to banned list, and the 1960s/1970s entrenched through gatekeeping entrance for secret rituals, causing some ritual center managers to not be able to get their annual renewal)
I also care about workers' rights.

Stimulants are a problem, but I do not see stimulants as detrimental to workers' rights.

I see stimulants as a problem for healthcare though. I know people who have heart problems that are exacerbated by stimulants. But that's not a problem for everyone -- just as diabetes or heart disease are prevalent, nor a problem for everyone, and nor are they detrimental to workers' rights.
That site had 11 major frontpage threads in the last year, which is a lot.

Every single one of them set off the flamewar detector. That's extremely unusual. If it were one or two I'd call it random, but 11 in a row, whatever the reason, is not random. We turned off that software penalty on about half of those threads.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485950

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484927
Where is a good place to actually discuss it, then, and can the rest of us join you there?
Very interesting. How easy/difficult is it for a dealer to return unsold inventory to a car maker?