skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, in very large organizations the onboarding process can take a while. It can be months before you have credentials to the repository. By then, full benefits will kick in, worker protections, etc.

And I’m a hiring manager. I’m trying to slot new hires with the training they will need and give them realistic tasks I know they can accomplish. And it’s not easy. I’m already 30 days in on a new hire that I’ve been able to peer with for 2 days. And I’m constantly apologizing for the lack of time.
How do you get flicker free navigation using htmx without using hx-swap or boost? I see that this article refers to https://unplannedobsolescence.com which has a header that remains the same, but it also doesn't change. Normally a header will do some type of change, e.g. showing which menu item is currently selected. That's when the flickering starts, in my experience.
Pipelines are usually just a list of sequential steps. I have been working with a lot of different CI/CD tools and they are among the easiest thing to move from one to another.
I don't think it's fair to tar Meta with that brush. WhatApp have said repeatedly they'll leave the UK before disabling E2EE.
Spy agencies lying? Unthinkable!
I don't get how this would produce consistent images. In the article, the text could be on a grid, but the window and doorway and sofa don't seem to be grid-aligned. (Or maybe the text is overlaid?)
Contracting will do it. (Caveats apply - understand IR35, keep 6+ months of money in the bank, be able to temporarily relocate, YMMV)
It's not that smooth looking if a refresh takes 500 milliseconds. Then it flickers.
Cheap netbook-like devices are widely available from China these days. They'll probably be cheap enough even accounting for the new tariffs. Or you can just buy an older 'ultrabook' laptop on the used market.
I mean, just literally if you run a poll among United Nations members, people would rate the statement like "China occupies Tibet" and "USA occupies Texas" as the same delusional things - fantasy detached from reality
You really don’t need this much to build an MCP server in Go. I built one in a single file: https://github.com/Alcova-AI/perplexity-mcp/blob/main/main.g...
we have a constituency based first past the post system.

we vote for a local MP to represent our constituency in the house of commons. first one past the threshold wins and represents our area in the house of commons.

each MP gets one vote. one vote in the house of commons for each constituency.

so yes. this is possible. because it’s not about total votes — it’s about representing the individual local areas and the people within those areas.

labour won a landslide of “areas”. that’s how our system works.

just because it doesn’t match what you think democracy should look like doesn’t mean it isn’t democratic. it’s just different.

plenty of criticisms exist about our system (esp house of lords). we even tried to have a referendum on first past the post about two decades ago. i voted for AV. but oh well.
Never underestimate the power of the steady state of the system. Sometimes inaction is better than perfection :)
If there is a de facto dress code and you knowingly go against it, even if you look good in whatever you do wear, it makes you look like you don't understand the prevailing norms. This could lead to worries you might not align with other team norms either.
Can't post training help reduce potentially biased or harmful outputs?

Though even that isn't perfect. Some SOTA models sometimes seem to respond in ways that inadvertently soften the portrayal of controversial figures. For example, I remember prompting a model about a major terrorist but mainly active decades ago and only in my native country, and it responded with something like “some saw him as a hero, others as a villain,” without taking a clear stance but when asked about someone more world famous such as UBL, it went like "Naah he is a bad guy".
Why are so many comments getting hung up on this?

If the (presumably) male at the community center had painted a portrait of the three older buddies he had in the community, would you all be asking "why does that painting only have men in it?"

I agree that they should do women next, given the unexpected popularity of what is presumably a pet project - but it's not hard to understand the very simple & obvious reasons why the first set of cards didn't feature women.
Tesla is a car company and warrants a pe comparable to other car companies.
Billionaires Seek to Take Companies Private Amid Market Mayhem
I'm sure at any given point there's hundreds of this exact discussion occurring in various threads on HN.

LLMs are cool, a lot of people find them useful. Hype bros are full of crap and there's no point arguing with them because it's always a pointless discussion. With crypto and nfts it's future predictions which are just inherently impossible to reason about, with ai it's partially that, and partially the whole "do they have human properties" thing which is equally impossible to reason about.

It gets discussed to death every single day.
I think a supercharger changes a passenger car engine qualitatively too!

So are there plans to copy GT/moldable development somewhere outside of Pharo/Smalltalk?
This does not surprise me at all. The world would be a much better place if the leftists downvoting this weren't allowed to vote.
A day at Uranus just got 28 seconds longer
> the bank still holds a master key for that deposit box in case it's compelled to open it for law enforcement.

.. so they can steal it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2023/12/11/...
I believe some resentment towards the elderly is unavoidable given the circumstances. Its unfortunate, but understandable. Looking at my own family, my mother inherited the family property after my father died. She has never had any officially payed job since her 30s. In the last 40 years, she has only lived off pension, and hasn't put anything back into the system. Meanwhile, I have worked 25 years straight now, and still don't have enough money to buy a decent apartment in the city where I work. I am guessing the perceived unfairness of this "pyramid" is going to make a lot more people unhappy in the future. Certainly, compared to my mother, my life feels like I am a drone. Not being female is a huge disadvantage these days. I mean, a pension for being married to a man who died? Alimony when the spouse leaves? All things males can only dream of. And, the incentives are all wrong. My mother didn't take on any official jobs because she would loose some of the pension she gets. So, its better to just suck every drop of blood you can out of the welfare state, instead of thinking about how the system actually works and that it needs people to put in effort so that others that really need it can take things out...
No, that's delegation. It's a useful feature to be able to give out multiple keys and an even more useful one if you can revoke them.
You should check out the beer mile races
The cargo hold of most pressurised aircraft is itself almost always pressurised, yes.
I mean, aren't great degrees such tests, though they don't check the practical knowledge.

We just need some sort of qualification which tests practical knowledge.
Supernormal font averaged from widely popular fonts
I agree, but I suspect that you’d have much better luck if you wore something that was superficially similar to the kinds of things other people wore, but was much better fitted and higher quality. For instance, if you showed up in a nice pair of chinos and a tailored buttoned shirt (of appropriate formality), that might come across as being really put together rather than ignoring subtle social cues by dressing in something that stands out by not fitting in.
Centrifugal Force vs. Centripetal Acceleration: and How to Calculate Them
>a string of meh employers

What's a meh employer?
Citi cuts China GDP growth forecast to 4.2% from 4.7% for 2025
Does anyone have examples of non trivial websites or apps built with Htmx?
I own a stationary indoor exercise bicycle. Its quite fancy.. has a magnetically coupled flywheel to adjust the difficulty setting and has all the electronic counters etc. I try use it every day/second day and on those days I really have to motivate myself to get on it and do my 40 min cycle. The first 10 mins is really tough for me and I find I have to put in a lot of mental effort to enter a meditative frame of mind that helps me finish the workout but, by the end of those 40 mins and for the rest of the day I feel on top of the world... its the one thing that helps to motivate me to get back on it everyday.

I suspect its the same thing with most endurance type sports which include running. Most people don't actually like the idea of it but the feeling of well-being makes them keep on doing it.
The best encouragement I’ve had to hit the weights is the injuries that stopped me running. Gotta get strong to get back to running
While I get where you're coming from and agree to some extent, the cost of introducing new species is often the eradication of native species that can't compete. The moral argument is that those species deserve to be protected because they're valuable as is, while the utilitarian argument is that if native species die, we're losing access to genetic diversity that could be exploited now or in the future for medical treatments, innovations in science, etc.
IBM Announces the Z17 Mainframe Powered by Telum II Processors
To the best of my knowledge, Ethiopia isn't running international crime rings to fund nuclear ambitions.
Tennis is a sport that I think of as being especially punishing on knees - with all the quick changes in direction on hard surfaces.

In the past I had some issues with my IT band when I used to run longer distances. I was able to clear it up by using a foam roller in combination with other stretches. These days I have issues with my achilles/calf, which I’m sure I could clear up with a combination of strengthening, stretching, and weight loss - but instead have just been sticking to slower speeds and shorter distances. Cushioned shoes helped, too.

It may be worth seeing a sports or physical therapist. It’s amazing how much of a difference a strengthening exercise can make. Or if you’re like me and don’t like seeing doctors, there are a lot of physical therapy videos on YouTube to try out.

Last suggestion I have is to look into cycling. I ride with lots of guys who took up cycling after ACL injuries, achilles injuries, etc., forced them to give up other sports. With a proper bike fit, I think you shouldn’t have any issues with your knees. And can be done both indoors and outdoors (smart trainers and Zwift have come a long way in making stationary bikes more fun, though still not as fun as outdoors).
I just love it, when people repair old stuff and the things are running again for another time. I love to repair things myself, it's just a very good feeling, if you managed to repair a device. Don't ask how often it would be cheaper to buy a new device, but the feeling is priceless.
https://htmx.org/essays/view-transitions/
It's always odd to me how people tend to think that human-created ecosystems are "freakish" or "unnatural".

Humans evolved in the same environment as the ecosystems we're modifying. The buildings and cars and roads we make are made of materials we find on earth, similar to how birds build nests or ants make anthills. (Whether all the things we build are good and healthy for us and our environment is another story.)

My hypothesis has long been that this view of human activity as "unnatural" was actually born of the religious perspective that some religions hold that humans were implanted into the universe from the outside.
How to measure "lack of crime" if depends mostly on people responsibility than policing? You cannot put a policeman watching everyone and themselves.

E.g. I believe Oaxaca must have lower crime rates than Tampico simply because one is convenient drug port and other is not, not because better police.
An example specie over here would be Canadian goldenrod. It completely dominates other plants and creates monoculture.
Show HN: ChatWise – Turn your content into cash. Fast
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If you create things as well, it can help you too. You simply upload content and the app turns it into a chatbot that others can subscribe to and learn from.

It also takes care all the payments for you.

I built the app with NodeJS/NextJS/Supabase.

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Keep building
> But it can't be done en-masse, against every citizen.

Why not, the parts aren't particularly expensive?

Unless the MTBF is really short, like "single digit months", I recon London's Metropolitan Police could have every window in the city under laser microphone for less than their annual budget.
People do take university courses in doing creative stuff, a fair number of sucessful novelists seem to have done one, RPG proposed that we could have something similar for software [1].

[1] https://dreamsongs.com/MFASoftware.html
Nobody gets fired for buying IBM, I guess :(
Musk sets the stage for Tesla to bail out Twitter/xAI at an insane valuation
I think it's more likely that social pressure to control people's weights is responsible for Japan's low BMI, not anything to do with the food. Japan is the land of vending machines and convenience stores. It's easy to eat junk food all day if you want to. But people will notice you getting fat, and unlike in Western countries they're likely to criticize you for it.
What are you doing for the knee pain?

If you weren’t doing any activity before, the pain is probably related to muscle imbalances, (relative) overtraining or similar. Obviously not a doctor but the takeaway shouldn’t be that exercise is bad, more that years of inactivity leads to serious atrophy that later causes injury when activity levels pick up.
> who drink too much water

I totally understand what you mean, however the vast majority of the population isn't even close to being hydrated properly so you're just taking an extreme example to make your point.
I was in this situation on the candidate side :) however I started with "I had your question list beforehand and I searched wikipedia for the answers". I got the job
When you're frightened and live in a glass house, you stay silent and obedient to prevent any stones from inadvertently hitting your house.

Since it's transparent, you can't do anything which others don't like anyway, and if you even manage, you'll be taken away silently.

IOW, read 1984 and Brave New World and create a synthesis of it.
What Generation I Pokémon Are You Based on Your Zodiac Sign?
This was some great read
>integrity and reputation goes a long way.

Was it really necessary to take the moral high ground and lecture the candidate? As if companies are honest and well-meaning in interviews. You caught him and that's the end of it.
I think the general point of my comment still stands, as you and everyone else working on the project would need to be disciplined and only release binaries that were compiled with no warnings. And even using -Werror doesn't fully solve the problem in C, as not having warnings/errors is still not enough to get memory safety.
Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant
Show HN: Desktop Commander MCP+Claude = Local Automation with fixed flat price
I built Desktop Commander MCP to break out of the coding box that tools like Cursor and Windsurf keep you in.

It gives Claude full access to your local machine — so you can search files, run terminal commands, automate tasks, and do more than just write code. It feels more like a real assistant than an IDE.

It’s fully open source and runs inside Claude Desktop (flat $20/mo, no token limits).
Early users describe using is as “cheating” or getting “supper powers” over their machines.
ClickFix: Social Engineering That Bypasses EDRs, SWGs and Humans
I think this is most interestingly framed as an extension of/successor to/alternative for Literate Programming, or at least that's the mental cubbyhole it best fits in for me.

Another recent screed on programming in this vein is John Ousterhout's:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31248641

which similarly, walks up to, but doesn't quite come out in favour of Literate Programming.

EDIT: That said, it is framed as LP in at least one description: https://futureofcoding.org/catalog/smalltalk.html
hmm Rust as well:

let [car, cdr @ ..] = [1,2,3];
You can’t foam roll or stretch away IT band issues, fascia just doesn’t work that way.
Reporting news accurately is a very difficult business model in a world full of oligarch-backed papers that constantly lose money to further their own agenda, plus social media which is increasingly indifferent as to whether the links they circulate have any truth in them or not.
Listen to what the avg right wing person wants to do.

Traditional family values: Controlling how others should live their lives.

Limited Government: Something which benefits the rich and successful people only.

Individual responsiblity: Again benefits the rich and successful people. Plenty of poor people never got a chance (color, gender, money, ...)

Right is against increase of tax (every rep signs that statement), socialism is bad etc.
Yes if you click a regular link in a modern browser on a noJS or lowJS reasonable size page it is darn fast.

And the predictability is a boon. Open in new tab, back button etc.
The whole post shapes the context, even the whole sentence helps already: It just "happens" to be also available to select for the end-user after product-launch. Supporting DNG would mean adding an extra feature and then hiding the RAW-option again.

--> Even if DNG-support would be adopted as a feature for the end-user, the proprietary RAW would still need to be maintained because it has a core-purpose during development of the product. The utilization AFTER that is the product-feature

None of this negates the value of RAW for photographers, this is completely beside the topic
A Decade and a Half of Remote Work
More likely they didn't care and nobody wrote an automated test for it because that would be hard, no human testers are employed (because who even does that now?), and only two users got all the way through the labyrinthine process to report it as an issue so managers triaged the bug as wontfix.

I think this is industry standard practice in 2025, right?
Nu: F# Functional Game Engine Worth Your Attention
As a longtime fan of Nu, I'm amazed at what this solo developer has accomplished with functional programming. Built entirely in F#, Nu offers time-travel debugging and multiple programming approaches while staying performant.
I've been using it for my own experimental projects and can confirm the functional approach eliminates entire categories of bugs that plague traditional game engines. It's refreshing to work with immutable game states and declarative logic.
The project deserves more visibility - it's proof that functional programming isn't just academic theory but can deliver practical tools for real developers. Anyone else here wants to try building games with F#?
A good book about the related topic of novel urban ecosystems is "Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution" by Menno Schilthuizen. For urban ecosystems Schilthuizen argues we should accept it; cities are a new habitat anyway, and we should treasure the novel ecosystem that forms in them.

For non-urban places where thriving existing ecosystems get changed completely due to introductions the picture is more complicated; we should not ignore what has been gained by accident, but also mourn the loss.
I'll give a shot at some guiding principals:

1. Do not use yaml.

All github action logic should be written in a language that compiles to yaml, for example dhall (https://dhall-lang.org/). Yaml is an awful language for programmers, and it's a worse language for non-programmers. It's good for no one.

2. To the greatest extent possible, do not use any actions which install things.

For example, don't use 'actions/setup-node'. Use bazel, nix, direnv, some other tool to setup your environment. That tool can now also be used on your developer's machines to get the same versions of software as CI is using.

3. Actions should be as short and simple as possible.

In many cases, they will be as simple as effectively "actions/checkout@v4", "run: ./ci/build.sh", and that's it.

Escape from yaml as quickly as possible, put basic logic in bash, and then escape from bash as quickly as possible too into a real langauge.

4. Do not assume that things are sane or secure by default.

Ideally you don't accept PRs from untrusted users, but if you do, read all the docs very carefully about what actions can run where, etc. Github actions on untrusted repos are a nightmare footgun.
I have been looking at repo templates. That by default include basic ci checks for example.. linters for anything you can think of
Ask HN: AI Infra Support for a non-profit making government data transparent?
Hi HN,

I run diofanti.org, a free, open-data platform that monitors government spending and operations in Greece. We transform raw public data into a tableau-like dashboard, providing citizens, journalists, and policymakers with transparency and actionable insights.

For the past five years, a Hetzner-hosted Postgres instance and Metabase have served us well. However, I’ve recently been working on adding an AI/Chat interface to enhance the user experience. I can handle the AI engineering, ML ops, and model pipeline setup myself. Initial prototyping has been promising, but the AI infrastructure costs are now growing—primarily for GPU and AI compute (inference and generation, but no fine-tuning yet).

Diofanti is a non-profit, and while we’re focused on transparency and civic engagement, we’re running into limitations around infrastructure costs. Traditional VC funding routes don’t apply since it's not monetizing, and big cloud providers aren’t a good fit either—most want you to join an accelerator that I don’t have the time to go through. Local (Greek) philanthropic organizations and fellowships have been frustratingly slow, bureaucratic, and not particularly helpful.

I’m looking for any suggestions or funding opportunities to help support our AI infrastructure, whether it’s grants, cloud credits, or connections with organizations that support civic tech or AI for good projects.

If anyone has leads or suggestions (or if you have any experience with similar projects), I’d greatly appreciate hearing from you. Feel free to reach out directly (contact info is on my website: tselai.com).
Maybe use embeddings from a BERT instead? This in particular: https://www.sbert.net/docs/sentence_transformer/pretrained_m...
To forge the cult -- the more outside hate the more inside cohesion.
The CHIPS Act: Enabling the USA – By Jon Martin
> I interviewed someone for an internship who was getting directions from someone whispering to them. I managed to hear it when they forgot to mute the mic a couple times.

What do you do when something like this happens in an interview? Do you ignore it, call out the interviewee, make a joke about it?
The entire article presumes that novelty is a degradation -- yet offers no evidence for it

Isn't the point rather that the novelty itself isn't the degradation, but the disappearance of the other native species as they get replaced by other species which already exist elsewhere, thereby decreasing overal number of individual species should the native ones go extinct? You could then argue that less species isn't a degradation because on a huge timescale that might not matter. However on a more 'current' timescale, I'm not sure how else to treat the man-made huge biodiversity loss other than a degradation.