skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever you want to market something that has many different uses, it’s important to focus. Pick one of those uses, and focus relentlessly in marketing that. If people are interested, they will come and if the tool will deliver on the promise they will use it. Over time they will notice other uses and a flywheel effect should take over.
Sure, but the use case of Signal isn't for secret communications, so the stakes of adding the wrong person should be a lot lower in normal use.

If it was intended as a secure communications platform for government use, they wouldn't be using phone numbers and an address book that can have incorrect information.

I did read Signal was being used in the military etc, but only as a notification system that they should check their actually secure communications thing.
We have video footage of Israeli soldiers sniping a 12-year old boy setting off fireworks near the west-bank wall. To those asking "How do we know if it was IDF that shot the boy" there is video footage of Israeli security minister congratulating and praisingthe shooter. [1]

We have video footage of IDF raping prisoners[2] and we have footage of one of the rapists being treated like a celebrity and getting standing ovations on Israeli national tv [3][4].

If i had to list all the video footage just from the last 18 months alone, i would be here all day and it would likely ruin your day. If anyone has still not woken up to the reality of what Israel is, its not for lack of video footage.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkNDNj05XA
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/aug/08/israeli-...
[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UNWxLz6_ME
[4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UNWxLz6_ME
I can’t say this is true, but it seems to me that Peter Theil views René Girard’s ideas on scapegoats and mimetic theory as correct, but views them not as an identification of the flaws we must outgrow as a species, but as a feature to be used to control and rule.
I've succesfully started my rustbucket diesel from 2009 in -33C. It didn't sound too happy about it, but it did start and run and get to where I wanted
I think the problem is that because of the huge disparity between the cost of imported and domestic goods which has developed over decades, the choice that people face is not 'oh, now imported goods are a little more expensive, I will instead buy American', it's 'now I can't afford to buy anything at all.'

You have to get more money into the hands of the consumers in order to be able to implement something like this.
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archive link: https://archive.ph/dUujI
Hi, author here! Dreamer learns to find diamonds from scratch by interacting with the environment, without access to external data. So there are no explainer videos or internet text here.

It gets a sparse reward of +1 for each of the 12 items that lead to the diamond, so there is a lot it needs to discover by itself. Fig. 5 in the paper shows the progression: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08744-2
Yeah, I've seen my share of those.

I sort of assumed that Air NZ started this trend because of all the hype surrounding the first ones. There's an article covering the history of these here: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/the-wireless/374709/feature-a-bri... (they claim the first was in 2009, so a couple of years after the earliest one mentioned in tfa).

I find them downright annoying now. The cringe factor makes them uncomfortable to watch which is not what you want from a safety video. It feels as though they jumped the shark.
Maybe this is jealousy from Americans? If we can't have a pension nobody can crash the markets! Everyone is working until they die! No more 36 hour work week!
Then the rural people vote to get rid of state run infrastructure, and then get mad at the city slickers because they still have nice roads.
not a surprise
Seems to me there are quite a lot of people for whom the cruelty of what they're doing really is the only point, whatever other arguments they might make.
All of the major Wall Street banks called in their staff over the weekend. Lots of margin calls going out due to the market losses so far. Monday will be another bloodletting day, so there will be a chance that some customers may go unrecoverable net negative. This raises the issue of counterparty risk, and everyone tightens up as a result. Capitalization then becomes key, and with losses flying around, the first one to breach will end up cascading the risk to others. 2008 all over again, and oh yeah, weren't there mass layoffs on the government regulators side a few months ago - so who's answering the phone or running due diligence on the government side to figure out who is salvagable and who isn't?
The idea that IR35 only affected people "skirting too close to employment" is the exact narrative big consultancies wanted the public to believe. It reframes trust-based, long-term client relationships - the lifeblood of any good business - as suspicious when delivered by individuals, but completely acceptable when delivered by large firms.

Here's the reality: a one-person limited company providing services to a council for several years is treated as "dodgy" or "cheating the tax system." But if a big consultancy sends in a contractor to sit at the same desk for the same duration, it's completely exempt from IR35 scrutiny. The only difference? Ownership. The first is worker-owned, the second is not.

IR35 doesn't prevent "disguised employment." It just channels it through structures that protect and enrich corporate intermediaries. And those same intermediaries are often billing 2–3x the rate a direct contractor would charge—while extracting value from someone else's labour, then exporting the profits.

You also dismiss repeat clients as a sign of disguised employment - but by that logic, any successful small business with loyal customers should be disqualified from existing. Long-term client relationships are the goal of any serious enterprise. It's only when those relationships threaten the margins of large incumbents that they suddenly become suspect.

IR35 wasn't about fairness or tax efficiency. It was about reclaiming market share - removing small, independent operators who were too competitive, too flexible, and too accountable to clients, and replacing them with firms who could play the compliance game and charge more for less.

So no—IR35 didn’t just "clean up abuse." It entrenched it. It created a two-tier system where actual independence is punished, and corporate dependency is rewarded. That's not reform - that's capture.
> I'm expecting the tariffs on Chinese EVs to be rolled back in EU after the US tariffs.

I doubt it. This would likely have a significant negative impact on domestic EU car companies, most of which are considered cornerstones of their local country's economy. Now, whether this should happen (to benefit consumers/the environment) is another argument.
I did look at that first.

In my case I am looking for NetUserAdd and associated functionality, which doesn’t exist in any wrapper crate I could find- since that would have been significantly easier than what I ended up needing to do.

But, how do they test their unsafe bits?
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The Institution That Engineered a Culture – Kasurian
Here’s a short video demonstrating how wisbox.ai works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6pLxbFKg2s
How the EUV mirrors are made
This usually interests hn folks. Working there, I can say that mirror metrology (i.e. measuring the mirrors during production), the shape of the mirror and how they're controlled during operation etc are all technically much much more advanced and expensive/secret than polishing.

Also the info is a bit old: high na is all the rage tech wise, although customers are going back to older tech because it's more affordable.
Because a secure government messaging platform doesn’t exist. The DoD is horrible at buying modern software.

Still not an excuse, because the people with the power to fix it are using Signal instead.
I’m sorry this caused such a negative reaction but I think you stopped reading too soon, we agree more than disagree. Listen, I’ve paid my taxes on those jobs that I miss, so I know what it is I’m saying.
if it does, I can’t find it.

I was looking for NetUserAdd and associated commands.
Could you give an example of "clever" (bad) vs "simple" (good)?

In my experience C has a lot of simple grammar, a commonly-held simple (wrong) execution model, and a lot more complexity lurking underneath where it can't be so easily seen.

(One of my formative learning books was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Traps_and_Pitfalls , valid in the 90s and mostly still valid today)
Plaintext SMS in the year of our lord 2025. People will do literally anything other than following the fucking law and recording their correspondence.
In my mind, this generalizes to the same problem with other non-stochastic (deterministic) operations like logical conclusions (A => B) .

I have a running bet with friend that humans encode deterministic operations in neural networks, too, while he thinks there has to be another process at play. But there might be something extra helping our neural networks learn the strong weights required for it. Or the answer is again: "more data".
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Hi,

Latest task in solo-building a tech business. Creating a statically generated blog that fits seamlessly alongside a dynamically generated main website.

There's not much around about Hugo static site generation while not using themes. I found opting out of themes much simpler overall. And it then didn't take long to understand how Hugo actually works.

I'm still not 100% decided on .html extensions, but pretty much decided against Hugo's default of a trailing slash on page urls.
There’s also an epub-namespaced set of attributes which extend XHTML with ebook specific semantics. But those typically aren’t necessary for the visual representation of books.
About word length: the difficulty of finding anagrams increases exponentially (a bit loosely used, but probably correct) with word length. But the game does increase length after a few steps, I just found out. A help page would perhaps be better.

And about adding sound effects: only if they can be turned off easily.
This reminds me of an amusing anecdote in Dutch history.

In the late 1930s the queen of the Netherlands asked her prime minister if he had read a certain book written by the German leader. He had not.
"In fact, if you pitched this pathway to a VC, I’m sure they’d ghost you quicker than their last Hinge date." — oh they will, fr
Last year I finally got to read a copy of Hunter S. Thompson's "Hell's Angels" that I had purchased while on a trip in San Francisco back in 2015, and just last week I bumped into this quote that is absolutely prescient for the current state of American society which gave power to Trump:

> "To see the Hell’s Angels as caretakers of the old 'individualist' tradition 'that made this country great' is only a painless way to get around seeing them for what they really are, the first wave of a future that nothing in our history has prepared us to cope with. The Angels are prototypes. Their lack of education has not only rendered them completely useless in a highly technical economy, but it has also given them the leisure to cultivate a powerful resentment... and to translate it into a destructive cult. The people who are being left out and put behind won't be obvious for years. Christ only knows what'll happen in, say, 1985 — a million Hell's Angels. They won't be wearing the colors; they'll be people who are just looking for vengeance because they've been left behind."

The USA in its everlasting quest of creating wealth without caring for the effects of blind wealth accumulation on its citizens, where good financial outcomes trumps over good societal outcomes, has created this monster. People who are left behind won't be all re-trained to do high-skill jobs, they will be poor, uneducated, they will be angry and resentful, they will want vengeance.

This is the vengeance, the wrath from a system who doesn't care for you as a person, only caring for you as means of production.

Like you said, the whole system was engineered by the same nation who now hates the system because their leaders focused on perpetuating the system's worst sides in pursuit of wealth instead of caring for them.
All his ideas are fantastic, and are obviously the result of long experience in a seasoned and highly successful project. He is sharing techniques that simply work for large, complex codebases. Ignore them at your peril!

Specifically, though, these sections are related, in my experience:

> Avoid "bad" functions

> Buffer functions

> Parsing functions

> Monitor memory function use

These related aspects are why I tend to wrap many library functions that I use (in any language environment) with my own wrapper function, even if it's to just localize their use into one single entry/use point. That allows me to have one way that I use the function, thereby giving my code a place to not only place all best practices for its use, but to allow me to update those best practices in one single place for the entire codebase. And it is especially helpful if I want to simply rewrite the code itself to, for example, never use scanf, which I determined was a necessary strategy many, many moons ago.

Now, when a single function needs to accomodate different use cases and doing such separate kinds of logic would incur too much logical or runtime cost, a separate wrapper can be added, but if the additional wrappers can utilize the cornerstone wrapper, that is the best, if feasible. Of course, all these wrappers should be located in the same chunk of code.

For C, especially, wrapper functions also allow me to have my own naming convention over top of the standard library's terse names (without using macros, because they're to be avoided). That makes it easier for me to remember its name, thereby further reducing cognitive load.
Your example is far more complex. The scenario he provided is easier to grapple with.

The patient (or whoever is paying the bill) and the provider determines the "worth". If they can't agree on a price, then it's not worthwhile.

In communism, would you really want to extract the equivalent of $50m of labour and resources in order to provide one person with this test? I can't imagine how that would be affordable.

Putting a monetary price on it in order to quantify the cost doesn't fundamentally change the equation. In the communist utopia I imagine it would be more like forcing x architects, engineers and builders to construct the facilities for the testing, x researchers and scientists to develop and conduct the test, x caregivers, plumbers, cleaners, drivers, baristas, chefs, etc for x weeks to provide this "free" test for one individual. Is that "worth" it?
No, I wouldn't call him an expert. I'd call him deeply incompetent and missing basic skills.

Simply having a credential is not enough. You need actual training and expertise — to be good at what you do. I'm thinking of all the scientists and bureaucrats who run things like the NIH, vaccine programs, and air quality/pollution control. Many people do not perceive those programs to be in their self-interest. But in reality they are, regardless of someone's personal opinion.
What racism? I'm not talking about a race by any chance, I'm talking about an ideology of a particular effectively for-profit organization.
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Indeed. Those groups get a bit of delayed contact with the stove, as prices rise over the next weeks and months.
Windows "streamlined" the taskbar so much that it allows for exactly 11 icons.

In my experience tons of office jobz require you to have 20-30 windows open. And you switch through them constantly.

So this streamlining murders productivity.

You can try to change it withan external program, ut good luck doing that on a corporate computer.
Your Mouse Is a Database (2012)
This is remarkably clear writing — you sense how it was formed by thousands upon thousands of hours spent communicating, really cool.
I think most people using Coolify know how to setup those services, it's just faster through Coolify (and, in the future, it will probably come with everything: monitoring, alerting, back-ups, etc.).
Yeah, turns out you need to provide value in exchange for your salary. So since there is 0 physical strain, you get mental strain.

This is like writing an article about "The Insanity of Being an Adult in Modern Society" because you have to think about insurance, dishwashing, clothes, food, taking car of your car, your hair, your health, your finances, etc... Yeah. No shit.
And as a result, "crew resource training" is now mandatory for pilots, to try and prevent it happening again in the future.
> We don't hear about it on the news over here in the civilized democratized developed modern advanced West anymore, so I just figured it was over.

Maybe not in the US. But the invasion of Ukraine is still very much present in most of Europe and it's a driving factor of recent public policies.
Parts of theoretical cartography are model example how Information Theory Bandwagon [1] works:

'By the mid-1970s any historical account of the development of models of cartographic communication becomes unmanageable very largely because of their increasing popularity and the way in which authors making use of them learn and borrow ideas from one another. One commentator faced with the proliferation of these models is distressed by being 'awash in a sea of scientific-sounding terminology mostly pirated from other fields such as electrical engineering.' [2]

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1056774
[2] Christopher Board, "Cartographic Communication", Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 1981
Pol Pot, Genghis Khan.

I really fail to see how converting OpenAI to what it de facto is - a for profit company - places Altman in this group of people.

I do agree that they need to pay taxes, equivalent of what they'd paid had they been a regular corporation all the time, but at worst this amounts to a bit of tax fraud, not genocide.
I don't believe that working on a assembly line is better than driving for Uber or delivering for Amazon.
That's an authoritarian one in general, though, not just Maoist by any means.
{ "interests": ["编程” "reading" "travel"] }

is written

{ :interests<编程 reading travel>, }

in raku literals, quite a lot less wiggling of the pinky than the authors “maximal” proposal

yeah raku : perl without the line noise
Also the other thing that I realised after working with a bunch of VCs is that they are all incredibly dumb. Few VCs are founders themselves and you will have better luck with them but the majority of VCs have simply no idea about product and technology and they are simply pattern matching. What that means is that they will cargo cult everything and if your startup doesn't fit the mold they will not respond to you favorably and the sad part is that the actual 10x, 100x returns that their VC firm needs comes from those type of investments but they simply cannot see them.
> I would choose Heroku or Netlify because I don't want to self host it

Why are people so afraid to self-host? It's usually cheaper and runs better than the hosted services. Get a cheap dedicated server from Hetzner, and you can run all your services there. Servers tend to keep working (usually longer than those cloud services do).
> Also, xhtml is just markup.

And so it's not a programming language runtime (i.e. javascript or wasm), nor a css renderer, nor a bunch of web-apis.

It's these things, not the (X)HTML parsing and rendering that makes a browser the complex thing it is.
Depends. When a new camera is out, it often takes time before Lightroom, Capture One, etc. support it. While I don't care about how the raw format works, being able to keep using my usual software even with a brand new camera is something I care a lot about.
> They are all crying for the audience, the losers.

There is an opinion that making them (a big business, and overseas players too), crying for audience is a way to make them loyal to a regime. So they come to the audience, they kiss the ring, they get some preference, and the regime becomes even stronger. I'd not name Trump crazy as some do, but simply a person presenting and promoting the interests of a certain entity. I won't name my guesses about the possible entity.
Applied in January for .NET Backend position, never got a response. But hey, you looked me up on Linkedin two weeks ago and the position is still listed on your site so that search must be going great :)
Just yesterday, I put up a blog about tracking down a date / time bug in Domino / Notes:

What happened on December 13, 2024? [1]

[1] https://bostick.github.io/blog/2025/04/what-happened/
> We count about 40% of our security vulnerabilities to date to have been the direct result of us using C instead of a memory-safe language alternative. This is however a much lower number than the 60-70% that are commonly repeated, originating from a few big companies and projects.

There has been discussion in an Arch Linux internal channel about the accuracy of these classifications. We noticed many advisories contain a "This bug is not considered a C mistake. It is not likely to have been avoided had we not been using C."-disclaimer, but was unclear what the agenda was and how "C mistake" is defined.

It was brought up because this disclaimer was also present in the CVE-2025-0665 advisory[0], which is essentially a double-free but on file descriptor level. The impact is extremely low (it's more "libcurl causing unsoundness in your process rather than can-be-exploited-into-RCE"), but it's a direct result of how C manages resources. This kind of bug can also occur in Python, but you're unlikely to find this kind of bug in Rust.

Could this bug have occurred with a programming language that isn't C? Yes. Could this bug have been avoided by using a programming language that isn't C? Also yes.

[0]: https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-0665.html
Sad to hear. I was considering Flutter for desktop development, maybe I should reconsider. On the other hand, it seems to be the most mature solution when it comes to cross-plarform desktop and mobile. React Native desktop support is still weak as I understand.
Info-Zip Unzip 6.00 was released in 2009 and has not been updated since. Most Linux distros (and Apple) just ship that 15-plus-year-old code with their own patches on top to fix bugs and improve compatibility with still-maintained but non-free (or less-free) competing implementations. Unfortunately, while the Info-Zip license is pretty liberal when it comes to redistribution and patching, it makes it hard to fork the project; furthermore, anyone who wanted to do so would face the difficult decision of either dropping or trying to continue to support dozens of legacy platforms. Therefore, nobody has stepped up to take charge and unify the many wildly disparate mini-forks.
99% of the time, it means that the speaker is deeply offended that trans people exist.
That can't be viewed without logging into Google first.