skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others point out, the technology by its nature tends to exclude the middle. This has some very disruptive effects.

Similar to electronic cash schemes vs physical cash. There's a limit to how much crime you can do with physical cash before the bulk becomes a problem, but the same doesn't apply to electronic schemes.
MSN just reposts news from other websites. Real link is https://www.geekwire.com/2025/report-microsoft-fires-two-emp...
That sounds like a great idea!
I've opened [an issue](https://github.com/nvim-neorocks/lux/issues/550) in our repo. Feel free to ping us there :)
It's not blame, but it's a striking reality that needs to be kept at the forefront.

It introduces a substantial set of novel failure modes, like cross-tool shadowing, which aren't obvious to most folks. Making use of any externally developed tooling — even open source tools on internal architecture — requires more careful consideration and analysis than most would expect. Despite the warnings, there will certainly be major breaches on these lines.
The article you linked admits to being based on various assumptions. I'm not sure how guesses from a third party equate to the administration being explicit about what they're doing and why.
Agreed! TLDR:

Use plain HTML wherever possible for long term functional web pages!
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190805143525.h...

seems like they already have tech for something like that. Also saw some research in 2016 related similar use EMG to control nano bots in bloodstream.

This tech is interesting that it is using galvanic cell to power the bots.
Don't you think we eat too much of those?

Most people are dying of heart diseases and guess their causes...

Japanese elderly don't even drink the broth of ramen otherwise they may literally die (not my words).

Edit: sugar we don't really need to survive (trace amounts found in fruits and vegetables is basically enough) and salt maximum daily recommended amount is around 3g. Do you know how much salt a tablespoon of soy sauce contains?
Pre-Defined Workflows Don't Scale
Almost all of my “searches” are now done by either ChatGPT or Claude.

I'm still using Google for searches on Reddit these days because Reddit's own search engine is terrible.
In the olden days, when law enforcement wanted to intercept a letter, they would locate the sender, nab the letter before it got whisked away, and read it. (If the letter was sealed, they would copy the seal, so they could convincingly re-seal the letter after reading.) Law enforcement wasn't able to do this with whispered conversations, nor easily identify disguised people without following or arresting them. Things still got done.

I don't understand why computer-mediated communication means we have to choose between a panopticon, or the end of law enforcement. It seems to me that good old-fashioned detective work is still perfectly possible. Sure, there are cyber-enabled crimes, and new classes of cyber-dependent crimes, but each of those is a crime because of an interaction with the physical, human world. Those interactions haven't gone away, and are still amenable to investigation. (At a basic level: how do you know a crime has happened in the first place?)
Yes but it only one face to face meeting is needed in the process to see if someone is using AI to answer interview. The 13 other interviews can then be online.
Those kids have parents. Maybe those parents should do some ... parenting?

Besides, the "somebody needs to think about the children" meme is getting old.
This applies to every single web framework/library, so I guess your point is that nobody should start making web things?
> Couldn't Apple create a solution where all your communication is end to end encrypted with a key that they just have a copy of? No backdoors necessary.

But that is a backdoor!

Especially, it's a backdoor that's inside a foreign country and subject to their intelligence services! It might be valid for a hypothetical autochthonous UKphone, but having a system where the US can secretly crack all UK comms is .. not ideal.

Given the tendency of UK ministers to use Whatsapp for private government communications, should we allow the US to have a backdoor into all of that via Meta? (in practice, they tend to leak to newspapers themselves, but it's the principle)
It was founded over 50 years ago. It had already been running for decades before Amazon, Google or Facebook were even founded.
it obviously depends on the laws of each country - in Italy, for example, if you happen to find underground an object of historical, artistic, or archeological value you have 24 hours to hand it to the authorities (cultural conservation institutions, municipal authorities or law enforcement). On the other hand, if you are using a metal detector you can't claim it's a random finding and you might incur in charges for abusive archaeological research. If the finding is indeed random you are entitled to a monetary prize by the state.

In other countries I would expect similar legislation
The Bell Labs 'Severance' Building Sold for $27M [video]
Intimidating a potential hiring manager right up front isn't usually a great play.
I don't share the opinion you've quoted there, but neither do I share yours. Hmtx isn't actually a shiny new toy, it's just a rebrand of intercoolerjs - and I found out about that one in 2014.

That makes the time since it's inception to date longer then the time between initial react release and initial intercoolerjs release
The problem is the people nowadays can be easily convinced that everything should be accessible, because

Ekhm

They have nothing to hide and...

Ekhm

They will be more safe

Thus the arguments about fighting terrorism and paedophilia...
At 5w, a simple temperature sensitive switch, 5w resistor, and some wraps of insulation might be enough. If below x temp, just shunt all current to the resistor, otherwise power the charger.
The amount of times when I've clicked a link, hit the back button, nothing happens, I hit the back button again and I go 2 steps back in history...
This is a before/after moment for image generation. A simple example is the background images on a ton of (mediocre) music youtube channels. They almost all use AI generated images that are full of nonsense the closer you look. Jazz channels will feature coffee shops with garbled text on the menu and furniture blending together. I bet all of that disappears over the next few months.

On another note, and perhaps others are feeling similarly, but I am finding myself surprised at how little use I have for this stuff, LLMs included. If, ten years ago, you told me I would have access to tools like this, I'm sure I would have responded with a never ending stream of ideas and excitement. But now that they're here, I just sort of poke at it for a minute and carry on with my day.

Maybe it's the unreliability on all fronts, I don't know. I ask a lot of programming questions and appreciate some of the autocomplete in vscode, but I know I'm not anywhere close to taking full advantage of what these systems can do.
The field exploded though, both in terms of complexity and of number of people involved. I know many engineers that can do from compiler optimizations to web apps. I also know "programmers" that don't want to learn a new library because it stresses them.

Lots of tech we currently rely on is built under FOSS model (thinking web stuff, mobile stuff, os stuff, data center stuff). Of course you must choose to use it, but I find nowadays using Linux daily on desktop as easy as using Windows or MacOS. 20 years ago you had to fight drivers, file formats, browser issues, media formats, lack of software (I mean we run many Windows video-games on Linux without issues, how cool is that?!)

I did not check piracy lately because I find FOSS alternatives (or I can afford to buy some stuff).
> He doesn’t mean everything he says or does in a direct way, much of it is for effect. When he drops massive tariffs on everyone at once, it’s intended to force people to the table to negotiate with an uncomfortable starting position for them.

We understand that. That's why it sounds stupid. It's breaking trust and relationships in favour of showmanship. "Forcing" your allies to negotiate from "uncomfortable starting positions" is a terrible strategy longterm and will encourage them all to make plans to decentre you as much as possible.
To be completely fair though, blueprints themselves are oft-maligned for performance.

They're fantastic for prototyping, but once you have designed some kind of hot-path most people typically start converting blueprints to code as an optimisation.

In such a scenario adding pooling becomes a trivial part of such an effort.
"Screw old people" is a common theme in hospitals and ironically, elderly homes.
I wouldn't say uncharitable, just that the best-intentioned version is pretty naïve, especially in the current political climate where every effort to bring that kind of inclusivity and open-mindedness to the table is being actively regressed.

For everyone here who appreciates the effort to remove unconscious bias from these decisions as much as possible, because they genuinely want to find the most capable person for the job regardless of their personal preferences, there's still a whole world out there where that bias is not only desirable but celebrated.
Who would have thought that in 2025 I'd be hyper alert to cute ASCII art splashes where one row is mysteriously misaligned?

It's the details that are the giveaway.
With encryption backdoors only regular people lose their privacy. Criminals move to something else. But hey, maybe you will get your wishes in the EU soon (the rest of the world will follow):

"European Commission pushes for encryption ‘backdoors’" https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/04/european-commission-pushes...
I generally have nothing to do with webdev, but my general expectation was always "okay, it's a mess now, and everything is terrible, but everything will settle down eventually". Instead, every time I hear about it, it has somehow gotten worse.
Not necessarily "better" but cursor-based pagination, for example, has a different set of trade-offs. It can be more performant, but tends to be trickier to implement.

This article looks like a decent overview: https://medium.com/better-programming/understanding-the-offs...
I mean, the model the current soon-to-be old people (boomers) operated on is exactly "screw everyone coming after me", so considered on the whole they deserve every bit of cold shoulder.

That doesn't mean that every boomer is bad of course, so if you have good (grand)parents, be good to them!
It's infuriating how often people take "the police have been a disaster at investigating these rape cases" as an excuse for racism rather than trying to fix the police, such as the incidents committed by a serving metropolitan police officer.
Ever considered the website authors don't want you to go back? :-D
Played with the demo a bit and I got confused.

1. The chat context is always provided, and that introduces a bit of uncertainty - when the chat history mentioned something the model is always inclined to connect with it.

2. When I tried to set each context to an empty string, the model doesn't show any evidence of remembering concepts. I told it 5 times that I love cats, and when asked about its favorite animal, its output remains "honeybee" and "octopus".
Hi, author here. The full quote is: "In my opinion, most websites should be using htmx for either:", and then I list two cases where I think htmx is appropriate.

In context, it's clear that I'm not saying "everyone should use htmx," but rather "if you are using htmx, here is how I recommend you do it."

As for the shiny object concern, I have a talk (which you can also find on this blog) called "Building the Hundred-Year Web Service", that dives into that question.
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And in reality it has nothing to do with terrorism, nor paedophilia.
Yes, detective work is possible. So are technological extensions to it. For example investigators being allowed (maybe requiring a warrant, or other appropriate controls) to crack the devices for people under investigation.

In fact, things like forcing Apple to backdoor its encryption will not be effective against any but stupid criminals (I admit many criminals are stupid, but the stupid ones are not the most dangerous ones). Once it is known that this can be done, smart criminals will just use other means of communication.

The aim of this is not to help investigate serious crime, it is mass surveillance to deal with things like what the British government has called "legal but harmful speech", or things like "non-crime hate incidents" or minor offences that would not justify putting money into investigations, or civil matters.

I have in mind the way the Regulation of Investigatory Powers act was used to catch people doing things such as not picking up their dog's poo or lying about where they lived to get their kids into a better school.
Huh. Yeah, I'd never heard of Tailwind before, but this looks suspiciously like how people formatted HTML _before_ CSS existed.
Heh ,I actually once added a bug like that too. Angular has "redirect" routes (path matches with redirect to a new path).

I didn't realize that this will make the back button effective unusable, because the redirected url will still be in the history unless you manually redirect with a bare component. Hence whenever someone used back, the redirect pushed them back to the route they just left. I just used it as I came from a backend perspective, where redirects are fine as there is a delay between the request and the redirect, giving the user the time to just double press back... Obviously not so with a JS redirect.

I believe that continues to be an angular Anti-Feature to date.(Just checked, they still have it in their docs - without the ability to surpress the redirected history entry as far as I can see)
It is amazing how quickly a simple, traditional, "collection of pages" type website actually works if you don't do annoying things to slow it down. Most websites would be absolutely fine if a) HTTP was used reasonably well to set things like cache headers, and so (as mentioned in the article) and b) if a load of user-irrelevant stuff like tracking and advertising code wasn't thrown in as well. A simple page with standard HTML, passably optimised assets where needed, and only the JS needed for actual functionality, should be almost instant on most modern connections.
I'm sure this move improves some engagement metric.
It really is.

> then Microsoft can provide them with a key to unlock your device.

This is a quote from parent. That renders the key and encryption itself pretty useless if it has been given to someone other than you.
did the russian sanctions do that?

elon musk is no different than your average russian oligarch
Every single action, including Telnet, including typing help, the nc command, was suggested by the audience with Tridgell prompting with a minimal “how are we going to find out…”

A bk client was hacked by the audience in 2 minutes.

It was the most devastating take down I’ve ever seen of the attacks. Linus later said the “git” wasn’t Tridgell at all, but in fact Linus himself.

I think that was the only lca Linus missed for a few years either side.
There is ChatControl, too, in EU.
As a candidate, this sort of test gives me the worst possible impression of the company.

- 0 effort on your side
- very stressful for me
- completely unrelated to job
- ridiculous definition of someone being “smart”

Actually, I would not even do the test most likely and I bet many others neither.
Microsoft is pure evil.
>>But that is a backdoor!

...is it? That's a weird definition if I've ever heard one - backdoor to me is a normally hidden functionality that can be triggered if you know the secret, so for example adding a secret universal key that unlocks every drive - that would be a backdoor. And that's a dangerous one, because if it leaks out then all criminals of the world can now decrypt your drives.

With the way MS does it, Bitlocker could be the most secure encryption on the planet, unbreakable by any quantum computer, and yet if they have a copy of the key then the law enforcement can obtain it if needed - that's not a backdoor, not any more than giving your parents copy of your house key is an exploit on your home security.

>>but having a system where the US can secretly crack all UK comms is .. not ideal.

No, of course not, I agree with you there.

>>Given the tendency of UK ministers to use Whatsapp for private government communications, should we allow the US to have a backdoor into all of that via Meta?

Well, they shouldn't be using WhatsApp in the first place, given that they don't control the underlying technology. A backdoor might already exist and they wouldn't even know about it.
MA Lighting, by far the largest and most dominant lighting console manufacturer.

They are the industry standard around the world, no one even comes close.
The sino-vietnamese was a ridiculous mistake for the socialist project, that I agree with. But this wasn't an imperial war.

When I mentioned modern China, I referred to the PRC, so after (most of its) national reunification.

I fail to see how anti-terrorist repression in Xinjiang is akin to any form of imperialism. Otherwise they wouldn't celebrate those cultures on TV and during huge national events. This applies to Mongolia too.

If the situation in China was similar to the genocide in Palestine, then those cultures and their people would be suppressed and not supported nor promoted.
> However certain regulations aren’t job-specific and work like tax, e.g. if you look at notary costs related to registration of business in Germany.

This is not that. You’re making it sound like every business has to jump through all of these hoops as a matter of doing business. You know how to not be bound by GDPR? Don’t bother storing sketchy cookie data or PII. The plumber in your example could just… not do that and not have to worry about compliance. It’s only but for the plumber choosing to store that data that they opt to be bound by the regulation. It’s not a requirement for them to operate. If the business feels like they need to store the nuclear waste, then I need to know that they are storing it properly. They could just not take in and store the nuclear waste and then there’s no compliance burden. 9 times out of 10 they don’t need it to transact their business anyway, and the tenth business probably only exists but for the sketchy data.

In the end we have arrived at the same conclusion: probably the regulation itself, the baby, has some dirty bath water. Any regulatory framework of any significant complexity does, especially a landmark first of its kind in scope regulation in the world. So we should not toss both out. We should try to get rid of just the bath water.

With above said, the plumber is not absolved here. Why did they need to store my PII again? I very much value the fact that they have to think about and answer that question. So whatever improvement should just streamline that process and not get rid of it.
That's the same thing in France, where on average a retiree has a higher pension than a worker. Workers whose one third of gross salary goes to pensions, then at least another of net salary is paid for rent to live in a property often owned by the previous generation. It's very depressing environment to live in.
I had a reasonable intuition for how the "old" method works, but I still don't grok this new approach.

"in multimodal image generation, images are created in the same way that LLMs create text, a token at a time"

Is there some way to visualise these "image tokens", in the same way I can view tokenized text?
I graduated 3 years ago in a similar situation and this helped me

Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
https://fs.blog/hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-logan/
can you just ask them before the interview? "is it okay to wear a suit, or do you guys have a stick up your..."?

I personally dress like a hobo when I'm out and about, and wear a uniform of jeans and a blue shirt when I go into the office, so I really don't care about the suit either way. I'm wearing it for your benefit, so if you don't like it, just tell me upfront - don't make me guess if the job isn't about mindreading.
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Honestly doing in person filters for so many red flags and the most egregious of remote work scams like over-employment and just fake candidates.

You also just get a much better idea if the person will work well in the team and if they're passionate about the work.

Stopped hiring people who can't show up for a chat.
PyPI (Python package index) errors
I like Hotwire/Turbo more than HTMX because of its core philosophy: start by building a fully functional page without any JavaScript, and then layer in enhancements only as needed. That approach has stayed consistent for years and feels really straightforward to work with.
Is PyPI Down?
If I look at a single package, I get a 503 [0]
Status page is all green [1]

[0] https://pypi.org/simple/bugsink/
[1] https://status.python.org/
> English speakers often do care about the connotation of "propaganda" as something deceptive or manipulative

I know they do. If you read again, you'll notice that my point was not that they don't care about the negative connotations of the word "propaganda". It was that having a separate one for "advertisement" serves as a way to accept the latter as benign.
Patterns for using LLMs without creating a chatbot
My take was that it is not useful, definitely, categorically not useful. It is a potential security hazard though. Especially for 'exploring' self-hosted runners.
Paper assets are only meaningful because an army or police force says they are meaningful.

If police and militaries disappeared overnight, then stocks would have no value. Guns would have value and food would have value. Ability to produce these things have value, but paper and whats on it has no value. Moving physical objects has value.

In war, all of these things on paper don't matter compared to physical reality and how it is crafted.

So investing creates a dependence on the American enforcement system which would not enforce in china's favor in case of a war. In some ways investing in a foreign country weakens your own sovereignty and it definitely weakens sovereignty as Putin or Xi would define it.
TrenchBroom caused a renaissance in Quake 1 mapping community, bringing tons of new mappers:

https://www.quaddicted.com/

As well as dumptruck_ds tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gONePWocbqA&list=PLgDKRPte5Y...
The only healthy "middle-ground" with secure communication is fully secure, non-negotiable. The fact that some criminal enterprises can use it and aren't trivially exposed to random searches/fishing trips isn't worth abandoning that principle. Normal effective human policing, collecting physical and digital forensic evidence (once through the secure pipe), whistleblowers etc are all sufficient by themselves, but are expensive and require officers not to be lazy. And politicians hoping to trawl for 'thought crimes' and politically expedient criminalisation of free speech becomes much harder and more expensive if secrets are secure, again: just as it should be.
I was thinking Grab, back when they were called MyTeksi. Honestly the reason I don't answer these questions is that it's just so hard to dig up this info. It feels like genealogy, which is fine for curiosity, but I can't tell which of these questions are just being contentious.

Best I can get this this link from 7 years ago: https://vulcanpost.com/624177/malaysia-memorable-startup-fun...

And it was about their investments from ~17 years ago. These things are slow.
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Despite all that's known about the threats facing freshwater mussels, the cause of a decades-long die-off in the Southeastern U.S. remains a mystery.