skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Respect the user's prefers-color-scheme (HN fails this one)

- Make sure your text is not to small (HN also fails this one spectacularly)

- Lines should not be longer than like 132ch

- There should be left and right margins as to not have letters directly on the edge of the screen.

- For fonts, I prefer that a site just uses "sans-serif", "serif", and "monospace", but most people don't choose their browser default fonts, so for a general audience I'm not sure on this
> But we don't know how to do that.

That's because that's not how it works. From brains to LLMs [1], training creates a dense network of pathways that encode information and procedures. I lack many of the pathways to speak Swahili, and no mythical combination of words will change that. If I want to learn Swahili, I'll have to deliberately train myself to do so, building up those pathways incrementally. Then comes the click.

1. https://xkcd.com/2173/
When Anthropic's MCP Met Google's A2A
totally get where you're coming from--many big open source repos have also been using it for a while and have seen some FP but have generally felt that the quality overall was worth it. would love to continue having you try it out, but also understand that maintaining a FOSS project is a ton of work!

if you have specific feedback on the pr--feel free to email at contact@mrge.io and i'll take a look personally and see if we can adjust anything for your repo.

nice idea on the fully AI-generated PRs! something in our roadmap is to better highlight PRs or chunks that were likely auto-gened. stay tuned !
They will be missed. I still have my multimeter, solder, and alarm clock from there. I wish home hardware stores had a component cabinet like RS did, always good for an impulse buy project. Still remember a few that I did out of make magazine with their parts.
Making desalination more eco-friendly: New membranes could help eliminate brine
Threat Actor Allegedly Selling Fortinet Firewall Zero-Day Exploit
I think Google is currently undergoing a massive restructuring and money-saving/raising operation to totally orient the company aroubd AI.
If you're interested in real-time collaboration within Obsidian, check out Relay [0]. We just released an on-prem hosting of our collaboration server, and we have folder-scoped sharing. We're making Obsidian work for work.

[0] https://relay.md
>If you take the time to explain the situation to the child you often don't need to convince them anymore.

This is not true. It doesn’t work for meltdowns caused by not buying them a toy, not giving them ice cream at bed time, etc.
I picked that example exactly because it's infamously expensive, and I had recent direct experience.

A quick search for an arbitrary Friday and Saturday night next month gives a ton of options right around $300/night in Midtown, plus plenty under $300. I wanna say we paid around $220 or $240 a night. I did shop a little (maybe twenty minutes?) to find one that low that seemed pretty good (and was in fact pretty good)

My point is hitting $300/night in San Diego... and not even in a desirable location in San Diego, for a very-basic hotel... seems like an outlier, when you can get in (at least a little) under that in Midtown Manhattan of all places.
> this is actually unfolding right in front of our eyes

One, it's not currently happening. It's being actively discussed. But to my knowledge, mass expulsion has not (yet) happened.

Two, many things happen despite being only popular with a minority. I haven't seen polling around Abrego Garcia's de facto kidnapping and illegal detention in El Salvador, but I doubt more than the baseline 20% or so of nutters (a) understand what's going on and (b) support it.
Thanks so much for the detailed example. Bookmarking for when I need to find it again...
I wouldn't even put the odds of him coming back at 50%

20: He gets brought back in good condition, 19-16: He is gonna get brought back in terrible condition, 15-11 he doesn't come back, 10-1 he is dead
The purpose of the validation step is to get someone out of a reactive, unreasonable frame of mind into a frame of mind where you can start problem-solving together. It can feel condescending if they're already in a problem-solving frame of mind. "There, there, it's natural to be hysterical."

It's like when your team is sitting together handling an issue calmly and competently, and a manager strides into the room yelling, "Okay everybody, calm down! Everything's going to be okay. No need to panic." It shows that they aren't paying attention and don't appreciate the professionalism of the team.
Glad it helps! :)
What we learned after monity.ai blew up in one day (Fazier #1, IH, GCP Startups)
Yesterday, everything kind of exploded for us at monity.ai.

We were accepted into the Google Cloud Startups program, hit #1 on Fazier.com, and ended up on the Indie Hackers homepage - all within the same 24 hours.

Monity is an AI-powered site monitoring tool. What makes it different is the agent system - users can define what should be tracked (text, layout, pricing, etc.) and prompt it with natural language like “let me know if this competitor changes anything about their pricing plan.”

This was unexpected momentum for us, and it raised some good questions: what should we focus on now — growth, deeper AI features, integrations? What’s the best way to handle this kind of early visibility?

I'm sharing here because the HN community has helped us shape a lot of our early thinking. If anyone has thoughts, feedback, or questions — I'm all ears.
American explains why he will continue to have his product made in China
Oh! I have been there but I was only focused on house / remodeling type stuff, thanks for the recommendation!
Phones are radios, it’s right there in the name of the store.
No, I scan them and print the copies. My accountant is paper only and it's a yearly thing, not a quarterly thing. I live in the boonies.
I recently took my son on a "GameStop run" to sell our super old PS4. He's 7 and never been to a store with video games before. So we jumped in the car and arrived at the store about 30 min north of Seattle just as the sun was setting. In the window were two kids in Taekwondo uniforms. Both were super nice to a younger kid and immediately let him play and gave him pro tips on how to do slide turns. We then sold the console for $50 and he immediately wanted to use the money to buy a giant Eevee squishmallow that was next to the checkout line. What can you do? :) Now he tells me the story as "remember that time we bought my Eevee and those karate kids gave me a quarter".

Having real places is still awesome. I know the finances don't really scale, but shoutout to Lynnwood GameStop for keeping it real out there.

And RIP RadioShack. You always had a hard drive when we needed one to reinstall windows during a lan party. holds up a glass
Fridge or Freezer: Where Should You Store Your Coffee?
Unique bacteria that survive by employing multicellular behavior
Linux 6.16 Expected to Remove "DCCP" Networking Protocol
I agree; blocking aggressive crawlers that are badly behaved, etc, is what is sense. The files that are public are public and I should expect anyone who wants a copy can get them and do what they want with them.
Is there a Shopify store? Their website is catered to the business they do, which is to setup shop for businesses. How do you shop on Shopify?
So because we can't fix every problem, let's do nothing instead. Got it.
Well, I believe you that there are lots of kids there that try to seem racist for 4chan cred, and I guess people would know not to post videos of themselves doing those illegal things.

But I remember they had stuff like "n*gger chimpout" compilation threads, and whenever people talk about what they blame on Jews, they seem to be actually bitter and angry, so they do seem legitimately racist. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a lot of overlap with the people who do commit those acts of violence you're talking about, but even if not, I don't think you could say they're not real racists just because they don't post videos of themselves committing violent hate crimes. The board is just diluted by low-effort threads and bait by users of other boards.
> I feel too many people conflate /pol/ with the whole website.

Because it is the 2nd most active category, and the racist/alt-right beliefs have spread to the other boards because the head admin fires anyone that tries to moderate it.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-man-who-helped-turn-4cha...

On top of that, they actively delete and ban posts that go against alt-right.

I discussed it somewhat recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42276865#42283887
I had a customer once who would just absolutely berate people over email for the tiniest thing. Totally unbearable and unreasonable. So, whenever he would go off, I'd tell him 'look, I'll be in the area [this afternoon|later|whenever]. You going to be around if I stop by?' Any conversation with him that could be deflected to an in-person discussion could be peacefully resolved in short order. Trying to convince him of anything over phone or email was an exercise in frustration control.

I heard somebody say at a conference one time, talking about how much more productive in-person meetings are in reaching agreement, "there's a lot of bandwidth in a room". I think there's a lot of truth to that.

0 - ironically, this was at a ISP network engineering conference
>Nobody ever changes their opinion on things with anything remotely like a high degree of frequency, and that's not a particularly bad thing

For a great discussion of that, cue Slate Star Codex "Epistemic Learned Helplessness"

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learn...
I'd say yours is in bad faith because you know exactly what I mean ;)
Followed closely by "The Breadboard Has Been Drinking"
> People like Aaronson are smart enough not to directly say that

Doesn't that completely undermine the claim that students were being slandered as anti-Semites?

Like, yes, I'd prefer people thought nice things all the time. But if they're thinking something I consider mean, I'm happier with them keeping it to themselves. And if they won't, I prefer they call out a group versus attacking random individuals within it for being a member of that group.
>I'd recommend a research-based parenting program.

Can you share the ones you liked, please?
Yes, Radio Shack was often the only place you could find the odd resistor, vacuum tube (for an audiophile-grade amp, what else?), or coax signal splitter. But they always asked for your phone number on checkout -- why? It's not like they ever called you or anything (thankfully).
The previous version wasn't "flood" routing. Because flood routing would have worked better. I called it "spray and pray" routing.

It was something like this:

1. Router repeats first

2. Weakest repeating device by signal strength next

What if both of those options are in a basement, or say have a damaged antenna, or are miles in the opposite direction of where you want the signal to go?

By simply putting up a router somewhere you might be severely impacting the comms of people at your edge.
That sounds interesting and superfast! Would be cool to use that! "The need was very selfish - we all felt that sporadic printing should not be a burden that occupies permanent space in our lives only to fail us when we really need it. Our existing distribution network also enabled us to deliver high-quality printouts to our customers at their doorsteps in minutes."
Funny thing is, the detection of any preference, for anything, is a readout of an emotional response.

People with brain injuries impacting emotional centers are unable to make any kind of choice and therefore don’t know what to calculate for.

https://youtu.be/T46bSyh0xc0?si=pX04LLKwMQuMtnH_

Mentioned at about 90seconds in of this lecture by George Lakoff.
Can't do it, individual states can't print money and freedom of movement means the free rider problem will pop up quickly.
Yup. No moderation on Facebook but straightforward censorship on schools. Welcome to our 3rd world autocracy.
Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram from Facebook in 2018
I'm pro-accessibility and have contributed privately to blind developer initiatives. Unfortunately Ubisoft insists on implement user-hostile accessibility that screams at the user using voice-to-text when they open their games and is quite difficult to get through even as an abled user.

How about Ubisoft work with Sony/Microsoft/Valve and get vision and hearing disability implemented at the device level rather than harassing abled users every new game which I'm sure through this frustration is contributing in some small way to these anti-intellectual movements against accessibility.
- The first thing the great Internet consumed in the 90's (and earlier, really) was technical occupations and hobbies - people affiliated with those were likely amongst the first to spend a lot of time online and want to do things online like buy stuff.

- Anything small and where part numbers matter greatly is going to have advantages when sold and bought online. You'll be able to type in a part number and get a straight answer on cost and availability. This can also happen if a store has a good customer service representative but that stopped being a thing somewhere between 9/11 and the GFC of 2008 - also around the time Walmart had to raise it's starting wage to $10/hr. just to get people in the door.

- Less people are repairing electronics and less electronics are repairable. The way consumer electronics are built are different now than say in the 80's or 90's - components are often surface mount and often things are just a CPU/MCU+RAM+flash on a board with a bit of surrounding surface mount stuff.

- A lot of what used to be consumer electronics exists on everyone's smartphones. No more clock radios, walkmans, boomboxes, tape decks, VCRs, DVD/CD players, landline phones, etc. I would bet Bluetooth speakers have essentially replaced home stereos for many. One thing Radio Shack did sell was media and all forms of converter cables for home electronics and there just isn't a great need for that anymore with how everyone interacts with media now. Desktop PCs are niche now, non-gamer non-business laptops are disposable. Many just use their ISP router for WiFi. Home assistant stuff had to take on a friendlier, non-hacker image to gain acceptance.
I'm all in favor of reverting copyright terms to what they were before the Walt Disney Corporation was founded, but I think the idea of having a limited time to profit off of your creative works in order to incentivize their creation is still a sound concept.
Kim Jong Il Golf Pro (2011)
What does the ideal solution look like to you? Are you happy with what DOGE is doing and if not what would you change? I'm asking genuinely because I don't think enough people put forth ideas in their own right.
> but it looks like something that becomes seriously useful only after years of runtime and terabytes of screenshots.

Yes, it is useful, but not for the user, for the CIA.
It’s not wrong if it’s commonly used and commonly understood
"events have given us no choice but to fight Trump as if there were no antisemitism, even while we continue to fight antisemitism as if there were no Trump."

Great line which sums up the correct stance to take in the current environment.
You're staring right into the inner workings of the Ministry of Truth. War is peace, peace is war, etc. The Hacker News you once knew is dead.
Depends on the kind of government.
> You're missing my point entirely

The reason you're having a hard time communicating is because, honestly, you do not understand how these things work. You've made assumptions about how they work but be honest with yourself, could you code them up yourself? I don't mean gluing some libraries together, I mean straight up in C. I'm pretty sure the person you're responding to would say they couldn't (I sure couldn't!). Not because lack of experience in C but because they have a better understanding in all the details that goes into these things.

> How does a terminal emulator render text on the screen then? Your screen is made of pixels.

This alone says a lot, even if you don't know it. Do you know how pixels are painted on a screen? I know you got this thought in your head like "duh, you just give each one an RGB value". Great! But how do you determine what pixel gets what values? How do you define a letter? It is not just as easy as making a predefined box where you have constructed the letter inside. Look up ligatures. Now how do you do colors? How do you define different fonts? How do you scale? How do you scale without turning your text into a bunch of giant pixelated crap? Do me a favor, increase the font size on your terminal and keep going to a really ridiculous size. Then do the reverse, make it ridiculously small. Everything still should look sharp. You can't do that by having a predefined box that says where to shade and not shade without aliasing. It wouldn't look sharp when big nor small because even going small the interpolation methods are still going to introduce aliasing. To go big you either need a fucking gigantic image for each letter or something different.

You're not going to be able to communicate effectively because you're actively demonstrating to people that you think you know more about how these things work than you actually do. I get it. The modern way people learn CS and programming is so high level and there's this bad culture of being know-it-alls, as if there is some shame in not knowing how things work. Shit's complex. Stop pretending like it isn't. There's a huge difference in thinking "there's a lot of complexity here, I need to approximate and just get going" vs "shits easy". If you take the latter you'll never build anything of quality because the truth is that there's massive amounts of complexity even in the most mundane things. If you gain a deep expertise in any single one thing this truth will be self-evident. So thing is, by thinking things are easy you're more telling on yourself that you have no depth. It's fine to be a generalist, but a generalist can't be effective if they think depth doesn't exist. You might as well try walking in the middle of the ocean, because I mean, hey, you were able to walk around on the shore of the beach, why would it be any different?
I dunno which postgres client you're thinking of but:

https://github.com/tau-prolog/tau-prolog

https://pyswip.org/
https://www.swi-prolog.org/packages/mqi/prologmqi.html

Unfortunately the tau site's certificate seems to have lapsed sometime in the last week or so, but I swear it's actually very good.
> Google will eventually copy…

Weird take given Google basically invented and released through well written papers and open-source software the modern deep learning stack which all others build on.

Google was being disses because they failed to make any product and were increasingly looking like Kodak/Xerox one trick pony. It seems they have woken up from whatever slumber they were in
I suspect they may be the one true Rationalist who has fully mastered their emotions.
Understand. I was providing rationale on why he can be eligible for deportation under US immigration laws for green card holders.

But this is the kind of ilk that is being defended here. It was known 3 months ago that he was subject to deportation.

https://x.com/neveragainlive1/status/1885157904681926934?s=4...
I think there's an additional step of "Find out what they want" that was left out of the original comment because the desires of actual toddlers are (usually) not fundamentally evil.

Do they want to exterminate your loved ones? Do they want to ship dissenters off to concentration camps? Do they want to simply profit off of the people in power who are doing those things? If so, the whole process has an early return case that's more along the lines of "Antifa rally at Omaha Beach."
Forrest mims, now that's a blast from the past. I've gotta see if I still have that book
what fantasy world are you living in to conclude harvard doesn’t admit enough jews
I remember fondly the talks I had with strangers about their hobbies and learning about technology while I was employed there. I remember seeing this specific stores sales numbers and thinking to myself that their daily sales were close to our monthly. Our store closed shortly after.
Look, it's your article Dan, but it would be in your best interest to provide a tldr with the general points. It would help so that people don't misjudge your article (this has already happened). It could maybe make the article more interesting to people that initially discarded reading something so long too. And providing some kind of initial framework might help following along the article too for those that are actually reading it.
I agree that's a very real risk if you don't architect and test well.
> Perhaps Microsoft should redirect their efforts toward features people do want to buy.

Or fixing bugs...
You are assuming input-transformation based defenses in the image domain transfer to the music recognition domain, when we know they don't automatically even transfer to the speech recognition domain.

But 'protection' of any one song isn't the entire point. It only takes less than a fraction of a percent of corpus data to have persistent long term effects in the final model, or increase costs and review requirements to those stealing their content.

As most training is unsupervised, because the cost and limited access to quality, human labeled data, it wouldn't take much if even some obscure, limited market, older genres which still have active fan bases, like Noise rock to start filtering into recommendation engines and impact user satisfaction.

Most of the speech protections, just force attacks to be in the perceptible audio range, with lo-fi portions like those of TripHop, that would be non-detectable without the false positive rate going way up. With bands like Arab On Radar, Shellac, or The Oxes, it wouldn't be detectable.

But it is also like WAFs/AV software/IDS. The fact that it can't help with future threats today is immaterial. Any win of these leaches has some value.

Obviously any company intentionally applying even the methods in your linked paper to harvest protected images would be showing willful intent to circumvent copyright protections and I am guessing most companies will just toss any file that it thinks has active protections just because how sensitive training is.

Most musicians also know that copyright only protects the rich.
Ursa – ClickHouse Research Fork
I expect hosts to be neutral to the maximum possible extent.

For example I expect a host not to have an arbitrary beef with Bing or Kagi, or to refuse to allow connections from France. Blocking can of course be rarely necessary, but what I want from a host is a blocking policy as minimal and selective as possible.

Yes, I understand it's a lot of work and is quite inconvenient, but especially if I'm paying for a service, I'm interested in my interests, not in what's convenient for the host.
Tech's 'Zombie Unicorns' Reach the End of the Road