skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rejected is somewhat euphemistic, you might be:

- held for an indefinite time without due process and information what you did wrong

- stripped naked and spilled with cold water

- potentially worse, but that depends entirely on the way things are developing on a day-by-day basis

And if someone thinks that won't happen to them because they come from a western country and have a low eumelanin pigmentation level, recent examples show that this does not matter¹. Remember ICE also appears to want to police "illegal ideas" at the border now².

These arbitrary arrests, a disregard for the Rule of Law and the valuation of loyalty to the cause over predictable consequences fit the despotic style that is encouraged in the US from the top down lately. The world would be wise not continue betting all their cards on a crazy horse.

¹: Germany, Feb 2025 – Tourist held 16 days at border, deported without clear reason. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-immigration-detaining-europe...
UK, Mar 2025 – Backpacker held 3 weeks at Canada border, no charges. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/22/tourism-trum...
Germany, Mar 2025 – Visitor held 45 days under Visa Waiver, unclear why. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-detention-of-european...
Canada, Mar 2025 – Woman with valid visa held 12 days at border. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-immigration-detaining-europe...
UK, Mar 2025 – Punk band denied entry, detained at LAX. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/22/tourism-trum...
Germany, Mar 2025 – Green card holder detained at Boston airport. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/22/tourism-trum...
Multiple, Mar 2025 – ICE arrested 48 in NM; cause/details unclear. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-mystery-of-ices-...

²: ICE posted a very "unfortunate" marketing picture recently: https://www.newsweek.com/ice-illegal-ideas-border-security-s...
Most analysts don't differentiate between:

1) AI research as science and

2) Productization and engineering that science into something to sell.

While Google DeepMind focused on things that won Hassabis and Jumper Nobel prize in Chemistry, OpenAI took transformers architecture (Google researchers invented), built the first big model, and engineered it into a product.

Google has the best researchers, and does most research. When they finally chose to jump into the business and pull Hassabis and others from doing more important stuff to moneymaking, obviously they win.
A modern synth can make almost any sound, that’s old hat now.

A beatboxer can’t really do two “voices” at once. When they do, it’s impressive because it’s hard.

That’s the point, making stuff purely mechanical is hard.
It was the best for its time. But one of the reason why XP was "better" is that it had built-in support for WiFi. That ended up being a dealbreaker for 2k.

That's the issue.. every new OS has brought some features or stability improvements that are huge upgrades over the older OS.

WSL 2 is a must-have for me now, so Windows 10/11 is much better than anything that came before in that way. I may be alone in this, but I actually think Windows 11 has the best design of any Windows so far. The problem as usual, is that they haven't made the entire OS consistent. I wouldn't mind the new control panel if you could actually change every setting in windows in that one control panel.. and not have to dig through to find control panels that still date back to Win2k. And the new/old context menu in explorer is an absolute disaster. Then new design is fine.. but how the hell did they manage to not make it support all the options of the old context menu?
Thanks! Today I learned... :)
Full Scroll Dial v2: Premium Wireless High Resolution Scrolling [video]
> whatever Sony's version of Gamepass is called

Just mentioning that it's PS Plus, and the game was made available on their Extra & Premium tiers at launch [0], which is nice, as they typically release all the games on the same day in the middle of the month.

[0] https://blog.playstation.com/2025/04/09/playstation-plus-gam...

P.S.
"Lost Records: Bloom & Rage", the second half of which is due to come out in a couple of days is very different, but highly recommended too, especially in its emotional vibes and how well they integrated the VHS camera into the gameplay.
Yea this works for mp4 and HN seems confused about how.

The MOOV atom is how range requests are enabled, but the browser has to find it first. That's why it looks like it's going to download the whole file at first. It doesn't know the offset. Once it reads it, the request will be cancelled and targeted range requests will begin.
What actually is the point of selling someone an option? Do enough people buy them and lose to make it worthwhile for the seller? Isn't this literally just legalised gambling? Are there enough addicts to make it lucrative like other gambling? Or are these resold packaged up into something that nobody reads à la synthetic CDOs?
The article is also from 2023.

It's funny to see how topics on reddit (https://l.opnxng.com/r/Unexpected/comments/1jvhcme posted 2 days ago), 9gag (https://9gag.com/gag/aW4vpKd posted 1 day ago) and HN (posted today) are always connected.
Is The Gavin Belson Signature Edition Box is needed to run these?
SQLite is absolutely not suitable if you need non-trivial amounts of write concurrency - SQLite locks the file when writing, and doesn't even notify the next writer when done - writers poll to see if it's unlocked yet. If you don't use WAL mode, then readers have to wait for writers to.

You can still back up your SQLite database file. You shouldn't do it in the middle of a write, or you should use the SQLite backup API to manage concurrency for you, or you can back it up in SQL dump format. This isn't one of the usual reasons you shouldn't use SQLite. If you need synchronous replication, then you shouldn't use SQLite.

SQLite is robust against process crashes and even operating system crashes if fsync works as it should (big if, if your data is important), but not against disk failure.

In most of the cases when you shouldn't use SQLite, you should still just upgrade one step to Postgres, not some random NoSQL thing or Google-scale thing.
How TikTok's Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse
U.S. law requires the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to have served as the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chief of staff of the Army, the chief of naval operations, the chief of staff of the Air Force, the commandant of the Marine Corps, or the commander of a unified or specified combatant command.

Just after 2:00 a.m. eastern time this morning, the Senate confirmed Retired Air Force Lieutenant General John Dan Caine, who goes by the nickname “Razin,” for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by a vote of 60–25.

Although Caine has 34 years of military experience, he did not serve in any of the required positions.

The law provides that the president can waive the requirement if “the President determines such action is necessary in the national interest,” and he has apparently done so for Caine.

The politicization of the U.S. military by filling it with Trump loyalists is now, as Kendall writes, “indisputable.”

~ Letters from an American (April 11, 2025) Heather Cox Richardson - https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-11-2025
It feels like a lot of complications the watchmakers are building now are stuck in the early 20th century. Sure, perpetual calendars will always be useful, but what about:

* pomodoro focus timers
* multiple TZ support - like GMT watches but more than one additional TZ shown at once
* timers
* alarms
I thought for cars it was because certain countries decided at state level that car making was strategically their thing? That combined with fashion, meaning some percentage of people want different looking cars.
Use Roo Code, Cursor is terrible
High performance correctly rounded math libraries for 32-bit floating point
The engineering and craft is beyond reproach, beautiful, involved, unique.

The market in which it needs to exist is exclusive, arrogant and elitist. So there is a bittersweet response to it. Makes me think of Royal arts of the past, made to adorn the palaces and display wealth. beautiful, but they're better now at museums. I believe this watch shall too.
The Israeli government allowed transfer of Qatari money to Hamas as a mean to buy quiet, stemmed from the belief Hamas is a rational organization that strives to improve Palestinian life through its government of the Gaza Strip, an awful mistake.

Qatar however is a supporter of the islamist Muslim Brotherhood ideology behind Hamas, financier and a host for most of its leadership.

Furthermore involved in other terror financing in the region such as the Taliban, IRGC and Al-Qaeda [1][2].

My point here is the HRW has shown before to be corrupted and flexible with their ethics in relation to the middle east, and there is evidence it took money from Qatar, a country deeply involved in this conflict and in the past used bribery in corruption to influence western politics [3]

[1] https://thearabweekly.com/ahmadinejad-reveals-qatar-paid-ran...

[2] https://www.iar-gwu.org/print-archive/an-analysis-of-qatari-...

[3] https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-qatargat...
Do you have medical insurance ? Or car insurance? I guess you and I guess you find them useful.

All these worthless paperless money as you call it are precisely also instruments for companies and individuals to gain some economical stability during uncertain times by buying contracts and shifting the risk to someone else that has either more financial means or has worked to have a better view of future conditions.

So as an example, your medical insurer and your car insurer know pretty well the odds of you needing either medical treatment or suffering some type of car accident. And because they also have the financial means to risk being wrong, they offer you an insurance, because in the aggregated number they are usually right in their predictions.
And what super high tech background will the ministers have?

>Friend of The Merkler

>Protested nuclear energy

>Invited a million illiterates to an all-inclusive life in Germany, none who ever had an encounter with the technology of literacy

And so forth.
Bluesky isn't representative of Adobe's userbase, so this reaction doesn't really matter.

The people who decide to write a scathing reply to Adobe's Bluesky account are irrelevant outside of their Bluesky bubble.
The best part is if you melt away the weak tail, all you’re left with is the strong bulb.
> If the judge don't stop that, I don't see how that can lead to anything other than political persecution of the opposition.

Or worse, a chilling effect
I appreciate the answers. For others reading, I also just ran across another thread where you posted relevant info [0]. In the case of my game, I'm going to consider SSE, since most of the communication is server to client. That said, I already have reconnects etc implemented.

In my research I recall some potential tradeoffs with SSE [1], but even there I concluded they were minor enough to consider SSE vs WS a wash[2] even for my uses. Looking back at my bookmarks, I see that you were present in the threads I was reading, how cool. A couple WS advantages I am now recalling:

SSE is one-way, so for situations with lots of client-sent data, a second connection will have to be opened (with overhead). I think this came up for me since if a player is sending many events per second, you end up needing WS. I guess you're saying to use UDP, which makes sense, but has its own downsides (firewalls, WebRTC, WebTransport not ready).

Compression in SSE would be negotiated during the initial connection, I have to assume, so it wouldn't be possible to switch modes or mix in pre-compressed binary data without reconnecting or base64-ing binary. (My game sends a mix of custom binary data, JSON, and gzipped data which the browser can decompress natively.)

Edit: Another thing I'm remembering now is order of events. Because WS is a single connection and data stream, it avoids network related race conditions; data is sent and received in the programmatically defined sequence.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43657717

1: https://rxdb.info/articles/websockets-sse-polling-webrtc-web...

2: https://www.timeplus.com/post/websocket-vs-sse
I see very little evidence by the HRW research, just an appeal to the authority of a human rights organization ability for impartial investigation.

However, I am calling that impartially into question due to evidence pointing otherwise
Didn't really have good managers so far. Reading this makes me question my choices. Maybe it's time to move on. On the other hand, this is a cluster of greatness and for every 15 good comments there's a thousand bad stories.

So let me ask this instead: How would you go about finding a job with a good manager? And whats the reason behind it?
> I am directly threatened by their program. […] Could the left imagine being a little more democratic and making a few more concessions towards… omg, white males?

I am not from the US, I am originally from Latin America. I am considered a “white male” there. I am now living in Europe as I am a dual citizen. This kind of position is interesting to me. What is so bad about being a white male in the USA at the moment?

I’d like to elaborate further, but I want to engage in an honest conversation so I would like to hear your opinion.
How can the average MAGA voter which waves a little flag at a rally feel ok with this?

It's treason what they did, treason on their principles. All this in times when it was supposedly "Main Street" turn.

https://x.com/SecScottBessent/status/1910000578198986822
I think this article confuses an absence of "heated arguments" with a lack of constructive, critical discussions. I've found that in mature teams with high trust, people don't have heated arguments precisely because they are not afraid that their voices will be ignored. There is no need to become heated because you trust that the other people on the team will hear you out and consider your viewpoint.

>code that nobody questions usually crashes in production

I don't understand what that means.
I'm using usenet and a bunch of FOSS (*arr) and I'm never going back. This way I OWN my library, there is no chance that in November I will lose the ability to rewatch the office due to some uninteresting bullshit.

Whenever I physically can I buy DVDs or digital downloads.

I guess I just didn't understand the Netflix model - why would I want to rent something that I can just buy and have for life? Especially with the enshitification these days - it means I have to pay a massive amount of money (over 5 years say), for a shitty experience, ending up having nothing when I cancel the subscription? That's just a recurring bad deal, in my opinion.
> this Vacheron-Constantin will likely be around 200 years from now, it will still be a testimony of the refinement and engineering

Usual playbook of the luxury watch market since marketing somehow made it relevant in the mid to end of the 20th century. Thank Haye for not being able to stand near a Swiss mechanical watch without someone uttering the world "timeless". This is the second best achievement of marketing after making people believing that diamonds are valuable.

These watches use small mechanical pieces (which are still very far away from the state of the art - a watch is an engineering achievement by the standard of 200 years ago). They require very regular maintenance to keep working and this maintenance is very expensive. They are not in anyway "timeless".

This is an expensive piece of jewellery, subject to everything related to expensive pieces of jewellery including fashion. It’s basically a Veblen good signalling wealth.
IMHO the real advancement was the implicit snapshot Docker takes after every line in a Dockerfile.

Virtual Machine builder scripts like Packer could do this… but don’t.

It’s a choice, not an inherent technology limitation.
> Adobe’s unpopularity can be traced back to a decision it made over 10 years ago when it shifted from perpetual software licensing to subscription pricing.

My understand is that Adobe deliberately made it difficult to cancel. I don’t even use Adobe, yet am well aware of their antics, indicating how far bad behaviour spreads via word of mouth.
Everyone will see and praise how good you are. The elite swordmakers of royalty did not think their elaborate swords would see battle, they knew it was a show piece. The point was not the use, was the position and recognition it brought you.

More than half of the watch world does not appreciate the engineering. They appreciate the exclusivity.
This is 100% why they did it.
Obviously it doesn’t initially ask for a range if it starts from the beginning of the video, but it starts playing video immediately without requiring the whole file to download, when you seek it cancels the current request and then does a range request. At no point does it “have” to cache the entire file.

I suppose if you watch it from start to finish without seeking it might cache the entire file, but it may alternatively keep a limited amount cached of the video and if you go back to an earlier time it may need to re-request that part.

Your confidence seems very high on something which more than one person has corrected you on now, perhaps you need to reassess the current state of video serving, keeping in mind it does require HTTP servers to allow range requests.
Google will need a far better LLM than OpenAI to throw them decisively off the AI throne, just like another company would need a far better search engine than Google to throw them off the search throne. ChatGPT is now the 7th highest ranking website on the planet - does anyone outside the HN crowd know about Google AI Studio?

Brands matter, and when regular people think AI, they think of OpenAI before they think Google, even if Google has more AI talents and scores better on tests.

And isn't it good? Who wants a world where the same handful of companies dominate all tech?
The author mentioned AlphaGo and Alpha Zero without mentioning OpenAI gym and OpenAI Five.

Those products show OpenAI was innovating and leading in RL at that stage around 2017 to 2019.

https://github.com/openai/gym

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI_Five
Or move on from software dev- or not even code a single line and jump to „architect“ or some other bs position straight out of university.
Defending yourself from genocide is not terrorism
If you payed for things that are better (like physical media over Netflix etc) the producers would actually respond and there would be more of that.
> it's their project and they're entitled to set whatever rules they want

This is not the point.

Projects are free to ban vim users if they want and I’m free to say it’s utterly baffling and should be none of their business.

Rules don’t magically become acceptable because the people who put them in place were allowed to do so.

It reminds me of the opposition to static analysis I used to see sometimes a decade ago because people would be too dumb to sort out the real cases from the false positive. I’m always impressed by how change averse the field is.

> if you read the article this is is their primary concern

That’s my whole point.

They are basically implying that I’m too stupid to use some tools to produce quality code and they being the clever ones they are should shield us poor fools from ourselves.

That’s the insulting part. At least the copyright infringement angle makes sense.
They host their own repos, and builds are done on their system, but the layout is pretty simple. Numbered, named files in asciidoc, markdown, etc. your choice.
I have been looking for an Erlang thing akin to Apache Airflow or Argo Workflows. Something that allows me to define a DAG of processes, so that they run one after the other. How would you implement something like that?
I use the day-of-the-week indicator on my Casio watch an embarrassing amount!
That's why you always use throwaway cards for this.
> Certainly not when you do multimodal or function calling

Who is? (Genuine question, it's hard to keep up given how quickly the field moves.)
> Studios didn't sit down and train up new teams of devs on how to maximize the cell architecture.

Yeah usually only first party studios have the time, money, and access for that (Naughty Dog being a prime example thereof in the Sony universe).
Erlang at least used to come with an in-memory database called Mnesia, that in the places I've encountered it depended on replicating all the state to every server, which usually caused some scaling issues.

There's nothing outright stopping you from doing proper design and building separate erlang services that exchange state with regular protocols, but there does seem to be a temptation to just put all erlang in one big monolith and then run into very hard memory and scaling issues when usage and data grows.

One high profile erlang user in the payment industry was mainly constrained by how big a server they could buy, as all their code ran on a single server with a hot standby. They have since moved to java, and rethought how they managed shared state

Facebook managed to get ejabberd, the xmpp server written in erlang, to back their first Messenger, but it involved sharding to give each ejabberd-instance a small enough data set to cope, and a clever way to replicate presence data outside of erlang (storing it in compact memory blocks on each ejabberd server, and shipping them wholesale to a presence service at a regular cadence).

Pretty soon they tore ejabberd out, metaphorically burned it in a field and salted the earth... but how much of that was the fault of erlang itself, and how much it was the issue of having one corner with erlang in a largely C++ world isn't known to me.
No, that's not at all obvious because building products for any given market is a radically different competency than research, and the kind of basic, fundamental research that tends to win Nobels is actually a competency a step further removed from product than normal corporate R&D; outside of Google-scale orgs, it's mostly (whether or not of Nobel quality) done at universities with both product-oriented research and actual productization done in industry, often based largely on published academic results, but generally with no strong direct connection between the people doing the basic research and the people winning the competition for successful commercial products.
No, braindead take. The purpose of being an operating system vendor is to sell an operating system. If someone else modifies your operating system after they buy it, they get to keep both pieces. You don't get to stop them from modifying the thing they bought.

Do you like nanny states? How about nanny corporations?
Well, how many "it works on my machine" does it take to make it a general statement? It works on all of my machines, from dirt-cheap lenovo EDU series ThinkPad to portable workstation Dell M6800 and Pixel Chromebook in between.

It generally doesn't work for people buying computers from vendors who use hardware were the manufacturer doesn't disclose the documentation. Just don't give money to those who seek to prevent free software.
"So in a way Netflix had to learn how to push slop. Because they can't make their own Star Wars or MCU or Friends or whatever. It's just not easy to build a catalog of reliably-profitable franchises. Especially when many of those franchises were born decades before Netflix even existed."

They could try. The budget for the first seasons of Friends was the same as any other sitcom of that era.

Sitcoms would be perfect for streaming companies but non of them seem to get that for some reason.
You can draw on a model: https://youtu.be/WjS_zNQNVlw
Looks like landing pages with templates
Fascism thrives on dividing society into an idealized "us" versus a demonized "them." This binary worldview positions groups under existential threat, requiring extraordinary measures and leadership to survive...

Listen to him today and it's exactly that.